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CABBIE V. GOLIATH

AMENDMENT 1 IS BAD FOR SOLAR

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BY A.G. GANCARSKI Will AMENDMENT 2 pass?

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FROM THE EDITOR

THE END IS

NIGH Election 2016 finally, finally, FINALLY limps to the FINISH LINE

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HAVING SUFFERED THROUGH THESE MANY, many, many months, we the people are eager to be put out of our election 2016 misery.

Rejoice! By the time the next issue of Folio Weekly appears in your inbox, newsfeed, watering hole or newsstand on Nov. 9, this will all be like a fever dream (nightmare) — unless some angry deity or pumpkin-colored, rageaddicted, verbally incontinent loser (or hanging chads) holds us hostage until the eight members of the Supreme Court wrestle this thing to bed, in which case the smart money’s on Notorious RBG and her band of merry moderates.

But, so long as we’re still caught in what would be a food-poisoning-induced hallucination in a kinder reality, let’s have one last election 2016 hurrah for old time’s sake, kinda like that sweaty grope you shared with your high school flame in the coatroom at your 20th reunion. #LoveHandlesHandled I promise to make this brief.

On Nov. 8, vote policy, not personality.

If you believe healthcare decisions are between a woman and her doctor; the U.S. should honor its trade agreements and treaties; climate change is real and man-made; we should invest in clean energy and reduce reliance on fossil fuels; tough on crime has been tough on America; LGBTQ citizens deserve equal protection from discrimination; all people should have the right to marry whoever they choose; and violent offenders, people being investigated for terrorism and those with domestic violence injunctions shouldn’t be able to waltz into a gun show and emerge armed to the teeth — vote Clinton.

If you think doctors and women should be imprisoned for healthcare decisions regarding family planning (bring back the wire coat hanger); withdrawing from NATO and potentially singlehandedly triggering a worldwide recession or depression will improve the U.S. economy (it’s a lose-lose, which is kinda like a win-win, right?); 97 percent of climate scientists are wrong — climate change is not man-made, it’s a “hoax perpetuated by the Chinese” or naturally occurring (either way, you’ll get a nice, even tan. In Canada. In December.); we should allow companies to drill, farm and mine on federal lands and waterways (screw you, right whales and Florida panthers!); although we have the largest prison industrial complex and highest percentage of incarcerated citizens in the history of the world — tough on crime ain’t tough enough (key = thrown away); we should codify law permitting discrimination against LGBTQ people (it’s the American way); the state should not afford

same-sex couples the same rights, incentives and protections as opposite-sex couples (the second anniversary is the one where your marriage is invalidated by an act of Congress); and there is no such thing as a reasonable restriction of the right to bear arms (who wants a scud missile?!) — vote Cheeto Hitler.

If you share many of Hillary Clinton’s beliefs but deviate on a few key issues: if you’re a skosh more liberal, cast a ballot for Stein/ Baraka; if you’re a skosh more conservative, vote for Johnson/Weld. (Overgeneralizations put the ‘fun’ in dysfunctional! Direct all angry letters to Breitbart News Network.) This might just be third parties’ best chance to pass that 5 percent threshold and become eligible for general election funding. So what if it’s nowhere near enough to mount a successful presidential campaign in a post-Citizens United America? And so what if it’s restrictions are so arduous that neither major party has taken the dough since 2008? Twenty million bucks buys more votes than a couple of guys in mom jeans talking to kids on Snapchat about legalizing marijuana (that presidential candidate’s nose hair was very persuasive).

If you’re still not convinced to vote for anyone BUT the candidate who has made statements that, if they were to become national policy, would easily lead to a global war, which seems an acceptable outcome to he-who-shall-not-be-blamed, who catapulted to the nomination by preying on fears, insecurities and ignorance, who has never held an elected office nor served the public in any official capacity (scaring the bejeebus out of half the nation doesn’t count), then by all means, vote for Cheeto Hitler.

But if you’re tired of hearing about how awful, bad, no-good, terrible, sickening, ugly, unfair, rigged, ridiculous, pathetic and disgusting people and our democracy are, vote for anyone else.

Also, vote No on Amendment 1 (see p. 47), Yes on Amendment 2 (see p. 8), and do your civic duty by all the other candidates on the ballot, which is to say, take the time to educate yourself about their stances on the issues and vote for the one whose politics you agree with regardless of how handsome they look on TV. Politics ain’t a football game where you root for your team, it’s the way we, the people, govern ourselves. And it’s not a right (especially not in Florida — see p. 12), nor a privilege, it’s a responsibility.

I apologize to any Cheetos who were offended by this message.

Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com

THE MAIL WHEN IN DOUBT, BRING UP OLD SHIT

RE.: “’Til It Happens to You,” By Claire Goforth, Oct. 19 GEE, WHY DIDN’T YOU MENTION A RECENT president? What was his name, now? Bill uh, Clinton? That’s it! You do remember him, don’t you? In case you hadn’t noticed, his list of accusers is far more extensive and the incidents far more serious and even far more recent than those of Donald Trump’s. At least one of them involved outright rape, in case you don’t recall.

And perhaps you remember what happened to those accusing women. They were harassed and their reputations impugned in a full court press orchestrated by James Carville and, what was that woman’s name, Hill…? Hillary! Hillary Clinton! That’s it!

Do you remember the comment about dragging a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park? I saw James Carville say it right on TV. It was a gratuitous slap at a group of people who, due to circumstance or desire, live in one. What would your reaction and that of progressives be if a Republican made a similar comment about the ’hood or barrio?

Or is the actual reason for the different attitudes that it was made and the attacks orchestrated by people with the approved political label? You know, Democrat? The party that is so much for women’s rights and their dignity that it backs a lecher for president and now his enabler?

Maybe you should ask Hillary the question.

Roderick T. Beaman via email

ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL

RE.: “The Knowledge Gap,” by A.G. Gancarski, Oct. 19 PEOPLE GET SO FOCUSED ON THE PRESIDENTIAL race they forget to pay attention to the folks who

will impact our daily lives. Change has to start from the bottom up.

Cheryl Anne Barefoot via Facebook

GOOD QUESTIONS

RE.: “Trump Reveals Plans to ‘Fix Our Country,’”

by Mark Judson, Oct. 25 LAST AUGUST DURING A RALLY FOR DONALD Trump in Jacksonville, our Mayor Lenny Curry enthusiastically introduced Trump to the crowd and voiced his full support for his presidential bid. But when Trump visited St. Augustine on Oct. 25, Curry was nowhere to be found.

Does he still support Trump? Does he support Trump’s assertion that he will only accept the results of the election if he wins? Does he condemn Trump’s comments in the Access Hollywood video that he can kiss women without their consent and grab them by their genitals because he is a celebrity? Does he think that it is OK to call Mexicans who came to this country “bad hombres”? Does he think it is OK to call a woman he disagrees with a “nasty woman”? Does he think that the 11 women who have stated that Trump inappropriately touched them are liars? We don’t know, as Mayor Curry has remained silent on these matters. Perhaps someone should ask him these questions and while they are at it, ask GOP nominee for Congress, John Rutherford, the same questions. Quite simply, while it is uncomfortable to talk about many of these questions, the people of Jacksonville deserve to know Curry’s and Rutherford’s position on these matters.

Terry D. Bork via email

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO WEST NASSAU HIGH SCHOOL WARRIOR BAND At a district competition on Oct. 15, the 87-member band scored nine trophies in categories ranging from Best in Class, Best Drum Majors in Class, Best Color Guard in Class and more, the Nassau County Record reports. Even better? They did it playing music from Fall Out Boy. John Philip Sousa is great but it’s nice to hear something fresh from a marching band, amiright? The Warriors’ next performance is Nov. 5 at Mandarin High School, where the musicians compete in the Florida Bandmasters Association competition against schools from Nassau and Duval Counties.

BRICKBATS TO FIRST CONSERVATIVE BAPTIST CHURCH In what some are calling a flagrant violation of laws prohibiting all 501(c)(3) organizations, including churches, from engaging in political campaign activity, last weekend the church’s sign said, “Nov. 8, 2016 Vote for the Constitution not Clinton!” This isn’t the first time FCBC’s signage has caused a stir: In 2015, the wording “Homosexuals must repent or go to hell” on the sign earned the church more than its share of (mostly negative) press.

BOUQUETS TO FIRST COAST YMCA On Tuesday, Nov. 8, all First Coast YMCA branches in Nassau, Clay, Duval and St. Johns counties will offer up to two hours of free childcare in YMCA Kid Zones for tykes ages 2 and older, so their parents can go vote. Hours of operation vary by branch and online reservations are required. Learn more at firstcoastymca.org/free-election-day-childcare.

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

CORRECTIONS The Oct. 26 story, “A Total Drag,” incorrectly stated that Peter Swanson had not received a tax reduction based on noise and that his home is 2.5 miles from Green Cove Dragway. He did receive a tax reduction; his home is 1.47 miles from the dragway.

The Sept. 21 story, “Riverkeeper Refuses to Float Away,” misstated that Taylor Engineering received a $20 million grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and failed to qualify the assertion that some perceived conflicts of interest with the environmental impact study. The company received a contract from the Corps in a competitive bid process.

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TOTAL METAL! THE ALUMINUM SHOW

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This story of one man’s voyage to a parallel universe — an advanced planet made entirely of aluminum, where a battle wages between good and evil, told through a multimedia blend of theater, dance and humor, The Aluminum Show is a high-octane 21st-century stage show that includes a healthy dose of audience interaction and participation. 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, Downtown, $16.50-$48.50; suitable for all ages, fscjartistseries.org.

OUR PICKS THE RHYTHM METHOD THE CHESTER THOMPSON TRIO

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Powerhouse drummer Chester Thompson has had the proverbial best seat in the house, behind the drum kit, for decades, laying down some fierce chops for the likes of Frank Zappa, Weather Report and Genesis, along with years of being an “on call” LA session player. Joined by pianist Joe Davidian and bassist Michael Rinne, The Chester Thompson Trio carries on the types of cerebral, telepathic improvisations pioneered by Bill Evans, while creating their own signature approach. 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 3, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, Arlington, $25; students free, arts.ju.edu.

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LOVE IN VEIN SURFER BLOOD

West Palm Beachbred rockers Surfer Blood first rode the crest of indie rock adulation with their ’08 tune “Swim,” a boss mix of melodic riffage that harked back to Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane” merged with tripped-out production. Since then, the band has released three full-lengths and scads of singles featuring their potent blend of indie, surf and lo-fi rock, toured with the Pixies, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, survived line-up changes and, on a much sadder note, said farewell to guitarist Thomas Fekete, who died from a rare form of cancer earlier this year. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 with The Best of Synthia, The Original Café Eleven, St. Augustine Beach, $12 advance; $14 door, originalcafe11.com.

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LITERARY CONFERENCE

The Florida Literary Arts Coalition (FLAC) hosts the 2016 Other Words Literary Conference, themed “Writing Funny: The Literary Art of Humor,” focusing on the intersection of comedy and literary writing. This year’s conference includes readings, discussions and workshops with authors Donald Morrill (pictured), Brandi George, Helen Pruitt Wallace, Michael Martone, Michelle Boisseau and more, discussions on a variety of humor-centered topics, a book fair and a reception. Thursday, Nov. 3-Saturday, Nov. 5, Flagler College, 74 King St. St. Augustine, $80; $50 FLAC members; $25 students; free for student FLAC members.

For a full schedule and to register, go to floridarts.org/other-wordsconference.

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HELLO, NEIGHBOR

PORCHFEST & THE SOUL PORCH PorchFest returns to Springfield, with 20-plus local acts playing on neighborhood porches as well as performances on the Ritz Theatre Stage at Henry J. Klutho Park, and the Soul Porch stage. Featured artists include Canary in the Coalmine, Whetherman, Mama Blue, The Lyricist Live with Mal Jones (pictured), Katie Grace Helow, Ruby Beach, Geexella, Mere Woodard Band, Willie Evans Jr., Kim Reteguiz & the Black Cat Bones, Paten Locke, Marcus Parsley Trio, T.W.A.N., Crazy Daysies, and others, plus food and drink. Noon-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, in various Springfield sites; details at jacksonvilleporchfest.org.

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS

THE MEDICAL

MARIJUANA MOMENT Will Amendment 2 PASS?

IN 2014, THERE WAS HOPE THAT AMENDMENT 2 would pass in Florida, allowing Sunshine State residents legal access to medical cannabis.

A poll from the University of North Florida had Amendment 2 as passing.

A UNF poll also had Charlie Crist getting elected governor in 2014.

In the end, neither came to pass. Rick Scott barely beat Charlie Crist (who had a virtually nonexistent campaign in Jacksonville) and won re-election.

And Amendment 2 likewise was a couple of points shy of the 60 percent threshold.

Current UNF polls show 73 percent support for Amendment 2. While that amount is down from the 77 percent of a few weeks ago, the measure pulls 60 percent support in every age group — even from Republicans.

Good news!

This time around, the effort is a little bit older and a little bit wiser.

Trial lawyer John Morgan, a major Democratic donor and the primary backer of the amendment both times out, is not all over the airwaves as the voice of the movement this time. And he isn’t travelling around and giving drunken speeches at bars.

Progress!

This time around, the opposition is a little more muted.

To be sure, some prominent Florida Republicans — such as state Sen. Jack Latvala from the Tampa area — have come out against the amendment, saying it’s a back door to legalize marijuana carte blanche.

This, despite the heavily restricted list of qualifying conditions, which include HIV/ AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, PTSD, epilepsy, ALS, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, and “other debilitating medical conditions of the same kind or class as or comparable to those enumerated.”

The committee against the amendment — Drug Free Florida — doesn’t have the same kind of fuel in the machine it had last time out, either.

Ambassador Mel Sembler, a big Jeb Bush backer in the distant past when he was looking to be the next president, has spent more than a million bucks to crush A2.

Also spending seven figures: casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, whose other good ideas have included bankrolling Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign. (What was he smoking that year? LOLZ) But seriously, Adelson and his wife also have a major presence in Israel, which is a global leader in medical marijuana research.

Unlike in the U.S., though, they haven’t done much to fight it there.

Another factor undermining the opposition: the utter botch job that was Tallahassee’s implementation of Charlotte’s Web legislation.

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Despite the fact that Charlotte’s Web has about as much THC as the hemp seeds you can buy at health food stores, it took the GOP legislature the better part of two years to even figure out which nurseries can cultivate it, and how they should distribute it.

Meanwhile, in cities like Jacksonville, the city council — shaken to its core by the prospect of seeming “pro-drug” — took the better part of that time hemming and hawing about where cultivation and distribution could happen.

If you’re the mother of a sick kid who needs this medicine, you might wonder why political posturing took precedence over getting medical treatment for your child.

But you shouldn’t wonder too long. This is, after all, America, where people go from cradle to grave having their thoughts and their rights dictated by multinational corporations and the politicians they rent.

Some of those pols, so I hear, have the Pfizer logo “tramp-stamped” inches above their coccyx.

If Amendment 2 passes — and yes, despite the polls, it is an IF — expect Jacksonville City Council to fasttrack a moratorium so it can have more zoning meetings to ensure that veterans with PTSD, cancer patients and people with multiple sclerosis have to wait up to six months until it figures out which of our half-empty strip malls and office parks are suitable to serve as distribution points.

That’s what small, non-intrusive government is all about, right?

It’s not just Jacksonville, of course. Cities throughout the state will have the same alarmist conversations, in which so-called small-government Republicans will beat their chests and bleat about public morality … which doesn’t seem to matter so much when their presidential candidate faces sexual assault allegations on the daily … but which does matter, intensely, when the prospect of someone benefiting from THC is brought up.

What really drives such fevered fulminations, however, is not a concern about public morality … but a realization that the world is changing.

The ’80s are over. Ronald Reagan has been laid to rest. And the reefer madness hysteria of the last century, which benefited the stockholders of the private prison industry much more than it did actual people, has been roundly discredited.

Amendment 2 will likely pass next week.

And it’s long past time that it do so.

Perhaps on the 2018 ballot, someone can push an amendment to decriminalize cannabis for everyone who needs it.

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

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Nico Findeisen

BUSINESS IS “CALL, CALL, CALL” AND “GO, GO, go,” says Grace, a 44-year-old single mother of three, who ferries customers for Uber in Fernandina Beach, where the popular rideshare service is making inroads with nonprofessional drivers seeking to earn money on their own schedule and residents and travelers needing a ride. This is a city without public transportation and with about 20 licensed cab drivers who may or may not be nearby, or in service, when it’s time to go out or return to the house or hotel. So, when the Uber mobile app reports to your cell phone that a driver is minutes from your location and available for reservation, there’s just one thing to do: tap ‘reserve.’

Grace, who asked that her last name be withheld, for privacy, became a driver for the ride-sharing service six weeks ago, and on Saturday night she handled three calls in her first hour behind the wheel. “It’s been really great,” said Grace, while talking with a passenger on the way to Publix Supermarket.

