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MAIL There are many facets to the immigration issue [Editor’s Note, “Fury Signifying Nothing,” Jeffrey C. Billman, Nov. 26]. The left talks mostly about the emotional side: “We can’t separate the children from the parents.” “We are an immigrant nation.” (Making the false comparison between our ancestors and current migrants.) Some have gone as far to quote the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” The right tends to speak about the risks we face from an unsecured border. The problem we face is to convince both sides why each other’s arguments are valid and worth acting upon. We must begin by securing the border first. Using our military assets here at home would be a great start. Trillions of tax dollars have been spent over the past decades toppling dictators, rebuilding war-torn countries and funding proxy wars, and foreign aid is given to seemingly hostile nations. Devote the funding to securing our borders. The American welfare system is the positive side of the magnetic draw from Central America. The question too many people can’t seem to answer is, what is the negative pole of this magnet? I believe, as did Milton Friedman, that drug prohibition in the U.S. has created a narcotic monopoly in Central America. Drug cartels have grown rich off an ever-evolving substance addiction in the U.S. Along with growing bank accounts, these cartels have more influence over the political culture, a violent influence. Since President Nixon began the War on Drugs in 1971, trillions have been spent enforcing drug laws on the streets, as well as overseas. The U.S. incarceration rate for nonviolent drug charges has skyrocketed. The Drug Policy Alliance estimates the United States spends $51 billion a year on the War on Drugs. It’s another failed policy carried on for far too long. As you continue to recognize the economic issues, you must not overlook the added weight on our most basic systems: schools, hospitals, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, prisons, police and fire departments are all funded by taxpaying citizens. With more than 300 million citizens doing so, roughly 47 percent of working Americans pay no income tax. When you add millions of illegal immigrants to those taking from these programs, it’s no mystery how we’ve accumulated $17 trillion in national debt. Cutting back on many of these programs is a must; there should also be more individuals taking part in the funding. By eliminating the federal income tax and replacing it with a national consumption tax, like the FairTax, every consumer will contribute to funding the programs they absorb. President Obama has decided to give legal residence to 5 million illegals; this will also have an effect on working Americans. Lower-wage jobs will be taken by many of these people without fear of the government coming down on the businesses. The FairTax will incentivize businesses to come back to the United States, while eliminating burdensome taxes that already stifle job creation. I can’t imagine a scenario, in modern America, where millions are rounded up and deported. Taking these actions I have laid out should help many of the issues we face because of illegal immigration. Philip King, via folioweekly.com
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FERGUSON, GODDAMN
Around the time that a suburb half a country — as well as the fact that Morgan’s insurance away was exploding last Monday night, a company had paid Study $25,000 — and cleared Jacksonville Sheriff ’s officer named J.C. Garcia him of all charges. He’s now back patrolling the tried to pull over a car driven by a man named Westside. Not exactly confidence-building. Nationwide, police shoot and kill about Brian Dennison, whose 6-year-old daughter was in his car, after he cut through a parking lot 1,000 people every year. And yet, according to data compiled by Bowling Green State while trying to avoid a traffic light. The police say that Dennison didn’t stop University, from 2005 to 2011, only 31 onwhen Garcia pulled up behind him, and duty officers were arrested for murder or noncontinued driving all the way to his apartment negligent manslaughter. Only 664 officers complex. According to Dennison’s family, were arrested for any gun-related incidents the 31-year-old was in a rush to get home whatsoever during that time frame. As because his daughter was having an asthma FiveThirtyEight writer Reuben Fischer-Baum attack. Dennison got out of his car; one family put it, “Police shootings, and allegations of member told News4Jax that he stuck his police misconduct in general, almost never hands out of the car window and said, “Don’t make it in front of a grand jury. And officers shoot, please don’t shoot. I got my daughter in rarely face legal consequences for allegations the car.” of misconduct.” Garcia claimed he saw a gun. He pulled his This is the backdrop against which Ferguson, service weapon and fired a shot. Missouri, exists. Dennison — who, fortunately, was not I’ll be honest: I don’t believe Darren Wilson. I harmed — did not have a don’t believe in those who weapon. He was, however, investigated the shooting arrested on misdemeanor of Michael Brown. I don’t charges. The family is believe in the prosecutors demanding answers. who presented the case “Police shootings, If history is any to the grand jury. (As indicator, they won’t FiveTh irtyEight pointed and allegations of get them. out, in 2010 federal police misconduct Between 1999 and prosecutors failed to score 2013, Florida cops in 110 an indictment in 11 out of in general, different law enforcement 162,000 tries. Somehow agencies were involved in I don’t think Wilson’s almost never 574 homicides that were prosecutors tried very make it in front deemed justified, according hard.) I don’t believe in the system. I’ve seen enough to an investigation by NBC of a grand jury. of it to know there’s no 6 South Florida. Of those, accountability for those 42 cases involved the JSO, And officers entrusted to protect us — the second-highest total rarely face legal there’s no one watching of any police agency in the watchers. the state, behind only consequences for And when there’s the Miami-Dade Police allegations of no trust, when those Department. That number in authority abuse that is spiking, too — up from misconduct.” authority with absolute just 14 incidents in ’99 to 67 impunity — especially in 2012 and 58 last year — in communities of color, along with a pronounced, communities already concomitant spike in racked by poverty and civilian justified homicides that began around 2006 (thank you, Stand Your disenfranchisement — tumult and unrest and Ground), even as violent crime rates here and chaos will fill that vacuum. That’s the real story of Ferguson. nationwide have plummeted since 1993. Some 90 minutes before J.C. Garcia fired a If you’ve reported on cops for any amount of time, as I have, you know how rare it is for police shot at Brian Dennison, JSO Officer Cecil Grant agencies to decide that one of their own did pulled over Leonardo “Leo” Little on 103rd anything wrong, ever, no matter the evidence Street. (The stop, according to press reports, — like Sasquatch-spotting rare. A few years was for an expired tag. The tag, according to ago, when I was in Orlando, I reviewed five the family’s attorney, John M. Phillips, was good years’ worth of the Orlando Police Department’s through the end of November.) Grant, the police abuse complaints, 98 in total, and found that the say, discovered that Little had a suspended Internal Affairs division had never, not once, license and went to arrest him. In the official sustained an allegation of abuse. (Imagine that.) telling, Little resisted, a fight ensued, and Little This, though I personally saw video evidence wound up dead of a gunshot wound. in multiple cases that directly contradicted Maybe that’s exactly what happened. (In an officers’ accounts. email to reporters the day after the shooting, If you think the situation is significantly Phillips wrote, “Although we dispute the facts better anywhere else, Jacksonville included, I’ve released thus far, we will respond to them got some beautiful swampland to sell you. after his family has a chance to grieve and Consider the case of JSO Officer Corinthian bury a son, a brother, an uncle and a father.”) Roosevelt Morgan [News, “Nothing to See Here, But maybe it’s not. And if it’s not — if this Move Along,” Derek Kinner, Nov. 5]. Morgan, was, in fact, a bad shoot — can we really trust you may recall, was accused of striking a young the cops to ever admit it, to hold one of their man named John Study with his car following a own accountable? History suggests not. That’s the problem. dispute over a parking space, then brandishing his gun and pointing it at him. The JSO’s internal Jeffrey C. Billman investigation blithely discounted the testimony twitter/jeffreybillman of four eyewitnesses and the medical records jbillman@folioweekly.com DECEMBER 3-9, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5
FIGHTIN’ WORDS
KIM CRENIER MUST GO
The Duval County GOP official’s racist tweets should be condemned, not brushed aside by party officials
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he scandal rages on for Duval County Republican Party Secretary Kim Crenier, who — as I first reported on Folio Weekly’s website [The Flog, “Duval County GOP Official Kim Crenier Needs to Go,” Nov. 26] — let loose with a stunning fusillade of racist tweets on Nov. 24, the night a Missouri grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Most of them appeared on her personal Twitter feed, but one, an exhortation for God to bless Darren Wilson, was apparently errantly posted to the @JaxGOP account, which belongs to the Duval County Republican Party. Urging police in Ferguson to “turn the fire hoses” onto the “thugs” who “probly [sic] needed a shower,” Crenier tea-partied just a little too hard on Twitter that night. The local GOP didn’t want to reveal who the poster was, saying that she was better off “disconnected” from the media because she would get “too emotional,” but it came out soon enough, in the form of a Facebook campaign from David Vandygriff, the founder the LGBT publication City Xtra, who went on Crenier’s Twitter feed, before she made it private, and preserved her rantings for posterity. After I revealed her identity, the party was left giving some whitewash to the Times-Union and a harried Action News crew, the latter of which was treated to an apology from Crenier herself, albeit an apology without any actual explanation of the comments of the nihilism behind them. And that’s because she wasn’t sorry, not about what she said. She was only sorry there was a controversy at all. She thought she was serving up red meat for a ravenous base, nothing more. Instead, it was the other side’s activists who worked themselves into a frenzy, keeping pressure on Crenier to resign and her party to denounce her, even as her old friend Lenny Curry, the wellfunded Republican mayoral aspirant, refused to comment and Mayor Alvin Brown’s team sat back and laughed as the GOP began to implode, just in time for the 2015 campaign. On Friday, the game changed. Bill Bishop, the former City Council president who’s also a Republican running for mayor — albeit a Republican who supports the Human Rights Ordinance and thinks the city’s artistic tastes should not be dictated by Clay Yarborough’s prudishness — broke ranks with the establishment and called for Crenier’s resignation. In a press release, Bishop said her comments were “deplorable and must not be tolerated,” and that “the chairman must do what is required to restore credibility and respectability 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | DECEMBER 3-9, 2014
to our party” — a party that Bishop says is “not the party of racial oppression.” Crenier represents one strand of the local GOP. The more prominent strand until recently was actually that of the socially moderate Republican, whose patron saint around here was former two-term Jax mayor and current University of North Florida president John Delaney, who memorably pitched for the HRO a few years ago. (There, Delaney got to the left of our squeamish Democratic mayor, who sat that fight out.) I talked to Bishop Friday afternoon about his call for Crenier’s removal. “I felt it was important to make a statement,” Bishop told me, describing her comments as a “grenade in the room,” one that “does not reflect official Republican thinking.” Bishop has known Crenier for a few years in a casual capacity, and says he was surprised by her intemperance. “I never would have thought she would have said anything like that,” he said, describing her comments as “out of character,” “shocking” and a “Christmas present” to Brown. And it may be the gift that keeps on giving. After Bishop demanded her ouster, Crenier finally responded to my request for an interview, painting this as a sort of misunderstanding. “I have apologized for the insensitivity of the fire hose comment numerous times now,” she wrote. “The civil rights implication never even entered my head when I posted the tweet in response to tweets advocating mace and tear gas and rubber bullets. I just thought those people should disperse and go home and water seemed to be less severe than mace.” Crenier had a message for her critics, too: “Unfortunately, there are those who will paint me as a racist and a hateful person regardless of what I have to say because they want it to be so.” Asked about Bishop’s call for her resignation, she had no comment. Translation: She’s not going anywhere, unless she’s forced out. That puts the onus on the Duval GOP, which has done an excellent job pissing away the political advantage it held just days ago. Bill Bishop has sounded the alarm. Will the party’s leadership hear the bell? Curry, the GOP establishment candidate by every measure, did not respond to calls seeking comment. AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com
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ANGELA CAVED
How the Marissa Alexander plea deal really worked out
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y the time the deal was struck last week, Marissa Alexander, now 34, had already spent 1,030 days behind bars. If State Attorney Angela Corey had gotten her way, she might have spent another 20,800 days in that same cell. But after a ruling earlier this month that devastated the prosecution’s case — and revealed that there was a lot more to it than they wanted a jury to know — the state attorney’s office caved. “I think from our client’s standpoint, she wanted to get this behind her and move on with her life and her family,” says Alexander’s chief defense attorney, Bruce Zimet. Under the terms of the plea agreement her lawyers hashed out with prosecutors, Alexander will be a free woman after her probable release on Jan. 27 — free with the exception of an additional two years of community control, which means she’ll have to wear an electronic device to track her movements, though she’ll have few restrictions on where she can go. Alexander lost two birthdays and missed watching her baby daughter grow up because Corey decided that she needed to be locked up — for 20 years, originally — for firing a warning shot in July 2010 into a wall near her husband, Rico Gray, who she said had just tried to strangle her and then threatened to kill her (an allegation backed up by one of his two sons, who were not hers), and who was, according to more recent testimony, a generally abusive son of a bitch, not just to Alexander but to previous partners and an ex-wife, as well. (Gray has denied abusing Alexander, and in fact said it was Alexander who was the aggressor.) Alexander sat in that cell even as people like U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and numerous anti-domestic violence groups across the country raised hell with Corey over what they perceived as another miscarriage of justice, another case in which she let common sense fly out the window in her relentless pursuit of a scalp. All along, Corey’s office has insisted Alexander’s mistake was going to the garage to get her gun — which means she could have fled. When she decided to fight back instead of fleeing, that made it a case of aggravated assault instead of self-defense. Alexander’s other mistake, it seems, was turning down a three-year plea deal before her first trial. She refused because, she said, she was innocent. In May 2012, a jury took only 12 minutes to convict her on all counts. Judge James Daniel seemed conflicted when he realized that Florida law compelled him to sentence her to 20 years for firing a warning shot. The decision, he lamented, “has been entirely taken out of my hands.” Those mandatory minimums — the laws that throw out judicial sentencing discretion and impose lengthy prison terms no matter the
circumstances of the crime — are often used by prosecutors as a cudgel to force defendants to accept plea deals, even when the defendants insist on their innocence. In this case, Corey tried to force Alexander into taking the three years with the threat of the 20. Alexander took the bet, and lost. She became something of a cause célèbre, especially after Corey failed to win a conviction in the shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin last year. Fairly or not, the juxtaposition of those two cases — a white man shoots and kills an unarmed black boy and goes free; a black woman fires a warning shot at her abusive husband and gets 20 years — became a rallying cry for Corey’s critics. But it wasn’t public pressure that got Alexander’s conviction tossed in September 2013. Instead, an appellate judges ruled that the court’s jury instructions had improperly told jurors that Alexander had to prove her innocence, rather than the prosecution having to prove her guilt. Though Alexander had already served about two years at that point, Corey promised to retry the case anyway — and this time, she warned, Alexander could face 60 years in prison because under Florida’s 10-20-Life rules, each conviction (there were three counts, each carrying 20 years) has to be served consecutively. But then, in mid-November, Judge Daniel ruled that statements from two of Gray’s previous girlfriends and an ex-wife would be admissible in the new trial. They had testified in an earlier hearing that Gray had abused them, too. Their testimonies would have been devastating to the prosecution’s case — which makes it all the more disturbing that prosecutors knew about these and tried to keep them out of court in their zeal to keep Alexander behind bars. Soon after that ruling came down, the plea deal was announced. The state attorney’s office would have you believe this is a coincidence. As Corey spokeswoman Jackie Bernard wrote to Folio Weekly in an email: “No one ruling has prompted any decision in this case. This case was handled like any other case in this office. The State Attorney’s Office has been actively negotiating with Ms. Alexander’s defense counsel for more than a year.” Zimet declined to offer details on those negotiations. “I can’t speak for [Corey’s] decision-making or her motivation. I have learned not to talk about negotiations between parties.” The deal wasn’t perfect, he says, but he and his team told Alexander her options, and she accepted it, though it will make her a convicted felon. “No one’s doing cartwheels going back to jail, but this was her means of getting the case behind her,” Zimet says. Derek Kinner dkinner@folioweekly.com
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The JAG-OFF
A NAIL IN THE COUGHLIN: WEEK 13, JAGS VS. GIANTS
For once, the Jags got the breaks. After a first half when the team looked feckless on defense and incompetent on offense, the Big Cats roared back in the second half to score two defensive touchdowns for the first time in their 21 years of existence, and to mount the biggest comeback in franchise history. They did it on a day billed as Homecoming — a day when the head coach for the other team was the most legendary coach in Jaguars history, and who still casts a shadow over EverBank. On this Homecoming day, when a halftime ceremony feted Jaguars galore from the glory days, it would’ve been easy to give up when the odds looked insurmountable. But they did not quit. For fans, it was a proud moment. For players like Blake Bortles, it was not unexpected. The team’s even keel and good attitude, says the franchise QB, comes from it being a “hardworking group,” of which “no one gets real pissed off at halftime.” Contrast that attitude to that which sunk the Jags in the 1999 AFC title game, when the locker room turned against itself during halftime of that fateful loss to the Titans, one from which the Tom Coughlin-era Jags never recovered. That positivity starts at the top, with Coach Gus Bradley, who said that his squad “regrouped” during the break, which was not a “yell session” — a marked contrast to the constant high dudgeon that characterized the earlier Jags coaching. So many elements came together in the second half. The Jags’ defensive front overwhelmed the Giants’ decimated offensive line time after time, putting pressure on Eli Manning in a way that has been proven to rattle him throughout his career. Bradley said that they disguised their looks a bit more than in the first half, and got some pressure, but didn’t overdo it, as “they did pretty good against us when we did get pressure.” With a secondary like that of the Jags, the defense succeeds to the extent that the line and the linebackers do. Odell Beckham was eating up Dwayne Gratz throughout the first half, and especially during that 19-play end-zone-to-endzone drive that took up most of the first quarter, bad things happened when former Jag and current Giants tailback Rashad Jennings got into the secondary. The Jags saw Marquise Lee flash some of that second-round value in the second half, and that’s encouraging, too, especially for a team thin at the wideout position. When Bortles had time to set his feet, he was solid — and his increased running in this game gave the offense another dimension. This was a different kind of victory than the Cleveland win. And from any other in franchise history. What does it all mean? Is this for real, or an outlier? Right now, the latter. It’d be great to believe that this represented the turning of a corner, but this game may have been a referendum on the Giants’ inadequacies as much as a commentary on the Jags’ progress. (The Giants, after all, are 3-9, and have dropped seven in a row.) With the Houston Texans on deck, and Bradley’s future still in the balance, it is incumbent on the 2-10 team to get another victory — this time, a dominant one from start to finish.
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: Untitled (Janine Eight Months Pregnant), Angela Strassheim, 2013.
