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Editor’s Note A War on the Poor

Before we dismiss the war on poverty as a failure, maybe we should actually fight it “After 50 years, isn’t it time to declare big government’s war on poverty a failure?”

— U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

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t was 50 years ago last week that President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty.

To commemorate the ocassion, Rubio, a man who very much wishes to be president, took to the Senate room named for Johnson and labeled his war a failure.

This is a common refrain, echoed by rightwing politicians and conservative media types, evidenced by the fact that, well, poor people are still around: “While this war may have been launched with the best of intentions, it’s clear we’re now engaged in a battle of attrition that has left more Americans in poverty than at any other point in our nation’s history,” U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Tallahassee, told Time.

It’s also, objectively speaking, horseshit.

A half-century on, the war on poverty is, in fact, a rousing if incomplete success. Between 1967 and 2012, the country’s poverty rate declined dramatically, from 26 percent to 16 percent, once you factor in government assistance, according to a recent study from economists at Columbia University.

Since 1968, the war on poverty has helped an average of 27 million Americans escape poverty every single year, according to the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Without the increase in government aid begat by Johnson’s Great Society — Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, etc. — poverty would have increased to as high as 31 percent. In 2012, food stamps alone — the program Rubio, Southerland and their fellow Republicans are right now gung-ho to gut — lifted 4 million Americans out of poverty.

This isn’t to say it’s time to declare victory.

Far from it: Unemployment, especially in the wake of the Great Recession, is still way too high. Quality jobs are still way too scarce.

Opportunity is still way too unequal.

You’ve heard the numbers: Since the 1970s, lower- and middle-class income has stagnated, while the rich have consolidated wealth at a level not seen since the Roaring Twenties.

Since 1979, the top 1 percent of earners have seen their household incomes rise 201 percent, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, while middle-class earners have seen their incomes grow by only 40 percent.

The divide is further exacerbated by race. According to data provided by the

Florida Minority Community Reinvestment Commission, the racial wealth gap — that is, the disparity between the wealth of whites and that of minorities — is the largest it’s been in 30 years. In 2010 in Duval County, the median net worth of white households was $79,622; for black households, $1,795. Statewide, the data are little better: $77,300 for white households, $2,759 for black households.

These problems are systemic and institutional. Rubio’s answers are, for the most part, shopworn pabulum. He wants to encourage marriage (but not gay marriage, which doesn’t count), and to repackage federal anti-poverty money into block grants that states can do with as they please. More interesting, he also wants to replace the earned income tax credit (EITC) with direct wage subsidies. Wage subsidies themselves aren’t a terrible idea; using them to replace the EITC, however, is problematic because the EITC is aimed at poor families with children. Without substantial funding hikes, Rubio’s proposal would probably increase child poverty.

But at least he admits there’s a problem.

Tallahassee’s obsequiousness toward big business is such that, even while he’s pledging $100 million in taxpayer-funded advertising for the state’s multibillion-dollar tourism industry — itself a leading cause of our low-wage service economy — Gov. Rick Scott says that a proposal to raise Florida’s minimum wage makes him “cringe.” Meanwhile, House Speaker Will Weatherford refuses to expand the state’s Medicaid program to cover nearly 1 million of Florida’s uninsured poor, even though the federal government will foot nearly the entire bill. (Weatherford complains that Medicaid is a “flawed health care delivery system,” which is rich coming from a guy who, as a legislator with a taxpayer-subsidized health care plan, pays less than $30 a month to cover his entire family.) And Rubio, the same guy who’s trying to rebrand himself as an anti-poverty conservative, just voted to slash unemployment benefits for 88,000 Floridians, including more than 6,300 in Northeast Florida. Within a year, another quarter-million of Florida’s long-term unemployed will lose their benefits, too.

In Florida, we’re not waging a war on poverty. We’re waging a war on the poor.

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

Mail A City of Fences

and the Downtown area more specifically, stays I'm a newcomer, too, which is why I can relate so so far behind in attitude for change. well to what you've written [Editor’s Note, “Who I found your article [“Who Are We?”] Are We?” Jeffrey C. Billman, Jan. 8]. However, stimulating and mind-opening, and believe I've lived here long enough to know that it's you are a refreshing and provocative voice for not what you've said but how you've said it that change. I look forward to reading more of your will raise eyebrows and ruffle feathers. It's been articles to come. Hopefully your articles will my observation that Jacksonville is the "City of factor into mobilizing people to act for change Fences," and I could write an entire story from within a city that could offer so much. that perspective. It is a city that draws people — Michael Sussman away from, not to, the urban center.

The “movement” happening all over that is not Brain Damage? happening here is an interesting point; however, Jimmy Smith is toast, Justin Blackmon is a you can't fix what no one feels is broken. I've lived hash brownie, Brad Meester is not white bread in six states — North, Midwest and South — prior but cornbread, and Jeremy Mincey would to relocating here one year ago. Folks here are just oversleep because of too much beer bread doing their own thing, and every now and then [Sportstalk, “Of Champs and Chumps,” AG they accidentally bump into each other with their Garcaski, Jan. 1]. As for the author's racist cars. I agree that the driving etiquette is the worst theory, it's apparent that he's dealing with half I've seen. I've never lived anywhere where the a loaf and that it's half-baked. Has he forgotten respect for one’s fellow man was so minimized. the average length of an NFL career and that Most of all, I've never seen so many fearful white the Meester played for 14 years? Perhaps Mr. middle-aged males gathered in one state.

Gancarski played contact sports and is suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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HEADLOCKED: If the cops come to arrest him for his street art, the artist says, he’ll “go down painting.” Photo: Dennis Ho

Who’s Afraid of Keith Haring’s Ghost?

With the city (and the cops) on his tail, the artist behind Jacksonville’s most provocative graffiti speaks out

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he man I’ll call Keith sits across from me at a diner in San Marco on Saturday afternoon, eyes hidden behind sunglasses even though we’re inside. If you’ve lived around here long enough, and if you’re at all plugged into the local arts scene, you’d probably recognize him.

He is, after all, a Jacksonville native and one of the city’s most prominent visual artists. The city knows who he is, he says. The cops do, too, and by the time you read this, they may have arrested him. But for now, for reasons I’ll get into later, he wants to remain anonymous.

The story he tells me begins in early July, a few days after the verdict came down in the George Zimmerman trial. He was outraged — as would be any good liberal who harbors a fair amount of “white guilt” borne of his parents’ not-quite-evolved attitudes on race — watching Trayvon Martin’s killer go free, and he wanted to say something about it.

So he did. A few days later, the first of what would become a series of graffiti images of Trayvon, depicted as a white-spray-painted angel wearing a hoodie, appeared in San Marco, on a Jacksonville Electric Authority utility box in front of the posh Matthew’s restaurant. It was an unabashed homage to Keith Haring, the famed street artist of 1980s New York City.

Haring used bold lines and bright colors. His pop art was infused with social and political commentary, especially on sexuality. (Haring was gay, and died of complications from AIDS in 1990.)

“That stuff was super-political,” Keith says.

“Images that tell stories.”

More works followed in the ensuing weeks and months — on the CoRK Arts District building, on the back of the Chomp Chomp building, in 5 Points, then to storefronts and buildings and utility boxes all over the city. His topical universe expanded, too, targeting Fox News and gun deaths and those who wanted to bomb Syria. A piece in the city’s Brooklyn

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neighborhood shows two male figures kissing — a reaction, he says, to the city’s refusal to extend equal rights protections to gays and lesbians. Another utility-box painting had big red hearts and images of people hugging — reflections, he says, of Haring’s emphasis on love and unity.

Sometimes his graffiti would stay up for weeks. Other times, the city or the building owner removed it right away.

Keith eventually began signing his work “Keith Haring 2013,” so as to make clear that this was an homage and not plagiarism. He started a Facebook page under this moniker and racked up some 600 likes in just a few days.

People were starting to take notice.

Not all the attention was positive. The Keith Haring Foundation contacted him online and asked him to stop using the artist’s name. The Foundation then contacted Facebook, which took down his page.

enlivening eyesores. His is the kind of work the city should be encouraging.

David Engdahl, the chair of the city’s Art in Public Places Commission, seems to agree: “Many cities have engaged utilitarian elements for public art, and we believe that done with the proper subjects, design and technical execution, these can add life to an otherwise bleak and utilitarian element in the environment,” he told me in an email. “… Painted utility boxes are a staple in many cities and neighborhoods throughout the country, specifically produced in partnership with municipal public art programs because of their immediate visual enhancement and minimal budgets.”

But the problem is, Keith wasn’t operating in partnership with anybody. He didn’t have the city’s permission. He is, according to the letter of the law, a vandal. Graffiti is graffiti is graffiti.

Last month, Keith got word that the police were asking around about his namesake,

wasn’t overly concerned. After a few weeks, he assumed the heat had blown over.

But then last week, an artist friend in Riverside called. An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office’s anti-graffiti squad had come by and asked for Keith by name — by his real name. The officer presented a giant portfolio with photo after photo of Keith’s work, and said the cops wanted Keith to get in touch with them to arrange his arrest.

Keith had his lawyer, Alan Rosner, call the officer, who confirmed that, yes, the police were planning to arrest him sometime this week.

(Rosner declined to comment. Calls to the city’s general counsel’s office and the JSO were not returned by press time.)

“This is well-done, well-executed graffiti,” Keith says. “They want to fucking arrest me?”

“I don’t know why, necessarily; it’s controversial,” says Tony Allegretti, the Jax Chamber director of Downtown engagement.

“This is well-done, well-executed graffiti. They want to arrest me?”

“I tried to do the right thing,” Keith says.

“I ceased using his signature.” Instead, he began signing his work “KHG,” for “Keith Haring’s Ghost.” He also quit using two staples of Haring’s work, including an image known as the Radiant Baby.

But he didn’t stop.

Keith is, as artists tend to be, enthusiastic about his own work to the point of selfaggrandizement. “That one’s so fucking good!” he exclaimed as we drove by one of his pieces. It’s on a JEA box at the intersection of Hendricks and Landon. It shows two heads intertwined. “Isn’t that beautiful? Look at how fucked up that box was.”

The box was, indeed, fucked up. The way Keith sees it, he’s doing the city a favor by

apparently unaware that the real Keith Haring had been dead for more than 20 years. Shortly before the Christmas holiday, he caught wind of an email circulating between a city councilmember and the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville: Did they know who this Haring guy was? (No.) Wouldn’t this graffiti ruin those utility boxes? (No.) Keith was spooked. For months, he’d had artists and family members operating as lookouts while he worked — each piece takes about five hours, and he always painted in the dead of night — but that was more about weirdos than the cops. After all, he says, the police had seen him working Downtown, and they’d never really bothered him. Still, as long as the city didn’t know who he was, he

“I was surprised to hear there was any kind of negativity around [Keith’s works]. I think they add to the beautification of our neighborhoods. … The only thing left to discuss is, what’s the process next time? In an ideal situation, we’re one meeting away. How can we take something that lacks a process and create a process?”

There is, in fact, a process — though it’s never really been used. In 2011, Engdahl says, the city adopted a policy that considers all kinds of Downtown “street furniture” — parking meters, benches, bike racks, utility boxes and so on — potential palettes. Artists just need to make their case to the AIPP Commission for approval. (One of the criteria the program would use to judge the artist’s proposal is “appropriateness,” so there’s a good

chance pieces on gays and guns and Trayvon Martin wouldn’t make the cut.)

“People in the city keep telling me, in Jacksonville, people usually do things first and ask for forgiveness later,” Keith says. “That’s kind of the only way to get things done. I did these beautiful things for the city. Now I’m asking for forgiveness.”

Toward the end of our afternoon together, I asked Keith why, if the city and the cops and a healthy portion of the arts community knew who he was, he insisted on anonymity.

He paused for a second, and wondered aloud if putting his name out there might further his cause. I said it might. He sort of shrugged. Doing so, he replied, would cheapen the homage. Besides, he likes the mystery, even if it’s not the best-kept secret. And if he can, he’d like to keep doing it.

If the city does arrest him this week, however, the remaining shreds of anonymity will evaporate: “They were hoping that I would come in nicely,” he told me in a text message a couple days later. “I’m NOT turning myself in!!!

If the pressure on the city and all the hoopla doesn’t free me, then I will go down painting.”

Jeffrey C. Billman jbillman@folioweekly.com

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE: Like his namesake, the artist calling himself Keith Haring’s Ghost stresses the importance of love and human dignity. Photo: Dennis Ho

NewsBuzz Broken Promises, Dick Moves Remember those city of Jacksonville employees who were excluded from the city’s generous pension plan and forced into Social Security like the rest of us shmucks?

