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OCTOBER 22-28, 2014 • VOLUME 28 • NUMBER 30

I CAN’T BELIEVE I VOTED FOR CHARLIE CRIST

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EDITOR’S NOTE Rick Scott makes it easy enough to dislike him.

The temper tantrum he displayed at last week’s debate, refusing for several very awkward minutes to walk out on stage because Charlie Crist had a small fan and that’s no fair — the kind of petulance you’d expect from a 3-yearold, or maybe a self-important multimillionaire who’s just used to always getting his way — is merely the latest footnote in a long and storied case study of awfulness. It’s not just that he has all the charisma of a tapeworm — seriously, watch the man speak; as one of my Facebook friends put it, he’s more malfunctioning robot than human being — or even that time his company engineered the largest Medicare fraud in American history, which should have been a deal-killer four years ago.

It’s also that his entire administration has been engineered as a Tea Party wet dream, from the moment he signed his first budget surrounded by right-wing geezers in The Villages to the draconian budget cuts to education (some, but not all, of which has been restored) to his abominable environmental policies to his pathetic dodging on climate change to his solicitous affection for Big Sugar to the billions of dollars in corporate tax breaks to his desire to insert the government into a woman’s uterus to his refusal to call Florida’s ban on gay marriage discriminatory.

And then there’s his and the Republican legislature’s biggest failure of them all: the failure to expand Medicaid, passing up $66.1 billion in federal funds, and leaving more than 1 million low-income Floridians without coverage, just to stick it to President Obama.

Yeah, screw that guy.

But then there’s Charlie Crist. A man who flunked the bar exam twice (and — a testament to his political skill — went on to be the state’s top lawyer anyway). A shameless political chameleon of the first order, willing to flip on a dime to gain the slightest advantage. A ceaselessly ambitious politician who, throughout his career, never stopped seeking the next brass ring, eyes always on the next prize — legislator to wannabe senator to education commissioner, education commissioner to attorney general, attorney general to governor to wannabe vice president to wannabe senator to wannabe governor. And then there’s the fact that, the last time Crist held the Governor’s Mansion, his inner circle was almost comically corrupt: Crist’s handpicked right-hand man, Jim Greer, racked up more than $7 million on the GOP’s charge card and devised a scheme to steal $125,000 from the party, for which he spent more than a year behind bars.

Screw that guy, too.

But yeah, I voted for him anyway. Rick Scott needs to lose. Not just because he’s a terrible governor, but because the Florida Legislature, taken over as it has been by conservative ideologues, desperately needs a check on its very worst impulses. And three years from now, when the state begins its every-20-years constitutional revision process, I’d much rather have Charlie Crist appointing 15 of the 37 commission members — members who will shape the course of this state for decades to come, far beyond the scope of one gubernatorial term — than a lame-duck Rick Scott, indebted to far-right and big-business interests, with nothing to lose.

So how’s that for a very tepid endorsement?

No matter how it plays out, I’ll be quite pleased when this farce of an election is over.

Jeffrey C. Billman twitter/jeffreybillman jbillman@folioweekly.com

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LIVING Don’t Forget the Children

In Folio Weekly’s Best of Jax 2014, the Jacksonville Public Library was recognized as the Best Use of Public Funds, while One Spark and Jax Parks where given honorable mentions.

Those organizations are worthy causes and the recognition of their work is well deserved.

However, let us not overlook one of the most prudent and cost-effective investments the public makes in the children of Jacksonville through the programs and work of the providers funded through the Jacksonville Children’s Commission.

Every year the JCC invests $16 million of city money and leverages another $14 million of state, federal and private foundation funds to help make Jacksonville’s children educated, safe and healthy.

Whether it’s feeding over 11,000 children who might otherwise go hungry during the summer, coaching early learning teachers on how to more effectively teach children who are just starting out in preschool, or providing safe and structured summer activities to 6,000 children, the JCC and its network of providers have been lifting up the most vulnerable children in our city for 20 years.

These dollars provide a high return on investment to the taxpayers; our Healthy Families home-visiting program for expectant and new mothers saves taxpayers $72 for every $1.80 spent by giving families who are the most at risk for abuse and neglect the tools to be good parents in the home and keeping them out of “the system.”

Our nationally recognized afterschool programs have been shown in both yearly and national evaluations to produce better attendance rates and better promotion rates than non-participants at the same schools year after year. The money JCC invests in training over 1,100 mentors means that 1,100 children will be 46 percent less likely to start using drugs and 27 percent less likely to start drinking than their peers. In short, our programs improve outcomes for kids.

Nobel prize-winning economist James Heckman has said, “Every dollar invested in quality early childhood development produces a 7 to 10 percent return per child per year.” In the private sector those returns rival the very best of investment opportunities. Coupled with the fact that taxpayers can get those types of returns while helping the most vulnerable children among us means that public dollars invested in the work of the Jacksonville Children’s Commission is money well spent.

Jon Heymann, CEO, Jacksonville Children’s Commission

The Problem with Public Opinion

The problem with public opinion is the rarity to which it is subjected to the same scrutiny it demands elsewhere. Expressing it as how one feels is no excuse when the context is a validation of cynicism and of course, an editorial [Editor’s Note, “A Faint Hint of Justice,” Jeffrey C. Billman, Oct. 8]. What evidence that a “death didn’t matter” exists? Or that a mistrial resulted “by virtue of the fact that Jordan is black and Dunn

said so”?

Lacking evidence illustrates lacking objectivity when morally indicting the jury. I’m reluctant to consider that any other aspect of the Dunn trial was approached any better.

While the available evidence strongly suggested guilt, objectivity demanded openness that evidence to the contrary may exist. More importantly: Did the prosecution prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt? Required is a weighing of prosecutorial and defense arguments alongside evidence, not merely publicly available evidence.

Even one juror supporting a guilty verdict juxtaposed against doubt is a miscarriage of justice. A revised variant of Blackstone’s formulation seems relevant: “Better a hung jury than that even one juror disregard doubt.”

Lastly, let’s stop with “in the year 2014” arguments. It is not a foregone conclusion that any specific moment in time should or should not produce certain results.

DL Cummings

Robber Barons & Skunks

It’s a sad fact that our politicians and their benefactors, the large corporations who lavish them with campaign money, generally have the ethical and aesthetic sensibilities of skunks. They don’t care whether the environment and our waters are polluted and depleted, or whether they put their money into toxic derivatives or line their pockets at the expense of Florida’s water and the public interest — as long as the investment lines their pockets.

Even though Wall Street’s 2008 crash revealed the hazards of exploitation and corrupt business practices, Florida’s political leadership and large corporations fail to show any concern for essentially doing the same thing to the backbone of Florida’s economy, quality of life and formerly pristine environmental resources.

Our legislature has set into law, and by extension, has allowed our governor, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and water management districts, to sell a harmful water policy that has been deliberately designed to allow pumping until significant harm has been done, ignoring their constitutional mandate to protect and preserve our waters.

They are our elected representatives, a position of the highest ethical trust, but they are in fact Florida’s reigning robber barons.

Voters should reject the long history of failed promises to protect our water: Vote for Amendment 1 in November. Let the politicians know we value our springs, lakes and rivers.

Terry Brant, Legislative Chairman Santa Fe Lake Dwellers Association, Melrose

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CITIZEN MAMA

THE LOST BOYS IN BLUE

When justice takes a backseat to football (or, why we’re losing faith in cops)

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erguson. Sanford. Tallahassee.

What do the news items synonymous with these places have in common?

It’s not what you might think. It has nothing to do with perceived archvillains like Darren Wilson, George Zimmerman or Jameis Winston. I don’t believe in archvillains.

I do believe, though, in the predictability of human nature. Sometimes, human beings behave badly. And sometimes, that bad behavior steps over the bounds of the law.

The people who are vested with the power to stop those who cross the lines — the police — are often steeped in their own good intentions. They have their own vision for a better world, and their own ideas of what the next, best course of action is.

They can also be dead wrong. And it takes nothing less than national, front-page headlines to call them on their errors. Over and over and over again.

Ferguson, Sanford and, now, Tallahassee are all lessons in failed transparency. They’re also case studies in the failure to equally apply the law.

In Ferguson, we had a police department that determined that the people’s right to know exactly what happened on the night that teenager Michael Brown was shot dead was less important than protecting one of their own.

The damage wrought by the cops’ monumental mistake threw a community into unrest.

In Sanford, similarly, there was the impulse to let a homicide — a homicide! — go unquestioned. Instead of trusting the system they were sworn to protect, the police there acted as judge and jury on an event that was, if nothing else, fraught with justiciable questions.

A human being was killed, for God’s sake.

Likewise, The New York Times has now caught the Tallahassee police in what appears to be a bad habit: turning a blind eye to criminal acts when Florida State football players are involved.

The national headline: “At Florida State, Football Clouds Justice.” The front-page expose took two full inside pages to detail the theft, property damage, domestic violence

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and general criminal foolishness allegedly committed by 13 Seminole football players.

One player was let go by an officer who reportedly caught him driving a stolen motor scooter. In his written report, the officer ended up praising the young athlete for staying to answer his questions.

The cops didn’t stop there. They went so far as to press the memory of the scooter’s owner, who had reported it stolen: Was he certain he didn’t lend it out? Was he sure he was mentally stable?

Officers in Tallahassee have also responded to at least four calls involving the discharge of BB guns — the projectiles of which have dented cars, shattered windows and stung bystanders. The property damage ranks in the thousands of dollars, but the police and State Attorney’s Office apparently buried the incidents until the Times started asking questions.

The State Attorney’s Office took another look once the Times started poking around, cherry-picking the charges to ensure that the football players faced misdemeanors, not felonies. After all, they wouldn’t want to bring the heat against members of one of Tallahassee’s biggest economic engines, would they? Especially when the police get such nice extra-duty jobs during football season. Never mind who might get hurt.

And then there’s star quarterback Jameis Winston. The Heisman trophy winner has apologized for helping himself to crab legs that belonged to Publix. The lame Twitter humor — “That’s so shellfish!” — distracted us momentarily from the rape accusations against him. Winston was never charged, but questions about the botched police investigation remain.

In April, nearly a year after the alleged rape was reported to police, Tallahassee prosecutor William Meggs told the Times that there wasn’t enough evidence to bring charges against Winston, perhaps because the police didn’t do basic police work: “They just missed all the basic fundamental stuff that you are supposed to do.”

The manner in which the TPD conducted — or rather, failed to conduct — an investigation indicates that the officers were less interested in finding out what happened than protecting the accused FSU quarterback.

“In fact,” wrote reporter Walt Bogdanich (who also spearheaded the Times/Frontline investigation into Michelle O’Connell’s 2010 death in St. Augustine), “an examination by The New York Times has found that there was virtually no investigation at all, either by the police or the university.”

Lest anyone think that the Times piece was a liberal anti-cop hit job, consider the headline of a more recent Fox Sports investigation: “Documents: Police, FSU Hampered Jameis Winston Investigation.”

The upshot is that Tallahassee cops routed case documents through the university athletic director’s office, and then to Winston’s defense counsel, before prosecutors had a chance to pursue evidence.

The police didn’t do Winston any favors here. Instead, they robbed him of the opportunity to declare and maintain his innocence from the outset, and created an atmosphere of coverup and intrigue.

Transparency, you see, protects the accused as well as the accusers.

The American public has had its fill of the milky opacity served up by parochial police departments like those in Ferguson, Sanford and now, Tallahassee. The TPD will have only itself to blame if Florida State actually wins another national championship this season, one that is certain to be tainted by this slew of unprosecuted acts.

The front-page scandal reminds me of Peter Pan and his lost boys in Neverland — and I don’t mean the football players. They’ll grow up to play in the NFL, where they’ll have the opportunity to star in a whole new level of scandalous headlines.

No, I’m talking about the lost boys in blue.

The ones who call themselves cops.

Julie Delegal mail@folioweekly.com A version of this column appeared on Context Florida.

FIGHTIN’ WORDS

FREE MARISSA NOW

Marissa Alexander has already lived her punishment

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et’s consider once again the case of Marissa Alexander, the Duval County woman currently on house arrest and facing yet another trial in December for discharging a weapon in her home after a confrontation with her estranged husband, Rico Gray, back in 2010, a mere nine days after giving birth.

That day, Gray, an admitted domestic abuser, stalked her throughout the house, telling her “Bitch, I will kill you” and God knows what else, unambiguously threatening her to the point where, to let him know that enough was enough, she fired a warning shot through a wall.

What would you have had her do?

Angela Corey would have had her retreat and not return — a logical enough recommendation, were it removed from the context of the unceasingly violent dynamic between Alexander and Gray. It is easy enough to have expectations of what a rational person might do in a perfect world where law enforcement is always there to protect and serve, where women who have been the repeated targets of physical and psychological abuse have the recourse they need and deserve. In that world, women need never take out guns and fire warning shots to stop their abuser from doing what had been done so many times before.

You might think you know what someone would do in that situation in the abstract. But what if it was your mom, your sister, your daughter?

You’d have her take care of the dude, put him in his place, by any means necessary.

Our culture speaks of domestic violence in abstract terms, even though it has been central to the public discourse at least since The Burning Bed. The Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice imbroglios brought focus on the NFL regarding family abuse. But let’s get real.

Domestic violence is a societal problem, not an NFL problem. It is rooted, primarily, in a very specific type of male — a guy who needs to be seen as alpha, knows he isn’t, and does what he has to do to control and oppress those who had the misfortune of loving him.

Domestic violence happens in every zip

code in Florida. According to the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, in 2010 more than 113,000 domestic violence complaints were reported in the state. Many more, of course, went unreported — the abusers always know how to push the right buttons, talking the “honey, baby, sugar, sorry I lost my head, this will never happen again” jive. Marissa Alexander, like so many women you and I know, women that we see at restaurants and coffee shops, at churches and schools and work, lived under constant threat of this violence.

Rico Gray, like so many domestic abusers, had abused women before Alexander. (Local media reported their claims, hedging their bets with words like “alleged.”) The fact is that Marissa Alexander reasonably perceived an imminent danger to her person. And the fact is also that, by not shooting that man, she showed tremendous restraint. There’s some irony here: If she had shot him, perhaps she’d have Sean Hannity types lauding her for standing her ground. (Were she a white woman who shot a black man, anyway.)

The state attorney’s office nonetheless seeks to compound her misery, looking to have you pay to lock up this poor woman for 60 years.

For her part, Corey claims merely to be “committed to seeking justice for two African-American children and their father who did not deserve to be shot at.” This, though the damage was not inflicted upon them, but upon the drywall. Corrine Brown is absolutely right when she dismisses the prosecution as “bull.” For my money, she could’ve added four more letters.

These unconscionable charges must be dropped, and dropped immediately.

Alexander’s only crime wasn’t shooting a gun — it was getting involved with an abuser. A crime against herself, not the good people of Duval. This is a crime for which she has paid many times over, in ways familiar to victims of domestic violence.

And completely ignored by everyone else.

AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com

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2 MINUTES WITH … // DENNIS HO

BRETT TARLETON OWNER OF DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC CLEANING Folio Weekly: What is that you do?

Brett Tarleton: I clean up crime scenes — homicides, suicides, trauma, home invasions, that kind of thing.

What does crime-scene cleanup mean?

It means if somebody commits suicide with a gun, there’s all the blood and aftermath to deal with themselves, and that’s traumatizing for anybody, especially family members, seeing [blood splatters] and whatever else may be left behind, you know. I go over the whole scene, observe it, see all what needs to be done. It involves sometimes cutting out carpet, taking out furniture, especially if it’s fabric, especially if it’s totally soaked through, I get rid of it for them.

You don’t get rid of bodies, right?

No, the body’s already gone by the time I get there.

So if there’s any blood splatter at all on any furniture, you get rid of it?

It depends. If there’s a lot of blood and it went straight through, then of course. I’ll box it up, cut it up, whatever I gotta do. All the blood parts, I’ll cut that out, put it in a biohazard box and send the rest to the trash. Couple drops, especially on a leather chair, you can clean them off. But fabric chairs, that’s pretty much trash.

Other than blood, what do you deal with?

Vomit, I’ve done something as small as that. All the way up to, well, suicides and homicides.

What’s the most gruesome thing you’ve ever seen?

[I can’t be specific] just out of respect for the families. I’ve seen just about everything, especially when it comes to blood and things like that.

This is a service families have to pay for, but it’s also a sensitive time for them, so how do you approach the situation?

Well, a lot of people don’t know 99 percent of the time this is covered under homeowner’s insurance. When you tell somebody that, it usually makes them feel more at ease that almost nothing has to come out of pocket.

Do you come across more suicides or homicides?

The scenes I’ve done are more suicides.

How did you get into this line of work?

I knew I wanted to do something in forensics.

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and called around and got someone to take me on; they sent me to training, I came back and started working for myself.

What kind of training did you get?

In South Carolina they have a school there that’s basically biohazard recovery, and it was a lot of crime-scene cleaning and things of that nature. It was about a weeklong course.

Why did you want to get involved in forensics?

I’ve always been interested in it since I was a kid, but I didn’t necessarily want to be a cop. I liked all the stuff that went with the investigation and things like that. I had a couple people in my life that had suicides, and there was probably nobody around to help them clean it up but them, so I got into this to help do it.

Are you certified?

I am certified, but there’s no licensure because here in Florida it’s not totally regulated yet. I wish it was more regulated because all people gotta do is start their own business, but without the training you’re not going to know what you’re doing, you’re going have trouble not knowing how to deal with [biohazard waste].

Every state is different?

Oh yeah. I’m sure it’s more regulated in some states, but not here in Florida yet.

What kind of regulations do other states have that Florida doesn’t?

More than anything, they want people to be licensed and be more health-conscious.

Can you recognize the smell of a decomposed body?

Oh yes.

It smells like nothing else?

Nothing else to me. That’s why we use respirators and stuff in certain cases. With decomposition, it will leave an odor. You gotta take it out.

Can you tell from the smell how long a body has been decomposing?

I can’t tell you how long from the smell, but usually it’ll take a couple days before it really starts stenching up. You can tell when someone’s been there for a while.

Has blood ever made you squeamish?

No, never at all. I don’t want to put it too lightly or whatever, but when I get there, it’s a scene, it’s basically a mess, and I make it to look like it never happened before. dho@folioweekly.com

NEWS The JAG-OFF VICTORY IS OURS: WEEK 7, JAGS VS. BROWNS

On a clear day, you can see forever.

And things like a “This Is Hoyer Country” banner, and a crowd full of more orange tops than a Road Crew convention. And so the question of the day was this: Could the Jaguars take back their house?

The first quarter offered some encouragement. The Jags defense got Brian Hoyer off the field before the Browns got to midfield. This week’s starting back, Denard Robinson, tore for 14 yards on an off-tackle rush on the Jags’ very first offensive play, the beginning of the best day by any Jags running back this year (62 first-quarter yards, 122 yards and a TD on the day).

The Jags kept eight in the box early, stalling Ben Tate and forcing the Browns into third-and-longs aplenty. Then the first Blake Bortles pick, returned into the Jags’ red zone. The defense, tougher with each passing week, especially the front seven, held them to three downs and a field goal.

Early in the second quarter, all looked swell (except for Bortles), despite the 3-0 deficit. Bortles got some short passes going, but lacked the line protection to go deep reliably. Blitzes are still a problem for the Jags’ overmatched line.

Bortles threw his second pick in Jaguars territory, with the Browns already up 6-0, but the Jags’ defense held, setting up a two-minute drill. Quick strikes to Robinson and Clay Harbor and a timely defensive penalty set up a 41-yard catchand-run TD to Robinson and gave the good guys a halftime lead. Hoyer Country?

Not so much.

After a dynamite halftime performance by the Bethune-Cookman marching band, the second half was on — the Jags with the ball and the lead going into the final 30.

A huge Hoyer fumble recovery gave way to the Jags taking over inside the Browns’ 30, setting up a Josh Scobee chip shot. Armed with the lead, the defense was amped and Hoyer was shaken.

The Jags got a great third-quarter drive, highlighted by a couple Bortles runs. Jedd Fisch’s offense looked in sync, up until yet another crucial Bortles pick (his 10th this year). The Jags’ game could easily have ended there. But it didn’t.

The Browns began to move the ball after the turnover, getting to midfield by quarter’s end. But the Jags’ defense made their stand, and the Browns turned it over on downs. The offense could do nothing with it. A series of punts ensued, and then it happened: The Jags forced a fumble from the Browns’ returner, setting up first and goal, and a Denard Robinson TD put the home team up 17-6. A Hoyer pick and a return to the Browns’ 5-year-line sealed it. A Storm Johnson TD provided insurance. (We’ve been waiting all year to see them run the ball like they did Sunday.

It was awesome.)

The Bank partied like it was 1999.

Poz and Andre Branch injuries loom large for next week’s Miami game — a Miami team that rather convincingly put down the Chicago Bears this week — but the Jags nonetheless won what Gus Bradley called “a battle of wills.” The biggest Jags win since 2011.

AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com

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he secretive State Attorney’s Office investigation is nearing its four-month mark. Who killed biker Zach “Nas T” Tipton, 40, on June 26 outside Nippers Beach Grille in Jacksonville Beach? Was the shooter justified, firing a bullet into Tipton’s head during a fight between two rival motorcycle clubs, or was it cold-blooded murder spawned by a “baiting” incident during a planned Bike Night event at Nippers?

State Attorney Angela Corey’s refusal to release even a morsel of information to people starving for facts and legal action has caused a lot of heartache for those on both sides.

“I am outraged, I am completely outraged,” says Mandy Dolan, Tipton’s cousin. “It’s like everything been swept under the rug. It’s like they want it to come out however it suits everybody the best.”

One thing is for sure: Tipton’s Black Pistons (a group linked to the infamous Outlaws Motorcycle Club) squared off with the Iron Order, a relatively new motorcycle club (founded 10 years ago) heavily populated with law enforcement and military, and the confrontation quickly led to violence. As many as five gunshots rang out, according to witnesses and some news reports; one of them struck and killed Tipton. As far as official information goes, that’s about all we know.

Folio Weekly reported earlier that the fight started because Tipton took exception to one of the Iron Order members wearing a patch that had the Black Pistons’ colors – black and silver – on it [Cover Story, “Die to Ride,” Derek Kinner, July 16]. While many clubs have rules respecting others’ patches and colors, as well as territories, the Iron Order refuses to acknowledge those rules, and, many in the biker community say, use them to provoke altercations across the country.

The indifference to the rules has led to many skirmishes since the Iron Order’s inception on July 4, 2004, but the shooting at Nippers has quickly become a watershed moment.

An Iron Order prospect told responding Jacksonville Beach police that he fired the fatal shot. They questioned him and impounded his motorcycle, but never arrested him. After interviewing hundreds of witnesses, they passed the case off to Corey’s office.

Since then, nothing.

Both sides — Tipton’s family and members of the Iron Order — are frustrated. Family members, seeking justice for Tipton’s death, want charges. Members of the Iron Order believe their prospect acted in self-defense and should be cleared; they want the rumors and threats and nastiness that have percolated on social media to end.

“There isn’t much more for [prosecutors] to learn,” says Ray “Izod” Lubesky, who was the Iron Order’s international president at the time of the shooting. “I don’t know what the holdup is. You’re right: We would like to get this behind us. I am sure the family would. This is just a

‘IT’S LIKE EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SWEPT UNDER THE RUG’ Four months after Zach Tipton was gunned down, his family is waiting for answers — and the State Attorney’s Office isn’t offering any terrible wound for us.”