(AS APPROVED BY CLAY YARBOROUGH, GUARDIAN OF OUR CIVIC VIRTUE) By Jeffrey C. Billman and Shan Stumpf
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ast week, as you’ve probably heard, Jacksonville City Council President Clay Yarborough (R-First Baptist) wandered into the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. This was, most likely, an accident (art museums, after all, are for pervs and weirdos): He was trying to get to Café Nola, and the only way to get to Café Nola was through MOCA’s atrium. And there he saw it: MOCA’s new Project Atrium, an exhibit of dream-like photography by Angela Strassheim [Arts, “Focused Development,” Kara Pound, Nov. 26], which included an image of a pregnant lady reclining on a sofa (see image, top right). Her breasts were exposed. This made Yarborough … uncomfortable. That afternoon, he fired off an angry email to Mayor Alvin Brown’s chief of staff: “I saw a large picture … of a woman with bare breasts exposed
and laying in a questionable position. Given that any member of the public, including children of all ages can enter, and are in fact encouraged to do so, as City Council President, I take great offense on behalf of the people of Jacksonville that the City would accept this.” He demanded that Brown do something about this travesty, and soon: “Unless Mayor Brown supports this inappropriate, pornographic display … I insist that you immediately cause to be pulled all funding designated for MOCA for the current fiscal year.” (On Tuesday, citing First Amendment concerns, Brown rejected Yarborough’s request.) Later, Yarborough elaborated to Folio Weekly in a text message: “I am trying to promote a positive moral climate in our city and though some will defend the pornography by labeling it ‘art,’ we need boundaries in order to be healthy, especially where it concerns our children.”
So, in Clay Yarborough’s mind, boobs equal porn, and anyone who defends it doesn’t care about the innocent children. And Clay Yarborough, for reasons we’re not entirely clear on, seems to think he gets to decide what is art and what is porn. The councilman, who is term-limited next year, didn’t tell us whether he considers any artwork that features breasts (or other parts of the human form) porn, or if there’s a level of boob exposure that he deems acceptable. That got us thinking: If he thinks this is porn — it ain’t Mapplethorpe, dude — and if he’s so adamant about it that he’s demanding the city defund one of its premier cultural institutions, what would some of the masterpieces of the art world look like if ol’ Clay got his hands on them? Let’s explore, shall we? mail@folioweekly.com (Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman)
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The Three Graces, Peter Paul Rubens, 1639
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JAMISON WILLIAMS continues to defy, deconstruct and detonate the local music scene — and now a few Disney songs By Daniel A. Brown
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amison Williams admits to being a musician possessed, fixated with pushing the soprano saxophone to its breaking point, determined to flood the too-often conventional Jacksonville scene with experimentalists who get off on upending norms and codify a community based around a form of music that is, to most ears, utterly unlistenable. Titles for what he’s doing seem outdated: free jazz, improv, noise — whatever you call it, you immediately compartmentalize a wide-open scene that is completely egalitarian and yet is somehow enclosed by its own no-rules challenges toward the very definitions of what we call music. “Whether it’s music or whatever, I’ll completely obsess on something and then it’ll just burn the fuck out,” Williams says. He’s talking to me on the phone from Verona, Virginia, where he’s in the middle of a road trip with creative and romantic partner Leah Powell. “I’m like a crackhead for all of this stuff.” In conversation, Williams is sharp, erudite and colorfully foulmouthed, explaining the minutiae of extended sax techniques or his views on the improv scene while casually and liberally punctuating his descriptions with f-bombs. (If such things offend you, consider yourself warned.) Now Williams is aiming his radical aesthetic toward interpreting the music of a cultural icon — in particular the melodies that seem to be interlaced within our DNA. On Dec. 7 at Sun-Ray Cinema, Williams and his 20-piece [neu]Sonics Orchestra will be interpreting popular songs from Walt Disney films, childhood classics that will receive an extreme, albeit sincere, treatment — vaguely familiar melodies dissected and reassembled in a frenetic, challenging musical riot. “We lived in Guam when I was a little baby child,” Williams says. “And it was wild. There were bomb testings going on and undetonated mines everywhere. And there’s a picture of me as a baby in the middle of all of this fucking devastation, holding a Mickey Mouse doll in my hand. I’m thinking that as far back as any resonance that Disney has had on me — it’s been there since the beginning.”
Photos by Dennis Ho
‘FORMAL SKILLS’
Jamison Williams was born on June 20, 1976, in Dunoon, Scotland. A self-described Navy brat, he spent his earliest years in the “small, Mayberry-style town” of Eaton, Ohio, he says. After a stop in South Carolina, in 1984 the family moved to the Arlington neighborhood of Jacksonville. It was there, while in his teens, that Williams fell into the vortex of local punk rock, eventually taking up the drums as a way to pound out his emerging musical skills. The Arlington club scene — a real thing back then — helped feed his growing addiction for visceral, loud music. “We had a healthy little area between Spike’s Doghouse and Dante’s Purgatory,” says Williams of the two local watering holes, which booked everything from full-tilt hardcore to hesher hair metal. Williams leaned toward the aggro, hardcore sounds generating the mosh pits. “I’m known as this kind of free jazz person, but my music was never really designed around free jazz. It was the accumulation of watching Mysterious Briefcase, Proletariats and Boner Brigade. All of those straight-up, dirty punk bands. What I’m doing is just a filter of that.” At the age of 18, Williams’ musical parameters
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widened when his friend (and longtime Folio Weekly contributor) Shelton Hull hipped him to the music of jazz drummer Buddy Rich. “That threw me for a fucking loop,” he says. Driven by his compulsive nature, Williams picked up a copy of The Penguin Guide to Jazz. It was around this time that Williams first heard German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann’s
1968 album, Machine Gun. The opening and title track comes on like a jackhammer hurled onto the bandstand, as three reedsmen, two bassists, two drummers and a pianist furiously navigate through an unrelenting 15-minute excursion that alternates between rumbling solo passages and group wails of bludgeoning noise. Williams was staggered. “Machine Gun, even to this day, it’s kind of a flagship project that’s never been duplicated,” he says. “It’s just brutal. It’s a nonstop attack. You hear that album after hearing Black Flag’s Damaged, and Brötzmann is a perfect bridge.” After experiencing that deafening revelation, Williams spent a winter at his grandfather’s place back in Eaton, jobless but with the slacker perk of unemployment checks, which he put to good use. “I spent $300 of my unemployment at a local Borders Books,” he says, “buying up every free jazz CD that they had.” Williams was possessed by his new muse, pulled into the realm of 1960s avant-garde players like Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, saxophonists who were considered either saints or apostates for their revolutionary stance toward improvised music. Rapturous, ferocious and ballistic, this music was ignited by spontaneous group composition, as saxophones were blown to the edge, creating new sonorities completely alien to their bebop and hard bop predecessors. The rhythm sections carried the lead instruments along with a rollicking wave of call-and-response bass-and-drum interplay, as pianists hammered out resonant overtones on the ivories. Mostly shunned by the major labels and popular jazz venues of the day, many of the musicians headed to Europe, where this new music was greeted with open arms, and, just as important, open checkbooks. Small-press labels, many run by the artists themselves, began releasing a slew of albums. A DIY community sprang up with its own network of labels, venues and even large-scale festivals. Though many of the musicians shrugged off the “free jazz” label, it seemed to fit. In the decades since, the music has expanded as a kind of umbrella over genres like contemporary composition and noise; the “free jazz” designation can now easily encompass everyone from Swedish horn player Mats
“I’m known as this kind of free jazz person, but my music was never really designed around free jazz. It was the accumulation of watching all of those straight-up, dirty punk bands. What I’m doing is just a filter of that.” Gustafsson to Japanese “noisician” Merzbow. Williams invested his next unemployment check in the ultimate act of hero worship: an alto saxophone. “I wound up spending the next six months in a cold garage, without any major form of entertainment, playing that horn and trying to imitate all of these CDs that I was just obsessively listening to,” he says. “I went kind of crazy.” Despite quite possibly losing most of his mind in that unheated Midwestern garage, Williams still had the foresight to delve deeper into his instrument. After returning to Duval, Williams spent four years of intensive study with saxophonist Matt Vance at Florida State College at Jacksonville and an additional three years with multi-instrumentalist Lou Moore, learning the ins and outs of the horn, as well as the vernacular and “changes” of jazz. “I do have formal skills,” he says. “So to speak.”
‘NO ONE SHOWED UP’
In 2004, Williams began to make his presence known on what he calls the “fourth wave” of the Jacksonville noise and improv scene.
“People like Jay Peele were doing this when I was still in college,” Williams says. “Back then, it was the perfect time and place. Everyone was accepting and everyone had a unique voice. You had psychedelic noise freaks and then guys that just played electronic foot pedals. You had experimental visual artists, but really very few people that actually played instruments and were improvising in a jazz form.” Williams was welcomed with open arms and minds, and earned respect for his innate skills at strangling otherworldly sounds out of his horn — shrapnel-like staccatoed split tones and sustained, twisting drones that sounded like a wall of Marshall stacks on the verge of implosion. In 2005, he started his Vantage Bulletin imprint, eventually releasing more than a dozen solo and group recordings. He formed the 12-piece thrash jazz band TRAPBOMB, a kind of slam-pit-ready version of Brötzmann’s eardrum-splitting ensembles. In 2009, Williams began organizing local Pre-International Noise Conference gigs as a kind of warm-up to Miami’s annual INC festival, a gathering that attracts a global roster of free jazz/noise/improv players. His next logical step was to create a venue, which he did in 2012 with the +SoLo space on Bay Street in Downtown Jacksonville. While short-lived, +SoLo allowed Williams the chance to fortify the local scene, as well as invite other improv players to the area. Starting in 2013, Williams began participating in the usually staid Jacksonville Jazz Festival with his now annual “Truth is Marching In — an Albert Ayler Commemoration.” (In addition, he headlined Folio Weekly’s inaugural “Deep Underground: The Unofficial, Unauthorized Pre-Jazz Fest Throwdown.”) Williams also founded the Experimental Arts Union of Florida (EAUF) collective. Since its inception in 2011, EAUF has brought some of the biggest names in improv music to Northeast Florida: Tatsuya Nakatani, Eugene Chadbourne and Jaap Blonk are but a few of the players. In June of last year, Williams’ devotion to the music hit a satisfying note when he brought in multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and his original hero, Peter Brötzmann. “He was a cold, stern fella,” Williams says with a laugh, recounting his talk with the elder statesman. “But he’s all work. Those guys just DECEMBER 3-9, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 13
want to crash for a while, get up and play the gig and split. And I can understand. It’s their job.” While Williams is grateful that we now live in a digital age where these players are “obtainable,” his attempts at luring major players to the area have been more creatively satisfying than financially lucrative. “We got 15 people at the Chris Corsano gig and four people at Jeremiah Cymerman’s show. At Jack Wright’s performance, no one showed up. I couldn’t even attend because I had to be at a wedding — and I paid for the fucking show!”
‘KILL THE RECORD’
Nearly 40 years after a snapshot was taken at that bombsite on an island in the western Pacific of a toddler clutching a Mickey Mouse
doll, Williams has somehow come full circle to the gates of the Magic Kingdom. “You can’t escape Disney,” he says. “We’re in Florida. What do we have? Oranges, Disney and bath salt zombies.” At this week’s Sun-Ray performance, Williams and his [neu]Sonics Orchestra will play an hour-long set of Disney music favorites, including the “Mickey Mouse March/Mickey Mouse Alma Mater,” “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “A Spoonful of Sugar” and “It’s a Small World.” Only they won’t sound anything like you’re imagining in your head. Williams began ruminating on this music in October 2013. He was, he says, drawn to the quality of the compositions and the disarming effect it has on most listeners: “It’s beautiful
music. You can dance right across it and it’s up to you to determine how to decorate it.” He points out that other jazz heavyweights have tackled the Disney songbook before him. “Sun Ra played the music and Coltrane did it with ‘Chim Chim Cherree.’ I’m wondering why they didn’t do even more of this.” In addition to Williams’ role as arranger, conductor and soprano sax terrorist, the big band features local players as well as visiting musicians from Miami, Tampa and Orlando, and includes: Tim Albro, AJ Herring, Joe Yorio, Malory Domio, Dan Kozak, Dayna Osan, Thomas Milovac, Dana Fasano (disclosure: senior graphic designer at Folio Weekly), Shana David, Joe Soranaka, AG Davis, Charles Pagano, Jeremy Nix, Tony Steve, Evan Peterson, Jim Ivy,
Jordan Thomas Aldridge, Jack Allen, Jay Peele and Chris Spohn. Williams will lead the band with an experimental conducting method known as conduction, first popularized by avant-garde cornetist-composer Butch Morris. The method allows the bandleader to guide, coax and encourage large-scale improvisation while keeping the group from riding off the rails into total disarray. Though that could happen, too. “It’s all hand cues, and the rules of the performance are very basic: increase or lower volume, stop and start,” Williams says. He’s created what he calls a “bracket system,” where within the big band, smaller “squads” of players have their respective leader. If that particular player feels like branching out from the general theme, he or she will cue Williams, creating several streams of improvisation inside the larger ensemble. Williams believes that by injecting the Disney music into the roar of improv, he’s creating almost-unconscious senses of curiosity and inclusion. “I play these extreme techniques on my horn and no one can relate to an extended technique by itself, but if you play those same techniques over ‘It’s a Small World’? Everyfucking-body on the planet says, ‘I know that song! And what in the hell is he doing?’” While Williams and his orchestra perform, Sun-Ray owner Tim Massett will be projecting films behind them: bits from Pinocchio, Snow White, Cinderella and Dumbo, maybe some others, if they hold up. “I have several 35mm prints of Disney classics in varying states of decay, all the hits in striking I.B. Technicolor but all being consumed by vinegar syndrome,” Massett says. “One reel from Song of the South might be played if it doesn’t completely fall apart while running through the gate.” Since his obsession with Disney began last year, Williams has been releasing a series of cassettes — yes, cassettes — and clear, handlathed, vinyl 7-inches of solo and group musical assaults on Disney songs on Vantage Bulletin. These are small-run editions, with only a handful of units distributed; the artwork features snarky, punk-rock-style mockups of classic Disney record-and-storybooks like Snow White and Bambi, with the text encouraging the listener to “Crush the pictures … kill the record … destroy the book.” While Disney is most assuredly a kind of universal signifier of all things innocent, whimsical and wondrous, it’s also a corporate behemoth worth $75 billion, and is famously litigious. The company that began with 1928’s Steamboat Willie has also pioneered the art of ironclad intellectual property rights. Last year, Disney went after a Canadian film company that released an animated flick titled Frozen Land that was apparently a little too similar to last year’s Frozen in both subject matter and title. Perhaps more famously, progressive house musician Deadmau5 was slapped with a trademark infringement suit for his logo, which bore a passing resemblance to Mickey Mouse; in a weird twist of legalese irony, Deadmau5 soon responded with his own ceaseand-desist, pointing out that Disney actually used his music without his permission in a Mickey Mouse video. Williams is indifferent — and unsurprisingly defiant — about the prospect of legal action from the Mouse. If Disney wants to sue him, he says, bring it on: He’ll make a T-shirt out of it and thank them for the free publicity. “What are they going to do?” he says. “They’re going to say ‘Please stop, you’re making 50 bucks off of us.’ I’m not worried about them. Who cares? If they sue me for $50,000, I’ll still be playing their songs in a park.’” dbrown@folioweekly.com
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Our Picks Reasons to leave the house this week
REALLY HIGH THE CHINESE ACROBATS
Since its beginnings in 1951, The Chinese Acrobats troupe has been wowing audiences with jaw-dropping, edge-of-your-seat, highflyin’ maneuvers. More than 200 artists have performed with the Beijing-based company throughout the years, many snagging gold and silver awards at international competitions and circus festivals. You’ll thrill to the action of routines like “Global Motorcycling,” “Diving Through Moving Hoops,” “Aerial Tissue Flowers,” and our obvious favorite: “Kicking Bowls to Heads on High Unicycles.” 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $19-$39, floridatheatre.com.
CLASSICAL HANDEL’S “MESSIAH”
If you cringe every time someone starts howling “Hallelujah!” at the top of their lungs this holiday season, don’t blame God (or Cohen or Buckley) – blame Handel! Composed in 1741, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah might be the world’s most famous oratorio, which is essentially a large composition for orchestra, choir and soloists, and this masterpiece of the Baroque era is surely one of the most powerful pieces in classical music. The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs Messiah at 8 p.m. Dec. 5 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, Downtown, $25-$72, jaxsymphony.org.
AMERICANA DELUXE
GAMBLEFEST
Before his death in 1991, Gamble Rogers had become a near-mythical figure for his folk songs and stories celebrating his beloved Florida. Rogers was known as an encouraging force for up-andcoming singer-songwriters in The Sunshine State. Most fittingly, the inaugural Gamble Rogers Fest, a kind of sister event to next spring’s annual Gamblefest, features live performances by folk and Americana artists The Currys (pictured), Flagship Romance, Carlos and Carlos, Wild Shiners, Amy Hendrickson, The WillowWacks, Sam Pacetti, The Rubies and Michael Jordan (not that Michael Jordan, sadly). And there are food trucks, art booths, musical memorabilia and a raffle. Proceeds benefit music education programs. Gates 12:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 209-0367, admission is a suggested minimum donation of $15, pvconcerthall.com.
SPOKE HIGHLY BURRO BAGS SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY
Put the pedal to the metal and ride at Burro Bags’ Seventh Anniversary Race & Party. The local indie-masters of making kickass cycling bags and accessories give local street riders the chance to battle it out during an Alley Cat-style race with a Seven Deadly Sins-theme, as cyclists race through seven checkpoints, ending with prizes and drinks. All racing cyclists must wear a helmet and have front and back lights. Race starts at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at The Letter Shop, 228 E. Forsyth St., Downtown. Registration is $10 and starts at 2:30 p.m. Pre-register for $5 at burrobags.com/blogs/news/156002697-year-anniversary-race-party.