Their lawyers have recently filed a renewed motion for summary judgment in their three-year-old class-action lawsuit – in other words, asking the judge to simply declare them victorious, no trial needed – which could be worth $500 million. The city has until Jan. 17 to respond.

Until 2010, you may recall, some city workers who failed a medical exam were excluded from the pension plan as an alleged cost-saving ploy. (Dick move, city.)

The city ended the practice after the lawsuit was filed, and the affected workers were allowed to buy back into the pension program, but they had to pay 8 percent of their salaries for past years of service, even though they’d already paid 6.2 percent into Social Security. (Also a dick move.)

“At its heart, this case is about the city of Jacksonville breaking a promise to its workforce,” the motion says. “The city promised that in exchange for a career serving the public, its workers would receive a pension to provide for their well-being in old age or infirmity. Its workers have fulfilled their end of the bargain. The city has not.”

The city has argued that the statute of limitations has expired for most of the potential 1,500 plaintiffs – technicalities! – and that it didn’t exclude people specifically because of their health problems.

According to the motion, however, the city’s former finance director admitted in a deposition that the city excluded individuals with conditions like hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia. The plaintiffs also say that workers with cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma and sickle cell anemia were kept out of the pension program – and this was the city’s standard operating procedure.

About a year ago, U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan asked the two sides to try to work it out in mediation. They didn’t, so here we are.

Attorneys for the city and the workers didn’t respond to our requests for comment.

Ain’t This Fancy?

Downtown! City officials have decided to stick with Parker, a smartphone app that lets motorists know where they can find an available meter or Downtown garage, at least for a while longer.

With great fanfare, the city first announced the program last March. It was originally a three-month trial; Parker would provide the service for free to demonstrate how rad it is, and after that the city would pay up. The trial expired, but Parker kept providing the service for free. And so it has again. (We don’t have any data on how many locals used the app, but given the company’s willingness to keep giving it away, we could venture a guess.)

The mayor’s office says the city is still evaluating Parker, and wants to gather more information from Downtown boosters before deciding whether to continue with it. “We want to see if it’s beneficial and whether it will be expanded,” says David DeCamp, Mayor Alvin Brown’s spokesman.

Also, free is free.

In addition to showing where to get an available parking meter, motorists are able to set a timer to track how much time is remaining on their meter and get walking directions back to their cars. Which all sounds pretty cool. Not that we’ve used it. And apparently neither have you.

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Dear Circus Haters, You Win. Leave Us Alone.

The circus is coming. We know this not because we care about the circus, which we don’t, but because for the last week or so our email servers have been deluded with angry diatribes from a very vocal anti-circus contingent with the razor-sharp skills of “copy and paste” and “forward.”

Twenty, 30, 40, 50 a day! All the same goddamned thing! All the same goddamned pictures!

Look, guys, we get it. Really. The circus is evil. There’s a ton of evidence of widespread abuse and violent training methods, and removing wild animals from their natural environs and confining them and forcing them to entertain us is just, well, wrong. Animals are people, too. Or something. Whatever. Don’t take your kids there.

So there it is. We hate the circus. You win.

Now leave us alone.

— Jeffrey C. Billman and Ron Word

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‘Am I Listening to English?’

Dialect, racism and the world of college football

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he national championship game between Auburn and Florida State is fast becoming a memory. What we saw on the field was revelatory. Jameis Winston had a lightsout performance as FSU stormed back and overtook Auburn in the second half of a game tighter than anyone expected.

Great game. Great end to the tortured history of the Bowl Championship Series — gone but not forgotten, late but unlamented. As soon as the game was over, however, another controversy was fueled — among the oldest in American public life.

A very excited Jameis Winston had this to say after the game: “We champions. We can share that. We are champions together. And through everything that we went through.

Through all the haters. Through every single thing, we came out victorious. God did this.

I’m so blessed. He’s so blessed. All the stuff that he handled with Ethan [Fisher, the coach’s son, who has been diagnosed with a rare blood disorder called Fanconi anemia] and he come out here and coach us? That touched me. And it’s nobody but God. It’s nobody.”

Winston, a native of Hueytown, Ala., hit all the expected points: An appeal to God. A recognition that he was blessed. The usual conflation of divine providence and athletic achievement. NBD, except to a certain observer, an Alabama resident herself.

“Am I listening to English?”

Those words from Dee Dee McCarron — the mother of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron — brought forth a reminder that, despite the integration of college football in the 1970s, back when Bear Bryant prowled the sidelines, we’re never too far away from racially coded rhetoric.

Mama McCarron apologized. Retracted the Tweet. BFD. To borrow from The Four Tops, it’s the same old song.

Perhaps because college football is so delightfully plebian — everyone has opinions, the most vociferous often coming from those who never actually attended a college — it tends to bring out sides of people that might better be kept hidden. The controversy about Winston’s post-game speech — with his inclusion of colloquialisms and adherence to the syntactical parameters of AfricanAmerican vernacular English — called to mind another incident that still gives the type of white folks who claim not to have a racist bone in their body clearance to front like a liquoredup Fuzzy Zoeller.

A few years ago, Corrine Brown took to the floor of the House of Representatives to

congratulate the Florida Gators on winning a national championship. The speech (delivered in her customary AAVE) became instantly infamous, indexed on Google 8,040 times — there’s a YouTube with subtitles — and producing the Autocomplete suggestion “corrine brown go gata.”

If I had a dollar for every time I heard

Those words from Dee Dee McCarron brought forth a reminder that, despite the integration of college football, we’re never too far away from racially coded rhetoric. some jackass lampooning that speech in exaggerated dialect, I’d have enough money to cover an evening at the gentleman’s club of my choice.

Anyone who’s done a cursory study of linguistics knows that there are quite a few major dialects of so-called standard American English, with many variations thereof in the mix. Hell, people who’ve lived in Jacksonville long enough with keen-enough ears could probably distinguish the traditional Oceanway accent from the Westside patois. What does it all mean? It means that speech is a function of origin, of time, of place. And, in this context, that certain people took the way Winston and Brown spoke and used it to amplify their prejudices and preconceptions.

Their prejudices extend beyond those cases, of course. Consider the response former Gators defensive coordinator Charlie Strong — who would’ve been head coach in Gainesville long before now if he wasn’t in an interracial marriage, and who built the Louisville program from nothing into a national presence — evoked from a leading booster when Texas hired him as head coach. The booster, billionaire and former San Antonio Spurs owner Red McCombs, said that Strong would make a “great position coach, maybe a coordinator.”

Really.

We as Americans still have a lot of work to do when it comes to race. College football — and the commentary on it — reveals that as well as anything.

AG Gancarski themail@folioweekly.com

Crime City Santa Popo Comes to the Northside

The cops took the high road during that Christmas Eve movie-theater mob. The kids should be grateful ’Twas the night before Christmas, And Glocks were on butts, The knives were in jeans, And kids texted, “WAZZUP?” “SCRAP,” someone said.

Badass motherfucker RUUP4IT? Damn straight, U SUKR!

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he cops said the kids who were fighting around the Regal River City Marketplace Stadium 14 theater on Christmas Eve weren’t using social media. I don’t believe that.

New scrappers kept arriving though nobody sent up a flare. When it comes to the Internet, cops are behind the times — circa when Facebook was cool.

The kids know that cops, parents, friends and frenemies can search their phones. Maybe they used apps like SnapChat that let texts pop up on friends’ phones and then vanish into the ether seconds later. Cops can retrieve them

adjudication withheld.

To realize how gratifying, appropriate and astonishing this is, you have to ponder what didn’t happen: There are always guns, knives and knucks in a crowd that big. Because the police acted quickly, in overwhelming numbers, the weapons stayed hidden. (None of the arrested adults had guns on them. The juveniles’ records were sealed.) The cops took some punches and pushes but didn’t crack bones with batons or put bullets through brains, which they could have done lawfully.

They charged the kids with “affray” and “fighting,” which are misdemeanors, not assault and battery, which are felonies.

They didn’t book them on battery on a law enforcement officer or lying to police, which are the handy-dandy add-on charges police too often use to boost petty offenses into felonies.

They didn’t run any IDs on hundreds of kids, which would’ve let them bust everyone with an outstanding warrant, detainer or

The cops took some punches and pushes but didn’t crack bones with batons or put bullets through brains. They didn’t book them on battery on a law enforcement officer, which they could have done. from the smartphone’s flash chip, but that requires a data extractor and a warrant.

Perhaps that’s how messages similar to the doggerel at the top of this column flashed across screens in Jacksonville’s raggedy Northside, and why 600 teenagers who did not have Christmas Eve dinners to attend showed up ready to rumble. According to the arrest and incident reports I read, and the video I saw, the mob attempted to flash-rush the building but bounced off the locked doors.

Inside the theater itself, off-duty Officer B.R. Smith called it in, and within minutes, 60 cops came swarming. In the parking lot, the popo were on the receiving end of some “fuck-you-cracker” taunts, while girls pulled hair and clawed at boobs and faces and the boys jumped on the roofs and kicked in the body metal of those wretched Impalas local cops use as cruisers.

The police deployed pepper spray to melt hearts and minds, moved the mob away from the theater, separated out the little kids so they wouldn’t get hammered, organized a parent pick-up zone for non-combatants and made five arrests — three juveniles and two teenagers over 18. Laurie-Ellen Smith, a Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office flack, was dispatched to explain things to parents and the media. The busted five were arraigned on Christmas Day, when their felonies were dropped to misdemeanors and they were diverted into probation and supervision,

probation violation. They didn’t run the tags of the parents’ vehicles and arrest every clueless gork with a suspended license. Legally, they could have done all of that and more.

Nor did the police frisk all the kids for the cigarettes, alcohol and dope some of them were no doubt carrying. They didn’t search all the cars in the parking lot. They even avoided those tempting cop stand-bys: “Hey, you don’t have any guns or narcotics in your car, do you?

You don’t mind if I look around?”

They didn’t use dirty cop tricks, like crowding or muttering racial epithets, to make kids act out and justify more arrests.

Afterward, most teenagers returned, if not to happy homes, at least to someplace better than that juvenile offender rat cage on East Eighth.

Maybe the next time they catch a “SCRAP” and an “RUUP4IT?” on their snazzy phones, they’ll just say no.

It’s no great secret that these mobs of kids exist in large part because of a collapse of a nurturing family life, and that the cops are the only effective daddies many of these children have. Nonetheless, last Christmas Eve, by the grace of God and good police training, the daddies knew best. Some kids got a legal spanking, but nobody got cut, nobody got shot and nobody got dead. That’s the best Christmas present ever, In Crime City.

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DINING AMELIA ISLAND RESTAURANT WEEK

Fresh-off-the-boat seafood, traditional meals and eclectic cuisine merge during the 16th annual Amelia Island Restaurant Week. During the 10-day event, 18 participating area restaurants feature a three-course fixe-prix menu, each with a signature dish from the historic barrier island.

The week kicks off at the Ritz-Carlton Cafe with the Farm-to-Table dining event. Meet and mingle with local restaurant chefs and Fernandina Beach seafood farmers as they present a fourcourse dining experience. Farm-to-Table is 6 p.m. Jan. 16, Ritz-Carlton Café, $96; Fixe Prix Menu: $19-$26, Jan. 16-26, 277-0717, ameliaislandrestaurantweek.com.

FILM ST. AUGUSTINE FILM FESTIVAL

If you’re lining up to see “Paranormal Activity 5” and “The Legend of Hercules,” it’s time we intervened. The St. Augustine Film Festival offers a welcome alternative to the studios’ winter dump months, with more than 20 films and parties over four days. Jacksonville filmmaker Damien Lahey’s “Heroes of Arvine Place,” Danny Glover’s tale of forbidden love, “Chasing Shakespeare (pictured),” and films from Brazil, France, Israel, Spain and elsewhere might just turn some film biffs into buffs. Jan. 16-19 at Flagler College venues, Lightner Museum and Epic Theatre, St. Augustine, $45 for admission to all films and parties.

SURE PICK Jan 21-26

PERFORMANCE BLUE MAN GROUP

No one really knows what to expect when the Men in Blue take the stage. The fusion of performance art, percussion, pop culture and a whole lot more sometimes make sense, and it almost always draws raves. Of course, there was that one TripAdvisor reviewer who saw the Vegas act and argued that the “Overpriced blue mimes SUCK!” (True story; Google it.) So, even these stunning, outrageous, imaginative, bald blue guys can’t beat the Internet. Nevertheless, the vivid antics leave Blue Man virgins in a state of total bliss. Arrive late at your own peril – you could become part of the show. (Not in a good way.)

7:30 p.m. Jan. 21-23, 8 p.m. Jan. 24, 2 and 8 p.m. Jan. 25, and 1:30 and 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, Downtown, $32-$82.

