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TIGER MOM: Nineteen years after her solo debut, “Tigerlily,” a still-enchanting Natalie Merchant joins the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Jan. 11 at The Florida Theatre. Photo: Marion Ettlinger

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Editor’s Note

Jacksonville Is Great. Let’s Make It Better A New Year’s resolution from your new editor

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he Saturday before Christmas, as day turned to night and the unseasonably warm evening air was infused with the slightest chill, I was in 5 Points, having drinks at Birdie’s with some new friends and acquaintances, talking about this place I’d only a week earlier begun to call home. Here, I felt in my element. This neighborhood, like all great neighborhoods, was distinctive, and yet it was also of a piece with my favorite haunts in Philadelphia and Orlando, two cities where I’d spent my entire adult life.

Here I found craft beers and aged whiskeys, boutiques and Sun-Ray Cinema, restaurants and antique shops, smart and interesting people — a far cry from the images of mega churches and Confederate flags and gun shops and endless suburban sprawl the word “Jacksonville” so often conjures to outsiders. (Those things, by the way, all exist in spades within 5 miles of my Westside house.)

There was so much more here than meets the eye, I was told. Music, art, events like One Spark, innovators, creators, a burgeoning community just waiting for a champion. And as the night dragged on and beer turned to bourbon to fantastic latenight eats at Chomp Chomp Downtown, I got this tingling sense that Northeast Florida is on the cusp of something special, something amazing, something revolutionary. And I wanted to be part of it, to facilitate it, to champion it.

Or maybe I was just inebriated.

The truth is, it’s impossible to figure out a place of this size and complexity and diversity — to really get inside its skin and walk around for a while — in a day or a week or a month. I’m not even going to try. But what I have seen is a city at the crossroads of old and new, of the future and the past, of tradition and modernity.

You also don’t have to live here long to notice the challenges: poverty, crime, education, a woeful public transportation system, a lack of any meaningful sense of urban planning. And we still — until July — have a school named after the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, which is, let’s be honest, embarrassing as hell.

And so in the few weeks I’ve lived in Jacksonville, amid the mad scramble of wrapping my brain around a new job and hoping each day that Google Maps doesn’t deposit me in a ditch somewhere, my thoughts have started to coalesce around this singular mission statement — given the time of year, let’s call it a resolution: Jacksonville is great. Let’s make it better.

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The publication I am now privileged to lead has a long, storied history — a dedication to, as the adage says, afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.

This too is my goal: to tell the stories that are overlooked, to investigate without fear or favor, to challenge the powers that be, to hold a mirror up to this city’s ugliest parts (every city has them).

At the same time, we will be the biggest champions of the best parts of Northeast

There are few places in this country more in need of strong alternative media than Northeast Florida.

My New Year’s Resolution is to give you just that.

Florida: of the artists and musicians and writers and bartenders and food truck owners and film geeks and techies and rabble-rousers and general miscreants who make cities vibrant and compelling.

Through it all, I want this magazine to be a fun, engaging read week in and week out — incisive, challenging, literary, smart, opinionated, unapologetic, like the bastard child of an erudite library and the seediest bar. Like what we have to say or not, remember that our pages are always the start, not the end, of a conversation about moving this region forward.

There are, to my mind, few places in this country more in need of strong alternative media. My New Year’s Resolution is to give you just that.

In the meantime, I have a steep learning curve ahead of me, and I welcome your suggestions: places I should eat and drink, people I should know, spots I can take my dogs to, artists and musicians I should pay attention to, stories that are being ignored elsewhere. I invite you to connect with me — with anything you think I should know, or just to introduce yourself.

Jacksonville is great. Let’s make it better.

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

Mail Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?

At Skate Station Funworks, we believe in providing safe, healthy, family fun while being respectful of all of our customers.

As a family entertainment center, we do not use disrespectful and derogatory language to describe anyone, especially our customers. We believe the Dec. 18 issue of Folio Weekly was written in bad taste [Cover Story, “A New Year’s Eve Guide”]. While we are appreciative of the acknowledgment of our New Year’s Eve All-Night Skate, we are troubled by the terms used to describe children in our area. This article was not written by Skate Station, nor does it express the views or opinions of either Skate Station Orange Park or Skate Station Mandarin.

We believe the article was not written with malicious intent; however, we sincerely hope that in the future Folio Weekly will be more considerate in their description of others.

— Kevin Schad, General Manager, Skate Station, Orange Park Ed. note: We advised parents to make “the little bastards someone else’s problem for the night.”

Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Parents?

A well-written article and so true [Crime City, “The Power of the Project,” Dec. 25]. I was a police officer for 27 years, and part of that time was spent working in our public schools. Every time I had the chance to speak to parents, I told them there was no surefire preventive tool that would ensure their children never got in trouble with the law, never used drugs, never joined a gang. But I also told them that if they did several things, the likelihood their children would grow up to be productive adults would be greatly increased.

First, be involved in their lives — don’t turn raising your children over to others (schools included). Next, set expectations and have rules for them to follow and have consequences for breaking those rules. Children need limits.

Know who their friends are! Try to know their friends’ parents, if you can, and decide if

they are the kind of people you want your kids running with.

Get your kids involved in group activities supervised by adults — sports, music, church groups, etc. Kids who have no interests and nothing to occupy their time will often find trouble, by themselves or with others.

And lastly, make sure you kids know you love them — not by words alone and not by actions alone. Let them know you value them regardless of whether they achieve great things or not. And don’t wait to start doing these things until they start getting into trouble. Usually, it’s far too late at that point (late, but not worth changing and trying).

The biggest reason we have so many youth who get into trouble with drugs, gangs and the law is the abrogation of responsibility by parents.

— Terry Weaver

Won’t Somebody Please Think of the White People?

I’m certainly not saying [Nathan Bedford Forrest] was a great humanitarian [Cover Story, “The General, in Black and White,” Dec. 25]. But there are two sides to every story. After the Civil War, the slaves, rather than being happy at being slaves, went on a rampage, burning plantation homes and attacking and sometimes killing whites. (And often getting away with it.) Also, according to the book “Myths of Reconstruction,” thousands of white women were raped. (And again, many of the perpetrators were getting away with it.) Why do you think the KKK was founded to begin with? As just a social club? What you don’t seem to realize is that Southern blacks hate Southern whites just as much as the whites hate them. Now, none of this erases Forrest’s atrocities, especially of ordinary soldiers at Fort Pillow, who were killed for no reason other then being “uppity,” but let’s be fair and examine both sides of the story for once.

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FULL EXPOSURE / DENNIS HO

THE FINISH LINE: Dale Bautista of Brandon, Fla., celebrates his completion of the 31st annual Jacksonville Bank Marathon – his first – on Dec. 29 at The Bolles School on San Jose Boulevard. Bautista finished 466th out of some 900 participants, a scant 2 hours, 32 minutes and 57 seconds behind overall men’s winner (and Orange Park native) Nicholas Maedel. The rain that began falling an hour after the race started turned into a downpour so torrential that race director Doug Alred described it as the heaviest in the marathon’s history.

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NewsBuzz

Start Snitchin’

How do you get people to trust the cops when they think the cops don’t care?

“M Let ’Em Starve You know how Obamacare/high taxes/regulations/ whatever is strangling the economy, stifling job creation and keeping good, hard-working folks out of work? And you know how those good, hard-working folks are actually lazy bums who need to stop suckling the government teat, get off their asses and find a job?

Wait …

Last week, 1.3 million Americans and 88,000 Floridians – including nearly 6,300 in Duval, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties – lost their federal emergency jobless benefits. By December 2014, unless Congress acts, nearly 4 million more Americans will join them. They will do so for no other reason than Republicans decided they should, lest we inculcate a culture of leeches; the benefits extension thus wasn’t a part of the recent bipartisan budget deal President Obama signed. Take, for example, state Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, who told the News Service of Florida, “I don’t think it’s healthy for our society to create that kind of dependency and keep extending these benefits where people are living on government assistance for years.”

Florida already ranks among the stingiest states on this front. The average unemployed person collects just $230 a week – nationally, weekly benefits average around $300 – and during Gov. Scott’s tenure, we’ve slashed the number of weeks the jobless can reap that weekly fortune from 23 to 19 to now 16. (The max allowed by federal law is 26.) The emergency federal benefits that just expired provided for another 14 weeks. (Under federal law, we could have offered 47 weeks, but then we’d be mollycoddlers.)

The undergirding philosophy here is that this fat government cheese incentivizes the poor to park on the sofa with a bag of Doritos and watch Maury all day instead of schlepping it down to the local McDonald’s, where they can be duly exploited by our corporate overlords. (Yay, capitalism!) By giving the newly jobless just four months to find new work before the benefits run out – even though the average unemployed Floridian stays that way for 48.7 weeks, and only two in five unemployed find work within 14 weeks – we’re actually doing them a favor.

Except, well, no. The problem isn’t lack of motivation; it’s lack of opportunity.

A person receiving even the state’s maximum weekly benefit, $275, is hardly in a position to laze about. (The median monthly rent in Jacksonville was $904 in 2011, according to City-Data.com. Do the math.) When benefits are cut off, the economics data tell us, the unemployed don’t suddenly start pounding the pavement; they’ve already been doing that.

Instead, some take low-paying jobs for which they’re overqualified, but most give up and drop out of the labor force altogether.

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stay jobless. Kicking them in the nuts won’t help.

By the way, the median net worth of members of Congress – the folks who’ve decided the unemployed have it too good – is $442,007.

And Now for Some Good News As you no doubt recall – because you read this esteemed publication with the feverish devotion of virgins to Joss Whedon, don’t you? – last week’s Backpage Editorial, “Florida’s Unseen Shame,” recounted the day-to-day horrors and hardships of one local mother’s life caring for her severely disabled autistic son. That editorial went to press, however, before Michele Sheffield received the good news: Harley, her adult son, will receive the services he needs to safely place him in an appropriate group home.

“He’s funded for intensive behavior services, including a day program,” says Elisa Morris, Harley’s support coordinator for the Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD). Morris has submitted two crisis documentation packets to the local APD over the last 18 months. The local unit then sends these packets to its state-level counterpart to trigger services.

On Morris’ first try, in mid-2012, the state signed off on far fewer services than Harley needs, according to personnel at the group home his mother selected.

The facility’s director refused to accept Harley at that funding level, citing concerns about Harley’s safety and the safety of caregivers and other residents. Try two, however, got the desired results: On Christmas Eve, Sheffield received a letter from APD in which the agency agreed that Harley needs round-the-clock care from trained behaviorists.

“I think we might have a Christmas miracle,” Sheffield says. It’s a miracle not just for Harley, but for his mother as well. Caring for Harley had meant ignoring her own health issues; in a very real sense, her survival, as well as his development, depended on the state paying for this group home.

The next step, Morris says, is to find out if that group home can once again take Harley in, now that the money’s there. Sheffield’s struggle isn’t over, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

— Jeffrey C. Billman and Julie Delegal

an, it’s hard to walk in this neighborhood,” Ahmad Miles Franklin Jr. says as we walk down Lila Street on an overcast Saturday afternoon.

His eyes are hidden behind dark sunglasses, his face obscured by a wide-brimmed black hat that hangs low on his forehead. Every so often, you catch the faintest hint of his voice breaking.

A week and a day earlier, the Friday before Christmas, his father, Ahmad Miles Franklin, was hit by three bullets while standing on his front porch of the duplex he shared with his longtime fiancée. The police called him an innocent bystander; his relatives and neighbors believe he was caught in the crossfire of a neighbor’s drug-related feud. Franklin died at the hospital on Dec. 23. You can still see the bullet holes in the concrete of his Linda Street home.

“He helped people out in the neighborhood,” Franklin Jr. says. “Whatever people needed, he did it for them.” His oldest niece, Khalinah Brown, says that he was the kind of guy who’d wait by the bus stop and make sure kids got home OK, that he had an infectious laugh that would prompt you to join him even if you had no idea what he was laughing about.

And now he’s dead.

Today Franklin Jr. and Brown, along with Franklin’s mother, friends, neighbors and a

contingent of volunteers organized by the local chapter of the group MAD DADS — that’s “Men Against Destruction, Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder” — are walking the streets of this Northside neighborhood looking for answers, for justice, for closure.

“Somebody was on this street who saw what happened to Mr. Franklin,” says A.J. Jordan, vice president of MAD DADS Jacksonville. “I am 100 percent sure about that.”

So far, however, no one’s talking. This isn’t unusual. Franklin’s is one of 48 unsolved Jacksonville homicides, MAD DADS says, and one of 18 in 2013 alone. In at least some of these cases, the biggest impediment is that witnesses just won’t cooperate with the police.

“One of our primary goals is to get them to break the code of silence,” says Donald Foy, the local MAD DADS president. Part of it is fear of retaliation — “snitches gets stitches,” as the saying goes. But there’s also something deeper, an ingrained distrust of the JSO that goes back decades, to a time when the cops were “coming in [to black neighborhoods] and terrorizing the community,” Jordan says. “Now the community feels like they’re the enemy. If you talk to the police, you snitching.”

Foy understands it — “Ten, 15 years ago [they] would have beat me with a billy club”— but if they want to be crime- and drug-free, he

New Stuff Alert!

Do us a quick favor. For just a sec, flip back to page 30, and look right there below News of the Weird. See that cartoon, “Average Jim”? That’s brand spankin’ new, and we’re stoked to have it. The cartoonist, Jim Ward, is a local art director and freelance illustrator, as well as the current president of the local chapter of AIGA: The Professional Association for Design. He also did this week’s cover image.

Stay tuned. More changes are on the way, and we couldn’t be more excited about what 2014 has in store.

SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING: The late Ahmad Franklin’s grandparents, Cornelius and Gertrude Polk, walk the streets of his Northside neighborhood looking for anyone who can help bring his killers to justice.

News says, these communities have to move beyond old antagonisms. “We have too many [people who] want to run JSO over” because of these unsolved murders. “What can JSO do if they don’t have the information?”

Foy’s group is here to gin up that information — to get it, if not to the police, then at least to Crime Stoppers, where tipsters can remain anonymous. Some three dozen people are canvassing the neighborhood, passing out fliers and talking to neighbors and passers-by, asking them to come forward if they know anything. Because of Crime Stoppers’ anonymity policy, they’ll probably never know if their efforts bore fruit.

Later that night, Jordan would tell me that the relationship between the JSO and Northside neighborhoods is getting better. JSO is more approachable. The police walk or bike their beats, and interact and forge relationships with community members. And, he points out, three uniformed JSO deputies joined the MAD DADS canvass. “We want the community to know this is a collective effort,” Jordan says.

Alexis Parker, the daughter of Franklin’s fiancée (she introduces herself as his stepdaughter), doesn’t seem sold on the kumbaya. She was inside, on the sofa, with her kids and nephew when Franklin was shot.

Until about three months ago, she told me, this neighborhood was safe and quiet. But then drug dealers moved in. Chaos ensued. There were gunshots and drug activity. One neighbor in particular, she says, called the police repeatedly — sometimes the JSO directly, sometimes Crime Stoppers.

“Nobody came around,” Parker says. “It could have been prevented.”

JSO records indicate that there were two calls for service, including a report of gunshots on Dec. 5, that originated from Franklin’s Linda Street address in the three months before his shooting. Police showed up both times.

Information on other calls for service that may have come from elsewhere in that neighborhood was not available by press time.

The day after the shooting, Brown says, the drug dealers packed up and left. Since then, things have settled back down.

For Parker, however JSO handled the neighborhood’s drug problems, it doesn’t change the fact that her stepfather is dead and someone needs to be held accountable. If no one speaks up, that won’t happen. “I’m not going to let this get swept under the rug,” she says. “He was a good person.”

Jeffrey C. Billman jbillman@folioweekly.com

TRIAL RUN: If the nighttime Riverside trolley goes well, the JTA says it will consider making the route permanent.

Photo: Dennis Ho

Back to the Future

With an eye toward the past, Riverside merchants want the JTA to begin nighttime trolley service

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he thing about Riverside is that, for its many bar and restaurant and retail virtues, the parking sucks. The parking has always sucked, at least ever since the neighborhood became the hipster capital of Jacksonville. Since there’s no other way to get around, patrons will park at a restaurant for dinner, then move their car to a bar down the street, sometimes just a block or two away. Or sometimes they’ll just park on residents’ lawns or in their driveways.

The residents, in turn, have complained about not only being blocked in by cars left overnight, but also littering, public urination and displays of public coitus.

This isn’t a new problem. For years, area merchants have been looking for answers — some way to alleviate the crush of cars in a city with streets and arteries that aren’t particularly conducive to mass transit. And time and time again, they’ve circled around an old solution, the trolley. A century ago, a full-service trolley line ran through Riverside, which was originally designed to be a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood. But in the 1930s, at the height of the Depression and with the ever-increasing popularity of cars, those trolley lines were ripped up, and in the many decades that followed, walkability became a pipe dream.

Back in 2011, MetroJacksonville.com rented trolleys and ran pub crawls connecting Riverside and Downtown. Over a four-month period, these trolleys averaged about 250 riders a night, which the group deemed proof that demand for these nighttime trolleys existed. Other tests have followed, some with financial support from Downtown and Riverside merchants. Trolleys have been used for Luminaries night and Art Walk, and last September, Riverside Avondale Preservation convinced merchants to fund another trolley demonstration, this time focused on the restaurants and bars in Riverside and Avondale.

And now, starting this month, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority will conduct a trolley pilot program. On the first Friday and Saturday evening of each month from January to June, the JTA will run trolleys delivering patrons and revelers to the bars

and restaurants of Riverside and Avondale, making stops at 5 Points, Park & King, the Shoppes of Avondale, the Brewery District, Stockton & College and the St. Johns Village area; the trolleys will not go Downtown.

There will be three buses on 40-minute routes, overlapping every 13 minutes. One trolley will run until 2 a.m.

If all goes well, the merchants hope to finally convince the JTA to make these trolley runs permanent. That’s an important “if.”

The JTA estimates that the trolleys will cost about $1,200 a night, or $14,400 total for the pilot program. Riders, meanwhile, will have to fork over $1.50 for a single trip or $4 for a day pass. To break even — to make even considering a permanent trolley viable — the JTA needs to average 1,600 one-way fares or 600 one-day fares, or some combination thereof.

“Clearly, they have a parking issue over there,” says Brad Thoburn, JTA’s vice president for planning and development. “Maybe it will take some folks off the road and get good ridership. That’s our hope.”

Mike Field, an area resident and community activist, is optimistic: “There is a circulation problem in the neighborhood.

There is no viable option to get around. A nighttime trolley service meets so many of the unmet alternative transportation needs of our neighborhood.”

The JTA, meanwhile, is currently analyzing all of its routes, and hopes to release new ones by October. What happens during this Riverside pilot program will help the authority determine whether to add a regular nighttime bar route.

