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FROM THE EDITOR Fathers, teach your daughters IT’S OK to like sex
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LAST WEEKEND, FORMER NFL KICKER JAY FEELY Tweeted a photo of him with his daughter and her prom date. In it, he has one arm around the young woman’s shoulders; his other hand loosely holds a pistol pointed at the ground by the young man’s feet. The caption reads, “Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom. #BadBoys” It was obviously a joke, as in, ‘Ha ha, isn’t it hilarious to imply that I might shoot this guy if I don’t like how he treats my daughter?’ It would be remiss not to mention that the young couple are clearly in on the gag; in the photo, Feely’s daughter looks up at him with an ‘Oh, you!’ expression and her date is blushing and smiling as much as possible for someone facing a threat of being shot, hollow or otherwise. Yet … surprise! The photo didn’t go over as planned and Feely was soon thrust into at the center of a firestorm hot enough to put him on defense. Taking to Twitter, he said the gun wasn’t loaded, he takes gun safety seriously and, besides, the couple has been dating for a year, so they knew he was joking. The thing that struck me about the photo wasn’t so much the gun as the implication that he needed to protect his daughter from her prom date. The idea that females are weak and vulnerable and need a big, strong man to protect us is not new; nor is the idea that men will hurt or take advantage of us unless we have a protector. We’ve all heard a proud papa, probably not unlike Feely, talk about how he’s going to keep the boys away from his daughter when she grows up. There’s an entire catalogue of country music on this very subject. Maybe such protectionism made sense in the distant past, when more men were marauding rapists looking for an unwilling orifice to penetrate. But today, this culture of protectionism removes some of the responsibility from the few men who do attack women and perpetuates women’s sexual repression by teaching us that having sex before society decrees us ready, i.e. married, is bad behavior that no good girl does willingly. Females should be taught from a young age that it is normal to enjoy sex with a willing partner for mutual physical and emotional gratification when we’re physically and mentally ready. Instead, we’re taught to lock up our virginity like we’re living in some weird version of National Treasure where our hymen is the ultimate
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prize. And don’t even get me started on slut-shaming. Honestly, shouldn’t fathers want their daughters to be sexually active and comfortable with our sexuality when we grow up? That’s certainly the type of woman most men want to have sex with. Sex is, after all, normal human behavior, not to mention necessary to propagate the species. Yet the concept of female sexual pleasure is glossed over or ignored entirely in most households, first mentioned, if at all, when we’re old enough to be wedded and bedded, in that order … unless we’re nasty. A few years ago, there was much talk about ‘the orgasm deficit.’ Studies have shown that upwards of 70 percent of women rarely, if ever, orgasm during intercourse; and 10 percent, perhaps more, of women have never experienced orgasm. (Compare that to 75 percent of men who orgasm every time they have sex.) There is something to be said for the lack of proper research and medical advancements in this area, but I’m convinced the orgasm deficit is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors. If females weren’t taught from birth that good girls suppress sexuality until we’re of a certain age and/or marital status, at which point we’re expected to magically unlearn all that conditioning and become eager sex kittens, it would be easier for many women to relax, enjoy sex and maybe, just maybe, reach climax. Being comfortable with our sexuality isn’t something that happens overnight, and it’s not fair to expect a woman who’s been taught to cover her body, keep her hands off her genitals except for hygienic purposes, and do nothing to explore her normal human desire, even on her own, to wake up one morning and be sexually liberated. This isn’t to say we should add sex ed to the kindergarten curriculum, but we could accept and embrace female sexuality, perhaps add female masturbation to sex ed (hey, it still counts as abstinence), and for the love of god stop, STOP being too embarrassed to use proper English. It’s not a vajayjay, it’s not a hoo-haw, or a cha-cha, muff, kitten, cooter, cooch, snatch, beaver or sacred treasure. It’s a vagina. Having one is nothing to be ashamed of, and enjoying digital, penile or other stimulation of it is 100-percent, all-the-way, completely normal. And up to us. Not our fathers.
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GATSBY’S LOST GENERATION Party like the stock market will never crash, environmental regulations are as yet unimagined, and Americans aren’t addicted to Twitter, just bathtub gin. The fundraiser for St. Johns Cultural Council is 7-11 p.m. Saturday, April 28 at Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, gatsbyforcharity.com. Afterparty at Corazon Cinema.
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It’s hard to go out dancing with friends when everyone likes different music, but there is a solution: the silent disco. Pull on a pair of headphones and rock with DJs spinning favorite hip hop, R&B, EDM and Top 40 hits. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. May 2 at Myth Nightclub, Downtown, $13.31-$18.98, eventbrite.com. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018
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months of waiting, saving our stash, we’ll hear some of the biggest names in rock right here in J-ville in one of the biggest festival events the city/county/ state/nation has ever seen. Performers include Ozzy Osbourne, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, Queens of the Stone Age, Pop Evil, Palace Royale, Black Map, Billy Idol (eee!), Fivefinger Deathpunch, Godsmack, Stone Sour, Black Veil Brides and Avatar. April 27, 28 & 29 at Metropolitan Park, Northbank, $95-$800 (be advised, tickets are going fast), welcometorockvillefestival.com.
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THE MAIL CAN’T PLEASE ’EM ALL
RE.: “St. Augustine City Commission Considers Blacking Out Entire Months for Festivals at Francis Field,” by Pete Melfi, folioweekly.com, April 4 ALTERNATE HEADLINES THAT YOU COULD CONSIDER is [sic], “COSA considers experiment in cutting off its nose to spite its face” or “Despite living among many trees, COSA still may miss the forest for the trees.” So many municipalities would do anything to have the problems that St. Augustine does. Yet instead of exploring more ways to handle the growth, they look at just figuring out how to hinder themselves economically. We live outside of downtown and it’s not hard to make it there, people don’t want to consider other means of transportation. We ride our bikes, it’s one less car on the street, parking is a breeze. The only problem is that it seems like the city just wants to plan traffic like it’s the 1960s. If you make room for bike lanes, there is less interaction with the vehicles. Aside from that, make people aware of other open streets besides King and San Marco. There are few people who realize they don’t have to stay on the aforementioned streets all the way downtown. You can turn off and take a different route. When going past the parking lot on West King that was used during Nights of Lights and spring break, they have so many spots, but then again, everyone seems to want their cars in their immediate vicinity and just complain that other people should figure out how to get their car and themselves downtown. I lived in a town of 1,800. There were many buildings in the downtown district that were destroyed for one reason or another. There weren’t many festivals that drew people from the immediate area and the complaints were exactly the same. You can try to fix parking and traffic till you don’t have a downtown and there will STILL be someone complaining. Stay strong, commission, plan for success.
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RE.: “The Mail,” April 11 JOHN WILDER’S LETTER DOES WELL TO REMIND US that burning fossil fuels is not the only human activity contributing to global warming (e.g., modern farming techniques, deforestation and construction methods also contribute), but scientists studying climate already account for all of these inputs, and their models have consistently shown for decades that rising global temperatures can be accounted for only by rising CO2 levels. The asbestos roof tiles Wilder would blame it on cover less than three-tenths of a percent of U.S. land–less in the rest of the world, where the tiles aren’t as widely used–and account for
a similarly small percentage of the heat reflected back into the atmosphere. Of course, none of that energy would be retained in the atmosphere were it not held there by CO2 and other greenhouse gases; as they rise, the temperature will rise.
WHITE DOESN’T MAKE RIGHT
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RE: “The Fall Guys,” by Claire Goforth, April 11 CLAIRE, GO FORTH AND CONTINUE SHIMMERING IN light; this article is a perfect portrayal of the problems of intersectionality and white privilege. My curiosity was sparked, though, by the dynamic of Republicans first laughing at a failure on the Democratic side while laying no claim to any failure on their part. They demoralize the racist comments made by a Democratic Committeeman but with willful ignorance and white-privileged-colored glasses continue to pay no attention to any of the issues faced by low-income households or social injustices faced by minorities within the community. Who is more racist? The guy who slips up after a few drinks or these Jacksonville Chamber and JEA officials who are, hopefully, sober on the job? The only member of the JEA leadership board who isn’t white is the Human Resources Officer, that makes sense, but let’s make sure whoever is in charge of finance is white so he can slap hands with city officials on his way out the door when they make the JEA sale. Which once again will mostly effect lowerincome neighborhoods in the harshest manner. You pose the problem of why Democrats are failing to combat these issues of structural racism and elitism well. Its opposing sides–those lobbying for economic equality and those for social equality–don’t see that their aims and goals intersect. When you speak of, “The power dynamics being what they’ve been, one side has too long been relegated to waiting in the wings while the other pursued its missions,” I believe you refer to the economic equality lobbyist waiting for government reform at the polls with a top-down approach whilst the social activists are taking their lobbying to the streets with a grassroots effort, therefore making progress. If I’m right, I also assume that the “unfairness of longstanding power dynamics in the Democratic Party” refers to those on either side of the party blaming those across the fence for any problems; if neither accepts the problem as their own, it’s cast out entirely, aka John Parker or the disunion of the party to vote for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The only way for Democrats to make meaningful change is to make meaningful connections where the intersections lie.