PIANO MAN BILLY JOEL

We have in fact been to Allentown, and what the Piano Man wrote some 32 years ago about the slow-motion implosion of a former steel giant still rings true. Billy Joel’s rare ability to so perfectly capture the ethos of a place, the brash, sexually charged angst of youth (“Only the Good Die Young”), or the beautiful sentiment of young love (“She’s Always a Woman”), is what – if you can ignore the poor-me pomposity of “The Entertainer” or whatever the fuck “River of Dreams” was – has made him a legend, and a legend with a deep catalogue at that. 8 p.m. Jan. 22 at Veterans Memorial Arena, Downtown, $48.50-$98.50.

STORYTELLING SWAMP RADIO

Don’t tell the Swamp Radio troupe that Jacksonville is searching for an identity. They see it in the community’s history and share it in poetry, story and song. The winter production “Moving Words” invites Irishman Derek Coghlan to spin a yarn about his upbringing and visual artist Barry Wilson to reveal the family heirloom that sparked inspiration. Tidbits owner Clara LeBlanc talks food with Belinda Hulin, local historian and Riverside guru Wayne Wood takes “A Backward Glance” again, and the Swamp Radio Band keeps jamming. 3 p.m. Jan. 19 at The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $22.50.

PUNK ROCK AGAINST ME!

The Gainesville quartet is touring to support “Transgender Dysphoria Blues,” which drops Jan. 21 as the punk rockers’ first full-band release since vocalist Laura Jane Grace transitioned into a woman. According to Rolling Stone, the new record lyrically addresses discontent with one’s sex, self-discovery and the loss of a friend. Sonically, all elements remain. “FUCKMYLIFE666,” a single from the record, has the signature delivery of overdriven guitar, breakneck drumming and soaring chorus hooks. Grace’s voice bears every bit of piss-andvinegar as ever. With the band’s dedicated Florida fan base packed into an intimate venue the day after a much-anticipated album release, anarchy, disorder and good times are inevitable. 7 p.m. Jan. 22 at Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jacksonville Beach, $20, 246-2473, freebirdlive.com 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 15-21, 2014

INDIE FOLK SEA WOLF

Alex Brown Church might just be the original One-Man Wolf Pack. The earnest Los Angeles folkie remains the only immovable piece of the live band Sea Wolf – named for the Jack London classic. Church goes solo on his current tour, playing stripped-down acoustic versions of an upcoming experimental album.

Church’s sound often evokes natural imagery from his childhood exploring the Sierra Nevada mountains.

With Colin Adkins of Civil Brute. 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at Jack Rabbits, San Marco, $15.

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orty-eight years ago, sixth-grader Deborah Gianoulis walked into a public school

classroom in Delaware for the first

time. She was immediately struck

by Mr. Wilson’s teaching area, by its stark contrast to the structured parochial schoolrooms she’d been in before. It was alive and interesting, “bright with light and color, living plants and music. It never occurred to me [before] school could be fun,” Gianoulis recalls.

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journalists had to think on their feet.

At the two private schools she’d attended Gianoulis did it with aplomb, and made a previously, students rarely left their desks. They name for herself. ate lunch in silence. They spoke only when Many years later, she did it again, spoken to. The instructors crammed 60 or 70 innovating and leading in the face of seemingly kids into a classroom. But Mr. Wilson’s class insurmountable challenges. was different. It was a revelation.

In 1979, Channel 4 recruited Gianoulis “We were always moving around and to be an anchor, even having executives fly participating. We were so encouraged to be to London, where she and her husband had creative, yet disciplined at the same time,” been living for a year, to secure the coup. Over Gianoulis says. “During science, we took the ensuing quarter-decade, she had earned a care of classroom plants, and we learned reputation for in-depth television reporting, geography through listening to the music, taking home two Emmys — for military and eating the foods and wearing costumes of education reporting, respectively — and a other cultures. I experienced a dedicated prestigious Peabody Award for a documentary teacher’s innovative approach to developing on domestic violence. in a child a love of learning.”

Sometimes that love was, if anything, too enthusiastic.

Mr. Wilson gave young Deborah her first and only C — in Citizenship, no less — because she wouldn’t shut up about what she was learning. She talked about it all the time, in music class, in art class, in PE. “He told me I had to learn to listen as well,” she says.

The passion that took root that morning nearly five decades ago has anchored Gianoulis throughout the many permutations of her life — from Emmy-winning television news anchor to documentarian, from would-be politician to activist. She learned to overcome adversity. She learned to adapt to changing times. And through it all, she became, and remains, one of the foremost advocates of public education in Northeast Florida.

Last year, just months after she took over as THE HARDWARE: In her quarter-century in TV journalism, Gianoulis won two Emmys and this prestigious Peabody for a documentary on domestic violence. president and CEO of the Schultz Center for Then in 2002, Channel 4 lost its CBS Teaching and Leadership, which for more affiliation. Through sheer force of will, she and than a decade has provided thousands of her fellow staff members rallied to rebrand educators with a wide range of professional Channel 4 as a comprehensive source of local development courses, adversity struck her news, and retained their No. 1 rating, a feat by once again. Eighty percent of the center’s any measure. funding vanished virtually overnight, as “The staff learned new ways of doing the new Duval County Public Schools business and looking out for each other, putting superintendent dramatically shifted the district’s priorities. Many people thought that a positive face on for public consumption,” Gianoulis says. “I learned we can and we will the Schultz Center would go belly-up, but get through this.” you should never count Deborah Gianoulis Gianoulis stepped away from the anchor out. She’s been knocked down before and each time, she gets back up, more determined desk that year, when the youngest of her two children was a senior in high school. to move forward, to make a difference, to She wanted to be a volunteer, to become an change the world, one student at a time. unfettered advocate for public education. “I had anchored and reported the news for more than 25 years,” she says. “I wanted to do longerform work and get off the daily news cycle.”

In college, at the University of Delaware, She’d been thinking about it for years.

Gianoulis had trained to be a scriptwriter and reader. And that’s what the 21-yearBehind the scenes, she’d formed a documentary old expected to do when Channel 12 in company that, in the space of the next several Jacksonville hired her, back in 1976, as an years — a “decade of self-exploration,” as she education reporter — a fortuitous beat, as calls it — produced three education-related it would turn out. The brave new world of features, all dealing with the disparity of television journalism required its journalists educational opportunities, starting in pre-K to be unscripted, spontaneous observers and and ending in prison, where too many poor reporters of news. These next-generation and disadvantaged students wind up.

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“As I visited classrooms in poor neighborhoods, I became aware of gross inequities in quality of staff, infrastructure, materials and level of coursework,” she says.

Gianoulis also kept evolving as an activist, acquiring and then exerting more and more influence. She became part of Mayor John Peyton’s early learning initiative.

She chaired the Episcopal Children’s Services board. She then created the Episcopal Children’s Services Foundation Board and the Children’s Champion award to draw attention to children’s issues in Northeast Florida.

Her volunteer work put her in touch with other people who felt strongly about the need to adequately fund local public schools, and in 2008 they formed Save Duval Schools, a grassroots group designed to fight public school funding cuts. The group became an outspoken critic of high-stakes testing and legislative moves to privatize public education. Gianoulis, allied with grassroots groups from around the state, helped shut down legislative efforts to pass the “Parent Trigger Bill,” a measure that would have enabled the takeover of struggling public schools by a charter or for-profit private management company.

That wasn’t her only success. A grassroots show of force, including organized marches and visits to elected officials before and during the 2010 legislative session, was © 2014 enough to inspire Gov. Charlie Crist, then a Republican, to buck the Republicandominated Florida Legislature by vetoing Senate Bill 6, a measure that would have tied teacher pay to student performance on highstakes tests.

“Grassroots work is the hardest work there is,” Gianoulis says. “Most of the moms I worked with have kids in school and few resources, yet they care so passionately about the welfare of children besides their own that they are up all hours of the night, building websites, sharing email lists, doing research.”

The knock-down, drag-out fight over SB 6 was a final straw for Gianoulis. She began thinking it might be time to reinvent herself again, this time from activist to politician.

“Education advocacy had brought me face to face with our legislature,” she says. “I was appalled at the way parents and educators were ignored by our elected leadership.”

And so, once her children and husband were on board, she took the plunge, challenging Republican state Sen. John Thrasher, a member of the old guard and SB 6 author, in the 2010 election. Thrasher’s district was a conservative stronghold that housed 46,000 more Republicans and Democrats.

Thrasher and his allies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on negative ads and mailers painting Gianoulis as a wide-eyed liberal. She lost, and lost fairly badly, but it wasn’t a terrible showing for a first-timer facing such an uphill battle.

“Losing was hardest on my team and the remarkable citizens who believed we could pull off the David and Goliath story,” Gianoulis says.

“I was so proud of our effort and getting GOP and independent crossover votes in the secondmost-Republican district in the state. My race has encouraged others to run, so it was clearly worth the effort.”

After that campaign, Gianoulis again began to ponder how she could revamp herself, this

INNOVATE OR DIE: The Schultz Center hopes to use the creativity nurtured in EdSpark as a launching pad to “grow new approaches to teaching and learning,” Gianoulis says.

time into most effective advocate for public education. Over the years, Gianoulis had observed what she considered a relentless assault on public school teachers and principals in the 1980s and ’90s, and the growing move toward privatization. Schools saw their budgets cut even as they were blamed for the U.S. losing its edge in the global economy.

She had long ago given up the idea of returning to TV news, turned off as she was by the insatiable appetite of the 24-hour news cycle.

But she wanted to do, needed to do, something.

“Public education is the backbone of democracy,” she says. “This country created the gold standard and we did not do it on the cheap. In fact, the rest of the world emulated us and is threatening to beat us at our own game.

We sent every World War II vet to college who wanted to go at no charge and built the strongest economy on Earth. The key is access for every child, no matter their circumstances of birth, family or income.”

Another run for office was out, at least for the time being. (That said, her vocal support for Crist has some close friends wondering if she might be headed for Tallahassee, should he prevail in November.) Then, in October 2012, the Schultz Center offered her a chance to be a part of something essential to Northeast Florida. She saw it as a calling.

By the time Gianoulis took over as CEO of the Schultz Center, the nonprofit was already facing the brunt of statewide educations cuts. Cash-strapped school districts across Florida were sending fewer and fewer educators for training. And then the new DCPS superintendent, Nikolai Vitti, lowered the boom: He changed the school district’s professional development philosophy, shifting teacher training away from Schultz to on-site programs — a $2.1 million hit to the center’s operating budget. Eighty percent of the center’s budget evaporated. There were layoffs and panic; some 20 Duval County educators were transferred out of the center’s facility and Gianoulis had to cut five jobs.

Had the center’s board not dipped into its reserves while Gianoulis sought to regroup, Vitti’s decision could have been a fatal blow. But it wasn’t — at least not yet. The cuts forced the Schultz Center “to rethink everything,” Gianoulis says, but they also helped expedite a process already underway to expand its reach, a process she had initiated a year earlier as chair of the center’s board of directors.

“Our board had already decided the heavy

dependence on a single client [DCPS] was not sustainable,” she says. The center began looking nationally, even internationally, for new partners.

The re-evaluation also opened the door for the Schultz Center’s EdSpark initiative, which it will launch as part of the second annual One Spark festival held Downtown April 9-13. The idea for EdSpark was “literally ignited by One Spark,” Gianoulis says. The first One Spark took place just weeks before Gianoulis learned of the DCPS cuts. Schultz Center staff members had been among the 130,000 visitors checking out the 406 One Spark exhibits; they were particularly impressed by the innovative education ideas scattered over several blocks of the festival.

“We had the idea to pull them all together and call it EdSpark,” Gianoulis says. “We also saw huge potential as One Spark grows to create next-generation work for the Schultz Center by recruiting education innovators and creating an incubator to grow new approaches to teaching and learning.”

The center will curate education-related exhibits during the international event, with the ultimate goal in mind to become a national and global resource for education innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration. Gianoulis anticipates that at least 50 education innovators will show off their ideas at the EdSpark venue, on the second floor of the Wells Fargo Building overlooking the St. Johns River. Interested participants should note that the deadline for submitting entries is Jan. 31; it can be done online at beonespark.com.

EdSpark participants will vie with other One Spark entrants for crowd-funding votes and a portion of cash prizes totalling $310,000. More than that, it’s a huge networking opportunity for creators and innovators, and this is where the Schultz Center sees a world of possibility.

“We do not yet know what [the Schultz Center’s] global reach might look like, but EdSpark may help open that horizon as we work to bring in international creators,” Gianoulis says. “Collaboration is the way Millennials will work. It is the way companies like Google work now. Isolated classrooms, schools and districts cannot meet the challenges of the future alone. We want educators to know we believe they have the answers, the new school designs, the new community partnership ideas, the classroom practices that will engage the next generation of students.”