“We will evaluate [this option] against the others and make sure we optimally deploy the resources,” Thoburn says. “How does it stack up against the rest of the system? They have to show it has strong ridership and it is sustainable.”

“It’s not going to solve the parking problem,” Field admits. “If it’s very convenient, it may be a viable option to get some of the cars off the road.”

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Sportstalk Of Champs and Chumps

Really, what’s the difference between Meester and Mr. Mince?

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Danger: Radioactive!

If you value your career, avoid at all costs the remnants of Hurricane Trayvon

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ho knew that the squalls left over from Hurricane Trayvon were heading north?

During George Zimmerman’s trial, Florida State Attorney Angela Corey allegedly — no, counselor, I didn’t forget — neglected to turn over to defense lawyers a prosecution report on some myth-destroying photos found on Trayvon’s cell (Trayvon apparently smoking pot, someone holding a handgun, video of two homeless men fighting). Constitution-wise, that’s a no-no.

Ben Kruidbos, the info-dweeb who wrote the report, ratted out his boss’ withholding of evidence, under oath and in front of TV cameras. He was duly canned, frog-marched out of the Fourth Judicial Circuit and deposited on the pavement.

Corey is herself familiar with this hallowed ritual, having been fired by her predecessor, Harry Shorstein, for being abusive and unprofessional toward interns.

So too is her No. 2, Cheryl Peek, who in 1990 was accused of dismissing a grand jury panel and then immediately seating another in order to get an indictment. The Florida Supreme Court ruled that this wasn’t jury tampering, but her boss, then-State Attorney Ed Austin, decided it was outrageous and dismissed her.

Kruidbos is now suing Corey et al. for $5 million. Thus it was that on Dec. 18, at 11 a.m. sharp, assorted attorneys and I assembled in the chambers of Judge Lawrence Haddock.

The electricity was palpable. Would Trayvon Nation storm the Palace of Justice? Would Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton parachute into the atrium? Would 10,000 whackazoid bloggers from Planet Zim leap to their keyboards and hack the secrets of all and sundry? We waited for a circus. We waited for chaos. We waited for the judge — 10 minutes, 20, 45.

“Omigod,” I thought. “He knows this one’s hot.”

At last, after nearly an hour, His Honor emerged and, through steepled fingers, informed us that there was a conflict. He was a longtime friend of the Corey family and the recipient each year of a plate of stuffed grape leaves made by the state attorney’s father.

Therefore he was recusing himself. In less than

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a minute — poof — he was gone.

That impressed me. How often do you see a judge get himself off the political and legal hook with a plate of dolmades? The Zimmerman trial ruined legal and law enforcement careers from Sanford to Miami (two police chiefs fired, one state attorney humiliated and retired, two senior police officers busted back to rousting drunks on patrol). The judge definitely knows the Golden Rule of Government Service: When presented with a political hot potato, pass it on to someone who can take the heat.

Mos’ deft, Your Honor.

So, will Jacksonville’s two top prosecutors take a clue from the judge? Or will they ruin their careers, as have so many others, in the attempt to prosecute George Zimmerman?

Here’s some unsolicited advice. Don’t get tough over an ex-employee lawsuit and get hammered. All things Trayvon and Zimmerman are radioactive! You’d have a better chance nibbling plutonium on a cracker than getting through that minefield unscathed.

Please, please, do not pull a Paula Deen!

Just think if, after Paula got sued by her exemployee, she’d only duked the plaintiff a few hundred thou — chump change — she’d still be on the tube showing us how to batter-fry cream cheese in butter.

So pay off this mope. Half a mil, whatever.

It’s the taxpayers’ money, for crying out loud.

Non-disclosure agreement? Of course! A stipulation for Kruidbos to live for 10 years in Tierra del Fuego without phone or Internet?

It’s only fair.

It’s only smart. The Florida Ethics Commission complaint over withholding evidence won’t stay bottled up forever.

Besides, the Zimmerman bloggers are onto you, and they can dig dirt, and spread it, faster than a mole.

The next time you see a Trayvon/Zimmermantype case rolling down the pike, take a tip from the judge. Run like hell and don’t stop until you cross the Georgia line. Otherwise you might join the other losers, In Crime City.

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ne thing I’ve noticed in my years doing this column — and my years writing about the Jags, especially — is that NFL players are, in the final analysis, commodities, nothing more, nothing less.

The commodification of the gridiron hero has facilitated many narratives, none more so than the tendency of sportswriters to put those narratives in the Manichean framework of heroes and villains.

Consider how Jimmy Smith was treated as he wrestled with addiction issues; or, more recently, Justin Blackmon, who entered rehab after being indefinitely suspended from the team in November. Contrast that with the lionization of Brad Meester, a wholly average interior lineman whose gifts have been longevity and staying out of trouble.

For Jacksonville’s white-bread sports media, that’s more than enough.

The Meester narrative, along with the team’s slow-crawl improvement over the last weeks of the season, allowed the Jags’ home finale to feel better than earlier ones at the ass-end of lackluster campaigns.

The Dec. 22 game against the Titans, in the sun-soaked, surprisingly full confines of EverBank Field, was a capstone on the Meester era — and a fine illustration of how reality once again was framed by a convenient narrative in Jagland.

The Meester farewell had everything, including a treacly message on the videoboard from his kids. It was easily the greatest send-off for an interior lineman in franchise history. And why not? He’d been here since the Coughlin era. Meester even got a gimmick play in the red zone — shades of former Jags lineman Guy “the Human Turnstile” Whimper.

That was a nice moment. A few days before, however, the Jags sent another veteran off with considerably less ceremony.

It wasn’t nearly as pretty.

On the cusp of Jeremy Mincey’s 30th birthday, after cultivating a well-earned reputation for tardiness (he missed the Jags’ trip to Houston because he overslept), he was cut. The defensive end and Gators alum,

who’s always been real with his fans on social media, posted on Facebook about it.

He also told me in an interview that he “felt freed” after his release; he just wasn’t Gus Bradley’s guy, he said.

He wasn’t unemployed for long. The playoff-bound but injury-racked Denver Broncos quickly scooped him up. After the Broncos clinched the division title — the very same Sunday as Meester’s feting — an exuberant Mincey tweeted about it: “Be happy for me. I deserve this. It’s been a long time coming.”

Anyone who knows how the convergence of Twitter and pissed-off fans works knows what happened next. My Twitter timeline filled with people putting Mincey on blast for claiming that he’d an instrumental role in Denver’s season — especially after having all of one tackle in that day’s victory in Houston. A sample: “You’re weak as f**k. Missed team meetings, didnt buy in. Now celebrating with a team that aint yours.

You have no team, Chump” [sic].

Knowing what we know of how the NFL machine chews up and spits out its talent, ponder this: What’s the real difference between the contributions of Brad Meester and Jeremy Mincey? Both gave their best years and physical primes to the Jags franchise. Meester was, if we’re being honest, exceedingly mediocre. Mincey was at least above average for a few years.

Neither was a difference-maker, and both fell off this year.

The difference? Mincey’s decline was framed as a lack of commitment; Meester got a pass on account of being too old to be effective — which has really been the case for the last couple of years. If I were to speculate, the real difference seems basic: Meester is more of the corn-fed Iowa type, Mincey is more hip-hop. One of these plays better in the press.

The fact is that Meester’s calling card was his longevity. That’s it. For a city and a franchise as starved for tradition as the Jags, that’s enough.

AG Gancarski themail@folioweekly.com

A HERO’S GOOD-BYE: The Jaguars feted Brad Meester, their longtime thoroughly mediocre center at his last home game, Dec. 22. Photo: Dennis Ho

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VISUAL ARTS FIGURE & PORTRAIT SHOW

St. Augustine fine artist Lisa O’Neil seeks to present figures “as real human beings with real lives, not just as names from the history books.” Her work is elegant in its simplicity, capturing a stark and intrinsic humanity, a sense of beauty and solemnity. O’Neil, who studied in Florence, Italy, and who is the recipient of the Carl Steinsieck Award for Best Figure Drawing, presents charcoal portraits of prominent figures from St. Augustine history – including “Spanish Cavalry Officer” (pictured) and Sister Marie Therese Evrard of the Sisters of St. Joseph – during the annual Figure & Portrait Show. The juried exhibit opens with a reception and awards presentation during First Friday Art Walk, 5-9 p.m.

Jan. 3. Exhibit on display through Feb. 2 at St. Augustine Art Association.

BLUES B.B. KING

Perhaps you missed The Lumineers or The xx when they stopped by in 2013, and you kicked yourself for it. (You should have.) Maybe you didn’t get tickets for Cat Power when you had the chance.

(Dammit.) Who knows, God forbid, you could be the ultimate Belieber who skipped the August show at the arena, then lost your mind when Beebs Twitterpondered retirement on Christmas Eve. Forget all that. A true blues legend, a veteran of more than 15,000 concerts and a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer can make it all better. At 88 years old, B.B. King plays Downtown and, well, we don’t know how many jaunts down here he’s got left. Regret lasts forever, people. 8 p.m. Jan. 7 at T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, Downtown, $45-$75.

INDIE CELEBRATION POST-JUNK FESTIVAL

It was just five years ago – New Year’s Day 2009, in fact – that James Arthur Bayer III and Nicklaus Schoeppel launched Infintesmal Records. More than 1,000 concerts and 37 releases later – the most recent being “Post-Junk Vol. 1,” a 7-inch compilation – they’re ready to celebrate. The fifth anniversary festival spans three venues in Riverside and Downtown and packs in more genres than we care to count – noise, dark wave, punk, psychedelic and so on. The festival, which began Dec. 31, spreads out over six days with more than 30 acts, so you’ve got no excuse. Not that you want one. Performers include Burnt Hair, Jan. 1 at Burro Bar, Downtown, $5; Rubrics and Egos, Jan. 2 at Rain Dogs, Riverside, $5; Kid Aids, Jan. 3 at Burro Bar, $5; Holopaw and Memphibians, Jan. 4 at Burro Bar, $10; The Golden Pelicans and Mr. Clit & the Pink Cigarettes (pictured), Jan. 5 at Shantytown Pub, Downtown, $5.

Full festival pass, $20.

PSYCHEDELIC ROCK MUD TEA

Asheville trio Mud Tea rolls out of Appalachia for two shows in Northeast Florida. And what does Mud Tea sound like? They call it an admixture of psychedelic rock, old-school metal and the “grime of New Orleans funk.” To our ears, it sounds like the strangest acid trip ever – and that’s probably the idea. With Yankee Slickers, 8 p.m. Jan. 3 at Underbelly, Downtown, $5; and 9 p.m. Jan. 4 at The Palace Saloon, Fernandina Beach.

HARD ROCK CLUTCH

You know the one thing every musician has in common? They all think they’re defying genre (even when they’re derivative as hell). For years, four-piece Maryland band Clutch felt miscast as nu metal, stoner rock, post-hardcore and so on. And so the band responded last March by churning out its 10th studio album, “Earth Rocker,” a straightforward up-tempo rock ‘n’ roll effort that’s gotten mostly positive reviews. The straightforward rockers/nu metalers/whatever you want to call them take the stage with Austin heavy metal band The Sword and Pennsylvania rock band Crobot. Labels aside, Clutch packs a punch live, so be ready. 7 p.m. Jan. 5 at Freebird Live, Jax Beach, $25.

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nce upon a time, there was a boy who stood on the beach and watched the starfish wash ashore. Over and over again, as the seas spit the fish up, he would walk over, pick them up and throw them back into the water. One day, a man saw the boy on the beach, picking up starfish and throwing them back into the ocean. “There are too many starfish,” the man said. “You cannot possibly make a difference.”

The boy picked up yet another starfish and launched it back into the sea. “I saved that one.”

Delores Barr Weaver repeats this story all the time — in speeches, to journalists, to whoever will listen. It’s a mission statement, she says, a reminder “to make a difference in one life at a time.”

“She is a passionate person. She goes full bore,” her husband, J. Wayne Weaver, says. He would know. The couple has been married for nearly six decades. “She has a big heart and she wants to help those who are less fortunate.”

And so she does, especially women and children.

Since coming to Jacksonville in 1993, the Weavers have donated at least $145 million to local charities — $91 million in the last year alone, according to The Community Foundation in Jacksonville, which helps manage the Weavers’ philanthropy. She donated $6 million to start the

Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center to advocate for better treatment for troubled girls. She donated millions more to breast cancer research (her mother died from the disease in 1957 at age 40). She’s supported shelters for battered women. She’s also provided endowments at 24 area nonprofits to help ensure their continued operation, including WJCT, The Women’s Center of Jacksonville, the Cathedral Arts Project, PACE Center for Girls and Hubbard House, a women’s shelter.

Because of this considerable philanthropy and her commitment to making Northeast Florida a better place to live — especially for the less fortunate — Folio Weekly is pleased to name Delores Barr Weaver our 2013 Person of the Year.

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elores Barr was just 15 when she met Wayne. She worked vacations and weekends as a cashier in his mother’s dress shop in Columbus, Ga., where she grew up some 200 miles northwest of Jacksonville. She was sweet on him. For Wayne’s mother, however, no woman was good enough, according to another female employee.

“I thought to myself, ’We’ll see about that,’ ” she says. And so their love story began with Delores wooing not just Wayne, but also (and perhaps more important) his mother. As has happened many times throughout the course of Weaver’s life, she got what she wanted.

“I remember her saying she loved me first,” Weaver says. “Wayne said he didn’t have a chance.”

They married in 1955, after she graduated from high school.

Weaver didn’t come from money. “My parents were Middle-American,” she says.

“They didn’t have anything to give. If you wanted something, you needed to work for it.”

Her father owned a string of service stations in Columbus. Her mother, like most mothers of that era, was a homemaker. Beyond that, Weaver doesn’t volunteer much about her early life — and only reveals details (for instance, her first name is actually Sybol, though she never uses it) when asked directly.

She will tell you that married life wasn’t always easy, as is often the case for young couples. Wayne, a determined shoe salesman without a college degree, climbed the corporate ladder of the St. Louis-based Brown Shoe Company. Delores worked for the phone company. They had two children, and not a lot of money. At least not like they have now.

That all began to change when Wayne left Brown in 1978 to become CEO of Nine West, then a small shoe importer. In a little over a decade, Nine West was generating a halfbillion dollars in annual sales. In 1992, Wayne resigned to run Shoe Carnival, a company he had purchased in 1988.

That same year, Delores’ brother-in-law, John, a Jacksonville businessman, talked Wayne into becoming the lead investor in the effort to land an NFL team in Jacksonville. Wayne played hardball with the city council, threatening to scuttle the deal unless the city agreed to pay for any cost overruns for the Gator Bowl renovation.

The city acceded to his demands, agreeing to pay $121 million toward landing a pro team.

The NFL awarded Jacksonville a franchise in November 1993.

As soon as the Weavers became majority owners of the Jags, Delores told her investors that she wanted to start a foundation to help disadvantaged youth and families in the community. Though it’s a common practice now, there weren’t many sports teams affiliated with these charities back then. Now, under her leadership, the Jaguars Foundation has donated more than $15 million to community causes.

In March 1995, six months before the Jaguars played their first game, the foundation donated $140,000 in grants to local charities such as the Girl Scouts, PACE Center for Girls and the Bridge of Northeast Florida, a nonprofit working with underprivileged youth.

Weaver was also the first woman on the board of NFL Charities. Now, there are two on the seven-person board. “I really have an issue with it being a man’s world,” she says. “Women

are just as capable as men.”

Two years ago, the Weavers sold the Jaguars for $770 million. They converted their Weaver Family Foundation into a $23.7 million fund managed by The Community Foundation.

Delores later donated an additional $50 million to the foundation — the largest donation that nonprofit has ever received.

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ere’s the thing about Delores Weaver.

She has the money to go anywhere she pleases, do anything she wants — and the Weavers do travel frequently. (They climbed Mount Kilimanjaro together in 1989; it was her idea.) But she’s made this place, Jacksonville, her home, and says she wants to remain here the rest of her life. Because this is home, because she’s become so deeply invested in this place — not just financially, but spiritually, too — because this place has invested so much in her, and in the Jaguars, she feels that her philanthropy is a duty, almost something she owes us.

“I really have an issue with it being a man’s world, women are just as capable as men.”

She’s not the kind of philanthropist who writes a check and goes about her business.

Weaver advises The Community Foundation’s staff on all the projects she’s interested in, and staff members provide her with research materials to study. “They really do a lot of the work for me, but when it comes down to it, I make the decision [about which organizations to support],” she says. “There are things I really care about and I’m not afraid to stir the pot.”

Back in the ’90s, for instance, she started a program called Straight Talk — and politely coerced six area television stations into simultaneously running a Straight Talk town hall — designed to provide teens with completely factual information about sex and contraception. Too many babies were having babies, she said, and too many young men engaged in unprotected sex with no thought of the consequences. After the Weavers sold the team and along with it the Jaguars Foundation, new owner Shad Khan announced that he’d no longer sponsor the annual event, saying he wanted to make his own decisions on programs the foundation would sponsor.

Weaver countered that if the foundation wouldn’t cover Straight Talk, she’d foot the bill.

More recently, the Weavers donated $10 million to Baptist Health, which in turn named its new tower in their honor. Their money will go to the health system’s endowment for programs in pediatric and adolescent behavioral health.

“The gift is the largest in our health system’s history, and will help transform mental health care in our community,” says Audrey M. Moran, Baptist Health’s senior vice president.

In the fall of 2012, the Weavers attended a screening of the acclaimed documentary “The Invisible War,” and Delores Weaver was drawn

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In mid-December, the Weavers donated $100,000 to the Five Star Veterans Center, a nonprofit transitional housing facility for homeless military veterans. Earlier this year, the center was on the brink of closing after its principal sponsor, Allied Veterans of the World, was shuttered amid the uproar about the gambling scandal that brought down the state’s lieutenant governor. (Allied Veterans, which ran Internet cafés around the state, was giving only a small amount of its profits to veterans and veterans groups.)

“Our country is not supporting veterans the way it should,” Weaver says. “I hope they will have a little more sound footing for a while.”

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These girls have “led lives most of us cannot imagine,” says Lawanda Ravoira, the center’s president and CEO, whom Weaver chose because of her extensive experience as executive director of the PACE Center for Girls, where she worked for 13 years. “They have suffered grief and loss, abuse, violence and/or trauma.”

Those experiences, Ravoira continues, led the girls to act out, which in turn got them locked up. Counties in Northeast Florida, in fact, imprison more girls that Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and Tampa combined. The center’s goal is to find out why, to get to the root of the problem. “Through the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center, Ms. Weaver had enabled us to bring rigorous research and in-depth analysis of the data to identify root causes and implement solutions for this alarming trend,” Ravoira says. The goal, she adds, is to in time create a model that could be emulated nationally, one that “creates hope and opportunity out of injustice, violence and abuse.”