The State Attorney’s Office, for its part, responded to questions with a statement that “specific facts and evidence cannot be legally released until the investigation has been finalized,” which “can take months to complete.”

One of those things that has not been released is the name of the shooter, which Folio Weekly has learned, both through multiple sources familiar with the shooting and through a “Stored Vehicle Report” from the Jacksonville Beach Police Department that the magazine has obtained. (That report names the owner of a motorcycle that was towed from the scene as part of a homicide investigation.)

The shooter is a medic stationed at Camp Blanding; like many other members and prospects of the Iron Order, he is affiliated with the military or law enforcement. The Stored Vehicle Report lists his address as being in Middleburg, though two sources say he moved immediately after the shooting out of concern for his safety. One source said the military assisted with the move.

Out of an abundance of caution — though sources say both the Iron Order and the Outlaws know who he is — Folio Weekly is declining to name the shooter at the present time.

The shooting had something of a tumultuous aftermath for the Iron Order. Lubesky confirms that there was a brief defection from the Iron Order’s ranks in the weeks following because members were fearful of their safety and did not want to be linked to the club after the shooting.

A small chapter in Fort Myers disbanded, though a few members were absorbed by nearby chapters, Lubesky says.

At the time, the Iron Order was receiving death threats, though non-specific, from bikers around the world on social media pages, especially Facebook. According to Lubesky, once the dust settled, so did the fears of retribution, though there have been other skirmishes between the Iron Order and the Outlaws, which Lubesky insists had nothing to do with the Nippers shooting. In the end, he says, the Iron

Order lost about 20 of its 3,500 members — no big deal, ultimately.

“So we’re now into four months and really, basically, it’s been calm and peaceful for the most part. We have had our little flare-ups on both sides,” he says. “We have not lost anything else. We didn’t crumble.”

Lubesky lost a close election to retain his Iron Order presidency in September to another member, whose club name is Brit. (Brit did not return Folio Weekly’s phone calls.)

Lubesky says he’s confident that when all the facts come out, the family and the public will understand what really happened that night.

He says Iron Order members are sympathetic to Tipton’s family members, the real victims in the case.

Those family members, meanwhile, are tired of waiting for answers. Dolan and the rest of the Tipton family, who have held protests outside the Duval County Courthouse and plan at least one more, say the State Attorney’s Office’s delay is unacceptable.

“The fact that we have laid [Tipton] to rest doesn’t mean his soul is at rest,” Dolan says.

“There is not going to be any closure until this case is over and justice and has been served.”

They wonder, in fact, if the State Attorney’s Office even cares about the case, despite the publicity it has received.

“Why is it taking so long?” Dolan asks. “I just honestly feel like they’re not concerned about it. It is a supposed law enforcement motorcycle club versus a Black Pistons motorcycle club. I think they’re not really taking a loss of life as a loss of life. Seriously, it’s just another motorcycle club member.”

Tipton left behind three children, all in their teens, that he had with his girlfriend. They’d lived together for about 20 years, Dolan says.

(The mother of his children did not return calls. Dolan says that while the family has protested publicly, they are generally averse to commenting to the media, fearing they might cause problems for the investigation.)

Dolan says that while people who didn’t know Tipton might view him merely as a biker — with all the stereotypes that come along with that label — he had another side that those who knew him were more familiar with.

“To me, he is great,” Dolan says. “His love for music and his love for life and love for beauty. He found something beautiful every day, like a flower, and would post it all over Facebook. He played guitar and was passing that on to his daughter.”

Dolan says Tipton got his nickname because he used to call himself “Zach T,” but he often joked that “he was going to do nasty things to good people,” so people called him “Nas T.” “He was a huge practical joker,” Dolan remembers. “He would drop down to Speedos and say, ‘I want to give you a lap dance.’”

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eminders of the legendary power and influence of The Beatles appear in the faces of listeners every time I tell the story about my thrill ride in their motorcade and my exclusive interview on their plane following their Gator Bowl concert 50 years, one month, and two weeks ago, on Sept. 11, 1964.

An evening with the

Fifty years ago, I was a cub reporter at the Jacksonville Journal. Then I got the biggest interview of my life, and everything changed.

By Billee (Neumann) Bussard

All Beatles photos courtesy of The State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory Project. Above: The Beatles leaving and giving an interview at the George Washington Hotel in Jacksonville. Facing page: The Beatles playing the Gator Bowl, Sept. 11, 1964.

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They hang on every word with child-like anticipation. The abridged version won’t do.

They want the whole story, repeated again and again. The mesmerized have included CEOs and doctors, lawyers and politicians, journalists and musicians, grandmas and teenagers. It’s a story that enchanted even the Harvard Law School-educated president of a highbrow china company, one which I’m certain clinched a marketing job for me.

Like so many others, he sat in an almost hypnotic trance, mouth half-opened until the jaw-dropping line: But for fate, providence or divine intervention — you decide — The Beatles or I might have been killed that night by a speeding car that came like a bolt of lightning out of nowhere and barely missed the motorcade.

Imagine, if you can, a world without The Beatles after 1964, a world without Help or Rubber Soul or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or The White Album. Or without Sir Paul McCartney, now 72, who performs in Jacksonville for only the second time on Oct. 25 at Veterans Memorial Arena.

Back then, in the late summer of ’64, Jacksonville provided a mixed bag of firsts for the lads from Liverpool: their first outdoor performance in winds from a hurricane; the first time they received a poor reception at the airport; and most significantly, the first place where they took a public stand on and had a public showdown over civil rights. When they learned that the Gator Bowl had segregated seating, they threatened to cancel unless stadium officials changed the policy. Though the Civil Rights Act had become the law of the land in July, in August, Northeast Florida was making national news for racial unrest and violence.

Five days before they were due to perform, The Beatles issued a bold-for-the-time statement to the press: “We will not appear unless Negroes are allowed to sit anywhere.”

The Jacksonville experience was a wakeup call for The Fab Four, one that led to a stipulation of a non-discrimination clause in their future performance contracts.

How much of an impact the legendary quartet had on civil rights in this corner of the world can only be speculated, though McCartney will return 50 years on to a Northeast Florida community that now has its first black mayor. What is clear, however, is that my own world changed dramatically after The Beatles visited Jacksonville. After my story appeared on the front page of the Jacksonville Journal, it was picked up by the Associated Press. In the days and weeks following, young girls from around the country tracked me down by phone to ask what the adored musicians were “really, really” like.

The interview that took place in the band’s private airplane is the beginning of my Cinderella story — the defining moment in the life of a just-turned-19-year-old who was

struggling to pay rent as well as tuition for night classes at Jacksonville University. Landing that story catapulted my career as a journalist. It also sparked the flames of a newsroom romance that led to a 42-year marriage and two wonderful daughters, who I am convinced would not exist had it not been for The Beatles.

And here’s the thing: I wasn’t even a fan.

a novel — a quiet, divorced, chain-smoking, prematurely gray 30-year-old with poor-fitting glasses that constantly slipped down the bridge of his nose, who wore sagging, baggy pants under a potbelly earned from a daily dose of stress-relieving libations at a tavern a block from the newspaper offices.

On any other day, two veteran reporters would have been assigned to The Beatles story. or the Northeast Florida media, Sept. But with a staff spread thin, the city editor 11, 1964, was a breaking national news assigned one veteran and sent me along as an trifecta: Hurricane Dora, President Johnson “assistant” — his girl Friday, the obit writer, the and The Beatles all hitting our shores within girl with a bottle-red beehive-and-waist-length 24 hours. Media were stretched thin to cover hairdo, who looked good enough to later do a just the destruction exacted from Dora’s 115 behind-the-scenes newspaper series as a Miss to 125 mph winds, damages equivalent to Jacksonville contestant.

Bill Scrimpshire, a thin, sandy-haired $2 billion in 2007 dollars, according to one 20something bachelor with historical account. a type-A personality, was I was working as a city my polar opposite, with his desk clerk for the Journal, PAUL McCARTNEY encyclopedic knowledge of an afternoon paper that 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at pop culture and music. He folded in 1988, on what Veterans Memorial Arena, would cover the hour-long was arguably the biggest Downtown, press conference with the 24-hour local news cycle $58.50-$1,999 British Invasion sensations, since the Great Fire of ticketmaster.com scheduled for 6 p.m. at the 1901. Before that week, I’d George Washington Hotel, done mostly grunt work: and the concert that night at answering the phones, writing obituaries and local news shorts, 8:30, while I wandered the periphery to capture clipping local newspaper stories for the morgue Beatlemania tidbits for his stories the next day.

It is ironic that someone as clueless as I was files (now more commonly referred to as archives), getting coffee for the city desk staff, about the wildly popular group from Liverpool and occasionally running personal errands for was chosen to cover them. the city editor. He was a character right out of If I didn’t get it, I had good reason. My own teen years had been atypical. Domestic violence and turmoil in my family had prompted my mother to flee with me and my 9-year-old sister to Jacksonville from New York City only five years earlier. While my peers spent hours during this heyday of rock-‘n’-roll listening to Elvis and Buddy Holly, I was busy packing. I can count 35 different addresses where I lived between the ages of 13 and 17. I had actually developed an aversion to music. My mother would drown her sorrows in music like someone drunk on alcohol or high on drugs.

I was totally unprepared for my unexpected and incredibly lucky encounter with John, Paul, George and Ringo. And so it was that I stood with the look of a deer in the headlights in my first accidental, face-to-face encounter with them.

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I Billie (Neumann) Bussard at her desk at the Jacksonville Journal about the time of her Beatles interview.

t happened as I cased the hallways of the 15-story luxury hotel on Adams Street, a block east of the Journal newsroom, while my Journal colleague was at their press conference in the hotel auditorium. The ground floor hallways were largely deserted — no fans, no signs of affection (no screaming, weeping, fainting) for the foursome.

When I came to an elevator in a back hallway, I decided to explore the upper floors.

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I pressed the elevator button, listened to the hum as its doors opened and, with my eyes on the floor, stepped in. As the doors closed, I looked up to see the Fab Four and several of their entourage. They seemed to be stunned — perhaps amused — at the paralysis of someone with press credentials dangling around her neck being incapable of seizing such an opportunity. I may not have been a Beatles fan, but here I was, a supposed “reporter” stunned into silence by their very presence.

I recall thinking, before I quickly turned around, whether it would be ill form to try to talk with celebrities of such godlike stature in such an accidental encounter. Afraid I might make a fool of myself if I opened my mouth, I quickly pushed the elevator button and rapidly exited on the next floor up. (I know, many of you are slapping your foreheads and calling me an idiot right about now.)

While I roamed the hallways unproductively scraping for crumbs, a 19-year-old summer intern for the rival Florida Times-Union was feasting at the main news meal. Betty Walters, daughter of John Walters, executive editor of the Florida Publishing Company, which owned both Jacksonville dailies, was assigned to accompany veteran reporter Frank Murray at the press conference.

Betty’s superior knowledge of the quartet she adored was evident in her page-2 story (which carried the headline, “Of All the Times to be Speechless”). In it she described their wardrobes and their personalities. She provided some of the wisecrack answers to what colleague Murray described in his front-page story as “inane” press questions. (“Does your hair require any special care?” John Lennon: “Inattention is the main thing.”)

My explorations of upper floor halls proving fruitless, I headed back to the lobby, and as I was about to turn the corner and head down another unexplored corridor, the mop-topped lads and I greeted each other again with startled stares as they swooped by to escape fans after the press conference. (Like a scene from their just-released movie, A Hard Day’s Night!) They were gone in a flash through a door leading to the hotel garage, where a car waited to whisk them away to a house trailer retreat under the Gator Bowl’s north end-zone stands.

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hings had not been going well for The Beatles in Jacksonville. First, the threatened boycott over the stadium’s segregated seating, which prompted the conservative Times-Union editorial page to dismiss them as “a passing fad, perfectly timed and fitted to the mores, morals and ideals of a fast-paced, troubled time” and trash their music as having a “high-pitched monotone sound.”

Then, no hotel room. Ringo Starr complained there was some mix-up, so at the press conference they had to nibble on food they normally would be eating in a hotel room before a show. The group also expressed disappointment about their reception at the airport. “It was very poor” compared to other cities, Ringo said.

The weather wasn’t cooperating, either.

Gusts of lingering hurricane winds battered the stage, some so strong that Ringo had to nail pieces of his drum kit to the stage.

Backstage, as I walked around puddles of mud and hurricane debris, I could hear the commotion over a confrontation with traveling crews who were filming without permission.

The start of the performance had been delayed more than 30 minutes as Derek Taylor, The Beatles’ press officer-slash-road manager, tried to get them removed. Ticketholders were going into a near frenzy.

After the show finally began, I knocked on the door of The Beatles’ trailer to see if I could get more details from someone official about the

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LEFT: Handwritten transcriptions of betweensong banter. ABOVE: A ticket stub from the show, which was sponsored by a local radio station. Courtesy of Beverly Robinson.

eight ousted cameramen. Taylor, who apparently recognized me from the encounters in the hotel, greeted me like an old friend. “What are you doing here?” he asked as he opened the door.

I said I was looking for a story no one else had. He smiled. Then he said something like, “Stand over there by that pole and just do what I say when I tell you to do it.”

I had no idea what he had in mind.

A short while later, a line of limousines pulled up in front of me. I was told to get in the backseat of a car in the middle of the caravan.

“Paul McCartney saw me right away when I boarded the plane.

He looked shocked at first. I guess he thought I was a stowaway.”

I had no idea where we were heading or how I would get in touch with Scrimpshire to let him know I apparently wouldn’t be riding back to the office with him. I also had no idea how I would get back to the office, since I didn’t have enough money for cab fare or even a dime to make a phone call. (In a phone booth, where there were public telephones installed that would operate with the simple act of dropping a coin into a slot. Ask your grandparents, kids.)

Next thing I knew, I was looking up at a sea of fans’ hands — and some legs — on the windows of the limo, eyes peering through the smoky glass, desperate to catch a glimpse of one of their idols. It was a frightening, claustrophobic, nightmare-like experience. I couldn’t imagine how the four men were able put up with this

level of fame every day.

To elude delirious fans, the police escort took us on back roads to the airport. One of those was Winonah Drive, by Evergreen Cemetery. It’s a winding, tree-canopied stretch that is tough enough to navigate at night, but even more so with lights out and hurricane debris to dodge.

Our first close call came skirting a fallen tree limb. A few minutes later, my whole life was nearly changed by a reckless diver who swooped between our cars from a side street.

It happened so fast. I saw a blinding set of headlights whoosh between the limos. I joined my fellow passengers in a collective cry of shock and then relief as the phantom lights dashed in front of our limo and vanished down a dark road leading into the cemetery.

My stomach was woozy from the ride and the excitement by the time the car stopped on the tarmac near the foot of the boarding stairs leading up to the airplane’s entry door. The plane had been parked in an undisclosed location to evade fans.

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y escort told me, as we walked down the aisle of the airplane, that I was “the first reporter anywhere, other than newsmen who regularly travel with The Beatles, to board their plane and have an exclusive interview,” as I wrote in my Journal story.

Far in the back of the aircraft, I could see Ringo Starr and George Harrison walking around in boxer shorts, a sight that startled and embarrassed my younger self. I quickly averted my eyes, but John Lennon, looking up from his window seat, caught my blush. He gazed at me with what I presume was some amusement.

Paul McCartney, sitting in an aisle seat next to John, gave me a big grin as he said, “You’re a persistent little redheaded thing, aren’t you?”

Apparently my earlier near-encounters had made an impression. (I read later that Paul had a thing for redheads.)

“Paul McCartney saw me right away when I boarded the plane. He looked shocked at first.

I guess he thought I was a stowaway,” I wrote, noting he was the friendlier of the two.

I sat on a seat facing them and began my own series of inane questions. None was about their music. I hardly knew the words to any of their songs.

Their answers during my 15-minute interview were brief and playful, and mostly disarmingly unprintable. George and Ringo didn’t join us.

The two were “in a good frame of mind considering they had just escaped 23,000 screaming fans,” I reported. “They told me they do have their hideaways where they can relax and be undisturbed by loyal but sometimes annoying fans. Paul said that sometimes they can even walk in and out of a London movie unnoticed. ‘We just come after the lights go off and leave before they come on again.’”

Asked to comment on the Jacksonville concert fans, Paul said, “It was a well-behaved audience compared to some.”

President Lyndon B. Johnson surveying damage from Hurricane Dora, which made landfall just after midnight on Sept. 10, 1964, the day before The Beatles came to Jacksonville. Photo courtesy of The State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory Project.

John’s answers to my questions were “sharper and quicker-witted than Paul’s, and I sensed then a rivalry, a battle of wits that may be what eventually severed the group,” I wrote for the Journal on Dec. 9, 1980, the day after John’s life was cruelly snuffed out in front of his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman.

When I asked about the things that give him the greatest pleasures, John said he was just like anyone else — and that his family was most important to him. Two years later, he met Yoko Ono. His wife Cynthia filed for divorce two years after that.

I figured they had been asked many times about their hairstyle and the clean-cut look their manager Brian Epstein created by cloaking them in perfectly tailored, slim-cut Edwardian collarless suits and drainpipe slacks. So instead, I asked Lennon what he liked to wear when not in “uniform.” He watched my face for another blush as he replied with a Cheshire cat grin: “Frankly, I like to wear a bra and panties.”

It was a comment too risqué for a family newspaper, the kind which the witty Lennon often made when being interviewed.

He gave a similarly rattling reply when asked about the most unusual gift he’d received from a fan. “I once received a bra.” (That one made it in my story.)

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ifty years later, I am still amazed — awed might be the better word — at both the power of my Beatles story and the unparalleled power of their music.

Certainly, the editors of the Journal were impressed with my ability to get an exclusive, albeit short, interview. Elvin Henson, the quiet, aloof, middle-aged managing editor, began talking to me as we crossed paths in the newsroom and encouraged the city editor to give me more assignments.

I also began to find a growing collection of clips on my desk from the city editor, Peanuts cartoon strips about a “little redheaded girl” who infatuated Charlie Brown. At first, I thought I was getting them because of my Beatles scoop.

But over time, it became increasingly evident, even for someone as naïve as I was, that the cartoon-dropper had something else in mind.

Because Dick Bussard was nearly 11 years my senior, and because of a steady stream of phone calls I transferred to him from women friends, I was confused about what could be interpreted as romantic overtures. Three years after my Beatles interview, however, on Aug. 7, 1967, we were married. Six years later, I gave birth to a daughter, on Sept. 10, 1973, nine years to the day that Hurricane Dora hit Jacksonville.

Our second daughter was born on Feb. 9, 1979, 15 years to the day The Beatles first appeared on

The Ed Sullivan Show.

I know, I know — these are just silly coincidences, but don’t expect me not to have noticed.

My true epiphany about the remarkable British pop rock band came just two years ago, when I played host to two graduate students from Georgia Tech who’d arrived in Jacksonville late on a Friday for a weekend of door-todoor campaigning to re-elect President Barack Obama. The two had met for the first time that evening.

During the 20-minute drive to my home, I told them I was a retired journalist. Of course I mesmerized them, too, with the Beatles story, when I learned they were big Beatles fans. It was a bonding moment for all of us.

They graciously and without hesitancy accepted when I told them on the ride to my home that the only accommodation I had to offer was one king-sized bed they would have to share. On the morning they were heading back to Georgia, a large envelope lay on the breakfast table. Tucked in a “thank you for your hospitality” card was the latest Beatles album of greatest hits, the very first Beatles album I have ever owned.

One of the students was a Muslim from Morocco, the other a Jew whose parents had immigrated to the U.S. Here were two young men from cultures that for centuries have been at odds, but who shared a passion about building a better world, and a mutual appreciation of the messages in the music of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr.

While violent clashes of their cultures were occurring elsewhere around the world that night, these two strangers slept peacefully side by side under my roof. It was then that the lyrics from one of the few John Lennon songs I knew filled my head: Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.

Yes, I will be at the McCartney concert.

My $144 ticket is in the nosebleed section, with a side view of his performance that offers a glimpse of the backstage, which somehow seems an appropriate spot. And this time when he sings, I’ll know the words. mail@folioweekly.com This story is adapted and excerpted from the forthcoming How My Beatles Interview in 1964 Changed My World, an e-book that will soon be released through amazon.com.

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How the St. Augustine Distillery and The Ice Plant Bar recaptured a slice of 20th-century history thanks to big money and even bigger passion

By Nick McGregor

Photos by Dennis Ho

n a rush to preserve its colonial past and Flagler-funded grandeur, the city of St. Augustine has notoriously neglected whole swaths of its more recent history.

Nowhere is that more evident than in the 15,000-square-foot ice plant building on Riberia Street.

A stately concrete structure built between 1905 and 1926, after a half-century in business, the ice plant went from being a critical part of St. Augustine’s infrastructure to a disused afterthought on the western edge of an already-neglected neighborhood.

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LEFT TO RIGHT: Philip McDaniel, Mike Diaz and Ryan Dettra, at the St. Augustine Distillery.

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Starting in 2010, four locals — retired businessmen Philip McDaniel and Mike Diaz, Café Eleven founder and former St. Augustine Amphitheatre general manager Ryan Dettra, and The Floridian co-founder Patricia McLemore — set out to the change that. They poured three years, nearly $3 million and immeasurable effort into their dream of turning the former ice plant into a historically specific, financially sound business venture. Today, a wildly popular distillery and bar/restaurant occupies this space, which sat empty or sorely underutilized for nearly 60 years.

So it goes in The Ancient City, where it’s easy to take an illustrious past for granted. The 342-year-old Castillo de San Marcos? Nice place

for a picnic. Tolomato Cemetery, which holds the choice. Its roots in manufacturing, its legacy as remains of the first Minorcans in the New World a contributing building to Lincolnville’s place and a leader of the 1791 Haitian slave uprising? on the National Register of Historic Places, and Ooh, look at the Love Tree! Even the Ponce de the challenge it presented — pink paint, modern Leon Hotel, once the finest winter resort ever carpet, acoustic ceiling tiles, vintage equipment constructed on the East Coast, is today best either disassembled or entirely covered up — were all too appealing to ignore. known as a home to Flagler College’s freshmen.

“Preserving the character of the building But while other Florida towns boomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, St. Augustine while enhancing it to fit into the neighborhood maintained. Its lackadaisical pace of life — felt like the right thing to do,” McDaniel says. bemoaned in the 1880s by Henry Flagler and “We just had to crack the code and figure out the still a source of existential handwringing among magic of the project.” residents today — allowed much of its history to be preserved. Flagler was the first to see tourist hat magic stretches back almost 110 potential here, but it wasn’t until after World War years. Originally built as a power II, when America’s booming economy and global plant in 1905, the ice plant building exceptionalism kindled a nostalgic longing was expanded in 1917 into the first Florida facility for simpler times, that St. Augustine was first to generate commercial block ice. That business marketed as the “Oldest City.” boomed alongside the city’s shrimping and Of course, the city’s complicated, multicultural fishing industries, so in 1926, the newly formed roots — and the fierce civil rights battles fought Florida Power & Light conglomerate purchased downtown in the early 1960s — didn’t help St. the complex and expanded again, increasing iceAugustine leap to the making capacity from top of the tourism pile.