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AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER: Ivy Weston (Julianne Nicholson), Violet Weston (Meryl Streep) and Mattie Fae Aiken (Margo Martindale) are brought together by the apparent disappearance of Violet’s husband in “August: Osage County,” directed by John Wells. Photo: The Weinstein Company

‘Eat Your Fish, Bitch’

An accomplished cast shines in this juicy, generational drama about a feuding family AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ***@

Rated R • Opens Jan. 15

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here’s no cat, and the roof may not be made of tin, but it’s plenty hot thanks to Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. In fact, the entire cast and crew of director John Wells’ adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “August: Osage County” seem to be channeling Tennessee Williams, though not with quite the flair or originality that Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor and Burl Ives did back in 1958.

Streep is Violet Weston, the vindictive, cancer-ridden, pill-popping matriarch of an extended family in Oklahoma. When her husband, Beverly (Sam Shepard), mysteriously vanishes — or so we’re led to believe — the family reluctantly rallies around Violet. Julia Roberts is Barbara, the most stubborn and honest of Violet’s three daughters, and though the film is packed with interesting and intricate subplots, it’s the relationship between Violet and Barbara that drives it.

The turning point in that relationship is a formal dinner that’s the film’s centerpiece and takes up most of the second act. The meal starts with coat-and-tie formalities, then progresses to Violet’s proclamation that she’s “just truth-telling,” and finally degenerates into physicality. After that, all pretenses of decorum between mother and daughter vanish, illustrated both tragically and comically with Barbara’s rant to Violet: “Eat your fish, bitch. Eat the fucking fish.”

Streep is her usual brilliant self, though less subtle than usual, and Roberts has never been better. To top that off, the supporting

cast is a playwright’s dream: Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Misty Upham and Abigail Breslin. But it’s Margo Martindale as Violet’s sister and Chris Cooper as her brother-in-law who stand out.

When Cooper, whose character is a calm, steady influence in the film’s first half, finally breaks down and tells his wife he’ll “throw [her] Irish ass out into the street” if she doesn’t treat their son (Cumberbatch) with more respect, it works because everything he’s done up to that point has worked. It’s “excess within control,” as Christopher Plummer so memorably coached Jane Seymour in “Somewhere in Time.” And it’s advice that Martin Scorsese, to a small degree, and Paul Schrader, to an extraordinary extent, should have taken before tackling the overrated “The Wolf of Wall Street” and the abysmal “The Canyons,” respectively, last year.

Not all of the film’s familial confrontations are entirely effective. Some feel forced and undoubtedly worked better in a three-act structure on stage, in a medium often more forgiving toward romanticism and melodrama.

On film, the endless fights and revelations sometimes smack of contrivance, and at the end of the dinner scene — though you enjoyed the acting smorgasbord — you’re just a tad too full.

But those faults are forgiven, if only because the digestive process is so deliciously rewarding.

“I can’t perpetuate these myths of family,” Ivy, Violet’s middle daughter (Nicholson), proclaims. And neither can the film, as it lays bare a lifetime of pain and repression over a single summer month in Osage County.

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UH … MRS. McCALL? WE’RE GONNA NEED TO GET A SONOGRAM: Allison Miller plays the woefully preggers Samantha McCall, who may or may not have been with the Prince of Darkness (not Ozzy – the Devil) and is now astounded to find herself in the family way in “Devil’s Due,” the new 20th Century Fox horror movie opening Jan. 17.

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OTHER FILMS

MOSTLY NAPPING: THE FIMS OF THE COEN BROTHERS The Coen Brothers’ 30 years of filmmaking are celebrated, some with specialty fare, continuing with “A Serious Man” 1 p.m. Jan. 18, “The Hudsucker Proxy” 1 p.m. Jan. 19, “Fargo” 7 p.m. Jan. 20, “No Country For Old Men” 1 p.m. Jan. 25, “Blood Simple” 1 p.m. Jan. 26 and “Barton Fink” 7 p.m. Jan. 27 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., 5 Points; general admission for one screening; 359-0047, sunraycinema.com.

LATITUDE 30 MOVIES “Thor” and “Free Birds” screen at CineGrille, Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Highway, Southside.

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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. “We The People” opens Jan. 24.

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47 RONIN **@@ Rated PG-13 Keanu Reeves stars in this action-fantasy-adventure as Kai, a half-Brit/half-Japanese man recruited by Oishi, respected leader of the 47 Ronin, a band of super samurai. Nice visuals and music.

AMERICAN HUSTLE **G@ Rated R Writer-director David O. Russell has built a beautiful, cinematic junk heap. For professional scam artist Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale, with the best comb-over we’ve seen in years), working with the Feds is tougher than running cons.

He helps the FBI (Bradley Cooper) nab public officials on the take in the infamous Abscam operation. Co-starring Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence, it won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Comedy.

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES ***G Rated PG-13 The comedy 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.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ***@ Rated R Reviewed in this issue.

DEVIL’S DUE Rated R • Opens Jan. 17 It’s kind of like “Rosemary’s Baby,” in that a woman is pregnant with, apparently, the spawn of The Adversary himself. Co-stars Allison Miller, Zach Gilford, Steffie Grote and Robert Belushi (yeah, John’s nephew).

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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.” It won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film.

LONE SURVIVOR Rated R Mark Wahlberg stars in this action/bio/drama based on actual events of a failed SEAL team mission in 2005. Costars Emile Hirsch and Taylor “Friday Night Lights” Kitsch, an actor we’ve always thought deserved another shot after his failed mission as “John Carter.”

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

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, Neb., to claim the prize. Co-stars Stacy Keach, June Squibb and Bob Odenkirk.

HER Rated R The affable Joaquin Phoenix re-emerges a winner in this quirky there-but-for-the-grace-of-Jobs-go-I love story, co-starring Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson as the disembodied voice of Samantha. Spike Jonze won a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay.

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 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.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS **** Rated R Joel and Ethan Coen’s darkly comic meditation on the duality of life and chosen paths. It’s the story of a few days in the life of Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), a fictional 1960s New York City folksinger struggling to cope with his disappointing career. Co-stars Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, F. Murray Abraham and John Goodman.

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT Rated PG-13 Chris Pine stars as the young Ryan, just starting his CIA career. Co-stars Kevin Kostner, Keira Knightley and Kenneth Branagh.

THE LEGEND OF HERCULES Rated PG-13 Kellan Lutz plays Hercules, a demigod of ancient Greece who’s supposed to oust a bad king. Unaware of his destiny, the guy just wants to settle down with his true love, who’s betrothed to his brother, who’s really his half-brother …

Anyway, lots of fighting and muscles rippling and sweaty guys in skimpy body armor. Co-stars Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins, Johnathan Schaech and Rade Serbedzija as the powerful centaur Chiron.

1-NENOKKADINE **@@ Not Rated Bollywood superstar Mahesh Babu plays a man searching for his true lineage. Co-stars Kriti Sanon and Nasser. In Telugu.

THE NUT JOB Rated PG • Opens Jan. 17 Will Arnett voices Surly, a rebellious squirrel banned from the park to roam the mean city streets. Co-stars the vocal cords of Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Jeff Dunham and Psy. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES Rated R Another in the series of creepy same ol’, same ol’: Attractive young people are dropping like flies. Ho-hum.

Co-stars Andrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz, Gloria Sandoval and Molly Ephraim.

SAVING MR. BANKS ***@ Rated PG-13 P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), author of popular “Mary Poppins” series of children’s books, travels to Disney Studios in L.A. 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 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.

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.

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.

RIDE ALONG Rated PG-13 • Opens Jan. 17 Kevin Hart plays a smart-mouthed security guard engaged to Angela (Tika Sumpter) whose brother James (Ice Cube) is a cop. Co-stars John Leguizamo, the multitalented Jay Pharoah and Bruce McGill.

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AREA THEATERS AMELIA ISLAND Carmike 7, 1132 S. 14th St., Fernandina Beach, 261-9867 ARLINGTON & REGENCY AMC Regency 24, 9451 Regency Square Blvd., 264-3888 BAYMEADOWS & MANDARIN Regal Avenues 20, 9525 Philips Highway, 538-3889 BEACHES Regal Beach Blvd. 18, 14051 Beach Blvd., 992-4398 FIVE POINTS Sun-Ray Cinema@5Points, 1028 Park St., 359-0047 GREEN COVE SPRINGS Clay Theatre, 326 Walnut St., 284-9012 NORTHSIDE Regal River City 14, River City Marketplace, 12884 City Center Blvd., 757-9880

ORANGE PARK AMC Orange Park 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

Movies

SEE IT HERE: Sun-Ray Cinema screens “Inside Llewyn Davis” through Jan. 23; “Nebraska” runs Jan. 17-23. The 5 Points theater continues “Mostly Napping,” its Coen Brothers’ film series, with “A Serious Man” Jan. 18, “The Hudsucker Proxy” Jan. 19, “Fargo” Jan. 20, “No Country for Old Men” Jan. 25, “Blood Simple” Jan. 26 and “Barton Fink” Jan. 27. Photo: Dennis Ho

Binary Sun-Ray

After several fits and starts, the independent movie house’s second screen is set to open this weekend

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hrough two years of persistent groundwork and slow but steady growth, Sun-Ray Cinema is finally expanding. The independent movie house is adding a second screen in a leased space next to the revamped historic theater at 1028 Park St., in 5 Points.

Owners Tim Massett and his wife, Shana David-Massett, plan to open the 1,493-squarefoot space, which was most recently a gift shop and cost about $125,000 to convert, on Jan. 17 without the usual hubbub of a grand opening gala. Sun-Ray confirmed on Facebook that the theater would be finished on Jan. 17, “barring a catastrophe.”

The new, smaller room will be accessible through a door that’s been installed just inside the main entrance. The couple says expanding into a twin cinema is a “huge relief.” They’ve long admitted that having a single-screen movie theater makes for a poor business model, since they have to contend with competition from corporate multiplexes, moviegoers’ expectations and demands from film studios.

“Business-wise, this makes the space much more viable,” Massett says.

Since opening in December 2011, Sun-Ray has distinguished itself by offering lesserknown independent films and hosting special events with filmmakers and musicians, but doing so has proved challenging. The movie house also needs to screen big-time Hollywood hits to survive financially, Massett says — and with only one screen, juggling schedules while honoring contracts with major studios was quite difficult. With two screens, managing a mix of indie films and special events with blockbusters will be significantly easier.

Sun-Ray fans should not assume, though, that the quirky screenings they’ve come to love will be relegated to the new, smaller screen.

Special one-night events, like those involving recent visits from “Donnie Darko” director Richard Kelly and American punk-rock pioneer Richard Hell, will still be held in the original larger theater space. On nights like those, it’s the more mainstream movies you should expect in the second room.

“I just love running a movie theater,” says David-Massett. (She’s also a teacher in the Duval County Public Schools’ gifted

program.) “Now, with a second screen, it will make so much more sense. … What we’ve always wanted to do is provide a wide variety of content, and now we’ll be able to do that even more.”

The original theater was revamped before Sun-Ray opened, but more improvements are planned. Within the next couple of years, the couple wants to replace the carpeting and rebuild the bar; eventually, they’d love to install stadium seating and reopen the balcony.

Sun-Ray Cinema’s expansion has not been without growing pains. Star-studded, Hollywood movies they thought would do well have bombed. Keeping kitchen staff in the theater’s restaurant has been tough because the work hours increase and decrease depending

“What we’ve always wanted to do is provide a wide variety of content, and now we’ll be able to do that even more.” on a movie’s popularity. Even with social media efforts, getting the word out that the theater is open has proved surprisingly challenging.

“People still walk by sometimes and say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know movies were played here,’ ” David-Massett says.

“People haven’t thought about this location as a place to see movies in a long, long time,” Massett adds. For decades, when the theater wasn’t vacant, it housed a nightclub or concert venue. “We’ve had to try to get people to change their movie-going habits.”

The couple has also made strides in helping to bring together a community of film lovers, something the city heretofore has lacked. Lots of folks who love movies actually go to theaters to see them, but there hasn’t been a tight-knit group that champions and celebrates the art form, Massett says. And that’s what he sees as Sun-Ray’s role.

“It’s slow and it’s frustrating at times, but it’s satisfying,” Massett says. “It’s all moving in the right direction.”.

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Photo: Vagrant Records

The Id of the Emo Jimmy Buffett

James Dewees brings his schizophrenic solo project Reggie & the Full Effect back after a five-year hiatus REGGIE & THE FULL EFFECT with DADS, PENTIMENTO 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21, Roc Bar, Brewster’s Megaplex, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, Tickets: $13 223-9850, brewstersmegaplex.com

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y first exposure to Reggie & the Full Effect was freshman year of college, when a theater geek in my Speech Communication class wore a trucker hat with “Keyboards ’R for Pussies” emblazoned on it every day for an entire semester. As a lifelong ivory-tickler, I was confused — and not just because I was 18 years old. Was this Reggie fan really that much of a hater? Had playing piano really made me that soft? What kind of music did this Reggae guy play? Heavy metal? And if so, what was this goofy theater geek doing listening to it?