In the end, it’s about responsibility, about being a part of a community, about using her wealth to help others — one person at a time, even if she can’t help them all, just like the boy who rescued starfish.

“I know for me, it’s the right thing to do.

I just know it is important to me to do what I can and do as much as I can to help the less fortunate.”

Ron Word rword@folioweekly.com

Movies

SOLD INTO SLAVERY: Slave owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) demonstrates a new level of malevolence to Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man abducted from upstate New York in “12 Years a Slave.” Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The 10 Best Films of 2013

From ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Spring Breakers,’ Dan Hudak counts down his favorite cinematic experiences of 2013

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t was a year that started poorly and then stumbled even more during a disappointing summer, lowlighted by the mind-numbing blur that was the last 30 minutes of “Man of Steel.”

Yet, 2013 ended up being a fairly good year at the movies, thanks in large part to films that pushed barriers, dared to be different and wowed us at times when we expected anything but.

Here are the 10 best films of 2013:

10. RUSH Movies often offer escapist entertainment, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want them to feel honest. One of the best things about Ron Howard’s film was the mutual, bitter hatred that fueled Formula One drivers Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) and James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth, aka Thor) during their 1976 season. Highlighted by an Oscar-worthy performance from Bruhl, Howard’s film never sugarcoats the fact that these two guys want to beat each other up more than they want to win for themselves.

9. FRUITVALE STATION Based on a true story, the film follows an early20s African-American named Oscar Grant during the last day of his life on New Year’s Eve in Oakland in 2008. After multiple arrests in the years prior, Oscar vows to be a better father, son and boyfriend, but a late-night altercation with Bay Area police officers ends with him being unjustly killed. It’s a sad but very well acted story, with an especially strong performance by Michael B. Jordan as Oscar. I daresay it’s socially relevant as well.

8. FROZEN Disney Animation (“Tangled”) has done it again with this gorgeously animated musical. It’s a simple story of innocent sister Anna chasing her cursed sister Elsa into the mountains after Elsa freezes their kingdom in ice. The songs, highlighted by Idina Menzel’s rousing rendition of Elsa’s “Let It Go,” are all showstoppers, and the story is funny and sweet in all the right ways.

7. SPRING BREAKERS Coming-of-age stories tend to conclude with a teenager figuring out who he or she is and

finishing the film with a bright, satisfying smile.

“Spring Breakers” has those elements, but it also dares to suggest that sometimes finding oneself leads to answers society won’t like. Add to this revelation various teenage debaucheries, graphic nudity and an Oscar-worthy James Franco as a rapper/gangster, and you have the most daring film of the year.

6. HER Writer-director Spike Jonze’s (“Adaptation”) latest meta-existential project stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore, a loner in futuristic Los Angeles. His life takes an intriguing turn when he falls in love with his computer operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) and believes they have a real relationship. Do they? One of the best things about the film is that it prompts us to wonder what the future holds for relationships, what qualifies as a real relationship, and if a physical presence is needed for someone to be truly special to you. One of the smartest and most thoughtful films you’ll see, it’s in limited release now and expands nationwide Jan. 10.

5. THE SPECTACULAR NOW Only rarely do teen coming-of-age stories feel this authentic, genuine and true. Shailene Woodley’s Aimee is pretty but doesn’t know it, a high school outcast with a bright future.

Miles Teller’s Sutton is the popular guy everyone likes, but he’s headed nowhere. They date, but reality hits and yields some surprising and not-so-surprising revelations. Any movie that so faithfully and earnestly recalls the angst of teenage emotion is a must-see, and this film did it better than any in recent memory.

4. STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS It’s stunning how director J.J. Abrams is taking the original “Star Trek” canon and incorporating it into his new vision for the franchise. Yes, it was ridiculous to try to keep the identity of the villain a secret for so long, but the anticipation for the film itself was well worth the wait, as this was easily the best film of the summer. For the great visuals, action and story, J.J. Abrams, I salute you.

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3. GRAVITY It might lack a deep emotional story, but this work of art is the most technically ambitious and stunningly gorgeous film I’ve seen in a long, long time. With its breathtaking visuals of Sandra Bullock’s and George Clooney’s astronaut characters floating adrift in outer space, director Alfonso Cuaron has rightfully asserted himself as a legit Oscar contender. If you haven’t seen this yet, do so ASAP in 3-D on the biggest screen possible. Your eyes will thank you.

2. AMERICAN HUSTLE You know those movies that are so much fun, you want more of everything they have to offer?

This is one of them. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, director David O. Russell’s (“Silver Linings Playbook”) latest is a perfectly written, acted and directed period piece of the late ’70s that oozes style (such as it was) and charisma.

It’s funny, suspenseful and charming, the type of story that movie lovers crave and don’t get nearly enough of.

1. 12 YEARS A SLAVE The incredible emotional impact of “12 Years A Slave” is unlike any felt since “Schindler’s List” (1993). Slavery in the United States has never before been this exposed, this despicable in terms of the harsh brutality that many African-Americans endured. The story follows Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free Northerner, as he’s kidnapped and sold into slavery. Director Steve McQueen gets great performances out of every member of his cast, and the result is a film that will leave you infuriated at the injustice that was once commonplace in the country we call home.

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47 RONIN **@@ Rated PG-13 He’s a long way from an excellent adventure, but Keanu Reeves is clawing his way back up. In this action-fantasy-adventure, he plays Kai, a half-Brit/halfJapanese man recruited by Oishi, respected leader of the 47 Ronin, a band of awesome samurai. Even if you don’t follow the intricate plot, you’ll like the visuals and the score.

AMERICAN HUSTLE **G@ Rated R Writer-director David O. Russell has fashioned a beautiful, cinematic junk heap that’s likeable and engaging despite its overly long running time, sloppy screenplay and rambling structure. For professional scam artist Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale, with the best combover we’ve seen in years), working with the Feds is tougher than running cons. He’s helping the FBI (Bradley Cooper) nab public officials on the take in the infamous Abscam operation.

Co-stars Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence.

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES ***G Rated PG-13 The most-ballyhooed comedy this year reunites the quartet of newsmen – Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), Brick Tamland (Steve Carell, who is indeed thick as a brick), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd, charmingly smarmy) and Champ Kind (David Koechner) – as they blithely blunder toward the ’80s. Co-stars Christina Applegate, Kristen Wiig, Vince Vaughn and James Marsden.

THE BOOK THIEF **** Rated PG-13 Amid the chaos and horror of WWII, Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) steals books – before the Nazis can burn them – and shares them with the folks around her.

Based on the novel by Markus Zusak, the drama co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson.

DHOOM 3 **@@ Not Rated Bollywood superstar Abhishek Bachchan plays a tough cop in this third installment in a popular series. Co-stars Aamir Khan and Uday Chopra. In Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu.

FROZEN ***G Rated PG Disney’s animated feature introduces sisters Anna and Elsa, royalty of Arendelle. Princess Anna (Kristen Bell) and Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel) are strong characters in this version of “The Snow Queen.”

GRUDGE MATCH ***G Rated PG-13 No, it’s not Rocky Balboa vs. Jake LaMotta (wouldn’t that be awesome?). It’s two old – as in former and years – boxers coming out of retirement for one last fight, to settle old scores. Co-starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Kim Basinger, Alan Arkin and Kevin Hart. Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield pop up, too.

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG ***@ Rated PG-13 Co-writer and director Peter Jackson has stretched J.R.R. Tolkien’s books into lucrative movies and made stars of the cast members, including Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans and Ian McKellen. Then there’s the titular Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch), a villainous fire-breathing dragon who lays claim to Bilbo’s homeland. The film sings with vibrant colors and stunning images.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE ***G Rated PG-13 In Part 2 of the saga, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is a celebrity warrior hero manipulated by the Capitol’s leader Snow (Donald Sutherland). Co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci.

JUSTIN BIEBER’S BELIEVE *G@@ Rated PG The Beebs in all his glory. Billed as the “real story” behind the megastar’s rise to fame, this documentary is no doubt a must-see for his screaming fans.

A MADEA CHRISTMAS *G@@ Rated PG-13 Tyler Perry is wringing every

last ounce from his megastar creation Madea; now she’s celebrating Christmas in her own unique style, with her brutal panache. Co-stars Chad Michael Murray (OMG!), Tike Sumpter, Larry the Cable Guy and Anna Maria Horsford.

MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM ***G Rated PG-13 Adapted by Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson, the film follows Nelson Mandela (Idris Elba) from childhood, his 27 years in prison, his victorious release and election as South Africa’s first black president in 1994. The movie effectively examines the many battles Mandela had to face throughout his life, not only against the white rulers but against members of his own African National Congress and, even more difficult, his wife Winnie Mandela (Naomie Harris).

NEBRASKA ***G Rated R Cantankerous Woody Grant (Bruce Dern, getting long-overdue Oscar buzz) gets a piece of junk mail declaring him the winner of $1 million, so he convinces David (Will Forte) – the son who’s never quite synched with his old man – to drive him to Lincoln, Nebraska, to claim the prize. Co-stars Stacy Keach, June Squibb and Bob Odenkirk.

PHILOMENA **** Rated PG-13 Journalist Martin (Steve Coogan) needs to boost his career. Philomena (Dame Judi Dench) wants to find the son she gave up for adoption, forced by not-so-holy nuns decades earlier. Stephen Frears directed.

SAVING MR. BANKS ***@ Rated PG-13 P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), author of the popular “Mary Poppins” series of children’s books, travels to Disney Studios in Los Angeles to collaborate on adapting the book for film. For 20 years, she’s rebuffed Walt Disney’s (Tom Hanks) efforts to make this happen, not wanting her beloved characters to be altered. The Mr. Banks character – the father of the children Mary Poppins nannies – is based on Travers’ own papa, a bank manager and a drunkard who died when she was 7 years old. Hanks doesn’t try to mimic the avuncular businessman, but he seeks to capture the essence of the man. Thompson is great; expect her among the next round of Oscar nominations.

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY ***G Rated PG The versatile Ben Stiller plays James Thurber’s classic dreamer, Walter Mitty, who puts himself in fantasy situations with daring femme fatales and dastardly villains, with him as the hero who saves the day. Then he gets the chance to be a real hero on a real adventure. Co-stars Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott and Shirley MacLaine, with cameos from Andy Richter and Conan O’Brien.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS **@@ Rated PG This animated feature about dinosaurs is not the usual kiddie film of cute-but-doomed characters. The realistic 3D depiction of prehistoric creatures features the voices of Charlie Rowe, Karl Urban, Angourie Rice, John Leguizamo and Justin Long.

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET ***G Rated R Hotshot young stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) has a mansion, yacht, private jet, six cars, a steady supply of cocaine and everything else money can buy. Debauchery isn’t a habit for him; it’s a way of life. It’s the late ’80s, so anything goes. Co-stars Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner, Margot Robbie, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler and Matthew McConaughey.

OTHER FILMS

LATITUDE 30 MOVIES “Thor” and “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2” screen at CineGrille, Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Highway, Southside. 365-5555.

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME IMAX THEATER “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug IMAX 3D Experience,” “Great White Shark 3D,” “Tornado Alley 3D” and “The Last Reef 3D” are screened at World Golf Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, 940-IMAX, worldgolfimax.com.

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AREA THEATERS

AMELIA ISLAND Carmike 7, 1132 S. 14th St., Fernandina Beach, 261-9867 ARLINGTON & REGENCY AMC 24, 9451 Regency Square Blvd., 264-3888 BAYMEADOWS & MANDARIN Regal Avenues 20, 9525 Philips Highway, 538-3889 BEACHES Regal 18, 14051 Beach Blvd., 992-4398 FIVE POINTS Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., 359-0047 NORTHSIDE Regal 14, River City Marketplace, 12884 City Center Blvd., 757-9880

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ORANGE PARK AMC 24, 1910 Wells Road, (888) AMC-4FUN Carmike 12, 1820 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island, 621-0221 SAN MARCO San Marco Theatre, 1996 San Marco Blvd., 396-4845

SOUTHSIDE Cinemark Tinseltown, 4535 Southside Blvd., 998-2122 ST. AUGUSTINE Epic Theatres, 112 Theatre Drive, 797-5757 IMAX Theater, World Golf Village, 940-IMAX Pot Belly’s, 36 Granada St., 829-3101

Music

Photo: Mark Seliger

The Fierce and the Delicate

After 30 years of success on her own terms, Natalie Merchant ditches the band for the orchestra NATALIE MERCHANT and the JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

8 p.m. Jan. 11 The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown Tickets: $43-$78.50; 355-2787, floridatheatre.com

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n 1994, Natalie Merchant — recently removed from a 12-year stint fronting folk-rock icons 10,000 Maniacs — described her solo debut album, “Tigerlily,” as both “fierce and delicate.”

The quotation has endured, primarily because it accurately portrayed Merchant in the early ’80s, when her crystalline voice, conscientious lyrics and intoxicating stage presence helped bring alt-rock into the mainstream. And it accurately portrays her today, at age 50, her voice still light as air yet substantial and self-assured, her vulnerability still mixed with the goddess-like intensity that endeared her to millions of fans yearning for a female voice of their generation.

Merchant’s career has followed that fault line since 2003, when she started a family and gave up the itinerant life of a touring and recording musician. But the domestic experience shaped her work in unexpected ways. 2010’s “Leave Your Sleep,” which she worked on for seven years, was an ambitious double album full of songs adapted from 19th- and 20th-century poetry pertaining to childhood. Lush orchestral arrangements punctuated tunes inspired by Chinese folk, Cajun blues and old-time string band traditions.

“The record was all over the place,” she says.

“It was about as broad as I could spread myself.”

The free-flowing explorations also led Merchant to the novel idea of performing live with a symphony orchestra rather than with a traditional rock band, which she’ll do at The Florida Theatre on Jan. 11 in collaboration with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.

“Over five years, I’ve slowly built a repertoire of about 33 songs,” she says. “We ship the scores [to each orchestra involved] a couple of weeks in advance, but the main contact I have with them is a three-hour rehearsal before the show. I’m always amazed at how well the shows go with so little rehearsal, which is a testament to the skill levels of the players.”

The selected cuts will cover a wide range of her discography, Merchant says, from 10,000 Maniacs material released in the mid-’80s to new songs from a forthcoming album, due out in May — her first set of completely original music in 12 years.

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HEAR HER ROAR See a video of Natalie Merchant at folioweekly.com/music.

“I love the art form of album creation; it’s just harder and harder to do it the way that I would like to,” she admits. “It’s taken the wind out of my sails knowing that people don’t respect the album as a piece of work anymore.” “Leave Your Sleep” sold 250,000 copies; Nonesuch Records described it as a great success. A decade ago, she says with a laugh, “That would have been grounds to kick me off the label.”

Merchant has always been adept at navigating the music industry’s tumultuous waters, though.

10,000 Maniacs started its own label in the early 1980s before signing to Elektra; Merchant selffinanced 1994’s “Tigerlily” long before the idea of crowdfunding existed; and several of her solo albums have been independently released.

“When I asked to leave Elektra, I was contractually obligated to one more record,” she says. “But they let me go, along with half their staff and roster. I saw that the sky was falling, so it felt fine to step back. It also coincided with when I got pregnant and stepped away from spending eight months a year on a tour bus. I’m grateful I was able to have success at the time I had it.”

Luck has had little to do with Merchant’s success, though. Carving her own niche as an articulate, politically minded poetess of the early indie-rock movement allowed her to embrace a solo career on her terms. That independence led to immense respect from the critical musical establishment, which in turn allowed her to follow her muse wherever it led — double albums in the mp3 age, symphonic collaborations in the electro era.

Through it all, Merchant has never lost her particular talent for balancing the fierce and the delicate to devastating effect. While enjoying the work-life balance of weekend symphonic shows like the upcoming show in Jacksonville, she says that once her new album drops in May, she’ll embark on a full-band tour (“drum kits — even amplifiers!”) for the first time in a decade.

“I have a fierce temperament but a frail body,” she says. “That’s always been my nature, so I’ve just always worked with that combination I have inside of me.”

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Music

Speeding Ahead

Massachusetts quartet pulls from indie rock past, blitzes to the future with humor, intelligence and razor-sharp tunes SPEEDY ORTIZ, GRASS IS GREEN, MEMPHIBIANS and THE WILLOWWACKS 8 p.m. Jan. 9, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco; Tickets: $8; 398-3896, jaxlive.com

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ostalgia can be kryptonite for modern bands.

Some use it as a jumping-off point to explore uncharted territory. Others get so mired in endless dot connecting and genre exercises, they fail to stand out on their own. Northampton, Mass., quartet Speedy Ortiz and its knotty, razorsharp sound obviously share plenty of DNA with 1990s college-rock heroes like Pavement, Archers of Loaf and Liz Phair (frontwoman Sadie Dupuis even spent time in an all-female Pavement tribute band called Babement).

On its blistering full-length debut, “Major Arcana,” Speedy Ortiz shattered more than a few revivalist stereotypes. The menacing low end from bassist Darl Ferm and drummer Mike Falcone skews metal at times, while Dupuis and second guitarist Matt Robidoux pinball their jagged, discordant riffs off each other with reckless glee.

And that angular axe work serves as the perfect complement to Dupuis’ bipolar vocal style, which veers among wispy vulnerability, teenage rage and sardonic lyricism, often in the same song.

Such irresistible musical complexities, combined with a fervent DIY vibe and hilarious online presence spearheaded by Falcone, a library science student and Dupuis, a poetry MFA candidate and college teacher, have propelled Speedy Ortiz to rapid success. Nearly every best-of-2013 list has prominently featured “Major Arcana,” while both The Breeders and Pavement founder Stephen Malkmus tapped Speedy Ortiz to join them on their respective major venue tours. Hell, Dupuis has even turned up in several think pieces about modern rock frontwomen.

But Speedy Ortiz is taking it all in stride.

When Folio Weekly spoke to the band via telephone just before Christmas, they were piled in a van driving 12 hours from Massachusetts to Kalamazoo, Mich., to play a few house shows before joining The Breeders on their recent classic album tour. Speedy Ortiz’s LiveJournal website, itself an anachronistic nod to earlyhipster preening, described the opening slot as “probably the single coolest thing that’s happened to this band so far.”

When asked about the balance between its DIY roots and mushrooming profile, Dupuis says, “It was nice to warm up with some house shows before playing the first huge venue show with The Breeders. We’re all huge fans of theirs, and Kim Deal has had such an interesting, consistently creative career. It was really interesting to see her as a musician and performer.”

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BREAKING BARRIERS See a video of Speedy Ortiz at folioweekly.com/music.