Michael Lane via email
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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BRICKBATS TO THE JEA BOARD On April 17, the JEA board of directors appointed a new interim CEO. The position was not recruited, nor advertised, nor did the board debate either of the two candidates’ qualifications before voting unanimously to give the position, which could pay upwards of a half-million bucks annually, to Aaron Zahn, who’d been on the board from February until April 13, when he resigned to apply for the job. BOUQUETS TO CARL HARMS The Fourth Judicial Circuit victim specialist was one of just three advocates statewide who recently received the 2018 Distinguished Victim Services Award. In 2017, Harms also wrote Grief Diaries, a book promoting personal impact statements of those who have experienced loss, and began a “World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims” in Florida. BRICKBATS TO SHERIFF MIKE WILLIAMS Last fall, The Florida Times-Union/Pro Publica reported that pedestrian tickets were being given disproportionately to black people in Duval County. Rather than work on a solution, JSO has continued to deny, deny, deny. Last week, it even released its own data set showing lower, though still disproportionate, numbers of tickets being given to black people. However, as the T-U notes, to create these new numbers, JSO lumped “soliciting,” i.e. panhandling, tickets in with jaywalking violations. DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A BRICKBAT? Send submissions to mail@folioweekly.com; 50 word maximum, concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest. 8 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018
FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS Code enforcement takes MANY FORMS
FLAGHAZI WHAT DOES A FLAG MEAN? In one sense, it is symbolic: the stitched embodiment of a unit of government. We once had rules to protect that. People knew the proper way to fold and display a flag. This was before manufacturing (and financing) were moved to China. We see flags, along with paeans to the military and the persistent trope of American Exceptionalism, throughout our day. Left unsaid is that American troops are deployed everywhere in the world, for reasons that never merit congressional or popular approval. In one sense, they are there to enforce ideological consensus; to quote a former White House flak, “You’re with us or with the terrorists.” In another sense, one rarely remarked upon, flags lend themselves to commodification. Just as there is little in the spiritual world that cannot be rendered as product, there is even less in the very temporal world of man and his principalities. Thus, we go to a football game and see people pull a flag to cover a football field. This is an arresting visual, one intended to call into mind the unimpeachability of American Ideals. That sort of thing was taken for granted decades back, before the money ran out and the educational system collapsed into a heap and the value of one’s work paled in comparison to the cost of healthcare, and myriad other ritualized indignities of a collapsed social order. Or we see stars and stripes on bathing suits, which would seem to be mass-produced desecrations of the flag (generally made overseas), but which don’t seem to bother anyone much. Or we open a newspaper, pull out the coupons, and see what’s on offer at a Patriotic Holiday Sale. Open a credit line. Buy crap made elsewhere, with money floated from our enemies, who see us as calves just before the fattening is brought to a halt. Watch the currency value float, then flutter downward, a feather from a sickly former bird of prey, one that has become prey itself. The flag is useful for that, too. Its commodification and the collapse of the American Dream have continued apace, toward a universally agreed quasi-sacred state in the post-9/11 era. The debates of whether or not flag-burning is Constitutionally Protected seem hopelessly antiquarian at this point. There is a higher purpose than free speech here. The purpose is to ensure we are all on the same team. All of that has been a given for so long that, as last week began, I didn’t expect flags to be
on my mind when the week ended. However, the story of Code Inspector Melinda Power dropping citations on Jaguar Power Sports (no relation) was a gamechanger. Power, as has been reported throughout the Anglosphere at this point, dropped citations on the shop for a couple of code violations. Parking vehicles on the city right-of-way, for one, and a display of military flags for another. The latter, a warning citation, proved bitterly controversial. Flag display etiquette has evolved. Especially in the post-9/11 era; military flags are quasi-national flags. Code may not reflect that. But incoming comments did. The comments on everyone’s story excoriated Power, not so much for serving the citation, as for clumsily telling the store proprietor that code was code, regardless of the feelings of a nearby customer who happened to be a wounded veteran. Code inspectors do thankless work, and Power would lose power if she stood down. Questions of power dynamics, including gender disparities, were on no one’s mind, as people insulted Power’s looks, character, mental state and love of country after reading news reports. People bombarded Mayor Lenny Curry with emails and calls to fire Power. He suspended her (with pay; there is a union), and tweeted “let them fly” regarding the flags. It was a nice distraction from anything else (something about a local utility, maybe?) that might have been going on here last week. Meanwhile, there were quiet leaks: a history of code issues with the business, and Power’s excellent job evaluation. The flags will remain, and someone will have the political sense to write a revision to code that gives military flags parity with national flags. They can lard up the resolution with language lauding our perpetual war footing and the contributions of the military to the region, economically and otherwise. Meanwhile, the latest “two-minute hate,” a full-force assault on a hapless civil servant just trying to get through her shift, to retirement, will be forgotten. When there’s an opportunity to sound stentorian patriotic themes on social media or wherever, attacks like those on Power are the price of doing business. Some would say they’re distractions from the end of the American Century, the collapse from within of a nation leveraged out at home and abroad. But who’s listening?
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NEWS AAND NOTES: H20 EDITION TOP HEADLINES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA BEWARE THE BROCKOVICH
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A saga has engulfed the city of Plano, Texas, a large Dallas suburb. After residents complained their water smelled strongly of chlorine, according to Dallas Observer, activist Erin Brockovich called out its water supplier for the chlorine and for failing to test the water from one of its plants. Though the water district admitted that it hadn’t tested water from the plant, it had a pretty damn good explanation: The plant to which Brockovich referred was closed, is closed, and will be closed for the foreseeable future, reports DO. The water district did concede that there may have been a stronger-thanusual chlorine smell as of late due to the annual “chlorine burnout” procedure, and below-normal consumption, but provided tests that showed the chlorine levels were within limits established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Brockovich colleague Bob Bowcock wasn’t assuaged, pointing out that the chlorine was at the top of the EPA’s permissible range, saying, “A maximum contaminate level in the Safe Drinking Water Act is the ceiling, not the floor,” according to DO. Bowcock suggested the city switch to a safer, but costlier, disinfection and filtration process. (Unless they like the taste of the public pool.)
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Allman concludes:
When Barbara Bush died at 92 years old on April 17, Gambit’s Kevin Allman felt a mix of emotions, specifically about this statement Bush made after touring the Houston Astrodome and meeting with Hurricane Katrina refugees, “… so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this … this is working very well for them.” Yowza. Allman concedes that this was far from the worst post-tragic hurricane statement (looking at you, former House Speaker and admitted sexual abuser Dennis Hastert), but nevertheless it has been stuck in his craw in the dozen years since.
Certainly her remark wasn’t as egregious as [Tom] Tancredo’s or Hastert’s; certainly she wasn’t a villain like the hapless FEMA head Michael “Brownie” Brown; certainly she didn’t have a responsibility to the city like her son President George W. Bush. But: working out very well for them. It’s possible not to hold a grudge and still admit it was a stupid thing to say, something that will be part of her warts-and-all legacy. Time to forgive and forget? Forgive but never forget? Or neither? I’m not sure. Katrina and the federal floods are still too fresh, and probably always will be.
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Environmental activists are often cast as enemies of progress and the future—even in Canada. In a fascinating editorial in Georgia Straight, Martyn Brown writes about how the public is being misled by a recent poll finding that Canadians support the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline by a very narrow margin. Brown admits that there’s no reason to doubt the results of the poll, the gist of which he says is “Justin Trudeau’s wet dream,” but asks people to consider them in light of “the relentless and massive effort exerted by the establishment in trying to build public buy-in for that filthy turkey of a pipeline,” alignment of “virtually all” mainstream media in support of it, and that “the federal government, Alberta, and Canada’s entire business community have all been peddling [the pipeline], in lockstep supplication to the tarsands industry.” And why would they do this? Well, “to yield higher profits for Big Oil,” and get some shortterm economic benefits to local and federal governments. Guess we’re not so different from our northern neighbors after all, eh?
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In Isthmus, Madison, Wisconsin’s Michael Popke writes that, after 25 years as a resident, he was still a “virgin” to one of the city’s treasures: the UW Arboretum. Smack in the middle of the city lies 1,200 acres of tallgrass prairies, savannas, wetlands and several forest types, in addition to perhaps its most inspiring feature, “rare, intact effigy mounds built more than 1,000 years ago” by indigenous peoples. On a recent hike, Popke gazed upon these ancient, sacred mounds in the stillness of Wingra Woods. Formerly the “ceremonial center of Indian culture,” the mounds have been pilfered and ransacked by wildlife and humans alike over the centuries. That they exist today, and are being treated with the reverence they deserve, should give us all hope for and pride in mankind.
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FOLIO COMMUNITY : NEWS “IT’S THE RAPISTS WHO SHOULD FEEL AFRAID” “It hangs on my wall at home, what the coalition did for me,” says Jessica Pounds, vocalist for Jax-based Canary in the Coalmine. She looks at her friend Christina “Kit” Kittle and says, “I don’t think she knows this.” As Pounds adds, “This is the kind of thing she does,” Kittle looks surprised, slightly embarrassed, but pleased. “She collected letters from several other rape survivors, 20 or 30 letters of support. When you go through this trauma, you feel so alone. So I strung them together with twine and hung them across my wall.” Sitting at a picnic table behind Bold Bean Coffee on Stockton Street, Kittle, who has been smiling as Pounds speaks, says, “I’m so happy to know that.” You can see the feedback loop of inspiration that circuits between them. Kittle is perhaps best known as the only woman of the Jax 5, the protesters beaten by police and arrested last April in Hemming Park, against whom all charges were dropped or reduced. Now Kittle and her action group, Coalition for Consent, are launching the “IF SOE” campaign, using an acronym to define consent: “Informed, Freely-given, Specific, Ongoing, Enthusiastic.” Pounds came to one of Coalition for Consent’s survivor circles in October, shortly after publicly outing her rapist. She stayed silent at that first meeting, which Kittle emphasizes is perfectly acceptable. “Being in a safe place with people sharing their stories, where people are open and ready for dialogue was powerful,” Pounds says. About her silence during that first circle, and the difficulty of deciding to go public with her experience, Pounds says, “I firmly believe there’s no right way to be a rape survivor. Nobody else can judge.” Kittle founded Coalition for Consent (CfC) two years ago, after coming to terms with her own sexual assault. One of the coalition’s primary purposes has been offering support through survivor circles and consent workshops. She and Sarah Humphreys, of the Women’s Center of Jacksonville, host regular classes on “Dismantling Rape Culture.” She’s also made inclusivity a primary goal. One of the earliest events she hosted was a transgender education rally. This focus on inclusion is the Kittle characteristic that St. Augustine activist Mary Cobb admires most. “I see the Coalition for Consent dealing with sexual assault and harassment and transgender issues, and including people of color,” Cobb says. “Christina Kittle embodies that intersectionality.” After all, it was black Civil Rights activist Tarana Burke who first deployed “Me Too” in 2006. And groups like CfC and the “Me Too” Movement gave Pounds the courage to go public. So did knowing that the statute of limitations was almost up. “I knew I’d regret it for the rest of my life if I didn’t out him. I know he’s a repeat offender, he has a criminal record, and there’s other people he’s hurt. I wanted to stop this cycle of abuse. I tend to be impulsive, but once I make a decision, I’m full-in,” she says. Both Pounds and Kittle believe “Me Too” marks a necessary shift in our culture. “I wouldn’t have been able to do it otherwise,” Pounds says. “There were so many times when I thought, ‘If people really knew … if only I could say it, if I could name him … I could shine a light on all this darkness.” Kittle says emphatically, “It’s not right that
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Jessica Pounds (left) and Christina Kittle
survivors are the ones afraid to speak up. It’s the rapists who should feel afraid.”