A few months later, when I befriended said theater geek and finally got introduced to Reggie & the Full Effect’s comedic brand of emo-punk, synth-pop and, yes, funk-metal, I figured out that the whole thing was kind of joke. See, Reggie was the musical alter ego of James Dewees, who actually played keyboards for pop-punk stalwarts The Get Up Kids and metalcore weirdos Coalesce. The nom de plume — along with other aliases like Fluxuation, a British techno-pop superstar, and Klaus, the Finnish frontman for Nordic metal band Common Denominator — allowed Dewees to own ridiculously titled songs like “Props to Tha Queen of Pop,” “A.C. Lerok … Bitches Get Stitches” and “Image Is Nothing, Lobsters Are Everything.”

Via the Reggie project, Dewees was also able to sarcastically get a few over on the music industry. Debut album “Greatest Hits 19841987” actually contained demos that he and Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor recorded in 1998; 2000’s “Promotional Copy” arrived with no artwork or track listing, leading many record stores to return entire shipments of the album because they believed they’d actually received promo copies; and 2003’s “Under the Tray” hid its compact disc under the CD tray, prompting consumers to complain about getting ripped off.

Reggie & the Full Effect went in a darker direction on the next two albums, however.

Dewees’ divorce led to 2005’s “Songs Not to Get Married To,” which mixed upbeat electronica and metal with serious lyrics on songs like “Thanks for the Misery” and “What the Hell is Contempt?” But 2008’s “Last Stop: Crappy Town” revealed an even darker side of Dewees, as the entire album represented his struggle with

drug addiction and multiple rehab stints.

Dewees’ label, Vagrant Records, didn’t take kindly to “Last Stop’s” depressing nature, shelving it for months, remixing it and eventually changing the pacing of the songs.

After touring in support of the album, Dewees didn’t speak about Reggie & the Full Effect for several years, reuniting with The Get Up Kids and briefly joining mainstream punk bands New Found Glory and My Chemical Romance as a recording and touring member as well.

In 2010, Dewees played a one-off Reggie show on New Year’s Eve. In 2012, he and Pryor released an EP under their own names while also starting a “Tuesdays with Reggie” podcast.

Those efforts eventually morphed into a $50,000 Kickstarter campaign for the sixth full-length

“I was there in the beginning, I was there in the end, and now I’m still here.”

Reggie album, “No Country for Old Musicians,” released last November. Songs like “Revenge Is a Dish Best Served at Park Chan-Wook’s” and “Sundae, Booty Sundae” proved that Reggie was indeed back in full comedic effect, while a new DJ/MC alter-ego, Floppy Disk-O, was introduced on “Who Needs Another Drank.”

In a recent interview with Absolute Punk, Dewees said that sobriety was the biggest influence on “No Country for Old Musicians” material: “I stopped drinking and doing drugs, wrote a ton of songs, and reconnected with a lot of the friends I lost during [my] ‘party years.’ The return to form is me being able to do exactly what I want to right now.”

As for that album title? Well, Dewees is a punk veteran at this point in his long and fruitful career; during the Kickstarter campaign, one fan even called him the “emo Jimmy Buffett,” a fact that might be borne out on his upcoming tour, which crosses the country between Jan. 16 and Feb. 22. “I’ve gotten a lot of emails from older fans who ask me to change [an upcoming] show date in their town so that they can find a babysitter,” he told Absolute Punk. “[But] I like the place that I’m in. I got to be a part of a movement that changed the music industry. I was there in the beginning, I was there in the end, and now I’m still here.”

Guess keyboards aren’t for pussies after all.

Nick McGregor themail@folioweekly.com

CONCERTS THIS WEEK

MILESTONES, JUMPING SHIP, DEVIDED BY FATE, SURVIVING SEPTEMBER, EVICTION 6 p.m. Jan. 15 at Brewster’s Megaplex, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, $10, 223-9850.

WES COBB 9:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at The Palace Saloon, 117 Centre St., Amelia Island, 491-3332.

SMOG CITY TOUR: 12th Planet, Protohype, Flinch, Son of Kick, Steady 9 p.m. Jan. 15 at Pure Nightclub, 8206 Philips Hwy., Southside, $15, 800-694-1253.

ABBA THE CONCERT 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $22.50-$41.50, 355-2787.

JOSHUA BOWLUS TRIO 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, raylewispresents.com.

TAB BENOIT 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, $18, 209-0367.

GALACTIC, BRUSHY ONE STRING 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $20, 246-2473.

SEA WOLF, COLIN ADKINS 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $15, 398-7496.

THE HOWL 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $5, 353-4686.

THE FRED EAGLESMITH TRAVELLING STEAM SHOW 8 p.m.

Jan. 16 at The Original CafĂŠ Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $15, 460-9311.

WORTH ROAD, THE BLANK CANVAS, JOHN BALL, CATALYST 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Riverside, $8-$10, 388-7807.

EMPIRE THEORY, GEORGE STEVENS, CHARLIE & THE FOX TROTS, FORT STORIES 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

SUNSHINE STATE 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188.

JAMES DURBIN 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at Brewster’s Megaplex, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, $10-$25, 223-9850.

THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at Murray Hill Theatre Fringe CafĂŠ, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Riverside, free, 388-7807.

WAKE THE LIVING, RULE NUMBER SIX, KNOCK FOR SIX 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $8, 246-2473.

NORTHE, ON GUARD, THE INVERTED, WEEKEND ATLAS 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $10, 353-6067.

GURF MORLIX 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008.

MARCIA BALL & HER BAND 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra, $37-$47, 209-0367.

SMELLS LIKE GRUNGE, BRAINEATERS-A-GO-GO 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 353-6067.

JOHN CARVER BAND, ANASTASIA, SUBTERRANEAN, FJORD EXPLORER, LOCALS 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

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ROCK OUT WITH YOUR, UH, GOLF CLUB OUT: Bands from Northeast Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina can take their shot at creating the unofficial song of this year’s Players Championship. Presented by Folio Weekly and Clear Channel, the Rock the Players competition requires bands to submit an original song by Feb. 1 for a chance to win $5,000, VIP tickets and a gig during the tournament, to be held May 6-11. Members of The Players Championship staff select three finalists, to be announced Feb. 14, and fans then pick the winner. Submissions must be original, upbeat and without graphic language; for details, email jenhendrich@pgatourhq.com. Bands can submit songs at pgatour.com/ rocktheplayers or by email to theplayerschampionship@pgatourhq.com with subject line “Rock THE PLAYERS.�

BENJAH, SOCIAL CLUB, SEVEN J, JOVAN MACKENZY 8 p.m.

Jan. 18 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Riverside, $8-$10, 388-7807.

TINSLEY ELLIS 10 p.m. Jan. 18 at Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-6636.

JAYEL 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $8, 246-2473.

TINSLEY ELLIS 9 p.m. Jan. 19 at Downtown Blues Bar & Grille, 714 St. Johns Ave., Palatka, $20-$30, 386-325-5454.

SEEKER, DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at Atticus Bar, 325 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, 634-8813.

CHEAP TIME 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188.

STRAIGHT LINE STITCH, MANNA ZEN, ANYONE’S GUESS 7 p.m. Jan. 19 at Brewster’s Megaplex, 845 University Blvd.

N., Arlington, $10-$20, 223-9850.

SCHNOCKERED 9:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at The Palace Saloon, 117 Centre St., Fernandina Beach, 491-3332.

RICHARD SMITH, JULIE ADAMS 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008.

JOSH McGOWAN 9:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at The Palace Saloon, 117 Centre St., Fernandina Beach, 491-3332.

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK 8 p.m. Jan. 21 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $40-$65, 355-2787.

REGGIE & THE FULL EFFECT 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21 at Brewster’s Megaplex, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, $13, 223-9850.

BILLY JOEL 8 p.m. Jan. 22 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, $48.50-$98.50, 630-3900.

BIG SOMETHING, S.P.O.R.E. 8 p.m. Jan. 22 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

TURBO FRUITS 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188.

AGAINST ME!, THE SIDEKICKS, THE SHONDS 7 p.m. Jan. 22 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $20, 246-2473.

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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22

AGAINST ME!

THE SIDEKICKS/THE SHONDS FRIDAY JANUARY 24

WINTER WAVE KALIYL/ARTILECT SATURDAY JANUARY 25

TRAVELING RIVERSIDE BAND JIM DAVIS

THURSDAY JANUARY 30

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND

TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS FRIDAY JANUARY 31

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

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

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

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BAND ON THE RUN 9:30pm DECK MUSIC 5 P.M.-9 P.M.

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UNIVERSAL GREEN PRIME TREES/REGGIE WILLIAMS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7

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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15

START MAKING SENSE (TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE) WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19

THE EXPENDABLES

STICK FIGURE/SEEDLESS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20

SHPONGLE

DESERT DWELLERS UPCOMING 2-23: Toubab Krewe/Squeedlepuss 2-27: G. Love & Special Sauce 3-2: Big Gigantic/Caked Up 3-5: HOPSIN 3-8: Warrior King 3-13: Tribal Seeds/New Kingston 3-16: We the Kings 3-28: Fortunate Youth 4-17: Local Natives

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he Casbah Café, on St. Johns Avenue in the heart of Avondale, is among the best see-and-beseen spots in Northeast Florida. If the happy hour and laid-back atmosphere don’t do it for you, the hookahs and belly dancers will. There’s a gazillion tobacco flavors to be enjoyed inside or out in the massive outdoor seating area, where belly dancers shake it. Von Barlow Trio plays jazz every Sunday; local guitarist Goliath Flores is in every Wednesday.

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

Text and Photos: Abigail Wright themail@folioweekly.com

1. Jason Cenci 2. Goliath Flores 3. Yulia Manaeva and Natalia Alessandria 4. Rebeca Xaxier and Jasmine Devose

UPCOMING CONCERTS

ANTIQUE ANIMALS Jan. 23, Mellow Mushroom Jax Beach 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 ALL HAIL THE YETI Jan. 23, Brewster’s Megaplex CANARY IN THE COALMINE Jan. 23, Underbelly 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 WINTER WAVE, KALIYL Jan. 24, Freebird Live 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 SUGAR BEAR FAREWELL GIG Jan. 25, Jacksonville Landing TRAVELING RIVERSIDE BAND Jan. 25, Freebird Live AFROMAN, MOSTH8ED Jan. 25, Brewster’s Megaplex KILO-KAHN, DENIED TIL DEATH, PRIMITIVE HARD DRIVE, SLOW MOTION SUICIDE Jan. 25, Jack Rabbits GAELIC STORM Jan. 26, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TURBO FRUITS Jan. 26, Burro Bar YANCY CLEGG Jan. 27, The Palace Saloon KEB’MO’ Jan. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall 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 JAKE SHIMABUKURO Jan. 30, The Florida Theatre 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 WITH EYES ALIVE Jan. 31, Jack Rabbits ARBOR PARK, SUMERLIN, I ANTHEM, OCTOBER GLORY Jan. 31, Murray Hill Theatre MERLE HAGGARD Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre VIO/MIRE’ Feb. 1, Burro Bar SIDEREAL, UNIVERSAL GREEN, PRIME TREES Feb. 1, Freebird Live THE BUNNY THE BEAR Feb. 1, Jack Rabbits 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 DORY DRIVE Feb. 4, Brewster’s Megaplex 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 10 YEARS Feb. 5, Brewster’s Megaplex 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 LARRY MANGUM, BARRY DRAKE, MICKEY CLARK Feb. 8, Mudville Music Room HENHOUSE PROWLERS Feb. 8, Jack Rabbits 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, Mellow Mushroom Jax Beach LA FIN ABSOLUTE DU MONDE Feb. 13, Burro Bar KENNY LOGGINS Feb. 14, The Florida Theatre SHEBA “THE MISSISSIPPI QUEEN,” LITTLE MIKE & THE TORNADOES Feb. 14, Mudville Music Room BIG SKY, SEVEN NATIONS, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE Feb. 14, Jack Rabbits 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 WHETHERMAN Feb. 15, Mudville Music Room 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 TRACY GRAMMER, ANNIE & ROD CAPPS Feb. 20, Mudville Music Room 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 STONE BONE, PIPESTONE, RULE NUMBER SIX Feb. 21, Brewster’s Megaplex 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 DAVE MASON’S TRAFFIC JAM Feb. 23, The Florida Theatre GET RIGHT BAND Feb. 23, Fly’s Tie Irish Pub JENNIFER NETTLES Feb. 25, The Florida Theatre GHOST FOOT Feb. 25, Burro Bar THE EAGLES Feb. 26, Veterans Memorial Arena FILMSTRIP Feb. 26, Burro Bar G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE Feb. 27, Freebird Live SAM PACETTI, WALTER PARKS Feb. 27, Mudville Music Room 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 UNDERHILL ROSE Feb. 28, Mudville Music Room GET RIGHT BAND Feb. 28, White Lion GREAT GUITAR GATHERING March 1, The Florida Theatre IRON AND WINE March 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GET RIGHT BAND March 1, White Lion JULIO IGLESIAS March 2, T-U Center’s Moran Theater BIG GIGANTIC, CAKED UP, SIR CHARLES 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 SPIRITUAL REZ & THE MESSENGERS March 5, Underbelly 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 GENERAL TSO’S FURY, ASKULTURA March 6, Jack Rabbits STEVE MILLER BAND March 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 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