However, Dupuis says, guitarist Matt Robidoux had to miss the first few dates of The Breeders tour to “teach a middle school year-end Christmas concert” — an ironically unfortunate turn of events that perfectly encapsulates how quickly Speedy Ortiz rose in 2013. “But Matt’s quitting next semester,” Dupuis adds. “I’m not going to teach again, either. We’re using this recent success to our advantage to tour as much as we can, which is an important opportunity. It’ll also be fun to hang out in new cities like Jacksonville, where we’ve never been before in our lives.”

That combination of aw-shucks humility and self-aware ambition might be Speedy Ortiz’s biggest selling point. To capitalize on its buzz, the band has a new EP, “Real Hair,” slated for a February release. But it’s far more than a stopgap teaser; songs like “Everything’s Bigger,” which, true to its name, sounds more fleshed-out and polished than past lo-fi work, are already getting rave reviews. “Our writing process is still similar,” Dupuis says. “We’ve only been a band for two years now. But as we’ve toured a ton, we’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with each other, and with that comfort comes more collaborative arrangements and a stronger ability to write together. The new stuff definitely represents growth for us as musicians.”

Like many of its heroes from the original indie-rock world of the ’80s and ’90s, Speedy Ortiz is an intelligent, fiercely independent band — so while their music will evolve, their personalities are unlikely to change. They’ve used their elevated platform to spread the word about fellow travelers in the tight-knit Boston-area DIY scene, and Falcone, who serves as the band’s primary blogger, says that no one considers all the extra press a big deal. “It just makes sense that when something like this happens, it’s going to increase the amount of attention you receive.

For better or for worse, that’s what we’ve been handling. We’re totally fine with it.”

Dupuis is seeing a spike in questions about her role as one of modern rock’s top ladies. “It’s a good time for gender equality in rock ‘n’ roll,” she says. “So many bands have women in them, so it’s more accepted and natural. And for that to happen without being used as a marketing tactic is the coolest thing possible. No female musician wants to be treated differently.”

Nick McGregor themail@folioweekly.com

Live Music

CONCERTS THIS WEEK

GRANT PEEPLES CD RELEASE, SARAH MAC, REBECCA ZAPEN, ERIK ALVAR 7:30 p.m. Jan. 2 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008.

NEW MASTERSOUNDS, ORGONE, MONOPHONICS 8 p.m. Jan. 2 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $20, 353-6067.

POST-JUNK FESTIVAL: Rubrics, Egos, Sweaty, Jamison Williams, Sad Pest, Velma & the Happy Campers Jan. 2 at Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, $5, 379-4969.

MUD TEA, YANKEE SLICKERS 8 p.m. Jan. 3 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 353-6067.

DROPSHOT, DEVIL IN THE OASIS, PRANAYAM 8 p.m. Jan. 3 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $8, 246-2473.

POST-JUNK FESTIVAL: Giggle Giver, Kid Aids, Trailer Park Princess, Lake Disney, Loudon Jan. 3 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, 353-4686.

MIKE DILLON BAND, SQUEEDLEPUSS 8 p.m. Jan. 3 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $8.

MASTER RADICAL, GROWN UP AVENGER STUFF, TRAE LANDON 8 p.m. Jan. 3 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

DALTON STANLEY 8 p.m. Jan. 3 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Riverside, free, 388-7807.

PARKRIDGE, ROSEDALE, PALM TREES & POWER LINES 8 p.m. Jan. 4 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

POST-JUNK FESTIVAL: Holopaw, Memphibians, Honey Chamber, Sleepy Tree, Jackie Stranger, Yes Ma’am No Sir 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $10, 353-4686.

JACK WILLIAMS 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008.

JOHNNY KING JR. 8 p.m. Jan. 4 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $8, 246-2473.

CLUTCH, THE SWORD, CROBOT 7 p.m. Jan. 5 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $25, 246-2473.

THE SCREAMING J’s, THE DUKES OF GLYNN 8 p.m. Jan. 5 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

WESLEY STACE, JOE PERNICE 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $15, raylewispresents.com.

POST-JUNK FESTIVAL: The Golden Pelicans, The Mold, Mr. Clit & the Pink Cigarettes, Moon Cheese Babies, The Dolly Rocker Ragdoll Jan. 5 at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Downtown, $5, 798-8222.

NIGHT IDEA, FLIGHT CLOUD 8 p.m. Jan. 6 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $5, 353-4686.

B.B. KING 8 p.m. Jan. 7 at T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, 633-6110.

THERA ROYA, FURNACE HEAD 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $5, 353-4686.

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SCAN WITH LAYAR TO SEE GRANT PEEPLES

SUNDAY JANUARY 5

PEEPLES PERSON: Folk-roots guitarist Grant Peeples (right) – described by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock as “like [John] Prine, but with a Southern bent� – joins Sarah Mac, Rebecca Zapen and Erik Alvar for his CD release Jan. 2 at Mudville Music Room in St. Nicholas.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

MALCOLM HOLCOMBE Jan. 9, Mudville Music Room SPEEDY ORTIZ, GRASS IS GREEN, MEMPHIBIANS, THE WILLOWWACKS Jan. 9, Jack Rabbits DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE, BREAD AND CIRCUS, CHRISTIAN LEE HUDSON Jan. 9, Underbelly THE MICHAEL ALLMAN BAND, THE REPUBLIK Jan. 10, Underbelly WINTER JAM: Newsboys, Lecrae, Tenth Avenue North, Thousand Foot Krutch, Plumb, Newsong, Colton Dixon, Love & The Outcome, Everfound, Derek Minor Jan. 10, Veterans Memorial Arena INNUENDO, PRIDELESS, DUDES ON A RUG Jan. 10, Freebird Live HELIOS HAND, BONUS OCEANS, OUTEREDGE Jan. 10, Jack Rabbits YO MAMA’S BIG FAT BOOTY BAND Jan. 11, Underbelly NATALIE MERCHANT Jan. 11, The Florida Theatre ALLEN SHADD Jan. 11, Mudville Music Room QUEENSRYCHE Jan. 11, Brewster’s Roc Bar EDWARD APPLEBY, BEACHWHEATHER Jan. 11, Burro Bar BREAKING THROUGH, THE EMBRACED, TOM BENNETT

BAND Jan. 11, Jack Rabbits MARCHFORTH MARCHING BAND Jan. 12, Freebird Live ANTIQUE ANIMALS Jan. 12, Rain Dogs BIG DADDY LOVE Jan. 12, Underbelly YANCY CLEGG Jan. 13, The Palace Saloon ULTRA BIDE Jan. 14, Burro Bar THE WAILERS Jan. 14, Freebird Live BIRTHDAY CANDLES Jan. 14, Shantytown Pub BUCK SMITH Jan. 14, The Palace Saloon MILESTONES, JUMPING SHIP, DEVIDED BY FATE, SURVIVING SEPTEMBER, EVICTION Jan. 15, Brewster’s WES COBB Jan. 15, The Palace Saloon ABBA THE CONCERT Jan. 16, The Florida Theatre JOSHUA BOWLUS TRIO Jan. 16, Mudville Music Room TAB BENOIT Jan. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GALACTIC Jan. 16, Freebird Live SEA WOLF Jan. 16, Jack Rabbits THE HOWL Jan. 16, Burro Bar THE FRED EAGLESMITH TRAVELLING STEAM SHOW Jan. 16, The Original CafÊ Eleven THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST Jan. 17, Murray Hill Theatre Fringe CafÊ EMPIRE THEORY, GEORGE STEVENS Jan. 17, Jack Rabbits

CLUTCH THE SWORD

WITH CROBOTS FRIDAY JANUARY 10

INNUENDO/R-DENT

PRIDELESS/DUDES ON A RUG SUNDAY JANUARY 12

MARCH FORTH MARCHING BAND TUESDAY JANUARY 14

THE WAILERS (PERFORMING “LEGEND� ALBUM)

SANGRIA THURSDAY JANUARY 16

GALACTIC BRUSHY ONE STRING WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22

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TuesWed-

MEN’S NIGHT OUT Beer Pong 9pm Free Pool DJ BG ALL U CAN EAT CRABLEGS Texas Hold ’Em STARTS AT 7 P.M.

AGAINST ME! THE SIDEKICKS/THE SHONDS SATURDAY JANUARY 25

TRAVELING RIVERSIDE BAND THURSDAY JANUARY 30

YONDER MOUNTAIN

HAPPY HOUR ALL NIGHT BAR BINGO 6PM KIDS EAT FREE FROM 5 P.M. TO 9 P.M. BUY 10 WINGS GET 10 WINGS FREE 1/2 PRICED APPETIZERS (BAR ONLY) 5 P.M.-CLOSE

TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS

Thurs-

OPEN MIC NITE 9PM CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT 1/2 PRICED DRINKS 10 P.M-12. A.M.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15

Fri-

GO ASK ALICE 9:30pm 1/2 PRICE APPS-FRI (BAR ONLY) 4-7PM DECK MUSIC 5 P.M.-9 P.M.

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GO ASK ALICE 9:30pm DECK MUSIC 5 P.M.-9 P.M.

Sun-

LIVE MUSIC 4:30-8:30pm

STRING BAND SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1

SIDEREAL PRIME TREES

START MAKING SENSE (TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE) WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19

THE EXPENDABLES

STICK FIGURE/SEEDLESS UPCOMING 2-23: Toubab Krewe 2-27: G.Love & Special Sauce/Sosos 3-2:

Big Gigantic

3-5:

Hopsin

3-13: Tribal Seeds/New Kingston/Innavision 3-16: We the Kings 4-17: Local Natives

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Night Eye

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he Shim Sham Room, located in Jax Beach in the former Fionn MacCool’s spot at 333 N. First St., is a fairly low-key nightlife venue. Minimal décor and a typical beachy laidback atmosphere — and that’s OK. Shim Sham saves its pizazz for its great DJs, like DJ Nick Fresh, spinning nearly every night. The menu options are eclectic and the dancing areas — upstairs and outdoors — are a win. Shim Sham Room’s slogan gets right to the point: “Real Cocktails. Real Style. No Bullshit.”

Text and Photos: Abigail Wright themail@folioweekly.com

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NIGHT EYE ONLINE For more photos from this and other events, check out the Pictures & Video link at folioweekly.com.

1. Brad Calcano, Ashley Wightman 2. Chantel Adams 3. Mike and Roxanne Coker

SUNSHINE STATE Jan. 17, Shanghai Nobby's WORTH ROAD, THE BLANK CANVAS, JOHN BALL, CATALYST Jan. 17, Murray Hill Theatre GURF MORLIX Jan. 18, Mudville Music Room MARCIA BALL & HER BAND Jan. 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SMELLS LIKE GRUNGE Jan. 18, Underbelly JOHN CARVER BAND, SUBTERRANEAN, FJORD EXPLORER, LOCALS Jan. 18, Jack Rabbits BENJAH Jan. 18, Murray Hill Theatre TINSLEY ELLIS Jan. 18, Mojo Kitchen SEEKER, DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR Jan. 19, Atticus Bar CHEAP TIME Jan. 19, Shanghai Nobby’s STRAIGHT LINE STITCH, MANNA ZEN Jan. 19, Brewster’s SCHNOCKERED Jan. 19, The Palace Saloon RICHARD SMITH, JULIE ADAMS Jan. 20, Mudville Music Room JOSH McGOWAN Jan. 20, The Palace Saloon ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre REGGIE & THE FULL EFFECT Jan. 21, Brewster’s Megaplex BUCK SMITH Jan. 21, The Palace Saloon BILLY JOEL Jan. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena BIG SOMETHING Jan. 22, Jack Rabbits TURBO FRUITS Jan. 22, Shanghai Nobby’s AGAINST ME!, THE SIDEKICKS, THE SHONDS Jan. 22, Freebird Live WES COBB Jan. 22, The Palace Saloon ANTIQUE ANIMALS Jan. 23, Dog Star Tavern PEOPLES BLUES OF RICHMOND, TROPIC OF CANCER Jan. 23, Jack Rabbits RONNY COX Jan. 23, Mudville Music Room MARTY PARTY, VLAD THE INHALER Jan. 23, Freebird Live BARRY MANILOW Jan. 23, Veterans Memorial Arena SHAWN COLVIN Jan. 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall RODNEY ATKINS Jan. 24, The Florida Theatre GREEN SUNSHINE Jan. 24, Underbelly MY HEART TO FEAR Jan. 24, Murray Hill Theatre THE CORBITT BROTHERS, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, JACKSONVEGAS, PARKER URBAN BAND Jan. 25, Underbelly ROBYN HITCHCOCK, ED COTTON, SHANE MYERS Jan. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TRAVELING RIVERSIDE BAND Jan. 25, Freebird Live AFROMAN, MOSTH8ED Jan. 25, Brewster’s Megaplex GAELIC STORM Jan. 26, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TURBO FRUITS Jan. 26, Burro Bar SCHNOCKERED Jan. 26, The Palace Saloon YANCY CLEGG Jan. 27, The Palace Saloon KEB’MO’ Jan. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall WES COBB Jan. 29, The Palace Saloon REBECCA LOEBE, ROBBY HECHT Jan. 30, Mudville Music Room YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, THE TRAVELIN' McCOURYS Jan. 30, Freebird Live SOME KIND OF NIGHTMARE Jan. 30, Burro Bar NIPSEY HUSSLE Jan. 30, Brewster’s Megaplex DAVID WILCOX Jan. 31, The Original Café Eleven THE MANTRAS, BROCK BUTLER Jan. 31, 1904 Music Hall THE DELUSIONAIRES Jan. 31, Shanghai Nobby’s THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS Jan. 31, P.V. Concert Hall MERLE HAGGARD Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre VIO/MIRE’ Feb. 1, Burro Bar THE NEKROMANTIX, TWISTED GRAVES Feb. 2, Jack Rabbits LIOTTA Feb. 2, Burro Bar TURQUOISE JEEP, YIP DECEIVER Feb. 3, Jack Rabbits QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Feb. 3, The Florida Theatre THE SLACKERS, THE DUPPIES Feb. 4, Jack Rabbits ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES, GRACE AND TONY Feb. 5, Jack Rabbits PAT MATHENY UNITY GROUP Feb. 5, The Florida Theatre RIGOLETTO, TWIN RADIO Feb. 5, Burro Bar TIM GRIMM Feb. 6, Mudville Music Room J BOOG, LOS RAKAS Feb. 6, Jack Rabbits OF MICE AND MEN, BRING ME THE HORIZON Feb. 6, Brewster’s CRAIG MORGAN Feb. 7, Mavericks at the Landing DEAD MEADOW Feb. 7, Jack Rabbits RICHIE RAMONE (of The Ramones) Feb. 7, Brewster’s LADY ANTEBELLUM, DARIUS RUCKER, THOMPSON SQUARE, KIP MOORE, KACEY MUSGRAVES Feb. 8, Veterans Memorial Arena LARRY MANGUM, BARRY DRAKE, MICKEY CLARK Feb. 8, Mudville Music Room SEBADOH Feb. 9, Jack Rabbits ABANDON ALL SHIPS, THE BROWNING, MY TICKET HOME, I AM KING Feb. 11, Jack Rabbits BLAST & THE DETERGENTS Feb. 11, Shantytown Pub HUNTRONIK Feb. 11, Underbelly BUDDY GUY & JONNY LANG Feb. 12, The Florida Theatre BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RITE BOYS Feb. 12, Jack Rabbits BOOG Feb. 12, Burro Bar DARLENE LOVE Feb. 13, The Florida Theatre SHOVELS AND ROPE, SHAKEY GRAVES Feb. 13, Jack Rabbits NOBUNNY Feb. 13, Shanghai Nobby’s ANTIQUE ANIMALS Feb. 13, Dog Star Tavern LA FIN ABSOLUTE DU MONDE Feb. 13, Burro Bar KENNY LOGGINS Feb. 14, The Florida Theatre THE IRISH ROVERS Feb. 15, The Florida Theatre START MAKING SENSE: Talking Heads Tribute Feb. 15, Freebird Live ENGLAND IN 1819, FOUR FAMILIES, SHONI Feb. 15, Burro Bar MASON JENNINGS Feb. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TIM DAISY, MIKOAJ TRZASKA Feb. 17, Karpeles Museum THAT 1 GUY Feb. 17, Jack Rabbits THE BEACH BOYS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre BRONZE RADIO RETURN, RED WANTING BLUE Feb. 18, Jack Rabbits SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS Feb. 19, Jack Rabbits THE EXPENDABLES, STICK FIGURE, SEEDLESS Feb. 19, Freebird Live YOUNG THE GIANT Feb. 19, Mavericks at the Landing

THE TEMPTATIONS, THE FOUR TOPS Feb. 20, Florida Theatre SHPONGLE, DESERT DWELLERS Feb. 20, Freebird Live MELLOWDIME Feb. 20, Jack Rabbits TOMMY EMMANUEL, MARTIN TAYLOR Feb. 20-21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEPHEN KELLOGG Feb. 21, Mudville Music Room EL DUB Feb. 21, Dog Star Tavern JOHN BROWN’S BODY Feb. 21, Jack Rabbits DELBERT McCLINTON Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DARK STAR ORCHESTRA Feb. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SNARKY PUPPY Feb. 23, 1904 Music Hall TOUBAB KREWE Feb. 23, Freebird Live DIRE, NOTHING TO OFFER Feb. 23, Jack Rabbits JENNIFER NETTLES Feb. 25, The Florida Theatre THE EAGLES Feb. 26, Veterans Memorial Arena FILMSTRIP Feb. 26, Burro Bar G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE Feb. 27, Freebird Live MATT OWEN & THE ELECTRIC TUBA Feb. 28, Jack Rabbits SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Feb. 28, The Florida Theatre LOVE AND THEFT Feb. 28, Mavericks at the Landing ART GARFUNKEL Feb. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GREAT GUITAR GATHERING March 1, The Florida Theatre IRON AND WINE March 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JULIO IGLESIAS March 2, T-U Center's Moran Theater BIG GIGANTIC March 2, Freebird Live TWO COW GARAGE March 4, Jack Rabbits HOPSIN, DJ HOPPA, FUNK VOLUME March 5, Freebird Live AMY SPEACE March 5, Mudville Music Room THE KENNEDYS March 6, Mudville Music Room CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS March 6, P.V. Concert Hall DROPKICK MURPHYS, LUCERO, SKINNY LISTER March 6, Mavericks at the Landing DARSOMBRA, NATIONAL DIARY March 6, Burro Bar MATRIMONY March 8, Jack Rabbits AGENT ORANGE March 9, Jack Rabbits SCOTTY McCREERY March 9, The Florida Theatre TRIBAL SEEDS, STICK FIGURE, SEEDLESS March 13, Freebird Live MICHAEL BOLTON March 14, The Florida Theatre MICHAEL RENO HARRELL March 15, Mudville Music Room WE THE KINGS, THIS CENTURY, CRASH THE PARTY March 16, Freebird Live GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS March 19, The Florida Theatre WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER, LIONS LIONS, HONOUR CREST March 19, Jack Rabbits LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO March 22, Florida Theatre MOORS & McCUMBER March 22, Mudville Music Room WE ARE THE IN CROWD, WILLIAM BECKETT, SET IT OFF, STATE CHAMPS, CANDY HEARTS March 22, Jack Rabbits THE MOODY BLUES March 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MARY OCHER March 22, Burro Bar