Like all Uber drivers, Grace uses her own vehicle, a red 2015 Nissan Altima, and says she answered the company’s “Drivers Wanted” ad for the money. “I could use some extra cash, so I thought, ‘Why not?’” she said. Grace says she likes Uber’s flexible hours and “exceptionally nice” customers. She drives several evenings each week, including Friday and Saturday, and estimated her weekly take-home pay is $150.

But the presence of Uber and drivers like Grace has local cab companies and drivers crying foul. According to local code, ridesharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, are not permitted to operate within the city of Fernandina Beach, though on any given day it is possible to summon a ride with an Uber driver within city limits. Local taxicab drivers and operators consider this an affront to their businesses, complaining that they must follow local regulations on licensing, insurance, background checks, and vehicle inspections and also are required to have company names and numbers posted on three sides of the vehicle in four-inch reflective lettering, while Uber is operating without these restrictions.

“They’re just merrily riding around, taking our business,” said Nico Findeisen, 73, who operates Heritage Transportation in Fernandina Beach. He estimates that his fares are down 40 percent since Uber arrived in the city about nine months ago.

With its easy-to-use cell phone app and network of everyman drivers, Uber has seamlessly inserted its ride-sharing

Local taxi companies ÜBER PEEVED by ridesharing app service into the transportation network of cities around the country, as well as some overseas. While the company is entrenched in Jacksonville, Uber is only now gaining traction in Fernandina Beach despite prohibitions.

Jeff Kurtz, who promotes business in the city’s downtown retail and restaurant district as the executive director of the city’s Florida Main Street Program, said that ride-sharing is a valuable transit option, especially for people who shouldn’t get behind the wheel after a night out. “There is definitely a demand for transit,” said Kurtz. “People need rides home.”

While the city has not officially embraced the share economy, it has not rejected it, either.

The city commission is scheduled to meet Nov. 15 to discuss the issue and local drivers say they will be in attendance.

Justin Carroll of Amelia Transportation Group says he fears the city commission will support a “Silicon Valley behemoth at the potential demise of locally owned and operated business.”

Uber spokesperson Javi Correoso rejects the idea that the city will show any favoritism to the company because, in his opinion, local rules do not apply to ride-sharing services.

“The regulations are for cabs and limos,” said Correoso, who works in Uber’s Miami office.

Still, he said, the company launched talks with local officials last spring in an effort to secure legal approval. “We hope the conversations we’ve been having lead to a regulatory framework for ride-sharing,” said Correoso.

On May 18, Uber lobbyists met with city leaders, including Mayor Johnny Miller and City Attorney Tammi Bach, and later presented a model ordinance for consideration, according to Bach, who provided Folio Weekly with a copy of the six-page document. Miller did not respond to several requests for comment, both in person and by email.

In the model ordinance, Uber calls itself a transit network company and not a “common carrier,” like taxis and limos, and recommends a $1,000 city permit fee. The company said in the document that it will conduct a national criminal background check on drivers and provide a $1 million liability insurance policy, though there are restrictions on when coverage applies, including being logged into the digital network and meeting conditions for a “pre-arranged ride.”

“Please take a look and let me know if you have any questions or concerns,” said Stephanie Smith, who works in Uber’s public policy office, in a June 6 email to Bach.

photo by Dennis Ho

HEAD H HE EAD DC COACH OACH OAC OA CH G GUS US B US BRADLEY RADL RA DLEY EY W WILL ILL LI ILL IL LLIKELY LIKE IKE KELY LY B BEE employed through the season, but it’s a different story for his staff. Bradley dismissed offensive coordinator Greg Olson over the weekend and promoted quarterbacks coach Nathaniel Hackett.

In a press conference, Bradley said there was no “final straw” moment with Olson, but believed necessary improvements wouldn’t be made under him.

The Jaguars’ performance during a nationally televised Thursday night game certainly couldn’t have helped.

The Jaguars lost to division rivals Tennessee Titans, 36-22, after falling behind 27-0 at the half.

Come the third score by the Titans, fans at Magnolia’s Pub were laughing. They weren’t Titans fans; no, they’d just passed the point of anger and were slowly drifting into apathy.

Hackett has experience as an offensive coordinator, having held the position with the Buffalo Bills during the 2013-’14 season. The Bills went 6-10 that year and finished last in their division.

Hackett, as quarterbacks coach, has been in charge of further developing Blake Bortles, who has shown awful regression this season.

Not a promising résumé, but it can’t be much worse than the exiting Olson’s. The Jaguars are last in third-down conversions, 31st in rushing, 25th in total offense and 13th in pass offense. Many of the offense’s positive stats have come in garbage time, when the chance for victory is near zero.

Olson’s statistics also don’t reflect play-calling that’s been heavily questioned and criticized by fans.

Whatever Hackett has in an ability to turn the offense around mid-season, many fans and experts believe it won’t be enough to save Bradley’s job.

After Thursday’s loss, Bradley drops to 14-41 as the Jaguars head coach. Hackett will be his third offensive coordinator hire in four seasons.

Some fans have vented that the staff changes, while necessary, have been a smokescreen to shield Bradley from the blame.

Bradley has become known for lacking discipline and not holding players responsible for their actions. The Jaguars have the third-most penalties this season, 65 through seven games, and have had two players ejected during games.

Yet after three-and-a-half seasons leading the team, Bradley still discusses “growth” and “learning opportunities” in post-game press conferences.

Change takes time and constant head coach turnover won’t help a franchise, but at 14-41, the Jaguars are past the rebuilding phase, miles past it.

In a playoffs-or-bust season, the team sits in last place in their division, with a 2-5 record. And the season won’t get any easier. The Jaguars have upcoming games against the Kansas City Chiefs, Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings; three teams that have a mere five losses, combined.

Many fans — at bars, at the stadium or on social media — have said this is their last year as a season ticketholder.

Players have become critical of fan frustrations and booing, but they haven’t been here, struggling, as long as we have. The Jaguars haven’t been to the playoffs since 2007, their last winning season.

To put that in perspective, there’s season ticketholders legally buying as much stadium beer as they can to drown their sorrows because their team hasn’t done anything to celebrate since they were in middle school.

The Jaguars are going to need a lot more than an offensive coordinator change to put out the dumpster fire.

Mark Judson mail@folioweekly.com @MarkfromJax Facebook/FolioWeeklyJagCity

Talks stalled over the summer, said Bach, because of a heavy workload. Bach said a major development review for a heavy manufacturing plant took priority. Also, a series of bad storms, including Tropical Storm Colin, Hurricane Hermine and Hurricane Matthew, interrupted business activity, she said.

While the conversation is picking up again, drivers say they have not been included in talks. “That’s another reason why we’re so mad,” said Findeisen, who is licensed to work in Nassau, Duval and St. Johns counties and approved by Homeland Security to pick up fares at Jacksonville International Airport.

There is expectation that state lawmakers will take action on the matter. Ride-share regulations are expected to be addressed in the 2017 legislative session, said Bach. Last year, the Florida House of Representatives approved a measure but it didn’t make it through the Senate.

Bach said the share economy is a complicated issue and she is studying agreements Uber has worked out with other communities, including Duval and Broward counties and the cities of Miami and Orlando.

In a phone interview Oct. 21, Bach said the city must work its way through new rules and regulations for ride-sharing services and while changes are being considered, Bach said, “right now we’re not permitting them.”

Nico Findeisen, 73, operator of Heritage Transportation in Fernandina Beach, estimates that his fares are down 40 percent since Uber arrived.

“THEY’RE JUST MERRILY RIDING AROUND, TAKING OUR BUSINESS.” Still, no one is asking Uber drivers to get off the road and, further, authorities have — for now — stopped issuing citations to Uber drivers. Bach and Fernandina Beach Police Chief James Hurley said they have installed the mobile app and can see activity on their cell phones. “I’ve even seen those black cars riding around here,” said Bach, referring to Uber’s luxury sedan and SUV service.

There may be an effort to keep things cordial. Officials did not say. But Uber is wellfunded and has been in court in other cities.

There is a lot at stake. As licensed commercial drivers focus on holding onto their businesses, Uber is also pursuing new business opportunities and taking aim at delivery services. Correoso, the media representative, said that in Tampa, several restaurants have signed on for the company’s takeout food delivery service UberEATS, and in Pinellas County, Uber and Lyft have partnered with the county’s public transportation agency to provide subsidized or free rides for seniors.

Undoubtedly, Uber is finding new ground to cover and sees an open road.

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he right to vote is one of the sacred tenets of a selfgoverned society; it’s how the people control their government. But here in Florida, 10 percent of adults are banned from casting a ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 8 due to a felon disenfranchisement law that is one of the strictest in the nation.

Disenfranchisement has a long history in Florida, dating back to the state’s first constitution in 1838, when people convicted of “bribery, perjury, or other high crime or misdemeanor” could lose the right to vote. Since then, the state has substantially tightened these restrictions to include all felonies which, coupled with the rise of “tough on crime” policies in the 1980s, has led to Florida becoming home to more disenfranchised voters than any other state.

According to the Sentencing Project, today one-quarter of all the people in America who have lost their right to vote under such laws live in Florida; of 6 million disenfranchised Americans, 1.5 million are here in the Sunshine State.

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Due to conviction rates, which skyrocketed under the purview of the Fourth Judicial Circuit’s outgoing State Attorney Angela Corey, Northeast Florida is likely home to more than its fair share of people who have no voice in government.

The State Attorney’s Office website boasts that since Corey took office in 2009, “the Fourth Judicial Circuit has consistently ranked in the top five across the state for convictions.” Before she took office, the website states, the circuit ranked 20th — last —in the state for convictions.

These laws have an alarmingly disproportionate impact on African Americans. The Sentencing Project reports that because of the law, 21 percent — more than one in five — of black people in Florida cannot vote.

Not only does Florida deprive people convicted of felonies within the state from voting and enjoying other rights, the state also revokes the rights of those convicted in other states who now live here, regardless of that state’s felon disenfranchisement law, if any.

Under the current law, some of these individuals will never get their voting rights back.

Florida’s felon disenfranchisement law is far from typical. The American Civil Liberties

Union reports that Florida, Kentucky and Iowa are the only states that permanently deprive all people with felony convictions of the ability to vote. According to the ACLU, only nine states ban people who have completed the terms of their sentences from voting. In two states, Vermont and Maine, no one is disenfranchised — even people in prison can vote.

Technically, it isn’t impossible to have your voting rights restored in Florida — for certain offenses, you may apply for clemency five years after completing your sentence; for others, such as violent crimes, you must wait seven years — but under Governor Rick Scott’s administration, the vast percentage of people who have applied for clemency have been denied.

One of Scott’s first acts upon taking office in 2011 was to repeal automatic restoration of rights that his predecessor, Charlie Crist, had enacted, which had resulted in 155,315 people getting their rights back while Crist was governor. Since then, the most recent data available from the Florida Commission on Offender Review shows that the Executive Clemency Board, which includes Scott and the three members of his cabinet, have restored rights to just 2,215 people.

It’s not that people aren’t applying. In FY2014-’15, 5,327 people applied for rights

restoration and the board completed review of 6,121 cases; of those, a paltry 562, or nine percent, had their rights reinstated, according to the commission’s 2015 report. Tampa Bay Times reported that just 237 people had voting rights restored in the first six months of this year. Miami-Herald reports there are “10,463 men and women on a growing waiting list as of August.

There is no process by which the board’s decisions are reviewed; the only alternative is to wait two years and apply again. Many have criticized the process by which the board restores rights as arbitrary; others simply believe it’s cruel and un-American.

Desmond Meade knows firsthand just how demoralizing this can be. Though in the years since he completed the conditions of his sentence, he’s received a law degree and has become a well-respected advocate for change, he still can’t vote. In addition to being unable to hold office and own, possess or use a firearm, under the felon disenfranchisement law, he also can’t take the bar exam.

“It can get a little frustrating because you’re living this thing every day, seeing other people be able to vote if they want to vote … in 47 other states, I’d be able to do it, but in this state I can’t,” he tells Folio Weekly in a telephone conversation.

“Everything that’s preventing me from voting is anti-democratic, it’s anti-democracy,” he later says.

In part due to his efforts as president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and chair of the committee backing a constitutional amendment to automatically restore rights to nonviolent felons who have completed all the terms of their sentences, in 2018 voters may have a chance to change the law. In September, the ballot initiative surpassed the required 68,314 signatures to trigger a Florida Supreme Court review of the amendment. If the court approves, Floridians may vote on the Voter Restoration Amendment in 2018.

Although this law disproportionately impacts African Americans like Meade, Floridians of all races, ages and genders are deprived of their right to vote under this law.

Here are just two of their stories.

DEVIN D. COLEMAN, 38, AUTHOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, WORKS FOR THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION NEW FLORIDA MAJORITY Do you have any family?

I’m a single father. My daughter is 7 years old.

Where are you from?

Jacksonville born and raised.

How did you lose your voting rights?

In 1999, it was a house party, a couple of my friends went to the house party, got into a physical altercation. As a result of it, in 2001, I took a felony conviction in a plea deal.

Did you have any prior record?

A misdemeanor for resisting arrest without violence — adjudication withheld.

Why did you ultimately decide to plead guilty?

At first I told [my attorney], I’m not pleading to no prison time, here I am, I’m in college, I don’t have any, like, major offenses prior to this. Up to that point I had never been in jail.

I had never did the county time. You gonna send me to prison, talk about culture shock.

I fought the case, maybe like 18 months.

The way he charged me, I was looking at a life sentence, so it was, like, I take the plea and have a shot at building my life versus losing everything. And I, the first time going

through that process, it was very intimidating, so I took the plea.

Where did it happen?

Tallahassee.

How old were you?

I might’ve just turned 21.

They were trying to give you a life sentence — were there serious injuries in the case?

They said two guys had injuries. And I think if I recall right, it said one was serious and one was medium. But when you look at the doctor bills, one doctor bill was like $500 and some dollars and the other was $400 and some. Like a guy had a scar on his face, a scratch, he was cut, but the serious injury would be more than $500, $900 combined. I’m not taking nothing away from what happened to them or that nature, but.

What was the sentence?

I ended up taking a plea of three years DOC, department of corrections, followed by 24 months of probation. The interesting thing is, I actually went to the portion of where you pick the jury and when I saw that developing, I wanted to take the plea. So they did a PSI, pre-sentence investigation, and my pre-sentence investigation came back favorably. On one part, they were, like, seven months county jail, two years house arrest, two years probation, which wouldn’t have stopped me from finishing my degree at that time but I remember the judge was, like, he had no alternative but to sentence me to the department of corrections.

What were you studying in college?

Economics.

Did you finish your degree?

Yeah, I finished at EWC (Edward Waters College) ’cause honestly I was afraid to go back to Tallahassee.

When were you released?

I was done with it all August 16, 2006.

Have your rights to vote been restored?

My voting rights was never restored. The crazy thing is, I got a voter card.

You do?

I got one. I got that in the mail then I got a letter saying I shouldn’t go vote because if I was to vote without getting my rights restored,

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I’m just getting screwed on it. I don’t understand it. If somebody in another state can vote in prison and they’re a felon and I can’t even vote now that I’ve paid my fines and am going to probation and doing everything I’m supposed to do and I still can’t vote. I didn’t even realize that in 2011 they made it more strict. — David Webb

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“It’s tough, it’s definitely an uphill battle. And I think the most challenging thing about it that we wrestle with is, it’s not a standard — it’s like a shot in the dark. Everything else has a standard, cars have standards, safety standards.” — Devin D. Coleman

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that would constitute another felony. I was like, man. This the thing, I’m not arguing the fact that a crime was committed, I’m not arguing the fact that I did the time but I wasn’t told I was going to lose my civil rights to citizenship as a result of it, especially after paying my debt to society. Now you’re telling me I can’t vote. That’s like a perpetual punishment.

When did you get that in the mail?

I’ve got a couple of them.

They send them to you regularly?

They haven’t in a while but I didn’t go down there to get it. [Laughs.]

What did you think when you got the voter registration card in the mail?

Insult to injury. Because I got a letter right after that sent to my granddad’s that told me not to go vote, so in my mind, I’m like, which one is it? Like baiting me in to recidivate.

If you had known the consequences, would you have chosen differently?

I’ll put it like this: Had I known the long-term effects of the system, not just on me, but on my family, I would’ve had a whole different

course of action. That’s why I do things like speak to youth now, because I want to give them options that was removed for me.

Have you voted before?

Yes. I was able to vote. I voted; I was able to vote. That was 2000 Bush and Gore, that was my first and only time ever voting.

You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to, but who did you vote for?

I voted for Gore.

How does it feel to be going through this election season, it’s in the news all the time, people talk about it all the time, how does it feel to be someone who can’t vote?

I’ll paint a picture for you. It’s different for me because I’m exposed to it, like, I work in that field, so when I hear about Souls to the Polls and Get Out the Vote and these events where you show your ticket, you can enter and all that, I can’t do that. So I’m constantly every day reminded that not only currently I can’t vote but I’m just seeing everybody else celebrate the right to vote and I’m getting ostracized from the state level and different events because I can’t show a, even if I wanted to, I can’t show an ‘I voted’ sticker. And on the flip side, it made me think about, you know, I looked at the turnout for Jacksonville in this primary and I was, like, wow, these people don’t even understand that it’s a long line of people that wish they could do something that you have an opportunity to do and in my opinion an obligation to do and vote.