LA DISPUTE March 16, Brewster’s Megaplex GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS March 19, The Florida Theatre WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER, LIONS LIONS, HONOUR CREST March 19, Jack Rabbits HIROYA TSUKAMOTO, SAM PACETTI, MICHAEL JORDAN March 20, Mudville Music Room 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 THE BRONX WANDERERS March 28, Thrasher-Horne Center 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 PEPPINO DEAUGUSTINO April 3, Mudville Music Room PAUL ANKA April 3, T-U Center’s Moran Theater GRANT PEEPLES April 5, Mudville Music Room AMOS LEE April 7, The Florida Theatre 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 VANCE GILBERT April 24, Mudville Music Room ANTIQUE ANIMALS April 27, Dog Star Tavern SANTANA April 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre COMBICHRIST May 8, Brewster’s Megaplex 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, Mellow Mushroom Jax Beach 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. THE PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre St., 491-3332 Wes Cobb 9:30 p.m. Jan. 15. Schnockered 9:30 p.m. Jan. 19. Josh McGowan 9:30 p.m. Jan. 20. Buck Smith Project Band every Tue. Gary Ross 6 p.m. Wed. at Sheffield’s @ the Palace.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

BREWSTER’S MEGAPLEX/PIT/ROC BAR/THE EDGE, 845 University Blvd. N., 223-9850 Milestones, Jumping Ship, Devided by Fate, Surviving September, Eviction 6 p.m. Jan. 15. James Durbin 8 p.m. Jan. 17. Straight Line Stitch, Manna Zen, Anyone’s Guess 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Reggie & the Full Effect 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21 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 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.

BAYMEADOWS

COFFEE GRINDER, 9834 Old Baymeadows Rd., 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)

200 FIRST STREET, Courtyard, Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Whetherman 7 p.m. Jan. 17. John Shaffer Jan. 18 BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Billy Bowers 5:30 p.m. Jan. 16. Small Fish Jan. 18 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 Redneck Hummus Jan. 17. Cloud 9 Jan. 18. DJ

Mon: Karaoke Tues: Karaoke Wed: Jam Nite / Open Mic

Heavy Hitters Club Host Band Synrgy Ft. Molly Hatchet guitarist Dave Hlubeck, Paul Axtel and other special guests.

That means you.

8:30 pm

Thurs: Karaoke Fri: Home of the Most Talented

Wait Staff Show begins 9pm till close

WEDNESDAY Alex Affronti

THURSDAY The Druids

FRIDAY & SATURDAY Monkey Wrench

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Vito every Thur. Irish music every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 Evan Michael 10 p.m. Jan. 17. Druids 10 p.m. Jan. 18. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. Jan. 19. Red Beard & Stinky E 10 p.m. every Thur. Darren Corlew every Mon. FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 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 Galactic, Brushy One String 8 p.m. Jan. 16. Wake the Living, Rule Number Six, Knock for Six 8 p.m. Jan. 17. Jayel 8 p.m. Jan. 18. Against Me!, The Sidekicks, The Shonds 7 p.m. Jan. 22 ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 108 First St., Neptune Beach, 372-0943 Live music every Fri.-Sat. LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024 The Firewater Tent Revival Jan. 17. Open mic every Wed. Matt Still every Thur.

LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Live music Jan. 17-18. 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. 15. Waybackwhen Jan. 16. Wes Cobb Jan. 17.

Paul Miller Jan. 18 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 Mike Zito 10 p.m. Jan. 15. Tinsley Ellis 10 p.m. Jan. 17 MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070 Wes Cobb every Tue. DJ Austin Williams Wed., Sat. & Sun. DJ Papa Sugar every Mon., Thur. & Fri. NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Ace Winn Jan. 17. Live music Jan. 16-19 NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Sidetrack Jan. 16. Billy Bowers Jan. 17. Job Meiller Jan. 18 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 Alex Affronti 7 p.m. Jan. 15. The Druids Jan. 16.

Monkey Wrench Jan. 17-18 THE SHIM SHAM ROOM, 333 First St. N., 372-0781 Live acoustic 10 p.m. every Mon.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Roshambeaux 8 p.m.

Jan. 15. Naughty Professor Jan. 16. The Cold Start Jan. 22 ATTICUS BAR, 325 W. Forsyth St., 634-8813 Noctambulant Jan. 17. Seeker, Death Before Dishonor 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 677-2977 The Howl 8 p.m.

Jan. 16 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ NickFresh 9 p.m. every Sat. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Ste. 176, 374-1247 Braxton Adamson 5:30 p.m., AA Duo 9 p.m.

Jan. 17. Brett Foster Duo 8:30 p.m. Jan. 18

JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Live music every Fri.-Sat. MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis 9 p.m. Wed. DJ Vinn Thur. DJ 007 Fri. Bay Street 9 p.m. Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Joe Buck, Big Tasty spin every Thur.-Sat. SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Ruffians, Shehehe 9 p.m. Jan. 16 UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 353-6067 Northe, On Guard, The Inverted, Weekend Atlas 8 p.m. Jan. 17. Smells Like Grunge, Braineaters a-Go-Go 8 p.m. Jan. 18. Art Unbarred Jan. 20

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Live music 10 p.m. Jan. 17-18 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 Big Engine 9:30 p.m. Jan. 17. BandontheRun 9:30 p.m. Jan. 18. Deck music 5 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 4:30 p.m. Sun. DJ BG every Mon.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Big Baby 8 p.m. Jan. 22. 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 Live music every Fri.-Sat. SALSA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 13500 Beach Blvd., 992-8402 Live guitar music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. & Sat.

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

AW SHUCKS OYSTER HOUSE, 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd., 240-0368 Open mic every Wed. Live music 7 p.m. every Fri. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Open mic: Synergy 8 p.m. every Wed. Dennis Klee & the World’s Most Talented Waitstaff 9 p.m. every Fri. RACK ’EM UP, 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., 262-4030 DJ Randall Sun. & Wed.

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 DJ Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Street Legal Jan. 17-18. Live music 9 p.m. every Thur.-Sat.

PALATKA

DOWNTOWN BLUES BAR & GRILLE, 714 St. Johns Ave., 386-325-5454 Tinsley Ellis 9 p.m. Jan. 19

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 820 A1A N., Ste. E-18, 834-2492 Live music every Fri.-Sat.

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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 Brady 6 p.m. Jan. 15. The Rubies 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17. The WillowWacks Jan. 18.

Deron Baker 6 p.m. Jan. 22

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Ray & Taylor 8:30 p.m. every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Worth Road, The Blank Canvas, John Ball, Catalyst 7:30 p.m., The First Week of August 8 p.m. Jan. 17. Benjah, Social Club, Jovan Mackenzy, Seven J 8 p.m. Jan. 18 RAINDOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Beartoe, Christina Wagner 8 p.m. Jan. 18

ST. AUGUSTINE

CELLAR UPSTAIRS, San Sebastian Winery, 157 King St., 826-1594 Mid-Life Crisis 7-11 p.m. Jan. 17. Gary Douglas Campbell 2-5 p.m., Ain’t Too Proud 2 Beg 7-11 p.m. Jan. 18.

Vinny Jacobs 2-5 p.m. Jan. 19 DOS COFFEE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Taylor Roberts & Co. every Fri. The Residents spin every Sat. HARRY’S, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Billy Bowers 6 p.m. Jan. 15 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. SANGRIAS PIANO BAR, 35 Hypolita St., 827-1947 Live music every Fri.-Sat. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Sunshine State 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17. Cheap Time 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19. Turbo Fruits 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Live music 9 p.m. Jan. 17-18. Matanzas Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth Sat.

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH

ORIGINAL CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-9311 The Fred Eaglesmith Travelling Steam Show 8 p.m. Jan. 16

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

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

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Sea Wolf, Colin Adkins 8 p.m. Jan. 16. Empire Theory, George Stevens, Charlie & the Fox Trots, Fort Stories 8 p.m. Jan. 17. John Carver Band, Anastasia, Subterranean, Fjord Explorer, Locals 8 p.m. Jan. 18. Big Something, S.P.O.R.E. 8 p.m. Jan. 22 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Joshua Bowlus Trio, Daniel Dickinson 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16. Gurf Morlix 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18. Richard Smith, Julie Adams Jan. 20 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. LATITUDE 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 VJ Didactic 9 p.m. Jan. 16. Boogie Freaks 9 p.m. Jan. 17-18 PURE NIGHTCLUB, 8206 Philips Hwy., 800-694-1253 Smog City Tour: 12th Planet, Protohype, Flinch, Son of Kick, Steady 9:30 p.m. Jan. 15 SEVEN BRIDGES, 9735 Gate Parkway N., 997-1999 Live music Fri.-Sat. TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426 DJ 8 p.m.

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Arts Shutter Flock

Photogs on all levels capture local scenes and more – even with (gasp!) camera phones – for the third annual PhotoJax PHOTOJAX 2014 “The Camera’s Eye” exhibition and reception, 6-8 p.m. Jan. 24 at J. Johnson Gallery, 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jacksonville Beach, $10 suggested donation, 435-3200 “Local Exposure” juried photography exhibit, 7-10 p.m. Jan. 24, Gallery725, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 5, Atlantic Beach, 345-9320 Featured PhotoJax exhibits, noon; reception, 6-10 p.m.; Community Response Project #PhotoJaxHoods, 8 p.m. Jan. 25, CoRK Arts District, 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside photojax.org, facebook.com/photojaxv

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n its third year, PhotoJax aims to click with two premier galleries at the beaches while challenging academics and amateurs to take a candid look at their own neighborhoods within the larger Jacksonville community.

PhotoJax 2014 kicks off with “The Camera’s Eye,” a benefit wine reception and exhibition of acclaimed vintage process photography spanning from the turn of the 20th century to contemporary prints, Jan. 24 at J. Johnson Gallery in Jacksonville Beach.

“The [J. Johnson] show is featuring works by prominent, famous historical photographers — [Edward] Steichen, Man Ray, Walker Evans, [Robert] Mapplethorpe,” says Jacksonville native Missy Hager who, with her husband, photographer Thomas

SEX SELLS: Colorado-based Natalie Krick is the artist in residence for CoRK Arts District during PhotoJax 2014.

Krick often puts her subjects in exaggerated poses, mimicking the overtly sexualized nature of pop culture, as in “Mom Lifting Her Shirt.”

Hager, created PhotoJax in 2011. “So it’s really exciting that we are going to bring this caliber of work to Jacksonville and our community is going to be able to see them outside of a museum setting.”

“Local Exposure,” a regionally juried photography exhibition at Atlantic Beach’s Gallery725, is the second component of this year’s somewhat scaled-back, two-day festival.

The open competition is an opportunity for rising and established photographers to get their works seen.

This year’s community response project,

GLIMMER MAN: Cecelia Paredes’ “Bolin No. 92, Temple of Heaven” is a featured piece in “The Camera’s Eye” exhibit at J. Johnson Gallery in Jacksonville Beach.

#PhotoJaxHoods, invited residents to turn their lenses on their neighborhoods.

“We wanted to do a visual census of what people look at in their neighborhoods — what they love about their neighborhoods, maybe what they don’t like about their neighborhoods, that they want to get fixed,” says Jensen Hande, #PhotoJaxHoods project coordinator and a longtime Jacksonville-based commercial photographer. “You can really see citizens’ perspectives of their neighborhood and of their city.”

Like the “5x500” PhotoJax events in 2011 and 2013, the top entries for #PhotoJaxHoods will be displayed for all to enjoy, this time at Riverside’s CoRK Arts District.

“We’ve had amazing images, you know, very artful and tasteful, so that’s where the kind of blurred lines come in,” Hager says.

“I think you can achieve, and people will see, some great images with camera phones.

They’re not artists. They’re not photographers.

They’re just like you and me, but we can capture those images.”