65 to 125 tons. Four The Castillo de San massive “cans” or “trays” “That remodel was Marcos wasn’t even set in the floor of the rough. Everything listed as a National newly built two-story Monument until 1966, side of the building froze was covered up and one year after the 325-pound blocks of we really had to start quadricentennial. pure, clean ice that were Such a roundabout then transferred via from scratch — all history lesson helps to overhead bridge crane knowing that we explain why it took so to rail cars, boats and long for the ice plant trucks out back — or risked finding things to turn into a viable broken up into smaller that were too old business venture. What quantities and sold to it required was a leap residents out front. or decrepit.” of faith on the part of At its pinnacle, the McDaniel, Diaz, Dettra U.S. ice trade accounted and McLemore that for 4,800 plants, craft distilling, a small but growing offshoot of 100,000 employees and 40 million tons of ice; in the booming craft brewery business, could take World Wars I and II, ice plant employees were hold in this dive bar-and-cover band paradise. even exempt from the draft. But by the 1950s, Artisanal, locally sourced spirits were huge in with a refrigerator and freezer in nearly every hipster havens like Denver, Portland, Seattle and American home, the ice industry collapsed and Brooklyn, where the group visited distilleries, FPL offloaded the now-cumbersome ice plant attended conferences and sampled spirits. But to a former employee for just $1 while retaining translating that to the relatively small market of ownership of the land surrounding it.

St. Augustine would prove difficult — even if its After decades of disuse, local company salty and humid climate was actually ideal for the Mega Systems took over the ice plant in the aging and distilling process.

1990s, manufacturing movie projectors in the “We’ve been programmed to take whiskey, cavernous space. But they covered most of the add coke, and if you really want to go over the building’s original features with drywall and top, squeeze a little lime on top,” McDaniel carpet, installed drop ceilings and fluorescent says. “People think that’s a great drink. Well, lights, and even boarded up the soaring twothat worked up until about five years ago. We story steel windows to create a “blackout” room recognized that the craft cocktail thing was for testing. Uninterested in sinking millions into happening all over the country — and that it the building’s renovation, they left the rest of it to could happen here, too.” slowly rot.

The group entertained a few buildings around The distillery group secured a lease for the town, but the former ice plant, which hadn’t been ice plant building at the end of 2011, but while much of anything since being decommissioned performing due diligence, they discovered what and sold in the 1950s, was always their first Dettra calls that “depressing and shocking” interior. That was only the tip of the challenging iceberg, though; for 18 months, McDaniel led negotiations with FPL over parking and other property rights; spent months explaining the distillery’s vision to Lincolnville residents; and enlisted St. Augustine officials like city manager John Regan and historical preservation planner Jenny Wolfe to help grant Planning and Zoning Board permission requests, code enforcement variances and Historical Architectural Review Board approvals. Basic utility services even had to be restored to the building.

Wolfe says the city was thrilled to help.

“For many years, the building’s uses didn’t pay attention to its history,” she says. “But because it’s in the Lincolnville historic district, the distillery voluntarily committed itself to more regulation than we normally apply. Everything about their approach to the interpretation of history was a breath of fresh air.”

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Tour guide Larry Hesson demonstrates a period-appropriate method of making ice. history back to life by presenting a genuine experience to tourists suffused with a local’s sense of pride. “We’re longtime locals,” he adds. “Once the city, the neighborhood and FPL saw that we weren’t just out-of-town investors trying to fleece a quick buck, everyone lined up to help us out.” bstacles still arose, though. Due to Florida laws governing the production, distribution and sales of spirits, the St. Augustine Distillery and The Ice Plant Bar had to be established as separate business entities. In 2012, McDaniel and Diaz purchased the southern half of the building for $437,500; McLemore, joined by her parents and Dettra’s parents, bought the northern half for $450,000. McLemore was one of Dettra’s longesttenured employees at Café Eleven, and her experience co-founding and running popular downtown restaurant The Floridian made her a perfect candidate to add sustainably sourced, locally focused food to the mix.

Next came the down and dirty: digging into the guts of the building. “That remodel was rough,” Dettra says. “Everything was covered up and we really had to start from scratch — all knowing that we risked finding things that were too old or decrepit. But our goal was to expose as many original elements as possible, even if it meant grinding rust off a steel beam by hand for six weeks. And if we were going to remove anything, we had to honor the building’s original history and repurpose it.”

The task was Herculean, especially in the older distillery portion of the building. Workers discovered a dilapidated overhead bridge crane, and a crumbling brick archway that faces Riberia Street had to be reengineered and tied back into to the adjoining walls — including the only one left from the original 1905 construction.

On the 1926 Ice Plant Bar side, a larger Euclid bridge crane was still exposed and in good shape, but the walls required soda blasting — exploding away surface material by pressure washing with sodium bicarbonate — to return them to their original state. The steel trays that once contained the 325-pound blocks of ice were converted into The Ice Plant Bar’s first-floor ceiling, while the building’s electrical cage was repurposed into an elegant liquor cabinet.

Once the crew knew what was inside, they set out to procure other period-appropriate artifacts. Dettra and McLemore embarked on an architectural salvage trip to New York and New Jersey, where they found steel windows similar to the ice plant’s original ones, a bar top dating from the 1880s, work tables from the 1870s and benches from the original Hershey’s Chocolate factory — perfect for the distillery’s tasting room.

From its original 1900s location, they unbolted a 5-foot cast-iron trough sink — great for the ladies’ lavatory. Steel factory doors from the 1930s were strong enough to be used as exterior entrances.

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Working their way home in a packed U-Haul, Dettra and McLemore stopped in Georgia for reclaimed wood from historic 1860s homes — floorboards and the bar’s grand entrance staircase, check. A movie screen and bench ends from a 1920s Jacksonville theater went into the distillery’s screening room. Salvaged beams from Burkhardt Sales & Service were combined with reclaimed bricks to create a towering 16-foot-tall divider that splits the cavernous Ice Plant space into two distinct bar areas. he Ice Plant Bar opened in September 2013, while the more extensive engineering work required on the distillery pushed its opening date to March 2014.

But today, both sides of the property deliver a coherent trip back in time. In the distillery, visitors punch an antique time clock to begin their tour before entering a museum containing a 2.5-ton cast-iron sugar mill from 1883, a copper still from the 1890s, an ammonia compressor from the 1940s, and other carefully curated relics of Florida’s ice-making, distilling and agricultural history.

In The Ice Plant Bar, vintage mosaic floor tiles front the electrical cage and a wooden staircase leads to low-slung tables and the elegantly lit bar and restaurant. Vintage ice tongs, lights, signs and other decorations dot the walls; every detail down to the menu and serving glasses are exquisite, and the bartenders even rock suspenders to complete the old-school aesthetic. All of it is meant to appeal to a new breed of enthusiast hungry for a more authentic and immersive experience.

“This whole project was a giant puzzle determined by the path the renovation of the building took,” Dettra says. “But it was worth it from an experiential marketing standpoint.

We want visitors to have their first experience be the building and its heritage, not something fabricated. We could have built something new and tried to make it look old, but it wouldn’t have had the same feel. You can’t reproduce history.”

“What’s so impressive about this project is how it still looks like an ice plant,” says Elli Morris, whose 2008 book Cooling the South detailed the ice industry’s golden age. “There’s maybe one other plant in the South that has retained so much of its character. And it’s the only one I know of where they’re actually manufacturing something again.”

Even the new distilling and ice-making machinery inside the St. Augustine Distillery space evokes an artisanal ethos. Vendome Copper & Brass Works, one of the last companies still manufacturing copper stills in the United States, custom built the 750-gallon and 500-gallon beauties, along with a smaller botanical still. At The Ice Plant Bar, a nearly $10,000 Clinebell ice machine churns out two dense, pure 300-pound blocks every 52 hours, which are carved up into spheres and long rocks. A Kold-Draft machine

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Florida agriculture is also treated with craft importance. The distillery’s gin and vodka, for sale since March, rely on citrus from the Rogers family in Indian River County, who’ve grown grapefruit since 1928. Wells Brothers Farm in northern St. Johns County supplied the non-GMO corn and wheat for the first batch of bourbon, currently aging in single-wood, single-char barrels, with a tentative release date of 2017. The crew collected rare heirloom sugarcane strains from Marianna farmer and Southern Syrup Makers Association president Richard Harrison, convincing KYV Farm owner Francisco Arroyo of Hastings to populate 40 empty acres of his land with it. The first cane harvest last December yielded three acres, which will, they hope, triple after the next open-to-the-public harvest on Dec. 6. By 2015, the distillery hopes to have enough fresh-pressed cane juice to produce clear, agricole-style rum.

“That’s never been done before in Florida,” McDaniel says. “And it’s certainly never been done with historically significant sugarcane anywhere in the country.”

Via his role as president of the Florida Craft Distillers Guild, McDaniel also influenced the Florida Legislature, lobbying lawmakers to loosen a Prohibition-era law preventing distilleries from directly selling their spirits. In 2013, Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 347, which allows individuals to buy two bottles per year from the manufacturer. That was a major win for the St. Augustine Distillery, which has seen more than 40,000 visitors in its first seven months, with over 100,000 expected by year’s end. But many of the company’s decisions go beyond economic motivation; the distillery encourages participating farmers to recycle used grains back onto their land, and it has one of the only zerowaste water reclamation distilling systems in the country.

“The growth potential in this industry is immense,” Dettra says. “But we’re trying to grow in a responsible way.”

Naturally, the accolades for such growth have piled up. National lifestyle publications like Garden & Gun and Southern Living added The Ice Plant Bar to their 2013 best-of lists, and the distillery’s St. Augustine Vodka won a DoubleGold medal in TheFiftyBest.com’s 2014 Best Domestic Vodka awards.

But the top honors have come from the city and the state. In May, St. Augustine bestowed one of two inaugural Adelaide Sanchez Awards on the distillery and Ice Plant Bar, followed a week later by the highest award at the Florida Trust for Historical Preservation’s 36th Annual Preservation Conference.

“Hopefully these awards, which provide an incentive to prevent buildings from being knocked down, can serve as a model for what a for-profit business can achieve in terms of historic preservation,” Dettra says.

McDaniel expects that the distillery and Ice Plant Bar, along with the neighboring San Sebastian Winery, will eventually serve as bookends of the San Sebastian Inland Harbor project, which sold in August for $4.5 million after sitting dormant since 2007; final plans for a boutique hotel and retail space are still up for approval. But for now, the crew is happy to anchor the city’s $3.4 million Riberia Street Rehabilitation Project, which was completed just before The Ice Plant Bar and St. Augustine Distillery opened. They’ve soaked up nearuniversal praise from out-of-town aficionados and eager local clientele. Anyone who’s endured a two-hour wait to be seated at The Ice Plant Bar on a weekend night — and then forgotten about it upon taking that first smooth sip of a Florida Mule or St. George Sour — recognizes the appeal of imbibing in such fascinating confines.

“Our goal was to give back to the community by making an investment that would have an economic impact,” McDaniel says. “It’s way cheaper to knock old buildings like these down, but bringing them back to life presents a good model of how to capitalize on the positives.” mail@folioweekly.com

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Our Picks Reasons to leave the house this week

ART ATTACK GALLERY TRIFECTA

This week the First Coast has three receptions worth checking out. University of North Florida Gallery presents the opening reception for Beyond the Degree, featuring work by UNF alumni Ashley Maxwell, Devin Balara, Bobby Davidson, Corey Kolb, Staci BuShea, Zach Fitchner and David Nackashi, Oct. 24, 5-7 p.m., 1 UNF Drive, Southside, 6202534. On Oct. 25, 5-8 p.m., Clay and Canvas Studio presents Open Studio Night, featuring works

by Lily Kuonen, Tiffany W. Leach and Madeleine Peck and live music by Wobi Wütenberg, at 2642-6 Rosselle Street, Riverside. The opening reception for Nida Bangash’s I Am a Tree (pictured, War Rug with Love), is held Oct. 28, 6-8 p.m., FSCJ Kent Campus Gallery, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside.

VIDEO MADNESS FOUND FOOTAGE FEST

The 1980s gave us a veritable godsend of technological innovations: the food vacuum sealer, Prozac, calculator watches, the cassingle, “Waffelos” cereal – the list is endless. Yet none was mightier than VHS. The Found Footage Festival website, foundfootagefest.com, is the brainchild of Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (The Late Show with David Letterman, The Colbert Report), and features old-school clips of their collection of video weirdness. At the pair’s upcoming appearance, they screen gems from their voluminous vault while providing a live commentary to clips including the martial arts instructions of Tiger Moves, something called Butt Camp and the self-explanatory How to Have Cybersex on the Internet. Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Sun-Ray Cinema, Riverside, $10, sunraycinema.com.

SOUL LEGEND BETTYE LAVETTE

TRIPPY TRIO MIKE WATT & IL SOGNO DEL MARINAIO

Bassist-vocalist and punk rock polymath Mike Watt has been in the eye of the underground music hurricane for more than three decades. With The Minutemen and fIREHOSE, Watt helped pioneer what eventually became known as indie rock. In the years since, the-now-56-year-old has played with an impressive roster of likeminded music freaks, including The Stooges and J. Mascis. His latest band, Il Sogno Del Mariano, with guitarist Stefano Pilia and drummer Andrea Belfi, dips into some serious avantgarde rock with a spoken word vibe. Locals Hey Mandible open. 8 p.m. Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits, San Marco; $12 in advance, $15 at door.

Over more than 50 years, Bettye LaVette has perfected a signature musical style that blends soul, blues, rock, gospel and country. In the ’60s, LaVette scored hits with “My Man – He’s a Lovin’ Man,” “He Made A Woman Out Of Me” and “Do Your Duty.” In the decades since, she has appeared on more than 20 critically acclaimed releases, acted on Broadway, collaborated with artists like Hank Ballard and the Drive-By Truckers, penned her memoirs and garnered an array of accolades. Her upcoming concert allows music lovers the chance to see a true American legend. 7 p.m., Oct. 25, The Ritz Theatre and Museum, Downtown, $40-$50, ritzjacksonville.com.

THEATER JEKYLL & HYDE

Originally published in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde told the creepy tale of a doctor with a truly dark side. The musical adaptation of this classic horror-thriller, Jekyll & Hyde, made its debut in 1990, eventually wowed Broadway audiences, and snapped up both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Since then this much-loved production has been translated into more than 20 languages and featured on stages around the globe. Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 26, 2:30 p.m., Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, Orange Park, $24-$63, thcenter.org.

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SCARY GOOD TIME

HALLOWEEN AT THE CASKET FACTORY

This Halloween season, why not come take a stroll through local history while enjoying a frighteningly good night? The Jacksonville Historical Society presents the second-annual Halloween at the Casket Factory, an event that features live music by Mama Blue, dancing, a costume contest, performers, libations and food trucks. This year’s theme is “Haunted Hospital,” and what’s more, the spooky 15,000-square-foot location for the party is a former casket factory (rumored to be haunted, of course). Proceeds benefit the restoration and maintenance of Old St. Luke’s Hospital. Oct. 24, 8 p.m., 314 Palmetto St., Downtown, $45, jaxhistory.com.

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OBSTINATE, BLUDGEONING & NIHILISTIC Along with blunt-force rock and unforgiving attitude, Texas ragers OBN IIIs bring plenty of nuance and ambition to the table

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and lyrics you can shout along to. hen OBN IIIs released their third studio Yet just when it seemed like OBN IIIs had album, Third Time to Harm, earlier this mastered their own brand of bloody, brawny year, critics swooned over the Austin, hard rock, they went and changed course, paring Texas, quintet’s muscular hard-rock histrionics. down to a quartet. “We have a different lineup But a subtle disregard undermined much of that praise: as the influential Pitchfork put it, now, and I’m playing guitar and singing instead Third Time to Harm slotted well into the “townie of just being the guy in front slobbering on the music” sub-genre that “binged on masculinity audience,” Neeley tells Folio Weekly. “We also and guitar heroics” and specialized in songs have a bunch of new material that people haven’t “ideal for pushing the speed limit, lifting heard. I don’t know if worried is the right word, weights, getting in bar fights, [and] flirtin’ with but I’m not going to get my hopes up about disaster” in the late 1970s. whether people will like the new direction of the Those a little more experienced with OBN band. It’s still hard rock, but it’s different.”

IIIs’ deep discography and legendary live show Even though OBN IIIs doggedly built a cult snickered at such simplistic calculations, though. following from 2010 to 2013 before rocketing See them in person, get screamed to nationwide acclaim this year, at, spit on and shoved by Neeley says he’s unconcerned “Recognition is about the unproven stylistic intimidating lead singer Orville Bateman Neeley III (OBN III, get shift. “We’re working with what cool and all, it?), and then you’ll get it, they we got here. When I started but it doesn’t claimed. But even those fervent [OBN IIIs], I had an idea for the supporters couldn’t accurately words and vocal patterns. But pay the bills.” convey the allure of such noI had a hard time singing and bullshit energy. Imagine The playing the guitar parts properly, Stooges’ proto-punk mashed up with Ted Nugent so I passed them off to somebody else. And or Van Halen’s technical shred, then filtered then, sometimes the riffs would get butchered through The Misfits’ nihilistic death cloak, and by the person playing them. So I’m writing the you might come close. Or just put on OBN IIIs’ new stuff a little more song-y and a little less 2013 concert recording Live In San Francisco and ‘whatever goes.’ I just want to play my own riffs, feel the pain as the band bashes its way through you know?” a skull-crushing 27-minute live set, Neeley Which launches Neeley into another harsh, incessantly heckling the audience throughout. if nuanced, rant. “Five people in a band is a But OBN IIIs are not your typical stoned-out lot harder to look after than four,” he says. garage band. Third Time to Harm’s middle chunk “Last year, I kicked one guy out, and because flirts with proggy sophistication. This is not rock of that our bass player left. But with this new music for the weak-spirited, the boneheaded lineup, I finally have a group of guys who aren’t or the 20something “townie” looking to get apprehensive about planning for the future, drunk and spin rubber on a Friday night. This is going on the road, and making some sacrifices. ominous, gutsy, often antagonistic music — that That was always an issue I had with older just happens to boast jaw-dropping guitar solos bandmates: ‘I have a girlfriend, I need to work,”

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blah blah blah. This is work! If we take advantage of the interest in the band and keep booking tours, why don’t we see if we can make it work?”

The new OBN IIIs lineup plans to record fresh material written as a four-piece after its current fall tour, which includes a headlining stop at the Halloween Duval Punk Party show on Oct. 30 (supporting Florida bands Golden Pelicans, Burnt Hair and The Lifeforms, who will perform cover sets of AC/DC, Suicide and Nirvana, respectively). Neeley hopes that can help the band secure a new record deal, since Third Time to Harm satisfied the three-album contract he “unwisely” signed with underground Chicago label Tic Tac Totally.

Asked whether that forward-thinking ambition proves he’s in the rock ‘n’ roll game for life and not just for kicks, Neeley sounds genuinely astonished for a second.

“You’re the first person to ask me about a career in that sense,” he says. “So yeah, I’ve always figured on rock ‘n’ roll as a career.

I’ve been self-employed by it for almost two years, so why not? But I’m all about being a working musician. I’d like to make it so that my bandmates can do the same.”

You mean can’t right now, even with OBN IIIs’ elevated profile, critically celebrated albums, and extensive tour, which includes upcoming dates at CMJ in New York?

“Recognition is cool and all,” Neeley says.

“But it doesn’t pay the bills.”

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

DUVAL HALLOWEEN PUNK PARTY with OBN IIIs, GOLDEN PELICANS, BURNT HAIR and THE LIFEFORMS 8 p.m. Oct. 30, rain dogs., Riverside, $8

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HELLRAISERS

The Devil Makes Three return to Northeast Florida with their fiery roots-rock riot

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fter more than 12 years on the road and three albums in their arsenal, acoustic punk-blues trio The Devil Makes Three traded in their DIY ethos for a professional producer on the band’s latest effort, I’m A Stranger Here (October 2013).

TDM3’s fourth album and their New West Records debut, Stranger was produced by Buddy Miller and recorded at Dan Auerbach’s (Black Keys) Easy Eye Sound in Nashville.

“We’re a totally independent band and put out all of our records ourselves. We didn’t start with a record label or any backing,” explains Pete Bernhard, the band’s guitarist and vocalist.

“Now, we’ve gotten to the point where we have a big enough audience and enough support from our fans that we can do something like hire a producer.”

A melting pot of genres — blues, ragtime, rockabilly, country, punk — The Devil Makes Three has spent the past decade creating a distinct sound. This was not lost on a pro like Buddy Miller.

“Buddy’s not the kind of producer that comes in and tells you how your record’s going to be,” says Bernhard. “I don’t think we would work with a producer who would tell us how our band should sound. It was more like he was just another member of the band and he surrounded us with really great musicians and we had a blast.”

Case in point, Miller enlisted TDM3 favorite Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the legendary New Orleans-style jazz group, to play on “Forty Days,” a gospel rave-up tune.

To understand the present-day music of The Devil Makes Three, you have to have a sense of the trio’s past. Growing up in Vermont, Bernhard and guitarist Cooper McBean became friends at age 12. In high school, the guys got to know upright bassist Lucia Turino.

“We grew up in rural areas outside of Brattleboro,” Bernhard says. “We were all raised by hippies who were back-to-the-land-type people. Our families had a big influence on us as far as our musical taste. We listened to a lot of our parents’ music growing up, and there

was a lot of folk and blues music and a lot of old rock ‘n’ roll. It was a good environment.”

After high school, the three separately moved to Santa Cruz, California — ending up out there for “different reasons” — and caught back up with each via the local music scene.

In 2002, they formed The Devil Makes Three, independently released a self-titled album and hit the road.

“We all wanted to travel even before we started the band,” says Bernhard. “I think our band was an opportunity for all of us to travel and get to see the country and play along the way. So we’ve always been travelers first and musicians second, I think, and we’ve turned it into a career.

True troubadours in every sense of the word, TDM3’s foot-stomping live shows and constant grassroots touring have given them stage time at the Newport Folk Festival, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, as well gigs with the likes of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell and Trampled By Turtles.

This past year, The Devil Makes Three checked another milestone of the list – their first proper European tour.

“We’ve been doing this for a long time and we still really love it. We love the traveling and the playing and getting to meet everybody. It suits us well,” Bernhard says.

Bernhard and the band are especially grateful for the response they received across the pond. “There’s something about touring Europe. They’re just really nice to musicians – they treat you with a whole different level of respect. In the United States, they treat you with respect if a lot of people come to your show. And if people don’t show up, then they don’t.”

Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com

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A&E // MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Oct. 22 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247.

PAT ROSE 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at Ragtime Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877.

MIKE SHACKELFORD, JULIE DURDEN, ERNIE EVANS, STEVE STANHOLTZER 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008.

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE, CAVE SINGERS 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $17.50.

SECRET KEEPER, CONVALESCE, WHISKY THROTTLE, SEARCHING SERENITY 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8.

HUMAN BEHAVIOR, A SELFLESS LOT 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, 353-6067.

JUSTIN HAYWARD 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$65.

BIRTHDAY CANDLES, MENTAL BOY, CUTE FILLS 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188, $5.

THE CHRISTOPHER DEAN BAND 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at Ragtime Tavern.

COLTON DIXON, SUMERLIN 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 388-3179, $14-$20.

ANDY McKEE 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0367, advance tickets $26-$29.

Guitar virtuoso ANDY McKEE plays the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on Oct. 23.

IL SOGNO DEL MARINAIO (MIKE WATT), HEY MANDIBLE 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at Jack Rabbits, advance tickets are $12; $15 day of.