SMOOTH OPERATORS HALL & OATES
While Folio Weekly sees them as “Steely Dan without the hip, jazz chord progressions and dark, cerebral lyrics,” Hall & Oates are undoubtedly kings of blue-eyed soulful rock of the ’70s and ’80s. Known for chart-toppers like “Rich Girl,” “Private Eyes” and “Sara Smile,” these multi-platinum, Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have released a staggering 34 Billboard hits. In recent years, Daryl Hall has been hosting the VH-1 musical collaboration show Live from Daryl’s House while, perhaps most meaningful, John Oates was featured on the cover of Alpacas Magazine! 7 p.m. Dec. 6 (with openers Mutlu) at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $36.50-$86.50, staugamp.sjcvenues.com. 16 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | DECEMBER 3-9, 2014
HORROR BUSINESS
THE MISFITS
The originators of “horror punk” slither into Underbelly this week. Slamming through psychobilly chord progressions and choking out dark lyrics, The Misfits are the O.G.’s (that’s original goths) of the punk world. Their songs have been covered by the likes of Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Pennywise and NOFX, and the band’s current lineup features longtime Misfi t Jerry Only and Black Flag’s Dez Cadena. Expect lots of dark eye makeup, leather, spikes, the band’s signature “devil lock” hairdo and a catalog of 35-plus years of kickass tunes. In typical punk rock fashion, the bill is stacked with way-too-damn-many opening bands (all of whom will likely spend more time setting up than they will actually playing), to wit: The Attack, Disfunction, The Reachers, Minor Influence and One Small Step. 6 p.m. Dec. 6 at Underbelly, Downtown, $20, underbellylive.com.
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A&E // MUSIC alt-J are so wildly successful, they won’t even talk to Folio Weekly about it
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TRIANGLE MEN
lt-J, or ∆ as they would probably rather be printed, don’t seem particularly interested in the spotlight, which is probably pretty tough for them, since they’ve skyrocketed to the top of the British charts and garnered worldwide critical and commercial acclaim. They are an interesting group of guys, from what I can gather. They are indie through and through, but they also had the balls to put a piece of pure pop rock to satisfy (maybe) their label on their newest album. They don’t really seem to be interested in selling their brand, but they have achieved massive success anyhow. When they speak to the press, which is not with any great frequency (feel free to notice the lack of quotations in this story), they talk about being normal guys who aren’t interested in labeling or pigeon-holing their music, which normally would be one of the most cliché things any band could say. Their two most recent albums, however, 2012’s An Awesome Wave and this year’s This Is All Yours beg for classification. Stuffed with folk rhythms, laptop beats, hip-hop references, various beeps and whistles and an actually fairly well-placed Miley Cyrus sample (they’re pals now, which also flies in the face of their oh-so-indie wants and needs), the sound of alt-J is wide and academic. The amount of time, care and instrumentation that’s gone into the arrangements would make Brian Wilson proud, even if the melodies may be a little obstructed sometimes by bird chirps or some strange car alarm sounds. It’s a familiar band story: Members of alt-J met at college in the musically rich North England city of Leeds, which spawned musical acts as diverse as Gang of Four and Spice Girl Mel B. The group — Joe Newman on guitars and vocals, Gus Unger-Hamilton on keys and vocals, and Thom Green on drums (founding member Gwil Sainsbury left earlier this year to pursue a master’s degree) — put their study of the arts to fine use with their first major release, Awesome Wave, a collection that earned a Mercury Prize (Britain’s Grammy, except awarded to artists who put out better albums). Songs like “Tessellate” and “Breezeblocks” are perfect examples of alt-J painting with a wide brush. The success of Awesome Wave put the group in front of newer and bigger audiences, and flooded them with requests for interviews, appearances, photo shoots and the pressures that come with quick success. (Apparently the dudes were much too exhausted to speak to Folio Weekly, even after our repeated requests for an interview. Blegh.)
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Obligatory comparisons to Radiohead have followed them as well, and while they aren’t necessarily unfair comparisons to make, the fact that both bands have laptops and sometimes unnerving male falsetto vocals isn’t enough to make alt-J Radiohead’s heir apparent. And anyway, when was the last time Radiohead had the commercial success alt-J has seen lately? At any rate, I’d bet the ∆ Boyz were probably quite happy to get off the road and the phones and the photo shoots and get back into the studio to work on this year’s This Is All Yours, and it truly is, with as much going on sonically here as there is going on literarily in James Joyce’s Ulysses. This Is All Yours follows a path that, while surely meant to remain flat and easy to navigate, is often littered with so many different threads one could get lost if one did anything other than listen to it for the music itself. What remains from their previous work is the electro-tinged slow drive backed by some nice percussion work by Green and Newman’s scary falsetto; those things are the constants. What has changed is the band’s goal to create an opus by adding as much as they possibly can to the music/lyrics/ themes to make this the equivalent of a fine painting or classic novel. On numbers like “Hunger of the Pine,” “The Gospel of John Hurt” and the collection of “Nara” songs, it works. On other numbers, like “Every Other Freckle,” it sounds like too much effort for effort’s sake. Then there’s the satellite radio darling, “Left Hand Free,” which doesn’t feel like it belongs on This Is All Yours. It’s been rumored the evil American A&R reps said they didn’t hear a single on the album, and so, as a cheeky response, alt-J came back with this riffdriven beer commercial of a song (I think they also went out of their way to make the video as different from their true intentions as they possibly could). The plan backfired, however, as the capitalist Americans loved it and, thus, their next foray into commercial success has begun. Danny Kelly mail@folioweekly.com
The Big Ticket alt-J, FALL OUT BOY, WEEZER, YOUNG THE GIANT, CHEVELLE, NEW POLITICS, J RODDY, BIG DATA, BEAR HANDS, YOUNG RISING SONS and ISLANDER 11 a.m. Dec. 5, Metropolitan Park, 4110 Gator Bowl Blvd., Downtown $39.50; $89.50 VIP, thebigticketfest.com
A&E // MUSIC
QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT with WHITE MYSTERY, THE MOLD and BURNT HAIR 10 p.m. Dec. 9 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, 359-0049, $10
NEW WEIRD INGENUITY
Husband-and-wife duo Quintron & Miss Pussycat meld rhythm, invention, puppetry and weather into an indescribable Big Easy blend
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t’s damn near impossible to succinctly describe the work of New Orleans husband-and-wife pair Quintron & Miss Pussycat. Swamp-tech dance music backed by avant-garde puppetry? Electronic noise jolted by naturalistic pulses? Mad scientist inventions brought to life by weatherborne vibrations? How about latter-day saints of new, weird American ingenuity? All of these assessments are accurate, though none encompass the whole of Robert “Quintron” Rolston and Panacea “Miss Pussycat” Theriac. Quintron grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and St. Louis, Missouri, before moving to Chicago and eventually New Orleans, where he perfected his organ-and-drum-machine-driven one-man-band show. Meanwhile, Miss Pussycat was raised in a religious Oklahoma household, where she studied puppetry and oil painting before opening the Pussycat Caverns puppet theater in New Orleans. That’s where the two met in the early ’90s. Since then, they’ve merged their outsider art in compelling, often inexplicable ways. Quintron is responsible for the Spit Machine, a saliva-fueled hand organ; the Drum Buddy, a light-activated analog synthesizer; and, most recently, the Weather Warlock, a drone synthesizer that converts weather patterns into electronic sound. Theriac has produced several absurd full-length puppet movies famous in New Orleans for featuring the gumbolaced voices and personalities of local political, culinary, musical and literary celebrities. But it’s the overall package that defines Quintron & Miss Pussycat. On tour, she puts on puppet shows before backing his concerts. DIY up to their eyeballs, they operate their own label, Rhinestone Records, and their own private club, the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward (they live upstairs). Yet the couple are also road warriors, spending a good chunk of the year performing in dive bars, pizza parlors and, lately, art museums, libraries and universities. By day, they give educational presentations to schoolchildren and lectures on their creativity; they’ve exhibited work and made records inside the New Orleans Museum of Art, and this year marks their second consecutive Art Basel Miami Beach appearance next month. But by night, their raucous live show takes over. It’s a blend that Quintron says he and his wife are comfortable with. “I’m from a music background and don’t necessarily feel a strong personal connection with the art world,” Quintron says. “To be appreciated in that realm is certainly nice, but I think it has a lot wrong with it — or a lot I don’t understand.”
Quintron & Miss Pussycat’s current tour, which ends this week at Sun-Ray Cinema, follows up their October album, Spellcaster II: Death in Space. Mostly instrumental and built around psychedelic sounds created by broken organs, vibraphones and the aforementioned Weather Warlock, it’s a departure from the duo’s past party-jam aesthetic. It was originally written as the soundtrack for a Big Easy filmmaker’s sci-fi flick, and Quintron says it’s a long-awaited continuation of his 1997 debut album, Spellcaster. Yet everything still revolves around their fascination with rhythm. “It’s very organ-focused and mood-oriented rather than song-oriented,” Quintron says of the new album and tour set list. “A lot of it is really incidental, improvised stuff for drones, so we only play half the record live. Some pieces are purely studio creations made on weird, old instruments that I couldn’t take on tour, like a Lowrey Magic Genie, which is one of my favorite ’70s-era synth organs. I’m a drummer in my deepest soul, but this record doesn’t have such a heavy reliance on the drum machine. It’s more pulsing from the organs.” The most intriguing pulses, however, come from the Weather Warlock, which has sensors that detect changes in sunlight, wind, rain and temperature and carry that information via copper wires to a synthesizer, which then emits drones based around an E major chord. (Sounds generated by the original device can be streamed 24/7 at weatherfortheblind.org.) But Quintron has brought a more recent prototype, which he completed during a residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva, Florida, earlier this year, on the road for three special performances in Chicago, Brooklyn and Miami (on Dec. 7 — road trip, anyone?). “I finished this one in Florida by tuning it to the very intense UVs that are part of the climate there, where it was always very windy with tropical rain that would blow in and out,” Quintron says. “Different from New Orleans but not that dissimilar. It has to be played at sunset, though, which is not the most convenient time for everybody. We played it for the first time [on Nov. 13] in Chicago, and I didn’t realize sunset is so fucking early up here. The UV started activating the sun sensor at 4:15 p.m. But it was awesome. A super-heavy loud rock thing. I wanted it to be totally in tune with what the weather was doing but kind of represent the more evil side of Mother Nature.” Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com DECEMBER 3-9, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 19
A&E // MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Dec. 3 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247. RICER 8 p.m. Dec. 3 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, 353-6067, $5. TEACH ME EQUALS 8 p.m. Dec. 3 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188, $5. JULIE DURDEN, ANNALISE EMERICK 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008. ANTHONY HAMILTON 8 p.m. Dec. 4 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $40-$65, 355-2787. RED BEARD & STINKY E 9 p.m. Dec. 4 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. The Big Ticket: alt-J, FALL OUT BOY, WEEZER, YOUNG THE GIANT, CHEVELLE, NEW POLITICS, J RODDY, BIG DATA, BEAR HANDS, YOUNG RISING SONS, KNOX HAMILTON, SLEEPER
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AGENT 11 a.m. Dec. 5 at Metropolitan Park, 4110 Gator Bowl Blvd., Downtown, $39.50; $89.50 VIP, thebigticketfest.com. DARREL RAE 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. HUNTER HAYES 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 603-3900, $31.50-$44. SPANKY 9 p.m. Dec. 5 & 6 at Whitey’s Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 269-4198. LOUISE MOSRIE, CLIFF EBERHARDT 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5, Mudville Music Room. KOFFIN KATS 8 p.m. Dec. 5, Burro Bar. BILLY WRIGHT, CLAYTON BUSH, CAMI LUNDEEN, MICKEEL 8 p.m. Dec. 5 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8. TRINA 9 p.m. Dec. 5 at Aqua Nightclub & Lounge, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 997-2063, $25-$40, gobigentertainment.net. WHO RESCUED WHO 10 p.m. Dec. 5 at Lynch’s Irish Pub, 514 First St. N., Jax Beach, 249-5181. LAST TO LEAVE 10 p.m. Dec. 5 & 6, Flying Iguana. St. Augustine Distillery Sugar Cane Harvest: JJ GREY, THE SUS-TONES 9:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at Planet! Sarbez!, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 342-0632, admission is $5 donation toward raffle prize; wear your ugliest sweater for a prize. RIVERNECKS 11 a.m. Dec. 6 at KYV Farm, 7086 C.R. 16A, St. Augustine, $5, 825-4962, staugustinedistillery.com. Gamble Rogers Fest: THE CURRYS, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, CARLOS AND CARLOS, WILD SHINERS, AMY HENDRICKSON, THE RUBIES, SAM PACETTI, THE WILLOWWACKS, MICHAEL JORDAN 12:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0367, suggested donation $15. FOZZY, TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION, SHAMAN’S HARVEST, OF TRIBE AND TRUTH, DAMNEDGED, IMMERSION, STAYNE THEE ANGEL 6 p.m. Dec. 6, Aqua Nightclub & Lounge, $15-$60, gobigentertainment.net. JOHN CARVER BAND, LOUISE MOSRIE, FJORD EXPLORER Dec. 6, Riverside Arts Market BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR, WHITNEY PEYTON 7 p.m. Dec. 6 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $17. SAMUEL SANDERS DUO, TRAE PIERCE & T-STONE Starting at 7 p.m. Dec. 6 at Latitude 360. THE MISFITS, THE ATTACK 7 p.m. Dec. 6 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 699-8186, $15. DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, MUTLU 7 p.m. Dec. 6 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340C A1A S., St. Augustine, 209-0367,
$36.50-$86.50. THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, BILLY NERSHI 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20. EVICTION, OSCAR MIKE, WHAT HEARTS 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Jack Rabbits, $8. SHONLOCK, DJ WILL, CLC, PREXXY PREX 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Westside, 388-7807, $8-$15. JUBILEE RIOTS 9 p.m. Dec. 6 at Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $15. BOBBY JO VALENTINE 6 p.m. Dec. 7, Junior League of Jacksonville’s Riverside House, 2165 Park St., $15, 387-2020. MODERN BASEBALL, KNUCKLE PUCK, SOMOS 7 p.m. Dec. 7, Underbelly, $13. SONIC THIEVES 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, Latitude 360. CORY BRANAN, JON SNODGRASS 8 p.m. Dec. 7 at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969. QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT, WHITE MYSTERY, THE MOLD, BURNT HAIR 10 p.m. Dec. 9 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, 359-0049, $10. SARAH MAC BAND 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10, Mudville Music Room. WHITE MYSTERY, THE RIVERNECKS, SCAVUZZOS 9 p.m. Dec. 10, Shanghai Nobby’s, $6. ROCKAPELLA HOLIDAY REVUE 7 p.m. Dec. 10 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, free.
UPCOMING CONCERTS CALE DODDS Dec. 11, Mavericks at the Landing PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 11, Mudville Music Room THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER CHRISTMAS SHOW Dec. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TRAMPLED BY TURTLES, NIKKI LANE Dec. 12, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Society for the Prevention of Suicide Benefit: SINCLAIR, JULIE DURDEN Dec. 12, Mudville Music Room FIREHOUSE Dec. 12, Mavericks at the Landing WE THE KINGS Dec. 12, Jack Rabbits J-LIVE Dec. 12, rain dogs. 100 WATT VIPERS, SUNPILOTS, HIGHER GROUND Dec. 12, Freebird Live HERD OF WATTS Dec. 12 & 13, Flying Iguana ALLEN TOUSSAINT Dec. 13, Ritz Theatre JACK MENTZEL Dec. 13, Mudville Music Room BRIAN POSEHN Dec. 13, Underbelly WHOLE WHEAT BREAD Dec. 13, Burro Bar DIERKS BENTLEY Dec. 13, Glynn County Football Stadium ZULU WAVE, WRAY, GLORIES, STRANGE LORDS, TAMBOR, BURL, THE WEIGHTED HANDS, DREDGER, GHOST TROPIC Dec. 13, Shanghai Nobby’s WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE Dec. 14, The Florida Theatre ARS PHOENIX, SEVERED+SAID, IRONING, SUPER FAMICOM, DJ VAS TOY, COLD WASTE, VERANEAR, RAIN SYMBOLS Dec. 14, Shanghai Nobby’s FULL BODY TONES Dec. 14, Jack Rabbits PAPERCUTT Dec. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre FINE ART OF JAZZ TRIBUTE TO MARY LOU WILLIAMS Dec. 16, Ritz Theatre A PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS: RICK BRAUN, MINDI ABAIR Dec. 16, The Florida Theatre BAD SANTA, GRANT PEEPLES Dec. 17, Mudville Music Room JOE BONAMASSA Dec. 17, The Florida Theatre GUNTHER DOG, CONCORD AMERICA Dec. 17, Nobby’s JOSH GRACIN Dec. 18, Mavericks at the Landing BOWZER & THE STINGRAYS, HERMAN’S HERMITS & PETER NOONE, GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP Dec. 18, The Florida Theatre ASTRONAUTALIS, YONI WOLF, BLUEBIRD Dec. 18, Jack Rabbits TRACE ADKINS Dec. 19, The Florida Theatre
A&E // MUSIC MOFRO frontman JJ GREY performs a solo set at St. Augustine Distillery Sugar Cane Harvest on Dec. 6.