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she was still bullied into it. You give in because it’s expected. It’s commonplace. You feel like you can’t say no,” she says. If such a situation is “consensual,” it’s obviously not “affirmatively” so. However, consent, by definition, cannot be other than affirmative. “Nobody should have to feel invaded, should be made to feel dirty, in exchange for consent,” says Cobb. “If you have to nag somebody to death to get what you want, how consensual is that?” Garcia points to common accusations that women who name their abusers are seeking attention or “making a power move.” “When you stand up in front of everyone and you out your abuser, you’re reliving your trauma all over again. Then suddenly you’re under a microscope. Everyone scrutinizes you. Who would do that for some kind of opportunism?” she asks. As Pounds knows all too well, when you out your rapist, you stand up against a system that’s designed against you. The police often require survivors to make a “controlled call” to your rapist. “You’re trying to get a confession from this 45-minute phone conversation with the most intimate and demeaning details,” she says. “It’s like taking on a monster.” Kittle wants the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office to train officers to better communicate with and respect victims. For example, Kittle says response times to domestic abuse calls are notoriously long and that officers frequently treat victims brusquely and inconsiderately. But just as the Ansari story points out misogyny more subtle than many men might understand, common male responses to survivors’ stories, even when meant to be supportive, often indicate a sexist substructure of thinking. “It’s such a common response,” Kittle says, “when men hear these stories, for them to say, ‘Who is he? Let’s kill him. Let’s beat him up.’ Well, what happens when it’s the guy you get
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When speaking with CfC members and feminist activists, the name Aziz Ansari comes up more frequently than Harvey Weinstein’s. “It’s what many people call ‘the gray area,’” says activist Maria Isabel Garcia. “The backlash to ‘Me Too’ was already going to happen, but the Aziz Ansari situation prompted such responses from men as, ‘If that’s assault, then all of my sexual encounters have been assaults.’” She’s referring to the January allegations by the pseudonymous “Grace,” who alleged that Ansari pushed her into a sexual encounter when she didn’t want it. Ansari recalled the encounter as “by all indications […] consensual.” The so-called “gray area” lies between an understanding of consent as an affirmative “yes” and the assumption that consent means not saying “no.” In 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Bill 967, requiring the state’s colleges to adopt “an affirmative consent standard in the determination of whether consent was given by a complainant.” “Affirmative Consent” legally defined the word consent as “more than not ‘no.’” But the Ansari story points to an ingrained cultural misogyny more insidious than Weinstein’s overtly baboonish actions. Says Garcia, “When men say, dismissively, that if what Ansari did was assault, then [all] their sexual encounters were assaults, it’s indicative of a culture in which women’s consent is seen as not really that important.” When Cobb, organizer of St. Augustine’s International Women’s Day march, mentions Ansari, she says, “Almost every woman has been in that situation.” It’s a situation for which men and women have been differently conditioned, Cobb says. “She’s with a guy and the guy’s pressing really hard. If anyone can call it consensual,
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beers with every night? These guys are your friends that you’re not holding accountable for the ways they talk about women, look at women, treat women.” Not only does that bromantic bond preclude a more just understanding of women’s rights and subjectivity, but male vindictive protectiveness demonstrates the hierarchical gendering at the root of the problem. Kittle remembers her own situation at the University of North Florida. She was a broke college student, facing eviction from her apartment, when a male friend gave her a place to stay. He “begged and begged” for sex, Kittle says, and she told him she wasn’t interested. He guilted her, saying, “I gave you a place to stay,” and continued to beg, “until I was at the point when I said, ‘I guess so.’ Then when I felt bad about it and told him I hadn’t wanted it, he said, ‘Well, you said yes.’” In describing Ansari’s sexual behavior, “Grace” called him “entitled.” It’s what all men who carry a non-no, instead of an affirmative, standard of consent have in common, an assumption of being entitled to someone else’s body. And in that assumption, the bro at the bar who nods and says he’d like to “tap” or “destroy” “that ass” shares company with pedophiles and slaveowners. Nobody has the right to someone else’s body. Besides, the verb form of “ignorance” is ‘ignore,’ and as James Baldwin wrote in The Fire Next Time, “It is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”
IF SOE, THEN IT’S A GO.
In her IF SOE video, Kittle explains, “A lot of people think consent is just ‘no means no.’ The problem with that kind of thinking is it eliminates this entire gray area that’s actually a lot more realistic” in terms of normal interactions. She refers to the five necessary categories of consent that Planned Parenthood lists on its website. As written there, “Consent is a clear, happy, excited ‘yes!’ Anything else is NOT consent.” Planned Parenthood’s list says consent is 1) Freely given, 2) Reversible, 3) Informed, 4) Enthusiastic and 5) Specific. Kittle wondered how the list might be made mnemonic. So she switched the order, made the acronym, and coined the slogan: “IF SOE, then it’s a go.” Kittle says she expects continued backlash to “Me Too,” but adds, “No progress ever happens without backlash.” Some people who think consent is “tricky,” says Garcia, may not be explicit misogynists. “It’s internalized misogyny,” Garcia says. “If people say, ‘Oh, now I can’t even talk to women,’ that’s not true. And it denies the fact that you can get consent and that it’s important to get consent.” Kittle, who majored in anthropology at UNF, says she moved quickly from thinking in sociological and macro-view cultural models about why men frequently behave misogynistically to wondering, on an individual basis, “What are these men actually thinking?” That shift led her to quickly conclude, “If everybody could know what consent really means, then there are no gray areas.”
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A still from Miguel Chevalier’s Complex Meshes, 2017
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A web of EMAILS, allegations of NONPAYMENT and BRUISED EGOS plague Art Republic as it heads into Year Three
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cross multiple social media accounts, Jessica Santiago vamps for the camera. In New York City, she’s pictured gazing out the window at The Standard Hotel wearing a sleepshirt that bears the words “bless those who curse you.” Later, she’s happily grinning into the camera at the Armory Show with her fiancé, George Georgallis, and the rapper/art collector Swizz Beatz. In Florida, she’s swathed in the crisp white sheets of Nobu Hotel Miami Beach. Back in that city two months later, she’s pictured seemingly contemplating a purchase at the Miami yacht show. It’s a picture of a life that looks ripped from the pages of Vanity Fair or cribbed from Robin Leach, rich and famous and all that. But Santiago isn’t a lady who lunches shopping her way around the world; she’s the CEO, curator and public face of Art Republic, a private nonprofit art entity that is responsible for many of the murals in Downtown Jacksonville. In support of the annual mural expo (2018 will be Year Three) AR has hosted art exhibitions, parties and, in ’16 and ’17, fashion shows, too. She’s a Jacksonville native who’s returned home (she was in real estate in South Florida for several years), and it’s easy to imagine that upon her return to the area, Santiago saw a city ripe for cultural growth and development. Thus, after a stint at Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, she set to work sharing her notions about art with the city. Her idea: street art (murals) married to a luxury lifestyle. “We’re really interested in the art world becoming more accessible to a younger demographic and street art has really become the bridge for that,” she said. In the two years Art Republic has been up and running, she has certainly ruffled feathers in the art scene. “There’s a changing of the guard, and you can either get used to it and join—or you can stay on the sidelines,” she said in a 2016 Folio Weekly interview.
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(Top) A still from Krista Kim’s 8 x 8, 2017 (Right) Stills from Fabian Forban’s piece Proton splits, dualism and the multiuniverse, 2017
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e represent a new way,” Santiago wrote in a Dec. 13, 2017 email to artist Krista Kim, in which she accused the artist of being elitist and demanding (among other things). “I am blown away by the new arrogance and lack of gratitude and respect for all that AR and I have done for you.” Santiago sent the email in response to Kim’s email, in which the artist attempted to secure an overdue payment for her participation in, and her help organizing, the Techism exhibition, which was on concurrent display with the 2017 AR mural expo (Nov. 3-12). “I have expressed appreciation for all of your efforts and achievements. What I want is proper renumeration [sic] for my work for the amount that we agreed to,” wrote Kim. The cause of the rift? Nonpayment to four of the five featured artists (including Kim) in the Techism exhibition. Kim also alleges that the artist fee she was promised was $10,000, not the $5,000 Santiago offered (and is currently considering not paying). “I’m going to let it be a team decision,“ Santiago told FW during an April 12 telephone conversation. Santiago asserts that she was cut out of commission for a sale to a private buyer that Kim and her agent Mikael Kraemer made during the Techism exhibition. (Kim contests this—more on that later.) But this is just the beginning of a tangled situation that has multiple threads and cross-accusations.