URBAN PIONEERS 9 p.m. Oct. 23 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 699-8186, $5.

TAMBOR 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at Burro Bar. JOSHUA SCOTT JONES 6 p.m. Oct. 24 at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, 356-1110.

BRADY CLAMPITT 6 p.m. Oct. 4 at Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555.

THIS WILD LIFE 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $10.

J. DASH & FRIENDS 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at The Ritz Theatre, 829 E. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $30-$40.

MIKEY CLAMS BAND 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at Fionn MacCool’s, Downtown.

FINCH, MAPS & ATLASES, WEATHERBOX 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at Freebird Live, $20.

DROWNING POOL, A BREACH OF SILENCE, RED TIDE RISING, MANNA ZEN 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at Jack Rabbits, $20.

WE BE UNTITLED, JIVE KATZ, G ELLA, STACKZ, O.A.B., THE LEGACY DJ’S 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at Burro Bar. FRIGHT FEST: TWIZTID, KUNG FU VAMPIRE, NEUROTIC NOVEMBER, PWD 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at Underbelly.

THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, LITTLE GOLD, FJORD EXPLORER, THE CROWKEEPERS 9 p.m. Oct. 24 at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., 379-4969.

BOOGIE FREAKS 9 p.m. Oct. 24 & 25 at Ragtime Tavern.

3 THE BAND 10 p.m. Oct. 24 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680.

LIVE OAK JAZZ ARTS & BLUES FEST with LITTLE JAKE & THE SOUL SEARCHERS, 21 BLUE!, WAILIN WOLVES BAND, BETH McKEE, LONGINEU PARSONS QUINTET, JOE SURVIVAL CARUSO BAND, CHRIS CAMP & UNIVERSAL PRAISE, GATEWAY CITY BIG BAND Oct. 25, Downtown Live Oak, for a full schedule go to liveoakfestivals. com/jab-fest BEACHES OKTOBERFEST: SPLIT TONE, SIDEREAL, BE EASY, THE NAVY BAND, UNCOMMON LEGENDS, THE EUROPA BAND, THE OMM-PAH-STERS Oct. 25 & 26 at Seawalk Pavilion, 75 First St., Jax Beach, for a full schedule go to beachesoktoberfest.com.

Monsters of Music ROCK OPERA 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Murray Hill Theatre, $10-$12.

BETTYE LAVETTE 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at The Ritz Theatre, 829 E. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $40-$50.

PAUL McCARTNEY 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 633-6110, $28.50-$158.50.

THE DISTORTED DOLLS, WORLD GONE, ASKMEIFICARE, DENIED TIL DEATH, PRIDELESS 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Jack Rabbits, $15.

BLEEDING IN STEREO 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Underbelly.

LAWLESS HEARTS 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Riverfront Stage, The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, free.

AMON AMARTH, SABATON, SKELETONWITCH 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Freebird Live, $20.

SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY, SWAMP RATS, JAKE COX 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Burro Bar. DIRTY GRINGOS 10 p.m. Oct. 25 at Flying Iguana.

SUGAR BEAR 4 p.m. Oct. 26 at Riverfront Stage, The Landing.

RONNIE DOZIER 5 p.m. Oct. 26 at Aqua Club & Lounge, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 334-2122, advance tickets are $10;$12 at the door.

ART UNBARRED 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Underbelly.

DENTON ELKINS 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at The Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $5.

MARK JOHNSON & EMORY LESTER 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $20.

HODERA, WAIGHTSTILL, AVERY 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at Burro Bar, $5.

DARREN CORLEW 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Flying Iguana.

JEALOUSY MOUNTAIN DUO, LAKE DISNEY, DANNY STRICKLAND 8 p.m. Oct. 27 at Burro Bar. TONY SMOTHERMAN PROJECT, TRAVIS LARSON BAND, GARY SCHUTT BAND 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at Underbelly, advance tickets are $10; $15 day of.

PEELANDER-Z, THIS LEGEND, FLAG ON FIRE 8 p.m. Oct. 28 at Jack Rabbits, $10.

SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Oct. 29 at Fionn MacCool’s, The Landing.

RED BEARD & STINKY E 7 p.m. Oct. 29 at Ragtime Tavern.

MIKE DOUGHTY 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at Café Eleven, advance tickets are $18; $20 day of show.

THE POLISH AMBASSADOR, LIMINUS, MR. LIF, AYLE NEREO, WILDLIGHT 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at Freebird Live, $20.

PAINT FUMES, THE MOLD, MOTHER SUPERIOR 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at Burro Bar. NATO COLES & THE BLUE DIAMOND BAND, ARMS ALOFT, SPRUCE BRINGSTEEN, THE RESONANTS, THE RIVERNECKS, THE SCAVUZZOS 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at Shanghai Nobby’s, $5.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

BRADY CLAMPITT CD RELEASE PARTY with SENTROPOLIS Oct. 30, Underbelly SHELLSHAG, VACATION, BENNY THE JET RODRIGUEZ, CINCINNATI ROYALS, BROWN PALACE, TELEPATHIC LINES, MENTAL BOY Oct. 30, Shanghai Nobby’s BILL KIRCHEN AND TOO MUCH FUN, FAUXGRASS, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND Oct. 30, Jack Rabbits THE DRUIDS Oct. 30, Ragtime Tavern JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE Oct. 30, Mavericks PAUL & KAY GARFINKEL, MARK MANDEVILLE, RAIANNE RICHARDS Oct. 30, Mudville Music Room OBN III, GOLDEN PELICANS, THE LIFEFORMS Oct. 30, rain dogs.

SUPERVILLAINS, THROUGH THE ROOTS, SIDEREAL, CLOUD 9 Oct.

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A&E // MUSIC CLARENCE CARTER Nov. 14, The Ritz Theatre GYPSY STAR with REBECCA ZAPEN Nov. 14, Mudville Music Room EX CULT, GOLDEN PELICANS, BROWN PALACE, THE MOLD Nov. 14, Shanghai Nobby’s JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, CORY BRANAN Nov. 15, Colonial Quarters, St. Augustine SICK OF IT ALL, NEGATIVE APPROACH, RHYTHM OF FEAR Nov. 15, Jack Rabbits MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS Nov. 15, T-U Center CELTIC THUNDER Nov. 15, The Florida Theatre THE DELUSIONAIRES, TIGER! TIGER! Nov. 15, Shanghai Nobby’s SUNSPOTS, WHAT HEART, RANDY LANE Nov. 15, Freebird Live FINE ART OF JAZZ TRIBUTE TO COUNT BASIE Nov. 18, The Ritz Theatre COURAGE MY LOVE, BUTTONS, EVERSAY Nov. 18, Jack Rabbits WHITECHAPEL, GLASS CLOUD, OF TRIBE & TRUTH Nov. 18, Freebird Live JAMES TAYLOR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND: LOU MARINI, WALT FOWLER, LARRY GOLDINGS, LUIS CONTE, STEVE GADD, ANDREA ZONN, KATE MARKOWITZ, ARNOLD McCULLER, DAVID LASLEY,

Norse metal kings AMON AMARTH perform with SABATON and SKELETONWITCH at Freebird Live on Oct. 25.

31, Freebird Live SUNBEARS! Oct. 31, Underbelly Suwannee Hulaween: THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, THIEVERY CORPORATION, BIG GIGANTIC, BEATS ANTIQUE, THE NEW DEAL, JOE RUSSO’S ALMOST DEAD, GREENSKY BLUEGRASS, RISING APPALACHIA, GREENHOUSE LOUNGE, MICHAEL TRAVIS, JASON HANN, EOTO Oct. 31-Nov. 2, Spirit of the Suwannee DAVID COOK, CLAYTON BUSH Oct. 31, Jack Rabbits FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, COLE SWINDELL, THE CADILLAC THREE, CLARE DUNN, JOHN KING, MICHAEL RAY Oct. 31, Jacksonville Shipyards DARYL HANCE Oct. 31, Dog Star Tavern CARL & THE BLACK LUNGS Oct. 31 & Nov. 1, Flying Iguana FILMSTRIP Oct. 31, The Hourglass Pub BAY STREET Oct. 31 & Nov. 1, Ragtime Tavern MAYSA Nov. 1, The Ritz Theatre ANGEL OLSEN, LIONLIMB Nov. 1, Jack Rabbits STEVE POLTZ, DONNY BRAZILE Nov. 1, Café Eleven ANTIC Nov. 1, Freebird Live THE DRUIDS Nov. 1, Your Place Bar & Grill STURGILL SIMPSON, CRIS JACOBS Nov. 2, Jack Rabbits NEW KINGSTON, I RESOLUTION, MYSTIC DINO & THE KIDS, DJ RAGGAMUFFIN Nov. 2, Freebird Live SELF DEFENSE FAMILY, GOODTIME BOYS Nov. 2, 1904 Music Hall MELVINS, LES BUTCHERETTES Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits PAUL COLLINS BEAT, THE LIFEFORMS Nov. 3, Underbelly VATTNET VISKAR Nov. 3, Burro Bar 7 SECONDS, THE INTERRUPTERS, POOR RICHARDS Nov. 4, Jack Rabbits CHARLEY SIMMONS Nov. 5, Mudville Music Room WHETHERMAN Nov. 5, Underbelly CHARLIE & THE FOXTROTS Nov. 5, Burro Bar CASTING CROWNS Nov. 6, Veterans Memorial Arena CHERYL WHEELER Nov. 6, Café Eleven TONY LUCCA Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits THE MURDERBURGERS, RATIONAL ANTHEM, ERIC AYOTTE, THE RESONANTS, DILDOZER Nov. 6, Shanghai Nobby’s SUSAN BOYLE Nov. 6, Times-Union Center DESTROYER OF LIGHT Nov. 6, Burro Bar MALCOLM HOLCOMBE Nov. 6, Mudville Music Room DAVE ROSS COMEDY TOUR Nov. 6, Underbelly Old City Music Fest: OLD DOMINION, JASON D. WILLIAMS Nov. 7, St. Augustine START MAKING SENSE, GOV CLUB, LAKE DISNEY Nov. 7, Jack Rabbits TIM KAISER, PAUL METZGER Nov. 7, Sun-Ray Cinema BLACK LILLIES Nov. 7, Colonial Quarter, St. Augustine THE DRUIDS Nov. 7, My Place Bar & Grill GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH, WET NURSES, THE GUN HOES Nov. 7, Shanghai Nobby’s THE HAPPY FACED MISTAKES, ASKMEIFICARE Nov. 7, Freebird SAM PACETTI Nov. 7, Mudville Music Room Old City Music Fest: JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, WILL HOGE Nov. 8, St. Augustine HEART Nov. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre PRIME TREES, PRIDELESS, SWEET HAYAH Nov. 8, Freebird PROFESSOR WHISKEY’S TRAVELING BIZARRE BAZAAR Nov. 8, Underbelly PORCHFEST with MONDO MIKE & THE PO BOYS, THE WELL BEINGS, MAMA BLUE, EL CONJUNTO TROPICAL, JACKSONVILLE OLD TIME JAM, PRELUDE CHAMBER QUARTET, REDNECK HUMMUS, DOUG VANDERLAAN & HEATHER PERRY, DOUGLAS ANDERSON GUITAR ENSEMBLE, JOE SHUCK, CANARY IN THE COALMINE, BAY STREET, DIRT FLOOR KRACKERS, KATIE HELOW & ZACH LEVER, CRAZY DAYSIES, LAUREN FINCHAM & MIKE PEARSON, GOLIATH FLORES, TROPIC OF CANCER, JESSE MONTOYA Nov. 8, Springfield LOVE, LIVE, LAUGH: TAMAR BRAXTON, NEPHEW TOMMY, RICKY SMILEY, SPECIAL K, LYFE JENNINGS Nov. 8, Veterans Memorial Arena THE WILDTONES Nov. 8, Shanghai Nobby’s RANDY NEWMAN Nov. 9, Flagler College PHILLIP PHILLIPS Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, TIFT MERRITT Nov. 9, Florida Theatre GRINGO STARR Nov. 9, Underbelly THE LONE BELLOW Nov. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TAB BENOIT, DEVON ALLMAN BAND Nov. 12, P.V. Concert Hall

MATISYAHU Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre REVEREND HORTON HEAT, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits SEVENDUST Nov. 12, Underbelly Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival: DUMPSTAPHUNK, UMPHREY’S McGEE, ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES, OTEIL BURBRIDGE, ZACH DEPUTY, MINGO FISHTRAP, THE FRITZ, CATFISH ALLIANCE Nov. 13-16, Suwannee Music Park ROD PICOTT, TRACY GRAMMER Nov. 13, Mudville Music Room TRIBAL SEEDS, BALLYHOO, GONZO, BEYOND I SIGHT Nov. 13, Freebird Live LECRAE Nov. 13, The Florida Theatre SAINTSENECA Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits NONPOINT, GEMINI SYNDROME, ISLANDER, 3 YEARS HOLLOW Nov. 13, 1904 Music Hall O.A.R., ANDY GRAMMER Nov. 14, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE DRUIDS Nov. 14, West Inn Cantina LOCAL HONEY ARTIST SHOWCASE Nov. 14, Colonial Quarters, St. Augustine MATTHEW & GUNNAR NELSON Nov. 14, P.V. Concert Hall DIRTY HEADS, ROME Nov. 14, Mavericks THE CURT TOWNE BAND, FIREROAD, JAKE CALHOUN & THE CHASERS Nov. 14, Freebird Live

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A&E // MUSIC JIMMY JOHNSON, MICHAEL LANDAU Nov. 19, Veterans Memorial Arena ERIC LINDELL Nov. 20, Mojo Kitchen TOMBOI, BOYFRIEND, HEAVY FLOW, MF GOON Nov. 20, Shanghai Nobby’s THE WORD ALIVE, COLOR MORALE, OUR LAST NIGHT, THE DEAD RABBITS, MISS FORTUNE Nov. 20, Underbelly MELISSA ETHERIDGE, ALEXANDER CARDINALE Nov. 21, The Florida Theatre LIGHT YEARS, DRIVER FRIENDLY Nov. 21, Burro Bar THIRD DAY Nov. 21, Times-Union Center NATALIE STOVALL & THE DRIVE Nov. 21, Mavericks CATCH THE GROOVE Nov. 21, Mudville Music Room THE JACKSONVILLE OLD TIME JAM Nov. 21, Underbelly PUJOL Nov. 21, Shanghai Nobby’s SEVEN NATIONS Nov. 22, Lynch’s Irish Pub FLOGGING MOLLY Nov. 22, Seawalk Pavilion OTIS CLAY Nov. 22, The Ritz Theatre I-VIBES Nov. 22, Freebird Live FLATBUSH ZOMBIES, THE UNDERACHIEVERS Nov. 22, Underbelly TENTH AVENUE NORTH, KB, ROYAL TAILOR Nov. 22, Murray Hill Theatre RELIENT K, BLONDFIRE, FROM INDIAN LAKES Nov. 24, Freebird Live AARON CARTER, BILLY WINFIELD, RAQUEL CABRERA Nov. 25, Jack Rabbits PASSAFIRE, THE HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 28, Freebird Live COSBY SWEATER Nov. 29, 1904 Music Hall RONNIE DOZIER, JASMINE RHEY Nov. 29 at The Ritz Theatre I-WAYNE, BLACK AM I Nov. 29, Freebird Live MATTHEW ELLIS Nov. 29, Burro Bar PRIMER 55, RAZORZ EDGE Nov. 30, Jack Rabbits 69 BOYZ, 95 SOUTH, QUAD CITY FAMILY Nov. 30, Eclipse EVERYTIME I DIE, THE GHOST INSIDE, ARCHITECTS, HUNDREDTH, BACKTRACK Dec. 1, Underbelly The Big Ticket: FALL OUT BOY, WEEZER, ALT-J, YOUNG THE GIANT, CHEVELLE, NEW POLITICS, J RODDY, BIG DATA, BEAR HANDS, YOUNG RISING SONS, ISLANDER Dec. 5, Metropolitan Park HUNTER HAYES Dec. 5, Veterans Memorial Arena WHO RESCUED WHO Dec. 5, Lynch’s Irish Pub URBAN JAZZ COALITION Dec. 6, The Ritz Theatre FOZZY Dec. 6, Aqua Club & Lounge JUBILEE RIOTS Dec. 6, Café Eleven DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES Dec. 6, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE DRUIDS Dec. 6, Your Place Bar & Grill THE MISFITS Dec. 6, Underbelly THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, BILLY NERSHI Dec. 6, Freebird Live MODERN BASEBALL, KNUCKLE PUCK, SOMOS Dec. 7, Underbelly WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR: INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE DISNEY SONGBOOKS Dec. 7, Sun-Ray Cinema SARAH MAC BAND Dec. 10, Mudville Music Room PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 11, Mudville Music Room TRAMPLED BY TURTLES, NIKKI LANE Dec. 12, P.V. Concert Hall Society for the Prevention of Suicide Benefit with JULIE DURDEN and GUESTS Dec. 12, Mudville Music Room THE SUNPILOTS Dec. 12, Jack Rabbits ALLEN TOUSSAINT Dec. 13, The Ritz Theatre JACK MENTZEL Dec. 13, Mudville Music Room BRIAN POSEHN Dec. 13, Underbelly DIERKS BENTLEY Dec. 13, Glynn County Football Stadium FINE ART OF JAZZ TRIBUTE TO MARY LOU WILLIAMS Dec. 16, The Ritz Theatre WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE Dec. 14, The Florida Theatre JOE BONAMASSA Dec. 17, The Florida Theatre BAD SANTA, GRANT PEEPLES Dec. 17, Mudville Music Room BOWSER & THE STINGRAYS, HERMAN’S HERMITS & PETER NOONE, GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP Dec. 18, Florida Theatre TRACE ADKINS Dec. 19, The Florida Theatre STRANGLED DARLINGS Dec. 20, Burro Bar BOBBY LEE RODGERS Dec. 20, Freebird Live A SWAMP RADIO CHRISTMAS Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre FORSAKEN PROFITS Dec. 30, Burro Bar DARYL HANCE Jan. 3, Underbelly DON WILLIAMS Jan. 7, The Florida Theatre ’70s Soul Jam: THE SPINNERS, THE STYLISTICS, THE MAIN

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INGREDIENT Jan. 8, The Florida Theatre FRED EAGLESMITH Jan. 9, Café Eleven MISERY HEAD, CRASHMIR, THE EMBRACED Jan. 10, Freebird Live MIRANDA SINGS Jan. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TIM EASTON, HEATHER PIERSON Jan. 14, Mudville Music Room J.W. TELLER Jan. 16, Burro Bar TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Jan. 16, The Florida Theatre THE BOTH (AIMEE MANN, TED LEO) Jan. 16, P.V. Concert Hall CASE Jan. 16, The Ritz Theatre

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer every Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing 6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. GREEN TURTLE 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith every Thur.

Yancy Clegg every Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue. HAMMERHEADS 2045 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-7783 DJ Refresh 9 p.m. every Sun. THE SURF 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-8999 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

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

BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) BILLY’S BOATHOUSE 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Kurt Lanham 6 p.m. Oct. 23. 4Play 6 p.m. Oct. 24. Billy Bowers 6 p.m. Oct. 25. Open mic every Wed. BRASS ANCHOR PUB 2292 Mayport Rd., Ste. 35, Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. Oct. 22. Open mic every Wed. CULHANE’S IRISH PUB 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Irish music 6:30 p.m. every Sun. DJ Hal every Sat. FLYING IGUANA 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 3 The Band 10 p.m. Oct. 24. Dirty Gringos 10 p.m. Oct. 25. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26.Live music every Fri. & Sat. Red Beard & Stinky E 10 p.m. every Thur.

FREEBIRD LIVE 200 N. First St., 246-2473 The Devil Makes Three, Cave Singers 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22. Greek Sing 2014 featuring Alpha Chi Omega 6:30 p.m. Oct. 23. Finch, Maps & Atlases, Weatherbox 8 p.m. Oct. 24. Amon Amarth, Sabaton, Skeletonwitch 8 p.m. Oct. 25.

The Polish Ambassador, Liminus with Mr. Lif, Ayla Nereo & Wildlight 8 p.m. Oct. 29 HARMONIOUS MONKS 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade 6 p.m. every Sun. Back From the Brink 9 p.m. every Mon. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Bread & Butter Oct. 24. Groov Band Oct. 25. Live music every Fri. & Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Ivey League Oct. 24 & 25. Dirty Pete every Wed. Split Tone every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Who Rescued Who every Sun. MELLOW MUSHROOM 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Jazz Oct. 22.

Herd of Watts Oct. 23. Jammin’ Salmon Oct. 24 MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer 6 p.m. every Thur.

NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Fat Cactus Duo Oct. 22. King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. Oct. 23. Catfish Rodeo Oct. 24. Monkey Wrench Oct. 25. Houston Keen Oct. 27. Kevin Ski Oct. 28 NORTH BEACH BISTRO 725 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Richard Smith 7 p.m. Oct. 23. Dan Coady 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24. Larry Lemier 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 PIER CANTINA & SANDBAR 412 First St. N., 246-6454 Split Tone every Fri. RAGTIME TAVERN 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Pat Rose 7 p.m. Oct. 22. The Christopher Dean Band 9 p.m. Oct. 23.

Boogie Freaks 9 p.m. Oct. 24 & 25. Red Beard & Stinky E 7 p.m. Oct. 29. Live music every Thur.-Sun.

a.m. Oct. 25 WIPEOUTS GRILL 1589 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508 Billy Bowers 9:30 p.m. Oct. 24. Live music every Thur. and Fri.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL 19 Ocean St. N. Stray from the Path, Counterparts, Expire, My Ticket Home 6 p.m. Oct. 22. This Wild Life 7 p.m. Oct. 24.

Open mic jam every Mon. BURRO BAR 100 E. Adams St., 353-4686 Saturnine, Cute & Cuddly Kittens 8 p.m. Oct. 18. Human Behavior, A Selfless Lot 7 p.m. Oct. 22., Tambor 8 p.m. Oct. 23. We Be Untitled, Jive Katz, G Ella, Stackz, O.A.B., The Legacy DJ’s 8 p.m. Oct. 24.

Snake Blood Remedy, Swamp Rats, Jake Cox 8 p.m. Oct. 25. Hodera, What Heat, Waigtstill, Avery 8 p.m. Oct. 26. Jealousy Mountain Duo, Lake Disney, Danny Strickland 8 p.m. Oct. 27. Paint Fumes, The Mold, Mother Superior 8 p.m. Oct. 29 FIONN MacCOOL’S Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6-9 p.m. Oct. 22 & 29. Mikey Clams Band 8 p.m. Oct. 24. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. JACKSONVILLE LANDING 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Lawless Hearts 8 p.m. Oct. 25. Sugar Bear 4 p.m. Oct. 26 MARK’S DOWNTOWN 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis every Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ 007 every Fri. Bay Street every Sat. MAVERICKS Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Joshua Scott Jones 6 p.m. Oct. 24. Joe Buck, Big Tasty every Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Urban Pioneers 9 p.m. Oct. 23. Fright Fest: Twiztid, Kung Fu Vampire, Neurotic November, PWD 8 p.m. Oct. 24. Bleeding In Stereo 8 p.m. Oct. 25. Art Unbarred 8:30 p.m.

Oct. 26. Tony Smotherman Project, Travis Larson Band, Gary Schutt Band 7 p.m. Oct. 28

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Herd of Watts 9 p.m. Oct. 24 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 The Remains 9 p.m.