MARC COHN DUO March 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS March 24, Jack Rabbits DAVE HAUSE, NORTHCOTE March 26, Jack Rabbits GET THE LED OUT March 27, The Florida Theatre LINDSAY LOU & THE FLATBELLYS March 27, Mudville Music Room THE BRONX WANDERERS March 28, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts KB March 28, Murray Hill Theatre STILL ON THE HILL March 29, Mudville Music Room STEVE HACKETT April 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JESSE COOK April 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PAUL ANKA April 3, T-U Center’s Moran Theater THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA April 11, P.V. Concert Hall RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, THE 77D’S April 12, Jack Rabbits JON VEZNER April 13, Mudville Music Room THE ZOMBIES April 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LOCAL NATIVES April 17, Freebird Live MERCYGIRL, WHOSOEVER SOUTH April 19, Murray Hill Theatre REHAB April 22, Jack Rabbits ANTIQUE ANIMALS April 27, Dog Star Tavern SANTANA April 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE FAB FOUR May 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PURPLE HATTER’S BALL: Beats Antique, Emancipator Ensemble, The New Mastersounds, The Heavy Pets, The Nth Power, DubConscious, Space Capone, Rising Appalachia, Greenhouse Lounge May 9-11, Suwannee Music Park CHER May 14, Veterans Memorial Arena GLADYS KNIGHT May 16, T-U Center THE 1975 May 19, Freebird Live ANTIQUE ANIMALS May 22, Dog Star Tavern FLORIDA COUNTRY SUPERFEST: Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Florida Georgia Line, Little Big Town, Big & Rich, Easton Corbin, Colt Ford, Joe Nichols June 14-15, EverBank Field

CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer every Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing every Fri.-Sat. DOG STAR TAVERN, 10 N. Second St., 277-8010 Working Class Stiff with real vinyl every Tue. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Dan Voll and Friends, 7 p.m. every Fri. Live music every Sat. HAMMERHEAD TAVERN, 2045 S. Fletcher Road, 491-7783 Buck Smith, Jim Barcaro every Thur. A DJ every Sun. O’KANE’S IRISH PUB, 318 Centre St., 261-1000 Dan Voll 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Turner London Band every Thur.-Sat. THE PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre St., 491-3332 Chuck Nash 9:30 p.m. Jan. 2. Live music 9:30 p.m. Jan. 3-4. Schnockered 9:30 p.m. Jan. 5. Josh McGowan 9:30 p.m. Jan. 6. Wes Cobb

9:30 p.m. Jan. 8. Buck Smith Project Band every Tue.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

BREWSTER’S MEGAPLEX/PIT/ROC BAR/THE EDGE, 845 University Blvd. N., 223-9850 Peter Wrabbit 6 p.m. Jan. 3.

Men Among Giants, I Am the Witness, Abolish the Relics Jan. 4. Queensrÿche 8 p.m. Jan. 11 MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE, 12777 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1090 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri.-Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

BLUE FISH, 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700 Paul Haftel every other Fri. for Elevated Avondale CASBAH CAFE, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave., 387-3582 DJ Keith Karaoke every Tue. DJ Free every Fri. DJ SuZi-Rok every Mon. MOJO NO. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670 Live music Fri.-Sat. TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 Live music every Fri. Karaoke every Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

COFFEE GRINDER, 9834 Old Baymeadows Road, 642-7600 DJ Jenn Martinello every Tue. DJ Allen every Thur. DJ Mark Mallory every Fri. DJ Smoke every Sat.

BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Live music Wed.-Sun. BRIX TAPHOUSE, 300 N. Second St., 241-4668 DJ R3IGN every Thur. Live music, DJs every weekend CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Small Fish Jan. 3. DJ Vito every Karaoke Thur.

Karaoke every Sat. Irish music every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 853-5680 Bread & Butter 10 p.m. Jan. 3-4. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5. Red Beard & Stinky E 10 p.m. every Thur. Darren Corlew every Mon. FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Drive, Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 The Firewater Tent Revival 10 p.m. Jan. 4-5.

Songwriters every Tue. Ryan Campbell every Wed. Wes Cobb every Thur. Charlie Walker 10:30 p.m. every Mon. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Pranayam, Devil in the Oasis, Dropshot 8 p.m. Jan. 3. Johnny King Jr. 8 p.m. Jan. 4. Clutch, The Sword, Crobot 7 p.m. Jan. 5 ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 108 First St., Neptune Beach, 372-0943 Live music every Fri.-Sat. KC CRAVE, 1161 Beach Blvd., 595-5660 Live music 9 p.m.

Thur.-Sat. LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024 Open mic every Wed. Matt Still every Thur.

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LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Live music Jan. 3-4. Uncommon Legends every Wed. Ryan Campbell every Thur. Be Easy every Mon. Split Tone every Tue. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Mark O’Quinn Jan. 2. Ivey West Jan. 3. Whetherman Jan. 8 MEZZA LUNA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon every Tue. Mike Shackelford & Rick Johnson every Thur.

MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Tinsley Ellis 10 p.m. Jan. 17 MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070 Wes Cobb every Tue. DJ Austin Williams Karaoke Wed., Sat. & Sun. DJ Papa Sugar every Mon., Thur. & Fri. NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Live music Jan. 2-5 NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Live music every Thur.-Sun. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Live music every Fri.-Sat. PIER CANTINA, 412 N. First St., 246-6454 Ryan Campbell & Charlie Walker every Fri. Split Tone every Sun. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Common Ground Jan. 2. Pop Muzik Jan. 3-4. Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Jan. 8 THE SHIM SHAM ROOM, 333 First St. N., 372-0781 Live acoustic 10 p.m. every Mon. Karaoke 10 p.m. every Tue.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N., 1904jax.com Mike Dillon Band, Squeedlepuss 8 p.m. Jan. 3. Wings to Save 7 p.m. Jan. 8 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 677-2977 Post-Junk Festival: Giggle Giver, Kid Aids, Trailer Park Princess, Lake Disney, Loudon 7 p.m. Jan. 3. Post-Junk Festival: Holopaw, Memphibians, Honey Chamber, Sleepy Tree, Jackie Stranger, Yes Ma’am No Sir 7 p.m. Jan. 4. Night Idea, Flight Cloud 9 p.m. Jan. 6. Thera Roya, Furnace Head 8 p.m. Jan. 8 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ NickFresh 9 p.m. every Sat. Rock ’n’ Roll Karaoke 9 p.m. every Mon. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Live music every Fri.-Sat. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Drive, 353-1188 Live music every Fri.-Sat. MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis 9 p.m. every Wed. DJ Vinn 9 p.m. every Thur. DJ 007 9 p.m. every Fri. Bay Street 9 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS, The Landing, 2 Independent Drive, 356-1110 Joe Buck, Big Tasty spin every Thur.-Sat. SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Post-Junk Festival: The Golden Pelicans, The Mold, Mr. Clit & the Pink Cigarettes, Moon Cheese Babies, Dolly Rocker Ragdoll 8 p.m.

Jan. 5 UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 353-6067 New Mastersounds, Orgone, Monophonics 8 p.m. Jan. 2. Mud Tea, Yankee Slickers 8 p.m. Jan. 3. The Michael Allman Band 8 p.m. Jan. 10

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Charlie Walker 9:30 p.m. Jan. 2. Live music 10 p.m. Jan. 3-4 MERCURY MOON, 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999 DJ Ty every Thur.

Blistur every Wed. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Go Ask Alice 9:30 p.m. Jan. 3-4. Deck music 5 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 4:30 p.m. every Sun. DJ BG every Mon.

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RAINDOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Post-Junk Festival: Rubrics, Egos, Sweaty, Jamison Williams, Sad Pest, Velma & the Happy Campers 8 p.m. Jan. 2

ST. AUGUSTINE

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Circus Mutt Jan. 4 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, San Sebastian Winery, 157 King St., 826-1594 The Committee Jan. 3 Billy Buchanan, The Committee Jan. 4. Vinny Jacobs Jan 5 DOS COFFEE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Taylor Roberts & Co. every Fri. The Residents spin every Sat. MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19 1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Todd & Molly Jones every Wed. Aaron Esposito every Thur. David Strom every Mon. Donny Brazile Tue. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264 Live music every Fri. PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM, 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100 Dennis Fermin Spanish Guitar 3 p.m. every Mon. SANGRIAS PIANO BAR, 35 Hypolita St., 827-1947 Live music every Fri.-Sat. THE STANDARD, 200 Anastasia Blvd., 274-2090 ASG 8 p.m.

Jan. 8 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Live music 9 p.m. Jan. 3-4. Matanzas Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth every Sat.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

BLACKFINN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Drive, 345-3466 Live music 5 p.m. every Wed., 9 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. SUITE, 4880 Big Island Drive, 493-9305 Live music every Fri.-Sat. WHISKY RIVER, 4850 Big Island Drive, 645-5571 DJs 8 p.m. every Sat.

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Road, 645-5162 Chaos in Disguise 9 p.m. Jan. 14. Live music every Fri.-Sat. COPPER TAP HOUSE, 13500 Beach Blvd., 647-6595 Live music every Fri. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Karaoke Dude every Wed. Live music every Fri.-Sat. SALSA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 46, 992-8402 Live guitar music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. & Sat.

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

AW SHUCKS OYSTER HOUSE, 9743 Old St. Augustine Road, 240-0368 Open mic every Wed. Live music 7 p.m. every Fri. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Road, 880-3040 Jazz 7 p.m., Karaoke 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Mon.-Thur.

Dennis Klee & the World’s Most Talented Waitstaff Fri.-Sat. RACK ’EM UP, 4268 Oldfield Crossing Drive, 262-4030 DJ Randall Karaoke Sun. & Wed. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Road, 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Karaoke with Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Live music 9 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 820 A1A N., Ste. E-18, 834-2492 Live music every Fri.-Sat. PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Live music every Fri.-Sat. SoundStage Sun. SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13, Ste. 113, 287-7226 Live music Thur.-Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Live music 7:30 p.m. every Thur.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Ray & Taylor 8:30 p.m. every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. THE LOFT, 925 King St., 476-7283 DJs Wes Reed & Josh Kemp every Thur. Josh Kemp every Fri. DJ Wes Reed every Sat. MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Dalton Stanley, Savannah Leigh Bassett, Jacob Creel 8 p.m.

Jan. 3

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Master Radical, Grown-up Avenger Stuff, Trae Landon 8 p.m. Jan. 3.

Parkridge, Rosedale, Palm Trees & Power Lines 8 p.m. Jan. 4.

The Screaming Js, The Dukes of Glynn 8 p.m. Jan. 5. Speedy Ortiz, Grass is Green 8 p.m. Jan. 9 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008, raylewispresents.com Grant Peeples CD release with Sarah Mac, Rebecca Zapen, Erik Alvar 7:30 p.m. Jan. 2. Jack Williams 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4. Wesley Stace, Joe Pernice 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5. Malcolm Holcombe 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 RIVER CITY BREWING CO., 835 Museum Cir., 398-2299 DJs spin every Thur. Live music every Fri.

SOUTHSIDE

AROMAS CIGARS & WINE BAR, 4372 Southside Blvd., Ste. 101, 928-0515 Will Hurley every Fri. Bill Rice every Sat. ISLAND GIRL, 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115, 854-6060 Live music every Fri.-Sat. JOHNNY ANGELS, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Road S., 997-9850 Karaoke 7 p.m. every Sat. LATITUDE 30, 10370 Philips, 365-5555 VJ Didactic 9 p.m.

Jan. 2. Blonde Ambition 9 p.m. Jan. 3-4 SEVEN BRIDGES, 9735 Gate Parkway N., 997-1999 Live music Fri.-Sat. TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426 DJ Night 8 p.m. every Fri.-Sat. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 David Luthra 5 p.m. Jan. 3. Pop Muzik Wed. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 A Nickel Bag of Funk 9 p.m. Jan. 3.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

DAMES POINT MARINA, 4542 Irving Road, 751-3043 Live music Fri.-Sat. HIGHWAY 17 ROADHOUSE TAVERN, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Live music Fri.-Sat. For a complete live music list, go to folioweekly.com/calendar.

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Arts

The Rising Sun and Back

After creating sculptures in an old Buddhist temple, Alexander Wilds exhibits work in St. Augustine before returning to Japan THE ALEXANDER WILDS PORTFOLIO Sculpture, drawings and paintings Reception 5-9 p.m. Jan. 3 at First Friday Art Walk Exhibit open through January, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Thursday-Monday, to 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday Amiro Art & Found, 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine 824-8460, amiroartandfound.com

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s his name might suggest, sculptor, architect and art professor Alexander Wilds is not one to have his position in life nailed down. The free-spirited South Carolina native, who spent more than 20 years living as a rural agrarian artist near Mt. Fuji, will exhibit many of his sculptures and paintings one last time in the U.S., in St. Augustine’s Amiro Art & Found gallery, before again making Japan his home.

The Jan. 3 opening is part of St. Augustine’s First Friday Art Walk.

Wilds, who earned a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota and a master of fine arts at Tulane

CERAMIC NECKING: Alexander Wilds’ sculptured work titled “Modigliani with a Long Neck” – a 24-inch ceramic piece – is exhibited along with other works of his, during First Friday Art Walk and through January at Amiro Art & Found in St. Augustine.

lips, and be very content.”

These days, Wilds likes to chat it up and even play a little blues guitar, which he plans to break out for a jam session during the First Friday Artwalk opening reception.

Although Wilds shies away from labels

“I make figures so people don’t ask, ‘What is it?’ I only want them to ask, ‘Do you like the way it looks?’ ” University, says it’s “time to get back to life” in Japan, his adopted home from 1985 to 2007.

He’s taught sculpture at Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, S.C., since 2008, after moving back to care for his mother, but plans to return to Japan next summer as a founding faculty member of the International College of Liberal Arts in Yamanashi.

“This is a very rare chance to be an art professor in Japan,” he says. “There aren’t many opportunities like that, so I’m taking it, by golly!”

Wilds is friendly and upbeat, without a hint of the sort of jaded pessimism you might expect from a late-career artist and academic who spent more than two decades working in near solitude in a remote foreign village.

“I’d get up and go to my studio that I built out of an old Buddhist temple and make sculptures all day long, and didn’t talk to anybody about anything,” he says. “I could be happily silent all day without a word leaving my

— including choosing not to name pieces in most cases, at least initially — he works mostly in wood, bronze and other cast metals.

He says he naturally thinks like a sculptor in everything he creates.

“People who are painters, they tend to think in terms of color and light, and graphic designers tend to draw sort of flat designs,” Wilds says. “But for me, I look at a piece of paper as one piece of empty room, so when I draw objects, I create the illusion that you’re looking through a window at an object. If you look at drawings by sculptors versus drawings by painters, there’s a physicality to their drawings that is not intentional. That’s just how they see things.”

Included in the exhibit will be several of Wilds’ abstract paintings of the St. Johns River overlooking Anastasia Island, which he was inspired to create after an extended visit.

Most of the exhibit’s pieces are sculptures of what he calls the principal subject of art

and sculpture — the female nude. Wilds says he is less interested in the human figures he creates, however, and more interested in the interrelationship between the sculpted materials he works with.

“I make figures so that people don’t ask, ‘What is it?’ I only want them to ask, ‘Do you like the way it looks?’ And I could make guitars, or cars, or cowboy boots — it could be a different motif, but I don’t want people to concern themselves about what it is,” he says. “I want to know if they like the shapes, the colors.”

The show will also feature several sculptures and drawings by Wilds’ Japanese-native wife, artist Yukiko Oka, whom he calls his greatest inspiration and muse. “She’s the absolute opposite of me. I’m 59; she’s 34. I have a Ph.D.; she’s a sixth-grade dropout. I speak English; she speaks Japanese. We’re a perfect match.”

And Japan, he says, is their perfect home: “I wanted more than America had to offer, and I found it. I went over looking for the great Zen quiet happiness, and it’s there. You can find it.”

Melody Taylor themail@folioweekly.com

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MORE FROM ‘PORTFOLIO’ See more photos of Alexander Wilds’ work at folioweekly.com/arts-stories.

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PERFORMANCE

SPOKEN WORD Local poets and wordsmiths sound off 7 p.m.

Jan. 2 and every first Thur. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com.

THE GAME’S AFOOT This comedic mystery, subtitled “Holmes for the Holidays,” is staged 7:30 p.m. Jan. 2-4, 2 p.m. Jan. 5 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $10-$25, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org.

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES The country-fried musical, set on North Carolina’s Highway 57, is staged Jan. 2-Feb. 2 (doors 6 p.m. Tue.-Sun., 11 a.m. Sat. and noon Sun.) at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside; dinner and a show is $38-$59 (includes parking), reservations required, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE RITZ Modeled after Harlem’s “Amateur Night at the Apollo,” the host searches are held Jan. 3 and every first Friday of the month at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $5.50, 632-5555.

PHILADANCO DANCE COMPANY The dance company – known for innovation, creativity and mostly African-American traditions in dance – performs 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $35, 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com.

BEEHIVE The high-energy tribute to 1960s women rock stars is presented Jan. 10-Feb. 8 (8 p.m. Thur.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun.) at Players by the Sea’s main stage, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, $16-$28, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org.

IN HERE Jacksonville Dance Theatre presents these individual performances from its company of eight contemporary dancers, 8 p.m. Jan. 11 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $20 general admission, $15 military and seniors, $10 students, jacksonvilledancetheatre.org.

WALKING IN MEMPHIS “Walking in Memphis: The Life of a Southern Jew,” featuring Off-Broadway performer Jon Adam Ross, weaves through the artist’s childhood as a Jew in Tennessee, 8 p.m. Jan. 11 at Jacksonville Jewish Center, 3662 Crown Point Road, Mandarin, $20, 292-1000, rtincher@jaxjewishcenter.org.

TCHAIKOVSKY’S SLEEPING BEAUTY Artist Series presents this ballet from The Rudolf Nureyev State Ballet Theatre of Russia, 8 p.m. Jan. 11 at the T-U Center, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $42-$82, children 12 and younger $20.50$30.50, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

MEN ARE FROM MARS – WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS LIVE! Artist Series presents this comedy – a one-man fusion of theater and standup based on John Gray’s best-selling book, Jan. 14-17 at the T-U Center, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $50, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

A CELEBRATION OF CULTURES The Art Center accepts art in all media “celebrating our differences as well as common interests” that help unite and educate, through Jan. 7 at Premier Gallery. The exhibit opens with a reception 5-7 p.m.