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I’m undecided. I wish that whole process would have been different. What I’m more focused on and what affects me more is local politics. Like the governor affects my right to vote, city council affects my neighborhood, the school board affects the education my daughter receives. Presidents are important, but there are so many down ballot issues that affect my life.

Are you more engaged because of your history?

In college we had a culture of engagement.

I think my life experiences tied it close to home, like, you know, immediate impacts that people are unaware of until it affects

How would you feel if you go through the process and get your voting rights back?

It would be like a vindication, like heavyweight champ of the world, that’s what it would feel like, like winning the Super Bowl. Because of the statistics, it’s tough, it’s definitely an uphill battle. And I think the most challenging thing about it that we wrestle with is, it’s not a standard, it’s not a standard saying if you do this, this, this, you get your rights back — it’s like a shot in the dark. Everything else has a standard, cars have standards, safety standards.

I know you can reapply after two years, but even then you got to be a strong individual because you talk about, the

offense happened in ’99. I’ve been free of the system, that end of the system, the physical punishment end, since 2006. It’s 10 years later and after the application it’s no telling how many more years that I would have to wait.

In Florida, 23 percent of African-American males cannot vote due to these laws; 10 percent of all adults of voting age cannot vote due to these laws. What do you think about those statistics?

I want the leaders to actually like take a look at that stuff because it’s growing and it’s becoming more widespread. This is the Sunshine State, right, the Sunshine State and the sun’s not shining on everybody,

everybody can’t participate. And we’re talking post-conviction.

If you look at people who had their rights restored, their recidivism rate is lower than the ones who haven’t. So that’s an incentive for people to do right. We give incentives for everything else, we give incentives for raises, we give incentives for projects, incentives in schools. So we know a majority of these people are coming home, if they mess up, they’re going back. We know the financial burden it is on the taxpayers having people incarcerated because you’re juggling between

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“Once you get in the machine, the system, you understand a lot of this stuff is done for money ... When I had my first DUI, I got stuck in an HIV awareness class. IT WAS MANDATORY THAT I GO. I guess they had to get some people somewhere to fill the class, to keep the class going.”

— David Webb

them. We talk about this voting rights issue, people don’t know that in other states, people can vote. It’s a lack of information that people think it’s the norm — it’s not, it’s actually abnormal.

Have you applied to have your voting rights restored?

Me and a friend of mine, we’re going to apply together. We’re going to do the buddy system.

Do you know the statistics?

I do. I’m actually looking for a lawyer for it. It takes a lot of emotional fortitude to go through something like that. I’m literally not the person who I was that night of the incident, not even saying that was a bad person, that was a person that made a mistake, right? But age brought wisdom and maturity and it’s rather difficult at times to look at that stuff. I’m not eager to relive it but I’m eager to close the book on that and move forward.

When do you plan to apply?

If not the end of this year, Christmastime, the beginning of next year.

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Governor Scott has been leading the charge against restoration of rights. Under Governor Charlie Christ, there was automatic restoration of rights and 155,000 people had their rights restored; under Governor Jeb Bush, 76,000 people had their rights restored.

Under Rick Scott, it’s just 2,000 people who have had their rights restored in five years’ time. If you could say one thing to him about this, what would you say?

I would ask why. Why try to fix something that wasn’t broken?

The interesting thing about what you just said, you named three governors, you named three Republican governors. So this is not a Republican or Democrat issue. Another thing you said, 23 percent of African Americans, 10 percent across all voters, so it’s not just an African-American issue, now African Americans are affected by it at a higher rate, but this is affecting everybody.

So why not fix this now before it propels into something much larger?

DAVID WEBB, 55, BEEKEEPER, OWNS WEBB’S HONEY Do you have any family?

Divorced, two grown daughters. One of them

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haven’t. So that’s an incentive for people to do right.”

— Devin D. Coleman

works for me, other one’s married to a sailor up in North Carolina.

Where are you from?

I’ve been in Florida since ’83, originally from Arkansas.

Where do you live now?

Cocoa.

How did you lose your voting rights?

I had been over in Orlando and was coming back and there was an off-duty cop that followed me back across the 528. He said I was swerving; he called the police and the state troopers picked me up. I refused to blow because I would have blown over .04, that’s all I can blow because I’ve got a commercial driver’s license. I shouldn’t have been driving.

Did you have prior convictions?

I knew they were going to lay it to me because I had one five years before, another 15 years before.

Was anyone injured in any of your DUI cases?

No, no accidents involved or anything.

Do you have any other criminal record?

No. What was the sentence?

I have my driver’s license suspended for 10

years. They let me go to an inpatient rehab for 30 days in lieu of going to jail for 30 days.

I could have gotten six months in jail. I think the fine was like $1,500, probation for five years and a bunch of court costs.

Have you voted in the past?

I’ve voted in every presidential election and most of the local elections. The first time I voted, it was the second term of Bill Clinton’s governorship in Arkansas and we voted him out of office. When I was 18.

Party affiliation?

I’m registered as a Republican but I’m a Libertarian.

Who would you vote for this year?

Gary Johnson.

How does it feel to lose your voting rights?

Well, it’s, you know, I mean I’m just getting screwed on it. I don’t understand it. If somebody in another state can vote in prison and they’re a felon and I can’t even vote now that I’ve paid my fines and am going to probation and doing everything I’m supposed to do and I still can’t vote. I didn’t even realize that in 2011 they made it more strict. I probably didn’t realize it because it didn’t affect me. I don’t think that just because

somebody’s a felon, they should take away their voting rights.

It would be nice to be able to vote but I would rather be able to get my hunting rights back. It’s not just the voting.

Do you think it makes sense to take away someone’s right to vote?

Once you get in the machine, the system, you understand a lot of this stuff is done for money, for creating jobs for people and all this treatment and stuff you’re going to.

When I had my first DUI, I got stuck in an HIV awareness class. It was mandatory that I go. I guess they had to get some people somewhere to fill the class, to keep the class going.

When your five years are up, are you going to petition to get your voting rights back?

Yeah, I’ll definitely do that. I’m going to try to get off probation early. I’ve completed everything I’m supposed to do but I haven’t paid for my supervision. I’ll try to get off of probation and then the next thing would be to try to get my rights restored.

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hat do you get when you mix McDonald’s-inspired costumes, Black Sabbath covers, and tirades against the industrial commoditization of fast-food? Pretty much just one thing: Southern California-born novelty metal band Mac Sabbath. Risen from the secret underground of restaurant basements and flashing an outlandishly theatrical performance style replete with menacing clown figurines, inflatable cheeseburgers and demonic-looking ketchup and mustard bottles, Mac Sabbath satisfies a yearning for recognizable popculture tropes chopped and screwed for our ironic 21st-century age.

But the layers of meta-fiction surrounding Mac Sabbath run deep. The four band members — Ronald Osbourne, Slayer MacCheeze, Grimalice and Catburglar — remain hidden behind a cloak of animatronic anonymity. Band manager Mike Odd handles all press and publicity for the band, speaking of the members in mythic terms that mix performance art aesthetics and heavy metal flamboyance with Orwellian commentary on GMOs and Monsanto. “When you go see a Mac Sabbath, it’s super-fun,” Odd tells Folio Weekly. “It’s not heavy or preachy — you’re just watching a clown that’s having fun. But if you dig deep into the lyrics, which flip real Black Sabbath lyrics, it can get heavy. In that way, Mac Sabbath is kind of a two-fer.”

Folio Weekly: Where the hell did this crazy vision for Mac Sabbath come from?

Mike Odd: Crazy is the way to describe Ronald and his vision. I used to run this freak museum in East Hollywood called Rosemary’s Billygoat Oddatorium. And when you get involved in something like that, you really open yourself up to the weirdness of the world. After enough time, you can stop chasing it all you want, but it doesn’t matter — it starts chasing you. So I get this weird, anonymous phone call telling me to come down to this burger place in Chatsworth, California, and that it’s going to change my life. I thought I was going to see a hamburger bun with the Virgin Mary on it, but I go down there and this manic hurricane of a clown just buzzes in and starts spewing concepts all over everybody’s lunch, telling me my destiny is to manage this band Mac Sabbath. I thought I was on a hidden-camera show or something. Ronald said I was to come back again at 3 a.m., and when I came back and went down into the basement of this little turnkey restaurant, I saw these mutated fast-food mascots playing Black Sabbath songs and screaming about GMOs and Monsanto amongst freeze-dried

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It was like nothing that’s ever happened to … well, anyone … as far as I know!

Did Mac Sabbath already have a following at that point?

No, it was all a secret. They hadn’t done anything above-ground, and Ronald said, “You’re going to be the one to bring this above-ground.” They were all scared and weird about it, though. So I started booking them wherever — at an art show in Santa Monica, at the Long Beach Zombie Walk, at a Silver Lake elementary school’s Halloween festival. They were playing for kids, and this lady comes up to me and says, “Are you responsible for this?” I said, “I’m so sorry, should I shut it down?” And she said, “No, it’s amazing — you should do this more often at schools!”

Which might be the first time in history that someone advocated for kids to hear Black Sabbath songs.

That’s what’s so interesting: What Mac Sabbath does is so dark and heavy and metal, but at same time, there’s really nothing that’s not familyfriendly about it. It’s almost kinda cute. Ronald’s not into cussing or talking about inappropriate things, aside from the occasional subtle innuendo. He keeps it clean, like a clown should. But even

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UNREALITY my dealings with him are weird. He’s 100 percent in character, every time I’ve seen him. He’s a mystery — he still insists that he traveled through a time-space continuum from the 1970s to save us from the current state of music and food. So he has issues with anything technological: When I tried to talk about people holding up their phones during the show, he was confused. I could see his wheels turning thinking about people holding up rotary phones. [Laughs.]

Sounds like a challenging client for a manager.

It is difficult, because it’s my job to be the conduit between this and that, which isn’t always easy. But that’s Ronald’s whole vision — to try to get people to see what was happening before this Orwellian nightmare of governmentcontrolled brainwashing, mind control, food corporatization, Monsanto took over.

You’ve been playing hard rock and heavy metal for decades. What is it about Black Sabbath that still holds us in its sway?

I think that’s why Ronald picked me — I’ve always raved about Black Sabbath. Yes, they invented

heavy metal, but they were also hard rock, punk rock, gothic rock … everything us weirdos hold near and dear today. In 1970, when “Paranoid” came out, the spell that song cast with its tempo and structure …

It was the closest thing to modern punk rock you could find at that time. And Black Sabbath’s heavy, scary, spooky, off-putting side influenced everything spooky, scary, gothic and death-inspired to come. So I think they’re responsible for this whole counterculture movement, and sometimes we need to go back and explore it at its root more. There’s nothing scarier than fast food either!

Weird shit happens in Hollywood — have you seen any Mac Sabbath-inspired bands appearing?

I don’t know — there’s really nothing else like it. Ronald goes on and on and on about all these bands that are stealing the food out of his mouth, but I just tend to write it off with a lot of his other ramblings.

Although Burger King Diamond, Ronald’s nemesis, has started popping up in different cities, even making his way on stage during one Mac Sabbath performance. He even has a video now! So maybe Ronald was right.

Just when I think I have things figured out with this weirdness … [Laughs.]

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

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fter watching Dark Touch (2013), an unusual Irish horror film, I wanted to know more about its French director, Marina de Van, with whose work I was otherwise unfamiliar. Or so I thought.

It turns out I had seen her (as an actress) in a short, 52-minute film by young French director François Ozon, called See the Sea (1997), released theatrically with an even shorter Ozon feature (A Summer Dress, 15 minutes) made in 1996. See the Sea was a real shocker, telling the story of Sasha, a young mother living in a small coastal town with her baby. They cross paths with Tatiana, a young hippie-ish woman (played by de Van) who pitches her tent on their property. The film is infused with a sense of dread and foreboding more than fulfilled in its surprise conclusion.

With later films like 8 Women and Swimming Pool to his credit, Ozon has since become a major cinematic presence, but he began his career at the same time and at the same school of cinema studies as de Van, which explains their early teamwork. Her career, though, has proceeded more slowly, and today, she has only four feature films, several shorts, a few turns as actress and/or writer in other filmmaker’s projects to her credit.

De Van’s first major directorial effort, In My Skin (’02), set the emotional and visceral template for ensuing projects. She also wrote the screenplay, about a young woman (de Van) who, after accidentally slicing up her leg at a party, discovers a penchant for cutting herself and nibbling fragments of her own skin. Disturbing to the max, In My Skin is reminiscent of early David Cronenberg work — his absorption with bodily processes in Shivers, Rabid, The Fly, The Brood and Dead Ringers.

Whereas Cronenberg’s works were clearly horror films (though more graphic and sophisticated than most), de Van’s films defy such easy ranking. In My Skin traces its protagonist’s descent into madness and selfdestruction, and while cause-and-effect are not shown explicitly, it’s clear the filmmaker is touching on issues of gender roles and alienation. Despite its gruesomeness, In My Skin is plainly artistic exploration, not exploitation.

Don’t Look Back, released seven years on (’09), is de Van’s best so far. Elegantly filmed and directed, starring two of Europe’s most beautiful and talented actresses, Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, the screenplay (by de Van) is another intellectual, emotional mind-twister. An accomplished nonfiction author, Jeanne (Marceau) is intent on writing her first novel, based on her childhood and its maze of lost or distorted memories.

Discouraged by all (her publisher, her mother and her husband), Jeanne grows frustrated by degrees, markedly as things and people around her begin (quite literally) to take different forms and shapes. Fleeing Paris for Italy to find out who she is, Jeanne herself assumes another face (Bellucci) but with the same identity. Italy seems to hold the secrets

of the past, but again everyone and everything about her grow ever more fluid.

Both Jeannes seem haunted by the same young girl, even as their identities and spheres ebb and flow from one to the other.

The transition from one actress to another is strikingly effective — once, Jeanne transposed into half-Marceau, half-Bellucci. There is even a segment out of Alice in Wonderland as Bellucci, exploring her past, morphs into a tiny Alice among outsized furniture.

Don’t Look Back is far more than visual tricks and mind puzzles, though. Sometimes the plot is maddeningly oblique (for instance, why are Bellucci’s legs so hideously scarred and malformed at times?), the basic quest to uncover the past and its deliberately concealed secrets engages clearly and effectively.

Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci are both superb, a reflection of their very real talent and a tribute to de Van’s direction. Her plots may be bizarre, but the woman always brings out compelling performances.

The same is true in Dark Touch, de Van again as writer and director. Reminiscent of Carrie, but far darker and disturbing, the film focuses on Niamh, a 12-year-old girl (Missy Keating) who, after her parents and little brother suffer horrific deaths, goes to live with neighbors. Utilizing familiar horror tropes (she has kinetic powers), de Van explores issues of child abuse and its repercussions in ways even more disturbing than Stephen King’s seminal work.

Grim and unrelenting, Dark Touch is also intelligent and beautifully filmed, a thinking person’s horror film. We should expect nothing less from Marina de Van. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY The story of gentle redemption and acceptance screens 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at Unity Plaza, 220 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, 220-5830, free, unityplaza.org.

BEING MORTAL Brooks Rehabilitation College of Healthcare Sciences screens the Emmy-nominated documentary, about end-of-life issues, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at Jacksonville University’s Brooks Rehabilitation College of Healthcare, 2800 University Blvd. N., 407-6687, pbs. org. A panel discussion follows; free.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Miss Hokusai and Little Sister are currently running, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Doctor Strange starts Nov. 3. Gimme Danger and Do Not Resist start Nov. 4.

CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Indignation is currently showing. Dressed to Kill runs for Throwback Thursday at noon Nov. 3. Vita Activa runs Nov. 4-17. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

IMAX THEATER Inferno IMAX 2D, Deepwater Horizon, Robots 3D, America Wild: National Parks Adventure, A Beautiful Planet and Secret Ocean screen, World Golf Village, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

Doctor Strange starts Nov. 4. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them starts Nov. 17.

ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

THE ALUMINUM SHOW This story of one man’s incredible journey to a parallel universe — a futuristic planet made of aluminum, told through a multimedia blend of theater, dance and humor, is staged 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $16.50$48.50, fscjartistseries.org.

HAND TO GOD Players by the Sea stages Robert Askins’ darkly comic play, about the forces of good and evil battling in Texas, with sock puppets in the cast, 8 p.m. Nov. 4 & 5, 10-12, 17-19 and 2 p.m. Nov. 13, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $23, playersbythesea.org.

UNNECESSARY FARCE Orange Park Community Theatre stages this slapstick comedy, about the ins and outs of cops and crooks, 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5 and 3 p.m. Nov. 6 at 2900 Moody Ave., 276-2599, $18; $10 students; through Nov. 20, opct.org.

PARADE DASOTA students perform the musical Parade, which dramatizes the story of a 1913 trial which led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 3, 4 & 5 and 2 p.m. Nov. 6 on the Mainstage, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org.