Oct. 24 & 25. Open mic 9 p.m. every Thur. Deck music 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 4:30 p.m. every Sun.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Skewed Oct. 22. The Ride Oct. 23. Cupid’s Alley Oct. 25. DJ Big Rob every Thur., Sun. & Tue. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Live music every Fri. & Sat. YOUR PLACE 13245 Atlantic, 221-9994 Clayton Bush Oct. 24. Herd of Watts Oct. 25.

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

HARMONIOUS MONKS 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Retro Kats Oct. 26. Open mic: Synergy 8 p.m. every Wed. World’s Most Talented Waitstaff at 9 p.m. every Fri.

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

THE HILLTOP 2030 Wells, 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Live music 9 p.m. Oct. 17. DJ Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Love Monkey 10 p.m. Oct. 24 & 25. DJ Corey B every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

PUSSER’S GRILLE 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Live music every Wed.-Sun. TABLE 1 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Quimby Duo 6 p.m. Oct. 22.

Gary Starling Jazz Band 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23. DiCarlo Thompson 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24. Paxton & Mike 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25. Deron Baker 6 p.m.

Oct. 29. Live music every Thur.-Sun.

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

MURRAY HILL THEATRE 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Colton Dixon, Sumerlin 8 p.m. Oct. 23. Monsters of Music Rock Opera 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 25 rain dogs., 1045 Park St., 379-4969 This Frontier Needs Heroes, Little Gold, Fjord Explorer 8 p.m. Oct. 24 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Terry Whitehead, Tropic of Cancer, UNF Jazz Ensemble 3 starting 10:30

ST. AUGUSTINE

ANN O’MALLEY’S 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Ric Welch Oct. 24. Go, Get, Gone Oct. 25. Open mic with Smokey Joe every Tue. CAFE ELEVEN 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Mark Johnson & Emory Lester 8 p.m. Oct. 26. Mike Doughty 8 p.m.

Oct. 29.

THE CELLAR UPSTAIRS 157 King St., 826-1594 Mojo Roux 7 p.m.

Oct. 24 & 25. Jim Asselta 2 p.m. Oct. 25. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. Oct. 26 HARRY’S 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Rob Peck Oct. 22. Gary Campbell Oct. 23. Phil Bonanno Oct. 24. Dustin Humbert Oct. 25.

Caleb Joye Oct. 26. Katherine Archer Oct. 28. Stu Weaver every Mon.; all at 6 p.m. each day.

MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM 19-1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Nathaniel Good, Todd & Molly Jones, Adam Lee Oct. 22 & 29. Don Oja Dunaway, David Dowling, Aaron Esposito Oct. 23. Don Oja Dunaway, Donny Brazile, Marc Berado Oct. 24. Mike McCarthy, Marc Berado Oct. 25. Katherine Archer, Donny Brazile Oct. 26. Brent Byrd, Adam Lee, David Strom Oct. 27. David Dowling, John Dickie, Dony Brazile Oct. 28.

PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100 Michael Howard 3 p.m. Mon.-Fri. TEMPO 16 Cathedral Place, 342-0286 Falling Bones 9 p.m. Oct. 24.

Steve Sylvia 9 p.m. Oct. 25. Open mic 7 p.m. every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat. TRADEWINDS 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Red River Band 9 p.m.

Oct. 24 & 25. Matanzas every Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth 1 p.m. every Sat.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

INDOCHINE San Marco & Buddha Lounge, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013 Dance Radio Underground, Sugar & Cream, Black Hoodie, Bass Therapy Sessions 10 p.m.-mid. Allan GIz-Roc Oteyza, Scott Perry aka TrapNasty and Cry Havoc rotate, mid.-3 a.m. for Fever Saturdays JACK RABBITS 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Secret Keeper, Convalesce, Whisky Throttle, Searching Serenity Oct. 22. Il Sogno Del Mariano (Mike Watt), Hey Mandible Oct. 23. Drowning Pool, A Breach of Silence, Red Tide Rising, Manna Zen Oct. 24. The Distorted Dolls, World Gone, Askmeificare, Denied Til Death, Prideless Oct. 25.

Peelander-Z, This Legend, Flag on Fire Oct. 28 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Mike Shackelford, Julie Durden, Ernie Evans, Steve Stanholtzer 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 22

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

COMEDY CLUB 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 8, 646-4277 Fascinating Rhythm Orchestra 7 p.m. 1st & 3rd Wed. COPPER TAP HOUSE 13500 Beach Blvd., 647-6595 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DANCIN DRAGON 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat. LATITUDE 360 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Be Easy 7:30 p.m. and VJ Fellin 10:30 p.m. Oct. 23. Brady Clampitt 6 p.m., Darrell 8:30 p.m., VJ Fellin 11:30 p.m. Oct. 24. Samuel Sanders Duo, 7th Street Band 8:30 p.m. Oct. 25 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 997-1955 Charlie Walker on Oct. 23. Ryan Crary on Oct. 24. Live music every Thur. & Fri. MY PLACE BAR & GRILL 9550 Baymeadows, 737-5299 King for a Day on Oct. 24. Roger That on Oct. 2 WILD WING CAFÉ 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 The Gooch on Oct. 24 WORLD OF BEER 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 Who Rescued Who on Oct. 25. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

3 LIONS SPORTS PUB & GRILL 2467 Faye Rd., 647-8625 Dave Bazzell every Thur.

HIGHWAY 17 ROADHOUSE 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Live music most weekends THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Open mic every Thur.

THE KNIFE

WILD AT HEART T

he new release by Atlantic Beach musician Kevin Leonard Miller — known creatively as Killer Miller — has me conflicted. I can’t decide whether I hate it or love it. I want to hate it, but dammit … I think I love it.

When reviewing locally released albums, I rarely comment on the production. In the recent past, it could cost a local songwriter or band a fortune to get a single day in the studio. Add to that the cost of a reputable engineer and post-tracking mixing and mastering, and you’re in the hole a few months’ salary. So I always felt judging the production value of a local band’s CD was pointless at best, cruel at worst.

But in the age of the affordable digital project studio — hell, who doesn’t have GarageBand these days? — a decently produced album’s worth of material isn’t too hard to come by. Still, my habit of not talking about production remained fairly solid over the years. Until now.

Wild FL, an obviously DIY collection, is so oddly produced that it bears comment. Using drum loops and what sounds like keyboard bass, not to mention liberal use of synthesizers, the 10 largely mechanically derived songs seem even more bizarre considering the natural Florida-based themes. Even the electric guitar, possibly the only instrument with which a human directly interacts, comes across as ethereal. And the vocals are heavily processed, chorused out and distorted. It’s haunting, if a bit hard to get one’s head around.

Is this good? I don’t really know. Upon first listen, I was ready to eject the disc 30 seconds in. But I never review an album on one spin, so I gave it another chance, and it turns out there is something strangely elegant and disturbingly beautiful about the songs — and the songwriting — on Wild FL. Yeah, actually, the songs are pretty goddamn amazing.

Track one, “Apalachicola,” is atonal enough to be respectable, and Miller’s lazy vocal delivery — part spoken, part sung — sets things in motion. Lyrically, it’s hard to tell

what he’s getting at here, blending snack food metaphors and rhyming “ass full of Cheetos,” “neato” and “mosquitoes.” But somehow it’s all lush and gorgeous, like the Florida he returns to again and again throughout the record.

“Silver River,” a synthy homage to (pickany-song-off-Ween’s-Pure-Guava-album), is next. The unchanging drum loop alone might just drive you mad, but that’s only if you ignore the lilting vocals passages. “Silver River” bleeds into the spacey “St. Charles,” all reverbed out and trippy, with Miller’s vocals ping-ponging off the walls. Don’t try to decipher the lyrics on this one. Even with headphones on, I had a hard time distinguishing syllable from syllable.

And I still love it.

I could go on, track by track — number four, “St. George” is awesomely off-kilter; the title track is a swirling mess of whimsical instrumental loveliness; “Cocoa” is another Ween-esque treasure; track seven is an angular trip to “Ft. De Soto” — but words can only do so much to explain this kind of stuff. You really have to listen. And you still might not get it.

I’m not sure I do, but I have enjoyed trying.

It should be noted that the last piece on Wild FL, clocking in at nearly 17 minutes, is a freak-out of the highest order. Appropriately titled “High Springs,” the sound experiment is scary in a horribly hypnotic way. Beginning in a slow synth rumble and climaxing several times throughout in demonic lava bubbles of sound, this is what I imagine hell sounds like, if hell were located on the edge of space.

It warrants repeating: I wanted to hate this ridiculous album, and ended up absolutely loving it. If Wild FL were polished, with real homo sapiens making the music on instruments less mechanical, it surely wouldn’t be the same. And it surely wouldn’t be this wonderfully different.

John E. Citrone theknifel@folioweekly.com To download Wild FL, check out killermiller. bandcamp.com.

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COMBAT WISDOM

Gritty war drama Fury takes an unflinching look at the shifting morality on the battlefield

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Ass (Jon Bernthal). They, along with Wardaddy, ury treads in places war movies rarely find have accepted murder as part of their duty and success, and does so with captivating force. are numb to it. This is what makes Norman so Writer/director David Ayer (End of interesting — he is an innocent who doesn’t Watch) strikes a clean balance between the brutality of battle and the humanity of war, and belong in war, like so many before him who’ve gone to battle and had to do what they the result is a stellar film that reminds us of the always thought was unthinkable: kill another mental toll war takes on its combatants. human being. Norman’s transition — and It’s April 1945 in Germany. The war isn’t the nickname he earns — is one of the most over yet, but the Germans know the end is devastating character arcs in quite some time, close, meaning they’re more reckless than ever and Lerman is fantastic in the role. in their attacks on American troops. Leading “Ideals are peaceful, the five-man Sherman history is violent,” Wardaddy tank nicknamed “Fury” is FURY Wardaddy (Brad Pitt), who says. So is the movie. It’s no ***G early on tells naïve and worse than Saving Private Rated R innocent Norman (Logan Ryan and other R-rated Lerman) to kill an imprisoned war films, but the action is SS officer. Norman has never intense and harsh. The story killed anyone, and doesn’t intend to start. “It’s takes place over 24 hours, and the cold muck, not right,” Norman says, sticking to his morals overcast skies and plethora of corpses cast as if he has a choice. “We’re not here for right an ambiance of gloom over the proceedings. and wrong,” Wardaddy barks, giving Norman a Additionally, the battle scenes, which are rough education on the reality of war. masterfully done, provide only the relief of It’s a fascinating moral dilemma other survival, not happy endings, and grasps at war films gloss over: Does Norman have humanity from all members of the squad are to abandon his values to survive in war? Is always desperate, never feasible. Of all the Wardaddy or the SS officer the bigger monster? places in the world to be throughout history, Doesn’t Wardaddy have to make sure Norman this is toward the bottom of the list. can kill in order to protect the rest of the “Your eyes see it, but your head can’t make squad, which is depending on Wardaddy to no sense of it,” Gordo says of the horrors of keep them alive? Fury certainly isn’t the first war. Indeed, we come to realize that Fury isn’t movie to address these themes, but it’s one just the name of the tank (or movie), it’s also of the few to successfully make an emotional the state of mind needed to defeat an enemy impact and then seamlessly move back to that will kill you without hesitation. There are a battlefield violence. few minor flaws and clichés, but Fury is one of Joining them in the tank, where “war the best war movies in quite some time. names” are commonplace, are Bible (Shia Dan Hudak LaBeouf), Gordo (Michael Pena) and Coonmail@folioweekly.com

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The Book of Life celebrates the Day of the Dead in style.

Movie has an animated film given us so much ollywood doesn’t put out many movies to look at. about Latinos that are pitched toward a The writing gives an entry point to those general audience, let alone ones that are aimed specifically at families. The last such films who aren’t familiar with the Mexican holiday, that Hispanics could hold up with pride to their especially through a framing device in which a tour guide (Christina Applegate) narrates the non-Latino friends were Robert Rodriguez’ film’s story to a bunch of Anglo kids. When one Spy Kids movies, which happened long enough character dies and travels to the underworld, ago that the girl who starred in them is now a a kid exclaims, “What is it with Mexicans and married woman. So it’s refreshing to have The death?” For his part, Ice Cube contributes a Book of Life, an animated movie geared toward distinctively non-Mexican take on the role the holiday of Día de los Muertos. Its mere of a candle-making demigod. Even the little existence is remarkable, but fortunately, this throwaway lines are fun, as when Manolo’s tartly glorious-looking and cleverly scripted film has funny, endlessly knitting abuelita (Grey DeLisle) lots more going for it than just historical value. suddenly shows up in the afterlife and explains Set in the mythical past in a Mexican small her presence with one word: “Cholesterol.” town called San Ángel, the movie centers on The score by Argentinian composer Gustavo María (voiced by Zoë Saldana), the mayor’s Santaolalla incorporates some good bits as willful daughter who returns from boarding well. Manolo expresses his alienation at one school in Spain to find two close childhood friends now competing to marry her. Observing point by picking up his guitar and launching into a mariachi-tinged from the afterlife, the version of Radiohead’s rulers of the underworld THE BOOK OF LIFE “Creep,” while a hard— the kind La Muerte drinking mariachi (Kate del Castillo) and ***@ band (voiced by the devious Xibalba (Ron Rated PG Cheech Marin, Gabriel Perlman) — wager on Iglesias and Ricardo “El which husband María will Mandril” Sanchez) tries to help Manolo woo choose. Xibalba backs the brave but narcissistic María with their renditions of Rod Stewart soldier Joaquín (Channing Tatum), while the death goddess bets on Manolo (Diego Luna), an and Biz Markie. Their efforts don’t go well.

The voice cast is stocked with other venerable aspiring musician whose family pressures him Latino actors: Hector Elizondo, Danny Trejo, to join their proud line of bullfighters.

Ana de la Reguera, Eugenio Derbez and The first thing you notice about this movie Plácido Domingo, the last as a dead ancestor is that it looks like nothing else you’ve seen. of Manolo’s who wishes he had given up That is down to the animation firm of Reel bullfighting for an opera career.

FX and writer-director Jorge R. Gutierrez, a With all this, it’s easy to overlook the first-time filmmaker with a background in TV main characters’ lack of interesting qualities (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera). He or Gutierrez’ inability to accommodate the takes liberal inspiration from Mexican folk art, buildup of plotlines near the end, which with the gods made out of sugar and tar and involves climactic sequences in San Ángel and the living characters imagined as wood puppets the underworld that are too jarringly different — stare closely at Joaquín’s face, and you’ll see from each other. Still, he’s created something chin dimples carved into the grain. San Ángel unique and beautiful and more often than not resembles the set of a spaghetti Western, while funny. The joy and exuberance on display in the underworld abounds with bright colors and stylized geometrical shapes. Gutierrez’ The Book of Life is entirely in keeping with the holiday that it celebrates. inventiveness bursts from every corner and even extends to details like Xibalba’s eyes, Kristian Lin which are tiny sugar skulls. Not since The Lego mail@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 22-28, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27

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MAGIC LANTERNS

DEAD OR ALIVE

I love October! There is a nip in the air, the fall semester is nearly half over, my birthday is on the horizon and the zombies are back chomping and munching in The Walking Dead. It’s great to have Rick and the gang back for Season 5 of AMC’s surprise hit series, and it’s still hard to believe that prime time television could be home to a show that is both a popular and critical success despite being based on a black-and-white comic book about a global plague of re-animated corpses and the few plucky live humans left to battle them.

Of course, the real quality of The Walking Dead is its rich characterization and solid narrative, sort of like Downton Abbey with Zombies. For salivating genre fans, the gruesome special effects are merely gravy for the main course.

In anticipation of this season’s opener, I decided to check out the BBC version of the zombie phenomenon, a series called In the Flesh that premiered last year with three episodes and won numerous awards from the British Academy for Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), the UK version of the Oscars and Emmys combined. Earlier this year In the Flesh screened its second season, with an expanded six episodes.

A very different take on the zombie mythos, the British series postulates a world recovering from the cannibalistic corpses, some of whom have been saved and rehabilitated into society as sufferers of Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS). Nonetheless these former zombies, deemed “Rotters” by the less tolerant, find their reentry into human society a difficult fit. In the Flesh is actually a very effective portrait of social intolerance and complicated family relationships, but within the framework of zombie lore. Less graphic than The Walking Dead only in terms of the amount of gore, In the Flesh is just as riveting in terms of character and conflict.

Putting aside TV zombies until the next episode, it is worthwhile for the hardy viewer to revisit the creatures’ hungry progenitors in film, which is where The Walking Dead really got its start. Those with time to spare can check out Bela Lugosi’s 1932 cheapie White Zombie, often considered the first such film, but I would recommend skipping a decade to Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur’s vastly superior I Walked with a Zombie (1943), a masterpiece of atmospheric horror in black and white from the genre masters responsible for the original Cat People (1942) as well.

Film zombies didn’t really bite and chow down on people until George A. Romero’s groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead (1968), which a young film critic named Roger Ebert rightly surmised was very different, scarily so, from earlier horror movies. Initially dismissed for its gruesome tone as well as the graphic special effects, Romero’s film is now recognized for its intelligence, artistry and originality. The first 1978 sequel by Romero, Dawn of the Dead, is often named the best zombie movie ever, but in truth Romero has never lost his touch (or his originality) in the other four sequels he has made (so far).

There are lots of other good zombie films, but let me conclude with some (possibly) lesser known international entries, with the voracious dead roaming Africa in The Dead (2009), Canada in Pontypool (2008), and Peter Jackson’s New Zealand in the director’s comic gorefest Dead-Alive (1992).

They even hit Norway as Nazi zombies in Dead Snow (2009). And the swastikas never fit better!

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

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Campus life and race relations are lampooned in the winning satire Dear White People.

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SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN SUN-RAY CINEMA 20,000 Days on Earth is screened at 7 p.m. on Oct. 22. Beetlejuice is screened at 7 p.m. on Oct. 23. The Found Footage Festival is featured at 7 p.m. on Oct. 27. Nightmare Alley (with on-site medium Professor Myers) is screened at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28. Gone Girl, The Skeleton Twins and Pride are currently screening at SunRay Cinema, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema. com. Listen Up Philip and Keep On Keepin’ On start Oct. 24.

THE FLORIDA THEATRE The Rocky Horror Picture Show is screened at 8 p.m. on Oct. 25.

The audience is encouraged to wear costumes and bring props (please – no meat). A prop bag is $16 and available through fyrewolf34@aol.com. An after-party, featuring live music by Emily & The Gypsy Fire and The East China Sea Band, is held at 10 p.m. at The Hourglass Pub, 345 E. Bay St., Downtown.

LATITUDE 360 MOVIES Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Maleficent and Transformers: Age of Extinction screen at Latitude 360’s CineGrille Theater, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555.

WGHF IMAX THEATER Dracula Untold, D-Day Normandy 1944 3D, Island of Lemurs Madagascar 3D, Journey to the South Pacific: An IMAX 3D Experience, Jerusalem, and We The People are currently screening at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

THE CORAZON CINEMA AND CAFÉ Sunset Boulevard is screened at 7 p.m. through Oct. 23. Taxi Driver is screened at 8 p.m. nightly through Oct. 23. The Shining is screened at 1 p.m. on Oct. 25 & 26 and 7 p.m. nightly through Oct. 31. Psycho is screened at 3 p.m. on Oct. 25 & 26 and nightly at 8 p.m. (except Oct. 26) through Oct. 31 at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

POMPEII FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM This documentary explores the museum’s exhibition of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum at 7 p.m. on Oct. 23 at AMC Regency Square 24, 9451 Regency Square Blvd., Cinemark Tinseltown USA, 4535 Southside Blvd. and Regal The Avenues Stadium 20, 9525 Philips Hwy. Tickets are available now at participating theater box offices and at fathomevents.com.

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Mozart’s opus is screened at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 at Regal Avenues, 9525 Philips Hwy. and Cinemark Tinseltown USA, 4535 Southside Blvd. fathomevents.com.

NOW SHOWING ADDICTED Rated R Amazon smut artist (and federal tax cheat) Zane adapts her novel about a married black woman who develops a dangerous compulsion to sleep with other men. Sexual sister-shaming: It isn’t just for white people anymore! Costars Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe and John Newberg. — Steve Schneider ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Rated PG I don’t know how to break it to you, kid, but Judy Moody just had herself an entire kickass summer. Costars Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Megan Mullally and Jennifer Coolidge. Dick Van Dyke has a cameo. — S.S. ANNABELLE Rated R One of the highlights of my movie-going career was attending a midnight screening of Bride of Chucky that was attended by a splendid array of thrill-seeking reprobates. My favorites were the family of four at the very head of the line, who enthusiastically informed the ticket-taker they’d spent the night before rewatching all the previous Chucky movies, “to catch up.” (To CATCH UP.) Maybe someday, some equally dedicated clan will undertake a similar marathon to reacquaint themselves with the adventures of Annabelle, the possessed children’s doll now being spun off from the sleeper horror hit The Conjuring into her very own prequel vehicle. Then again, maybe I shouldn’t get my hopes up: Doesn’t the Bible say that man will only receive one Chucky per generation? — S.S. THE BEST OF ME Rated PG-13 If Hollywood has taught me anything, it’s that the funeral of a friend is a great opportunity to get laid. Seen The Big Chill lately? I mean, once Costner’s uncredited body was in the box, it was, like, P for miles. Now Nicholas Sparks contributes to the proud tradition, with the story of two former sweethearts (James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan) who seize on their buddy’s death as a chance to rekindle A long-dormant attraction. UP next: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Funeral Crashers! — S.S. THE BOOK OF LIFE ***G Rated PG Reviewed in this issue.

THE BOXTROLLS **** Rated PG Loosely adapted from Alan Snow’s 2005 book Here Be Monsters, this animated feature is the tale of the titular creatures, reclusive scavengers who live beneath the surface world in the heart of Cheesebridge’s pointy mountain. Yet they’re believed to steal babies and eat humans – a story given some credence by the disappearance of one infant 10 years earlier. The “Boxtroll exterminator,” Archibald Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley), is trying to maximize that fear in order to move up the Cheesebridge hierarchy into the world of the “white hats,” even as the now-10year-old Boxtroll-raised human boy, called Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Wright), begins to wonder if he may belong to a different world.

The town’s self-absorbed, cheese-nibbling, white-hat-wearing oligarchy – led by Lord Portley-Rind (Jared Harris), whose daughter Winnie (Elle Fanning) befriends Eggs – is the perfect launching pad for Snatcher’s disgruntled sense of entitlement. — Scott Renshaw THE DEVIL’S HAND Rated PG-13 Innocent young girls are mysteriously disappearing from a religious cult – it seems to the grownups to be a realization of an ancient prophecy. But the hip faction of the cult thinks the old folks are killing the girls. Sigh. Age-old rivalry: Seniors envy youth so they KILL THE KIDS; youngsters hate the old farts so … bwaaahaaahaaa! — Marlene Dryden DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Rated R This smart, witty and thought-provoking comedy from first time director Justin Simien chronicles the lives of four AfricanAmerican students and their experiences while studying at the predominately white Winchester College. After activist Samantha White is elected as head of a black residency hall, a cultural war breaks out on campus that culminates in a riotous Halloween party. Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris), Tessa Thompson (Veronica Mars) and Dennis Haysbert (24) star in this surefire contender for the best college movie of its generation. — Daniel A. Brown DOLPHIN TALE 2 Rated PG There’s a really great scene in that teen angst classic American Graffiti in which Charles Martin Smith’s Toad and Candy Clark’s Debbie think they’re going to witness a backwoods atrocity.