CHRIS BROWN Dec. 19, Veterans Memorial Arena WOLF FACE Dec. 19, Shanghai Nobby’s BLACK CAT BONES Dec. 19, Flying Iguana BRANCH & DEAN Dec. 20, Mavericks at the Landing STRANGLED DARLINGS Dec. 20, Burro Bar RUBY BEACH, SPIRAL BOUND Dec. 20, Riverside Arts Market BOBBY LEE RODGERS Dec. 20, Freebird Live GINORMOUS J Dec. 20, Flying Iguana A SWAMP RADIO CHRISTMAS Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre DJ ICEY, BABY ANNE Dec. 25, Eclipse Nightclub “3” Dec. 26, Flying Iguana INSPECTION 12 Dec. 27, Freebird Live RYAN CRARY, JOHNNY FLOOD Dec. 27, Flying Iguana DIGGY SIMMONS Dec. 27, Times-Union Center GROSS EVOLUTION Dec. 27, Across the Street FORSAKEN PROFITS, ROTTEN STITCHES Dec. 30, Burro Bar THE CORBITT BROTHERS BAND, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Dec. 31, Freebird Live STACEY Q. Dec. 31, Hamburger Mary’s DARYL HANCE, BRENT BYRD & THE SUITCASE GYPSIES Jan. 3, Underbelly DON WILLIAMS Jan. 7, The Florida Theatre ’70s Soul Jam: THE SPINNERS, THE STYLISTICS, THE MAIN INGREDIENT Jan. 8, The Florida Theatre FRED EAGLESMITH Jan. 9, Café Eleven Winter Jam: SKILLET, JEREMY CAMP, FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI, BUILDING 429, FOR KING & COUNTRY, NEWSONG, FAMILY FORCE 5, TONY NOLAN, BLANCA, ABOUT A MILE, VERIDIA Jan. 9, Veterans Memorial Arena MISERY HEAD, CRASHMIR, THE EMBRACED Jan. 10, Freebird Live ASKMEIFICARE Jan. 10, Jack Rabbits LUCINDA WILLIAMS & HER BAND Jan. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PENNYWISE, ANTI-FLAG, A WILHELM SCREAM Jan. 13, Freebird Live MIRANDA SINGS Jan. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TIM EASTON, HEATHER PIERSON Jan. 14, Mudville Music Room LETTUCE Jan. 15, Mavericks J.W. TELLER Jan. 16, Burro Bar MARTYPARTY Jan. 16, Freebird Live TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Jan. 16, The Florida Theatre THE BOTH, LAURA JANE GRACE Jan. 16, P.V. Concert Hall
LINCOLN DURHAM Jan. 24, Jack Rabbits MERLE HAGGARD Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre EARPHUNK Jan. 27, Freebird Live CRUEL HAND, FRAMEWORKS Jan. 27, Burro Bar ARLO GUTHRIE Jan. 29, The Florida Theatre GALACTIC Jan. 29, Freebird Live DAVID WILCOX Jan. 29, Café Eleven URSAMINOR, SURVIVING SEPTEMBER, THE HEALING PROCESS, NOCTURNAL STATE OF MIND Jan. 31, Freebird Live JACKSONVEGAS, MASTER RADICAL Jan. 31, Underbelly GLEN HANSARD Feb. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TRAVIS TRITT Feb. 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE PIANO GUYS Feb. 6, The Florida Theatre VINCE GILL & TIME JUMPERS Feb. 7, The Florida Theatre JOE CROOKSTON Feb. 7, Mudville Music Room INGRID MICHAELSON Feb. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE WAILERS Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JON SHAIN, RUPERT WATES Feb. 12, Mudville Music Room
CASE Jan. 16, Ritz Theatre SANDY HACKETT’S RAT PACK SHOW Jan. 16, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater MONROE CROSSING Jan. 16, Mudville Music Room DIANE SCHUUR Jan. 17, Ritz Theatre HARDIN & BURNS Jan. 17, Mudville Music Room THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA Jan. 18, FSCJ Wilson Center OF MONTREAL, NEDELLE TORRISI Jan. 19, Freebird Live SHOVELS & ROPE, CAROLINE ROSE Jan. 20, P.V. Concert Hall KRIS ALLEN Jan. 21, Jack Rabbits GAELIC STORM Jan 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Jan. 21, Freebird Live KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 22, The Florida Theatre BILL GAITHER & FRIENDS Jan. 23, Veterans Memorial Arena IRIS DEMENT Jan. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NOTHIN’ FANCY Jan. 24, Mudville Music Room
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A&E // MUSIC ANA POPVIC Feb. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES Salute the Music of The Rat Pack Feb. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall HARRY CONNICK JR. Feb. 15, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts SOJA, THE GREEN Feb. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOHN HAMMOND Feb. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO Feb. 20, The Florida Theatre SOMMORE, TONY ROCK, GARY OWEN, HUGGY LOWDOWN Feb. 20, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts ETHAN TUCKER, MICHAEL FRANTI Feb. 20, Freebird Live DENNIS DeYOUNG & The Music of Styx Feb. 21, Florida Theatre LUCERO, RYAN BINGHAM Feb. 21, Freebird Live R.L. GRIME Feb. 22, Freebird Live JACKSON BROWNE Feb. 23, The Florida Theatre THE MIDTOWN MEN Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, MARSHALL TUCKER BAND Feb. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RITE BOYS Feb. 27, Jack Rabbits ’68 Feb. 28, Underbelly STRINGFEVER March 5, Café Eleven Aura Music & Arts Festival: MOE, DISCO BISCUITS, McLOVINS, GHOST OWL, PAPADOSIO, THE MAIN SQUEEZE, PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG, March 6-8, Spirit of Suwannee Music Park THREE DOG NIGHT March 10, The Florida Theatre JOURNEY, STEVE MILLER BAND, TOWER OF POWER March 12, Veterans Memorial Arena FULLSET March 12, Mudville Music Room JOHN MELLENCAMP March 15, Times-Union Center Suwannee Spring Festival: THE WOOD BROTHERS, SHOVELS AND ROPE, INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, KELLER WILLIAMS & THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, THE LARRY KEEL EXPERIENCE, DONNA THE BUFFALO, JIM LAUDERDALE, JOE CRAVEN March 19, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park CYRUS CHESTNUT March 20, Ritz Theatre THE B-52s March 21, The Florida Theatre MAVIS STAPLES March 21, Ritz Theatre JACKIE EVANCHE March 22, The Florida Theatre AGNOSTIC FRONT, COLDSIDE March 22, Burro Bar SARAH McLACHLAN March 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NICKELBACK March 25, Veterans Memorial Arena Slide into Spring Music & Craft Beer Festival: MATISYAHU, RAILROAD EARTH, THE WAILERS, TURKUAZ, THE SUPERVILLAINS, THE FRITZ, SPIRITUAL REZ, TRAE PIERCE & T-STONE BAND, CORBITT BROTHERS, POST PLUTO March 28-29, Main Beach, Fernandina Beach BRONX WANDERERS March 29, The Florida Theatre JANIS IAN, TOM PAXTON April 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE ORCHESTRA April 11, The Florida Theatre WANEE MUSIC FESTIVAL April 16-18, Suwannee Music Park THE WHO HITS 50! TOUR April 19, Veterans Memorial Arena RAIN April 24, The Florida Theatre WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE April 25 & 26, Metropolitan Park CHRIS BOTTI April 30, The Florida Theatre ZZ TOP, JEFF BECK May 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ED KOWALCZYK May 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Florida Country Superfest: ZAC BROWN BAND, KEITH URBAN, BRANTLEY GILBERT, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, DAVID NAIL, COLT FORD, DANIELLE BRADBERY, THE SWON BROTHERS June 13 & 14, EverBank Field
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer every Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing 6 p.m. Fri. & Sat.
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GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith every Thur. Yancy Clegg every Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue. HAMMERHEAD, 2045 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-7783 DJ Refresh 9 p.m. every Sun. PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre. St., 491-3332 Wes Cobb every Wed. Schnockered every Sun. Buck Smith every Tue. THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-8999 Live music every Fri. & Sat.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores 9 p.m. every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance 9 p.m. every Fri. Live music every Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Squeedlepuss Dec. 4. Herd of Watts Dec. 5. Crusoe Dec. 6. Live music every Thur.-Sat.
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Supernatural 6 p.m. Dec. 4. Jetty Cats 6 p.m. Dec. 5. Reggae SWAT Team 3 p.m. Dec. 7. Open mic every Wed. BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Ste. 35, Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. Dec. 3. Open mic Wed. CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Irish music 6:30 p.m. every Sun. DJ Hal every Sat. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 Last to Leave 10 p.m. Dec. 5 & 6. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Red Beard & Stinky E 10 p.m. every Thur. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. every Sun. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 The Travelin’ McCourys, Billy Nershi 8 p.m. Dec. 6. 100 Watt Vipers, Sunpilots, Higher Ground Dec. 12. Live music every weekend. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade 6 p.m. every Sun. Back From the Brink 9 p.m. every Mon. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Whetherman Dec. 5. OctOpal Jazz Dec. 6. Live music every Fri. & Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Who Rescued Who 10 p.m. Dec. 5. Uncommon Legends Dec. 6. Dirty Pete every Wed. Split Tone every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Who Rescued Who every Sun. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Blue Muse Dec. 3. Continuum Dec. 4. Ivey West Band Dec. 5 MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer 6 p.m. Thur. NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Live music every night NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Job Meiller 7 p.m. Dec. 4. Larry & the Backtracks Dec. 5. Sidetrack 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Taylor Roberts Dec. 4. Live music every Thur., Fri. & Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Live music Thur.-Sun. WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508 Live music every Thur. and Fri. ZETA BREWING COMPANY, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Live music every Thur.-Mon.
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Blood on the Dance Floor, Whitney Peyton 7 p.m. Dec. 6. Open mic jam every Mon.
A&E // MUSIC BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 353-4686 Ricer 8 p.m. Dec. 3. Koffin Kats Dec. 5. Burro Bags Seventh Anniversary Party Dec. 6 FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6-9 p.m. Dec. 3 & 5. Jig to a Milestone 6-9 p.m. Dec. 10. Chris C4Mann 8 p.m. Dec. 12. Live music every Fri. & Sat. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Nashville Vocal Coach Students Dec. 3. America’s Little Leaders Chorus, John Love Elementary Chorus, Bennett Bee’s, Sophisticated Gents Dec. 4. Sabal Palm Chorus, Pine Forest Dance & Chorus, Singing Jags, Flyers Jazz Ensemble; Lisa & the Madhatters 9 p.m. Dec. 5. Linda Nelson & Company, Fascination Rhythm, Poefaces Inc. The Band, Abyssine Baptist Church; George Aspinall Band 9 p.m. Dec. 6. 418 Band 4-9 p.m. Dec. 7. Pine Castle Chorus, Bayview Elementary, St. Paul’s Catholic School Choir, Nease High School Chorus Dec. 9 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis every Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ 007 every Fri. Bay Street every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Cale Dodds 6 p.m. Dec. 11. FireHouse 6 p.m. Dec. 12. Joe Buck, Big Tasty every Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 The Misfits, The Attack 7 p.m. Dec. 6. Modern Baseball, Knuckle Puck, Somos 7 p.m. Dec. 7
FLEMING ISLAND
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Stava Mala 9 p.m. Dec. 4. Seven Street Band 9 p.m. Dec. 6 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Spanky 9 p.m. Dec. 5 & 6. DJ Throwback 8 p.m. every Thur. Deck music 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 4:30 p.m. every Sun.
INTRACOASTAL WEST
CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Live music every Fri. & Sat. DJ Big Rob every Thur., Sun. & Tue. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Live music every Fri. & Sat. YOUR PLACE, 13245 Atlantic Blvd., 221-9994 Radiolove Dec. 4. Clayton Bush Band Dec. 5. The Druids 10 p.m. Dec. 6.
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Open mic: Synergy 8 p.m. every Wed. World’s Most Talented Waitstaff at 9 p.m. every Fri.
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells, 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 DJ Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Chrome Heart 10 p.m. Dec. 5 & 6. DJ Corey B every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat.
PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY
PUSSER’S CARIBBEAN GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Live music every Wed.-Sun. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Deron Baker Dec. 3. Gary Starling Jazz Band Dec. 4. Darren Corlew Dec. 5. Paxton & Mike 6 p.m. Dec. 6 & 10. Live music Thur.-Sun.
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Scott Elley 8:30 p.m. Dec. 3. Backwater Bible Salesman 9 p.m. Dec. 5 & 8 MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Shonlock, DJ Will, CLC, Prexxy Prex 8 p.m. Dec. 6 rain dogs., 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Cory Brannan, Jon
Snodgrass Dec. 7. J-Live Dec. 12 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 John Carver Band, Louise Mosrie, Fjord Explorer starting at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 6 TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 4syTe, Chelle Wilson 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5
ST. AUGUSTINE
CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Jubilee Riots 9 p.m. Dec. 6 THE CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 The Committee 7 p.m. Dec. 5. SMG 2 p.m., Oh No 7 p.m. Dec. 6. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. Dec. 7 MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19-1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Live music every night PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM, 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100 Michael Howard 3 p.m. every Mon.-Fri. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Teach Me Equals 8 p.m. Dec. 3. White Mystery, The Rivernecks, Scavuzzos 9 p.m. Dec. 10. SHFB Burlesque Show Dec. 12 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Hooch 9 p.m. Dec. 5 & 6. Matanzas every Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth 1 p.m. every Sat.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013 Dance Radio Underground, Sugar & Cream, Black Hoodie, Bass Therapy Sessions 10 p.m., Allan GIz-Roc Oteyza, Scott Perry aka TrapNasty and Cry Havoc rotate, mid.-3 a.m. every Fever Saturday JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Billy Wright, Clayton Bush, Cami Lundeen, Mickeel 8 p.m. Dec. 5. Eviction, Oscar Mike, What Hearts 8 p.m. Dec. 6. Motopony 8 p.m. Dec. 10. We the Kings 8 p.m. Dec. 12. MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Julie Durden, Annalise Emerick, Meredith Rae Woodard, Karyn Black, Brenna Erikson 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4. Louise Mosrie, Cliff Eberhardt 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5. Sarah Mac Band 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10. Pierce Pettis 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS
AQUA NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 21, 334-2122 Trina 9 p.m. Dec. 5. Fozzy, Texas Hippie Coalition, Shaman’s Harvest, Of Tribe and Truth, Damnedged, Immersion, Stayne Thee Angel 6 p.m. Dec. 6 COMEDY CLUB, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 8, 646-4277 Fascinating Rhythm Orchestra 7 p.m. every 1st & 3rd Wed. DANCIN DRAGON 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat. LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Be Easy Dec. 4. Darrel Rae 7 p.m. Dec. 5. Samuel Sanders Duo, Trae Pierce & T-Stone Dec. 6. Sonic Thieves 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 997-1955 Charlie Walker Dec. 4. Whetherman Dec. 6. Live music every Thur.-Sat. MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, 9550 Baymeadows, 737-5299 Aaron Sheeks Dec. 3. Dirty Pete Dec. 4. Carl & the Black Lungs Dec. 6. Live music every night WILD WING CAFÉ, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Chris Brinkley 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 Split Tone 9 p.m. Dec. 5. Live music every Fri. & Sat.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
HIGHWAY 17 ROADHOUSE, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Live music most weekends THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 This Frontier Needs Heroes Dec. 6. MauFeSha Production 8 p.m. Dec. 8. Open mic every Thur.
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THE KNIFE
BAR CODE: TIPS FOR LOVING YOUR FAVORITE COVER BAND I n the 20-some-odd years I have been writing about music, I have penned exactly one piece on cover bands. Until now, that is. This is No. 2. Usually I take the moral high ground and write only about original music, the idea being that original music is culturally important in a singular way, requiring work beyond simply learning a familiar song. You have to write it yourself, find a way to perform it and take responsibility for it. That last part is kind of huge, and it can make or break you as an artist. But after some deep consideration, I realized every musician on the planet began his or her career playing covers. Every one. Hell, the most respected musicians in the world — classical musicians — make their livings playing covers. Ones written by the greatest composers in history, but covers nonetheless. So cover musicians: This one’s for you. Like my brethren, I’ve spent my “professional music” life playing covers off and on since I was 15 years old. That’s more than 30 years. In this time, I have discovered some hard truths about working musicians, and very little of it is pretty. It’s a thankless job, one filled with late nights in dirty clubs competing with belligerent drunks and TV screens. As fruitless as it may seem, I offer this list of eight things you can do as consumers of cover music to make musicians’ lives totally excellent. • Always approach the band mid-song to request a song different from the one they’re playing. Try to time this interruption so it coincides with the big chorus, because a lead singer wants to be distracted while trying to remember the lyrics to one of hundreds of covers while entertaining a half-interested group of steadily rotating clientele. If you can, grab the singer by the arm and pull him away from his mic, whisper in his ear some unintelligible song title, then walk away mad when he politely rebuffs you. Truth is, he wants to kick you in the crotch for being so rude. You just got off easy. • Always touch the instruments: Musicians have lots of disposable income to spend on broken gear, and the thing they enjoy most is when strangers — especially drunk strangers — leap onto the bandstand and touch, grab or fondle their instruments. Guitarists love having their pedal boards stomped on. Bass players love having their knobs twiddled. And drummers — oh man, if you can knock over a cymbal! That really makes their evening. • Do not, under any circumstances, tip the band. They make plenty of bank. Seriously, that jar? The one that says “Tips”? It’s mere affectation, a vestige of the old days, when musicians were paid a pittance to crank out “Mustang Sally” and “Brown-Eyed Girl.” These days, the weekly salary of musicians has climbed
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to unimaginable heights. (Unimaginable being the operative word.) Here’s the truth of it: A typical cover musician clears about $100 per gig. This may seem at least decent for the three cumulative hours she spends on stage. But a gig night is — including drive time, set-up and breakdown of gear and waiting for the staff to close out the registers at 2 a.m. so you can get paid — a six-hour-plus proposition. Total hourly take for the night: $15. So … do not tip. At all. Ever. • Yell “Free Bird!” as often as possible. Because it’s really, really funny. At least your drunk friends think it is; that’s because they’re really, really drunk. The band thinks it’s hilarious, too, because their version includes ripping your face off and throwing it at your really, really drunk friends. In my cover band, we honor that request — then butcher the hell out of it. Many times, the requester and his really, really drunk friends will leave the bar. More often, they’re so wasted they sing and dance right along. And that’s so awesome and fun! • Always ask if you can sit in. Be sure to say things like, “Yeah, I played the Branford County Annual Muffin Festival with Gregg Allman’s cousin’s band.” Or, “Yeah, I know how to play.” If you really want to endear yourself to professionals, ask if your entire band can play a few songs. You know, get the guys up there and do “Mustang Sally,” “Brown-Eyed Girl” and maybe even “Free Bird.” • Watch sports. Musicians know you’d rather stay in the comfort of your own home watching the big game, and we appreciate that you made the trip to the live local music venue to watch it instead. It’s an effort to focus on those TV screens while musicians are making all that racket, and we know that you sitting there with your back turned is a labor of love. When you and your jersey-wearing buddies cheer midsong for your team doing that special thing they do, we just pretend you’re cheering for us. Win-win. • While the band’s setting up or breaking down: Hover. Get up real close and chat up the guitar player about his rig. Tell him how amazing your gear is, and that it’s pristine because it never leaves the house. Stand on his cables, if you can, as he tries to roll them up. Ask the drummer if you can help him strike his kit, and before he answers, fold up his snare stand in a way that makes it impossible to position the snare correctly ever again. Get in the bass player’s face and tell him you have a six-string bass. A six-string! • Finally and most important: Always, always, always … request “Piano Man” from a band that has no keyboard player. John E. Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com
A&E // MOVIES
A HOLIDAY IN HELL
Picking through the dregs of the worst Christmas movies
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know! I know! ’Tis the season to be jolly, and all that … but ’tis also that time of year when I am reminded of all the truly horrible, really bad holiday movies. Between Black Friday and Christmas, we’ll watch or buy just about anything seasonal regardless of quality. For that reason, I’ve compiled this list of Christmas-themed fi lms that should be avoided at all cost if one hopes to retain a modicum of taste or dignity in his or her viewing habits, and still walk away with a tinge of seasonal spirit. Avoid all remakes and sequels. The first Home Alone was clever; the first sequel merely rehashed the original, while all the original cast members (with wallets already a-bulging) bailed out of the dreadful 3 and 4. The dreck kept flowing, however, in a 2012 TV follow-up called Home Alone: The Holiday Heist. Stick to the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947) with Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle. Neither Richard Attenborough nor Sebastian Cabot in the later film and TV adaptations came close to the magic of the first one. And Natalie Wood played the jaded child Susan whose belief system was forever changed. She was truly a talent. While I’m at it, you should probably skip just about every other Christmas film with the word “miracle” or “holiday” in the title. Any Christmas movie with former bodybuilders or tough guys trying to be funny should be avoided as well. I call to witness Jingle All the Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger and, in the same year (1996), the even more unspeakably awful Santa with Muscles starring Hulk Hogan. Continuing in my humbug mode, I suggest you select for viewing the 1951 British version of A Christmas Carol (with the incomparable Alastair Sim as everyone’s favorite grumpy skinflint). Of the 20-plus other film renditions (mostly execrable) of Dickens’ cautionary tale, a few have been OK (like Scrooged with Bill Murray and Bobcat Goldthwait or the 1970 musical version with Albert Finney), but why settle for second or third best when Sim’s Scrooge is still the apex? And fortheluvagawd, shun all the milquetoast animated versions.