THE GAME’S AFOOT (or HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS) The current popularity Sherlock Holmes is enjoying is further elevated with this holiday-tinged whodunit at 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., 396-4425, $25; $20 seniors, military, students; staged through Nov. 20, theatrejax.com.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents the raucous musical about a young woman who never misses her target; through Nov. 20. Dinner 6 p.m.; brunch noon; themed menu by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy; Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $35-$62 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

MACBETH Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre, celebrating 25 years of community theater, stages Shakespeare’s revered drama about the price of political ambition, 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5 and 2 p.m. Nov. 6, Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, abettheatre.com.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

AMELIA ISLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL The Amelia Island Jazz Festival — rescheduled due to Hurricane Matthew — returns with music by University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble directed by Dennis Marks, The Dynamic Les DeMerle Little Big Band with Bonnie Eisele, Trio Caliente, saxophonist Houston Person, and Bria Skonberg, along with jam sessions and a jazz brunch, Nov. 2-6, at various venues in Fernandina Beach. For a full schedule and ticket details, go to ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.

The CHESTER THOMPSON TRIO The trio, led by drummer Thompson (Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Genesis), performs 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $25, arts.ju.edu.

ELLA & LOUIS: THE LADY’S CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION The Jacksonville Symphony is joined by vocalists Byron Stripling and Marva Hicks in this concert honoring the duets of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Nov. 4, and 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Times-Union Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 354-5547, $20-$42, jaxsymphony.org.

JOHNANDREW SLOMINSKI Celebrated pianist Slominski performs 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com.

UNF PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Bang a gong! The UNF Percussion Ensemble performs at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.

JU PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE The Jacksonville University Percussion Ensemble performs a concert featuring works by Dave Mancini and Michael Olson, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at JU’s Terry Concert Hall, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.

FUOCO E CENERE Beaches Fine Arts Series presents eclectic music ensemble Fuoco E Cenere at 4 p.m. Nov. 6 at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 465 11th Ave. N., Jax Beach, beachesfinearts.org.

JU HONORS RECITAL The concert is featured at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.

COMEDY

DARREN KNIGHT Comedian Knight, considered the next star of redneck comedy (or as the French say, cou rouge comédie) is on 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2, The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $25, comedyzone.com.

J. ANTHONY BROWN Comedian Brown, a regular on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, is on at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 and 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $25-$30, comedyzone.com.

NOD ROSS Local funnyman Ross performs at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $10-$15, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

STEVE BROWN Comedian Brown, known for his highpitched voice and high-energy performance style, appears at 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, $15-$20, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

JOHNNY MAC & FRIENDS, DANNY NIBLOCK This evening of comedy features Mac (who’s opened for Elayne Boosler and Lily Tomlin) and headliner Niblock (a Comedy Zone regular) kicks off 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina, 277-3455, $10, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.

RICH GUZZI Comedian-hypnotist Guzzi, who blends adult humor and, uh, hypnosis, appears 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, 9 and 10, and 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Nov. 11 and 12 at The Comedy Zone, $12-$15, comedyzone.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

ABET ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre holds auditions for its January production of Celebration, 2 p.m. Nov. 4; details at abettheatre.com.

APEX THEATRE STUDIO ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS Alexis Black teaches a stage combat course, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Nov. 11; $35; limited to 12 students/class. Proceeds benefit the studio’s Grab The Mic fundraiser for stage production sound equipment at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall. Details/ register at apextheatrejax.com.

NEW TOWN URBAN FARM Urban Geoponics and New Town are developing a large community garden at Pearce and West Third streets, in the New Town/Edward Waters area, Northside. It will provide fresh produce and a hands-on, open-air center of learning for the community and area students. Urban Farm meets 10 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sun. Details, call Diallo-Sekou at 706-284-9808.

ART WALKS & MARKETS

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK The downtown art walk, held 5-9 p.m. Nov. 2 and themed Salute to Service, features live music venues and hotspots open after 9 p.m. spanning 15 blocks in Downtown Jacksonville. iloveartwalk.com.

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK The tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is 5-9 p.m. Nov. 4 and every first Fri., with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local, regional art, music – Sam Pacetti, Mama Blue and Monet School of Ballet 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 5 – under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. It Came from the Attic: The Lesesne House is currently on display.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. The talk “Women Artists: From the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism” is held 1:30-3 p.m. Nov. 8. Folk Couture: Fashion & Folk Art, works by 13 artists inspired by Folk Art Museum, displays through Jan. 1. Lift: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience, works of local artists Thony Aiuppy, Glendia Cooper, Ingrid Damiani, Overstreet Ducasse, Dustin Harewood, Marsha Hatcher, Hiromi Moneyhun, Princess Rashid, Chip Southworth, Roosevelt Watson III, through Feb. 12.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jax. html. An exhibit of photographic works by Will Dickey, staff photographer for The Florida Times-Union, is on display Nov. 2-Dec. 30.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Leaves: Recent Prints & Sculpture by Donald Martin is on display Nov. 5-Jan. 22. Retro-Spective: Analog Photography in a Digital World, contemporary photographers exploring 19thcentury photographic processes, displays through Jan. 8.

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM 1 World Golf Pl., St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfhalloffame.org. Grace & Grit – Women Champions Through the Years is on display.

GALLERIES

THE ART CENTER GALLERY Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. The Little Rembrandts Show, artwork by kids in grades K-8, is on display through Dec. 2.

Ron Piscopo is the featured artist.

BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com. The exhibit Fusion, featuring a contemporary collaborative of art glass and photography, is on display Nov. 4-29.

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

Auditory-themed exhibit Sound, displays through Nov. 22. The museum presents Sound artist Matt Roberts in an artist talk, 6 p.m. Nov. 3 at Flagler College’s Gamache-Koger Theater, in Ringhaver Student Center, 50 Sevilla St. On Nov. 4, Roberts and poet Terri Witek introduce their digital poetry project, Dream Garden, 6 p.m. and singer, composer and multiinstrumentalist Robin Rütenberg (Insel) performs at 7 p.m.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Splashes of a Colorful Life, abstract works by Dottie Dorion, and Shadows, turned wood works by Ed Malesky, are on display through Nov. 11.

DEERWOOD CENTER CAMPUS FSCJ 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., 997-2500, fscj.edu. Donald Martin: Leaves of Grass, inspired by Whitman’s poem, displays through Dec. 1.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Watercolorist Sandra Baker Hinton’s Coastal Colors is on display through Jan. 4.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com. Jason John: Crossing the Threshold of Self displays.

GALLERY 1037 Reddi-Arts, 1037 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville, 398-3161, jacksonvilleartistsguild.org. The Jacksonville Artists Guild (JAG) presents the opening reception for Les Quatre Amis, featuring works by Princess Rashid, Annelies Dykgraaf, Cookie Davis and Marsha Hatcher, 2-4 p.m. Nov. 6. The exhibit displays through December.

HUBLEY GALLERY 804 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 429-9769. Mary Hubley’s Toescape displays. Marie Vernon and Judy Weber of the Day McKelvey Mystery Series sign copies of their new book, BODY SHOP 5-9 p.m. Nov. 4.

KENT CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., 6462300, fscj.edu. An exhibit of abstract paintings by Virginia Cantore and furniture by Peter Blunt displays through Nov. 14.

MAGNOLIA’S PUB 1190 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 240-1574, magnoliaspub.com. Portrait art by Kevin Arthur is featured during November.

MONROE GALLERIES 40 W. Monroe St., Downtown, 881-0209, monroegalleries.com. The photography of Amanda Rosenblatt and UNF photo club and live music by Stank Sauce are featured 5-9 p.m. Nov. 2. Works by Jami Childers, Barbie Workman, Amber Angeloni, Zara Harriz, Amber Bailey and First Coast Plein Air Painters are displayed.

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FOLIO A+E : ARTS Donald Martin’s artwork contains multitudes of NATURE-BORN introspection and revelations

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plant life. The detail and intensity push it to the point of saturation, where it betrays its place in nature. Martin’s skills peak creating these kinds of complex “self-creating abstractions” from foliage.

“I want every square inch of the piece to be interesting.

If you were an ant crawling across the surface, every square inch should have a focus and complexity to it,” he explains.

“All of the interweaving that occurs as a plant tries to compete with another plant, as it moves toward light … there are these processes that make it intertwine and interlock in complex and interesting ways.”

The greater relationship is something Martin describes as his “link between the everyday and the eternal,” where he sees immediacy, constant change, in life and direction and the change of everything. “It also gives us insight to things, which are, from a human perspective, eternal: the giant processes of nature and time — the larger, bigger picture.”

Martin, like Whitman, seems ready to share a view that nature, void of humanity, celebrates its own sense of the sacred; undisturbed, unmoved and indifferent to our presence.

It’s a contemplative place that welcomes the humanist and believer alike, unconcerned with our devotions.

“Nature isn’t religious,” says Martin. “But if there is a God, it’s nature. I guess I’m kind of a pantheist.

Nature is where I see whatever ‘God is.’”

Martin’s engaging blend of the real world and unreal perspectives comes, in no small part, from his attraction to solitude. “I love just sitting for hours in quiet. To me, that’s a really enjoyable part of the process.” Martin offers that just one relief print can take a month to finish. “But I don’t find it tedious. It makes me feel good to sit for hours and carve out the idea.

I find it really relaxing and meditative. It would make most people crazy,” he laughs. “I like it.”

Martin’s work reminds us how nature is simultaneously graceful and resolute. And how mankind is not. Our accomplishments are matched accordingly with our manifested horrors. As Whitman noted, “Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

Whitman acknowledged war in Leaves of Grass, as well as the then-nascent technological age. What would the grand wizard of American think of today’s standard interior journey, as we stand as a herd, looking at our smart phones? There is the not-uncommon absurdity of standing in the woods, scrolling through images of nature on a four-inch screen, looking for Wi-Fi in the Garden of Eden. Technology, for all of its immediate possibilities at connecting us through communications, seizes us into tunnel vision, pulling us away from the sacrosanct calling to wander deep within nature. Our betterment robs us of our origins.

“Technology, for all of its benefits, will never have the complexity of nature,” says Martin. “Or the capacity of continuous interest that nature freely gives us.”

Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com

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image courtesy Donald Martin

alt Whitman is many things to many people.

A humanist drawn to deism who spoke of God, the 19th-century poet, essayist and journalist is considered the father of free verse poetry, and was acknowledged by the Beat writers as a literary archangel. Whitman’s magnum opus, 1855’s Leaves of Grass, remains an epic body of work that’s such a part of modern day art, its radicalism is often overlooked.

Within its pages lies a revelry of the self, adoration of the bucolic realm, a kind of preternatural patriotism tempered by humor and grace, a then-defiantly joy of sexuality and the body that terrified the parochial attitudes of the day, and a travelogue through the exterior realm that ignites the interior.

Grasses #1, 2015. Linoleum block print, 24 x 24 inches.

A half-century after Whitman’s death, Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi coined a term that certainly applies: a “cosmonaut of inner space.” In part, Trocchi, an unabashed heroin addict, meant the term to encompass those who dare stand in the blinding light of existentialism, as well as challenge their central nervous systems with drugs, prying open the and even alchemical signifiers, create a gates of heaven on Earth. Judging by the rolling narrative inside Whitman’s narrative. passions and ineffable cadences contained “It’s a visual narrative rather than a literal within Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s narcotic was narrative. So it’s not something I put into the very universe itself. words,” explains Martin. “It’s a purely visual thing: You see something and it relates to Donald Martin is an acolyte and aesthetic something and you don’t try to explain it to descendant of Walt Whitman’s, and no yourself. You just go with it.” stranger to the poet’s binding, if not magical, The impetus for the Leaves of Grass series vision of nature, mankind and our place came to Martin while he was on a retreat in within that realm. An established presence North Carolina, living in a cabin deep in the on the Northeast Florida art scene, Martin light and shadow of nature. “Each morning, I is a multimedia artist adept at printmaking, would get up and I’d read a little bit of Leaves painting, drawing, sculpture, murals and book of Grass, and then I’d go for a walk. And I’d arts. His work has been featured in more than just collect stuff that I’d find.” Martin would two dozen group and solo exhibitions and return to the studio at the end of his walk, have is featured in collections as divergent as The Stetson Kennedy Foundation and the Florida breakfast, and dump out everything he’d picked House of Representatives. Martin is also a longtime professor of art at Flagler College, DONALD MARTIN: LEAVES OF GRASS where he teaches specializes in printmaking FSCJ’s Deerwood Center Campus, fscj.edu. and illustration.

The exhibit displays through Dec. 1.

Currently on display at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Deerwood Center LEAVES: RECENT PRINTS & SCULPTURE BY DONALD MARTIN Campus, Donald Martin: Leaves of Grass uses The UNF Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art the heralded poet’s verse as a kind of malleable Jacksonville, Downtown, mocajacksonville. canvas. Martin’s upcoming exhibit at UNF unf.edu. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Nov. 10.

Gallery at MOCA, Leaves: Recent Prints & The exhibit displays Nov. 5-Jan. 22.

Sculpture by Donald Martin, features 27 pieces, some of which touch on the Whitman influence.

“Whitman is a kindred spirit. He’s someone who up along the way. “I would make a print, one sees the spirit of nature and the spirit of nature in a day, from whatever I collected that day,” says humans,” Martin tells Folio Weekly. “He sees us Martin. “Just living alone in the woods and as a part of nature and not as a separate. I related creating art was a beautiful process. I started to that and also the beauty of his language. With very intuitively without any direction in mind, the kind of imagery he uses, it’s so easy to slip but it took on a direction of its own.” right into that.”

In the MOCA show, the linoleum block The 11 monoprints of Leaves of Grass, with pieces Grasses and Palm Leaves (resurrection), their merger of text taken from Whitman’s with the foliage of leaves and blades moving work, anachronistic images touching on latetoward and away from the viewer, conjure 19th-century to early-20th-century photos, a hyper-inspection and intimate aspect of

ARTS + EVENTS MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, monyarowegallery.com. Tropic Apparition, new works by painter Amy Lincoln, are on display through Dec. 18.

NASSAU COUNTY LIBRARY 25 N. Fourth St., Fernandina, 277-7365, nassaureads.com. The Art of the Japanese Print, from the Christine and Paul Meehan Collection, is on display through Dec. 30.

PLUM GALLERY 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. New works by painter Sara Pedigo and assemblage artist Barbara J. Cornett display through February.

ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. The Betty Griffin Center: A Day Without Violence exhibit is featured through Jan. 26.

SO GALLERY The DeLO, 420 Broad St., Downtown, 9015515, sublimeoriginal.com. The opening reception for Life is Beautiful: An Exhibition of Works by Linda Broadfoot, Jim Draper, Thomas Hager, Chris Leidy and Steven Lyon, is held 6-9 p.m. Nov. 4. The exhibit displays through Jan. 9.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com. Anna ReynoldsPatterson and S.J. Lane are the featured artists; the works of 18 collaborative members are also featured, 4-8 p.m. Nov. 2.

STELLERS GALLERY 240 A1A N., Ste. 13, Ponte Vedra, 273-6065, stellersgallery.com. An exhibit of recent works by Jim Draper, Henry Von Genk III and Thomas Hager is on display.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. The exhibit Florida Forever! is on display Nov. 4-Dec. 31.

THRASHER-HORNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, thcenter.org. New works by David Ouellette and Jennifer Tallerico are on display through Dec. 14.

UNF NORTH GALLERY OF ART Founders Hall, Bldg. 2, Room 1001, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2534, unf.edu/gallery. The Pre[Serve] Juried Exhibition is on display through Nov. 18.

EVENTS

OTHER WORDS LITERARY CONFERENCE The Florida Literary Arts Coalition (FLAC) hosts the Other Words Literary Conference, featuring the theme of “Writing Funny: The Literary Art of Humor,” focusing on the intersection of comedy and literary writing, and includes readings by featured authors Donald Morrill, Brandi George, Helen Pruitt Wallace, Michael Martone, and Michelle Boisseau, discussions on a variety of humorcentered topics, writing workshops, book fair, and reception, Nov. 3-5 at Flagler College, 74 King St., St. Augustine, $80; $50 FLAC members; $25 students; free for student FLAC members. For a full schedule and to register, go to floridarts.org/other-words-conference.

JCA JEWISH BOOK FESTIVALThe annual festival, featuring discussions and book-signings with Jonathan Rabb, Ina Pinkney, Jennifer S. Brown, Claudia Kalb and Josh Aronson, continues Nov. 3-10 at 8505 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin. For complete schedule, go to jcajax.org/bookfest.

HUNGER FIGHT THANKSGIVING OUTREACH EVENT Hunger Fight presents its third annual Thanksgiving Outreach, where participants pack meals and foodstuffs for children and families deemed food-insecure and hungry in our local communities, 8-10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Nov. 5 at Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St., Downtown, 630-4000; register at hungerfight.org.

TEDxFSCJ: ENGAGE Produced by TED and Florida State College at Jacksonville students, the daylong event “Engage,” hoping to challenge folks to engage with ideas, social issues and different local Jacksonville communities, features talks by Ranna Abduljawad, Allishia Bauman, Jen Deane, Jessica Gregory, Rebecca Levy, Marquiese Mervin, Emily Michael, Travis Pinckney and Jared Rypkema, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 5 at FSCJ’s Downtown Campus, 101 State St., tedxfscj.com.