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n mid-March, artist Krista Kim reached out to FW, saying she felt poorly treated by Santiago and Art Republic. It’s a feeling that Santiago says is mutual. According to both women, from 2015 to about November 2017, they had a very close working relationship. They spoke almost every day, said Santiago, who emphasized that she believed in the artist’s work enough to facilitate Kim’s “dream project,” that eventually became the Techism exhibition on view at the 100 N. Laura St. building. “I believed in the work. I found it on Instagram and I really wanted to be; I was captured by the work immediately,” said Santiago, who also asserts that the Techism exhibition cost $100,000 to mount, $40,000 of which she personally financed. Further, she said that she spent two years cultivating Kim and helping build a market for her here. (Kim 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018
participated in a 2016 TEDx Jacksonville talk as well as a show at Wall Street Fine Art Gallery.) Kim asserts that she brought in the four other artists featured in the Techism show: REO, Fabian Forban, Miguel Chevalier and one other artist who asked to remain anonymous. “I conceptualized, organized, delivered on my promises and made everything happen for Art Republic,” Kim wrote in a Nov. 21 email to Santiago. As of press time, those artists, with the exception of REO, are awaiting full payment—after being contacted for this story, Santiago remitted partial payment to the others, excepting Kim. She says—and the artists confirmed— Chevalier was owed $35,000; Kim $5,000; Forban $3721.84; and the anonymous artist $3,000, for a total of $49,721.84. Recently, each was paid roughly 50 percent of what they are owed. None of the muralists has complained about payment. The Techism exhibition showcased works that merged technology and humanity. Kim’s manifesto says, “Techism is a movement that recognizes technological innovation as an artistic medium, and encourages artists to promote digital humanism in the formation of culture.” In short, it is a reaction to the algorithm-driven digital world, in that it’s using those same materials. Kim’s work can best be described in terms of swaths of color and stains, à la Mark Rothko, but with a digital edge. Kim prints abstract compositions on Plexiglas (or projects/presents the work on other substrates) by manipulating binary code in photographs. Chevalier is internationally recognized for work ranging from site-specific installations, like those in Paris’ Saint-Eustache Church Voûtes Célestes (Heavenly Vaults) and one for Lumiere London 2018, to pieces that appear more screen-referenced, like the piece displayed in the 2017 Techism exhibit. Fabian Forban’s work is grounded in photography, but influenced by superstring theory. His aesthetic takes cues from Pop mark-making and Surreal tendencies. For the Techism show, he produced a video that moved through photo-referenced work to abstracted compositions. To research this article, FW spoke to artists, former board members, donors, volunteers, vendors and community members who have interacted with Art Republic. We collected dozens of emails and on April 10 met with Santiago, a meeting that was twice
postponed at her request after our initial April 2 inquiry. By the April 10 meeting, which Santiago recorded, Forban, Anonymous and Chevalier had received payments of $2,500, $1,500, and $17,500, respectively. The Techism exhibit ended on Nov. 14, 2017. In a Nov. 28 email to Chevalier, Santiago had promised to send “a payment from me personally right away for you.” More payments were to follow: one in January and one in February. Those did not arrive. In a March 23 email to FW, Chevalier wrote, “We are very disgusted by dishonesty that we had not imagined about Mrs. [sic] Jessica Santiago.” In March, Forban confirmed the past-due amount, which he said created significant financial strain. “After four months, I would really like to see the money,” he said on March 23. However, he was quick to say that his experience in Jacksonville was very positive, “What I did enjoy a lot, and I want to emphasize this, were the days in Jacksonville meeting so many wonderful people! With many of them I am still in contact … . It’s a [pity], the idea was a good one, the event worked out and I fell in love with Jacksonville and its surroundings—no one will be able to steal these memories!” He also said, “I was hoping that if I gave her time and peace that she could get the
money.” He also noted that Santiago was “regularly posting where she was in nice hotels in Miami … .” After Forban received partial payment, he told FW again how positive his experience had been. “There was a great atmosphere; I could see it was doing really great things to your city.”
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antiago alleges that the deficit which left her unable to pay the artists immediately was created by a donor pulling out at the last minute, and a board member failing to raise promised capital, among other reasons. She also says that she informed the artists of the situation, and that it could affect the timeline for payment, prior to their participation. In a Jan. 2 email, Santiago apprised Chevalier of the situation, saying, “As you know, this was our second year for Art Republic and it was a very difficult part of the start-up phase. To make a long story short, we dealt with staff mismanaging money, stealing money from us, lack of experienced staff and over-committing ourselves with the murals and exhibition at one time. I am also still waiting on three major payments that I am extremely dependent on to pay everyone that I was promised two weeks after the event ended. George and I have given all we could to help float the business until all of this comes in and are doing everything we can to tie it all up as quickly as possible.”
Staff and volunteers told FW that they did not have any access to, or responsibility for, AR’s finances. Santiago’s conflict with Kim appears to be as personal as it is financial. “Every other artist who worked for AR has been paid (including Miguel and Fabian) [except] for you and we all know why that is. You have spent a ridiculous amount of much time attacking me and trying to harm my reputation amongst people who know me well and have all watched all I did for you. This has been a fruitless debacle,” wrote Santiago in an April 7 email to Kim. Speaking over the phone from Paris, Kim explained her goals for making their dispute public, saying, “They are my friends; I feel responsible.” The two women also disagree on the amount of payment promised. Kim says she is owed $10,000; Santiago says she is owed $5,000. She also says that Kim owes her roughly $10,000 for a commission to which she was contractually entitled. Kim contests this. Kim further says her participation wasn’t limited to showing her own work. Emails dated July 13, 2017 between the two appear to support this assertion.
on consignment with Wall Street. Santiago refused to provide a copy on the grounds that it included proprietary information. According to Santiago, the real dispute began two weeks before Kim arrived in Jacksonville, when she teamed with agent Mikael Kraemer, who now exclusively represents her interests worldwide. “That’s what’s been so disheartening for me; we had been working together the entire time. The real dispute really began when I got a phone call from her and her agent. To be very candid, that’s when things really began to change. She decided to go a different direction when her agent came on board,” Santiago said. Prior to Kraemer’s involvement, Santiago asserts, “When she and I were together, we were both just trying to make things real, we
were trying to accomplish big dreams, and then [her] coming from a place of ‘this is what I have to have’ was totally new.” Santiago also confirmed that Kim referred artists to her, but says the effort was “totally collaborative,” and done in the spirit of “let’s just make it real [and Kim saying] ‘keep pushing, keep trying.’” Kim said that Santiago doesn’t like Kraemer because “he sees through all of Jessica’s lies and protects my interests.” Regarding the disputed sale, Santiago claims that Kraemer provided her with a verbal assurance. ”Her agent Mikael Kraemer said verbatim to me in phone call, ‘We know the sale derived from you and your efforts sharing Krista’s work. Do not worry, this happens, but we wanted to call you to let you know that we know that it came from you and
will pay the commission on the sale. We took good care of the client.’” Santiago claims that Art Republic/Wall Street Fine Art never received a commission from the sale. She says Kim and Kraemer never disclosed information about the sale, “and then at the very end of everything, they gave me an envelope with $2,000 cash in it.” Subsequently, Santiago says, she texted them to create “some sort of record” because she “could feel things weren’t on the up-andup.” It was then she says that they told her it was a thank-you gift for all she’d done. “For me, that was the end of everything. We put in so much time and money [flights, expenses, room charges], to be taken advantage
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Kim: “[S]hall we include me as an ‘Advisor’ for the Techism show in the presentation? I understand the dynamics and this would be a fair compromise as I do feel that my contributions require official recognition toward programming the show. Also, all written materials in the proposal that I contribute will be ‘by: Krista Kim.’ I appreciate your amazing work behind all of this. It will be an amazing show.” Santiago: “I think that would be a great way to do it.” Kim was not credited as an advisor on any public materials supporting the exhibit. Another problem that Kim and the other artists are facing is the lack of contracts—no signed papers, no proof of agreed participation. “We trusted her,” she said. “We believed in it.” Santiago contends that the exhibition, which was publicly announced on July 24, 2017, came together too quickly for contracts. “Because it was so last-minute, everything was done through email. And that was only because there were artists contracts from the sales side, but it was very last-minute.”
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im did have a contract in place with Wall Street Fine Art, the commercial gallery wing of Santiago’s venture, which Santiago says is “a revenue stream for Art Republic.” The contract is another source of tension and disagreement between the two. Santiago contends that there was a sale of Kim’s work to a private collector in Northeast Florida, and that she, Santiago, was contractually entitled to a 10 percent cut. Kim disputes this, saying the collector was in Ft. Lauderdale and, further, purchased a custom work, one that was not on consignment with Wall Street Fine Art, and thus not covered under the terms of the contract. The contract Kim provided to FW enumerates specific works on consignment, provides for a 10 percent commission on works sold for a period of one year, beginning Nov. 1, 2016, and states it is “between Wall Street Fine Art LLC ... and Krista Kim.” Santiago asserts that the contract applies to all sales within 125 geographic miles; nowhere does the contract Kim provided mention this stipulation. Kim says the artwork that was sold was not
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your defamatory communications, my client will be forced to consider further steps to protect their rights and business reputation.”
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of like that [...] it was such a low blow, and I felt like the very first opportunity that there was to try to take advantage, it was taken immediately with no questions and no remorse.” Kim confirmed that the money was “a thank-you and [also] asking her and George to come to Paris to come visit.”
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n April 12, in response to a question about the speed at which the Techism exhibition came together, Santiago wrote, “It came together because I was able to identify the equipment needed to make it happen. Krista came to me with an idea and no way of knowing how to execute it, no idea of materials, equipment, budget, space. I enlisted the assistance of three architects and fabricators and for months went through the possibilities and no one had any idea how to do it. I came up with the idea of using an LED wall and found the equipment that made it all possible.” Asked in a follow-up whether the material form that the installation took—the large, curved LED screen with sound, and changed colors—was her idea, Santiago replied, “Yes, 100 [percent] the installation was my idea. I searched for months for an option for her based on the picture she sent me which is
attached below, which, as you can see, has no execution laid out what so ever [sic]. [Awave pictured] It was just a pipe dream. Not, to be negative when saying that, that’s what I offer to do, make a pipe dream real.” Kim disputes this. She laughed when apprised of the statement and provided FW emails that support the installation being her idea; though it did not materialize at the scale she planned, due to the constraints of the Techism exhibition, there is clearly a concept of size, of immersion in a room or visible field of color. “This is the kind of art that is projected or presented on a separate presentation format that could be anything,” the artist explained. When asked about Santiago’s statement that she helped materially realize Kim’s dream project, Kim replied, “I don’t live in Jacksonville, and we were not even sure of the venue or the budget. Those three factors completely determined the presentation format of my work. So the extent of her involvement is by procuring the production company and what materials they have on offer for the budget she was giving them … that went with everyone, too, like the famous Miguel Chevalier—she could easily claim that she’s the one who brought the wall to him so therefore she takes credit for the wall.” On March 28, after FW began making inquiries for this story, Santiago’s lawyer sent Kim a Cease-and-Desist letter, commanding her to “immediately cease defaming Art Republic and Ms. Santiago … . Although it is my client’s intention to attempt to settle this matter without the need for further action; if you do not cease
A still from Miguel Chevalier’s Complex Meshes, 2017
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antiago has planned a fundraiser at Preston Haskell’s private residence on April 26. She’s billing the event as a fundraiser for Art Republic 2018, but in a March 26 email to Forban, she wrote, “I have a few donors who are hosting a fundraiser for us on April 26th which will bring in our first influx of cash since last year and I believe I can send out the payments within 10 days or so after that event.” In both previous years, AR failed to raise enough funds. In 2016, Santiago told FW that the budget for the event was $200,000 (total expenses were $215,749). Her IRS filing shows that she raised $127,520 and carried a deficit of $65,899 into 2017. She now says that she has learned from the past and adjusted accordingly. Reflecting on the shortfall, former AR CFO Chris Byers (January 2017 to midDecember 2017) said, “The financial support from sponsors and donors, both hoped for and backed by verbal assurances, did not materialize at the level needed to pay for the event in a timely matter. I would have to think there is still fundraising occurring to pay off the outstanding payables. If there are outstanding invoices, I would hope that artists and vendors have been communicated to about the situation. It’s a tough conversation that must be had.” Byers said that his involvement was limited to setting up a bank account for the organization and organizing a bookkeeper. He says that he resigned from the board because of personal obligations. But referring to AR’s 2017 shortfall, he wrote in an email: “ … [I]nherent in a single event production, there are no other cash flow positive events to offset any shortfalls. I do know that there were some efforts and events that were eliminated when they lacked financial support. With the revenue curve I saw, and my personal estimation of the market’s wants and what it is willing to pay for, I personally would have pulled the plug. But there was hope that the Jacksonville market would come through in supporting downtown art.” Santiago also says that the fashion show component, which featured the brand Luxuryia, was supposed to generate more money than it did. “The major thing that we did was, we counted on a lot of income from the fashion show … . I believe I overpriced the ticket thinking it was our one main event.” Santiago blames some of the shortfall of cash on Chris Patterson, the president of AR’s board in 2017, claiming that he’d committed to raising $100,000 to support the event. “Of which he raised zero,” she wrote in an email. “What’s been disheartening for me is the work that has been done has been incredible. … [T]here’s been a lot of broken promises along the way. Our budget is counted on our board members’ commitments and nobody brought in anything.”