For that matter, unless you have children at home who are younger than the age of reason, you’d be well off avoiding all animated Christmas television shows, with only a very few exceptions — to wit, the original Grinch (as voiced by Boris Karloff ) and the Peanuts/Charlie Brown specials. (Except for the grownups being voiced by a wa-wa trombone — that’s just annoying.) As for the discards, include just about everything from the Hanna-Barbera and Rankin/Bass studios. For examples of each, I submit The Smurfs’ Christmas Special and Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979). And that’s ’nuff said about that subject! Now that I think about it, there has been no really memorable Christmas film since 1983’s A Christmas Story, a true timeless classic from one of the most unlikely sources, Bob Clark, director of Porky’s the previous year. Christmas Vacation with the Griswolds, The Polar Express and the first Santa Clause are at least worth watching again, but just about every other Hollywood tinsel-piece for the past 25 years should be buried with the Blob in the Arctic wastes. Among the prime offenders are Deck the Halls with Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito, Christmas with the Kranks (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis), and the utterly dreadful Surviving Christmas with Ben Affleck. Vince Vaughn (who else?) served up two tasteless holiday turkeys with Four Christmases and Fred Claus. The biggest-budgeted holiday bomb ever has to be Santa Claus: The Movie (1985), with Dudley Moore in a tasteless confection from the producers of the Christopher Reeve Superman flicks. In an even more unique category reserved for the likes of Plan 9 from Outer Space, the award for worst and dumbest Christmas movie of all time is shared by Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) and a 1959 Mexican film called Santa Claus in which the potbellied bearded one fights the devil. In closing, you’ve been warned. Otherwise, bah humbug!
Skip just about every other Christmas film with the word “miracle” or “holiday” in the title.
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A&E // MOVIES Braydon Denney stars as a young Abraham Lincoln in the moody historical biopic The Better Angels, currently screening at The Corazon Cinema & Café in St. Augustine.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS With principal photography well underway on Disney’s sequel to its 2010 live-action Alice in Wonderland, I revisited two of my favorite movie takes on Lewis Carroll’s classic. I can’t remember which came first for me, the book or the movie, but I’ve always been enchanted by Disney’s 1951 animated version as well as the original 1865 children’s book (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) and its 1871 sequel (Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There). Before, after and including the Disneys, there have been over 50 film and television adaptations of the original tales, including at least three silent films; a 1933 extravaganza with Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields and Cary Grant; and, of course, a 1970s porn version. Two of the most interesting, and decidedly different, are Jonathan Miller’s 1966 BBC TV production and a 1988 Czech version by stop-motion wizard Jan Švankmajer. I first saw Miller’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland during college in the late ’60s when the producer/writer/director spent a week in residence as a visiting professor, bringing with him a copy of his film, which (I remember him telling us) was never supposed to be shown other than on BBC television. Remember: This was years before cable or video. I finally saw the film again on DVD in the late ’90s, and it still held my attention as much as it had in my greener years. Filmed in blackand-white, Miller’s version employs a big-name cast (including Peter Sellers as the King of Hearts, John Gielgud as the Mock Turtle, and Finlay Currie as the Dodo) without hiding their identities behind makeup. The various talking animals Alice (played by 10-year-old Anne-Marie Mallik in her only film role) encounters in the book appear as Victorian gentlemen and ladies. Miller’s film moves slowly and deliberately, the writer/director trying to capture (as I recall his telling us eager listeners back in the late ’60s) the lazy essence of an English summer day. Just a little over an hour, the film might move too slowly for some viewers, but Miller’s Alice is still an admirable recreation of period ambiance and childhood fantasy, gorgeously photographed, with especially memorable sequences of the Mad Hatter’s tea party and the Lobster Quadrille. In 1998, Czech filmmaker Švankmajer, after several acclaimed short films employing claymation and stop-motion animation, wrote and directed his first feature film, Alice, adhering closely to the plot of the original story — but with a decidedly different perspective. Alice is played by 7-year-old Kristýna Kohoutová, who also (apparently) narrates the film. Švankmajer continually returns to an extreme close-up of the little girl’s mouth as she voices the responses from the various creatures she comes across. All of the animals and other curious (often creepy) creations are the product of stop-motion animation. And when Alice shrinks to their size (which she does fairly often), the live actress is replaced by an animated doll. Instead of in an English garden, much of Švankmajer’s film takes place inside an abandoned rustic house, Alice alternately chasing or fleeing from the frequently hostile inhabitants of this particular Wonderland. Milos Forman, the Oscar-winning Czech director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, summed up Švankmajer’s film most succinctly and accurately: “Disney + Bunuel = Švankmajer’s Alice.” Or, as Alice says, “Curiouser and curiouser.” Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com 26 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | DECEMBER 3-9, 2014
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 **** Rated PG-13 The season’s big opening is our latest visit to that fabled dystopia where privation has kids slaughtering each other left and right, just so their families will have a shot at a Papa John’s Fritos-Chili Pizza. This time, heroine Wackness Leancuisine and her compatriots find themselves in the legendary District 13, which was supposedly destroyed but where Sony is actually preparing the fourth sequel to that movie about alien apartheid. (I think.) Meanwhile, Wackness has been elevated to the status of a folk hero because of the widespread dissemination of her nude selfies, entitling her own district to a year’s worth of Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. And to complete the gluttony motif, consider this: We’d be done with the Hunger Games series now, except that Lionsgate decided there was too much dosh to be had by following the Harry Potter model and slicing the last novel in the series into two individually marketable moviegoing experiences. Thank God for that excess-driven Yankee ingenuity. — S.S.
FILM RATINGS
**** ALBERT AYLER **@@ ALBERT CAMUS
***@ ALBERT BROOKS *@@@ ALBERT FISH
SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN
RIFFTRAX LIVE: SANTA CLAUS Mystery Science Theater 3000 lampoons the ’50s holiday fantasy, broadcast from Belcourt Theater, at 8 p.m. Dec. 4 at Regal Avenues, 9525 Philips Hwy. and Cinemark Tinseltown, 4535 Southside Blvd., rifftrax.com. SUN-RAY CINEMA The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, Force Majeure, The Babadook and Birdman are currently screening at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. LATITUDE 360 MOVIES Guardians of the Galaxy is currently screening at Latitude 360’s CineGrille Theater, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, latitude360.com/jacksonville-fl. THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Low Down runs through Dec. 4. Better Angels runs through Dec. 11. The Way He Looks runs Dec. 5-18 at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. WGHF IMAX THEATER Interstellar: The IMAX Experience, D-Day Normandy 1944, Island of Lemurs Madagascar 3D, Journey to the South Pacific, and We The People are currently screening at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, 9404133, worldgolfimax.com.
NOW SHOWING
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY **G@ Rated PG Costars Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Megan Mullally and Jennifer Coolidge. The venerable Dick Van Dyke has a cameo. — Steve Schneider BEYOND THE LIGHTS Rated PG-13 An idealistic up-and-comer gets schooled in the shadier aspects of urban-music economy. Costars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker and Minnie Driver. BIG HERO 6 ***@ Rated PG In the near future, a teenager overcomes personal loss to defeat a villain who wants to destroy society. This is Disney Animation’s take on the highly profitable young adult, comic book and action genres merged into one, and the result is superb. Hiro (Ryan Potter), a sullen 14-year-old in San Fransokyo, is an engineering prodigy. His mother’s dead; his Aunt Cass (Maya Rudolph) is raising him. Hiro’s big brother (Daniel Henney) takes him to his college robotics lab, where he meets spunky, speedy Gogo (Jamie Chung), pretty chemistry wiz Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez), goofy Fred (T.J. Miller) and martial arts master Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.). Baymax (Scott Adsit) is an inflatable robotic nurse that “looks like a walking marshmallow,” Hiro says. Hiro invents microbots for an upcoming student showcase and wins. — Dan Hudak BIRDMAN (OR THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) **** Rated R Designed to aesthetically challenge, frustrate, inspire, amuse and amaze, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film stars Michael Keaton, as Riggan, an aging has-been actor clinging to a belief that he’s still important years after his iconic Birdman movie character was put out to pasture. In an effort to recapture his artistic integrity, he brings to the Broadway stage an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. He wants to prove to ex-wife Sylvia (Amy Ryan), his lover Laura (Andrea Riseborough) and daughter Sam (Emma Stone) he’s still relevant. Starring along with Riggan in the Broadway production are Mike (Edward Norton) and Lesley (Naomi
Watts). Holding it all together is Riggan’s friend and manager Jake Zach Galifianakis). Despite the gifted cast, this film’s is all about Keaton, and in a meta-theatrical, even deconstructionist way, he embraces the role, which is not surprising considering the similarities between his career and Riggan’s. Thanks to Iñárritu, Keaton’s gotten another shot at life, and cinema is a slightly more wonderful place because of it. — Cameron Meier THE BOOK OF LIFE ***G Rated PG First-time writer-director Jorge R. Gutierrez knocks one out of the park with this animated story of the Hispanic holiday Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. When the mayor’s daughter María (voiced by Zoë Saldana) is courted by two childhood friends, underworld rulers (voiced by Kate del Castillo and Ron Perlman) bet on who will win. Driven by an original plot and played out with dazzling animation, this ups the game on fantasy filmmaking. — Daniel A. Brown DR. CABBIE Not Rated The Bollywood comedy, about a doctor who emigrates to Canada and can only find a job driving a taxi, costars Vinay Virmani, Adrianne Palicki and Kunal Nayyar, whom we know as Raj on The Big Bang Theory. DUMB AND DUMBER TO Rated PG-13 In which Hollywood learns the belated but vital lesson that making a Dumb and Dumber movie without Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels or the Farrelly Brothers is like … well, like making a sequel to The Mask without Jim Carrey. And what kind of dope would have attempted that? This time, the misadventures of the triumphantly idiotic Harry and Lloyd are again presented by their true and rightful interpreters, with the ousted Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen free to breathlessly anticipate their appearance as a Jeopardy! question in 15 years. — S.S. FORCE MAJEURE Rated R This unconventional disaster flick is Sweden’s submission to the upcoming Academy Awards, and I wouldn’t count them out, just based on visits to IKEA alone. Can’t wait to see how the various aesthetic components of the picture fit neatly and logically, resulting in a viewing experience that’s both reassuringly minimalist and eminently affordable. (Did I mention I recently got divorced?) In the story, a family’s skiing vacation is rent asunder by a vicious avalanche. Oh, and it’s a comedy. Hey, I’m not scoffing. Not until I find a more efficient way to organize my books and ties, anyway.— S.S. FURY ***G Rated R Ask any product of America’s public school system to name something that happened during the last months of World War II, and the answer you’ll likely get is “Captain America got frozen in a block of ice.” (Hell, it’s the only thing I could name off the top of my head. Sorry!) Apparently, Brad Pitt also got in a bit of trouble, risking his life to command a tank crew on a dangerous mission into the heart of the collapsing Nazi empire. Really, how tough was Germany by April 1945? — S.S. HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 ***@ Rated R The sequel’s still funny, but it’s not as good as the original. The underlings (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) are now bosses, and they’ve invented what they think will be the next big thing – the Shower Buddy. Investor Burt Hanson (Christoph Waltz) who promises a purchase order of 100,000 units. The scumball backs out of the deal after the units are produced, leaving the guys $500,000 in debt. To get their money, get revenge and save the company, the misguided trio plans to kidnap Burt’s grown son Rex (Chris Pine) and hold him for ransom. Hilarity ensues. Costars Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey. — D.H.
INTERSTELLAR **** Rated PG-13 Academy Award winners Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine star in Christopher Nolan’s epic about a spaceship that travels into a galactic wormhole in the hope of finding a new home for mankind. Nolan tackles some heavyweight issues while never succumbing to special FX-madness, creating a cerebral and highly entertaining edition to the sci-fi genre. — D.B. JOHN WICK Rated R Apparently the movie gods decided that not even one week could go by without a hit man emerging from retirement for our carnage-watching pleasure. The pissed-off pro in question is played by Keanu Reeves, because IT COULD HAPPEN. Directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch are former stuntmen making their filmmaking debuts, so expect lots of emphasis on Meisner technique and emotional truth. — S.S. THE JUDGE **G@ Rated R Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin cast Robert Downey Jr. as a hotshot lawyer who has to defend his own father (Robert Duvall) on a murder charge. — S.S. KIRK CAMERON’S SAVING CHRISTMAS Rated PG It’s a homespun narrative in which former-kid-starturned-professional-God-botherer Kirk Cameron teaches his own family the true meaning of the season. — S.S. NIGHTCRAWLER ***G Rated R Making his directorial debut, Dan Gilroy takes us into the world of LA “crime journalism,” where chasing every squad car you see might land you footage of the latest hot murder or hostage situation. Costars Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and Bill Paxton. — S.S. PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR Rated PG It’s a good thing you checked here before throwing down with this one, because you could’ve ended up hopelessly confused. Penguins, see, is a direct sequel to Madagascar 3, and as such has nothing to do with the TV series The Penguins of Madagascar, which follows it own continuity. There! Feel fully prepared? And doesn’t discussing the “continuity” of animated Antarctic birds make you want to impale yourself on a dried-out herring? Costars the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich.— S.S. ST. VINCENT **G@ Rated PG-13 Bill Murray hams it up in this buddypicture-surrogate-father-dysfunctional-role-model comedy about an alcoholic vet who looks after a neighbor kid while his mom is at work. Costars Melissa McCarthy. — D.B. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING ***G Rated PG-13 This Stephen Hawking biopic, directed by James Marsh and starring Eddie Redmayne as the brilliant physicist, shows the progression of his motor neuron disease, which ravages his body but leaves his mind intact. As a young Cambridge student, he meets Jane (Felicity Jones), a fellow student studying medieval Spanish poetry. They fall in love and marry, and she stands by him through his struggles. (To a point; they eventually do divorce but are friendly today). The more Stephen’s disease progresses, the better the movie gets, mostly due to Redmayne’s Oscar-worthy performance. The distorted face, slurred speech, buckled ankles, warped fingers and contorted mannerisms seem devastatingly real, and should, given the depth of study Redmayne reportedly did, including meeting the real Stephen and Jane. Costars Harry Lloyd, Charlie Cox and Maxine Peake. — D.H. WHIPLASH Rated R This powerful tale about a young drummer who will do just about anything to succeed at his craft costars Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist.