BOOK SIGNING IN SAN MARCO Amelia Island author J.R. Sharp discusses and signs copies of his debut historical novel Feeding the Enemy, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 5 at San Marco Bookstore, 1971 San Marco Blvd., 396-7597, sanmarcobookstore.com.

NAVY VS. NOTRE DAME The United States Navy Midshipmen football team takes on Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 5 at EverBank Field, Downtown, 633-6100, $55-$345, ticketmaster.com.

SEA & SKY SPECTACULAR Look to the skies! The U.S. Navy Blue Angels join other military and civilian flight teams in a free over-the-ocean sky show. There’s excitement on the ground as well with displays of aircraft and military vehicles and simulators, and autograph sessions with the performers in a street festival that includes entertainment. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 5 and 6, oceanfront Jax Beach.

PIRATE PARTY FUNDRAISER The Propeller Club of the United States presents its sixth annual fundraiser, with food, open bar, auctions and treasure, costume contest and DJ, 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at FOP Lodge 17, 2302 Sawgrass Rd., Jax Beach, $85; proceeds benefit Safe Harbor Maritime Academy/Boys Home, propclubjax.com.

NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH The Main Library presents a workshop on how to begin and continue your novel, noon-1 p.m. and 4:30-5:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the library’s Jax Makerspace, first floor, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org.

OUT IN THE WORKFORCE The University of North Florida LGBT Resource Center presents a panel discussion with LGBTQ professionals, who delve into the unique experiences of LGBTQ people within the workplace, 6:30-8 p.m. Nov. 9, Rm. 1111, Bldg. 58E, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-4720, unf.edu/lgbtrc. _____________________________________________

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FOLIO A+E : MUSIC Rapper NF BARES HIS SOUL by treating music as one big Therapy Session (Yes, he’s a Christian, too)

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Yet NF is most definitely not a Christian ince its beginnings as an art form, hiprapper. Every interview he’s granted eventually hop has served as the ultimate outlet comes around to the C question, and every for frustrated youth. While the South time, Feuerstein delivers a variation of the same Bronx burned in the 1970s, Kool Herc, Afrika answer: “If I build houses and I’m a builder, Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash threw block do I only build houses for those who only parties to preach positivity. As suburban sprawl believe in God?” No matter the message (or its in the 1980s turned California’s inner cities into religious construct), NF’s skills are nevertheless gang-riddled war zones, MCs like Too Short, indisputable. On “Grindin’,” he builds himself Ice Cube and Dr. Dre transformed the gangsta up to a primal roar, savaging the complacency lifestyle into a booming brand. And in the early of B-list rappers, while chest-rattling beats ’90s, fed up with the small-scale hustle of life on “Real” only strengthen NF’s jaw-dropping in Staten Island housing projects, the RZA and breakneck rhymes. But it’s hard to imagine eight of his closest friends built a road map to a 25-year-old revealing so many of his international success with the sprawling Wushortcomings — so many confrontations with Tang Clan collective. doubt, sin, anger and fear — as NF does on Now, hip-hop critics will turn blue in “Therapy Session,” running through a laundry the face swearing it’s all a ruse — senseless list of reasons why music is the only thing violence, rampant misogyny and the keeping him sane, successful and standing. glorification of drug culture can’t qualify Maybe that’s why the wider hip-hop as artistic excellence, right? But in today’s community isn’t sure what to do with him yet, multifaceted rap world, a million different even though his album Therapy Session topped MCs exist on a million different points on the iTunes hip-hop chart and nearly cracked the spectrum. And yet most of them are still the Billboard Top 10 the same week that doing the same thing: rapping about the Prince died and Beyoncé released Lemonade. shit they have to deal with on the regular “It’s awesome,” he told Idolator.com in May. just to get it off their chests. That’s Nathan “What’s encouraging to me is I have a fan Feuerstein’s MO — it’s just that the rapper base that’s, like, ‘We want to support Nate. We known as NF is particularly adept at pouring want to support this music.’ I don’t think you his heart out. can predict it, but I’m very happy to see it. It His most recent album (and current tour) is called Therapy Session, and where previous shows your fans really care about you.” full-length Mansion took a subtly veiled look The established rap game’s notoriously at the inside of NF’s mind, Therapy Session parsimonious critics? Not so much — at least is laser-focused in its slashing reflection on not yet. Yes, you can write NF off as a nichelife’s miseries. “How Could You Leave Us” driven Christian rapper. And it’s easy to laugh might be the most devastating song in the when he talks effusively about his love for Ed hip-hop canon. It will rip your heart out from Sheeran and his desire to collaborate with its very first words, as Feuerstein reflects on Twenty One Pilots. But it’s hard to ignore a his mother’s fatal overdose in 2009: “I don’t guy when his songs turn up in Empire trailers, know what it’s like to be addicted to pills/ ESPN highlight reels and the 2016 version But I do know what it’s like to be a witness to of the most popular video-game franchise kills/Mama told me she in the world, Madden loved me, I’m thinking this NFL. You can’t dismiss a NF with FLEURIE couldn’t be real/I think of string of sold-out club and 8 p.m. Nov. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert you every time I get a whiff theater dates, along with Hall, $22-$27, pvconcerthall.com of that cigarette smell.” It the endless string of rave takes only a minute for NF’s reviews accompanying delivery to red line, his mix of despair, anger them. And when do you witness his ferocious and strength impossible to turn away from. energy live, as I did when I randomly stumbled on his afternoon set at ACL Festival in Austin Raised rough in rural Michigan and raging last month, you will no longer be able to resist against his own personal machine, it’s easy the magnetic force field of his raw talent. to call NF — spitfire voice, hyper-detailed “I feel like it’s just starting,” NF told Idolator. narrative, zeal for shit-talking — Eminem com about the slow growth of the wider hip2.0. (Yes, Feuerstein, like Marshall Mathers, hop community’s acceptance. “I feel like my is white. But in this diverse day and age of name is being brought up in conversations, but Internet-fueled intersectionality, does that hip-hop is a very respect-oriented thing. You even matter?) What makes NF the diametric earn respect or you get to a certain level and opposite of Eminem is that the 25-year-old then people start respecting you, or an artist upstart, unlike the 44-year-old icon, is openly who’s already respected kind of puts their arm Christian. He’s signed to Capitol Records’ around you and [is] like, ‘Yo, you need to check Christian imprint. His use of foul language out NF.’ I’m still on the grind.” is next to nil. And you won’t find many Nick McGregor mentions of rap’s holy trinity of licentiousness mail@folioweekly.com (sex, drugs and money) in his songs.

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Theatrical Swedish metal dudes GHOST (pictured) perform with POPESTAR Nov. 4 at The Florida Theatre, Downtown.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Nov. 2, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247.

JON STICKLEY TRIO, LEISURE CHIEF, AFROBETA 8 p.m.

Nov. 2, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown.

NARROW/ARROW, CAVE PAINT, SEA CYCLES, LANNDS 9 p.m. Nov. 2, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside.

BLACKJACK BILLY 8 p.m. Nov. 2, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, 510 Fairgrounds Place, Downtown, free with fair admission, jacksonvillefair.com.

LOCASH COWBOYS 6 p.m. Nov. 3, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $15-$20.

WHETHERMAN, FJORD EXPLORER 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $10.

BILAL 8 p.m. Nov. 3, The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, $35-$40.

MAC SABBATH, COUGHIN 8 p.m. Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $15 advance; $20 day of.

NF, FLEURIE 8 p.m. Nov. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $22 advance (SRO); $27 day of.

LORD ALMIGHTY, MO’YNOQ, QUEEF HUFFER, SATURNINE 8 p.m. Nov. 3, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222, $5.

SURFER BLOOD, THE BEST OF SYNTHIA 8:30 p.m. Nov. 3, The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $12 advance; $14 at the door.

MANNEQUIN PUSSY, BLACK DRUM, THE COSMIC GROOVE 8:30 p.m. Nov. 3, Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188.

CHRIS JANSON 8 p.m. Nov. 3, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, free with fair admission.

3 THE BAND 9 p.m. Nov. 3, Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680.

Sing Out for St. Augustine Benefit: RAMONA QUIMBY, PAPERCUTT, TRIO OF BOOM, JON BAILEY ENSEMBLE, MUSICAL CHARIS, CHELSEA SADDLER & AMY HENDRICKSON 3 p.m. Nov. 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard Party, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367.

BIG SMO 7 p.m. Nov. 4, Mavericks Live, $15-$20.

CANARY IN THE COALMINE 7 p.m. Nov. 4, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, $25; $20 members.

INSEL (ROBIN RÜTENBERG) 7 p.m. Nov. 4, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530.

RADOSLAV LORKOVIK, ANDREW HARDIN 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 4, Mudville Music Room, $10.

DJ ABILITIES, E TURN, SIMPCO, AO THE HEMP 8 p.m.

Nov. 4, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969, $10 advance; $12 day of.

CROWFLY, EMMA MOSELEY BAND & JOHNNY GREENLIGHT 8 p.m. Nov. 4, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of.

GHOST, POPESTAR 8 p.m. Nov. 4, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $30.75-$37.75.

TOM BENNETT BAND 9 p.m. Nov. 4, Mardi Gras Sports Bar, 123 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 823-8806.

DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY 9:30 p.m. Nov. 4, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208.

CLAYTON ANDERSON, EASTON CORBIN 7 & 8 p.m.

Nov. 4, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, free with fair admission.

Riverside Arts Market: SAM PACETTI, MAMA BLUE, MONET SCHOOL OF BALLET 10:30 a.m. Nov. 5, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449.

Porchfest & The Soul Porch: CANARY IN THE COALMINE, WHETHERMAN, MAMA BLUE, THE LYRICIST LIVE WITH MAL JONES, KATIE GRACE HELOW, RUBY BEACH, GEEXELLA, MERE WOODARD BAND, WILLIE EVANS JR., KIM RETEGUIZ & THE BLACK CAT BONES, PATEN LOCKE, MARCUS PARSLEY TRIO, T.W.A.N., CRAZY DAYSIES, others Noon-9 p.m. Nov. 5, various Springfield locations; details at jacksonvilleporchfest.org.

ZZ TOP, GOODBYE JUNE 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $54-$94.

WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, SWORDZ, SPEAKING CURSIVE 8 p.m. Nov. 5, Jack Rabbits, $10.

BLAIR CRIMMINS & THE HOOKERS, BEAU & THE BURNERS 8:30 p.m. Nov. 5, The Original Café Eleven, $12 advance; $15 day of.

BYRDFREE 9 p.m. Nov. 5, Mardi Gras Sports Bar. FAT CACTUS 9:30 p.m. Nov. 5, Whiskey Jax. BRANCH & DEAN 6 p.m. Nov. 5, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, free with fair admission.

THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, CASSIDY LEE, IVAN PULLEY 8 p.m. Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits, $15.

THE GATHERING 2 & 7 p.m. Nov. 6, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, free with fair admission.

FLYNT FLOSSY, TURQUOISE JEEP, LIMA CHARLIE 8 p.m.

Nov. 7, Jack Rabbits, $15.

TRENT HARMON 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, free with fair admission.

THE INTERRUPTERS, BAD COP BAD COP, CHIEFORIA, MY HEART FOR FEAR, REACH FOR THE SKY 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $13 day of.

LITTLE RIVER BAND 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, free with fair admission.

TOOTS & the MAYTALS 7 p.m. Nov. 9, Mavericks Live, $22.

RUSHMOREFL, KID YOU NOT, THE MOCK TOXINS, CHUCK DOUGHTY 8 p.m. Nov. 9, Shanghai Nobby’s.

DOOMSTRESS, LA-A 8 p.m. Nov. 9, Shantytown Pub. CRAIG CAMPBELL 8 p.m. Nov. 9, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair, free with fair admission.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

CARCASS, DEAFHEAVEN, INTER ARMA Nov. 10, 1904 Music Hall EVANESCENCE, SICK PUPPIES Nov. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre RAELYNN Nov. 10, Greater Jacksonville Fair THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BLEAK, MINDFIELD, CONSEQUENCE Nov. 11, Rain Dogs THE DARRELL WEBB BAND Nov. 11, Café Eleven

ALL BOY/ALL GIRL Nov. 11, Planet Sarbez FOGHAT Nov. 11, Greater Jacksonville Fair ODD SQUAD LIVE! Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Nov. 12, Mavericks Live CHRIS YOUNG, DUSTIN LYNCH, CASSADEE POPE Nov. 12, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Lincolnville Porch Fest: CHELSEA SADDLER, TELEPATHIC LINES, RIVERNECKS, THE WOBBLY TOMS, GHOST TROPIC, AMY HENDRICKSON, SAND FLEAS, ROBBIE DAMMIT & THE BROKEN STRINGS, NESTA, RAMONA QUIMBY, KYLE WAGONER, EARLY DISCLAIMERS, LONESOME BERT & THE SKINNY LIZARDS, KENSLEY STEWART, THE WILLOWWACKS, ASLYN & THE NAYSAYERS Nov. 12, St. Augustine TRACY MORGAN Nov. 12, Thrasher-Horne Center LEE GREENWOOD, INSIPIENT Nov. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WAR Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DJ ERIC LEFFLER Nov. 13, Greater Jacksonville Fair MITSKI Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits THIEVERY CORPORATION, TAUK Nov. 15, Mavericks Live ERIC JOHNSON Nov. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ETANA Nov. 16, Mavericks Live DAVISSON BROTHERS BAND Nov. 17, Café Eleven GALACTIC, THE HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Nov. 18, Times-Union Center SAVION GLOVER Nov. 18, The Florida Theatre YELLOWCARD, DRYJACKET Nov. 18, Mavericks Live WVRM Fest 4: YOUNG AND IN THE WAY, CULTURE KILLER, SHROUD EATER, HEXXUS, SPACE CADAVER, 25 more Nov. 18 & 19, 1904 Music Hall Swamp Radio: KATHERINE ARCHER, DUFFY BISHOP, UNNAMED TRIO Nov. 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WONDER YEARS, REAL FRIENDS Nov. 19, Mavericks Live NELLIE McCAY Nov. 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ENTER THE HAGGIS Nov. 20, Café Eleven MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Nov. 21, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts An Evening with DAVID CROSBY Nov. 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEVE VAI Nov. 23, The Florida Theatre FANTASIA, GUORDAN BANKS, LA’PORSHA RENAE Nov. 25, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts AARON TILL Nov. 26, Mudville Music Room OWEL, THE SOIL & THE SUN Nov. 27, 1904 Music Hall KENNY G Nov. 28, The Florida Theatre QUEENSRYCHE, ARMORED SAINT Nov. 29, Mavericks Live DREAM THEATER Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre JIMMIE VAUGHAN Nov. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PERPETUAL GROOVE Nov. 30, Mavericks Live CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Dec. 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOYZ TO MEN Dec. 1, Thrasher-Horne Center PATRICK BARTLEY Dec. 1, Ritz Theatre DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS, VALERIE SIMPSON, KENNY LATIMORE, JONATHAN BUTLER Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre Winter Formal: THE 1975, PHANTOGRAM, SILVERSUN PICKUPS, GLASS ANIMALS, COIN Dec. 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre

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photo by Ashley Earles-Bennett

Indie singer-songwriter INSEL (aka ROBIN RÜTENBERG) performs Nov. 4 at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College, St. Augustine.