Hande says he would like to see continued local use of the Instagram hashtag (#PhotoJaxHoods) during and after PhotoJax 2014, with the idea that the contributed images could later make up a large visual map of Duval County neighborhoods.

Another focus of the 2014 festival is to highlight visionary regional curators. MOCA Jacksonville’s Ben Thompson, Savannah College of Art & Design’s Aaron Garvey, Draper Studio’s Staci Bu Shea and longtime Jacksonville art scene mainstay Carolyn Brass have each curated photography collections that will premiere Jan. 25 at CoRK, complete with a food-truck reception and live music.

“We definitely hope that as it grows, word will get out regionally and even nationally about this, because we really have a lot of things to offer, photography-wise, here in Jacksonville,” Hager says.

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Arts PERFORMANCE

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES The country-fried musical, set on North Carolina’s Highway 57, is staged Jan. 15-Feb. 2 (doors at 6 p.m. Tue.-Sun., 11 a.m. Sat., 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.

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-seller, Jan. 15-17 at the T-U Center, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $50, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

BEEHIVE The high-energy tribute to 1960s women rock stars is presented Jan. 16-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.

GODSPELL Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz’s musical is staged at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Drive, Orange Park, $58, 276-6750, thcenter.org.

THE SPENCERS: THEATRE OF ILLUSION Kevin and Cindy Spencer, International Magicians Society’s Magicians of the Year, mix magic and illusion with humor and mystery at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $13.50-$26.50, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

WILLIAM SHATNER The actor famed as Capt. Kirk (also singer, husband, father, horseman and philanthropist) performs “Shatner’s World” (anecdotes, songs, humor and storytelling) at 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $65-$80, $178.50 VIP, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

BLUE MAN GROUP Artist Series presents this blend of comedy, music and technology Jan. 21-26 at the T-U Center, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $32-$82, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE When blind Don Baker moves to San Francisco to escape an overbearing mother, he meets zany neighbor Jill and learns new things. Preview performance Jan. 23; the play runs Jan. 24-Feb. 16 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $10$25, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org.

DIRTY BLONDE Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre stages an exploration of the life of legendary Mae West, as fans meet at her grave and swap stories about the controversial pop culture icon, staged Jan. 24-Feb. 9 (8 p.m. Thur.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun.) at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $15, 249-7177, abettheatre.com.

POPOVICH COMEDY PET THEATER The family-friendly show combines Gregory Popovich’s comedic and juggling skills with talents of 15 cats, 10 dogs, four geese, eight white doves and two parrots at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 at ThrasherHorne Center for the Arts, 283 College Drive, Orange Park, $14-$36, 276-6750, thcenter.org.

THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS Actress Sinda Nichols stars in a one-woman play about advice columnist Ann Landers. A silent auction and reception are held at 6 p.m. Jan. 25, performance at 7 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Fernandina Beach, 201 Jean Lafitte Ave., Fernandina Beach; $75 for theater seating, $100 for café table seating; proceeds benefit Fernandina Beach Library; 321-6529, fernandinafol.org.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

BREAKING LEGS AUDITIONS Orange Park Community Theatre auditions for Tom Dulack’s “Breaking Legs” at 2 p.m.

Jan. 18 and 7 p.m. Jan. 19 at the theater at 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, 276-2599, opct.org.

FREE KIDS’ DANCE CLASS For ages 7-11, held 4:30-5:15 p.m. every Wed. at Dance Trance, 214 Orange St., Neptune Beach, free, 246-4600, dancetrancefitness.com/dtkidz.

BEGINNERS’ DANCE CLASSES These classes are held 7:308:30 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 Classes are held 8-9 p.m. every Tue. Five one-hour dance sessions, $50 (all five sessions), 551-0459, zumbajear.com.

JAZZ, DANCE & TECHNIQUE Classes every Tue., Dance Trance, 1515 San Marco Blvd., 390-0939, dancetrancefitness.com.

DANCE CLASSES Several classes for all ages and skill levels every Mon.-Fri. at The Dance Shack, 3837 Southside Blvd., Southside, 527-8694, thedanceshack.com.

DRAMATIC ARTS Theatrical 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.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

STARS OF THE SYMPHONY Members of the Jacksonville Symphony – Philip Pan, Peter Wright, Les Roettges, Jeffrey Peterson – appear at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 and 3 p.m. Jan. 19 at the T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $16-$58, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

RAN DANK & SOYEON KATE LEE The piano duo performs a four-hand piano concert at 2 p.m. Jan. 19 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $30, 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com.

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LUDMIL ANGELOV The Cummer Family Foundation Chamber Series presents pianist Angelov at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Bldg.

45, Southside, free, 620-2878, unf.edu.

JSYO CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL The Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra Chamber Music ensembles, comprising top-level JSYO musicians, perform at 7 p.m. Jan. 22 at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Bldg. 45, Southside, free, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

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

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

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

JAX BEACH JAZZ Live jazz, 6-9 p.m. every Fri. at Landshark Café, 1728 Third St. N., 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., 249-2922.

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

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

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

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts & crafts and local produce 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 17 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, 353-1188.

NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open 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.

NORTHSIDE LOVE ARTS & VENDORS MARKET The market, “Lifting Our Various Enterprises,” includes entertainment, kids’ activities, arts, a fruit and vegetable market, food trucks and Zumba lessons, at 2 p.m. Jan. 26 and every last Sun. at Lonnie Miller Park, 5054 Soutel Drive, Northside, 755-5281, northsidelove.com.

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. Feb. 1 on Northbank Riverwalk in Downtown Jacksonville, free, communityfirstsaturdays.com.

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK 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.

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK The tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is held Feb. 7 and every first Fri., with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065.

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

MUSEUMS

ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERYJacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, arts.ju.edu. Brian Frus and Lily Kuonen’s exhibit “Two Gather,” featuring work exploring the physicality of layering form, material and content, opens with a reception held at 5 p.m. Jan. 16; it runs through Feb. 12.

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.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. The exhibit “Don Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Spanish Hero in the American Revolution” is displayed through March 1. St. Augustine High School Classical Guitar Ensemble performs at 6 p.m. Jan. 16 in the museum chapel.

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 with outdoor displays of vehicles from WWII, Vietnam and Desert Storm.

HOW CLOSE: Lily Kuonen’s “Close Enough,” from altered cinderblocks, is included in “Two Gather,” an exhibit of works

by Brian Frus and Kuonen that explores the physicality of layering form, material and contest. The exhibit opens with a reception Jan. 16 and continues through Feb. 12 at Jacksonville University’s Alexander Brest Museum & Gallery.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/crispellert. “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. 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 displayed through September.

JACKSONVILLE MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER 2 Independent Drive, Ste. 162, Downtown, 355-1101, jacksonvillemaritimeheritagecenter.org. The permanent collection includes steamboats, nautical-themed art, books, documents and artifacts.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jaxfrm.html.

The permanent collection includes other rare manuscripts.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. The permanent collection features relics from America’s Gilded Age, exhibited on three floors.

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 Mandarin artists.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville. com. “Mythos: From Concept to Creation,” sculptural works by Enzo Torcoletti, reflecting a symbolic diversity of the human form, are displayed through Jan. 19 in MOCA’s UNF Gallery. Ingrid Calame’s exhibit “Tarred Over Cracks” continues through March 9 as part of Project Atrium in Haskell Atrium Gallery. The exhibit “Material Transformations,” in which seven artists uncover symbolism through unconventional substances, opens with a preview reception held 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” 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 MAIN GALLERY 31 W. Adams St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org/main.html.

Expressionist works by artists Emine Zander and Deborah Reid are featured through January.

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.

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

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FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Road, Southside, 425-2845, floridamininggallery.com. David De Boer’s “Significant Work,” an exhibit co-curated by Nullspace and Staci Bu Shea, features installations, video and stills; 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.

THE GALLERY AT HOUSE OF STEREO 8780 Perimeter Park Ct., Ste. 100, Southside, 642-6677, houseofstereo.com.

Painting, art glass, photography, woodcrafts, pottery and sculpture are featured.

GEORGIA NICK GALLERY 11A Aviles St., St. Augustine, 806-3348, georgianickgallery.com. The artist-owned studio displays Nick’s sea and landscape photography, along with local works by oil painters, a mosaic artist, potter, photographer and author.

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 through 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 through 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 through July 2014.

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

Jacksonville native Elizabeth Brown Eagle’s exhibit, “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 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 annual “Figure & Portrait Show” includes a debut exhibition of charcoal portraits by Lisa O’Neil. The juried exhibit is on display through Feb. 2.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. The works of 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, 829-2838, 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.

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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AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE

BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 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, 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 Rd., 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. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815.

In historic district. More than just nuts; sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, breads – and cronuts. Breakfast items, too. $ B L D Wed.-Sun. 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 award-winning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air second floor and balcony. $$ C L D Daily THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711. F Oceanview dining, inside or on the deck. New menu: Steaks, seafood, nightly specials, healthy options. $$ 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 offers 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 Rd. 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. Pizza made your way, subs, paninis, calzone, stromboli, wraps, dinners.

Gluten-free, vegan cheese available. $$ C L D Daily BAGEL LOVE, 4114 Herschel St., Ste. 121, 634-7253 2013 BOJ winner. Northern-style bagels, sandwiches, wraps, salads, soups, bakery items, sides, fresh-squeezed orange juice and lemonade, coffees, smoothies and tea. Homecooked turkey, chicken and roast beef. Free Wi-Fi. Locally owned and operated. Outdoor patio dining. $ C B L Daily THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966. F 2013 BOJ winner. Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine on the patio or in a hookah lounge. Wi-Fi, belly dancers, hookah pipes. $$ 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. Michael Thomas’ comfy spot serves local, sustainable creative world cuisine.

Small plates: chorizo stuffed mushrooms, pork belly skewers; entrées: lamb chops, seared tuna, ribeye. Sandwiches, craft beers, onsite organic garden. $$ D Mon.-Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., 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, brickoven-baked pizza, subs, desserts. Delivery. $$ C L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777. F Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curry and vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ 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 Rd., 737-7740.

8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F 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 Rd., 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. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506. F The area’s original authentic Thai restaurant has an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian and new-Thai, including curries, seafood, noodles, soups. In business since 1990, family-owned place has low-sodium and gluten-free dishes, too. $$$ L D Tue.-Sun. PIZZA PALACE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 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 hickory.

Award-winning ribs, barbecue, rotisserie chicken, signature sauces. 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

SWEET TAMALE: Joshua Agan (left) offers sweet corn tamale cakes topped with smoked salmon and house creme and ancho chili sauce, and Intan Agan shows off roasted beet salad with pickled mango, cooked cotija cheese, fresh mint, baby arugula and crispy garbanzo beans, at their Beaches Town Center place, Flying Iguana, in Neptune Beach. Photo: Dennis Ho 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; dishes made with fresh ingredients from tried-and-true recipes. $$ L D Daily CAMPECHE BAY CANTINA, 127 First Ave. N., 249-3322. F Chili rellenos, tamales, fajitas, enchiladas, fish tacos, fried ice cream, margaritas. $$ 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 is 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 Pkwy., 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,

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Derby on Park offers a no-frills, all-thrills Checked by Sales Rep _RE dining experience in 5 Points DERBY ON PARK 1068 Park St., 5 Points, 379-3343

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ooking for some tasty, inexpensive, low-frills, diner-style fare served in a chill atmosphere?

Check out 5 Points’ Derby on Park, near the landmark flashing light roundabout.

Start with the supremely simple yet savory Derby Fries ($5.95): A pile of crisp house-cut potatoes topped with a rich, flavorful beef gravy. If you’re dining with a group, the diced chicken and spinach nachos ($9.50) with tomatoes and a runny white cheese sauce are ridiculously large and should more than hold you over until your meal arrives.

As far as burgers go, you can’t go wrong with the popular 3B — a perfect trifecta of smoked bacon, crumbled bleu cheese and balsamic spring mix ($10.95). Or try the Jack & Tom, complete with fried green tomato, onion, jack cheese and ranch dressing.

Perhaps the most interesting menu item is a 12-inch, hand-dipped, cornmeal battered corn dog that brilliantly recalls carnival food.

The batter is delicious and slightly sweet.

Order it with a hearty helping of fries; you won’t be hungry again for days (or weeks).

The Van Fletcher Reuben ($9.95) is a traditional offering done right. Think two grilled slabs of marble rye bread smothered

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with sambal aioli then loaded with a halfpound of corned beef and pastrami, as well as the requisite tangy sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese.

Derby uses local Intuition Ale Works’ Jon Boat Coastal Ale to batter the flaky redfish on the Intuition Fish ’n’ Chips ($12.50) platter, which includes fries, cole slaw and a cup of smoky chipotle aioli for dipping — comfort food at its finest.