Jan. 9 at the gallery, Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org/premier.html.

THEATRE OF YOUTH AUDITIONS The Jewish Community Alliance’s Theatre of Youth holds open auditions for its upcoming production of “Annie,” 1 p.m. Jan. 5 at JCA, 8505 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 730-2100 ext. 252.

TEEN ART CONTEST Kids ages 12-18 may submit a maximum of up to three entries for the Public Library’s Teen Art Contest – including photography, mixed media and sculpture – through Jan. 15 at any library. The grand prize winner is announced at a reception Feb. 5 during First Wednesday Art Walk.

630-0673, jaxpubliclibrary.org/teens/teen-art-contest2014.pdf.

BEGINNERS’ DANCE CLASSES 7:30-8:30 p.m. every Mon. and Wed. at Dance Trance, 1515 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 390-0939, dancetrancefitness.com.

SALSA/HUSTLE AT STUDIO JEAR GROUP FITNESS 8-9 p.m. every Tue. Five one-hour dance sessions, $50 (all five), 551-0459, zumbajear@yahoo.com, zumbajear.com.

DRAMATIC ARTS Performance classes and workshops, all ages and skill levels, are held Mon.-Fri. at Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, fees vary, 249-0289.

THEATRICAL ARTS Classes in theatrical performance, including song and dance, are held Mon.-Fri. at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., Spring Park, fees vary, 322-7672, theperformersacademy.com.

MIXED MEDIA ART CLASSES Studio 121, 121 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, call for fees, 568-2146, teresemuller.com.

MURRAY HILL ART CLASSES Murray Hill Art Center, 4327 Kerle St., $80 for adults, $50 for kids, 677-2787, artsjax.org.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

SYMPHONY SALONS Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra musicians play Jan. 3 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

MUSICAL STORYBOOKS The Jacksonville Symphony Ensemble performs an early literacy and music program for pre-K children, 11 a.m. Jan. 4 at Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

COVER THE TOWN WITH SOUND The Jacksonville Symphony Ensemble appears 3 p.m. Jan. 5 at Bartram Lakes Brooks Assisted Living, 6209 Brooks Bartram Drive, free, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

DR. MINYOUNG CHO Violinist Cho performs for Tuesday Serenade concert series, 7 p.m. Jan. 7 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 630-2665, jplmusic.blogspot.com.

BRAHMS SYMPHONY No. 2 The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of guest conductor Perry So, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 and 8 p.m. Jan. 10-11 at the T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Downtown,

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$25-$72, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

COVER THE TOWN WITH SOUND The Jacksonville Symphony String Quintet appears 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12 at San Juan Del Rio Catholic Church, 1718 S.R. 13 N., St. Johns, free, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

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

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

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

JAX BEACH JAZZ Live jazz is presented 6-9 p.m. every Fri. at Landshark Café, 1728 Third St. N., Jax Beach, 246-6024.

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

JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE The House Cats play 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. every Sat. at Stogies Club & Listening Room, 36 Charlotte St., St. Augustine, 826-4008.

JAZZ IN ARLINGTON Jazzland Café features live music 8 p.m. every Sat. and 6-9 p.m. every Tue. at 1324 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 240-1009, jazzlandcafe.com.

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

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK The art walk for Jan. 1 was canceled because of the holiday. An art walk, featuring 30-40 galleries, museums and businesses and spanning 15 blocks, is held 5-9 p.m. Feb. 5 and every first Wed. in Downtown Jacksonville. For an events map, go to downtownjacksonville. org/marketing; iloveartwalk.com.

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts and local produce are offered 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 3 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, 353-1188.

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK The tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is held Jan. 3 and every first Fri., with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065.

COMMUNITY FIRST SATURDAY The event, held the first Sat. each month, features Art in the Park, free art classes in Hogan Street Gazebo, arts and family activities, food trucks on Pearl Street, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 4 on Northbank Riverwalk in Downtown Jacksonville, free, communityfirstsaturdays.com.

SECOND SATURDAY ARTRAGEOUS ART WALK The galleries of downtown Fernandina Beach are open for self-guided tours, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Jan. 11 and every second Sat., 277-0717, ameliaisland.com.

JAX BEACH ART WALK More than 30 local artists display their works, 5-9 p.m. Jan. 14 and every second Tue., along First Street between Beach Boulevard and Fifth Avenue North, Jax Beach. For a list of artists and businesses, go to betterjaxbeach.com/jax-beach-art-walk.html.

NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open late, 5-9 p.m. Jan. 16 and every third Thur., at various venues from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center. 249-2222, nbaw.org.

CREATIVE KIDS FESTIVAL The hands-on creative arts experience, for ages 4-12, includes theater, dance, visual arts, music and photography, held Jan. 18 at Fernandina Little Theatre, 1014 Beech St., 206-2607, ameliaflt.org.

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

MUSEUMS

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. The children’s exhibit, “Discovery Ship,” allows kids to pilot the ship, hoist flags and learn about the history of Fernandina’s harbor.

CAMP BLANDING MUSEUM 5629 S.R. 16 W., Camp Blanding, Starke, 682-3196, campblanding-museum.org.

Artwork, weapons, uniforms and other artifacts from the activities of Camp Blanding during World War II are displayed along with outdoor displays of vehicles from WWII, Vietnam and Desert Storm.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/crispellert. The museum opens for First Friday Art Walk, 5-9 p.m. Jan. 3. “The Object Tells a Story,” an exhibit of African-American folk art from Florida, opens with a reception held 5-8 p.m. Jan. 17 and continues through Feb. 28.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org. “The Art of Empathy,” an exhibit showcasing a permanent collection masterwork, “Mother of Sorrows,” one of five known works by the Master of the Stötteritz Altar, is displayed through Feb. 16.

The artistic and devotional contexts of painting is explored through 21 works, 19 of which are borrowed from collections in the United States and Germany. “Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection” continues through Jan. 5. Florida State University Professor William Walmsley, a printmaker who holds the record for the longest series of prints in the history of art, displays his work through July 8. “The Human Figure: Sculptures by Enzo Torcoletti” is on display through September.

Arts

Wayne Howard’s “Lone Tree” – a photograph of a tree on Amelia Island taken after dawn on Nov. 27, 2012 – is featured in his new exhibit “Egans Creek Byways,” displayed for one night only, Jan. 4, at Seventh Street Gallery in Fernandina Beach.

MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Road, Mandarin, 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net.

Exhibits regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Civil War vessel Maple Leaf are on display, as well as works by several Mandarin artists.

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

Ingrid Calame’s exhibit “Tarred Over Cracks” continues through March 9 as part of Project Atrium in Haskell Atrium Gallery. The first exhibit to encompass the entirety of Michael Goldberg’s work, “Abstraction Over Time,” reappraises his contribution to postwar painting and presents a case study of the transformations of abstraction in American art, through Jan. 5. “Mythos: From Concept to Creation” – sculptural works by Enzo Torcoletti, reflecting a symbolic diversity of the human form – are displayed through Jan. 19 in the UNF Gallery MOCA. “Material Transformations,” an exhibit in which seven artists uncover symbolism through unconventional substances, opens with a preview reception 6-7 p.m. Jan. 24 for museum patrons; 7-9 p.m. for members ($10 suggested donation for guests). The exhibit runs Jan. 25-April 6.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. “Uncovering the Past: Archaeological Discoveries of North Florida” is on display through August.

GALLERIES

ABSOLUTE AMERICANA ART GALLERY 77 Bridge St., St. Augustine, 824-5545, absoluteamericana.com. Romero Britto’s sculptures and limited-edition prints are featured.

AMIRO ART & FOUND GALLERY 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460, amiroartandfound.com. “Alexander Wilds Portfolio: Sculpture, Drawings, Painting” opens with a reception held during First Friday Art Walk, 5-9 p.m. Jan. 3. The exhibit is on display through January. Works by Ginny Bullard, Estella Fransbergen, Deane Kellogg, Wendy Mandel McDaniel, Jan Tomlinson Master and Marcia Myrick Siany are also featured.

THE ART CENTER PREMIER GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org/premier.html. “Our Feminine Side,” a multimedia exhibit of works representing the female form, women’s issues, politics and the stages of womanhood, is on display through Jan. 7. The exhibit is a joint presentation with the Women’s Center of Jacksonville. “A Celebration of Cultures” opens with a reception held 5-7 p.m. Jan. 9.

ART GUILD OF ORANGE PARK Clay County Main Library, 1895 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island, 278-3722, artguildoforangepark.com. The Guild partners with Fleming Island Friends of the Library for “Art in Your Community,” 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 29.

AVONDALE ARTWORKS 3562 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 384-8797, avondaleartworks.com. “Hats Off to Dr. Seuss!”

– an exhibit of the author’s hat collection alongside a series of estate-authorized works from Ted Geisel’s original drawings, paintings and sculpture – is on display through Jan. 5.

CORK ARTS DISTRICT 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside, 707-0030, corkartsdistrict.tumblr.com. Thony Aiuppy’s “The Darkness Beyond Tomorrow,” an exhibit on the subject matter of portraiture and the figure, may be viewed by appointment through Jan. 2.

CORSE GALLERY & ATELIER 4144 Herschel St., Riverside, 388-8205, corsegalleryatelier.com. Permanent works on display feature those by Kevin Beilfuss, Eileen Corse, Miro Sinovcic, Maggie Siner, Alice Williams and Luana Luconi Winner.

CYPRESS VILLAGE 4600 Middleton Park Center W., Egret Hall, Intracoastal West, 360-3923. “Winter Joy,” an exhibit of sketches and paintings by Cypress Village resident artists, is displayed through Jan. 9.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Pastel painter Richard Lundgren’s “Coastal North Florida” is on display through Jan. 3.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Road, Southside, 425-2845, floridamininggallery.com. David De Boer’s “Significant Work,” an exhibit co-curated by Nullspace and

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Staci Bu Shea, features installations, video and stills. The exhibit is on display through January.

GALLERY725 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 5, Atlantic Beach, 345-9320, gallery725.com. “Wonderland,” an exhibit of multimedia work by artists Tonsenia Yonn, Linda Olsen, Matthew Winghart, Flew, Ken Daga, Kelly Meagher and Shayna Raymond, is displayed through Jan. 20.

HASKELL GALLERY & DISPLAY CASES Jacksonville International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Road, Northside, 741-3546. Paintings by Candace Fasano and Marie Shell, examining beauty in the natural world, are displayed through March 28 in Haskell Gallery before security. John Cheer’s decorative wall plates and sculpture, inspired by the sea’s energy and nature, are displayed Jan. 9-April 7 in Connector Bridge Art display case before security. Photographer John Adams’ “Evanescent Trawlers of the South” series examines the vessels from Southern harbors, displayed Jan. 1-April 4 in Concourse A and C display cases after security.

HIGHWAY GALLERY floridamininggallery.com/exhibitions/ the-highway-gallery. Nine artists – Nathaniel Artkart Price, Ken Daga, Ashley C. Waldvogel, Brianna Angelakis, Christina Foard, Linda Olsen, Sara Pedigo, Zach Fitchner and Russell Maycumber – are featured on digital billboards throughout the city in collaboration with Clear Channel of Jacksonville through July 2014.

LUFRANO INTERCULTURAL GALLERY 1 UNF Drive, Student Union Bldg. 58E, Ste. 2401, Southside, 620-2475.

Jacksonville native Elizabeth Brown Eagle’s “Visions of Grace” features mixed-media photo collages based on her experiences working with Samburu and Maasai tribes in Northeastern Kenya and the Xhosa people in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The exhibit, opening Jan. 14 with a reception held 5-7 p.m. Jan. 24, is displayed through March 21.

REDDI ARTS 1037 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-3161, reddiarts.com. Works by local artists are featured, with a focus on “emerging artists for emerging collectors.”

Collections change monthly.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310, staaa.org. The association’s annual “Figure & Portrait Show” includes a debut exhibition of charcoal portraits by Lisa O’Neil. The juried exhibit is on display Jan. 3-Feb. 2. A reception held during First Friday Art Walk, 5-9 p.m. Jan. 3, features the awards presentation held at 7 p.m.

SEVENTH STREET GALLERY 14 S. Seventh St., Fernandina Beach, 432-8330, seventhstreetgallery.com. Gallery founder Wayne Howard’s “Egans Creek” is displayed with a reception held 4-7 p.m. Jan. 4.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. The works of artists Jack Allen, Enzo Torcoletti, Allison Watson, Hillary Hogue, Dorian Eng and the UNF Artspace Faculty Showcase are featured.

SPACE:EIGHT GALLERY 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 8292838, spaceeight.com. “Playbook,” an exhibit of works fueled by desires, hunger and thirst, by Georgia artist George Long and Brooklyn’s Mario Schambon, continues through January.

VANDROFF GALLERY Jewish Community Alliance, 8505 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, jcajax.org. “Point of View,” a juried exhibit of contemporary fiber art presented by Fiber Artists Network, runs through Jan. 8. Nofa Dixon, University of North Florida associate professor of drawing, painting and design, selects the winners.

For a complete list of art events, go to folioweekly.com/ calendar. For instructions on how to submit your event, go to folioweekly.com/eventhowto.html. Folio Weekly doesn’t accept emails for events to appear in print listings. The deadline to submit for print publication is 4 p.m. Mon., 10 days before publication. Due to space constraints, not all events will appear in print.

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BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Road, 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240. F Specializing in Southwestern made-to-order fresh favorites: burritos, tacos, quesadillas, nachos, salads. Salsa’s handcrafted with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, onions, peppers. $$ C L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660.

F On the water at historic Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ C L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269. F In a historic building, family-owned spot has eclectic cuisine: homemade veggie burgers, fresh seafood, salads, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine inside or on oak-shaded patio. Karibrew Pub has beer brewed onsite. $$ C L D Tue.-Sat.; L Daily HALFTIME SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 320 S. Eighth St., 321-0303. Sports bar fare: onion rings, spring rolls, burgers, wraps, wings. $ L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun home. Favorites: jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan and vegetarian selections. Dine inside or out on the porch. $$ C B L D Daily LULU’S AT THE THOMPSON HOUSE, 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394. F Innovative lunch menu: po’boys, salads and seafood little plates served in a historic house. Dinner features fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp. Reservations recommended. $$$ C R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400. F See Riverside. 2013 BOJ winner. $ L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE, 833 TJ Courson Road, 277-3141. Awarded Slow Food First Coast’s Snail of Approval, the casual organic eatery and juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods, offers all-natural, organic items, smoothies, juices, coffees, herbal teas. $$ B L Mon.-Sat. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132. Bite Club certified. In Omni Amelia Island Plantation’s Spa & Shops, the bistro-style venue has an innovative menu: whole fried fish and duck breast. Outdoor dining. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811. F Killer sunset view over the ICW from secondstory outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys and the original broiled cheese oysters. $$ C L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652.

F 2013 BOJ winner. Oceanfront restaurant serves awardwinning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles.

Outdoor dining, open-air second floor and balcony. $$ C L D Daily THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711. F Oceanview dining, inside or on the deck. Steaks, fresh fish, nightly specials, Sun. lobster special. $$ B Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily TIMOTI’S FRY SHAK, 21 N. Third St., 310-6550. F Casual seafood spot has fresh, local wild-caught shrimp, fish, oysters, blackboard specials, seafood baskets. $ C L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310.

F This spot in an old gas station is known for its blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ B L Mon.-Sat.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 8818 Atlantic Blvd., 720-0106. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Road F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily RACK ’EM UP BILLIARDS, 1825 University Blvd. N., 745-0335. F Cigar and hookah lounge has billiards tables, a full kitchen, a variety of subs for late-nighters. 200-plus imported, domestic beers. $ R Sat.-Sun.; D Nightly

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

ALE PIE HOUSE, 3951 St. Johns Ave., 503-8000. It’s pizza made your way, plus subs, paninis, calzone, stromboli, wraps, dinners. Gluten-free and vegan cheese available. $$ C L D Daily

BAGEL LOVE, 4114 Herschel St., Ste. 121, 634-7253 2013 BOJ winner. Northern-style bagels, sandwiches, wraps, salads, soups, bakery items, sides, fresh-squeezed orange juice and lemonade, coffees, smoothies and tea. Homecooked turkey, chicken and roast beef. Free Wi-Fi. Locally owned and operated. Outdoor dining on patio. $ C B L Daily THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966.

F 2013 BOJ winner. Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine on the patio or in a hookah lounge. Wi-Fi, belly dancers, hookah pipes. $$ L D Daily ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE, 4000 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 40, 388-4884. F Celebrating five years, this churrascaria has gauchos who carve the meat onto your plate from their serving tables. $$$ D Tue.-Sun. 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. $ C L Mon.-Sat. THE FOX RESTAURANT, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669.

F Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare and homemade desserts. Breakfast all day. Signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. A Jacksonville landmark for more than 50 years. $$ C L D Daily GREEN MAN GOURMET, 3543 St. Johns Ave., 384-0002.

F This market features organic and natural products, spices, teas and salts. $ Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 4530 St. Johns Ave., 388-8828. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily LET THEM EAT CAKE! 3604 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 2, 389-2122. Artisan bakery serves coffee, croissants, muffins, cupcakes (The Fat Elvis!), pastries, individual desserts. Whole cakes made-to-order. $ Tue.-Sat. MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2013 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish, hummus, shrimp and grits, specialty cocktails. $$ C B L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #5 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 3620 St. Johns Ave., 388-5688. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., Ortega, 387-1000.

F Down-home cooking from scratch like Grandma’s: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, fried chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings. BYOB. $$ C L D Mon.-Sat. TERRA, 4260 Herschel St., 388-9124. Owner Michael Thomas’ comfy spot serves local, sustainable world cuisine in a simple, creative style. Small plates: chorizo stuffed mushrooms, pork belly skewers; entrées: lamb chops, seared tuna, ribeye. Lunch features sandwiches. Craft beers. Onsite organic garden. $$ D Mon.-Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Highway, 731-4300. F 2013 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ C L D Daily BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA, 10920 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3, 519-8000. F Family-owned-and-operated Italian pizzeria serves calzones, strombolis, wings, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs, desserts. Delivery. $$ C L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Road, Ste. 8, 620-0777. F Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curry and vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 8206 Philips Hwy., 732-9433. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Road, 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Road, 739-2498. F With locations all over Northeast Florida, Larry’s piles subs high and serves ’em fast. Natural meats and cheeses are hormone, antibiotic- and gluten-free; the sub rolls are gluten-free, too. $ C B L D Daily MANDALOUN MEDITERRANEAN LEBANESE CUISINE, 9862 Old Baymeadows Road, 646-1881. F Bite Club certified.