A&E // ARTS
VARIOUS VISIONS
The latest exhibit at J. Johnson can ease your holiday gifting quandaries
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uying just the right gift for someone is tough. Sometimes it downright sucks. A relatively confident person starts manifesting anxiety. “What if they don’t like it?” “What if they already have it?” “What if it reminds them of their dead [insert grandma or dog’s name here]?” Hence, the reason the J. Johnson Gallery in Jacksonville Beach put together its current Winter Selections group exhibit, featuring nearly two dozen artists working in a cornucopia of styles and mediums. “In our four annual exhibitions, we strive to offer a balance between solo and group shows while also rotating the type of artwork offered,” says Wesley Grissom, the gallery’s associate director. “Winter Selections presents artwork by more than 20 different artists — a contrast to the previous shows, which included just two artists. Group shows deliver a diverse selection of works that typically appeal to a broader range of collectors and art enthusiasts.” And it’s no coincidence that the show coincides with the holidays — many of the pieces offered are in the $300-$600 range. Or, as Grissom explains, the exhibit offers “unique gifts for hard-to-shop-for individuals on anyone’s list.” “This show is also a great opportunity to buy an accessibly priced piece of fine art for yourself,” she says. “One of our recent sales was to a new client, a refreshingly cultured middleschooler who fell in love with a screenprint by an emerging Brooklyn artist, and purchased it with his own money.” Winter Selections is also a chance for area art lovers to familiarize themselves with two new artists featured at the gallery: Gray Malin and Chris Antieau-Roberts. Malin, a commercially successful photographer who’s well known for colorful, thought-provoking aerial photos of ski slopes, harbors and beach scenes, proved a fan favorite. All five of his photographs sold at the opening. The other newcomer to J. Johnson is Antieau-Roberts, a New Orleans-based mixedmedia artist who creates folksy fabric vignettes using appliqué, stitching, embroidering, cut fabrics, needlework and hand-lettered, painted verbiage — some works take well over 100 hours to complete. Antieau-Roberts’ works have been exhibited at Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum and added to the collections of Oprah Winfrey, John Waters, Lyle Lovett, former Sen. Sam
Nunn and President Bill Clinton. She currently has her own gallery, Antieau Gallery, on Royal Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter. She also has some ties to Florida, which are evident in her sometimes humorous and often whimsical scenes. “My grandma used to live in St. Petersburg, so every winter growing up, we would travel to Florida to visit her and to escape the cold,” says Antieau-Roberts. “Now, I show at Art Basel in Miami with my son’s gallery, Red Truck Gallery, at the SCOPE show.” One of Antieau-Roberts’ most interesting pieces is Recent Alligator Attacks, which depicts people getting gobbled by gators in different cities throughout Florida, including Jacksonville, Gainesville and Vero Beach. “I remember there being a terrible string of alligator attacks all across the state,” the artist explains. “Every attack depicted in the piece actually happened in the particular cities named. I also remember watching a National Geographic special on how alligators can jump eight feet and grab you right off a dock or the sidewalk.” But Antieau-Roberts is traditionally known for her pieces dealing with cats and dogs. “Chris’ attention to animals struck a chord with each of us,” says Grissom. “We’re a dogfriendly gallery filled with animal lovers and, on any given day, we usually have five or so hounds keeping us company in the building. Chris’ works featuring dogs and cats were a huge hit among our staff, and we knew that others would be drawn to these pieces as well.” Other artists included in the Winter Selections exhibit include abstract expressionist painter James Bohary, photographer John Huggins, large-scale painter Anne-Karin Furunes and sculptor Lisa Hoke. “The show is a diverse representation of artists whose work we have been successful with in the past, and an emphasis on color that is discernable throughout,” says Grissom. “Group shows like Winter Selections are a lot of fun to put together, and there’s something for everyone to be attracted to.” Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com
WINTER SELECTIONS
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A&E // ARTS & EVENTS THE POLAR EXPRESS The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs a multimedia concert featuring symphonic music and video projections of images from the book, 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at Jacoby Symphony Hall, $7-$24. NORTH FLORIDA WOMEN’S CHORALE The 30-piece vocal ensemble performs An American Christmas 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at Peace Presbyterian Church, 2300 Southside Blvd., Southside, 724-4147, womenschorale.org. JSYO HOLIDAY CONCERT The Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra performs seasonal favorites in this free concert 7 p.m. Dec. 8 at Jacoby Symphony Hall, 354-3578, jaxsymphony.org. CELTIC CHRISTMAS CONCERT Harry O’Donoghue, Carroll Brown and Michael Murray perform traditional Christmas songs and stories 7 p.m. Dec. 9 at Culhane’s Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
The 2014 Annual Juried Student Exhibition, featuring student works including Amalia Galdona-Broche’s Best of Show piece Candelaria, is on display at Jacksonville University’s Alexander Brest Gallery through Dec. 10.
PERFORMANCE
GOD’S TROMBONES This musical and dance production of seven sermons by James Weldon Johnson, starring Ericka Dunlop and civil rights activist Rodney L. Hurst (Dec. 5 and 7) is staged 7 p.m. Dec. 5, 2 and 6 p.m. Dec. 6 and 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at Stage Aurora, 5164 Norwood Ave., Northside, 765-7372, advance tickets $20; $25 at the door; $15 for seniors and kids ages 4-17, stageaurora.org. SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ WITH THE COASTERS R&B legends The Coasters perform classic hits by Leiber and Stoller, including “Hound Dog” and “Stand by Me,” 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Times-Union Center’s Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $37.50-$82.50, artistseriesjax.org. PETER PAN The musical story of the boy who refused to grow up is staged 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4-6 and 10-13 and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and 14 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 277-3455, $20; $15 for students, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. ’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents this musical comedy, based on the holiday classic, at 8 p.m. Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 and 2 p.m. Dec. 14 and 21 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $20 adults, $10 kids under 18 with an adult; 249-7177, abettheatre.com. SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS CAROL Bob Weintraub directs the holiday-themed mystery, 8 p.m. Dec. 4-6, 11-13 and 18-20 and a matinee Dec. 14 at Amelia Community Theatre, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, $20; $10 students, ameliacommunitytheatre.org. THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK CHRISTMAS Lee Hamby directs the musical comedy at 8 p.m. Dec. 4-6 and 11-13 and 2 p.m. Dec. 7 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, $28, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org. WHITE CHRISTMAS This musical production of the holiday classic features Irving Berlin’s original score with a libretto by David Ives and Paul Blake. It’s accompanied by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu; through Dec. 24 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. MIRACLE ON 34th STREET THE MUSICAL This musical version of the holiday classic is staged 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4-6 and 2 p.m. Dec. 7 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $25; $15 for Dec. 4, 825-1164, limelighttheatre.org; through Jan. 4. UNF PLAYWRIGHT PROJECT University of North Florida’s Department of English presents its annual Playwrights’ Project, a showcase of original plays written and directed by UNF Project workshop students, 8 p.m. Dec. 6 and 2 p.m. Dec. 7 at UNF’s Matthews Computer Science Building, Room 1303, Southside, 620-2273. POET ODD?ROD ALBUM RELEASE Local spoken-word artist Odd?Rod celebrates his new release, The Breath of Fresh Air, with poetry, magic and live music 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $30 admission includes CD, ritzjacksonville.com. THE CHINESE ACROBATS Beijing-based acrobatic troupe, established in 1951, performs 7 p.m. Dec. 5 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $19-$39, 355-2787. JINGLE BELLS, BATMAN SMELLS Theatre Jacksonville’s Junior Mainstage Players present the kid-geared holiday show, 2 p.m. Dec. 6 and 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $10; $5 for 12 and younger, 396-4425, theatrejax.com.
COMEDY
FRANKIE PAUL & J. BLISS The comedians are on 8 p.m.
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Dec. 3 and 4, 8:30 p.m. Dec. 5 and 8 and 10 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $8-$10, 2924242, comedyzone.com. DOUG BENSON The “420”-friendly comic is on at 8:04 p.m. Dec. 4 at Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., $20, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com. MIKE ARMSTRONG The comic is on at 8:04 p.m. and 10:10 p.m. Dec. 6 at Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., $6-$15, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
ABET AUDITION Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre auditions for Blood Brothers, 6:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach. Five males, two females (both ages 16+) and a chorus are needed. abettheatre.com.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
JAZZ COMBO NIGHT Lynne Arriale coordinates a production of UNF jazz ensembles 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 6202878, $20; $8 for students, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar. PIANO PLAY-OFF COMPETITION: SONATAS The piano wars start at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas. FRIDAY MUSICALE CHORUS The vocal ensemble presents its winter concert and holiday sing-along 11 a.m. Dec. 5 at 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com. HOLIDAY ORCHESTRA CONCERT Jacksonville University’s student musicians perform faves 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 at Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Small ensembles perform 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar. FEAST OF CAROLS Ensembles from DASOTA, Jacksonville Children’s Chorus, Clay County High School and First Coast High School perform the ninth annual seasonal sing-along 4 p.m. Dec. 6 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Hall, 6202878, advance $7; $10 at the door, unf.edu/coas. URBAN JAZZ COALITION WITH MARCUS ANDERSON The smooth jazz seven-piece plays 7 and 10 p.m. Dec. 6 at Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $28-$35 ritzjacksonville.com. MAKE WE JOY: SONGS OF THE SEASON Jacksonville University’s University Singers and the Men’s and Women’s Choirs perform seasonal music and carols 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at Terry Concert Hall, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES Dr. Timothy Snyder conducts Jacksonville University’s choirs and percussion ensemble 6 p.m. Dec. 7 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 4171 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 737-8488, allsaintsjax.org. WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR: INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE DISNEY SONGBOOK Jamison Williams and the 20-piece [neu]Sonics Orchestra present avant-garde interpretations of Disney music 9 p.m. Dec. 7 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, 359-0049, $5, sunraycinema.com. CHRISTMAS MUSIC AT FLEMING ISLAND Orange Park United Methodist Church Handbell Choir presents Ringing in the Holidays 6:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at Clay County Headquarters Library, 1895 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island, 278-3722. HANDEL’S MESSIAH The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs Handel’s oratorio 8 p.m. Dec. 5 at Jacoby Symphony Hall, $25-$72, 354-3578, jaxsymphony.org. JIM BRICKMAN Brickman performs holiday favorites with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Jacoby Symphony Hall, $32-$72.
FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK Winter Wonderland – with a snow slide, hot chocolate, cookie decorating and arts & crafts – plus Tuba Christmas and Ritz Vocal & Sound performers, are at Hemming Park; Sweet Pete’s Porch Party features Dalton Stanley Band and chocolate bars; Urban Grind Coffee Co. holds an open house; Jolene DuBray is the featured artist and Lawless Hearts perform at 44 Monroe Art Studio & Gallery; Southlight Gallery offers hot cider; mixedmedia works by Jolie Schlieper, Olivia Goksel and Francesca Spiaggi are shown at olio and photo ops with Frosty the Snowman at Diversions Gift Store – held 5-9 p.m. on Dec. 3, featuring live music venues, 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 held Dec. 5 and every first Fri., with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, local music and entertainment – featuring John Carver Band, Louise Mosrie and Fjord Explorer on Dec. 6 – food artists and a farmers market are featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.
MUSEUMS
AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. Brown Bag Lunch series presents arborology expert Dave Holley, who discusses the history of area trees, noon Dec. 3. It Came from the Attic: Collections celebrates the art of collecting. AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM American Beach Community Center, 1600 Julia St., Fernandina Beach, 277-7960, nassaucountyfl.com/facilities. The Sands of Time: An American Beach Story, an exhibit celebrating MaVynee Betsch, “The Beach Lady” is on display. BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Tours of 22 holiday vignette displays created by local designers and artists, run Tue.-Sun. through December. The Art of Leigh Murphy, a collection of watercolors, is on display through Jan. 20. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. Icons of Style: Fashion Makers, Models, and Images is on display through Jan. 4. All Together: The Sculpture of Chaim Gross is on display through Oct. 4, 2015. British Watercolors, through Nov. 29, 2015. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jaxfrm.html. macTruque’s Winter Wonderlust is on display through Dec. 30. An artist’s reception is 5:30 p.m. Dec. 12. The Presidents of the Continental Congress runs through December. LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. Photographer Theresa Segal’s exhibit Undisclosed: Photographs from the Lightner, through Jan. 2. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. Project Atrium: Angela Strassheim, featuring Strassheim’s photographs, is on display through March 1. Get Real: New American Painting and Jason John Studio Experience are on display through Jan. 4. The Art + Design Faculty Exhibition in the UNF Gallery runs through Jan. 18. XIMENEZ-FATIO HOUSE MUSEUM 20 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 829-3575. A book signing with historian Roger Smith and the 40th annual British Night Watch re-enactors are featured from 5-7 p.m. on Dec. 5.
GALLERIES
ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 N. University Blvd., Jacksonville, 256-7371. The Annual Student Juried Exhibition is on display through Dec. 10. THE ART CENTER II 229 N. Hogan St., Jacksonville, 3551757. A scavenger hunt is featured from 5-9 p.m. on Dec. 3. BISCOTTIS 3556 St. Johns Ave., San Marco, 387-2060. Chip Southworth’s BRIDGES is on display through December. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. Works by Cyriaco Lopes and Terri Witek are featured in Currents/Correntes on display through Dec. 5. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. The Small Objects Art Sale, featuring original small works by more than 30 local artists, is held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. through Dec. 27. Proceeds benefit the Center’s programs. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach,
241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Robert Leedy’s new watercolors are on display through Jan. 7. FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Road, Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com. Geoff Mitchell’s Water Appears and Disappears is on display through Dec. 19. HASKELL GALLERY Jax International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Road, 741-3546. Works by Amy Labonte are on display through Dec. 26. J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200, jjohnsongallery.com. Winter Selections, works by Gray Malin, Chris Roberts-Antieau, Slomotion, Craig Kaths, Ryan McGinness, Mark Messersmith, Carlos Betancourt, Joy Laville and Julie York, is on display through Jan. 9. PLUM GALLERY 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069. Works by glassmaker Thomas Long and sculptor Mindy Colton are featured from 5-9 p.m. on Dec. 5. NARTHEX TRANSITIONAL GALLEY Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church, 4001 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 396-7745. In the Fullness of Time works by Maribel Angel, Mary Atwood, Mary Ann Bryan, John Bunker, Cookie Davis, Jean Carrison Dodd, Keith Doles, Michael Dunlap, Carole Mehrtens, Suzanne Schuenke, Jim Smith and Diantha York-Ripley, is on display through Jan. 16. RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com. The photography exhibit The Fine Art of Jazz is on display through Jan. 7. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. Faces and Places: Scott Waters is on display through Jan. 22. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com. Collaborative Tidings, art gifts and limited edition prints by the gallery artists, and live music by saxophonist Jarrell Harris, are featured 5-9 p.m. Dec. 3. UNF ArtSpace: Urban Spaces: The One Show, works by Sebastian Pierre, is on display through Jan. 2. ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER 10 W. Castillo Drive, 825-1000, staugustine-450.com. The First Coast Through the Eyes of Masters features St. Augustinethemed works by 19th and early 20th century painters. THRASHER-HORNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6815, thcenter.org. The photographic tribute The American Solider: From the Civil War to the War in Iraq runs through Feb. 14. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA GALLERY 1 UNF Drive, 620-2534. Beyond the Degree, works by UNF alumni Ashley Maxwell, Devin Balara, Bobby Davidson, Corey Kolb, Staci BuShea, Zach Fitchner and David Nackashi, through Dec. 12.
EVENTS
NUTCRACKER WINDOW DISPLAY Hooshang Oriental Rug Gallery presents the longest-running window display (since 1978) of the holiday favorite, showing more than 100 nutcrackers from all over the world, nightly at 3571 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 384-7111. BURRO BAGS SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY RACE & PARTY A Seven Deadly Sins-themed race, with cyclists racing through seven checkpoints for prizes, starts 3:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at The Letter Shop, 228 E. Forsyth St., Downtown. Registration $10; Pre-register for $5 at burrobags.com. BOOK SIGNING Author James W. Hall signs copies of his thriller, The Big Finish, 7 p.m. Dec. 8 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com. JEWISH AND MUSLIM PEACE DIALOGUE Dr. Parvez Ahmed and Rabbi Jack Romberg discuss interfaith peace at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 7 at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 465 11th Ave. N., Jax Beach, 249-4091. NIGHT OF LIGHTS TRAIN TOURS Ripley’s Believe it or Not offers nightly Lightseeing tours 6-8 p.m. Sun.-Thur., 6-10 p.m. Fri. and Sat. through Jan. 4; begin at 19 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 824-1606, $9-$12; $4-$5 for children, ripleys.com/redtrains. BOOK SIGNING Authors Kathryn J. Bain and Selena Fulton sign copies of their books 9 a.m. Dec. 6 at Old Plank Road Baptist Church, 8964 Old Plank Road, Westside, 783-6942. REMEMBRANCE SERVICE Community Hospice of Northeast Florida holds its 24th annual Tree of Life & Candlelight Service of Remembrance 5:15-7 p.m. Dec. 4 at Hadlow Center, 4266 Sunbeam Road, Southside. Live music, carriage rides. 886-3883. BRITISH NIGHT WATCH EVENTS The 40th annual Watch is held Dec. 5 and 6; an encampment, colonial market, drum and fife corps and parade are featured at Francis Field, W. Castillo Dr., St. Augustine, britishnightwatch.org. GARDENING EXPO The fourth annual Seed Swap & Community Gardening Expo is held 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec. 6 at Pearce Street Community Garden, 1232 Pearce St., Springfield, 239-6584, fnfcg.org. INTERFAITH ROUNDTABLE Rev. Kyle Reese, Rabbi Jonathan Lubliner and Imam Abdullah Antepli discuss “Mercy and Compassion in the Abrahamic Traditions” 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at Jacksonville Jewish Center, 3662 Crown Point Road, Southside, 379-2915, free, register at theatlanticinstitute.org. STERLING’S ANNUAL BEAM FUNDRAISER Sterling Royce holds his annual fundraiser for Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry (BEAM) 6-11 p.m. Dec. 10 at Casa Marina Hotel, 691 First St. N., Jax Beach, 270-0025. The Moulin Rouge-themed event features live music, a fashion show and food. Admission is canned goods and/or an unwrapped toy and/or book valued at $10 or more for a child (age 4-14). sterlingjoycecharityfundraising.com.
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DINING DIRECTORY
The crew at Tequilas Mexican Restaurant, located on Baymeadows Road, presents all kinds of authentic Mexican fare: fajitas, shrimp ceviche, Coronaritas and a variety of tacos. Photo: Dennis Ho To get listed, call your account manager or Sam Taylor at 904.260.9770 ext. 111 or staylor@folioweekly.com. DINING DIRECTORY KEY $ = Less than 8 $$ = 8- 14 $$$ = $15- $22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. To join, go to fwbiteclub.com. 2014 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot Average Entrée Cost
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AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaurant. com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. Southwestern fare; burritos, tacos, nachos, quesadillas, salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality in an upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F In a historic building, family-owned spot offers veggie burgers, fresh seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or on oak-shaded patio. Karibrew Pub has beer brewed onsite. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CIAO ITALIAN BISTRO, 302 Centre St., 206-4311, ciaobistroluca.com. Owners Luka and Kim Misciasci offer fine dining: veal piccata, rigatoni Bolognese, antipasto. Specialties: chicken Ciao, homemade meat lasagna. $ L Fri., Sat.; D Nightly DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Historic district fine dining. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S WINGS, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA. ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. BOJ. Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, indoors or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S at Thompson House, 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394, lulus amelia.com. F Po’boys, salads, little plates, fresh local seafood, local shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MARCHÉ BURETTE, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 491-4834, omnihotels.com. Old-fashioned gourmet food market and deli, in the Spa & Shops, Omni Amelia Island Plantation. Continental breakfast; lunch features flatbreads. $$$ BW K TO L D Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F BOJ. Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Snail of Approval. Casual organic eatery and juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, coffee, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. The bakery, near the historic district, has sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Omni Plantation Spa & Shops. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish, duck breast. Outside. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly THE SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F BOJ. 2nd-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, broiled cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront; handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily
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TASTY’S Fresh Burgers & Fries, 710 Centre St., 321-0409, tastysamelia.com. Historic district. Freshest meats, hand-cut fries, homemade sauces, hand-spun shakes. $ BW K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. 8th St., 261-6310. F BOJ. This spot in an old gas station offers blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE VERANDAH, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 321-5050, omni hotels.com. Extensive menu of fresh local seafood and steaks; signature entrée is Fernandina shrimp. Many herbs and spices are from onsite garden. $$$ FB K D Nightly
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S WINGS, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. BOJ. SEE P. VEDRA. LA NOPALERA, 8818 Atlantic Blvd., 720-0106. BOJ. SEE MANDARIN.