THE STANLEY CLARKE BAND Dec. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SARA EVANS Dec. 2, The Florida Theatre SAM PACETTI Dec. 2, Mudville Music Room TONY JOE WHITE, MERE WOODARD Dec. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ROCK ’N’ ROLL HOLIDAY SHOW Dec. 3, The Florida Theatre TRAVIS TRITT Dec. 4, The Florida Theatre NIYKEE HEATON Dec. 4, Mavericks Live TAYLOR HICKS Dec. 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 8, Mudville Music Room Elio’s Quartet: ELIO PIEDRA, LIVAN MESA, YUNIOR ARRONTE, YORGIS GOIRICELAYA Dec. 10, Ritz Theatre CHRIS LANE Dec. 10, Mavericks Live A Peter White Christmas: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, The Florida Theatre

THE OAK RIDGE BOYS Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre EDWIN McCAIN Dec. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 15, Veterans Memorial Arena GRIFFIN HOUSE Dec. 18, Café Eleven JACKIE EVANCHO Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre DONNA THE BUFFALO, BUTCH TRUCKS & THE FREIGHT TRAIN BAND Dec. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SHEN YUN 2017 Jan. 3 & 4, Times-Union Center MICHAEL BOLTON Jan. 11, The Florida Theatre DAMIEN ESCOBAR Jan. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall WIMPY RUTHERFORD & THE CRYPTICS Jan. 13, Shanghai Nobby’s HENRY ROLLINS Jan. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LOS LOBOS Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PINK MARTINI Jan. 17, The Florida Theatre

Winter Jam: CROWDER, BRITT NICOLE, TENTH AVENUE NORTH, ANDY MINEO, COLTON DIXON, THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH, NEWSONG, OBB, SARAH REEVES, STEVEN MALCOLM Jan. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena MIKE DOUGHTY Jan. 18, Jack Rabbits JEANNE ROBERTSON Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre ELVIS LIVES Jan. 24, Times-Union Center GLADYS KNIGHT Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 27, The Florida Theatre J BOOG, JEMERE MORGAN Jan. 27, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LEON RUSSELL Jan. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall KENNY ROGERS, LINDA DAVIS Jan. 28, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Performing Arts THE BEACH BOYS Jan. 28, The Florida Theatre VOCALOSITY Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre CHRISTIE DASHIELL Feb. 2, Ritz Theatre ARLO GUTHRIE Feb. 2, The Florida Theatre TOM RUSH Feb. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PAT METHENY, ANTONIO SANCHEZ, LINDA OH, GWILYM SIMCOCK Feb. 3, The Florida Theatre SARA WATKINS Feb. 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOSTON POPS ESPLANDE ORCHESTRA Feb. 4, TimesUnion Center for the Performing Arts GAELIC STORM Feb. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE Feb. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TAJ MAHAL Feb. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE BABES Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall UNDER THE STREETLAMP Feb. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall AL DI MEOLA Feb. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ANDY McKEE Feb. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THREE DOG NIGHT, AMERICA Feb. 16, The Florida Theatre THE PAUL THORN BAND Feb. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE PIANO GUYS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre TOBYMAC, MATT MAHER, MANDISA, MAC POWELL, CAPITAL KINGS, RYAN STEVENSON, HOLLYN Feb. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena TRAE CROWDER, COREY RYAN FORESTER, DREW MORGAN Feb. 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Feb. 19, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOE BONAMASSA Feb. 22, The Florida Theatre MINDI ABAIR Feb. 23, Ritz Theatre MANHATTAN TRANSFER, TAKE 6 Feb. 23, Florida Theatre FOREIGNER, KANSAS Feb. 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ELIZABETH COOK, DALE WATSON Feb. 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall OLD 97’s, BOTTLE ROCKETS Feb. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DENNIS DeYOUNG, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre AGENT ORANGE, GUTTERMOUTH, THE QUEERS, THE ATOM AGE Feb. 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard Party TAJ EXPRESS Feb. 28, Times-Union Center MARC COHN March 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE WEIGHT, members of The Band March 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LUCINDA WILLIAMS March 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SPYRO GYRA March 5, The Florida Theatre KODO March 11, The Florida Theatre CLINT BLACK March 12, The Florida Theatre THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND March 16, The Florida Theatre GET THE LED OUT March 17, The Florida Theatre ADAM SAVAGE, PILOBOLUS SHADOWLAND March 21, The Florida Theatre I Love The ’90s Tour: VANILLA ICE, NAUGHTY by NATURE, SUGAR RAY’S MARK McGRATH, BIZ MARKIE, ALL-4-ONE, YOUNG MC March 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHEYENNE JACKSON March 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall 1964: The TRIBUTE March 25, St. Augustine Amphitheatre AIR SUPPLY March 26, The Florida Theatre JIM BRICKMAN March 31, The Florida Theatre RICK THOMAS April 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ANA POPOVIC April 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra April 7, The Florida Theatre ANDRAE MURCHINSON April 8, Ritz Theatre BUDDY GUY, THE RIDES (Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Barry Goldberg) April 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHRIS BOTTI April 18, The Florida Theatre MJ LIVE! April 20-23, Times-Union Center TOWER OF POWER April 22, The Florida Theatre ERIC CHURCH May 5, Veterans Memorial Arena BASTILLE May 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TIM McGRAW & FAITH HILL Sept. 16, Veterans Memorial Arena DELFEAYO MARSALIS Sept. 29, Riverside Fine Arts Series

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA ALLEY CAT BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Nov. 2. John Springer every Thur. Brian Ernst every Fri. LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. Nov. 2. Tad Jennings Nov. 3.

Savannah Bassett, Josh McGowan Nov. 4. Tad Jennings, Davis Turner Nov. 5. Dan Voll Nov. 7. Mark O’Quinn Nov. 8

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC Reggae legends TOOTS & the MAYTALS perform Nov. 9 at Mavericks Live, Downtown.

SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Yancy Clegg Nov. 2. Reggie Catfi sh Lee Nov. 3. Black Jack Band every Fri.

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores 8 p.m. every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music 9 p.m. every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. every Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Live music every Thur.-Sat.

THE BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Billy Bowers Nov. 2. Live music most weekends BLUE WATER ISLAND GRILL, 205 First St. N., 249-0083 Live music every weekend BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Dan “Shifty Gears” Raymond, Joe Oliff Nov. 2 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. Nov. 3. Live music 10 p.m.

Nov. 4 & 5. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. Nov. 6. Live music every weekend GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Murray Goff every Fri. Under the Bus every Sat. Gene Nordan 6 p.m. every Sun. HARBOR TAVERN, 160 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 246-2555 Concrete Criminals, Walk with Wolves Nov. 5 LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Ivey League 10 p.m. Nov. 4. The Daygoes 10 p.m. Nov. 5. Split Tone every Thur. Chillula every Fri. Be Easy every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Bonnie Blue 9 p.m. Nov. 3. Live music every weekend MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Pat Rose Nov. 2. Permission Nov. 3. Little Mike & the Tornadoes Nov. 4. {arty Cartel Nov. 5. Live music every Wed.-Sun. SOUTHERN GROUNDS & CO., 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Nov. 11 ZETA BREWING, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Live music every Thur.-Sat.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.

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

DOWNTOWN

MANDARIN

ENZA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Nov. 2 & 9 IGGY’S SEAFOOD SHACK, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101, 209-5209 DJ Greg every Wed.

ORANGE PARK + MIDDLEBURG

DEE’S MUSIC BAR, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 375-2240 Stayne Thee Angel, lowercase g, Fallen Empire 8 p.m. Nov. 4. DJ Daddy-O every Tue. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 DJ Big Mike 8 p.m. Nov. 3. Tyler Denning Band 10 p.m. Nov. 5. Live music every weekend SHARK CLUB, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline Nov. 2

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Jon Stickley Trio, Leisure Chief, Afrobeta 8 p.m. Nov. 2 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Nov. 4 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon every Thur. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall every Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S IRISH PUB, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Nov. 2. Austin Park 9 p.m. Nov. 4.

Rathkeltair 9 p.m. Nov. 5. Live music every Fri. & Sat. HOURGLASS Pub, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 Catcher in the Rye, No Self, Denied Til Death Nov. 5. Cardinal Slinky, Mr. Never & the Scars Nov. 8 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 353-1188 In Season Trio 5 p.m., Radio Love 7 p.m. Nov. 2. Radio Love 1 p.m., Hard to Handle 8 p.m. Nov. 4. In Season Trio 3 p.m., Austin Park Band 8 p.m. Nov. 5. Robert Brown Jr. The Confluent 4 p.m. Nov. 6 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Johnnyswim 6 p.m. Nov. 2. LoCash Cowboys 6 p.m. Nov. 3. Big Smo 7 p.m. Nov. 4. Toots & the Maytals 7 p.m. Nov. 9. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 DJs Lady Miaou, Booty Boo, Cry Havoc, Some Dude 9 p.m. Glitz Wed. Q45, live music Wed. EDM every Thur. Eric Rush every Fri. DJ IBay Sat. Bangarang & Crunchay Sun. THE VOLSTEAD, 115 W. Adams St., 414-3171 Go Get Gone 9 p.m. Nov. 2

ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Crowfly, Bloodbath & Beyond, Born in June, Twitzed Psycho 10 p.m. Nov. 5 BRIXX, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928 Live music Thur. & Fri. HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 10, 513-4272 Live music every Fri. LIMES LIVE, 11265 S. Lane Ave., 444-2709 Hawthorne Heights, Convictions, In Her Own Words 7 p.m. Oct. 13 MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Freddy Rosario 7 p.m. Nov. 5 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Narrow/Arrow, Cave Paint, Sea Cycles, Lannds 9 p.m. Nov. 2. Car Bomb, Cult Leader Nov. 8 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 DJ Abilities, E Turn, Simpco, AO the Hemp 8 p.m. Nov. 4 UNITY PLAZA, 220 Riverside Ave., 220-5830 Live music most every weekend

FLEMING ISLAND

ST. AUGUSTINE

MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Live music most weekends WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Live music every Thur.-Sun.

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162.

Open mic every Tue. Live music most weekends

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JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Party Cartel 10 p.m. Nov. 4

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music most weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Gary Starling Jazz Band Nov. 2. Cortnie Frazier 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4. Javier Naranjo Nov. 5. White Hot Champagne Nov. 9

RIVERSIDE + WESTSIDE

CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Tony Scozzaro, The Committee Nov. 4. Gary Douglas Campbell, The Committee Nov. 5. Vinny Jacobs Nov. 6 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Tom Bennett Band 9 p.m. Nov. 4. Byrdfree 9 p.m. Nov. 5. Fre Gordon open mic Nov. 6. DJ Rob St. John every Wed. THE ORIGINAL CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Surfer Blood, The Best of

Synthia 8:30 p.m. Nov. 3. Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, Beau & The Burners 8:30 p.m. Nov. 5 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Mannequin Pussy, Black Drum, The Cosmic Groove 8:30 p.m. Nov. 3. Rushmorefl, Kid You Not, The Mock Toxins, Chuck Doughty 8 p.m. Nov. 9 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Blistur 9 p.m. Nov. 4 & 5. Jim Carrick, Wilson Hunter Band every Wed. JP Driver every Thur. Elizabeth Roth every Sat. Keith Godwin & the Rio Grande Band every Sun. Mark Hart, DVB every Mon. Mark Hart, Those Guys every Tue. Live music every night

SAN MARCO

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Mac Sabbath, Coughin 8 p.m. Nov. 3. Crowfly, Emma Moseley Band & Johnny Greenlight 8 p.m. Nov. 4. Whole Wheat Bread, Swordz, Speaking Cursive 8 p.m. Nov. 5. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Cassidy Lee, Ivan Pulley 8 p.m. Nov. 6. Flynt Flossy, Turquoise Jeep, Lima Charlie 8 p.m. Nov. 7. The Interrupters, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Chieforia, My Heart For Fear, Reach for the Sky 7 p.m. Nov. 8 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Whetherman, Fjord Explorer 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3. Radoslav Lorkovik, Andrew Hardin 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4

SOUTHSIDE + BAYMEADOWS

GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620 Tavernalive 6 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Charlie Walker 8 p.m. Nov. 3. DiCarlo Thompson 8 p.m. Nov. 5 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Don’t Call Me Shirley 9:30 p.m. Nov. 4. Fat Cactus 9:30 p.m. Nov. 5. Melissa Smith open mic every Thur. Blues jam every Sun. Country jam every Wed.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

THE BIRDHOUSE, 1827 N. Pearl St., 634-7523 Live music most weekends THE HEADLAMP, 818 Clay St. Live music every Fri. & Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 15170 Max Leggett Parkway, 757-8843 Live music most every weekend SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Live music every Fri.-Sun. SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Lord Almighty, Mo’ynoq, Queef Huffer, Saturnine 8 p.m. Nov. 3.

Doomstress, LA-A 8 p.m. Nov. 9

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FOLIO DINING Locally-conscious, fresh and natural, and epicurean quality are the order of the day at The Hash House in Jax Beach. photo by Dennis Ho

AMELIA ISLAND FERNANDINA BEACH

29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaur ant.com. Historic downtown bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tu-Sa; D M.-Sa; R Sa BEACH DINER, 2006 S. Eighth St., 310-3750, beachdiner. com. Innovative breakfast: Eggs on the Bayou, fish-n-grits; French toast, riders, omelets. Lunch fare: salads, burgers, sandwiches, shrimp & crabmeat salad. $ K TO B R L Da ily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com.

F In historic building, family-owned café has worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh greens, veggies, seafood. Dine inside or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub next door has beer brewed onsite, imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chez lezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap .com. F Nearly 40 years, family-owned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L D Daily DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, amelia islanddavids.com. Steaks, fresh seafood, rack of lamb and ribeye, Chilean sea bass, in an upscale atmosphere. Chef Wesley Cox has a new lounge menu. $$$$ FB D Nightly DICK’S Wings & Grill, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 310-6945. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

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

Inside or porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily La MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LECHONERA EL COQUÍ, 232 N. Second St., 432-7545. New Puerto Rican place. Chulleta kan kan (pork chops), Tripletta churosco sandwich, more. $ FB TO L D Tu-Su MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic Northernstyle pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie/slice. Calzones, salads. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED Café, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar,

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ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL NOTES BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch

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

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in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa The PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro. com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s menu of global fare uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su The PECAN ROLL Bakery, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. F By historic district. Sweet/ savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads; from scratch. $ K TO B L W-Su POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabeth pointelodge.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining, open to public. Dine in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, salads, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

2nd-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Oceanfront.

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

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

ARLINGTON + REGENCY

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

LARRY’S GIANT Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802.

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

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BAYMEADOWS

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

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

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

NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. The WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/

DINING DIRECTORY

BEACHES (Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, als pizza.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. NY-style gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. 28+ years. All day HH M-Thu. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S Subs, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S Grom Subs, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. Subs made with fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea.

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

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

Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su The HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644, thelovingcup hashhouse.com. New place offers locally sourced fare, locally roasted coffees, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian dishes – no GMOs or hormones. $ K TO B R L Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

thischickskitchen.com. Farm-to-table restaurant serving healthful, locally sourced clean meals. Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian options. $$ TO L D W-Sa V PIZZA, 528 First St. N., 853-6633, vpizza.com. Traditional Neapolitana artisan pizza from Naples – Italy, not Florida, made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 125, 446-3119, akelsdeli.com. F NYC-style deli. Fresh subs, sandwiches, burgers, gyros, wraps, vegetarian, breakfast, signature dressings. $ K TO B L M-F CANDY APPLE CAFÉ & COCKTAILS, 400 N. Hogan, 353-9717, thecandyapplecafeandcocktails.com. Chef-driven Southern/ French cuisine, sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L Daily; D Tu-Sa CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Chef Sam Hamidi serves Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere; fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-andtan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303, indochine jax.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Thai, Southeast Asian cuisine.

Signature dishes: chicken Satay, soft shell crab; mango, sticky rice dessert. $$ FB TO L D M-F; D Tu-Sa OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa URBAN GRIND COFFEE COMPANY, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 866-395-3954, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels, cream cheeses. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F. URBAN Grind Express, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet.

Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

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

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

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

GRILL ME!

ROSE SARKEES

The Players Grille

4456 Hendricks Ave., San Marco Born in: Detroit, Michigan Years in the Biz: 17 Fave Restaurant: Capitol Grille, (other than my own) St. Johns Town Center

Fave Cuisine Style: Good old American Fave Ingredients: Homemade spices, sauces and cheeses Ideal Meal: Bone-in filet, baked potato, broccoli and chardonnay Will Not Cross My Lips: Anchovies Insider's Secret: My soup is so good, men call for the soup and not me!

Celeb Sighting (at my place): Jaguars & Emmitt Smith!

Taste Treat: Sanders cream puff hot fudge MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers. com. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine in or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 1585 Third St. N., 458-1390. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. POE’S Tavern, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637, poestavern. com. Gastropub, 50+ beers, burgers, fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 30+ years, iconic seafood place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefoodshack.com. Specialty items, tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444, seachasers.com.

New place; four areas: First Street Bar, Music Room, Beach Bar, Dining Room. Daily HH. In or on patio. $$ FB L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE & OYSTER BAR, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches.

Brunch Sun. $$ FB K L Sa/Su; D Nightly SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop. Yankee-style steak sandwiches, hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily THIS CHICK’S KITCHEN, 353 Sixth Ave. S., 778-5404,

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INTRACOASTAL WEST

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

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

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

MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS

AKEL’S DELI, 12926 Gr +nbay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN.

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

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

Winner. SEE BEACHES.

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

Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd.,739-7070. New spot serves local produce, meats, breads, seafood. $ TO B L Daily

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bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa TEQUILAS, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. New Mexican place has casa-style dishes made with fresh, spicy hot ingredients. Vegetarian option.

Top-shelf tequilas, drink specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub. Craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, street fare tacos, signature plates, whiskey. HH. $$ FB L D F-Su; D Nightly

Feel LIKE FAMILY at Simply Sara’s

HOME SIMPLY SARA’S IS THE EPITOME OF A LOCAL family-owned spot. The restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, has beautiful lighting — natural light streams through the two large windows.

Most restaurants don’t have the kind of light that would make Ina Garten collapse onto a bed of her homegrown spinach, but Simply Sara’s does!

According to the owners, the restaurant is never open without a family member present, and they aren’t talking just about the wall of family photos – there’s a real homestyle ambience.

We stopped in for lunch and were delighted with the simply delicious menu. We started off with eggplant fries ($8.99) because – hello!? – eggplant is best consumed fried. The vegetable, in long, thin sticks piled high in a basket, was light and crispy without being over-fried. The accompanying side of housemade chipotle ranch sauce was perfect for dipping. This dish was totally addictive; between the two of us, the whole order disappeared like David Blaine was in the house.