Owner Pierre Barakat offers authentic Lebanese cuisine, charcoal-grilled lamb kebab. Belly dancing Fri.-Sat. Monthly dinner parties. Outdoor seating. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Road, Ste. 1, 646-9506. F The area’s original authentic Thai restaurant has an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian and new-Thai, including curries, seafood, noodles, soups. In business since 1990, family-owned place has low-sodium and gluten-free dishes, too. $$$ L D Tue.-Sun. PIZZA PALACE, 3928 Baymeadows Road, 527-8649.

F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily STICKY FINGERS, 8129 Point Meadows Way, 493-7427.

F Memphis-style rib house slow-smokes meats over aged hickory wood. Award-winning ribs, barbecue, rotisseriesmoked chicken, five signature sauces. Dine indoors or on screened patio. $$ C L D Daily

BEACHES

(Locations are Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 249-0002. F 2013 BOJ winner.

Celebrating more than 20 years and seven locations, Al’s offers a selection of New York-style and gourmet pizzas. $ C L D Daily

BUDDHA THAI BISTRO, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444. F The proprietors here are from Thailand, and every dish is made with fresh ingredients from tried-and-true recipes, beautifully presented. $$ L D Daily CAMPECHE BAY CANTINA, 127 First Ave. N., 249-3322. F Chili rellenos, tamales, fajitas, enchiladas, fish tacos, fried ice cream, margaritas. $$ C D Nightly CASA MARIA, 2429 S. Third St., 372-9000. F See Springfield. $ C L D Daily CULHANE’S IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595. Bite Club certified. Upscale Irish pub owned and managed by four sisters from County Limerick. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef; gastro pub menu soars to culinary heights. $$ C R Sat. & Sun.; D Tue.-Sun. ENGINE 15 BREWING CO., 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337. F 2013 BOJ winner. Gastropub fare: soups, salads, flatbreads, specialty sandwiches, including BarBeCuban and beer dip. Craft beers. $ C L D Daily GREGORY PAUL’S, 215 Fourth Ave. S., 372-4367. Greg Rider offers freshly prepared meals and experienced catering services. $$ Mon.-Fri. LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024. F Locally owned and operated. Fresh, right-off-the-boat local seafood, fish tacos, houseground burgers, wings, handcut fries, tater tots; daily specials. $$ C L D Daily; R Sun. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1222 Third St. S., 372-4495. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 N. Third St., 247-9620. F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-2922. F Beaches landmark. Locally roasted coffee, eggs and bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, salads and desserts. Dine indoors or out; patio and courtyard seating. $$ B L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-2599. F 2013 BOJ winner. David and Matthew Medure are flippin’ burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes and familiar fare at moderate prices. Dine indoors or out. $$ L D Daily MARLIN MOON GRILLE, 1183 Beach Blvd., 372-4438.

F This sportfishing-themed casual place features fresh crab cakes – owner Gary Beach’s from Maryland’s Eastern Shore – and burgers, daily specials, craft beers, Orange Crushes, fresh-cut fries. $$ C R Sun.; D Wed.-Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600. F Bite Club certified. 2013 BOJ winner. The psychedelic spot serves gourmet pizzas, hoagies, salads. Pies range from Mighty Meaty to vegetarian like Kosmic Karma. $ C L D Daily MEZZA LUNA PIZZERIA RISTORANTE, 110 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-5573.

F Near-the-ocean eatery serves casual bistro fare (for 20+ years) like gourmet wood-fired pizzas, herb-crusted mahi mahi. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$$ C D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. F 2013 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chickenfried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. F American gastropub has gourmet hamburgers, ground in-house and cooked to order, hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, entree-size salads, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ C L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 F For 30 years, the popular seafood place has nabbed lots of awards in our Best of Jax readers poll. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. $$ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA, 592 Marsh Landing Parkway, 273-3113.

F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456.

F 2013 BOJ winner. Specialty items, signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in a contemporary open-air space. $$ C L D Daily SHIM SHAM ROOM, 333 First St. N., Ste. 150, 372-0781.

F 2013 BOJ winner. Seasonal menu of “cheap eats”: bar bites, chicken & waffles, badass fries, tacos. $$ D Nightly WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1585 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508. F Casual sports spot serves burgers, wings, fish tacos in a chill atmosphere. $ C L D Daily

DOWNTOWN

AVOCADOS, 311 W. Ashley St., Ste. 1, 683-9947. Mac & cheese, Southwestern wrap, French dip. Fresh ingredients, cooked to order. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. CAFÉ NOLA at MOCAJAX, 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911. On Museum of Contemporary Art first floor. Shrimp and grits, gourmet sandwiches, fresh fish tacos, homemade desserts. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Thur. & ArtWalk CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Owner/chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare 35-plus years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $$ C L D Mon.-Sat. CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F This spot has eats at moderate prices – most under $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos,

bahn mi, barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Fri. & Sat. DE REAL TING CAFÉ, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738.

F Caribbean spot features jerk or curried chicken, conch fritters, curried goat, oxtail. $ L Tue.-Fri.; D Fri.-Sat. FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, Ste. 176, Jacksonville Landing, 374-1547. F 2013 BOJ winner.

Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere. Fish & chips, blackand-tan brownies, Guinness lamb stew. $$ C L D Daily ZODIAC GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283. F Mediterranean cuisine and American favorites in a casual atmosphere. Panini, vegetarian dishes, daily lunch buffet.

Espressos, hookahs. $ L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

BRICK OVEN PIZZERIA & GASTROPUB, 1811 Town Center Blvd., 278-1770. F Family-owned-and-operated; offers freshly made brick-oven pizzas, specialty burgers, melts, wraps, craft beers. Gluten-free items. $$ C L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100, 215-2223. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified.

2013 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F 2013 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chickenfried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198.

F Authentic fish camp serves gator tail, fresh-water river catfish, traditional meals, daily specials on the banks of Swimming Pen Creek. Outdoor Tiki bar. Come by boat, motorcycle or car. $ C L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly YOUR PIE, 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771. F Bite Club certified. Owner Mike Sims has a fast, casual pizza concept: Choose from three doughs, nine sauces, seven cheeses and 40-plus toppings and create your own pizza pie. Subs, sandwiches, gelato. $$ C L D Daily

INTRACOASTAL WEST

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

F 2013 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ C L D Daily CASTILLO DE MEXICO, 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 19, 998-7006. F This spot, in business for 15-plus years, has an extensive menu served in authentic Mexican décor. Weekday lunch buffet. $$ L D Daily EPIK BURGER, 12740 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 105, 374-7326.

F More than 34 burgers made from grass-fed beef, ahi tuna, all-natural chicken; vegan items from innovative recipes; gluten-free options. $ L D Mon.-Sat. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN, 14333 Beach Blvd., 992-1666.

F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 642-6980.

F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily MAHARLIKA HALL & SPORTS GRILL, 14255 Beach Blvd., Ste. E, 699-0759. Filipino-American restaurant and market features pancit bami, lumpia, turon strudle, halo halo with ice cream. $-$$ C R L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT, 13546 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1A, 821-9880. See St. Johns Town Center. $ Daily TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999. F Locally-owned-and-operated grill serves hand-tossed pizzas, wings, specialty wraps in a clean, sporty atmosphere. Late-night menu. $$ L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly

JULINGTON CREEK

PIZZA PALACE, 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13 N., Ste. 113, 287-8226. F The menu is light Mexican with American influences – and there are 40 beers on draft. $$ C B, Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily

MANDARIN

AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2013 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ C L D Daily ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199.

Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BRAZILIAN JAX CAFE, 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 20, 880-3313. F Authentic dishes: steaks, sausages, chicken, fish, burgers, hot sandwiches made with fresh ingredients.

Traditional feijoada – black beans and pork stew with rice, collards, orange salad, toasted yucca flour with bacon – every Sat. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA, 11406 San Jose Blvd., 288-9211.

13820 St. Augustine Rd., Bartram Park, 880-0020. F The Brooklyn Special Pizza is a customer favorite. Also calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ L D Daily GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Road (Ramada Inn), 694-4300. F Prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri.-Sat., bluejean brunch Sun., daily breakfast buffet and lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ B R L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 11700 San Jose

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Favorite pizza: Florida Smacker with mushrooms (Brewer’s Pizza, Orange Park) I love pizza, and I’ve eaten a lot of it.

(Seriously. I’m an expert.) Brewer’s is out of the way but worth the trek every time. The Smacker is like a deep-dish pie but smaller and, perhaps most important, the cheese extends to the edge of the crust, forming a seemingly infinite surface of golden deliciousness. Add a side of ranch for dipping.

French Pantry’s bruschetta. Photos: Caron Streibich

Mmmm … 2013

Our Bite-Sized columnist’s year in eating

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t’s no secret that I eat most of my meals in restaurants. It’s convenient, I don’t have to do dishes and I can seek creative culinary offerings when the mood strikes. (Also, kinda my job.) Over the last year, I’ve had a lot of memorable meals. Here are a few of my favorite crave-worthy items from 2013:

Favorite breakfast treat: Tomato pie (Bold Bean Coffee Roasters, Riverside) This savory, handheld quiche-like pie makes getting out of bed 100 percent worth it: buttery, flaky pie crust houses a blend of egg and cheese, thin slices of tomato (both green and red), cooked onion and a generous dusting of cracked black pepper.

Favorite salad: Greek kale salad (Native Sun Natural Foods Market, Baymeadows and Mandarin) Organic kale tossed with homemade Greek dressing, pepperoncini, chunks of crumbly feta, salty kalamata olives, diced artichoke hearts and — in my version — hold the red onion, add chickpeas. There’s something about the tangy dressing with this assortment of toppings that makes this salad shine.

Favorite soup (tie): Barley ash (Green Erth Bistro, San Marco) and BBQ pork and wonton pho (Bowl of Pho, Southside) These two soups couldn’t be less alike, but I love them equally. The first is a thick Persian number overflowing with barley, beans and herbs and bursting with flavor. The pho is brothy, stocked with thin tangled egg noodles and pork-stuffed wontons, and quite comforting on a cold day.

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Favorite lunch: Bruschetta (French Pantry, Southside) Possibly the longest line I’ll wait in for a meal, let alone lunch, is at French Pantry. Thick, house-baked crusty bread is generously buttered then topped with shrimp, artichoke hearts and

rich goat cheese, served with a heaping mound of balsamic and basil diced tomatoes atop a bed of mixed greens. Go now to get in line.

Favorite seafood: Raw oysters (Cap’s on the Water, St. Augustine) Plump raw oysters served on the half-shell with cocktail sauce, mignonette, lemon wedges and hot sauce, plus a gorgeous coastal view.

Need I say more?

Favorite comfort food: Poutine (Black Sheep, 5 Points) Crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, these hand-cut potatoes are topped with chewy, bite-sized cheese curds and cubes of housemade pastrami. Warm smoked short rib gravy is drizzled on top, tableside.

Favorite entrée: Dr Pepper-glazed short ribs with buttermilk mashed potatoes and shaved vegetables (Moxie Kitchen + Cocktails, St. Johns Town Center) The meat is perfectly fork-tender, the vegetables are thinly sliced and nicely crisp, and the surrounding glaze supplies a delightful subtle sweetness. Oh, and those mashed potatoes? Heavenly.

Favorite dessert: Orange crunch cake (Picasso’s, Mandarin) This is probably my most unexpected food victory of the year. I had my heart set on one dessert but the waitress sold me on this one instead. It’s unique and delicious. I even made sure I had a slice on my birthday, that’s how good it is. Order it, love it, thank me later.

Caron Streibich Folio Weekly Bite Club Host biteclub@folioweekly.com Twitter.com/fwbiteclub

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BITE MORE See more dishes from columnist Caron Streibich’s Best of 2013 at folioweekly.com/bite-sized.

Favorite ethnic: Dolsot bibimbap (Hon Korean, Southside) A sizzling stone bowl (dolsot) full of crispy rice, vegetables galore and Korean beef goodness topped with a fried egg and hot sauce? Yes, please.

Dining Directory Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ L D Daily THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655. Updated Southern fare, with fresh, local ingredients from area farms.

Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature items: fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish, cornbread stack, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ C L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., Anastasia Island, 824-8244. F A mainstay for 25 years; menu changes daily. Signature dish is Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ R Sun.; L D Daily THE HYPPO, 15 Hypolita St., 217-7853 (popsicles only).

1765 Tree Blvd., Ste. 5, 342-7816. F Popsicles of unique flavors, of premium ingredients. Coffee pour-overs, cold-brew coffees. Handcrafted sandwiches, salads. $ Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified.

2013 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F 2013 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily THE ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311. F Coffee drinks, vegetarian meals, meaty Southern comfort dishes. $ B L D Daily PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO, 159 Palencia Village Dr., 305-2515. F 2013 BOJ winner. Chef Mas created 30+ unique sushi rolls; fresh sea scallops, H awaiian-style poke tuna salad. $$ L D Daily

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

THAT’S A LOT OF FOOD, MAN: Gregory Rider, chef and owner of Gregory Paul’s in Jacksonville Beach, shows off a massive plate of freshly prepared lasagna. Photo: Dennis Ho Blvd., 288-0175. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S, 11365 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily RACK ’EM UP BILLIARDS, 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., 262-4030. See Arlington. $ R Sat.-Sun.; D Nightly RENNA’S PIZZA, 11111 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 292-2300.

F Casual New York-style pizzeria serves calzones, antipasto, parmigiana, homemade breads. Buy by the slice – they’ re humongous – or full pie. Delivery. $$ C L D Daily

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizza. $$ C L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Road, 272-5959. Specialties at this upscale restaurant include New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup. Homemade desserts. $$$ D Tue.-Sat. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1930 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 700 Blanding, Ste. 15, 272-3553.

1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 1330 Blanding, 276-7370. 1404 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789. F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 2620 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 17, Middleburg, 282-1564. F What a neighborhood sportsbar should be: Familiar fare, all the spirits you’d want. $$ C L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA, 6001 Argyle Forest Blvd., Ste. 16, 771-7677. F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily TED’S MONTANA GRILL, 8635 Blanding Blvd., 771-1964.

See St. Johns Town Center. $$$ C L D Daily THAI GARDEN, 10 Blanding Blvd., Ste. B, 272-8434.

Traditional Thai: pad kraw powh with roasted duck, kaeng kari (yellow curry, potatoes, choice of meat). Fine wines, imported, domestic beers. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly

PONTE VEDRA, NW ST. JOHNS

ALICE & PETE’S PUB, 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., Sawgrass Marriott, 285-7777. Inspired by TPC Sawgrass course designers Alice and Pete Dye. Northeast Florida flavors and Alice & Pete’s favorites: Dominican black bean soup, Pete’s Designer club sandwich. Outside dining. $$$ L D Daily AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2013 BOJ winner.

See Beaches. $ C L D Daily JJ’S LIBERTY BISTRO, 330 A1A N., Ste. 209, 273-7980.

Traditional French cuisine: escargot, brie, paté, steak frites, crêpes. Daily specials, specialt y pastries; French wines. $ $ L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797. Chef David Medure creates dishes with international flavors. The lounge offers small plates, creative drinks. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515. Upscale, casual

restaurant offers appetizers, salads, sandwiches, flatbreads, burgers, entrées. Extensive wine list. $$$ L D Daily

RIVERSIDE, FIVE POINTS, WESTSIDE

AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2013 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ C L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes.

1-2, 855-1181. F 2013 BOJ winner. Bold Bean brings a small-batch, artisanal approach to roasting coffee. Organic and fair trade coffees. $ B L Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET 2007 Park St., 3844474. F 2013 BOJ winner. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits and vegetables. The store has three dozen artisanal cheeses, 300-plus craft and imported beers, 50 organic wines, organic produce, meats, vitamins, herbs.

Organic wraps, sides, sandwiches, salads to go; raw, vegan items. $ B L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7859 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 8102 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 1, 779-1933. F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 389-4442. F Northern-style pizzas, more than 20 toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ L D Mon.-Sat. THE MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., Riverside, 355-4434. Southwestern menu with ahi tuna tacos, goat cheese enchiladas, gouda quesadillas, chicken enchiladas.

Indoor or patio dining. $$ C L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300.

F Traditional Irish fare: shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Outdoor patio dining. $$ C L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #1 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 824 Lomax St., 301-1188. F Traditional Japanese cuisine, fresh sushi, sashimi, kiatsu, teriyaki, hibachi in an authentic atmosphere.

Sake. A real tatami room; outside seating. $$ L D Daily SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0049. F Beer (Bold City, Intuition Ale Works), wine, pizza, hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888.

F Sushi: popular Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll, Rock-nRoll and Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$ L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2013 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ C L D Daily BACK 40 URBAN CAFÉ, 40 S. Dixie Highway, 824-0227.

F Owner Brian Harmon serves Caribbean-flavored items – wraps, upside-down chicken potpie, fresh, local seafood – in an 1896 building. Wi-Fi. $ C L Sun.; L D Mon.-Sat. CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA, 146 King St., 494-6658. F New York-style brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats, cheeses, garlic herb wings.

BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Drive, 345-3466. Classic American fare: beef, seafood, pasta, flatbread sandwiches. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$$ C R L D Daily BRIO TUSCAN GRILLE, 4910 Big Island Drive, 807-9960.

Upscale Northern Italian restaurant offers wood-grilled, ovenroasted steaks, chops, seafood. Dine indoors or al fresco on the terrace. $$$ C R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT, 4860 Big Island Drive, Ste. 2, 807-9292. Non-fat, low-calorie, cholesterol-free frozen yogurts. More than 40 toppings. $ Daily OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Drive, 900-7730.

2013 BOJ winner. Comfortable, chic place features tapas, small plates of Spanish, Italian flavors: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese, lobster ravioli. 240-bottle wine list, 75 by the glass; craft spirits. Outdoor dining. $$ R, Sun.; D Nightly RENNA’S PIZZA, 4624 Town Crossing Drive, Ste. 125, 565-1299. F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #3 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 10281 Midtown Parkway, 996-2288. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SEASONS OF JAPAN, 4413 Town Center Parkway, 329-1067. Casual-style restaurant serves Japanese and hibachi-style fare, sushi, quick-as-a-wink. $$ C L D Daily TED’S MONTANA GRILL, 10281 Midtown Parkway., 998-0010. Modern classic comfort food featuring finest cuts of bison, including signature steaks and award-winning gourmet burgers, served with timeless, genuine hospitality.

Crab cakes, cedar-plank salmon, fresh vegetables, signature desserts and private label Bison Ridge wines complete the unique menu. $$$ C L D Daily

SAN JOSE, LAKEWOOD

EMPEROR’S GENTLEMAN’S CLUB 4923 University Blvd.