LARRY’S SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
THE SHEIK DELI, 9720 Atlantic Blvd., 721-2660. Familyowned-and-operated for 40+ years, with a full breakfast (pitas to country plates) and a lunch menu. $ TO B L D Mon.-Sat.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
BAGEL LOVE, 4114 Herschel St., Ste. 121, 634-7253, bagel lovejax.com. BOJ. Locally-owned-and-operated. Northern style bagels, sandwiches, wraps, bakery. Fresh-squeezed orange juice, lemonade; coffee, tea. $ K TO B L Daily THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966, thecas bahcafe.com. F BOJ. Middle Eastern/Mediterranean fare. Patio, hookah lounge, bellydancers. $$ BW L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 3543 St. Johns Ave., 829-5790. F In Green Man Gourmet. Wines, spices, fresh fruit ice pops and Belgian chocolates. SEE PONTE VEDRA. $$ TO FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386. Premium ice cream, fresh waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in Florida-centric décor. Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily THE FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. F Owners Ian & Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes, desserts. Breakfast all day. Local landmark for 50+ years. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20+ years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 4530 St. Johns Ave., 388-8828. F BOJ. SEE MANDARIN.
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 Pine Grove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F BOJ. 40+ years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. PULP, 3645 St. Johns Ave., pulpaddiction.com. SEE SAN MARCO. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. BOJ. French/Southern bistro; emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 7825 Baymeadows Way, 733-4040. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F SEE BEACHES.
BROADWAY Ristorante & Pizzeria, Ste. 3, 10920 Baymeadows Rd. E., 519-8000, broadwayfl.com. F Family-owned-andoperated Italian spot. Calzones, wings, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F BOJ. Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori.
$$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LA NOPALERA, 8206 Philips Hwy., 732-9433. F BOJ. SEE MANDARIN.
LARRY’S SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PIZZA PALACE Restaurant & Pizzeria, 3928 Baymeadows, 527-8649, pizzapalacejax.com. F Casual, family-owned; homestyle faves: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, lasagna. Outside dining; HD TVs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SNEAKERS Sports Grille, 8133 Point Meadows Dr., 519-0509. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. TEQUILAS Mexican Restaurant, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365. Salsa, guacamole, chips, beans, rice and meat dishes made fresh daily. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. ZESTY INDIA, 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676, zestyindia. com. Asian/European; tandoori lamb chops, rosemary tikka. Vegetarian cooked separately. $ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun.
BEACHES
(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Bchs Town Ctr., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. BOJ. Subs made with fresh ingredients for more than 25 years. One word: Peruvian. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. BUDDHA THAI BISTRO, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444, buddha thaibistro.com. The proprietors are from Thailand; every dish is made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily BURRITO GALLERY Express, 1333 Third St. N., 242-8226. BOJ. SEE DOWNTOWN. CANTINA MAYA Sports Bar & Grille, 1021 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 247-3227. Popular spot serves margaritas, great Latin food, burgers. Sports on TVs. $$ FB K L D Tue.-Sun. CASA MARIA, 2429 S. Third St., 372-9000, casamariajax. com. F Family-owned-and-operated place offers authentic Mexican fare: fajitas and seafood dishes, hot sauces made inhouse. The specialty is tacos de asada. $ FB K L D Daily CULHANE’S Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595, culhanesirishpub.com. Bite Club. Upscale pub/restaurant owned and run by sisters from County Limerick. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef; gastropub fare. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L Fri.-Sun.; D Tue.-Sun. EUROPEAN STREET, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.
FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Bchs Town Ctr., Neptune Beach, 853-5680, flyingiguana. com. F Latin American fusion, Southwest taste: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100+ tequilas. $ FB L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815, harmon iousmonks.net. F SEE MANDARIN. LA NOPALERA, 1222 Third St. S., 372-4495. F BOJ. SEE MANDARIN.
LARRY’S SUBS, 657 N. Third St., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Bchs Town Ctr., NB, 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar.com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine indoors or out, patio and courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. BOJ. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., Bchs Town Ctr., NB, 249-5573, mezzarestaurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean eatery, 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside or on the patio. Valet parking. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojo bbq.com. F BOJ. Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, all the sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., Bchs Town Ctr., AB, 241-2599,
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DINING DIRECTORY A WEEKLY Q&A WITH PEOPLE IN THE FOOD BIZ
NAME: Washington Visconde RESTAURANT: Visconde’s Argentinian Grill, 11925 Beach Blvd., Ste. 201, Southside
larryssubs.com. F For 30+ years, all over town, they pile ’em high and serve ’em fast. Hot/cold subs, soups, salads. $ K TO B L D Daily POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA, 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116. Family-owned-and-operated, offering pizzas and wings made in coal-fired ovens. Espresso, cappuccino. $ BW TO L D Daily THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. F For 35-plus years, Roadhouse has been offering wings, sandwiches, burgers, quesadillas; 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily THE SHEIK, 1994 Kingsley Ave., 276-2677. SEE ARLINGTON.
BIRTHPLACE: Uruguay FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine) : Maggiano’s Little Italy, St. Johns Town Center BEST CUISINE STYLE: Parrillada (mixed grill) GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Chimichurri IDEAL MEAL: Everything meat and pasta. WILL NOT CROSS MY LIPS: Spicy food
PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY, NW ST. JOHNS
INSIDER’S SECRET: I don’t season the meat, just use salt. CULINARY TREAT: Flan with dulce de leche mshackburgers.com. F BOJ. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes, familiar fare. Dine in or outside. $$ BW L D Daily NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic, Ste. 6, AB, 372-4105, nbbistro.com. Bite Club. Chef-driven kitchen; hand-cut steaks, fresh local seafood, tapas menu. HH. $$$ FB K R Sun.; L D Daily OCEAN 60 Restaurant, Wine Bar, Martini Room, 60 Ocean Blvd., Bchs Town Ctr., AB, 247-0060, ocean60.com. BOJ. Continental cuisine, fresh seafood, dinner specials and a seasonal menu in a formal dining room or casual Martini Room. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637. Named for Baltimore’s macabre poet Edgar Allan Poe, American gastropub has 50+ beers, gourmet hamburgers, ground in-house, cooked to order; hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Bchs Town Ctr., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30+ years, the iconic seafood place has scored many awards in our BOJ readers poll. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlife foodshack.com. BOJ. Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in a modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., Bchs Town Ctr., N.B., 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beachcasual. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. BOJ. More than 20 beers on tap, TV screens, cheerleaders serving the food. Happy hour Mon.Fri. $ FB K L D Daily TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA, 1712 Beach Blvd., 249-8226, tacolu.com. BOJ. Fresh, Baja-style fare with a focus on fish tacos, tequila (more than 135 kinds) and mezcal. Bangin’ shrimp, carne asada, carnitas, daily fresh fish selections. Madefresh-daily guacamole. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Fri.
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made fare: subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. BURRITO GALLERY & Bar, 21 E. Adams, 598-2922, burrito gallery.com. BOJ. Southwestern burritos, ginger teriyaki tofu, beef barbacoa, wraps, tacos. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. CASA MARIA, 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411. F SEE BEACHES.
CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi and barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Thur.-Sat. FIONN MacCOOL’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, The Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining with an uptown Irish atmosphere, serving fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew and black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Home to duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri.
FLEMING ISLAND
GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. LA NOPALERA, 1571 C.R. 220, 215-2223. F BOJ. SEE MANDARIN. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. 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 Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly YOUR PIE, 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771, yourpie.com. Owner Mike Sims’ concept: Choose from 3 doughs, 9 sauces, 7 cheeses, 40+ toppings. 5 minutes in a brick oven and ta-da: It’s your pie. Subs, sandwiches, gelato. $$ BW K TO L D Daily
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.
LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 39, 992-1666. F BOJ. Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. Some La Nops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 2236999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-night menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
JULINGTON CREEK
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 101, 825-4540. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA. METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F BOJ.
AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F SEE BEACHES. CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 145 Hilden Rd., Ste. 122, 829-5790, claudeschocolate.com. Hand-crafted premium Belgian chocolate, fruits, nuts, spices. Cookies, popsicles. $$ TO DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F BOJ. NASCAR-themed; 365 kinds of wings, half-pound burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK. PUSSER’S BAR & GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766, pussersusa.com. BOJ. Bite Club. Innovative Caribbean cuisine features regional faves: Jamaican grilled pork ribs, Trinidad smoked duck, lobster macaroni & cheese dinner. Tropical drinks. $$ FB K TO L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797, restaurant medure.us. Chef David Medure offers global flavors. Small plates, creative drinks, happy hour. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat.
SEE SAN MARCO.
RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE
PIZZA PALACE, 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F SEE BAYMEADOWS.
MANDARIN
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA, 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 288-9211. 13820 St. Augustine Rd., 880-0020. Brooklyn Special. Calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ BW TO L D Daily THE COFFEE BARD, 9735 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 13, 260-0810, thecoffeebard.com. New world coffeehouse has coffees, breakfast, drinks. $$ TO B L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS, 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. F BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.
GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300, jaxram ada.com. In Ramada. Prime rib, crab leg buffet Fri. & Sat., blue-jean brunch Sun., daily breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ FB B R L D Daily GILMON’S BAKERY, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 13, 288-8128, gilmonsbakery.com. Custom cakes, cupcakes, gingerbread men, pies, cookies, coffee, tea. $$ B L Tue.-Sat. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040, harmoniousmonks.net. F American-style steakhouse: Angus steaks, gourmet burgers, ribs, wraps. $$ FB K L D Mon.-Sat. KAZU Japanese Restaurant, 9965 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 35, 683-9903, kazujapaneserestaurant.com. BOJ. Wide variety of soups, dumplings, appetizers, salads, bento boxes, sushi, entrées, maki handrolls, sashimi. $$ BW TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F BOJ. Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. Natural, organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods, juices, smoothies. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. F Casual, familyfriendly eatery serves steaks, seafood, chicken grill specials. Five topping selections. Salads, sandwiches, pizza. Gluten-free friendly. $ FB K L D Daily STEAMIN, 9703 San Jose Blvd., 493-2020, eatsteamin.com. Classic diner serves steam burgers, fat dogs and chili, 50+ craft beers. $ FB TO B Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily
ORANGE PARK, GREEN COVE
ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007, aronspizza.com. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizzas. $$ BW K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.
THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Road, 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern-style fine dining. Specialties: New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LA NOPALERA, 9734 Crosshill Blvd., 908-4250. 2024 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F BOJ. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789,
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. BOJ. Intimate bistro serves authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes, specializing in tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S DELI, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F SEE BEACHES.
BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. New American fare has a Southern twist, made with locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. BOJ. F Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free and vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 5972 San Juan Ave., 693-9258. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA. EDGEWOOD BAKERY, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. BOJ. 66+ years, full-service bakery. Fresh breakfast, pastries, petit fours, pies, cakes. Espresso, sandwiches, smoothies. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999, europeanstreet.com. BOJ. 130+ imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style classic Reuben, sandwiches. Outside seating at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. BOJ. F Juice bar; certified organic fruits, vegetables. 500+ craft/import beers, 250 wines, organic produce, humanely raised meats, plus a deli, as well as raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. BOJ. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S. Locally-owned, family-run bake shop; made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S, 1509 Margaret, 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 7817600. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., Ortega, 999-4600. F BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S Smokehouse BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, ribs. Homestyle sides: green beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F BOJ. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire. com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas. Happy hour Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily THE SHEIK, 7361 103rd St., 778-4805. 5172 Normandy Blvd., 786-7641. SEE ARLINGTON. SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0049. F Beer (Bold City, Intuition), wine, pizza, hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. Sushi variety: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi,
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Photo by Caron Streibich
CAFFEINE DREAMS
Vagabond Coffee wants to be part of Downtown’s revitalization, one espresso at a time
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or the past six years, 20something William Jonathan Morgan has yearned to open a business. To get up and running quickly, he created a mobile coffee shop, and last month Vagabond Coffee’s caravan hit the streets. Vagabond got its start in San Marco at Aardwolf Brewery, but Morgan’s heart was in Downtown Jacksonville. After securing the Laura Street Trio lot at the corner of Laura and Adams, as of Oct. 1 (coincidentally, also Morgan’s birthday), Vagabond has had a place to call home on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The menu features lattes, pour-overs, Chemex (a precision brew method) and drip coffee, and Vagabond’s staff does its best to concoct your coffee drink of choice — cappuccino, macchiato, cortado and beyond. Top sellers? Chemex and the vanilla latte. I’ve enjoyed both, but my personal Vagabond favorite is affogato ($4), a shot of freshly pulled espresso with a creamy scoop of vanilla ice cream. The customer base runs the gamut — you’ll stand in line with Downtown locals, investment bankers, artists and performers just passing through town. Lattes are $4 (add 50 cents for soy milk). Syrups include vanilla, agave and mocha and, occasionally, a special offering. Cold brew coffee is $4, and a cup from the Chemex is $3.50. Don’t need a pick-me-up? Vagabond’s got decaf, too. For espresso drinks, the crew at Vagabond uses only single-origin espresso that can be paired with organic or soy milk. Most
selections are made with locally produced beans from Bold Bean Coffee Roasters. “We focus on quality, care and craftsmanship,” Morgan says. “Bold Bean undoubtedly puts these in each roast, so there was no question about using them as our main supplier. We love supporting local businesses.” Morgan’s fiancée, Samantha Friedman, bakes the scrumptious treats available onboard. I love the slabs of moist, hazelnutty Nutella banana bread ($3) and chewy molasses cookies. Currently, the duo is working on expanding the menu to offer more treats to pair with their coffee drinks. Morgan wants Vagabond to be a part of the revitalization of Downtown, through both coffee and community. “I want each person who comes to the caravan or a future shop to feel welcome and loved,“ he says. Vagabond has plans to open its flagship store in the Barnett building upon completion of the building’s historical renovation. In the meantime, Morgan hopes to open a shop Downtown as a temporary fix in the next few months. Caron Streibich biteclub@folioweekly.com facebook.com/folioweeklybitesized
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DINING DIRECTORY
Jason Blake, Taylor McDaniel and Julie Harris, part of the energetic staff at Burrito Gallery Downtown, show off Paul’s extreme nachos, quesadillas and a big wet steak burrito with jalepeños. Photo: Dennis Ho tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily
ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F SEE BEACHES. AVILES, 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-2277 F Hilton Bayfront. Progressive European menu; made-to-order pasta night, wine dinners, chophouse nights, breakfast buffet. Sun. champagne brunch bottomless mimosas. $$$ FB K B L D Daily CARMELO’S Marketplace & PizzeriA, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. F NY-style gourmet brick-ovenbaked pizza, fresh rolls, Boar’s Head meats, cheeses, garlic herb wings. Outdoor dining, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 6 Granada St., 829-5790. In The Market. Wine and chocolate pairings, soft-serve ice cream, coffee bar, fresh fruit ice pops, cookies. $$ TO THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug. com. Updated Southern fare; fresh ingredients. Vegetarian, glutenfree. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F A mainstay for 25+ years, Gypsy’s menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily THE ICE PLANT BAR, 110 Riberia St., 829-6553, iceplantbar. com. Farm-to-table, locally sourced; hand-crafted drinks, house-made bitters, syrups. $$$ FB TO D Nightly MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova, 342-5264. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO, 159 Palencia Village Dr., Ste. 111, 808-1818, pacificasianbistro.com. F Chef Mas Lui creates 30+ sushi rolls; fresh sea scallops, Hawaiian-style poke tuna salad. Sake. $$-$$$ BW L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 547-0240. Latin American fusion wine bar and restaurant offers traditional American fare with a Latin flair; sandwiches, too. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sun.
ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER
BENTO CAFE Asian Kitchen & Sushi, 4860 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1, 564-9494, bentocafesushi.com. Pan-Asian fare; Asian-inspired dishes: wok stir-fry to fire-grilled, authentic spices, fresh ingredients. Full sushi bar. $$ K FB TO L D Daily MOXIE KITCHEN+COCKTAILS, 4972 Big Island Dr., 998-9744, moxiefl.com. BOJ. Chef Tom Gray does contemporary American cuisine – seafood, steaks, pork, burgers – locally sourced when possible. $$$ FB K L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000, mshack burgers.com. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic dishes: Pad Thai, curries, sashimi, fresh sushi, daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S WINGS, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.
EUROPEAN STREET, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.
FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily THE GROTTO Wine & Tapas Bar, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S Bar & Grille, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. Wings, sammies, nachos, entrées, specialty drinks, burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 1631 Hendricks, 399-1768. F BOJ. SEE MANDARIN. MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922, matthews restaurant.com. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship. Fine dining, artfully presented cuisine, small plates, martini/wine lists. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. Reservations. $$$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F BOJ. Original upscale diner in ’30s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, homemade soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F
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BOJ. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco, 399-8815. F SEE BAYMEADOWS. PULP, 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222, pulpaddiction.com. The juice bar offers fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees, 30 kinds of smoothies. $ TO B L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco, 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; local produce, meats. Regional craft beers, handcrafted cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily
SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN
360° GRILLE, Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555, latitude360.com. F Seafood, steaks, burgers, chicken, sandwiches, pizza. Patio, movie theater. $$ FB TO L D Daily AKEL’S, 7077 Bonneval Rd., 332-8700. F SEE DOWNTOWN. ALHAMBRA THEATRE & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater; Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. BENTO CAFE Asian Kitchen & Sushi, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 11, 503-3238. SEE ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER. CASA MARIA, 14965 Old St. Augustine, 619-8186. SEE BEACHES DANCIN DRAGON, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888. BOGO lunch. Asian fusion menu. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.
THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside, Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.