If you’re in the need of a serious burger fix, then Simply Sara’s has got you covered. But the mahi mahi sandwich ($11) was singing my name, so I heeded the call. The fish was topped with housemade tartar sauce and lettuce. When it comes to prefab v. housemade, it makes a huge difference with sauce – not that the fish needed it – because an upgraded sauce can really elevate a dish. The grilled mahi mahi was cooked exquisitely: hot, fresh and juicy.

The sandwich includes a choice from several side options, like potato or pasta salad; I went with the refreshing cucumber/tomato salad dressed in a sweet mustardy vinaigrette.

Like any good homestyle restaurant, Sara’s features a half-sandwich and cup of soup ($11.99) combo. We tried a turkey bacon club with a cup of

BITE-SIZED

SIMPLY SARA’S

2902 Corinthian Ave., Ortega, 387-1000, simplysaras.net loaded potato soup. The turkey club, while a little skimpy, had slices of turkey that reminded me of the kind of sandwiches you’d make from a big Thanksgiving turkey that had been roasting in the oven all day. And the soup was a cheesy, creamy delight. It was so thick and rich, the spoon was almost able to stand up on its own.

Now for the best part: dessert. I told you this was a family spot and Simply Sara’s is known for its fabulous baked goods; the reputation is welldeserved. The baked goods will make you feel like you’re sitting in your grandmother’s kitchen (or whichever relative is a confectionary maven). The blueberry cobbler ($6) was our pick; we got it à la mode, which means with a scoop of ice cream ($2 extra).

There was also buttermilk pound cake ($5), and we paused so long trying to make a decision, our server suggested we get both …

I’m not ashamed to say we did. I’m a little biased, because I’m the cobbler queen, but the blueberry cobbler was my favorite. Its crunchy top and gooey blueberry filling coerced me into eating it all.

The homey feel and fare will make you feel so good about Simply Sara’s, you may even decide to call your mom and thank her for all the dinners she made.

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DINING DIRECTORY PINT-SIZED

BEERSPERIENCE

TOURISM

The ultimate BREW-CATION awaits just steps away

IT’S NO SECRET THAT THE CRAFT BEER INDUSTRY is growing by leaps and bounds. To put the incredible growth into perspective, in 1983, there were 14 craft breweries in the entire United States.

Today, there are more than 4,000 dotting the landscape of the nation in towns large and small.

To bring it even closer to home, Northeast Florida is home to 19 breweries and brewpubs, with at least five more in the planning stages. And that number does not take into account secondary locations like Engine 15’s production brewery and taproom on Myrtle Avenue on the edge of Downtown and Bold City’s Downtown taproom, to open later this year.

The Brewers Association, a craft beer industry advocate group, estimates that in 2014, more than 10 million people toured craft breweries. These beer pilgrims descend on areas replete with breweries, filling local hotels and dining at local restaurants. Millions upon millions of dollars are being pumped into local economies all because of the booming craft beer movement.

In 2015, the Brewers Association’s threeday Great American Beer Festival generated the equivalent of 2 percent of Denver’s GDP, accounting for $28.6 million.

This expanding travel trend has the attention of travel industry bigwigs like Travelocity. In a survey of 1,003 people, Travelocity found that more than three-quarters of the people said they’d like to go on a trip and visit craft breweries and sample local beer.

Further, the Brewers Association commissioned a Nielsen Omnibus panel in June that asked how many craft breweries people had visited while traveling in the previous 12 months. The answer: On average, travelers visited 2.1 breweries. That means travelers — likely both for pleasure and business — are contributing to the economies of cities with vibrant craft brewing scenes.

Here in Jacksonville, the local tourism board, Visit Jacksonville, promotes many area breweries through the Jax Ale Trail. Visitors and locals who want to get a well-rounded look at the regional beer scene can pick up a passport at any of the eight participating breweries or the board’s Downtown office. For each brewery visited, guests get a stamp with a beer purchase on their passport. When all eight stamps are collected, the passport can be returned to Visit Jacksonville for a commemorative T-shirt.

The Jax Brew Bus is another fun and popular way to visit local breweries. For a reasonable fee, you board a bus with up to 13 other beer-lovers for a four-and-a-half to five-hour trip visiting three of Jacksonville’s craft breweries. Trips depart Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons and whisk guests to a rotating list of breweries. At each brewery, guests are treated to a sampling of beers and a tour of the facilities.

Toss into the mix a number of outstanding beer festivals like the Jacksonville Craft & Import Beer Festival, Brew at the Zoo and Riverside Craft Beer Fest and you have the makings of a true ‘Beercation’ right here in the River City.

Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com ______________________________________

PINT-SIZED

Get more info about Jax Ale Trail and Visit Jacksonville at visitjacksonville.com/jax-ale-trail. Get details about Jax Brew Bus at jacksonvillebrewbus.com.

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METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods.

Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural organic beer/wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE FLEMING ISLAND.

V PIZZA, 12601 San Jose Blvd., 647-9424. SEE SAN MARCO. WHOLE FOODS MARKET, 10601 San Jose, Ste. 22, 288-1100, wholefoodsmarket.com. Prepared-food department, 80+ items, full-service/self-service bars: hot, salad, soup, dessert. Pizza, sushi, sandwich stations. Grapes, Hops & Grinds bar serves wines, beers (craft/tap), coffees. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily

ORANGE PARK

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. NASCARthemed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings, plus halfpound burgers, ribs, salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com.

Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 2767370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt, 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over the area, Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers and quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily THE URBAN BEAN COFFEEHOUSE CAFÉ, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com. Locally-owned-&operated. Coffee, espresso, smoothies, teas. Omelets, bagels, paninis, flatbread, hummus, salads, desserts. $$ K TO B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

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

At Riverside's Chomp Chomp you'll find street-inspired food with a gourmet twist.

SEE BEACHES.

BEACH DINER, 880 A1A N., Ste. 2, 273-6545. SEE AMELIA. LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE O.PARK. METRO DINER, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2016

photo by Dennis Ho

Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

TRASCA & CO. EATERY, 155 Tourside Dr., Ste. 1500, 395-3989, trascaandco.com. Handcrafted Italian-inspired sandwiches, craft beers (many locals), craft coffees. $$ BW TO L R D Daily

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

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

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

BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Daily specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfive points.com. F Local craft beers, espresso, coffees, wine.

Rotating drafts, 75+ can craft beers, tea. Waffles, toasts, desserts, coffees. $$ BW K B L Daily; late nite Tu-Sa BRIXX WOOD FIRED PIZZA, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928, brixxpizza.com. New place offers pizzas, pastas, soups. Glutenfree options. Daily specials, buy-one-get-one pizzas 10 p.m.-close. $$ FB K TO L D Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com.

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

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

Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Brunch Sa/Su; B, L D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, 513-4272, hobnob withus.com. Unity Plaza. Global inspiration, local intention – ahi poke tuna, jumbo lump crab tacos. $$ FB TO R L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Authentic Italian cuisine, like wood-fired pizzas, pasta made daily onsite, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot; made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, breakfast. $ TO B L M-Sa KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617. Locally owned, family-run shop specializing in made-from-scratch creations – classic pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tu-Su LARRY’S SUBS, 1509 Margaret, 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LITTLE JOE’S Café, 245 Riverside Ave., Ste. 195, 791-3336.

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

of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND.

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

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

ST. AUGUSTINE

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

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

Winner. SEE BEACHES.

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

THE FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients sourced from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free option. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GAS FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT, 9 Anastasia Blvd., Ste. C, 217-0326. Changing menu items are fresh, local, homemade.

Casual fare: meatloaf, veggie/traditional burgers, seafood, steaks; seasonal, daily specials, made-from-scratch desserts. $$ BW K TO L D Tu-Sa GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F Local mainstay 33+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken.

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

O’LOUGHLIN PUB, 6975 A1A S., 429-9715. New familyowned-and-operated. Authentic fish & chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage, bangers & mash, duck wings. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256.

SEE BEACHES.

METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Serving dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188. Cubanstyle, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. $$ FB

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

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

BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com.

F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally.

250+ wine list. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco, 398-9500. SEE RIVERSIDE.

FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsush ijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE DOWNTOWN.

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

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

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

SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running, 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus.

Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su THE CHATTY CRAB, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 888-0639, chattycrab.com. Chef Dana Pollard’s raw oysters, Nawlins low country boil, po’ boys, 50¢ wing specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

EUROPEAN Street Café, 5500 Beach, 398-1717. SEE RIVERSIDE. GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 106, 503-0620, greekstreetcafe.com. Fresh, authentic, modern; Greek owners. Gyros, spanakopita, dolmades, falafel, salads, nachos. Award-winning wines. $$ BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499.

4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-6126596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. SEE BEACHES. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte.com.

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

Greek wines, daily HH. Bellydancing. $$ FB K TO L D Daily

DINING DIRECTORY

TOSSGREEN, 4375 Southside, Ste. 12, 619-4356. 4668 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 105, 686-0234. Custom salads, burritos, burrito bowls; fruit, veggies, 100% natural chicken, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, cheese, dressing, salsa, frozen yogurt. $$ K TO L D Daily

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

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

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

F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

CHEFFED-UP

FROM CRADLE TO

PLATE

An ode to the MOST TENDER of all bovine flesh

I WOKE UP THIS WEEKEND FEELING AS if Mother Nature was ticked off at me for mocking the lack of cool autumn temperatures. I mean, enough is enough already with the 50 degree temps. Maybe once a year, in February, would be sufficient, but not October!

However, the cool temps led me to wax poetic on the subject of seasonally specific food, and in this case it’s veal I crave. Veal that I desire, lust for, fantasize about, thirst for.

Succulent, tender, rich, delicate, AWESOME! I view veal as the king of meats. The supple texture and the sweet succulent flavor are unmatched in other domestic meats. And like anything in the world that’s really wonderful, the consumption of veal is controversial. But I don’t care. Go ahead: Avoid veal, shun veal and insult veal. That just leaves more for me.

When my oldest daughter was a wee lass, I accompanied her on a kindergarten field trip to a farm. It was a fall hayride and I was the only man among a gaggle of mothers (chefs are off on weekdays). As the tractor brought us into the main field, we saw a bunch of cows with their calves. All the children became very excited and began to point out the calves and exclaim “look at the baby cows!” — all except the chef ’s daughter, who cried “look at the veal!” The silly mothers were horrified. Yet I had never been more proud of my child!

Each section of the calf is unique and offers exciting opportunities to show off those mad cooking skills. Probably the most common cut is the leg or round section. This is where we get the famous veal scaloppini, with its unlimited pan sauce possibilities.

The shanks, when treated with tenderness and respect, transform into breathtakingly tender and luscious osso bucco. The coveted chops — rich, supple, luxurious and perfect for careful grilling.

The loin, remarkable and extremely expensive — this cut is why roasting was developed. Imagine a caramel-colored exterior, with a thin, delicate, crispy crust, a dreamlike juicy interior, and the aroma, OMG! The shoulder, almost an afterthought if you’re not French, conjures visions of steaming Veal Blanquette. This is the penultimate stew, with its rich broth of white veal stock, delicate

balance of herbs and vegetables, and a soulwarming exercise in comfort.

Let us not forget the misunderstood breast. This cut requires the skill of a true craftsman. The result? Let me simply say — life-altering.

So go ahead and avoid veal, but if you dare indulge, try this veal piccata recipe.

CHEFFED-UP

CHEF BILL’S VEAL PICCATA

Ingredients: • 4 veal scallops, approx. 3 ounces each • 1/2 shallot, brunoise • 1 tsp. garlic, minced • 2 tbsp. olive oil • 4 tbsp. butter • 1 oz. dry vermouth • 1 lemon • 3 oz. chicken broth • 2 tbsp. capers, rinsed • 2 tbsp. minced Italian parsley • Salt and pepper to taste • Seasoned flour as needed Directions: 1. Cover cutting board with plastic wrap, 1. place veal on top and cover with 1. plastic wrap. Pound with a meat mallet 1. to 1/4-inch thick.

2. Heat oil and half the butter in a sauté pan.

3. Dredge veal in flour, sauté to a golden 1. brown, 2-3 minutes per side. Remove 1. from pan and keep warm.

4. Add the shallots, sweat; add the 1. garlic, sweat.

5. Deglaze the pan with the vermouth, 1. reduce au sec. Add the broth, reduce 1. by half. Add the capers.

6. Return the veal to the pan, allow to 1. heat through, plate veal.

7. Swirl in the butter, add the parsley, 1. and adjust the seasoning. Spoon over 1. the veal.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill cheffedup@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Contact Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Amelia Island Culinary Academy in Historic Fernandina Beach, at cheffedup@folioweekly.com with your recipes or questions, to find inspiration and get you Cheffed Up! NOVEMBER 2-8, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 41

PETS LOOKIN’ FOR LOVE FOLIO

FOLIO LIVING

W E E K LY

PET

DEAR DAVI

DELIVERY

LOVERS’

GUIDE

Downtown shop takes the HEAVY LIFTING out of pet ownership

FOR DOGS (AND CATS)

Dear Davi, I’m a big dog with a hefty appetite; I can go through 40 pounds of food every week. How can I save my human from lugging around those heavy bags?

Gertie the Great Dane Gertie, Hauling bags of kibbling from the store to the car and then into the house can be a hassle. To ease the load for local pet owners, BARK Downtown is stepping up its game and offering delivery service to select areas.

I met with BARK founder Jamee Yocum to take a closer look at how this service gets products from the shelf to your door — in almost no time flat.

What makes home delivery a good idea for me and my human?

Convenience! Having food delivered to your home means one less worry and way more time to spend with your human!

What items do you deliver?

Anything we carry at BARK Downtown, we deliver. We also honor special orders if we can retrieve your request.

How do I get started?

Setting up an account is quick and easy. Just stop by BARK Downtown or give us a call.

Once it’s been activated, you can place your order by phone, email or Facebook message.

Don’t worry; your credit card information is secure with us.

Is delivery free or is there a service fee?

Delivery is free with a minimum purchase of $25. We add a $5 service fee to orders under $25.

What areas do you serve?

Right now, we deliver to folks with dogs and cats in the Downtown, Springfield and Southbank areas, but we’ll soon be covering Riverside, Avondale, San Marco and Murray Hill.

When will my order be delivered?

We currently deliver on Thursday by 6 p.m.

— no later. If for some unforeseen reason

we cannot make your delivery, we’ll get in touch with you right away.

Do I need to be home when it’s delivered?

Nope. We can leave your order at your front door or anywhere else you’d prefer. Just make sure you tell us where your spot is when you place the order.

How do I pay for my order?

We accept all major credit cards and BARK gift cards. Your card will charged as soon as we deliver.

Can I have items delivered to my friends?

Most definitely! We are more than happy to deliver orders to your friends within the local delivery service area.

Do you offer a refund?

Yep. We offer store credit or exchange for any unopened or unused item. Some brands can be returned if the bag is half-full.

As with any service, there are pros and cons.

Some of the benefits of using a delivery service: • Good alternative for those with • medical •problems or recent injuries • It can cut down on transportation costs • It’s convenient • Avoid inclement weather • There are no heavy bags to lug BARK Downtown offers a wide selection •of food, treats and toys for dogs and cats, •including quality ingredient products and •unique accessories.

It’s located at 45 W. Adams St., 516-7836, thebarkboutique.com.

Happy delivery!

Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund isn’t a shopaholic but he does enjoy a little retail therapy.

PET TIP: CHIN TO THE CHILLA OVER THE YEARS, WE’VE LEARNED (MOSTLY FROM I SAW U IN FW) that it’s really hard to find the perfect companion. Well, look no further, singletons! Chinchillas are everything you wish your soul mate would be: cute, smart and affectionate, though they might not be ideal for kids ’cause they’re so itty-bitty. Hello, excuse not to babysit your friends’ brats! There’s just one catch (definitely not a deal-breaker for the ISU crew): These furry little buggers partake in coprophagy, aka shit-eating (theirs, not yours). Chinchillacare.org notes, “This practice is completely normal and necessary for them to get important nutrients.” Now, who wants to snuggle?

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PET EVENTS RUN FUR FUN 5K • The Friends of Jacksonville Animals holds its inaugural benefit run at 8 a.m.

Nov. 12 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown. Registration is $30 for adults. The registration fee for a one-mile fun run, starting at 9 a.m., is $10. T-shirts, awards and a photo booth are featured. All proceeds benefit FOJA. friendsofjaxanimals.com.

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

ADOPTABLES

QUINCY

ELEGANT • I am a classy lady looking for my charming gentleman. I enjoy lounging on windowsills and long, luxurious strokes. I’m longing for the day when my new love shows up at the Jacksonville Humane Society. Let’s snuggle and watch trick-or-treaters from your window this weekend! JHS is open seven days a week at 8464 Beach Blvd. on the Southside. p.m. every Sat. and Sun., Nov. 5 and 6, Nov. 19 and 20, Dec. 3 and 4 and Dec. 17 and 18, at Katz 4 Keeps, 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org.

VACCINATION CLINICS • VetCo offers lowercost pet vaccinations at area PetCo stores. Sun., Nov. 13: 4:30-5:30 p.m., 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 278-1980; 2-3 p.m., 11111 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 260-3225; and 10 a.m.-noon, 430 CBL

ADOPTABLES

TRENT

COMPASSIONATE • If you’re looking for someone with lots of love to give, look no further!