Patterson, CEO of Interchanges, was surprised to be contacted by a reporter. He said that his hoped-for contribution was to steer Art Republic in a more professional manner. Asked about the funds Santiago said he had promised to raise, he replied, “I assumed that I would be able to raise more money with my connections, but most wanted to experience it this year and consider partnering next year since they have never heard of it before. Also, I think the word ‘commitment’ is way too strong. We went around the room in a meeting with about 12 people months before the event and discussed what the goal would be for individuals to raise.” Patterson wrote that he “way overshot with my goal (maybe out of naiveté in my first year trying).” “I don’t know any prudent business owners that spend money based on salespeoples’ goal projections,” he later added. Patterson also wrote that he contributed by helping renegotiate debt from AR 2016, saving the organization $17,000; hosting and paying for a 300-person event; investing $8,500 of his own money; and making introductions. “Obviously there are many other tasks, meetings, recruiting, correspondence, etc. … that were contributed over the last year or so as well. My guess is that Jessica has forgotten about any of these efforts.” Asked about the deficit at the root of AR’s fiscal problems, Patterson replied, “I never knew that we were short of any monetary goals. … She never reached out to me for advice or gave any updates during that time, but in my brief encounters with her, she seemed excited and said that everything was going great and that the money was coming in. That’s why it was such a shock to me to hear that once again she was upside-down.”
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ural artist Nicole Holderbaum, founder of Jax Kid’s Mural Project, had a very high profile involvement with Art Republic’s 2016 inception until about two months prior to the 2017 launch in November of that year. “She’s no [art] expert,” asserted Holderbaum. “She’s all about name-dropping and stuff like that.” She said ended her involvement because she began to feel like the entire project was more to satisfy Santiago’s personal goals than it was to serve the city. Holderbaum describes her participation as “really painful” because it cost her her standing in the art community as well as friendships. After she pulled out, Holderbaum says she tried to warn some of the friends she cared about. She says she later received an email from Santiago with the subject line, “Cease and Desist.” The email advised her that: It is incredibly unethical and unprofessional for you to be contacting Wall Street Fine Art
artists and ArtRepublic’s sponsors, artists and partners slandering the organization and our decisions. I have received over 10 copies of the emails, social media messages and phone calls that you have sent to our contacts. This is not a good reflection on you and is not being received well by those you are contacting. We wish you well in all your endeavors. Asked about the email, Santiago said she sent the note instead of dispatching her lawyer to do so. “My attorney wanted to send it, but I just didn’t want to make things worse, I just wanted her to be aware that I was aware, but not to try to make it anymore hurtful than it needed to be.” Of her time with Art Republic, Holderbaum said, “We thought it was going to be cool, we thought it was going to be good for the city … . “I’ve never dealt with a person like her.”
A close-up of folks interacting with Kim’s piece.
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FILM Playwright Tennessee Williams’ film MUSIC Tommy Talton MUSIC Coucheron & Pridgen ART Robert Goodman LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CALENDAR
INSIDE BASEBALL Armand Rosamilia’s new book takes “FAN SERVICE” to a higher level
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hen the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp first took the field last year, the only thing more abundant than popular skepticism was, well, the shrimp. There was still plenty of shrimp to be had by the time the season was over, but that skepticism had been virtually devoured by a team hungry to succeed. They won on the field and they won at the box office, drawing their biggest crowds ever and earning the respect of a whole new generation of baseball fans. Armand Rosamilia was there to see it all from Section 102, Row J, Seat 1, and he tells the story from a fan’s perspective in his new book, A View from My Seat: My Baseball Season with the Jumbo Shrimp, published by Rymfire Books just in time for the new season. The book’s pacing is brisk, its tone breezy. Rosamilia writes like an old-school
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newspaperman, giving us just the facts as he recaps every game last season. He peppers these reports with inside knowledge gleaned from his years as a fan and extensive interviews with Shrimp players and staff. “There are 25 copies in the Jumbo Shrimp Souvenir Shop at the Baseball Grounds,” he says. “They’re displayed in the counter at the registers. The fun part for me is having a box with me in my car in case they sell out.” A veteran author and podcast host, Rosamilia will be signing copies of the book on Saturday night, April 28, as the team hosts the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. He exchanged emails recently with Folio Weekly. At what point in the season did you decide to write a book about the team? I’d gone away on a book-signing tour in mid-April last year and I’d listen to the radio broadcast of Roger Hoover while on the road. I love selling books and meeting fans, but I wanted to see more Jumbo Shrimp games. While listening to one of the games, the idea hit me to not only write
a book about the inaugural Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp season, but add in my own baseball stories growing up such a huge fan. When I returned home, I set up a meeting with Noel Blaha, the assistant GM of the team, to gauge whether or not they’d be receptive. They were extremely interested and gave me full access to the staff, players and anything else I needed to write the book. How long did it take to write? I started putting it together around the All-Star break and it took me until about November to get it written, rewritten, edited and put together for print and eBook. A View from My Seat: My Baseball Season with the Jumbo Shrimp has been a lot of fun to write. A lot of fans were skeptical when new owners changed the logo before last season. Would you agree with me that the risk paid off quite well? I think it was a great move. I’ve always been a big fan of minor league baseball, so I saw the validity of changing the name and making it fun. When you’re playing teams named Blue Wahoos, Biscuits, BayBears and Shuckers, it definitely makes sense. I love the revitalized energy in the baseball grounds and the logo is awesome. What’s your outlook for the Jumbo Shrimp this season? I think they’ll exceed both on and off the field. Being a season ticket holder and writing the book has definitely made me a fan of the Miami Marlins farm system. I’m rooting for guys to move up and do well. The crowds came last year and never stopped. Attendance was up. The community was and still is behind the team.
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Will they be able to meet or exceed last year’s success? With the various prospects on the field this year, they’ll win some games. In the stadium itself, new additions to the food, games and everything else will keep the crowds coming, too. How many other books have you written? I actually have over 100 releases to my name. I’ve been writing 30 years and full-time the past six. I mostly write crime thriller and horror fiction, but A View from My Seat was too good a project to pass up. What’s the next planned project? Next up will be Dirty Deeds 5, a crime thriller set in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, also involving the Baseball Grounds and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, though this time it will be fiction. Which Jumbo Shrimp players do you expect to make it to the majors this year? That’s a tough question, with so much talent at this level as well as Triple-A. I’d love to see some of the guys I saw last year make the jump, like Austin Dean, John Norwood and Chris Diaz. With the Marlins in rebuilding mode, anyone who gets hot has a chance to get the call-up. It makes it even more exciting this year. Unrelated to the Shrimp–what are your thoughts on Tebow in baseball? Does he have the skills to make it all the way? I think he’s got the raw talent to play any sport. I wasn’t a big fan of his time in the NFL, but that’s probably because I’m an Oakland Raiders fan. I hope they take it slow with him and see if he can adjust to Double-A this year. Rushing him to Triple-A or the Majors would mean they don’t care about Tim Tebow, they care about selling tickets. Hopefully, he proves all his detractors wrong and has a nice, long baseball career ahead of him. If he gets released, I wish him luck in hockey. Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________ A View from My Seat: My Baseball Season with the Jumbo Shrimp book-signing is 6:35 p.m. April 28 at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, Northbank, armandrosamilia.com.
FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS A look at Tennessee Williams’ LAST HIT
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remiering on Broadway in 1961, The Night of the Iguana was Tennessee Williams’s last hit, its popularity with audiences largely fueled by the presence of the formidable Bette Davis (in a comeback bid of her own) as salty Maxine Faulk. Even though the play itself was nominated for a Tony, its only win was for Margaret Leighton, as artist Hannah Jelkes. And the critics were far less enchanted with showboater Davis than were her devoted fans. Her fellow actors agreed with the critics. In fact, at one point during rehearsals, co-star Patrick O’Neal literally knocked her down on stage and started choking her, having been driven to drink and near-madness (like his stage character) by Davis’ considerable ego and its accompanying demands. With the announcement that the film version would star Richard Burton and Ava Gardner, along with Sue Lyon (Kubrick’s “Lolita”), the rabid press and eager public anticipated even more shenanigans. Directed by hard-drinking wild man John Huston, The Night of the Iguana (1964) certainly whetted the appetites of the curious. It was also one of the best film adaptations—with A Streetcar Named Desire and Suddenly, Last Summer of Tennessee Williams’ work, maybe even more so than those predecessors, capturing the author’s lyricism and dramatic soul-searching. Co-written by Huston and Anthony Veiller (who also wrote Moulin Rouge and The List of Adrian Messenger), the movie widens the limited stage design to take advantage of the tropical setting of Puerto Vallarta and its surroundings, earning Oscar nods for cinematography and art and set design. The film’s terrific opening scene is a marvelous example of how Huston broadened the palette of the theater to enhance the flexibility offered, even demanded, when adapting a play into a movie. We see the exterior of an Episcopal church in the pouring rain. Moving inside, we witness The Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton) address his congregation in the style of a traditional sermon about God’s love and human frailty before reverting to a tirade about his own guilt and their hypocrisy, literally driving the hapless churchgoers into the torrent outside. In the play, the scene is described by Shannon to explain why he was banished by his bishop. Huston gives it dramatic visibility, setting the tone for the rest of the film and then cutting abruptly to the film’s impressive title and production sequence, highlighted by close-ups of an iguana counter-posed against an ominous tropical night. The next sequence opens in bright sunlight on the exterior of a Mexican cathedral as Shannon reclines outside, his head covered by a newspaper as he sleeps off a hangover. The ironic contrast delineates without dialogue the fractured identity of Shannon, now reduced to his brochure identity as a “man of God”
conducting worldwide tours “of God’s creation.” Shannon’s clients are a group of middleaged women from Texas Baptist College, headed by formidable Miss Fellowes (Grayson Hall) who’s also chaperoning her niece Charlotte Goodall (Sue Lyon), a sexually precocious 17-year-old obsessed with Shannon. Conflicts and compromising situations involving the three results in Shannon diverting the bus from its scheduled accommodations in town, to seek refuge in an isolated hostel run by widow Maxine Faulk (Ava Gardner) whose husband, Shannon’s close friend, recently died. At the end of his rope and in the throes of a nervous and alcoholic breakdown, Shannon faces his grim “spooks,” his wasted life, his religious faith/despair, his sexual weakness in the company of an iguana who is literally tied up as well, awaiting his doom in the cooking pot. During the film’s titular night, Shannon must cope with vicious Fellowes, shallow flirtatious Charlotte and goodhearted Maxine. A late arrival is another middle-aged woman, Hannah Jelkes (Deborah Kerr), a quick sketch artist, who’s travelled the world with her 97-year-old grandfather (Cyril Delevanti), “the world’s oldest practicing poet” who, during the course of the night, will finish his last poem. Like all Williams’ plays, The Night of the Iguana is a character study more than a drama. Hannah Jelkes is one of Williams’ greatest female characters. The film’s cast was largely (and unfairly) ignored by the Academy; the only Oscar nod went to Hall for her supporting performance. Watching the movie today, though, we savor Burton’s equal blend of histrionics and humor, Gardner’s sensuality and Kerr’s quiet magnificence. Credit John Huston as well for eliciting the nervous energy, questioning intelligence and haunting poetry that was the heart of Tennessee Williams’ tortured genius. The Night of the Iguana is an underrated masterpiece.
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NOW SHOWING JURASSIC PARK Bring blankets and chairs to watch the film at 6 p.m. April 27; $15.95 admission includes picnic dinner, Dinosauria, carousel rides and the film, at Jacksonville Zoo, 370 Zoo Pkwy., Northside, 757-4463, jacksonvillezoo.org. Check website for details. CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Fantastic Woman and Oh Lucy screen. Throwback Thursday is America’s Sweethearts, with John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones and the apparently diminutive Hank Azaria, noon April 26. Adaptation, noon April 28, free. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 697-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. IMAX THEATER Rampage, Pandas 3D, Ready Player One 3D, Amazon Adventure, Extreme Weather and Dream Big screen. Avengers: Infinity War starts April 26. St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. SUN-RAY CINEMA Isle of Dogs screens. Avengers: Infinity War starts April 26. Grace Jones runs May 4-10. Check website. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 19
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ARTS + EVENTS
The Space Gallery presents Other Places, new works and site-specific installations by Wyatt Parlette, Matthew S. Bennett and Nathan Eckenrode. An opening reception is 5:30-9:30 p.m. April 27, Downtown.
PERFORMANCE
GLITTERBOMB SHOW PRESENTS QUEEN BEE An homage and love letter to Queen Bey. Bow down, y’all! 10 p.m. & mid. April 27 at Metro Entertainment Complex, 859 Willowbranch Ave., Riverside, $7, facebook.com/events. A CHORUS LINE Showbiz’s glamour and grind for anyone who’s ever had a dream and put it all on the line for love. Opens 8 p.m. April 28 at T-U Center’s Moran Theater, $38.50-$84.50, fscjartistseries.com. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Apex Theatre Studio tells the stories of East High, 8 p.m. April 27 & 28; 2 p.m. April 28 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., $25, pvconcerthall.com. RED, WHITE AND TUNA Third installment in Tuna trilogy about small-town Texans. Opens 8 p.m. May 4; through May 20 (2 p.m. Sunday matinees) at ABET, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $20, abettheatre.com. BAD JEWS The New York Times wrote, “There’s nothing like a death in the family to bring out the worst in people. This unhappy truth is displayed with delectably savage humor in Bad Jews,” Joshua Harmon’s zesty play. Through May 13 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $15-$26 limelight-theatre.org. COMPANY When bachelor Bobby turns 35, his pals tell him of their marriages–in hilarious ways. Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy runs through May 6 at The 5 & Dime, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, $22-$30, the5anddime.org. STEEL MAGNOLIAS Small-town tears and triumphs. The Southern dramedy runs 7 p.m. April 27 & 28; 2 p.m. April 29 at St. Marys Little Theatre, 1000 Osborne St., St. Marys, onthestage.com, $15 adults, $10 kids. BOEING BOEING A ’60s French farce on an American stage. Lothario Bernard has Italian, German and American airline hostess fiancées. Through May 6 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., $26 admission; $21 seniors/students/ military, theatrejax.com. THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Based on Mark Haddon’s novel of teen math whiz Christopher Boone. Through May 5 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, playersbythesea.org, $23 admission; $20 students/military/seniors. FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE Down-on-his-luck Nomax is encouraged by five guys (yes, named Moe) in a jazzy tribute to tenacity and bravery; through May 6 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$64 + tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.
CLASSICAL + JAZZ
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CHEE-YUN, ANDRES DIAZ, WENDY CHEN The violinist, cellist and pianist perform with classical musicians, 7:30 p.m. April 27 at Amelia Island Plantation Chapel, 36 Bowman Rd., $30-$40, ameliaislandchambermusicfestival.com. ANA VIDOVIC One of the youngest virtuoso guitarists in the world performs 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. May 4 at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, free, fridaymusicale.com. JULIE COUCHERON, ELIZABETH PRIDGEN Two pianists play a four-hand concert 5 p.m. April 29, Ritz-Carlton, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., $40, ameliaislandchambermusicfestival.com. NORTH FLORIDA WOMEN’S CHORALE Kerry Fradley directs Songs of the Seasons. The 35-voice choir concert is “love, during all four seasons of the year.” Free; donations of books, games, snacks and toiletries are collected for servicepeople overseas. 3 p.m. April 29 at Ponte Vedra Presbyterian Church, 4510 Palm Valley Rd., womenschorale.org.
BIKERS, BEER & BEETHOVEN A benefit concert for K9s For Warriors and the Civic Orchestra of Jacksonville’s Musician Scholarship Fund, 5 p.m. April 29 at Intuition Ale Works, 929 E. Bay St., Northbank, free, civicorchestrajax.org. CHRISTINA BIANCO, JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORUS The program is focused on songs performed, composed and written by women. 7:30 p.m. April 28 at UNF’s Lazzara Performance Hall, Southside, $39, $48, $57, jaxchildrenschorus.org. CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS Russian composer/conductor/ pianist Sergey Neller makes his Jacksonville debut conducting a varied yet cohesive program of classical and neoclassical works. 8 p.m. April 27 & 28 at T-U Center, Downtown, $19-$74, jaxsymphony.org. BRASS CONCERT & GALA A live auction offers chances to bid on home concerts with Jacksonville Symphony musicians and the opportunity to conduct the Symphony at next year’s gala. A cocktail hour, dinner and dessert are also featured, 6 p.m. April 29 at Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, 200 Ponte Vedra Blvd., $180 member, $200 nonmember, jaxsymphony.org. EXPLORING THE FACES OF JACKSONVILLE A journey to discover how classical music has been influenced by the many cultures within our community is 5 p.m. April 29 at Ritz Theatre, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, free, civicorchestrajax.org.
COMEDY
FLESH CANOE TO TUNA TOWN The troupe Awkward Silence Jax presents controversial, disgusting, sexy and disturbing sketches because that’s what one does when trying to raise funds to get to the Tampa and Atlanta Fringe Festivals. They’re on 8 p.m. April 26 at The 5 & Dime, Downtown, $15-$20, eventbrite.com. TONY ROBERTS From hit shows to comedy specials, Roberts always has a quick comeback. He’s on 8 p.m. April 26, 7:30 & 10 p.m. April 27 & 28 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $20-$150, jacksonvillecomedy.com. GREG MORTON Known as “Mr. Standing O,” Morton’s been called the ultimate standup. He’s on 7:30 p.m. April 26; 7 p.m. April 27; 7 & 9 p.m. April 28 at The Comedy Zone, 3103 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $15-$18, comedyzone.com. CORAZON CINEMA & CAFE Comedy with Lee Weaver & Ava Fixel, 7 p.m. April 27 at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 697-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. INDIAN BOB, SARA GEIMER, JEANUE FROMAN-BOHALI, ORLANDO SADARIN The comics are on 8:30 p.m. April 27 at Jackie Knight’s Comedy Club, Gypsy Cab Company’s Corner Bar, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 461-8843, $12, thegypsycomedyclub.com. ALAN NEWCOMBE, CHRISTY B They’re on 9 p.m. April 28 at Jackie Knight’s Comedy Club, $12, thegypsycomedyclub.com.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival, a sexual coming-of-age through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s and a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. Audition 1-4 p.m. May 5 at The 5 & Dime, Downtown, facebook.com/events. RIGHT WHALE FESTIVAL POSTER/ARTWORK Each fall, we celebrate North Atlantic right whales and their annual return to the waters off Florida and Georgia, which is the only known right whale calving area. Submit a PDF of your design by May 4, to rightwhalefestival@gmail.com.
FOLIO A+E : MUSIC Longtime singer, songwriter, guitarist Tommy Talton MAINTAINS THE MYSTERY
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n some Southern rock circles, Tommy Talton is considered royalty. In the mid’60s, he was a founding member of cult garage rockers We The People. In the late ’60s, he co-founded Capricorn Records band Cowboy with Scott Boyer, recording often in Jacksonville and Macon, with Duane Allman. Talton also recorded and toured with Gregg Allman when The Allman Brothers Band lead singer embarked on his own, laying down prime cuts on Gregg’s solo debut Laid Back. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, Talton is still thriving today—recording, performing and touring, while pouring his heart into all of it.