Smith’s horrified reaction – “I don’t WANNA see it” – later became my personal mantra when confronted with the trailer to one sure-to-be movie misfire after another. (Blood Diamond? I don’t WANNA see it!”) Enough about me; what’s Charlie Martin Smith up to these days? Well, he’s now the sort of “working director” who not only has to make family pictures about kindly humans who help endangered sea creatures, he then has to shoot their cashgrab sequels as well. Guess which American Graffiti quotation best captures my feelings about the prospect of being exposed to Dolphin Tale 2. You got it – It’s “Look, creep, you want a knuckle sandwich?” — S.S. DRACULA UNTOLD Rated PG-13 Desperate to create a “shared universe” for its classic horror characters, Universal has reboots coming of Dracula, Frankenstein and a whole cemetery plot’s worth of their pals. In the driver’s seat? The guys who brought you Transformers. And before you declare that idea the pits, consider this: Dracula Untold is an unrelated, low-priority quickie the studio had to get out of the way first. The breath, it truly does catch. Costars Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper and Sarah Gadon. — S.S. THE EQUALIZER Rated R Back in the late ’80s, I had a buddy who was heavily into the CBS grayhead-revenge series The Equalizer; when his metal band released its first single, he even cited the show as “inspiration” in the liner notes. Now it’s 2014, Edward Woodward has become Denzel Washington, and I don’t wanna THINK about what kind of indie music this pseudo-remake might spark. A plot seemingly lifted wholesale from Washington’s Man on Fire (not to mention

A&E // MOVIES The Professional, last month’s The November Man, and probably the stock footage you get when you install iMovie) indicates that director Antoine Fuqua isn’t counting on diehards like my old pal for anything more than a few bucks’ worth of first-weekend insurance. — S.S. FURY ***G Rated R Reviewed in this issue.

GONE GIRL **@@ Rated R This is a horror movie about Nick and Amy Dunne, about what happens on their fifth wedding anniversary, when Amy disappears and the police believe Nick may have killed Amy for various apparent motives. Amy (Rosamund Pike) is famous; she was the inspiration for some popular children’s books her mother wrote, so her disappearance is major national news. Nonstop media attention is a metaphor for the limited perspective we ever have on someone else’s relationship: A couple might look happy in public, but only they know what goes on behind closed doors.

Flashbacks to Amy and Nick’s life from the moment they meet are an intimate peek into what’s been going on between them, and it’s not pretty. We get her side of the “But I changed for him!” story. You pretended to be something you’re not, and now you hate what you’ve become and resent your husband for it? Whose fault is that? Same goes for Nick (Ben Affleck). We get his side of the marriage from his conversations with his twin sister, Margo (Carrie Coon). The movie throws out all ambiguity. What started as reasonable cynicism about an institution (marriage) that many people have doubts about ends in a perilous realm that appears to willfully misunderstand realities of domestic violence. It’s all fantasy, of a sort … and it’s frightening. — MaryAnn Johanson THE GOOD LIE Rated PG-13 In the latest bit of socially conscious drama from Monsieur Lazhar director Philippe Falardeau, Reese Witherspoon helps rescue the Lost Boys displaced by the Sudanese civil war. Her novel approach: Getting snockered and bellowing “You’re about to find out who I am!” until the government lets her have her way. — S.S. THE GUEST Rated R This thriller plays on our innate desire to believe the best about folks, in this case, a young soldier visits a family grieving the death of their son fighting overseas. He befriends them, charming each family member. Then weird stuff begins to happen and well, ya know: Fish and company wear out their welcome after three days.

Time’s up! — M.D. HAPPY NEW YEAR Not Rated This Bollywood action-musical heist is directed by Farah Khan and stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Sha. In Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

JOHN WICK Rated R Viva la violence! Apparently the movie gods long ago decided that a week couldn’t go by without a hit man emerging from retirement for our carnage-witnessing pleasure. This time, the pissed-off

pro in question is played by Keanu Reeves, because IT COULD HAPPEN. Directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch are former stuntmen making their debut as filmmakers, so expect lots of emphasis on Meisner technique and emotional truth. —S.S. THE JUDGE **G@ Rated R Reviewed in this issue.

KILL THE MESSENGER Rated R IMDB describes this one as a crime drama/biography. It’s based on events that happened to journalist Gary Webb when he reported on CIA activity in Nicaragua, involving drugs, arms dealing and general clandestine hijinks. Hey, just say no, T-men. — M.D. LEFT BEHIND Rated PG-13 For a while there, it was amusing to cluck about the terrible movies Nic Cage had to keep making because he’d lost all his money. (Andy Samberg got some good mileage out of it.) But no amount of destitution could justify Cage’s decision to take the lead role in a mainstream, big-studio adaptation of the odious Left Behind series of fundie wish-fulfillment novels. Somehow, a huge swath of secular America has convinced itself that the books are just fun apocalyptic sci-fi, when they’re really sneeringly superior whack-job theology that wishes death and damnation on everyone standing to the left of Pat Robertson. The last thing this county needs is a “name” star (even a now-laughingstock of one) conferring further legitimacy on that sort of “entertainment.” Hey, Nic: Get back in the cage. And stay there. — S.S. ST. VINCENT PG-13 In filmmaker Theodore Melfi’s first feature, Melissa McCarthy plays a single mom who has to leave her son in the care of new neighbor Bill Murray. Hey, how much of a risk is that? The guy is on window decals now. — S.S. LOVE IS STRANGE Rated R In this new drama, love is indeed strange and slightly comically complicated. John Lithgow and Alfred Molina star as newlyweds Ben and George, respectively, separated by logistics. Ben is fired from his teaching position and the resulting loss of income forces the two to move – each going to a different locale, where of course they learn new aspects of others and, consequently, each other and themselves. Co-stars Marisa Tomei. — M.D. THE MAZE RUNNER Rated PG-13 In this week’s bit of YA-derived dystopia, a bunch of teen himbos with no memory struggle to escape a mysterious prison.

Spotting the symbolism yet? The arrival of an actual girl changes everything, while raising my hopes that the story can ultimately viewed as a commentary on the Duke lacrosse rape scandal. A sequel has already been ordered, because you and I don’t get to decide anything. — S.S. MEET THE MORMONS Rated PG That Mitt Romney thing having not worked out so well – no matter what he thinks – the LDS Church needs another chance

to mainstream its image among those who know it only as a springboard to the Tony Awards. Enter this officially sanctioned doc, which follows six Mormons living and witnessing in various locations across the globe. Theocratic homophobes who wear sacred Underoos – they’re just like us! — S.S. MY OLD LADY Rated PG-13 The terrific Kevin Kline (In and Out, A Fish Called Wanda) stars as Mathias Gold, a less-than-successful New Yorker who inherits an apartment in Paris from his father, from whom he was estranged.

Maggie Smith plays Mathilde Girard, a squatter who lives in the apartment and won’t leave. Kristin Scott Thomas is her daughter Chloé. Sounds depressing and complicated, but it’s really your basic French farce. — M.D. OUIJA Rated PG-13 A recent New Yorker cartoon pointed out that Ouija boards are like texting for the dead. Here in Florida, we know that the two are intimately connected: Text during a movie, and you soon may be dead. Text during this movie, and who knows what’ll happen, since it’s all about the malevolent forces that can be unleashed when one messes around with the supernatural world’s answer to the board game Sorry! Filmmaker Stiles White has – you guessed it – never directed a picture before, though he did write such genre entries as The Possession and Boogeyman. Such spectacular credentials! — S.S.

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NO GOOD DEED Rated R On Aug. 7, Theodore P. Wafer was convicted of murdering Renisha McBride, a black teenager who had knocked on his doors and windows in the dead of night. At press time, police officer Randall Kerrick was under indictment for killing Jonathan Ferrell, a black 24-year-old who’d approached a woman’s house seeking help after a car accident. And how has Hollywood chosen to respond to this recent rash of bad Samaritanism? By rewarding and reassuring us with a thriller in which the black person is up to no good after all. In this movie, yet another person of color arrives on the doorstep of yet another unsuspecting homeowner, claiming car trouble. But this time, the stranger is actually an escaped convict looking to pull off a home invasion. Whew! The endangered property holder in this scenario is an African-American woman too, so nobody can accuse the filmmakers of stoking racist fears.

Costars Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson. — S.S. THE SKELETON TWINS **G@ Rated R Filmmaker Craig Johnson’s debut, True Adolescents, didn’t exactly set the box office on fire, but you don’t expect to rub shoulders with Iron Man when your biggest star is Mark Duplass. For the follow-up, Johnson has conscripted leads Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, which means you might even see it in an environment that doesn’t require you to hit a big red button on your remote.

The Saturday Night Live alums play siblings who renew their once-close relationship after they both manage to escape certain death on the very same day. And boy, are Hader and Wiig ideal for this gig, because you can count the number of latter-day Lorne Michaels protégés who have “escaped death” on the thumbs of just one foot. — S.S. THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU Rated R Admit it: You’re a sucker for a story in which a wacky family has to pull together after the death of their beloved patriarch. Heck, the first episode of Six Feet Under is still your favorite hour of TV ever. Now imagine that story setup handled by Shawn Levy, the guy who made The Internship and the Night at the Museum movies. Now think of something pleasant, because you’ve earned it. — S.S. A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES **@@ Rated R If you’re a fan of Liam Neeson the badass, this one’s for you. He’s Matt Scudder, a retired detective, now working as an unlicensed private eye. Howie (Eric Nelsen), a drug addict Scudder met in AA, asks Scudder to help his brother Kenny (Dan Stevens) get revenge on the guys who kidnapped, raped and murdered Kenny’s wife.

Scudder demurs, then accepts – because if he didn’t, the movie would be about something else. There are no twists, the intrigue is distracted by the unfocused story, and the suspense could be a lot chair-grippingly better. Immediately after Scudder takes the case, he starts investigating something that’s tangentially connected, making us wonder: 1) What the hell is he doing? and 2) Why did he take the case in the first place? It’s not for the money or the glory. — Dan Hudak

Keanu Reeves stars as an assassin seeking (what else?) revenge in the action thriller John Wick.

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MOCA invites you into the enigmatic world of Jason John

Birdboy, oil on linen, 24” x 34,” 2013

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ason John is one of those regional artists who have you wondering, “Why is he still here?” It’s not that we want him going anywhere.

It’s just that it seems like his raw talent and visceral body of work would be better suited for a bigger city.

John, age 34, is an assistant professor of painting at the University of North Florida. He’s currently featured in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s group exhibit Get Real: New American Painting, as well as a participant in the inventive offering The Jason John Studio Experience.

“This curatorial process has been three years in the making,” John says of his live, on-site painting and exhibition at MOCA. “It’s a big commitment, and I had to work out a schedule around my teaching.”

This is how it works: Beginning in midSeptember and running through Jan. 4, John spends two nights a week (usually starting Thursday at 5 p.m. and Fridays at 2 p.m.) painting in the museum’s third-floor studio space. The area is open to the public, who are allowed to watch the artist work and even shout a question or two his way.

“I love talking to them, but it can get kind of crazy,” John says. “Some people watch and move on. Some people ask questions one after another or even yell, ‘Hey you!’ and whistle.”

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Distracted or not, the Daniel Kraus. The models can be anyone — a artwork that John creates friend, a student, or, in the case of nudes, a is impressive. Scratch that, hired professional. it’s damn impressive. Take “We shoot about 200 photos of the model Birdboy, for example. A and I end up with one or two to paint from,” 24-inch-by-34-inch oil on John says. “I typically don’t do any sketching, canvas, Birdboy depicts a Most is done directly on the canvas. The fruit, young man wearing a blue landscape and spatial aspects are added later.” button-down shirt and John has shown his work all over the United cardboard headdress. He’s States, from Pasadena to Santa Fe to Pittsburgh. surrounded by an explosive He earned a BFA in painting from Kutztown landscape of exotic flowers, University in Pennsylvania and a MFA from clouds and beaming rays Indiana University of Pennsylvania. While of sun. The overall effect in Pennsylvania, John also studied at The is somehow mystifying, Waichulis Studio for Private Instruction, an yet John’s certain skills as atelier-style workshop studio. a realistic painter of the Currently on track for tenure at UNF, John highest order somehow takes his role as a professor just as seriously as tempers the perplexing he does his work as a fine artist. “We all have to subject matter, inviting the wear different hats,” he says of being a part of academia. viewer into the work.

“Researcher, artist and There’s also Carrier, a THE JASON JOHN STUDIO then there’s the service side 42-inch-by-32-inch oil on EXPERIENCE with GET REAL: with the university and the canvas featuring a girl with NEW AMERICAN PAINTING community.” dreadlocks posed in front of Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Downtown John considers the what appear to be the wings of The exhibit runs through Jan. 4 MOCA show part of his a swan.

Jason John’s third-floor studio community service. “It’s not “My figures go through a hours typically start at 5 p.m. on a paid gig,” he says. “It’s part stage of identity development,” Thursdays and 2 p.m. on Fridays, of my duties as a professor.

John says. “For me, it’s more to excluding holiday weeks I would be painting every do with spatial interaction, like day to some degree anyway. where is this person in their I tell my students that they need to be in their development, their growth, etc.?” studio. I don’t want to tell them one thing and When John has an idea for a painting (or live something else.” it’s just time to start a new one), he enlists the help of a photographer and a model. The Kara Pound photographer is typically UNF photo lab tech mail@folioweekly.com

“I tell my students that they need to be in their studio. I don’t want to tell them one thing and live something else.”

A&E // ARTS & EVENTS PERFORMANCE

THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Jacksonville University stages this interactive comedy, about six young people in the throes of puberty and the grown-ups taking care of them, at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, 24 and 25 and 3 p.m. on Oct. 26 at Swisher Theater, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 for seniors, military and students, arts.ju.edu.

SHAPING SOUND This blend of contemporary dance and musical genres is staged at 8 p.m. on Oct. 23 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $35-$79.50, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents this celebration of British comedy, featuring satire, songs, slapstick and one-liners, at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24, 25, 31 and Nov. 1, 7, 8 and 2 p.m. on Nov. 2 and 9 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, $20, abettheatre.com.

MURDER BY FRIENDS Orange Park Community Theatre stages this murder mystery about an aging vain actor, his very rich wife and double dealing agent at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 31 and Nov.1 and 3 p.m. on Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 at 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, 276-2599, $15, opct.org.

JEKYLL & HYDE Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts presents this musical based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of good and evil at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 at 283 College Drive, Orange Park, 276-6815, $24-$63, thcenter.org.

MACBETH IN ST. AUGUSTINE Flagler College presents a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth that merges video clips and stage acting at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 25 and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 25 at the school’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, 304-4208, $15, flagler.edu.

ANNIE This much-loved musical about the adventures of an orphan in 1930s New York City is staged at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 and 23 and at 7 p.m. on Oct. 26, $37.50-$72.50; at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 25, $37.50-$82.50; 2 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 26, $42.50-$87.50, at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 4422929, artistseriesjax.org.

A PICASSO The 5 & Dime presents this play by Jeffrey Hunter, about Pablo Picasso’s interrogation by a cultural attaché for the Third Reich, at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 25 and 2 p.m. on Oct. 26 at 648-B E. Union St., Downtown, $15, the5anddime.org.

SWEENEY TODD Amelia Musical Playhouse presents Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical about a murderous barber in 19th century London at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 24, 25, 31 and Nov. 1 at 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, $20, 277-3455, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.

ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID This comedy, by the folks who brought you The Dixie Swim Club and directed by Linda McClane, is staged at 8 p.m. on Oct. 23-25 at Amelia Community Theatre, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, $20, $10 for students, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE The play-within-a-play, staged at a 1928 Broadway theater, drops every theatrical cliché from musicals of the bygone era.

It’s accompanied by a themed menu created by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy and runs through Nov. 23. Dinner at 6 p.m., curtain up at 8 p.m. Tue.-Thur., $49.95 plus tax; Fri. and Sat., $55 plus tax; brunch 11 a.m., show 1:15 p.m. Sat. and brunch at noon, show 2 p.m. Sun., $47 plus tax; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

JIM HENSON’S SID THE SCIENCE KID The popular PBS kids’ series, about Sid and crew and their explanations about the fundamentals of science, comes to life at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Oct. 25 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $20-$50, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

NUNSENSE Christ Church Episcopal Church presents this popular Broadway musical comedy, about the humorous hijinks at a convent, at 7 p.m. on Oct. 23, 24 and 25 at 400 San Juan Drive, Ponte Vedra Beach, $15; $30 for VIP performance on Oct. 23, 2856127, christepiscopalchurch.org.

COMEDY

DAN NATURMAN This comedian, who has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and Comedy Central Presents, performs at 8 p.m. on Oct. 23, 24 and 25 and at 10 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $20-$25, 2924242, comedyzone.com.

ANJELAH JOHNSON This comedian, perhaps best know for her viral videos and roles as “Vietnamese Nail Lady” and “Bon Qui Qui,” performs at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $34.50, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

DANNY JOHNSON Known for his appearances on Comedy Central, comedian Johnson appears at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 at Bonkerz Comedy Club, bestbet, 455 Park Ave., Orange Park, $10 and $35, 6460001, bestbetjax.com.

ANDY WOODHULL This veteran of Montreal’s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival and The Great American Comedy Festival performs at 8:04 p.m.

The opening reception for an exhibit of new watercolor works by ROBERT LEEDY is held at First Street Gallery from 7-9 p.m. on Oct. 24.

Oct. 23, 24 and 25 and at 10:10 p.m. on Oct. 25 at the Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., $6-$15, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

BRIAN BEUDOIN This high-energy funnyman performs at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 25 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, latitude360.com.

RICH GUZZI’s HYPNOTIC HALLOWEEN This “mesmerizing” comedy show features audience participation (costumes encouraged!) at 8 p.m. Oct. 28-Nov. 1 at the Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $10-$14, 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

MAD COWFORD IMPROV Weekly PG-13-rated improv shows, based on audience suggestion, are held at 8:15 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 233-2359, madcowford.com.

HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR Local comics appear 9 p.m. every Mon. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.

OPEN DOOR SUNDAYS Open mic night 9 p.m. every Sun. at Tapa That, 820 Lomax St., 5 Points, free, 376-9911, tapathat.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

SUNDAY PAINT DAY Free art classes are offered to children at 5 p.m. every Sun. at LIYF Clothing & Accessories, 2870 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, vegan and vegetarian snacks, free, 865-630-0358.

VERBAL ESSENCE Open mic poetry and musical performances are held at 7 p.m. every Mon. at the Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, free, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com.

FIGURE DRAWING Live model figure drawing is offered at 7 p.m. every Tue. at The Art Center II, $5 for members, $10 for non-members, artists bring supplies.

ACTEEN STAGE LAB Children in grades 6-12 learn street style and ambush theater 6:30 p.m. every Wed. at Limelight Theatre, $80 per session, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org.

AMATEUR NIGHT Musicians, singers, comedians and poets participate in an audience-judged competition based on Amateur Night at the Apollo, held at 7:30 p.m. every first Fri. at the Ritz Theatre & Museum, $6.

ACTING & DANCE CLASSES The Performers Academy offers a variety of weekly acting and dance classes for children and adults at 3674 Beach Blvd., Southside, 322-7672, theperformersacademy.com.

FLAMENCO LESSONS The Spanish Cultural Society of Northeast Florida offers weekly

flamenco dancing classes. For more info, call 278-0173.

CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ

SYMPHONY 101 – MEET THE WOODWINDS The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra presents this luncheon and lecture featuring the auxiliary woodwinds used by Prokofiev and the musicians that perform with them at 12:30 on Oct. 23 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, $15 includes box lunch, 354-3578, jaxsymphony.org.

FACULTY SELECTION HONORS RECITAL Students recognized for excellence in performance and composition are featured at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 23 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.

VIOLIN VIRTUOSITY Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra presents guest conductor Larry Rachleff and violinist James Ehnes in a concert featuring works by Sibelius and Prokofiev at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 25 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, $22-$72, 354-3578, jaxsymphony.org.

SYMPHONIC SORCERY – THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra presents this Harry Potterthemed concert featuring narration and the music of John Williams and Nicholas Hooper at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 3 p.m. concert tickets are $7-24; 6 p.m. tickets are $20-$30. Costumes are encouraged, 354-3578, jaxsymphony.org.

JAZZ IN PONTE VEDRA The Gary Starling Group (Carol Sheehan, Billy Thornton, Peter Miles) performs 7:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur. at Table 1, 330 A1A N., 280-5515.

JAZZ IN RIVERSIDE Trumpeter Ray Callendar and guitarist Taylor Roberts are featured at 9:30 p.m. every Thur. at Kickbacks Gastropub, 910 King St., 388-9551.

JAZZ IN MANDARIN Boril Ivanov Trio plays at 7 p.m. every Thur. and pianist David Gum plays at 7 p.m. every Fri. at Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 262-0006.

JAZZ IN NEPTUNE BEACH Live jazz is featured 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Sat. at Lillie’s Coffee Bar, 200 First St., 249-2922.

JAZZ IN ATLANTIC BEACH Guitarist Taylor Roberts is featured 7-10 p.m. every Wed. and Thurs. at Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com.

JAZZ IN AVONDALE The Von Barlow Trio and Third Bass perform at 9 p.m. every Sun. at Casbah Café, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966.

JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE Live jazz is featured nightly at Rhett’s Piano Bar & Brasserie, 66 Hypolita St., 825-0502.

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The JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS play the Miami Dolphins at EverBank Field on Oct. 26.

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT The self-guided tour features galleries, antique stores and shops open from 5-9 p.m. Oct. 25 and every last Sat. in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 824-3152.

COMMUNITY FARMERS & ARTS MARKET Homemade baked goods, preserves, local honey, crafts, sauces, yard art, handcrafted jewelry and more are featured 4-7 p.m. every Wed. at 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside/Avondale, 607-9935.

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts and local produce are offered 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, local music and entertainment – featuring RAMI-Con kids’ and adults’ costume contest, Terry Whitehead, Tropic of Cancer and UNF Jazz Ensemble 3 on Oct. 25 – food artists and a farmers market are featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, arts. ju.edu.Engaging Form, Work by John Oles and Mika Fowler, is on display through Nov. 5.

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. 3rd St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. A Historic Preservation Workshop is held from 9 a.m.-noon on Oct. 25.

AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM American Beach Community Center, 1600 Julia St., Fernandina Beach, 277-7960, nassaucountyfl.com/facilities. An exhibit celebrating the life and activism of MaVynee Betsch, The Beach Lady is currently on display.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. The exhibit Remembering Hurricane Dora: The 50th Anniversary runs through Nov. 23. Admission is free for members, $5 for nonmembers.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. The fashionthemed exhibit Icons of Style: Fashion Makers, Models, and Images is on display is on display through Jan. 4. A Commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement: Photography from the High Museum of Art is on display through Nov. 2.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/ jaxfrm.html. Michael Cenci’s Wildlife and Nature Photography is on display through Oct. 29. The permanent collection includes many rare manuscripts.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org.

Curator-led monthly tours are featured at 10 a.m. every first Wed. Photographer Theresa Segal’s exhibit Undisclosed: Photographs from the Lightner is on display through Jan. 2.

MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Rd., 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net. The exhibit The Maple Leaf, which features artifacts and information

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from the Civil War era, runs through December.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com.

The exhibits Get Real: New American Painting and Jason John Studio Experience are on display through Jan. 4. The works of Caroline Lathan-Steifel are displayed in the Project Atrium exhibit through Oct. 26. Express Your #Selfie shows off the works of Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital patients, through Nov. 30.

The Juxtaposition exhibit of works by husband-and-wife team Larry Wilson and Laurie Hitzig is on display through Nov. 2.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org.

The exhibit Odyssey’s SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure features shipwreck treasures and is on display through March. Skies Over Jacksonville, a detailed live star show, is screened daily in the Planetarium at 2 p.m.

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, worldgolfhalloffame.org.

Honoring the Legacy: A Tribute to African-Americans in Golf – an exhibit featuring photographs, audio, video and memorabilia from the late 1800s to the present – is featured in the WGHOF permanent collection.

GALLERIES

ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828, coab.us.

Recent works by Zadé Moore are on display through Oct. 31.

AMIRO ART & FOUND 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460.

Painter Matteo Neivert’s exhibit Roots runs through October.

THE ART CENTER COOPERATIVE GALLERY 31 W. Adams St., Jacksonville, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org.Kenny Balser is the featured artist for Oct. THE ART CENTER PREMIER GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org.

Print Matters: Making an Impression features works of various printmaking techniques; on display through Nov. 5.

CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ North Campus, 4501 Capper Road, Jacksonville, 632-3310, fscj.edu/campus-life/art-galleries.

An exhibit of contemporary fiber art is on display Oct. 29.

CASCADES AMENITIES CENTER World Golf Village, 400 N. Legacy Trail, St. Augustine, 940-4133, cascadessa.com.

The Fourth Annual Art and Craft Holiday Sale is held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Oct. 25.

CLAY AND CANVAS STUDIO 2642-6 Rosselle Street, Riverside.

Open Studio Night is held from 5-8 p.m. on Oct. 25 and features new work by Lily Kuonen, Tiffany W. Leach and Madeleine Peck, live music by Wobi Wütenberg and craft beer.

CoRK ARTS DISTRICT 2689 Rosselle St., Jacksonville, corkartsdistrict.tumblr.com. A Night with a Stranger: A Collaborative Investigation Between Mark S. Zimmerman & The Temporary Solution is featured from 6-9 p.m. on Oct. 25 in the East Gallery.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccvb.org. The Art and Wine Sampler and Glass Work workshop is held from 3-6 p.m. on Oct. 25 and features art basics and wine sampling, $35. The exhibit Fusion, featuring collaborative works by photographer Ann Kemp and glass artist Denise Murphy, is on display through Nov. 7.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 2416928, firststreetgalleryart.com.The opening reception for an exhibit of new watercolor works by Robert Leedy is held from 7-9 p.m. on Oct. 24. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 7.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Road, Jacksonville, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com.Hiromi Moneyhun’s Under the Rose is on display through Oct. 31.

FSCJ KENT CAMPUS 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Jacksonville, 6462300, fscj.edu/campus-life/art-galleries.The opening reception for Nida Bangash’s exhibit I Am a Tree is held from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 28 and is on display through Nov. 18.

GALLERY 1037 Reddi-Arts, 1037 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville, 398-3161. The exhibit 16 x 20 The Canvas Size, featuring works by Art Guild of Orange Park members, is featured through October.

HASKELL GALLERY Jax International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Road, 741-3546.Works by Amy Labonte are on display through Dec. 26.

J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 4353200, jjohnsongallery.com. The exhibit Modulism, featuring works by Dolf James and Andrew Zimmerman, is on display through Nov. 7.

PLUM GALLERY 9 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. New works by blown glass artist Thomas Long and painters Mary Lou Gibson and Sara Pedigo are featured during October.

RITZ THEATRE AND MUSEUM829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com.The photography exhibit The Fine Art of Jazz showcases the impact of Kansas City jazz musicians and is on display through Jan. 7.

ROTUNDA GALLERY 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 829-9721, stjohnsculture.com. An exhibit of black-and-white photographs from about 30 nonprofit organizations in St. Johns County is on display through Oct. 23.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com. Jack Allen and Sydney McKenna are the featured artists for October.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. The 13th annual Tactile Art Show for the blind is featured through Nov. 2.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA GALLERY 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, 620-2534. The opening reception for Beyond the Degree is held from 5-7 p.m. on Oct. 24 and features work by UNF alumni including Ashley Maxwell, Devin Balara, Bobby Davidson, Corey Kolb, Staci BuShea, Zach Fitchner and David Nackashi.

EVENTS

HALLOWEEN AT THE CASKET FACTORY Jacksonville Historical Society presents this event that features live music, dancing, a costume contest and food and drink at 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at 314 Palmetto St., Downtown, $45; proceeds benefit restoration and maintenance of Old St. Luke’s Hospital, 665-0064, jaxhistory.com.

JAGS VS. DOLPHINS The Jacksonville Jaguars play the Miami Dolphins at 1 p.m. Oct. 26 at EverBank Field, 1 EverBank Field Drive, Downtown, $30-$295, 633-6100, ticketmaster.com.

DOWNTOWN HALLOWEEN TOUR The Old Spanish Trail lets visitors tour the 150-year-old property and features sites

including apocalypse alley, the cemetery, the voodoo shack and a circus of the dead from 8-10 p.m. every Thurs. and 8-11 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. through Oct. at 13525 W. Beaver St., Downtown, $20; $10 kids 12 and under, 257-9078, thehauntedtrails.net.

BEACHES OKTOBERFEST This two-day event features das boot, brat-eating and stein-hoisting contests, chug-n-run 5K, a screening of Ghostbusters and live music by Split Tone, Sidereal, Be Easy, The Navy Band, Uncommon Legends, The Europa Band and The Oom-Pah-Sters, noon-8:30 p.m. Oct. 25 and 12:30-6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Seawalk Pavilion, 75 N. 1st St., Jax Beach, beachesoktoberfest.com.

DURKEEVILLE HISTORICAL TALK & FISH FRY Professor Robinson of Florida State College of Jacksonville presents the lecture The Brothers Johnson – The Negro National Anthem is Only Part of Their Story at 6 p.m. Oct. 23; A fish fry and book sale fundraiser is held from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 25. Both events are held at Durkeeville Historical Society, 1293 W. 19th St., Springfield, 598-9567, durkeevillehistoricalsociety.com.

KIDS’ CAMP-IN AT MOSH The Museum of Science and History presents a Pirate-Themed Halloween Camp-In at 6 p.m. Oct. 25 at 1025 Museum Circle Drive, Southbank. The camp-in includes a Planetarium program, scavenger hunt, movie, late night pizza snack and continental breakfast. Camp-in ends at 8 a.m. Oct. 26. Cost is $35 per person (adult required), 396-6674. Register at mosh.org.

LEADERSHIP SUMMIT AT UNF The sixth annual Student Leadership Summit is held from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 24 at University of North Florida’s Student Union Auditorium, Bldg.

58W, Room 2704, 1 UNF Drive, Southside. The summit includes three sessions that focus on improving leadership skills.

Register at unf.edu/taylor-leadership/Upcoming_Events.aspx COOKBOOK TALK AND BOOK SIGNING AT MAIN LIBRARY The award-winning cookbook authors The Lee Brothers are featured in a talk and book signing at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Main Library’s Conference Center, 103 N. Laura St., Downtown, 6302665. The program is free but RSVP is required. jaxpubliclibrary.org.

PINGLEHEAD PHOBIA FEST Brewer’s Pizza presents this family-friendly Halloween event featuring a costume contest, pumpkin-carving contest, movies, live music, beer tastings and a paranormal expert from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Oct. 25 at 14B Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 276-5159, brewerspizza.com.

FOOD FEST AT ARBORETUM The Jacksonville Arboretum and Gardens presents “The Arbor ‘Eat’ Um,” a food and wine tasting event featuring food from 15 area restaurants and 75 beers and wines, from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 25 at 1445 Millcoe Road, Arlington, $50, 630-5500, jacksonvillearboretum.org.

GUITAR RAFFLE & AUCTION St. Augustine Amphitheatre presents their Second Annual Celebrity Guitar Raffle and Auction, featuring guitars signed by musicians including Rise Against and The Black Crowes, and live music by Papercutt, Oh No, and Smokin’ Mirrors from 4-9 p.m. Oct. 25 at 1340C A1A S., St Augustine, free event, 209-0367, staugamp. sjcvenues.com.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS GOLF CLASSIC Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Florida presents the 19th Reggie Hunt Memorial Golf Classic at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Amelia River Golf Club, 4477 Buccaneer Trail, Fernandina Beach. To register a team contact 485-0126.

DADDY DAUGHTER DANCE The Fall Daddy Daughter Dance is features dancing and entertainment, dinner and dessert, raffle prizes and silent auction from 5:30-9:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at World Golf Village Renaissance Resort, 500 S. Legacy Trail, St, Augustine, $85 per couple; $30 per each additional daughter, 731-9933, girlsincjax.org.

COMPASSION BY THE SEA This Mission House fundraiser features hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine, live music, silent auction and golf drive contest at 6 p.m. Oct. 24 at Sawgrass Beach Club, 10034 Golf Club Drive, Ponte Vedra Beach, $85, 241-6767, missionhousejax.org.

PECHA KUCHA IN ST. AUGUSTINE Local speakers present 20 slides and comment on each for 20 seconds at this “Freak Show”-themed event from 6-9 p.m. Oct. 28 at Arnold’s Cocktail Lounge, 3912 N. Ponce De Leon Blvd., St. Augustine, 824-8738, pechakucha.org.

FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS This free community health event offers 16 screenings and tests from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 25 at Wyndham Riverwalk Hotel, 1515 Prudential Drive, Downtown, imascreenings.com.

TRUNK OR TREAT This kid-friendly event features a haunted house, treats, games and family activities from 6-9 p.m. Oct. 24 at Autoline Preowned, 2126 Mayport Road, Atlantic Beach, costumes are encouraged, 242-8000, autolinepreowned.com.

ARTSCAPADE: CARIBBEAN TALES This fundraiser is held from 7-11 p.m. Oct. 24 and features art and music, and patrons are encouraged to wear island styles, at The Museum, 4160 Boulevard Center Drive, Southside, advance tickets are $100, $125 at the door, 202-2919; proceeds benefit underprivileged children with congenital heart problems, patronsofthehearts.com.

HEALTH DISCUSSION The Our Community, Our Health features discussions on topics including healthcare for the uninsured and the impact of HIV/AIDS in our community at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Edward Waters College’s Adams Jenkins Gymnasium, 1859 Kings Road, Downtown, 612-2996, myhealthstreet.org.

NAO VICTORIA Tour a replica of the first Spanish tall ship to successfully circumnavigate the world, commanded by Ferdinand Magellan in the 16th century, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat. and Sun. through December at St. Augustine Marina, 111 Avenida Menendez, 824-1606, elgaleon.org.

DINING DIRECTORY To list your restaurant, contact your account manager or Sam Taylor at 904.260.9770 ext. 111 or staylor@folioweekly.com.

DINING DIRECTORY KEY

$ = Less than $8 $$ = $8- $14 $$$ = $15- $22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting.

To join, go to fwbiteclub.com.

2014 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot Average Entrée Cost

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE

29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. Serving Southwestern fare; made-to-order burritos, tacos, nachos, quesadillas, handcrafted salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660.

F Southern hospitality in an upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo. com. F In a historic building, the family-owned spot offers worldly fare: veggie burgers, fresh seafood, madefrom-scratch desserts. Dine in or out on oak-shaded patio.

Karibrew Pub offers beer brewed onsite. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CIAO ITALIAN BISTRO, 302 Centre St., 206-4311, ciao bistro-luca.com. Owners Luka and Kim Misciasci offer fine dining: veal piccata, rigatoni Bolognese, antipasto.

Specialties: chicken Ciao, homemade meat lasagna. $ L Fri., Sat.; D Nightly DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb served in an elegant, chic spot. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469.

450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Award-winning B&B has seaside dining, indoors or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianescafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/ vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S AT THOMPSON HOUSE, 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Creative lunch: po’boys, salads, little plates. Dinner: fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MARCHÉ BURETTE, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 491-4834, omnihotels.com. Old-fashioned gourmet food market/ deli, in Spa & Shops, Omni Amelia Island Plantation.

Continental breakfast; lunch features flatbreads. $$$ BW K TO L D Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza.net. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Snail of Approval.

Casual organic eatery and juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, coffee, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. The bakery near the historic district has sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Omni Plantation Spa & Shops. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish and duck breast. Outdoor dining. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. ICW sunset view; 2nd-story outdoor bar.

Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, original broiled cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront place serves award-winning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily TASTY’S FRESH BURGERS & FRIES, 710 Centre St., 321-0409, tastysamelia.com. In historic district. Fresh fast-food alternative, combining the freshest meats, handcut fries, homemade sauces, hand-spun shakes. $ BW K L D Daily

Restaurant manager Ashly Bitter and executive chef Ted Peters at Azurea inside Ocean One Resort & Spa in Atlantic Beach present fennel-dusted Hawaiian sea bass with Maine lobster, mango-lime gastrique and cilantro nage. One Ocean Resort & Spa was a Best of Jax finalist for Best Staycation. Photo: Dennis Ho T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. 8th St., 261-6310. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. This spot in an old gas station offers blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE VERANDAH, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 321-5050, omnihotels.com. Extensive menu of fresh local seafood and steaks; signature entrée is Fernandina shrimp. Many herbs and spices are from onsite garden. $$$ FB K D Nightly

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. LA NOPALERA, 8818 Atlantic Blvd., 720-0106. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802.

F SEE ORANGE PARK. THE SHEIK DELI, 9720 Atlantic Blvd., 721-2660. Familyowned-and-operated, Sheik delis have served our area for 40+ years, with a full breakfast (pitas to country plates) and a lunch menu. $ TO B L D Mon.-Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

BAGEL LOVE, 4114 Herschel St., Ste. 121, 634-7253, bagellovejax.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Locallyowned-and-operated. Northern style bagels, cream cheeses, sandwiches, wraps, bakery items. Freshsqueezed orange juice and lemonade, coffee, tea. $ K TO B L Daily THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966, thecasbahcafe.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Middle Eastern/Mediterranean fare. Patio, hookah lounge, bellydancers. $$ BW L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 3543 St. Johns Ave., 829-5790.

F In Green Man Gourmet. Wines, spices, fresh fruit ice pops and Belgian chocolates. SEE PONTE VEDRA. $$ TO FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386.

Premium ice cream, fresh waffl e cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in Floridacentric décor. Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily THE FOX RESTAURANT, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. F Owners Ian & Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes, desserts.

Breakfast all day. Local landmark for 50+ years. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20+ years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 4530 St. Johns, 388-8828. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200.

F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE BEACHES.

PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 Pine Grove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. 40+ years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef.

Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat.

PULP, 3645 St. Johns Ave., pulpaddiction.com. SEE SAN MARCO.

RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

French/Southern bistro, with an emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 7825 Baymeadows Way, 733-4040. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F SEE BEACHES.

BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA, Ste. 3, 10920 Baymeadows Rd. E., 519-8000, broadwayfl.com.

F Family-owned-and-operated Italian pizzeria serves calzones, wings, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows, Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LA NOPALERA, 8206 Philips Hwy., 732-9433. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PIZZA PALACE RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 527-8649, pizzapalacejax.com.

F Casual, family-owned; homestyle cuisine. Local faves: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Outside dining; HD TVs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 8133 Point Meadows Dr., 519-0509. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. ZESTY INDIA, 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676, zestyindia.com. Asian methods meld with European template to create tandoori lamb chops, rosemary tikka.

Vegetarian items cooked separately in vegetable oil. $ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun.

BEACHES

(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F Al’s is often a repeat winner in FW readers’ poll. New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Angie’s has served subs made with the freshest ingredients for more than 25 years. One word: Peruvian.

Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BUDDHA THAI BISTRO, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444,

buddhathaibistro.com. The proprietors are from Thailand; every dish is made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily BURRITO GALLERY EXPRESS, 1333 Third St. N., 242-8226. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE DOWNTOWN. CANTINA MAYA SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 1021 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-3227. Popular spot serves great margaritas, great Latin food, burgers. Sports on TVs. $$ FB K L D Tue.-Sun. CASA MARIA, 2429 S. Third St., 372-9000, casamariajax.com. F Family-owned-and-operated place offers authentic Mexican fare: fajitas and seafood dishes, hot sauces made in-house. The specialty is tacos de asada. $ FB K L D Daily CULHANE’S IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595, culhanesirishpub.com.

Bite Club. Upscale pub/restaurant owned and run by sisters from County Limerick, Ireland. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef; gastropub fare. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L Fri.-Sun.; D Tue.-Sun. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 853-5680, fl yingiguana.com. F Latin American fusion, Southwestern-influenced: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100+ tequilas. $ FB L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815, harmoniousmonks.net. F SEE MANDARIN. LA NOPALERA, 1222 Third St. S., 372-4495. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 N. Third St., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar. com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine indoors or out, patio and courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers.

Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-5573, mezzarest aurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean eatery, 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside or on the patio. Valet parking. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, all the sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-2599, mshackburgers.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes, familiar fare, moderate prices. Dine inside or outside. $$ BW L D Daily NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105, nbbistro.com. Bite Club.

Neighborhood gem with a chef-driven kitchen serves hand-cut steaks, fresh local seafood, tapas menu. Happy hour. $$$ FB K R Sun.; L D Daily OCEAN 60 RESTAURANT, WINE BAR & MARTINI ROOM,

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DINING DIRECTORY

A WEEKLY Q&A WITH PEOPLE IN THE FOOD BIZ

NAME: Andrew Teuschel RESTAURANT: The Red Elephant Pizza & Grill, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin BIRTHPLACE: Jacksonville YEARS IN THE BIZ: 9 FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Santioni’s Italian BEST CUISINE STYLE: Italian GO-TO INGREDIENT: Garlic, cumin, garlic, oregano, garlic IDEAL MEAL: Specially seasoned steak cooked to a perfect medium plus (not medium well) with mashed potatoes, corn on the cob and a salad WILL NOT CROSS MY LIPS: Raw oysters INSIDER’S SECRET: Love what you do and you’ll always do it to perfection.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING: X-Factor star Rion Paige CULINARY TREAT: Our Hershey’s 1,001 chocolate cake, blended in an ice cream sundae, topped with whipped cream and a cherry 60 Ocean Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Continental cuisine, fresh seafood, dinner specials and a seasonal menu in a formal dining room or casual Martini Room. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30+ years, the iconic seafood place has scored many awards in our BOJ readers poll.

Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefoodshack.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in a modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE & OYSTER BAR, 218 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. More than 20 beers on tap, TV screens, cheerleaders serving the food. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA, 1712 Beach Blvd., 249-8226, tacolu.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Fresh, Baja-style fare with a focus on fish tacos, tequila (more than 135 kinds) and mezcal. Bangin’ shrimp, carne asada, carnitas, daily fresh fish selections. Made-freshdaily guacamole. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Fri.

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made fare: subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. BURRITO GALLERY & BAR, 21 E. Adams St., 598-2922, burritogallery.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Southwestern burritos, ginger teriyaki tofu, beef barbacoa, wraps, tacos. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. CASA MARIA, 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411.

F SEE BEACHES. CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F Eats at moderate prices – most less than $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi and barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Thur.-Sat. FIONN MacCOOL’s IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, The Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining with an uptown Irish atmosphere, serving fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew and black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket. com. From-scratch soups, sandwiches. They cure their own bacon, pickle their pickles. Home to duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE.

LA NOPALERA, 1571 C.R. 220, 215-2223. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, traditional fare, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, motorcycle or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly YOUR PIE, 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771, yourpie. com. Owner Mike Sims’ concept: Choose from 3 doughs,

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Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. F Casual, family-friendly eatery serves steaks, seafood, chicken grill specials. Five topping selections. Salads, sandwiches, pizza. Gluten-free friendly. $ FB K L D Daily STEAMIN, 9703 San Jose Blvd., 493-2020, eatsteamin. com. Classic diner serves steam burgers, fat dogs and chili, 50+ craft beers. $ FB TO B Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily

ORANGE PARK, GREEN COVE SPRINGS

9 sauces, 7 cheeses, 40+ toppings. 5 minutes in a brick oven and ta-da: It’s your pie. Subs, sandwiches, gelato. $$ BW K TO L D Daily

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F SEE BEACHES.

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115.

F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 39, 992-1666. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. Some La Nops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-ownedand-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-night menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly

JULINGTON CREEK

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 101, 825-4540. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. PIZZA PALACE, 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F SEE BAYMEADOWS.

MANDARIN

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES.

ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA, 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 288-9211. 13820 St. Augustine Rd., 880-0020.

Brooklyn Special. Calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ BW TO L D Daily THE COFFEE BARD, 9735 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 13, 260-0810, thecoffeebard.com. New world coffeehouse has coffees, breakfast, drinks. $$ TO B L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300, jaxramada.com. In Ramada. Prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri. & Sat., blue-jean brunch Sun., daily breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ FB B R L D Daily GILMON’S BAKERY, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 13, 288-8128, gilmonsbakery.com. Custom cakes, cupcakes, gingerbread men, pies, cookies, coffee, tea. $$ B L Tue.-Sat. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040, harmoniousmonks.net. F American-style steakhouse: Angus steaks, gourmet burgers, ribs, wraps. $$ FB K L D Mon.-Sat. KAZU JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 9965 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 35, 683-9903, kazujapaneserestaurant.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Wide variety of soups, dumplings, appetizers, salads, bento boxes, sushi, entrées, maki handrolls, sashimi. $$ BW TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos.

Some La Nops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE PARK. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. Natural, organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods, juices and smoothies. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL, 10131 San Jose

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007, aronspizza. com. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizzas. $$ BW K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Road, 272-5959, hilltop-club. com. Southern-style fine dining. Specialties: New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LA NOPALERA, 9734 Crosshill Blvd., 908-4250. 2024 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE MANDARIN.

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370.

1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F For 30+ years, all over town, they pile ’em high and serve ’em fast. Hot/cold subs, soups, salads. $ K TO B L D Daily POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA, 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116. Family-owned-and-operated, offering pizzas and wings made in coal-fired ovens. Espresso, cappuccino. $ BW TO L D Daily THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. F For 35-plus years, Roadhouse has been offering wings, sandwiches, burgers, quesadillas; 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily THE SHEIK, 1994 Kingsley Ave., 276-2677. SEE ARLINGTON.

PONTE VEDRA, NW ST. JOHNS

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F SEE BEACHES. CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 145 Hilden Rd., Ste. 122, 829-5790, claudeschocolate.com. Hand-crafted premium Belgian chocolate, fruits, nuts, spices. Cookies, popsicles. $$ TO DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. NASCAR-themed; 365 kinds of wings, halfpound burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK. PUSSER’S BAR & GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766, pussersusa.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Bite Club. Innovative Caribbean cuisine features regional faves: Jamaican grilled pork ribs, Trinidad smoked duck, lobster macaroni & cheese dinner. Tropical drinks. $$ FB K TO L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797, restaurantmedure.us. Chef David Medure offers global flavors. Small plates, creative drinks, happy hour. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies. com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Intimate bistro serves authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes, specializing in tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S DELI, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN .

AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F SEE BEACHES.

BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. New American fare has a Southern twist, made with locally sourced ingredients.

Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. F Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412. Made-fromscratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, glutenfree and vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily.

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 5972 San Juan, 693-9258.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. EDGEWOOD BAKERY, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. 66+ years, full-service bakery. Fresh breakfast, from-scratch pastries, petit fours, pies, cakes. Espresso, sandwiches, smoothies, soups. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999, europeanstreet.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. 130+ imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style classic Reuben and

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IN JACKSONVILLE

Winner Best BBQ Jax Truckies 2014

2 Locations Serving You 4838 Highway Ave. (904) 389-5551

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Photo by Caron Streibich

THE ART OF THE UNUSUAL At Mama Q’s, it’s all about the toppings

E

ver wished your pizza was topped with mashed potatoes? Yeah, me either — until I sat down and indulged in a few slices of the mashed potato pie ($10-18, depending on size) at Mama Q’s. Hooked.

With only four tables, Mama Q’s is best suited for takeout or delivery, but it certainly delivers (pun intended) big flavor regardless what pie you pick. On the four I shared, I found the crust to be perfect — neither too dense nor soggy, despite the multitude of unique topping offerings, and still crisp on the edges.

No skimping on the toppings either, as they are weighed to achieve a consistent pie every time. And the bacon, which comes on many of the specialty pies, is also perfectly crispy and not too fatty — kudos to Mama!

If you’re craving a pre-meal snack, go for the pepperoni-stuffed bread ($7), three-cheese bread ($7), garlic knots ($5) or wings ($9).

Lunch or dinner will be out shortly, as pizzas only take about six minutes to cook, at 476

MAMA Q’S PIZZA

10550 Old St. Augustine Road, Ste. 6, Mandarin, 260-6262

degrees, after being created.

Create your own or pick a specialty pie like the Backyard BBQ (large for $16), which won me over. Loaded with grilled chicken breast, bacon, chopped red onion, cheddar cheese and a heavy-handed drizzle of smoky-yet-sweet BBQ sauce, it was surprisingly tasty for a pizza that I typically wouldn’t gravitate toward.

Now, back to that mashed potato pie. The golden crust is layered with an olive oil and garlic sauce that’s then topped with a layer of mashed potatoes and abundantly sprinkled with shredded cheddar, crispy bacon pieces and thinly sliced chives. (For good measure I got a side of ranch — a la potato skins — and felt like a kid on Christmas morning.)

Each month an off-menu specialty pizza is available, so get the 411 on this creative offering before you order. And at lunch there are specials like two slices and a drink for $5, which really can’t be beat.

Oh, and if you’ve got a sweet tooth, kids and adults alike will enjoy the homemade pull-apart cinnamon maple sticks with a sweet sugary dipping sauce ($4) for dessert.

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DINING DIRECTORY

pie, homemade soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200.

F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815. F SEE BAYMEADOWS.

PULP, 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222, pulpaddiction. com. The juice bar offers fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees, 30 kinds of smoothies. $ TO B L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. Authentic Italian ingredients, seasonal local produce and meats on Chef Sam Efron’s menus. Regional craft beers, handcrafted cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE

The crew at Pizzalley’s on St. George Street are proud that Folio Weekly readers named them Best Pizza in St. Augustine in the Best of Jax 2014. Photo: Dennis Ho other overstuffed sandwiches; salads, soups. Outside seating is available at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. F The juice bar uses certified organic fruits and vegetables. 500+ craft/import beers, 250 wines, organic produce, humanely raised meats, plus a deli, as well as raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Based on fare of Asian street vendors, peddling authentic dishes from mobile stalls. Chefs here serve the best hawker recipes under one roof. $ BW TO L D Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S. New from Bold Bean Coffee Roasters’ owners. Locally-owned, family-run bake shop specializes in made-fromscratch pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, seasonal soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794.

7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 5733 Roosevelt, 446-9500.

8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., Ortega, 999-4600. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com.

Monroe’s smoked meats include wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey and ribs. Homestyle sides include green beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442.

F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire.com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas.

Happy hour Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips.

Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily THE SHEIK, 7361 103rd St., 778-4805. 5172 Normandy Blvd., 786-7641. SEE ARLINGTON. SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0049. F Beer (Bold City, Intuition), wine, pizza, hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. Sushi variety: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll.

Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F SEE BEACHES. AVILES RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-2277, hiltonhistoricstaugustine.net. F Hilton Bayfront. Progressive European-flavored menu; madeto-order pasta night, wine dinners, chophouse nights, breakfast buffet. Sun. champagne brunch bottomless mimosas. $$$ FB K B L D Daily CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. F NY-style gourmet brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats, cheeses, garlic herb wings. Outdoor dining, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 6 Granada St., 829-5790. In The Market. Wine and chocolate pairings, soft-serve ice cream, a coffee bar, fresh fruit ice pops, cookies. $$ TO THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridianst aug.com. Updated Southern fare: fresh ingredients from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon.

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GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F A mainstay for 25+ years, Gypsy’s menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily THE ICE PLANT BAR, 110 Riberia St., 829-6553, iceplantbar.com. Vintage-inspired (an old ice plant) in historic area. Farm-to-table menu uses locally sourced ingredients; hand-crafted drinks, house-made bitters, syrups. $$$ FB TO D Nightly MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040.

F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova, 342-5264. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO, 159 Palencia Village Dr., Ste. 111, 808-1818, pacificasianbistro.com. F Chef Mas Lui creates 30+ sushi rolls; fresh sea scallops, Hawaiian-style poke tuna salad. Sake. $$-$$$ BW L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 547-0240. Latin American fusion wine bar and restaurant offers traditional American fare with a Latin flair; sandwiches, too. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sun.

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

BENTO CAFE ASIAN KITCHEN & SUSHI, 4860 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1, 564-9494, bentocafesushi.com. Pan-Asian fare; Asian-inspired dishes: wok stir-fry to fire-grilled, authentic spices, fresh ingredients. Full sushi bar. $$ K FB TO L D Daily MOXIE KITCHEN + COCKTAILS, 4972 Big Island Dr., 998-9744, moxiefl.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Chef Tom Gray’s place features innovative contemporary American cuisine – seafood, steaks, pork, burgers, salads, sides and desserts – using locally sourced ingredients when possible. $$$ FB K L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000, mshack burgers.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic dishes: Pad Thai, curries, sashimi, fresh sushi, daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily THE GROTTO WINE & Tapas Bar, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S BAR & GRILLE, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. Popular chain serves wings, sammies, nachos, wraps, entrées, specialty cocktails and … wait for it … burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1631 Hendricks, 399-1768. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE MANDARIN.

MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922, matthewsrestaurant.com. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship. Fine dining, artfully presented cuisine, small plates, martini/wine lists. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. Reservations. $$$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Original upscale diner in ’30s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot

360° GRILLE, Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555, latitude360.com. F Seafood, steaks, burgers, chicken, sandwiches, pizza. Patio, movie theater. $$ FB TO L D Daily AKEL’S, 7077 Bonneval Rd., 332-8700. F SEE DOWNTOWN.

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. Longest-running dinner theater in America. Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus.

Reservations recommended. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. BENTO CAFE ASIAN KITCHEN & SUSHI, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 11, 503-3238. SEE ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER. CASA MARIA, 14965 Old St. Augustine, 619-8186. SEE BEACHES.

DANCIN DRAGON, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888. This new spot features a BOGO lunch. Asian fusion menu. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. HZ CAFE, 6426 Bowden Rd., Ste. 206, 527-1078.

Healthy concept cafe serves juices, smoothies, traditional vegan and vegetarian meals and vegan and gluten-free meals and desserts. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955.

F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. PAPI CHULO’S, 9726 Touchton Rd., Ste. 105, 329-1763, ilovepapichulos.com. The brand new Tinseltown place offers fresh, simple, authentic Mexican street food, topshelf tequilas, specialty drinks. Kids eat free. $$ K FB L D Daily SEVEN BRIDGES Grille & Brewery, 9735 Gate Pkwy., 997-1999, 7bridgesgrille.com. F Local seafood, steaks, pizzas. Brewer Aaron Nesbit handcrafts ales, lagers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999, tbopizza.com. NY-style thin crust, brick-oven-baked pizzas (gluten-free), calzones, sandwiches fresh to order. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pickup. $$ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 551-5929, worldofbeer.com. F Burgers, tavern fare, sliders,flatbreads, German pretzels, hummus, pickle chips.

Craft German, Cali, Florida, Irish drafts. Wines. $$ BW L D Daily

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner, 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.

SAVANNAH BISTRO, 14670 Duval Rd., 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, taste of Mediterranean and French. Crowne Plaza Airport. Crab cakes, NY strip, she crab soup, mahi mahi. $$$ FB K B L D Daily THE SHEIK, 2708 N. Main St., 353-8181. SEE ARLINGTON. UPTOWN MARKET, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptownmarketjax.com. Bite Club. In the 1300 Building.

The market features fresh quality fare, innovative breakfast, lunch and dinner; farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily

ASTROLOGY

SPACE UNDIES, BLOODY SUNDAES, BILL GATES & HATEBEAK ARIES (March 21-April 19): The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It gets about a half-inch of rain a year.

Yet in 2011, archaeologists discovered it’s home to a site containing fossilized skeletons of several whales and other ancient sea creatures. I’m detecting a metaphorically comparable anomaly in your vicinity. A seemingly arid, empty part of your life harbors buried secrets available to explore. Follow the clues; you may discover rich pickings to inspire history revision.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Businessman Warren Buffet is worth $65.5 billion, but regularly gives away 27 percent of his fortune to charity. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates owns $78 billion, and donates 36 percent. Then there’s the Walton family, owners of Walmart, where 100 million Americans shop weekly. The Waltons have $136 billion, of which they contribute .04 percent to good causes. You’re not wealthy in the same way they are. Your riches are resources: your skills, relationships, emotional intelligence, creative power, and capacity for love. Be extra generous with those – not as lavish as Buffet or Gates, but much more than the Waltons. You’re in a phase when giving your gifts is one of the best things to do to bolster health, wealth and well-being.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have two options. Be in denial about your real feelings, ignore what needs to be fixed and wait for trouble to find you. Or vow to be resilient, summon your feistiest curiosity and search for trouble. The difference between these two is dramatic. If you mope, sigh and hide, the messy trouble that arrives will be indigestible.

But if you’re brave and proactive, the interesting trouble ultimately evolves into a blessing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Astronauts on the International Space Station never wash their underwear. They don’t have enough water to waste on that luxury. Instead, they fling the dirty laundry out into space. As it falls to Earth, it burns up in the atmosphere. I wish you had a bunch of amenities like that. If there was ever a time to be free from having to wash your underwear, make your bed, sweep the floor and do the dishes, it’s now. There are much better ways to spend your time: Sacred quests, heroic adventures, historical turning points.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are the new whisperings in your head? Messages from an inner teacher? Beacons beamed back through time from Future You? Clues from your unconscious mind’s wise parts? Whatever they are, pay attention.

These signals from the Great Beyond may not be clear yet, but if you’re patient, they eventually tell you how to take advantage of a big plot twist. A caveat: Don’t automatically believe every single thing the whisperings say. Their counsel may not be 100 percent accurate. Be receptive and discerning.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the Englishspeaking world, a sundae is a luxurious dessert of ice cream topped with sweet treats like syrup, sprinkles and fruits. In Korea, a sundae is something very different. It’s a cow’s or pig’s intestines crammed with noodles, barley and pig’s blood.

Next week, you’ll be faced with a decision that has metaphorical similarities to the choice between the two sundaes. Be sure you’re quite clear about the true nature of each.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The average serving of pasta on a typical American’s plate

is almost 480 percent bigger than what’s recommended as a healthy portion, says the research paper “The Contribution of Expanding Portion Sizes to the U.S. Obesity Epidemic,” by Lisa R. Young and Marion Nestle.

Muffins are 333 percent larger than they need to be, they write, and steaks are 224 percent excessive. Don’t get caught up in this. Get what you need, but not way, way more. Be judicious in your approach to all of life’s necessities. In your next phase, you thrive by applying the Goldilocks principle: not too much nor too little, but just right.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Children are the most desirable opponents at Scrabble,” declares Scorpio author Fran Lebowitz, “as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.” I don’t wholeheartedly endorse that advice for you in the days ahead. But would you consider a milder version of it? Let’s propose, instead, that you simply seek easy victories to boost your confidence and hone your skills.

By this time next week, if all goes well, you will be ready to take on more ambitious challenges.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are entering a phase when you will have more luck than usual as you try to banish parasitic influences, unworthy burdens and lost causes. Projects to work on: 1. Bid farewell to those who bring out the worst in you. 2. Heal the twisted effect an adversary has had on you. 3. Get rid of anything that symbolizes failure or pathology. 4. Declare independence from a situation that wastes your time or drains resources. 5. Shed guilt you feel for taking good care of yourself. 6. Stop a bad habit cold turkey.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you ready to be as affable as a Sagittarius, charismatic as a Leo, empathetic as a Cancerian, and vigorous an instigator as an Aries? No? You’re afraid it would require you to push yourself too far outside your comfort zone? Willing to be half as affable as a Sagittarius, half as charismatic as a Leo, half as empathetic as a Cancerian, half as inspiring an instigator as an Aries?

Or even a quarter as much? At least stretch in these directions – that would let you take maximum advantage of spectacular social opportunities in the next four weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the weeks ahead, find practical ways to express your new-found freedom. The explorations and experiments you’ve enjoyed recently were fun and provocative, but it’s time to use insights they sparked to upgrade back in the daily grind. Don’t misunderstand; I love it when you’re dreamy and farseeing; I’d never say tone those down. Bring your high-flying parts down to earth to reap full benefits of the bounty. Work to become more well-grounded, and you’ll be situated in a new power spot by Dec. 1.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Heavy metal band Hatebeak broadened the definition of what constitutes music. Its lead singer was Waldo, an African grey parrot. A review by Aquarius Records called Waldo’s squawks “completely and stupidly brilliant.” On Hatebeak’s second album, they collaborated with animal rights’ activists in the band Caninus, whose lead vocalists were two pitbull terriers, Basil and Budgie. In the weeks ahead, get inspired by these experiments. You generate interesting results exploring expansive, unprecedented approaches in your field.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

HELLO, YOUNG LOVERS (aka ISU writers): The limit for ISU notices is 40 words ONLY. No messages with more than 40 words will be accepted. Please keep your message short & sweet. Thanks!

LOOKING FOR ME? You: Taco Tuesday, brunette, blue top, shorts, black flats. Saw you in line looking back. Caught each other’s gaze too long.

Me: Blue button up, gray slacks. You met with guy, didn’t seem into him. Wanna see if I’m more interesting? When: Oct. 14. Where: Tijuana Flats, Baymeadows. #1418-1022 INSTANT CONNECTION You: Tall, Purple hair, BRS shamrock on the back of your neck, wearing Capris, flip flops. Me: Short, dark curly hair, also wearing Capris, flip flops. You gave me a cigarette, I gave you my life story. When: Sept. 1, 2012. Where: Kristin’s House. #1417-1015 HUSKY SEMINOLES HUNK You: FSU shirt, name starts with S. Sloppy drunk & jolly. Me: Thick woman, Cornhuskers shirt. You loved my curly hair; let me rub your belly :) Bono’s unlimited BBQ rib night on Gate Parkway 7 p.m.? When: Oct. 4. Where: Kickbacks, Riverside. #1416-1008 SHORT-HAIRED BRUNETTE You: Short brown hair, sitting next to an older lady. You were with a party sitting by the door. I ended up talking to your friend but not you. Me: Black dress with dark hair at the bar.

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When: Sept. 7. Where: Dive Bar. #1413-1001 BEARD MAGIC You: Jet-black hair, green eyes, sexy red Fiat 500. You said my beard had magical powers. Me: Colorful tats, magical beard, Donkey Bong shirt. I gave you my toast and you promised a date. When and where? When: Sept. 15. Where: Brew 5 Points. #1412-1001 BARISTA WITH DEVILED EGGS You: Starbucks Barista. Handed me a deviled egg, drew a heart on my vanilla milk. Never knew what I loved about this old coffee shop. Close your tally with a herringbone? Love to read more newspapers – as your girlfriend. When: Aug. 14.

Where: Southside/Baymeadows Starbucks. #1411-0924 SAUSAGE CUTIE You: Fast-talking Penguin shirt guy, recently out of jail; said three months in jail builds character. Me: Tall, jet-black hair, way-too-short dress. I asked if you knew I wasn’t wearing panties; you joked about sausage size on pizza. Pizza soon?

When: Sept. 17. Where: Avondale Mellow Mushroom. #14100924

HOT BLONDE @ UPS STORE You: Girl at Claire Lane/San Jose Boulevard UPS store. Me: Handsome Latino courier who comes in twice a month to pick up a customer’s mail. You know who I am. If single, wanna chat? When: Sept. 8. Where: UPS Store. #1407-0917 FLIRTING WHILE DRIVING? You: Dark Dodge pickup, Gator plate. Me: Old red Jeep Cherokee. Passed each other – intentionally – on bridge; smiles, waves. You’re cute! I was late, or would’ve followed. Wanna slow down and say hi?

When: Sept. 3. Where: Buckman Bridge. #1406-0917 DESPERATELY SEEKING PIXIE You: Steampunk girl on red couch. You asked if I’d ever be done. Me: In black, too work focused to speak to you properly. I’m done; ready. Need to find each other. Let’s meet, talk, try to forgive. RAM 10 a.m. find me. I’ll go until I see you. When: Aug. 23. Where: Royal. #1405-0917 HOT COP AT LOGAN’S ROADHOUSE ISU at Logan’s. You: slightly seasoned gentleman; ordered a juicy steak, but I wish I could have ordered yours. Oh, and Momma has a coupon for you! When: Aug. 29. Where: Logan’s Roadhouse. #1404-0910 BMW RIDER ISU 18 years ago. Your cute dimples, warm smile and sexy moustache won my heart. Interested in a lifetime of fun? If so, let’s par-tay! Happy anniversary, Love, Your Nag. When: May 1994. Where: Famous Amos. #1403-0910 STUNNING BLONDE NURSE Talked; bought you a drink upstairs. We seemed to connect. You showed me your driver’s license because I didn’t believe your age. Wish I’d written your name down; really want to talk. When: Aug. 22. Where: Salt Life St. Augustine. #1402-0827 PURPLE SCRUBS SAN MARCO You took my blood pressure, started asking me some questions, then a young doctor walked in. We started laughing at the tag-team questionnaire.

I commented on your long hair. When: Aug. 19. Where: Academic Dermatology. #1401-0827 MR. CHEVY EQUINOX ISU wearing scrubs, driving an Equinox.

I wore shorts, tank top; driving a black Chevy Tahoe, heading out of town for work. You asked about the Tahoe, what I did for a living. Love to chat more! When: Aug. 19. Where: Town Center Shell. #1400-0827 MEET FOR BEER You: Handsome guy, Yankee Coffin Co. T-shirt, jeans, behind me at register; our eyes met. Me: Curly blonde, jeans. Said hello as you left on motorcycle with I assume your son. If not single, no reply; you looked nice.

When: Aug. 17. Where: European Street Jax Beach. #1398-0827 HOLDING AN UMBRELLA You: Sweet, standing under shelter helping people to cars during a thunderstorm. Me: Redhead desperate for shelter from the storm. You asked me what I did. You work at insurance agency. Call if you’d like to share your umbrella. When: Aug. 14. Where: Thrasher Horne Center. #1397-0820

BLACK GUY, ORANGE SHIRT, BOOTS You: Handsome, dark skin, orange shirt, behind me in WalMart money center line, 2 p.m. Me: Tall, curvy, tattooed blonde talking to couple ahead of you. Too shy to stay, thought I saw you looking. Meet? When: Sept. 12. Where: Kingsland Walmart. #1409-0917

RUNNING OUT OF MOONLIGHT ISU: Mavericks acoustic concert. We talked, you put your arm around me during two songs. Your friend said you wash your beard with long-term relationship Head & Shoulders. You make a cowboy hat look good ;). When: Aug. 13. Where: Mavericks at the Landing. #1396-0820

COFFEE HOTTIE You: Hottest girl at Bold Bean, skintight Lululemons, bedhead and full-sleeve Molly Hatchet tattoo. You caught my glance waiting for latte. Me: Still drunk from last night, looking fine in Jesus Is The Shit shirt. We MUST meet. When: Sept. 10.

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SUPERCUTE SECURITY GUARD Wanted to talk to you but you were already talking to another female when I was leaving. You: Supercute white security guard. Me: Cute, thin, chocolate-caramel female. Hoping you and I get a chance to talk. When: Aug. 12. Where: Main Library. #1395-0820

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD SIGNS OF THE TIMES

“Selfie fever” has begun to sully the sacred Islamic pilgrimages to Mecca, according to scholars who complained to Arab News in September. What for centuries has been a hallowed journey intended to renew the spirit of Islam (that all Muslims are called upon to experience at least once) has come, for some in the so-called “Facebook era,” to resemble a trip to Disneyland, with visitors to the Sacred Mosque texting friends the “evidence” of their piety. Another scholar complained in a New York Times opinion piece in October that Mecca is often experienced more as a tour packaged by marketers and centered around Mecca’s upscale shopping malls rather than religious structures.

NEW NORMAL

Just in time for California’s new law requiring explicit consent for students’ sexual activities is the free iPhone/Google app Good2Go, which developer Lee Ann Allman promises will simplify the consent process (and even document it). As described in a September Slate report, Good2Go requires the initiator to send the prospective partner to at least four smartphone screens, wait for a text message, provide phone numbers (unless he/she is a multiple-user with an “account”) and choose accurately one’s sobriety level — all before “the mood” evaporates (ending the app’s usefulness). It took the tech-savvy Slate writer four minutes to navigate the process — and she was still unclear which sexual activities had been consented to, since those specifics aren’t referenced. (The app has since been pulled from the market.)

HARSH REALITY

New York Giants tight end Larry Donnell manages his own fantasy league team by “drafting” NFL players for virtual competitions based on their real-life statistics of the previous weekend. Donnell lamented to New Jersey’s The Record in October that he had benched virtual “Larry Donnell” on his fantasy team the week

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KARMA’S A BITCH

In August, the Tampa Bay Times reported a dispute in Dunedin, Florida, between 12-yearold lemonade-stand operator T.J. Guerrero and an adult neighbor, Doug Wilkey, trying to close him down as an unlicensed entrepreneur, despite T.J.’s business plan for assisting his favorite animal shelter. Of course, T.J. was quickly inundated with donations, media praise and more lemonade sales. Wilkey, however, is under investigation by the city after a tipster revealed that Wilkey himself might operate a home-based financial services business not properly licensed.

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

“My Friends, I Am a Man of Action!”: Roger Weber, running for a Minnesota House seat in November, is being sued by a neighbor over a property-line dispute near Nashwauk. Rather than working with an arbitrator or mediator, Weber in 2013 took a chain saw and sliced the large, two-car garage completely in half — Weber says half sat on his property and half on the neighbor’s.

GIRL’S GOTTA EAT

An 18-year-old woman was admitted to Bishkek Hospital in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, in September with severe stomach pains, which doctors discovered was due to her long-standing habit of chewing both discarded hair and her own. Doctors removed a hairball that weighed 8.8 pounds.

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