For vegetarians, the meatless, crêpe-like Tuck & Roll ($10.50) touts creamed spinach, sautéed portabella, mixed peppers and onions rolled up in an oversized lasagna noodle and topped with mozzarella and marinara. The corners of the noodles were overcooked, resulting in oddly (though not undesirable) crunchy edges.

One complaint: The service was prompt, but it took way too long for our lunch to get to our table.

Closed on Monday, Derby on Park is open for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturday, and brunch on Sunday. The popular restaurant offers happy hour specials Tuesday through Friday 3 to 7 p.m. and late night from 9 p.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday.

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MUY GREAT: The chicken and spinach nachos – corn tortilla chips, grilled chicken, creamed spinach, diced tomatoes and a white cheese sauce – are ridiculously large at Derby on Park.

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NAME: Courtney Dean RESTAURANT: Broadway Ristorante & Pizzeria, 10920 Baymeadows Rd., Baymeadows BIRTHPLACE: Albuquerque YEARS IN THE BIZ: 2-1/2 FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Broadway Ristorante & Pizzeria, Altamonte Springs FAVORITE COOKING STYLE: I like to sauté.

FAVORITE INGREDIENT: Louisiana Hot Sauce IDEAL MEAL: Chicken alfredo with peas and mushrooms, orange soda and cheesecake WOULDN’T EAT IF YOU PAID ME: Anchovies CELEBRITY SIGHTING: All our customers are celebrities!

CULINARY GUILTY PLEASURE: Spam and Ramen noodles 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. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BRAZILIAN JAX CAFE, 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 20, 880-3313. F Authentic steaks, sausages, chicken, burgers, fish, hot sandwiches made with fresh ingredients. $$ 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 fave. Calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ L D Daily GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd. (Ramada Inn), 694-4300. F Prime rib & crab leg buffet Fri.-Sat., bluejean brunch Sun., daily breakfast, lunch, dinner buffets. $$$ B R L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 11700 San Jose 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, 2922300. F Casual New York-style pizzeria serves calzones, antipasto, parmigiana, homemade breads. Buy a slice – humongous – or full pie. Delivery. $$ C L D Daily

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007. F Familyowned 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 Sawgrass course designers Alice and Pete Dye. Local 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 fl avors.

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., 384-4474.

F 2013 BOJ winner. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, vegetables. Three dozen artisanal cheeses, 300-plus craft, 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-n-Roll 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 Hwy., 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. 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

BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Dr., 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 Dr., 807-9960.

Upscale Northern Italian restaurant offers wood-grilled, ovenroasted steaks, chops, seafood. Dine indoors or al fresco on the terrace. $$$ C R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. F 2013 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $$ L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT, 4860 Big Island Dr., Ste. 2, 807-9292. Non-fat, low-calorie, cholesterol-free frozen yogurts. More than 40 toppings. $ Daily OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 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. $$ R, Sun.; D Nightly RENNA’S PIZZA, 4624 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 125, 565-1299. F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #3 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 996-2288. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SEASONS OF JAPAN, 4413 Town Center Pkwy., 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 Pkwy., 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, private label Bison Ridge wines. $$$ 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. $$$$ D Mon.-Sat. PULP, 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222. Juice bar has fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees made one cup at a time. 30 smoothies, some blended with fl avored soy milks, organic frozen yogurts, granola. $ B L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #2 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 1478 Riverplace Blvd., 306-2188. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE

360° GRILLE, 10370 Philips Hwy., 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 Rd., 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. JJ’s BISTRO DE PARIS, 7643 Gate Pkwy., 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 Pkwy., 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 Pkwy.

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. This Greek restaurant serves char-broiled kabobs, seafood, traditional Greek wines and desserts. Nightly belly dancing. $$ C L D Daily TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999. F New York-style thin crust, brickoven-cooked pizzas – gluten-free – as well as calzones, salads, sandwiches made fresh to order, using Thumann’s no-MSG meats, Grande cheeses. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pick-up. $$ L D Mon.-Sat.

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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 Dr., Ste. 117, 714-9210.

F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily SAVANNAH BISTRO, 14670 Duval Rd., 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 Dr., 309-7427.

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Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Whose enemy are you? Are you anyone’s adversary, obstructionist or least favorite person? Be honest. Don’t be in denial. Next query: Do you derive anything useful from playing this oppositional role? If you answer yes, that’s OK. Reap the benefi ts of being an obstacle. If, on the other hand, you get little value out of this negative relationship, now’s a good time to change it. You have more power than usual to free yourself from being an antagonist.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Tauruses are customarily more grounded than the rest of us. This week, though, will you be tempted to escape the laws of gravity and rebel against the call of duty? Your dreams, at least, will feature uninhibited forays into the wild blue yonder. While asleep, you may float weightlessly in an interplanetary spaceship, be an eagle and soar over forests, wear a futuristic jet pack and zip through the sky, sail across the Serengeti Plains in a hotair balloon, or have a picnic on a cloud with cotton candy, sponge cake and mint tea. Would you consider having this kind of fun into your waking life?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What part of your life is too small, and do you want to make it bigger? Is there a situation that’s overly intense and dramatic, and you wish you could feel more light-hearted about it, less oppressed? On a quest that’s become claustrophobic, and you’d love to make it more spacious and relaxed? If you answered yes to any of those, good news. Soon you’ll have a close encounter with magic needed to open what’s been closed and expand what’s been narrow. Be alert. Be crafty as you gather it in and harness it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In her poem “Catch a Body,” Ilse Bendorf writes that she dislikes the advice “Don’t ever tell anybody anything.”

On the other hand, she continues, “Tell everyone everything” isn’t right, either. Your astrological omens say you’re wavering between those two. You’re tempted to think you’ve got to do one or the other. Should you cultivate power that comes from being silent, and keep folks guessing about your true feelings? Or seek greater intimacy but risk giving away power by confessing inner thoughts? Take a middle path. Tell the vivid truth, but carefully and incrementally.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If a substance has been burned, it can’t be burned again. There’s no flammable stuff left to feed a fire. That’s simple physics. Can a person be burned more than once – metaphorically speaking? Unfortunately, yes. Some folks don’t learn from mistakes and don’t have enough emotional intelligence to avoid bullies and manipulators who burn them again. I’m confident you aren’t one of those, or at least you won’t be in the days ahead. You may have been burned once, but you won’t be this time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year,” said author Peter Drucker.

“People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” In general, I agree with his view, but it needs to be altered for your situation in the months ahead. The formula’s adjusted version: Virgos who don’t take risks in 2014 will make an average of 3.1 big mistakes. Virgos who do take risks in 2014 will make, at most, half a big mistake.

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is they’re really good at. It’s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be.” If that applies even a little – if you’re still not completely sure what you’re good at it and what you want to do – the months ahead are prime time to fix it. Start now! How? Open your mind to the possibility that you don’t know you as well as you someday will. Take vocational tests. Ask smart trusted folks what they think are your special aptitudes and unique qualities. Be wildly honest with yourself about what excites you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In Ben Schott’s book, “Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition,” he dreams up new compound German words for use in English. One to serve you well next week: Fingerspitzentanz, which means “fingertips-dance.” Schott writes that it refers to “tiny triumphs of nimble-fingered dexterity,” like fastening a bracelet, tightening a miniscule screw, unknotting, removing a recalcitrant sticker in one unbroken peel, rolling a joint, identifying an object by touch alone, slipping something off a high shelf. Literally and metaphorically, you now have an abundance of this skill.

Everything about you is more agile, deft and limber. You’re a master of Fingerspitzentanz.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The four elements that compose cocaine are the same as what make up TNT, caffeine and nylon: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The combinations and proportions of elements are different in each substance, of course. But the point, for our purpose, is that the same raw materials lead to different results. I foresee a similar drama unfolding in your life. How you assemble the ingredients you now have could produce a rough and ragged high, a volatile risk, a pleasant stimulation or a useful resource. Which will it be?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Metaphorically speaking, you’ve recently come into possession of new seeds. They’re robust and hardy and have the potential to grow into big, strong blooms. When should you plant them, metaphorically speaking? Wait a while. It wouldn’t be bad if you sowed them right now, but their long-term vitality will be even greater if you postpone the planting for at least a week. Two weeks might be better. Trust your intuition.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Flemish artist Jan van Eyck (1385-1441) was renowned for his innovative mastery of oil painting. He signed many of his works with his name and his motto Als ick kan. Its idiomatic translation is “The best I can do.” What he meant was that he had pushed his talent and craft to the limit, and then he stopped and relaxed, content that he’d given all he could. Have a similar attitude as you wrap up projects you’re involved in now. Summon all your passion and intelligence as you create the most excellent outcome possible, but know when to quit. Don’t try too hard; just try hard.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s a great time to rise up and revolt against conventional wisdom.

Immunize yourself against trendy groupthink as you outwit and outmaneuver the status quo. Have fun and activate your playful spirit to the max as you create workarounds to the way things have always been done. At the same time, stay acutely attuned to your compassion and common sense. Don’t be a quarrelsome intransigent.

Don’t be rebellious just to please your ego. If you follow these guidelines, you’ll pull off a graceful insurrection to soothe and stimulate your soul.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

RED DRESS BISTRO AIX Me: Awesome. You: Decent, in a red dress. Called you a name starting with “J.” You left. Let’s do it again. When: January 11. Where: Bistro Aix. #1325-0115

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

DOES THE BODY GOOD You in your sexy black uniform. Me in my Green Bay shirt.

I want to work you out sometime. Please? When: Jan. 5.

Where: Lynch’s Irish Pub. #1324-0108

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

SEXY SHOES AT PUBLIX You: a super classy blonde waiting at the pharmacy. Me: a tall guy feeling electricity between us! I had to wait and had a seat. You were leaving and walked my way smiled and said “good luck”. I said “nice shoes” and then enjoyed the view as you walked away. Let’s talk! When: Dec. 29, 2013.

Where: Publix @ University Blvd. #1323-0108 YOU FOLLOWED ME OUTSIDE Me a girl by myself, you with a group of friends dancing. You offered to buy me drink, I was drinking water, you followed me outside and asked for my #, I told you I was leaving for VA Monday.. Should have given you my #, don’t want to start the New Year by being afraid. I’m in Daytona for a month. When: Dec. 27, 2013. Where: Ragtime. #1322-0108 WATCHING THE STEERS GAME Your legs blew me away from Jags game, and other games during season’s last week. Me: black pullover, black pants, bald head. You can get me in shape for any kind of marathon. SWM Southside, enjoy sports, cooking, walking the beach. Rest you legs on my lap anytime, as we sit by candlelight and watch NYE ball drop. Happy New Year! When: Dec. 29. Where: Mudville Grille @ St. Nicholas. #1321-0108 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

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 zoo with 2 children. ISU by 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

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At least two U.S. medical schools so far are early adopters of Dr. Benjamin Lok’s and Dr. Carla Pugh’s Robot Butt for teaching doctorsin-training to properly (and compassionately) administer prostate exams. The robot, bent over a desk to simulate the patient profile, has sensors to alert the students if they dig too deeply or too quickly. Other sensors enable a check on eye contact to evaluate “bedside manner.” (NOTW reported a similar innovation in 2012 by Nobuhiro Takahashi, whose model’s “sphincter” has the ability to “clench up” if the probing becomes too distressing.)

The Good Kind of Psychopath

Neuroscientist James Fallon, fascinated by serial killers’ brains, experienced a seminal career moment in 2005 when he realized his own brain scan was a dead-on match for a typical psychopath’s. Subsequent self-examination revealed him to be, he said, a “pro-social psychopath,” displaying traits similar to a killer’s (aggressiveness, low empathy) and different (“killing” opponents only in games and debate, with little compassion for their haplessness).

“I’m kind of an asshole,” he admitted, according to a November report by The Smithsonian, “and I do jerky things that piss people off.” Fallon failed to break bad, he guesses, because he “was loved [growing up], and that protected me.” He figures he hasn’t kicked his pathology but rather strives “to show to everyone and myself that I can pull [this balancing act] off.”

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Homeless man James Brady had his New Jersey state benefits cut off in October for “hiding” income. He’d found $850 on a sidewalk in April and turned it in; when no one came forward, it was returned to him.

He was unaware he needed to report it as “income.”

Cuts Like a Knife

In September, a 16-year-old Fox Chapel, Pa., boy realized at a football game he was inadvertently carrying a pocket knife and conscientiously turned it in to a security guard — which got him a 10-day school suspension.

The school’s “zero tolerance” rule, said the boy’s dad, “sends a message [that] you should probably lie.”

Do the Right Thing

Betty Green was fired as clerk at the Speedway gas station in Lexington, Ky., in November when she “just said no” to an armed robber, who smiled and walked out. Company rules require employees always give up the money.

Said Green, “I don’t think anybody knows what you are going to do until it happens to you.”

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