HEART and go, “Oh, yeah—I remember that one.” If I don’t use a list like that, I’ll forget songs that maybe I should have played. There’s no limit to my madness.
How do you wrangle that madness into the day-to-day life of a working musician? Before this interview, I was helping out my friend Mike Rizzi, who’s recording with John Driskell Hopkins from the Zac Brown Band. I basically was a guitar slinger for hire, which I very much like. I also record here at home, starting with a cool groove or progression and spouting off phonetic sounds over it. That helps me discover things I didn’t expect. When I’m not playing music, I spend a lot of my time Folio Weekly: You’re one of the few musicians as a carpenter, a painter, a lawn man, or a already coming back to Blue Jay Listening roofer. Creativity is born from using your Room for a return engagement. We’re hands, no matter what you’re using your guessing you dig it? hands for. I love working with wood, and Tommy Talton: There’s much that I prefer when I do that work, it frees my mind and about a listening room like that. It’s more opens up the creative intimate. When you’re mode. Sometimes playing by yourself you can get burnt or in front of 50 to 200 TOMMY TALTON hit a mental block, people, you really 7 p.m. April 28, Blue Jay Listening Room, and the only way to feel the energy from Jax Beach, $25, bluejayjax.com come out of that is the crowd and can to get away from it give it back to them. from a while. While you’re nailing a nail, The only thing I miss is playing off of other I’ll say, “Now I know what I should say in musicians—it’s so nice to have that magic that particular song!” spark. But when you play with a band, you have to stick to a certain program. When you look back on everything you’ve Doing a show on your own, you can change accomplished, what lesson do you still put horses midstream. into practice every day? You have to do this from your heart with no Does that mean throwing the set list out other intention than making the songs you’re the window? working on feel true. You certainly can’t Many times, I will go off and improv simply worry about the money you might or might because of the audience’s reaction. You can not make. Communication is important; and never do that with a full band—play half a out of that communication comes these great song, go off to another song, then come back recordings or musical events that might be and finish the original song—just based off the feeling in the room. talked about forever. You never know exactly how long what you’re doing will be heard, Your last solo album, South of Eden, came but the heart put into the original recipe can out last year. Are you still focusing primarily still hold power for the listener. I can tell on a on that material? recording whether a singer was smiling or not. No, not necessarily. I could never do an You can hear it on certain words or phrases instrumental like “Poblano” on my own. My and know that person was doing it from the set list covers songs that I may have written right place. It makes it a better listen. People can feel and hear that heart. It can’t be denied. 40 years ago to songs I wrote last year. I go by Nick McGregor what I’ve heard from listeners. I’ll have a list mail@folioweekly.com of song titles at my feet, and I’ll glance down
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ARTS + EVENTS PROMENADE THE ALCAZAR Mark Alcazar Hotel’s 130th anniversary and Lightner Museum’s 70th, submit original artwork inspired by Promenade the Alcazar; deadline May 31, lightnermuseum.org/art-contest. SWAMP APE REVIEW Submit visual and written work reflecting Florida weirdness at swampapereview.com. Deadline ongoing.
ART WALKS + MARKETS
DOWNTOWN FIRST WEDNESDAY ARTWALK May’s theme is Crossing Bridges with the Jacksonville Symphony. We think it’s tuning up to be a great event. The Symphony plays 6:30 & 8:30 p.m., Hemming Plaza, jaxsymphony.org. First Wednesday ArtWalk is 5-9 p.m. May 2; 46+ venues of music, restaurants, galleries, museums, businesses, hotspots (some open after 9 p.m.), spanning 15 Downtown blocks. iloveartwalk.com. DIG LOCAL NETWORK Weekly network hosts farmers’ markets: Beaches Green Market, 2-5 p.m. Sat., Jarboe Park, Florida Boulevard & A1A, Neptune Beach; Midweek Market, 3-6 p.m. Wed., Bull Park, 718 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach; ABC Market, 3-6 p.m. Fri., 1966 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach. UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT Self-guided tour of 30+ galleries, antique stores, shops open 5-9 p.m. April 28 and every last Sat. in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 829-6831. ST. AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE FARMERS MARKET Live music, yoga (bring mat, water bottle), flowers, baked goods, art, artisan wares, local produce, 8:30 a.m. every Sat., 1340 A1A S., 209-0367. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET It’s Dance Day, so put on your your your your your boogie shoes and watch dancers from Ballet Arts Centre, Scott Jones Dancers, FSCJ DanceWORKS, Oceanway School of Dance and Monet School of Ballet. Local/ regional art, produce, snacks, 10 a.m. April 28 under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. FERNANDINA BEACH MARKET PLACE Farmers, growers, vendors, local goods, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat., North Seventh Street, Historic District, fernandinabeachmarketplace.com. JACKSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET Open daily dawn to dusk, Beaver Street farmer’s market has an art gallery, food, crafts, etc., at 1810 W. Beaver St., Westside, 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. BERRY GOOD FARMS MOBILE MARKET Accepts WIC and SNAP, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. every Mon. at Pearl Plaza, 5322 N. Pearl St., Brentwood.
MUSEUMS
AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM 1600 Julia St., Amelia Island, 510-7036. Artifacts and information about the journey of vision, struggle, joy and triumph of this historic site, and its contemporary inhabitants. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Thomas Hart Benton & the Navy, through June 3. Fields of Color: The Art of Japanese Printmaking exhibits through Nov. 25. BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Lana Shuttleworth’s exhibit Nature Reconstructed displays through June 3. LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. Decorative and fine art and relics of the Victorian era are on display. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. The Project Atrium artist is Anila Agha. A Patterned Response is on view, and A Dark Place of Dreams revisits the monochromatic assemblages of Louise Nevelson alongside contemporary artists Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock and Kate Gilmore. The show runs April 28-Sept. 9. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Science Fiction, Science Future, through May 13. Hands-on exhibit NANO shows basics of nanoscience and engineering, through June 17. Jim Smith’s Improbable Sci-Show through June 28.
GALLERIES
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THE 5 & DIME, A THEATRE COMPANY 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, the5anddime.org. The show for April is Tony Wood’s Model Relationships. ADELE GRAGE COMMUNITY CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach. Robert Leedy shows new watercolors through April. THE ART CENTER COOPERATIVE 2 Independent Dr., The Landing, tacjacksonville.org. Picasso Kids Art Show through May 18. Jacquelyn Pfaff-Pratt is May’s featured artist. BREW 5 POINTS 1024 Park St. Thony Aiuppy’s new works, The Shape of Color, combine collage, printmaking and painting; through April, thonyauippy.com. FSCJ DOWNTOWN GALLERY 101 State St., Downtown, 633-8100. The exhibit 1,000 Words: The Intersection of Art & Poetry is on view until May 4. HIGH TIDE ART GALLERY 850 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, thehightidegallery.com. New works by Erin Finney, Jami Childers and others exhibit. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Downtown, southlightgallery.com. Collaborative gallery exhibits and sells regional artists’ works. Doug Eng is featured though April. THE SPACE GALLERY 120 E. Forsyth St., Downtown. Wyatt Parlette, Matthew S. Bennett and Nathan Eckenrode exhibit new works and site-specific installations in Other Places. An opening reception is 5:30-9:30 p.m. April 27. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., staaa.org. St. Augustine Plein Air Exhibit: Where Art Meets History is up through May.
STELLERS GALLERY PONTE VEDRA 240 A1A N., 273-6065. Jennifer J.L. Jones and John Schuyler exhibit new works. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA GALLERY OF ART 1 UNF Dr., Southside, unf.edu/gallery. Art + Design Juried Student Annual through April 27. THE YELLOW HOUSE 577 King St., Riverside, yellowhouse art.org. Voices Unearthed celebrates Élan Literary Magazine, which gives voice to young writers and artists on a journey through origin, influence and self-identity. Curated by Douglas Anderson School of the Arts students Evelyn Alfonso, Elma Dedic, Lex Hamilton, Ana Shaw, Kathryn Wallis and Lexey Wilson; on exhibit through May 19. THE VAULT at 1930 1930 San Marco Ave., thevaultat1930. com. Mary St. Germain shows her work in Of Ponderance and Muse, through April.