HZ CAFE, 6426 Bowden Rd., Ste. 206, 527-1078. Healthy concept cafe: juices, smoothies, traditional vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free meals and desserts. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. LARRY’S, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S Smokehouse BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. PAPI CHULO’S, 9726 Touchton Rd., Ste. 105, 329-1763, ilovepapichulos.com. This brand new Tinseltown restaurant offers fresh, simple, authentic Mexican street food, top-shelf tequilas, specialty drinks. Kids eat free. $$ K FB L D Daily SEVEN BRIDGES Grille & Brewery, 9735 Gate Pkwy., 997-1999, 7bridgesgrille.com. F Local seafood, steaks, pizzas. Brewer Aaron Nesbit handcrafts ales, lagers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, taverna yamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily TOMMY’S Brick Oven Pizza, 4160 Southside, Ste. 2, 565-1999, tbopizza.com. New York-style thin crust, brick-oven-baked pizzas (gluten-free), calzones, sandwiches. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pickup. $$ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE VISCONDE’S Argentinian Grill, 11925 Beach Blvd., Ste. 201, 379-3925. The area’s only Argentinian place. Traditional steaks, varieties of sausages, pasta, sandwiches, empañadas, wines. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 551-5929, worldofbeer.com. F Burgers, sliders,flatbreads, German pretzels, hummus, pickle chips. Craft German, Cali, Florida, Irish drafts. Wines. $$ BW L D Daily
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HOLA Mexican Restaurant, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner, 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK. SAVANNAH BISTRO, 14670 Duval Rd., 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, taste of Mediterranean and French. Crowne Plaza Airport. Crab cakes, NY strip, she crab soup, mahi mahi. $$$ FB K B L D Daily THE SHEIK, 2708 N. Main St., 353-8181. SEE ARLINGTON. UPTOWN MARKET, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptown marketjax.com. Bite Club. Fresh quality fare; farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
ASTROLOGY
LIMPETS, PHILIP K. DICK, REMBRANDT & AMY TAN ARIES (March 21-April 19): The National Science Foundation estimates that we each think at least 12,000 thoughts per day. The vast majority, though, are reruns of impressions that have passed through our minds many times before. In the weeks ahead, Aries folks are primed to be far less repetitive than normal, with the potential to churn out a profusion of original ideas, fresh perceptions, novel fantasies and pertinent questions. Take advantage. Brainstorm like a genius. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I like getting spam emails with outrageous declarations. Favorites: “Eating salads makes you sick,” “Water is worse for you than vodka” and “Smoking is healthier than exercising.” Why do I love laughable claims? They remind me that I’m barraged by nonsense and delusion from news media, the Internet, politicians, celebrities, fanatics. “Smoking is healthier than exercising” is just a more extreme, obvious lie than many others that are better disguised. The moral of the story next week: Be alert for exaggerations that clue you to what’s going on discreetly below the surface. Watch carefully for glitches in the Matrix. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Every one of us, including me, has blind spots about the arts of intimacy and collaboration. Each one of us suffers from unconscious habits that interfere with our ability to get and give the love we want. What are your bind spots and unconscious habits? Ha! Trick question! They’re not blind spots and unconscious habits if you already know about them. That’s the bad news. The good news? In the next six weeks, catch glimpses of these blocks, and start reducing their power to distort relationships. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now and then, it’s possible to fix malfunctioning machines by giving them a few swift kicks or authoritative whacks – it’s called “percussive maintenance.” In the days ahead, you may be inclined to do it a lot. That’s probably OK. It’ll work even better than usual. There will be problems, though, if you adopt a similar approach as you correct glitches that are more psychological, interpersonal and spiritual in nature. For those, use sensitivity and finesse. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What feelings or subjects have you been wanting to talk about, but haven’t yet been able to? Are there messages you’re aching to convey to certain people, but can’t summon the courage to be as candid as you need to be? Any secrets you’ve been keeping for reasons that used to be good but aren’t anymore? The time’s come to relieve some of that tension. Smash excuses, break down barriers, and let revelations flow. You’ll unleash unforeseen blessings. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1662, Dutch painter Rembrandt finished The Oath of Claudius Civilis. It was 18 feet by 18 feet, the largest painting he ever made. For a short time, it hung on a wall in Amsterdam’s Town Hall, but local burgomasters decided it was offensive, and returned it to the artist to be reworked. Rembrandt chopped off three-fourths of the original. What’s left now hangs in a Stockholm museum – the rest has been lost. Art critic Svetlana Alpers wishes the whole painting still existed, but still raves about what’s left, calling it “a magnificent fragment.” Think like Alpers. Celebrate your magnifi cent fragments.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You now have a special talent for connecting things that have never been connected. You also have a magic touch at uniting things that should be but can’t on their own. In the next three weeks, you’ll be unusually lucky and adept at forging links, brokering truces, building bridges, and getting opposites to attract. You’re able to compare apples and oranges in ways that make good sense and calm everyone down. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1989, Amy Tan wrote her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. Her next, The Kitchen God’s Wife, came out in 1991. Both were bestsellers. A few years on, the student study guide publisher CliffsNotes did with them what it’s done with many masterpieces of world literature: It condensed summaries for those too lazy to read originals. “In spite of my initial shock,” Tan said, “I admit I am perversely honored to be in CliffsNotes.” It’s a sign of success to be treated like superstar authors like Shakespeare and James Joyce. The CliffsNotes approach is an operative metaphor in your life. Find it in your heart to be honored, even if perversely so. Trimming, shortening and compressing is beneficial. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With both symbolic and practical actions, Sagittarius-born Pope Francis is reframing the message of the Catholic Church. He’s having public showers installed for Vatican City’s homeless. He’s made moves to dismantle the Church’s bigotry toward gays. He regularly criticizes growing economic inequality, and reminds politicians that there can be no peace and justice unless they take care of poor and marginalized people. He invited iconic punk poet Patti Smith to perform at the Vatican Christmas Concert. You have extra power to exert this kind of initiative in your sphere. Be proactive; push for constructive transformations to benefit all.
GOVT TOOLS
Comprehensive Pentagon studies of America’s nuclear missile infrastructure released in November (following disturbing reports of readiness failures) included the revelation that nuclear warheads had to be attached with a particular wrench, even though the Air Force owned only one with which to service 450 missiles at three bases. Consequently, one official told The New York Times, “They started FedExing the one tool” back and forth. No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made” — typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”
OH TO BE IN ENGLAND …
In November, London’s Daily Telegraph reported a gardener hired by the House of Commons spent a day pulling color-changing leaves from trees on Westminster Palace grounds — because it would be more cost-effective than to rake them up after they fell. The gardener (whose name sounds right out of a James Bond adventure — “Annabel Honeybun”) said she had 145 trees to service. A local environmentalist lamented denying autumn visitors “one of the few pleasures at this time of year.”
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Various cogs in South Korea’s national machinery paused briefly on Nov. 13 so as not to distract the nation’s high-school-age kids, as 650,000 of them were sitting for the decisive university entrance exams (which are several levels more important than SATs or ACTs for American students). Large companies and government agencies told employees to commute later in the morning — to keep traffic lighter for students traveling to the 1,257 test centers — and “no-fly” zones reduced noise during the 40-minute period when students tested aurally on the English language.
LATEST SPIRITUAL MESSAGE
“Santa Muerte” (Our Lady of the Holy Death)
might be described as a cynic’s unauthorized byproduct of Roman Catholicism currently festering in drug-cartel-roiled Mexico and Central America and is, according to Vice Media, “the world’s fastest growing” religion. “Saint Death” first appeared only 12 years ago, in the Mexico City barrio of Tepito, and is now a first line of protection for worshippers in danger zones. Almost 80,000 Mexicans have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006, Vice reported. Said an author who’s studied the religion, “People feel more comfortable asking [Santa Muerte] for favors they probably shouldn’t ask a Catholic saint for.”
DIRTY PRIESTS
Pope Francis ordered an investigation in October of the Italian Riviera diocese of Bishop Mario Oliveri, 70, known for giving “second chances” to wayward priests from across the country. Reports had surfaced that, among Mario’s priests was one who openly published nude selfies on Facebook, another caught publicly flirting with the wife of a port captain, another dismissed from a cruise ship for molesting passengers, and another revealed to have a full-body “tribal” tattoo he exhibited, posing with the tattoo artist in the local newspaper. The manager of a diocese church charity estimated about half of the bishop’s 175 priests were delinquents.
OMELETS!
A crash of three tractor-trailers on I-24 near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Nov. 9 left a pileup of one truck’s load of eggs, another’s pallets of cheese, and the other’s boxes of meat.
AMERICAN SCENE
“Drunken Trombone-Playing Clown Fires Gun From Garage, Police Say” was the headline of an Oct. 21 story on MLive.com from Grand Traverse County, Michigan, which also reported that the man was wearing camo pants.
Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The limpet is an aquatic snail. When it’s scared, it escapes at a rate of nearly two inches per hour. If you get flustered next week, flee at a speed no faster than the limpet’s. That’s a little joke. Truth is, if you do get into a situation that causes anxiety, don’t leave the scene at all. Why? Two possibilities: You may be under the influence of mistaken ideas or habitual responses causing you to be nervous about something you shouldn’t be. Second: If you’re in a real bind, deal with it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick is one of my favorite authors; I discovered his work years ago. I love how he reconfigured my mind with metaphysical riffs about politics and prophetic questions about what’s real and what’s not. Recently I learned he lived in a house a few blocks from where I live. While there, he wrote two of his best books. I went there and saw it was unoccupied. That night, I slept in a sleeping bag on the back porch, hoping to soak up inspiration. It worked! I had amazing creative breakthroughs for days. I recommend a similar ritual: Go in quest of greatness to rub off on you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you enjoy telling folks what to do? Do you always scheme to increase influence over all whose life you touch? If you’re a typical Pisces, you don’t. The kind of power you’re into is power over yourself, to be the boss of you. Right now is a good time to intensify efforts to succeed in this glorious cause. Make aggressive plans to increase control over your destiny. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com DECEMBER 3-9, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35
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No messages with more than 40 words will be accepted. Please keep your message short & sweet. Thanks!
LIBRARY LOOKER There was nothing spooky about you staring at me, the redhead, on Halloween from Deerwood library check-out line. Tall guy in jeans, what would’ve happened had I held your lengthy stare? Let me know. When: 11:30 a.m. Oct. 31. Where: Southeast Regional Library. #1428-1203 CAN’T GET U OUTTA MY MIND ISU at hospital visit; made my heart pump fast. You: prettiest nurse in white and blue; finest shape, lips, hips, face. If you were mine, I’d hold you in my arms, treat you like a queen. When: Nov. 26. Where: St. Vincent’s Hosp. #1427-1203 LOML - SKY OCEAN GALAXY Handsome professional, great shoulders and electrifying smile wearing a tie. All others hands-off! When: Nov. 23. Where: Southside. #1426-1203 HANDSOME DOG LOVER AT INTUITION You: Handsome man in orange shirt with lots of friends. Me: Short, green-eyed brunette, blue shirt. You asked about my dog, white German shepherd, seemed to like you. Single? Meet at Intuition 11/28, same time? When: Nov. 21. Where: Intuition Ale Works. #1425-1126 YOU DIDN’T LEAVE! We stared across bar, like we knew it was beginning of deepest connection, friendship, and love we’d ever know. Haven’t left... Slainte! kanpai! Drink your Dirty Girl Scout. Here’s to finding each other again. Really like you! When: April 2011. Where: Bomba’s. #1424-1126 CUTIE ON A SUZUKI You: Stylish, curly-haired cutie on Suzuki cafe racer. Me: Raven-haired lass, gray VW Jetta. Sipped coffee at light, turning on Riverside. Looked left, noticed Suzuki. Liked your shoes, style, dirty-blonde locks under helmet. Meet for drink? When: Nov. 12. Where: Riverside Ave. #1423-1119 BEARDED HOTTIE, SILVER FORD You: Behind me on 95N from Baymeadows to I-10 interchange on 11/4 at 3 p.m.; Nassau tag, dark beard, ball cap, amazing smile. Me: Brown SUV. Can’t get you out of my mind. Can we meet? When: Nov. 4, 3 p.m. Where: Baymeadows & I-95. #1422-1112 I SAW U
Connection Made! PULLING FOR ORIOLES You: Cranberry shirt, said to me, “I was pulling for them” referring to my Orioles T-shirt. Me: Orioles T-shirt, I said “Yeah” and kept walking. Wish I would have started a conversation. Let’s talk! When: Oct. 26. Where: Publix on Hodges. #1421-1105
RUNNING SHIRTLESS You: It was around 6:20, you were running through Memorial Park. Caught me checking you out. Me: Wearing the blue shirt. We smiled, I watched you run off - quite a sight. We need to run together. When: Oct. 22. Where: Memorial Park. #1420-1029 DARK CHOCOLATE POM I came in for a few things. You had one in your bathroom. Something rang up wrong. Offered you chocolate, you told me I was sweet. You seemed earthy. Wonder if you’d like to grab coffee/tea sometime. When: Oct. 21. Where: Your Work, Ponte Vedra Beach. #1419-1029 LOOKING FOR ME? You: Taco Tuesday, brunette, blue top, shorts, black flats. Saw you in line looking back. Caught each others gaze too long. Me: Blue button up, gray slacks. You met with guy, didn’t seem into him. Wanna see if I’m more interesting? When: Oct. 14. Where: Tijuana Flats, Baymeadows. #1418-1022 INSTANT CONNECTION You: Tall, Purple hair, BRS shamrock on the back of your neck, wearing Capris, flip flops. Me: Short, dark curly hair, also wearing Capris, flip flops. You gave me a cigarette, I
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gave you my life story. When: Sept. 1, 2012. Where: Kristin’s House. #1417-1015 HUSKY SEMINOLES HUNK You: FSU shirt, name starts with S. Sloppy drunk & jolly. Me: Thick woman, Cornhuskers shirt. You loved my curly hair; let me rub your belly :) Bono’s unlimited BBQ rib night on Gate Parkway 7 p.m.? When: Oct. 4. Where: Kickbacks, Riverside. #1416-1008 SHORT-HAIRED BRUNETTE You: Short brown hair, sitting next to an older lady. You were with a party sitting by the door. I ended up talking to your friend but not you. Me: Black dress with dark hair at the bar. When: Sept. 27. Where: Hamburger Mary’s. #1415-1008 SO SWEET, BOUGHT TEA You: Tanned, green sunglasses, white SUV, motorcycle, OTW to pick up daughter. Me: Crazy spinner girl, parched, much appreciative of tea you bought. See you almost daily. Got your name, should’ve gotten number. A drink sometime? When: Sept. 27. Where: Monument/McCormick McD’s. #1414-1001 ROGUE MEN You helped me with ring toss. Stood really close. Had to run, had friends waiting. Wish I’d gotten your name and number! When: Sept. 7. Where: Dive Bar. #1413-1001 BEARD MAGIC You: Jet-black hair, green eyes, sexy red Fiat 500. You said my beard had magical powers. Me: Colorful tats, magical beard, Donkey Bong shirt. I gave you my toast and you promised a date. When and where? When: Sept. 15. Where: Brew 5 Points. #1412-1001 BARISTA WITH DEVILED EGGS You: Starbucks Barista. Handed me deviled egg, drew a heart on my vanilla milk. Never knew what I loved about this old coffee shop. Close your tally with a herringbone? Love to read newspapers – as your girlfriend. When: Aug. 14. Where: Southside/Baymeadows Starbucks. #1411-0924 SAUSAGE CUTIE You: Fast-talking Penguin shirt guy, recently out of jail; said three months in jail builds character. Me: Tall, jet-black hair, way-too-short dress. I asked if you knew I wasn’t wearing panties; you joked about sausage size on pizza. Pizza soon? When: Sept. 17. Where: Avondale Mellow Mushroom. #1410-0924 BLACK GUY, ORANGE SHIRT, BOOTS You: Handsome, dark skin, orange shirt, behind me in WalMart money center line, 2 p.m. Me: Tall, curvy, tattooed blonde talking to couple ahead of you. Too shy to stay, thought I saw you looking. Meet? When: Sept. 12. Where: Kingsland Walmart. #1409-0917 COFFEE HOTTIE You: Hottest girl at Bold Bean, skintight Lululemons, bedhead and full-sleeve Molly Hatchet tattoo. You caught my glance waiting for latte. Me: Still drunk from last night, looking fine in Jesus Is The Shit shirt. We MUST meet. When: Sept. 10. Where: Bold Bean. #1408-0917 HOT BLONDE @ UPS STORE You: Girl at Claire Lane/San Jose Boulevard UPS store. Me: Handsome Latino courier who comes in twice a month to pick up a customer’s mail. You know who I am. If single, wanna chat? When: Sept. 8. Where: UPS Store. #1407-0917 FLIRTING WHILE DRIVING? You: Dark Dodge pickup, Gator plate. Me: Old red Jeep Cherokee. Passed each other – intentionally – on bridge; smiles, waves. You’re cute! I was late, or would’ve followed. Wanna slow down and say hi? When: Sept. 3. Where: Buckman Bridge. #1406-0917
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PARTY RENTALS RENT OUR SPACE FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT! LOWER RATES THROUGH END OF JANUARY 2015. Special rental rates for available dates through the end of January 2015: Mon., Tue., Wed., Thur. $300 (for seven hours); Fri., Sun. $800 (from 9AM-1AM next day); Sat. $1,000 (from 9AM-1AM next day). Contact (904) 396-2905 or Sandy at (904) 396-0459. PARTY SUPPLIES - RENTALS We provide supplies for your party or social activities: tables, chairs, tents, bouncing houses,
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EVENTS AND NOTICES FARM LIFE FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE MAIN EVENT 2014 “A NIGHT TO REMEMBER” Distinguished Venue: The Alfred I. duPont Riverfront Mansion Epping Forest Yacht Club, 830 Epping Forest Dr., Jacksonville, 739-7200, Dec. 7. Your evening begins at 5:30 p.m. $150 donation per person. Tickets available online: FarmLifeFDN.org. Once in a lifetime, an event so specially crafted, planned and designed becomes a gift to the community. Farm Life Foundation will give a portion of net proceeds from The Main Event Fundraiser to GMO Free Florida Org. and Equality Florida Org. Together Everyone Achieves More.
CUSTOMER SERVICE AIRLINE CAREERS begin here – Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Housing and Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance, 844-210-3935.
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