W., Lakewood, 739-6966. Upscale steakhouse features steaks, burgers, seafood and wings. $$ L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, 636-8688. F New upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ C L D Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., San Jose, 732-7200. F 2013 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chickenfried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily URBAN ORGANICS, 5325 Fairmont St., Spring Park, 398-8012. Weekly coop every Monday that offers local, fresh fruits and vegetables in bags of 10, 20 or 30 pounds.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK, ST. NICHOLAS

BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190.

F Pad Thai, curry dishes, sushi, served in a relaxing environment. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$ L D Mon.Fri., D Sat. PIZZA PALACE 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815.

F Relaxed, family-owned place serves homestyle cuisine: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones. Ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Outside dining. $$ C L D Daily THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. Varied tapas menu of artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschettas, homestyle cheesecake. More than 60 wines by the glass. $$$ Tue.-Sun.

LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1631 Hendricks Ave., 399-1768. F Tamales, fajitas and pork tacos are customer favorites. Some La Nops offer a full bar. $$ C L D Daily MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship restaurant offers fine dining in a refined, European-style atmosphere. Artfully presented cuisine, small plates, extensive martini and wine lists.

Reservations recommended. $$$$ D Mon.-Sat. PULP, 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222. Juice bar offers fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees made one cup at a time. 30 kinds of smoothies, some blended with fl avored soy milks, organic frozen yogurts, granola. $ B L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #2 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 1478 Riverplace Blvd., 306-2188. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE

360° GRILLE, 10370 Philips Highway, 365-5555. F In Latitude 30. Familiar sportsbar favorites: seafood, steaks, sandwiches, burgers, chicken, pasta, pizza. Dine inside or on the patio. $$ L D Daily ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212. America’s longest continuously running dinner theater features Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s menus coordinated with stage productions. Reservations suggested. $$ D Tue.-Sun. BUCA DI BEPPO, 10334 Southside Blvd., 363-9090.

Popular chain restaurant has fresh Italian cooking: lasagna, garlic mashed potatoes; three portion sizes (half-pound meatballs!) served family-style. $$$ C L D Daily CASA MARIA, 14965 Old St. Augustine Road, 619-8186.

F See Springfield. $ C L D Daily FARAH’S PITA STOP CAFÉ, 3980 Southside Blvd., Ste. 201, 928-4322. Middle Eastern cuisine: fresh sandwiches, soups, entrées, desserts, pastries and mazas (appetizers). $ C B L D Mon.-Sat. THE FLAME BROILER THE RICE BOWL KING, 9822 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 103, 619-2786. 7159 Philips Highway, Ste. 104, 337-0007. F West Coast fave has healthy, inexpensive fast food with no transfats, MSG, frying, or skin on meat. Fresh veggies, steamed brown or white rice, grilled beef, chicken, Korean short ribs. $ C L D Mon.-Sat. JJ’S BISTRO DE PARIS, 7643 Gate Parkway, Ste. 105, 996-7557. Authentic French cuisine served in a comfortable, charming setting. The scratch kitchen has fresh soups, stocks, sauces, pastries. $$ C L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Parkway, 425-4060.

F See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, Tinseltown, 997-1955. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified. 2013 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily OISHII, 4375 Southside Blvd., Ste. 4, 928-3223. Japanese fusion cuisine: fresh, high-grade sushi, a variety of lunch specials, hibachi items. $$ C L D Daily SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY, 9735 Gate Parkway N., Tinseltown, 997-1999. F Grill and brewery features local seafood, steaks, pizzas, award-winning freshly brewed ales, lagers. Dine indoors or outdoors. $$ L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426. Bite Club certified. 2013 BOJ winner. Greek restaurant serves char-broiled kabobs, seafood, traditional Greek wines and desserts. Nightly belly dancing. $$ C L D Daily TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999. F New York-style thin crust, brick-ovencooked pizzas – gluten-free – as well as calzones, salads, sandwiches made fresh to order, using Thumann’s no-MSG meats, Grande cheeses. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pick-up. $$ L D Mon.-Sat.

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CASA MARIA, 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411. F Family-owned-and-operated spot offers authentic Mexican food: fajitas, seafood dishes, hot sauces made in-house.

Specialty is tacos de asada. $ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner, 764-9999.

F See Baymeadows. $ C B L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA, 840 Nautica Drive, Ste. 117, 714-9210.

F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily SAVANNAH BISTRO, 14670 Duval Road, 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, with a twist of Mediterranean and French, in a relaxing atmosphere at Crowne Plaza Airport.

Crab cakes, New York strip, she crab soup, mahi mahi.

Rainforest Lounge. $$$ C B L D Daily STICKY FINGERS, 13150 City Station Drive, 309-7427.

F See Baymeadows. $$ C L D Daily

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DRIFTWOOD BBQ, 412-4559, driftwoodbbq.com, facebook.com/DriftwoodBBQ Southern soul barbecue, sandwiches, subs at Pitmaster Patrick O’Grady’s truck.

Pudding, pulled pork, sides, sliders, chicken. $ L D

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Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You can blame it on the full moon, coming up on Tuesday, Jan. 14. Or on a gorgeous storm, epic dream, haunting song or the suffering you’re struggling to vanquish. Don’t blame it on the alcohol. If you’re going to do wild, brave and unexpected things, make sure they’re rooted in your vigorous response to primal rhythms, not in a drunken surrender to weakness or ignorance. I’m all for you losing oppressive self-control, but not the healthy kind of self-control.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When’s the last time you did an experiment? Not scientific tests and trials in a laboratory – no, I mean real-life experiments, like when you try an unfamiliar experience to see if you like it … or instigate a change in your routine to attract unpredictable blessings to your sphere. Now is an excellent time to expose yourself to a few what-ifs like that. You’re overdue to have eyes opened, limits stretched and mind blown.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To help take the edge off the darkness you’ve been wrestling, here’s part of Kay Ryan’s poem: “The day misspent, / the love misplaced, / has inside it / the seed of redemption. / Nothing is exempt / from resurrection.”

In other words, whatever’s disappeared from your life may return in a new form. Your wrong turns may lead to a fresh possibility. Is that what you want? Or do you want lost things to stay lost, dead things stay dead?

Make your decision.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Human beings are often unable to receive because we do not know what to ask for,” says writer Malidoma Somé in “Water and Spirit.” “We are sometimes unable to get what we need because we do not know what we want.” With that in mind, heed my two pleas: first, in the next six weeks, work diligently to identify the goodies you want most; second, cultivate your capacity to receive them by refining your skill at asking for them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Julia Morgan (1872-1957) was the first woman architect licensed in California. She designed more than 700 buildings in her brilliant career, and thrived financially and artistically. One key to her success was her humility. “Don’t ever turn down a job because it’s beneath you,” she advised. That’s a helpful message. It applies to work-related opportunities you may be asked to take on, as well as tasks your friends, associates and loved ones ask you to consider. You can’t possibly know ahead of time how important it may be to apply yourself conscientiously to a seemingly small assignment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of Beethoven’s music teachers said, “As a composer, he is hopeless.” When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.”

Walt Disney worked at a newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” There was a person like that in your past – someone who disparaged and discouraged you. 2014 will be the best year ever for neutralizing and overcoming that naysayer’s curse. If you haven’t launched your holy crusade, do so.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As a child, French philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) loved math. But his father, who homeschooled him, forced him to concentrate on studying the humanities. Blaise rebelled. When he was 12, he locked himself in his room for days, immersed in mathematical investigations. When he emerged, he’d figured out some of Euclid’s fundamental geometry theorems. Eventually, he became a noted 28 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 1-7, 2014

mathematician. The weeks ahead are prime time to do something like young Pascal did: Seal yourself away from others’ opinions about who you’re supposed to be, and explore themes that will be crucial for the person you’re becoming.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1609, Dutch sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed to America and came upon what is now called Coney Island. Back then, it was a barren spit of sand inhabited by rabbits. It eventually became a dazzling resort – an “extravagant playground,” according to the documentary “Coney Island.” By the early 20th century, three sprawling amusement parks were packed onto its two square miles of land, plus “a forest of glittering electric towers, historical displays, freak shows, a simulated trip to the moon, the largest herd of elephants in the world and panoramas showing the Creation, the End of the World, and Hell.” 2014 could feature your own Henry Hudson moment: You discover virgin territory that may become an extravagant playground.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows,” said 19th-century social reformer Henry Ward Beecher.

That may be an accurate assessment for most people, but not for you. Your animal intelligence will soon be working even better than usual. Your instinctual inclinations likely serve as reliable guides to wise action. Trust what your body tells you! You’ll definitely be clever enough to be a crow.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What combination of colors makes the most vivid visual impact? Psychologists say it’s black on yellow. Together they arrest the eye, command attention and activate a readiness to respond. According to my astrological omen-reading, this is the effect you can and should have in the weeks ahead. Time to draw the best kind of attention to yourself. You have a right and a duty to galvanize folks with the power of your presence.

Whether you wear yellow clothes with black highlights is optional as long as you cultivate a similar potency.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In a metaphorical sense, you’ve been swallowed by a whale. Now you’re biding your time in the beast’s belly. My prediction: You’ll be like the Biblical Jonah, who had a more literal version of your experience. The whale eventually expelled him, letting him return to his life safe and sound. Your story will have the same outcome. What to do in the meantime?

Here’s advice poet Dan Albergotti gives in “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale.” “Count the ribs. Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires with broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals.

Call old friends. Organize your calendar. Review each of your life’s 10,000,000 choices. Find evidence of those before you. Listen for the sound of your heart.

Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope, where you can rest and wait.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How do you like your tests? Short, intense, and dramatic? Or leisurely, drawn-out, and low-pressure? Here’s another question: Do you prefer to pick out the tests you take, making sure they’re good fits for the precise lessons you want to master? Or do you find it more exciting and adventurous to let fate determine what unpredictable tests get sent your way? Ruminate about these matters. You’re due for a nice big test sometime soon, and it’s in your interest to help shape and define how everything unfolds.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

BLACK CROWES BEAUTY You: Brown-eyed, dark-haired American Indian-looking goddess. Me: Tall, dark, brooding musician. Talked after the show. You admired my Crowes tat, I admired your cheekbones. Best dancer in venue, and kind conversationalist. Shared tequila after the show. Heard you’re single. Let’s get together. When: Oct. 7. Where: St. Augustine. #1320-1218 DURING JAGUARS 3RD WIN IN 11 DAYS! You: orange shirt, being a good dad taking your son to the game. Me: waiting on ramp. We had INTENSE eye contact, but could only chat for a minute. Have any kid-free time coming up? When: Dec. 5. Where: Jags Game. #1319-1218 MARGARITA MADNESS! Are YOU the guy at La Nopalera bar Third St. Jax Beach a few months ago? You nearly fell off the stool when I asked if you were just passing through. Fun evening! Laughter, good-natured teasing. Loved your quick sense of humor; think you liked mine. Future connection? Me: Cute blonde English girl. When: Early Summer. Where: La Nopalera Jax Beach. #1318-1218 AVENUES MALL You wore a baby blue zip-up uniform well; sexy black frame glasses; some sort of pouch. Your personality shined through your gleaming smile. You were helpful with my phone troubles; confident – I like a man with confidence.

Me: brown hair, brown eyes, black shirt, scarf. Hope this makes it to you. When: Nov. 22. Where: Avenues Mall AT&T. #1317-1218 BEAUTIFUL BLONDE Hi K_, I came over and introduced myself when you were sitting across the bar from me. We made eye contact numerous times and observed some funny people in the bar. I would love to get together and see if we have any chemistry. My name starts with T. When: Nov. 14.

Where: Jacksonville Ale House. #1316-1204 BEAUTIFUL LADY EATING ALONE OUTSIDE ISU! Plum/purple T-shirt, rolled-up jeans shorts, sandals. We were both eating alone at outside tables. Me: In a white T-shirt and plaid shorts.

I should have least said hi or hello and I’m kicking myself now!

I think you’re beautiful! I’d love to talk and see. When: Nov. 23.

Where: The Loop @ St. Johns Ave. #1315-1127 IN LINE It’s been so many years. Forgetfulness caught up with me. I apologize for thinking I was blowing you off when all I wanted to do was catch up! We were in line together at Publix; you remembered me from HS. I felt like such a jerk as you sped away in your maroon VW. When: Nov. 3. Where: Publix @ Tinseltown. #1314-1127 GATORS IN OAKLEAF ISU at the bar, in blue jeans and a black shirt. Blond hair and oh so gorgeous smile. It was early evening; you spoke to the bartender often. Our eyes met when I got up to leave. I wore tan cargo pants, a black short-sleeved shirt and glasses. When: Nov. 10. Where: Gators @ Oakleaf. #1313-1127 HOLIDAYS AND A SUBSPECIES OF BEINGS We chatted for a good bit in line at veg fest. You compared your name to a holiday and mine to a group of people? Took me a minute to get your meaning. Should have taken you up on your offer to stick around. When: Nov. 9. Where: Riverside Park. #1312-1113 ANIME TALK IN CHAMBLIN You: Pretty blonde, light blue eyes with a tan-ish scarf. Me: Wearing a single braid on one side, in a blue dress and a raccoon backpack. First, we

bonded over a love for “Loveless,” then you recommended “Clamp School Detectives.” I wish I’d asked for your name. :) When: Nov. 6. Where: Chamblin’s Uptown. #1310-1106 BLACKSHEEP BARTENDED FRIDAY NIGHT You’re really cute slinging those drinks. I got a to-go order from you on Friday night around 8. I’m sorry you have to deal with creepy old men all of the time but you seem to handle yourself well. :) When: Nov. 1. Where: Blacksheep. #1309-1106 DOWNTOWN TSI SUNDAY BEERFEST GIRL “C” from Orange Park has a womanly adorableness; has a friend “M.” Me: Helping my friend get out of jail Sunday evening; stopped for a quick beer to kill time. Left for about 20 minutes; came back to talk more! Let’s chat a third time.

When: Oct. 27. Where: Club TSI Discotheque. #1306-1023 DOGTOBERFEST Gator Woman walking Minnie Mouse, you were talking with handsome guy in Life Is Good shirt and brindle dog with a bandana. You left way too early; Fate was knocking! Even shy pups need love. When: Oct. 26. Where: Dogtoberfest. #1305-1023 JACKSONVILLE ZOO, MOM AND KIDS You: At the zoo with 2 children. ISU by the maze, then children’s play area. We passed a few times. I wanted to introduce myself; sorry I didn’t. Me: Guy who made eye contact with you as much as I could to see if there was interest. With my three beautiful little boys. Was there mutual attraction/interest? When: Oct. 19. Where: Jacksonville #1307-1023 DIDN’T DREAD LOOKING AT YOU You: Brown dreadlocks, cute smile at Yoga Fest. Me: Colorful dress with a screaming baby in a stroller. You asked me what I did to the kid. When: Oct. 12. Where: Riverside Arts Market. #1306-1023 PEGASUS GALLERY’S GODDESS You: tattoos, eyes to get lost in, tiny hands, buns to die for! Me: Redhead bombshell, can’t get enough, drooling over sexy you. The moment ISU smile, had to have you. Want to wake up to your beautiful face, make you feel special. Be my bite-sized goodness.

I adore you. When: Oct. 10. Where: Pegasus Gallery, St. Augustine. #1302-1016

I SAW U Connection Made!

SEARCHING FOR SHARK TEETH You: Digging in sand, searching for shark teeth; looked as beautiful as I’ve ever seen you. You’re curious about the world; your curiosity’s sophisticated, inspiring, sexy.

I think about you every day; hope I cross your mind now and then. Wish I was your missing shark tooth. When: Sept. 2. Where: Jacksonville. #1302-1016

FROM COLD SHOULDER TO PINING AFTER YOU We shared a picnic table, you snapchatting away. I yelled at you, I’m that drunk girl. I gave you the cold shoulder, but hey girl, can I take ya on a date and a half? Four and a half? When: A date and a half ago. Where: Park Place Picnicking. #1300-1009 PETERBROOKE BOY You: Peterbrooke bag, pink tissue. Tall, dark, handsome (dirty blonde), gray shirt/pants. Walked in the Loop, look confused, didn’t buy. I’ll help find where to go. Me: On lunch, young professional, gray skirt, white shirt, brown hair, light brown eyes met yours. Smiled at each other on sidewalk. When: Oct. 3. Where: San Marco. #1301-1009 READING JUXTAPOSE Me: Long brown curly hair, freckles and tight black pants. You: Denim & tattoos. We made eye contact several times. Maybe I’m lucky enough for you to read this! When: Sept. 26. Where: Barnes & Noble @ Town Center. #1299-1002

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NewsNews of theof the Weird Weird Took It Too Far

Coughlan elementary school in Langley, British Columbia, announced to parents in November that henceforth it wouldn’t prohibit just abusive or unwanted physical contact among its kindergarteners, but all contact. Officials said they were responding to parents who objected to “rough play,” but, said another parent, incredulous, “No tag, no hugging, no touching at all. ... I’m not going to tell my daughter she can’t touch her friends at school. I am going to teach her boundaries.”

Cultural Diversity

Each Nov. 1 is a day (or two) of craziness in the isolated mountain village of Todos Santos Cuchumatanes, Guatemala, where Mayan tradition commands continuous horse races through town, jockeyed by increasingly drunk riders, until only a sober-enough winner remains.

Collisions occur in the Race of the Souls, and occasionally someone dies, but the misfortune is met with a collective shrug and regarded as a spiritual offering for fertile crops for the next year, according to an eyewitness this year reporting for Vice.com. Ironically, for the rest of the year, the village is largely alcohol-free except for what’s on hand to sell to tourists.

Since the 13th century, sheepherders in Spain have had the right (still honored) to use 78,000 miles of paths in the country for seasonal flock migrations — even some streets of Madrid, including a crossing of Puerta del Sol, described as Madrid’s Times Square. The shepherds pay a customary, token duty, which, according to an October Associated Press

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item, the government proudly accepts, given the prominence of Spain’s native Merino sheep breed in the world’s wool market.

Postal worker Umakant Mishra, of Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh, India, was freed by a criminal court in December — 29 years after being charged when a money-order account turned up 92 cents short. Mishra was called to judicial hearings 348 times over the years, but it wasn’t until recently the government admitted it had no witnesses for the court to hear against him. A December BBC News piece, citing “official” figures, said more than 30 million cases are pending in Indian courts.

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Latest Religious Messages

The evangelical educational organization Answers in Genesis, which has established a series of children’s books and a creationist museum, announced recently it will enter the bond market to fund its most ambitious project — a creationist amusement park centered around a “life-size” reconstruction of Noah’s Ark, for which it estimates it will need at least $73 million from investors. Issuing bonds might be seen as desperate since AiG has raised only $13.6 million privately since proposing the Ark-park, but a Georgetown University finance professor, contacted by Slate.com, suggested the bonds’ terms place them in the high-risk “junk bond” category (perhaps better described as “faith-based,” having virtually no resale value and without an independent bond rating).

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