I am truly the best friend you could have. I love to listen and give kisses. I know I’ll make the perfect addition to your family. Don’t believe me?

See for yourself! I’m at 8464 Beach Blvd., at the Jacksonville Humane Society! Learn more about Trent and the rest of the gang at jaxhumane.org.

Dr., St. Augustine, 824-8520. Sun., Nov. 27: 10:30 a.m.-noon, 463713 S.R. 200, Yulee, 225-0014; 2-3 p.m. 11900 Atlantic Blvd., Southside, 997-8441; vetcoclinics.com. _____________________________________ To list a pet event, send the event name, time, date, location (complete street address and city), admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@folioweekly.com – at least two weeks before the event.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m in awe of your headfirst, charge-forward, no-distractions approach. I aspire to incorporate more of the Aries-style directness into my own repertoire. I also love it when, on rare occasions, you flirt with a more strategic perspective.

I’m amused to see you experiment with the power of secrets. Your wisdom grows at a faster rate when you’re caught in a web of intrigue exposing dark joys and melodramatic lessons. You feel fine about not having everything figured out, not knowing the most straightforward route. You allow riddles and enigmas to ferment as you bask in the voluptuous ambiance of the Great Mystery. Now is such a time.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Is it possible you might flourish as a topdog after all the work you’ve put in as an underdog?

Can you wean yourself from the worried fantasy that you’ve got endless dues to pay, then harness your imagination to expand confi dence and build clout? I think you can. And in the weeks ahead, I’ll unleash a flood of prayers to the Goddess of Holy Reversals, asking her assistance. Repeat: “I am a creative force of nature. I am a strong song of liberation. I am a wise animal with direct access to my primal intelligence.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The next two weeks could be smooth, peaceful and bland. Is that the experience you want? Mild satisfactions, sweet boredom and slow progress?

Nothing wrong with it. Feel free to loll and loaf as you explore the healing charms of laziness. Give yourself permission to avoid conflict and cultivate sunny selfprotectiveness. It’s one of those times when silence and stasis may be the best gifts you can give you.

Welcome the rejuvenating power of emptiness!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to replace banged-up, dried-out old obsessions with ripe, juicy fascinations.

Phase out numbing traditions and deadening habits to make room for exciting new rituals, customs and sacraments. Can you summon the electric willpower to shed influences technically “correct” but lacking soulfulness? I think you can. Do you love yourself enough to forswear pretty but meaningless titillations? I think so. Do the hard work needed to bring more serious fun into your life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Over the course of his or her life, the average British person says “Sorry” on more than 90,000 occasions. The typical Libran Brit probably utters routine apologies upwards of 120,000 times. Libras

from other nations may not reach that apex, but many specialize in excessive politeness. (I should know; my natal chart shows three planets in Libra.)

In accordance with astrological indicators, I authorize you to be a bit less courteous and solicitous than usual in the next two weeks. Don’t go overboard, but allow yourself some breathing room; it’ll help you get more rigorous access to authentic, idiosyncratic, soulful urges — which will be very tonic.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Until 2007, Scotland’s official slogan was “Scotland, the Best Small Country in the World.” Deciding that wasn’t sufficiently upbeat, the government spent $187,000 on a campaign to create something better. “Home of Golf” and “Home of Europe’s Fastest Growing Life Sciences Community” were among the proposed phrases that were rejected. The final choice: “Welcome to Scotland.” You’re in a favorable phase to rebrand yourself, but I hope you’ll be more daring and imaginative than Scotland. How about “Smolderingly Alarmingly Brilliant”? Or maybe “Safely Risky and Unpredictably Wise” or “Home of the Best Secrets Ever”?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I cheer you on as you attend to difficult but holy duties. I send love as you summon the wisdom and resourcefulness you need to weather a gorgeous storm. Here are useful clues: Whether you’re partially or totally victorious depends as much on the attitude you hold in your heart as on your outward behavior. Be grateful, never resentful, for interesting challenges. Love your struggles for the new capacities they build.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The weeks ahead constitute the harvest phase of your cycle. That means you have the pleasure of gathering ripe rewards you’ve been cultivating since your last birthday. But you also have a responsibility to answer and correct any carelessness you’ve allowed during the previous 11 months. Don’t worry. I sense the goodies and successes far outnumber and overshadow the questionable decisions and failures.

You have ample reasons to celebrate. Don’t get so caught up in your rightful exaltation that you neglect the therapeutic atonements.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Like England and Spain, the Netherlands has a royal family, including a king, queen, prince and princesses. They’re an egalitarian bunch. The young ones attend public schools, and the previous queen’s birthday is celebrated with a nationwide flea market.

The king’s crown is attractive but quite economical.

Its pearls are fake, and other “jewels” are made of glass, colored foil and fish scales. In accordance with astrological omens, create a regal but earthy headpiece for yourself. It’s high time to elevate your self-worth in an amusing, artful way. What fun, funky materials will you use in a homemade crown?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book, A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman reports on eccentric methods professional writers use to galvanize creative processes. Poet Amy Lowell relaxed into her work day by puffing on Manila cigars. Novelist Colette plucked fleas from her cat. T.S. Eliot’s poetry thrived when he had a head cold. Novelist George Sand liked to jump out of bed after making love and start writing. Novelist William Gass, wanders around outside taking photos of “rusty, derelict, overlooked, downtrodden” places.

As for D.H. Lawrence: climbing mulberry trees naked energized his genius. What about you? Now’s a great time to draw intensely on reliable inspiration sources — and seek new ones.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD REDNECK CHRONICLES NORTH OF HERE

As a dispute escalated between two brothers at their recycling plant in Bow, New Hampshire, in October, Peter Emanuel used his front-end loader to tip over the crane being operated

by Stanley Emanuel (who managed to jump out just in time). Peter was arrested.

Thousands flocked to the annual Roadkill Cooking Festival in Marlinton, West Virginia, in September, featuring an array of “tasting” dishes (e.g., black bear, possum, elk, snapping turtle) with a competition in which judges deducted points if the “chef ” had not managed to remove all gravel or asphalt.

THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS

Who is the most at fault when (a) a mother provides beer to her underage son, (b) who then, with a pal, gulps down a bottle of vodka and steals a car from a dealer’s lot, and (c) drunkenly crashes, leaving the pal with a catastrophic brain injury? In October, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a jury verdict that parceled out “fault,” but assigned more to the victim of the 2006 car theft (Rankin’s Garage of Paisley, Ontario) than to the mother or the driver — because Rankin’s having left the key in the car overnight made it irresistible to “teenage car thieves.”

DUMBEST GENERATION

A recent Better Business Bureau study in Canada found that, contrary to popular belief, it is the “millennial” generation and those aged 25 to 55, rather than seniors, who are more likely now to fall victim to scammers, fueled by users’ lax skepticism about new technology. If accurate, the study would account for how a Virginia Tech student in September fell for a telephone call from “the IRS” threatening her over “back taxes.”

She complied with instructions from the “agent” to send $1,762 in four iTunes gift cards.

WHO COUNTED THE PAGES?

The Justice Department revealed in an October court filing that former National Security Agency contractor Harold Martin III, 51, had stolen at least 500 million pages of “sensitive government files,” bit by bit over two decades. (Bonus questions: How does no one notice, for years? How many total pages of “sensitive government files” are there?)

RELIGION ADAPTS TO TECHNOLOGY

A network of freelance Buddhist priests in Japan last year began offering in-home, a la carte services (for those adherents who shun temples) through Amazon in Japan, quoting fixed fees and bypassing the usual awkward deliberation over “donations.” And in September, Pastor David Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International (St. Louis, Missouri) announced, to great fanfare, that he had “resurrected” a diabetic woman, 40 minutes after her death, by sending the lady a text message — through Facebook (though, of course, neither she nor any family member was available for an interview).

TRUE “FLORIDA”

In October, sheriff ’s deputies in Pinellas County, detaining the 350-pound Columbus Henderson, 45, discovered (in one of Henderson’s “orifices”) a glass “crack pipe” stuffed with steel wool. (A week earlier, Henderson had shoplifted two 40-inch TV sets from a Wal-Mart in Fort Lauderdale, and fled, though he was identified when his loosely worn pants, containing his ID, fell completely off as he “dashed” through the parking lot.) Police said Ms. Taccara Nauden, 28, had no contraband, but was using an “orifice” for her ID card, during a traffic stop in Hollywood in October. She did not want police to know that she was Taccara Nauden, since there was an arrest warrant on her.

THAT’S JUST WEIRD

Most age-old liquor restrictions have fallen in America, but Utah continues to hold out. The new Eccles Theater in downtown Salt Lake City, open in October, has an elegant lobby with several floors of balconies overlooking it, but its liquor license was delayed briefly when it was realized that visitors on the upper floors could peer down at the lobby and witness beer and wine actually being poured from beer and wine bottles — a violation of state law, which allows serving only in ordinary glassware.

At lobby level, there was a “Zion Curtain” to shield drink preparation, but the theater realized it would also need a “Zion Ceiling.”

Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

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MY HOT, SEXY NEIGHBOR You: Tall, white sports jersey (No. 12, I think), flag tattoo. Me: Brunette, sunglasses, busty. While checking mail ISU on balcony playing darts, smoking cigar. Welcome to the neighborhood.

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Where: Davis St., Neptune Beach. #1628-1005 MY BUD LIGHT/MARLBORO MAN You: Handsome man working the grill, drinking Bud Light and cooking some good-looking meat on Saturday. Me: Drinking Captain and Coke and fighting the desire to take advantage of you.

Hoping you “grill” again soon! When: Aug. 27.

Where: Downtown. #1627-0928 NEED HELP MOVING? First time ISU, you were moving from your apartment; we caught eyes. Met again, exchanged names. I wanted your number but it’s been so long since someone made me speechless. Come by sometime? You: Pretty. Me: Intrigued. When: Sept.

14. Where: Off JTB. #1626-0921 FIRST WATCH EARTHQUAKE You: Stunningly beautiful lady, long brown hair, shorts, athletic top, waiting for second party Sunday morning.

Me: Tall, dark, handsome guy, kinda cop-looking. Tried to buy your breakfast; you hadn’t ordered. Really wanted to say hello. When: Aug. 28. Where: First Watch Beach Boulevard. #1625-0907 TRADE PORSCHE FOR BEACH CRUISER? Drawn to your physique, adored biceps as you chilled with friend! You complimented my Porsche. Offered trade for your cruiser. Didn’t ask for number. WOD together on next bring-a-friend day?! When: 4 p.m. June 5. Where: Zeta Brewing bicycle stand. #1616-0622

DANCING TO THE BONES You are L. from Ponte Vedra. I’m R, leading band at Conch House on Friday, Aug. 12. We said quick hello as you left. Really want to connect with you. Hopefully cosmos will agree. When: Aug. 12.

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

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

When: July 17. Where: Walmart San Jose. #1621-0720 WE ARE READY FOR U You: Handsome man following, watching me, saying hi, calling, hanging up before u speak. Me: Want to hear your heart. My dog and condo await. Don’t be afraid. Everything will be OK. We love you. When: 2012. Where: Neighborhood. #1620-0720 AVONDALE ANGEL Me: Down on my luck, no place to go. You: Beautiful person who kept me from sleeping on the street.

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AMENDMENT 1

IS BAD FOR

SOLAR Respected LOCAL EXPERT explains why

THERE ARE MANY ETHICAL, ACADEMIC AND practical reasons to vote NO on Amendment 1. That’s why several organizations, experts and media outlets (including editorial boards) have covered the misrepresentative language, poor policy and the slick $21-million-dollar campaign funded primarily by investorowned utilities. (“Back the Eff Away from Amendment 1,” Folio Weekly Oct. 5) Yet as part of a pro-business, solutionsoriented sustainability nonprofit, I want to focus on four economic and business-related reasons to vote NO on Amendment 1. Voting NO on the amendment, titled Florida Solar Energy Subsidies and Personal Solar Use Amendment 1, will: 1. Foster a more competitive market; 2. Provide more solar choices for 1. consumers (e.g., community shared 1. solar, roof-top solar, microgrid and 1. small-scale solar and utility-scale solar); 3. Encourage additional means for 1. building owners and operators to meet 1. Florida’s new energy code and build 1. resilient buildings; and 4. Help individuals and community groups 1. send a strong signal that they want to 1. control their own solar distribution.

Citizens of Florida need to vote NO on 1 and demand a resetting of the table so solar can grow competitively in the state. This will create local jobs, generate future innovation for local and international export, and address deep and dismaying energy inequity in our communities.

Voting NO on 1 will foster a more competitive solar market because currently Florida’s utilities have a monopoly on creating, selling and distributing energy, and they provide this service through a massive infrastructure of excavation, transport, pump, burn, distribute and landfill. They are moving heavily into utility-scale solar due to lower prices — a really good move on their part. Utility-scale solar with its infrastructure already in place is highly efficient. The question for you as a citizen is: Do you want other additional choices such as more rooftop solar and true community solar as well as the choice of other business models such as leasing options and sharing a small scale solar system with your neighbors?

Right now, leasing and sharing is illegal in Florida. Allowing other business models to grow and compete in Florida will spur innovation, jobs and keep renewable energy costs down. Voting NO on 1 is a step toward more competition.

Voting NO on 1 will help provide more solar choices to consumers, help protect net metering and the current right that you have to generate your own power, interconnect to the grid, and provide any excess power back to the power company. Amendment 1 threatens to weaken that right. More solar adoption will spur the utilities to change their business model to become more agile and perhaps prompt a turn toward investing in distributed solar power such as leasing PV and battery systems to customers.

Certainly none of us wants the utilities to go away, but we do want them to adjust their business models to become more nimble and continue to supply us with consistent, affordable, reliable, clean and independent energy services.

By fostering a competitive market, we will help the utilities turn this adjustment corner quicker versus allowing them to hang onto their old, inefficient models for as long as they can.

Voting NO on 1 will encourage more avenues to meet the new stringent Florida energy code and the unquestioned need for more resilient buildings. Owners and builders need all the tools they can acquire, including onsite renewable energy, to meet Florida’s latest energy code. Florida’s hot, humid climate and anti-solar policies make high-energy performance and efficiency a challenge. Solar products such as rooftop panels and integrated tiles to solar windows in high-rises will go a long way toward stimulating more solar adoption, keeping energy costs down and helping with peak energy demand, as well as providing immediate energy and resilience to the grid after a storm.

Further, voting NO on 1 will send a strong signal that individuals, businesses and groups want more control over their own solar choices. Florida needs more business models in the energy sector. Currently, the model is driven by the concept that more energy sold equals more revenue for investors and stakeholders. There are few incentives to reduce consumption, improve energy efficiency or conserve more, let alone mechanisms to deal with the astonishing energy inequity in the system.

Jacksonville has the highest energy inequity in the U.S. This means that more than 10 percent of those living in poverty in Jacksonville (approximately 50,000 people) pay in excess of $200 a month on their power bills. According to “Why Energy Matters to Working Families,” a report by the nonprofit GroundSwell.org, households that have high energy burdens face increased likelihood of accumulating unsustainable debt and made trade off other essential purchases like food to pay for utilities. The report adds that they are

also have a higher chance of getting evicted, even becoming homeless, and experience greater risks to their — and their children’s — personal health, such as by being unable to refrigerate essential medications for chronic diseases like diabetes.

If a different business model, such as community or shared solar was allowed, where one could subscribe to a portion of a local communal solar array, working families could lock in low-cost electricity rates that do not vary by season and lower their unpredictable monthly energy bill significantly. Reducing monthly bills of those living in poverty is a wise, long-term economic decision.

Finally, supporters of Amendment 1 state that their amendment is about rights — the right to have solar, consumer protection rights and “fairness” rights; they say that no one should subsidize solar if they choose not to do so. The real skinny is that Florida citizens already have the right to have solar, already have consumer protections, and those with solar are paying MORE than their fair share of their use of the grid in addition to reducing local pollution and adding resiliency to the grid.

The statement that non-solar consumers subsidize solar consumers has been proven false by over 10 independent studies. The value and benefits of solar have been estimated to be between $0.17-$0.33 cents per kWh, while current retail cost (without including external environmental and human health impacts) of fossil fuel-made energy is $0.13/kWh. Fundamentally, Amendment 1 is about who you want to control solar in Florida, how much you want solar to grow, and what business models you believe in. If you want the status quo, continued subpar adoption of solar, and for utilities to continue to dominate the control of solar distribution, then vote YES on 1.

If you want more solar in Florida and encourage different, less resource intensive, competitive energy business models, cleaner energy and energy independence, then vote NO on 1. Do you want to move forward and create innovative jobs, technologies and clean energy or tread water (probably literally with sea level rise) by maintaining the status quo?

That is the question. Your choice, Florida.

Sarah Boren mail@folioweekly.com

____________________________________ Boren is director of policy and programs with the U.S. Green Building Coalition of Florida. For more information on both sides of the Amendment 1 issue, visit these websites: usgbcflorida.org/Amendment-1, ballotpedia. org and flsolarchoice.org.

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