EVENTS
POETRY OPEN MIC Listen, share and support local poetry, 6:30 p.m. April 25 at Chamblin’s Uptown, 215 N. Laura St., Downtown, 674-0868, free. SHE IS FIERCE News4Jax’s morning news anchor Melanie Lawson offers her personal story and words of wisdom, 5:30 p.m. April 25 at The Second Floor, 1037 Park St., 5 Points, $33, 904tix.com. DINING OUT FOR LIFE Go out to eat, and fight AIDS while you do it, on April 26. For details and participating restaurants, go to diningoutforlife.com. JAX JUMBO SHRIMP VS. PENSACOLA BLUE WAHOOS The Shrimps’ homestand against the Blue Wahoos starts at 7:05 p.m. April 26 (Thirsty Thursday, DJs Swagg & MoneyGud, National Pretzel Day), and continues 7:05 p.m. April 27 (Red Shirt Friday); 6:35 p.m. April 28 (Armand Rosamilia Book Signing, Guy Harvey Jersey Night, Boy Scout Night, Hat Giveaway); 3:05 p.m. April 29 (Youth Sports Day, National Shrimp Scampi Day), and 12:05 p.m. April 30 (Businessperson Special, Charity at Home) at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, Downtown; single game tix run $5-$18, 358-2846. Next up: Tennessee Smokies! SPRING FOR THE ARTS The Cathedral Arts Project honors Marisa Martire as the Guardian of the Arts Award 2018 recipient for her efforts to safeguard and advance the arts on the First Coast, at 6:30 p.m. April 27 at The River Club, Downtown, $150, capkids.org. WOODBINE CRAWFISH FESTIVAL Celebrate all things crawdad! Food, fun and live music, with musicians Randall Bramblett and Adam Wakefield performing on Saturday. 5-9 p.m. April 27; 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. April 28 in Downtown Woodbine, Georgia, woodbinecrawfish.com. CLUB SAVOY Friday night dancing (free lessons 7-8 p.m.), 7-11 p.m. April 27 at Club Savoy, 6354 Arlington Rd., $10 members, $14 nonmembers. BOOK LOFT BOOK SIGNINGS Margaret Rose Gladney signs A Lillian Smith Reader, 1-4 p.m. April 28. Authors on hand for Independent Bookstore Day include Terri Dean, Sue Chamblin Frederick and William Maurer, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 28 at The Book Loft, 214 Centre St., Fernandina, 261-8991, thebookloft.com. PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT A community-wide paint out with selected works featured in a juried exhibition, held through April 29 at St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., $45 registration, staaa.org/pleinair. HARLEM DOWN SOUTH A multicourse brunch collaboration between award-winning executive chef Alexander Smalls and South Kitchen & Spirits, 1-3 p.m. April 28 at 3628 Park St., Avondale, $50, eventbrite.com. TANYA PERRY The author reads and signs copies of Connect with the Divine You, 2-4 p.m. April 28 at Chamblin’s Uptown, 215 N. Laura St., Downtown, 674-0868. MAGGIE FITZROY Local author of Mercy’s Way (love and loss on the Oregon Trail) discusses and signs copies, 7 p.m. April 28 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, bookmarkbeach.com. THE UNION OPEN STUDIOS Light refreshments, new art on exhibit, new artists and entertainment, 3-7 p.m. April 28 at 700 E. Union St., Tallyrand, facebook.com/events. SILENT PARTY JACKSONVILLE Slap on a pair of headphones and rock out with DJs spinning hip hop, R&B, EDM and Top 40, without a sound, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. May 2 at Myth Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St., Downtown, $13.31-$18.98, eventbrite.com. CONNECTING THROUGH MUSIC The fundraiser/concert/ instrument drive (all three Beaches mayors will be on hand!) is held 5:30-8 p.m. May 4 at Neptune Beach Elementary School, 1515 Florida Blvd., 247-5954; tickets are $5/ person; $15/family. Proceeds benefit the school’s Special Needs Program, to include music therapy. Call or text Karen Demuth, 305-299-9247, for details. ARTS AWARDS The 42nd iteration of the event that highlights the doers, makers, thinkers and generous donors in the NEFLa art scene. This year’s event includes an installation by the award-winning Castano Group (Kedgar Volta, Joash Brunet), and music by The Chris Thomas Band, Geexella and Willie Evans Jr. Al Letson is master of ceremonies, 6 p.m. May 5 at TIAA Field, Northbank, culturalcouncil.org. RAICES JAX FESTIVAL National Hispanic Corporate Achievers Inc. celebrates Cinco de Mayo. Artists from Puerto Rico, Mexico and other Latin American countries show works. Traditional music, food and wares also featured. 6-8 p.m. May 5; 1-8 p.m. May 6 at UNF, Southside, $10-$45, raicesjax2018.com. __________________________________________ To list an event, send the time, date, location (street address and city or neighborhood), admission price and contact number to print to Madeleine Peck Wagner; email madeleine@folioweekly.com or mail 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Items run as space is available. Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. printing.
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four-hand in Atlanta, and there was a festival rganizers of this year’s Amelia in Maryland [The Joan Stockstill Godsey Island Chamber Music Festival Concert Series] where they performed billed 2018 as “the Year of the together. This is sort of a new thrust for them, Piano,” and they certainly delivered on that artistically, so who knows where they’ll go?” declaration. Festivities began with classical Coucheron and Pridgen were just kids piano heavyweight Yefim Bronfman on Jan. when the festival began back in 2001, and 16, followed three days later by jazz icon it’s evolved into one of the island’s premier Chick Corea. Those were only the first two of cultural attractions. “Amelia Island, it’s nearly two dozen performances held all over interesting,” says Marasco. “First of all, it’s the island, and now things are ending in fine a working town. Westrock is located here, form on April 29 with festival mainstays Julie Rayonier. And with the beachfront hotels Coucheron and Elizabeth Pridgen teaming like the Ritz-Carlton and the Omni, it’s also a up for a four-hands duet performance that resort facility. With the festival, we have the showcases both women playing the same best of both worlds. We have older venues piano at the same time. like churches, the Courthouse, and we have The Oslo-born Coucheron matriculated the newer venues like Ritz-Carlton and Omni at the Royal Academy of Music in London Amelia Island Plantation. In fact, a lot of the before launching a career that’s already taken folks who support the festival are snowbirds her to four continents. “Julie Coucheron has who have places here where they come during been coming to the festival for many years,” the winter months.” says Dr. Joe Marasco, the festival’s executive “The festival used to always be in May, director. “Her brother David is concertmaster because that’s when symphony musicians were of the Atlanta Symphony.” The Coucherons available after their season, but it’s grown to have performed regularly as the Christiani be from January through the end of April, Trio, including with festival founder and because that’s the time that many of our strong Artistic Director Christopher Rex, principal supporter snowbirds are here,” says Marasco. cellist of the Atlanta Symphony. They have received support from a variety Both Coucheron and Pridgen have of sources ranging from corporations like performed at Carnegie Hall, and both are Rayonier to WJCT longtime associates of and the National the AICMF. “Actually, JULIE COUCHERON & Endowment of the Arts. Elizabeth Pridgen ELIZABETH PRIDGEN Most important, Jack was a young student 5 p.m. April 29, Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island, Melvin of Keyboard when she first worked $40, ameliaislandchambermusicfestival.com Connection has with the festival back graciously donated the in the early 2000s,” use of one of his grand pianos to the festival says Marasco, “and now she has a career since 2005, at a total value of nearly $300,000. of her own.” And what a career it’s been: Organizers are looking forward to vastly Pridgen studied at Juilliard and the Peabody expanding the festival’s mandate, as well Conservatory in Baltimore (at Johns Hopkins University). She’s featured at top venues from as its duration. “Next season, 2019, we are San Francisco to Amsterdam. “Both Julie and going to have the main festival from January Elizabeth have been really strong supporters through April,” says Marasco, “but then in and contributors to the festival,” says Marasco, May, we’re going to have what we call the noting that their collaboration began Spring Institute. Instead of bringing the spontaneously at AICMF 2016. young, newly fellowshipped artists we’re “Last year, we had a concert at the mentoring into the main part of the festival, Savannah Grand senior citizens’ facility; it was we’re going to do that in May. And one of our a free concert, supported by Rayonier, and biggest assets is the Dover String Quartet. It’s they both happened to be in town—Elizabeth becoming an international jewel, if you will; we’re already working to get dates for them was there to play with the young artists, and in 2019, they’re so in-demand. They love Julie was due to play with them the following to teach, and we’re very excited about that.” Friday evening. And they got together, and You can bet on Coucheron and Pridgen also decided to do some four-hand piano at that being on the bill in 2019, and for many years particular concert; it was wonderful. I and to come. others said to them, ‘You’ve got something Shelton Hull good here that’s really worth expanding,’ mail@folioweekly.com and indeed they did. They did some solo
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t was sometime in 1993 that I met Robert Goodman, on the first of thousands of trips to Five Points. His record store, the legendary Now Hear This!, was one of the few in town that carried the new album by my favorite band of all time, the Breeders. He’d sold all his copies of Last Splash, but he sent me down the street to Theory Shop, where Tammy Faircloth hooked me up. Before I left, he suggested I check out his radio show, of which I became an avid listener, right up until its demise, almost 15 years later. The more things change, the more they stay the same, and that’s certainly the case today, 25 years later. There’s a new Breeders album, All Nerve, which I bought from their website instead of a record store, and Robert Goodman is back on the radio, hosting “Forbidden Planet” from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. every Saturday on Planet Radio 97.3FM. The first episode aired on Saturday, March 10, kicking off the new era with “Lannoy Point” by Ride, then cruising through two hours of all our favorites, like Agent Orange, Bad Religion, Beach House, Crystal Castles, Lorde, Pixies, NOFX, Postal Service, Slowdive, Sonic Youth and Superchunk, before ending, most appropriately, with Joey Ramone’s cover of “What A Wonderful World.” It’s been a long road back to this point for Goodman, both personally and professionally, and the business of terrestrial radio has been fundamentally transformed. These changes are hardly lost on him. There’s even a Facebook group now, for fans to track the playlists and make their own suggestions, as well as keep track of the latest news in the wonderful world of independent music.
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Folio Weekly: How did you return to radio? How much time elapsed between the original discussions and going on the air? Robert Goodman: I got a call from Chumley in November of last year, and he asked me if I would entertain the idea of doing “Forbidden Planet” again, and I told him immediately yes. I told him my only concern would be that the station might have a different idea of what “Forbidden Planet” could be in 2018. And he told me it would be my vision, exactly the same arrangement I had last time with Planet Radio. All my conversations have been 100 percent positive and I am completely in control of the content and direction of “Forbidden Planet” 2018. The original show
ran from 1995 until the end of 2007, and the first new episode aired March 10, 2018. I still worked in streaming media after that, as head of programming for IoMedia and RadioIO. How long did “Forbidden Planet” air, and on what station? How many episodes did you do? “Forbidden Planet” started on Planet Radio 93.3, and moved with the station when it became Planet Radio 107.3. My best estimate is that “Forbidden Planet” had approximately 640 episodes from ’95-2007, as did its complementary show “Open House.” How long was Now Hear This! in business? How many customers do you estimate you had during that time? How many albums do you think you sold? Now Hear This! was in business from 1992 until 2001; I closed it when my oldest daughter’s medical needs took me away from the business. This was also about the time music sales started gravitating to the internet. I have no idea how many records I sold, as I started at the Music Shop (which later became the Theory Shop, and Einstein a Go-Go), worked at Camelot Music, managed Coconuts, and opened my own store Now Hear This. I can tell you I helped a lot of people, and sold a LOT of music. How has the radio business changed in the years since your last show? The same ways the entire music industry has changed. People don’t purchase music in the same ways they did in 2007, and there are more ways for people to hear things. The actual industry is very similar; there are just a lot of different styled competitors to contend with. What was the last song you played on the last episode of the original show? Placebo, “Song to Say Goodbye.” I didn’t know it was the last show, which is a common thing for people in broadcasting. For quite a few years, I closed my show with Joey Ramone’s cover of “What a Wonderful World,” and I had recently switched to the Placebo track. I liked playing a “Goodbye” song. I haven’t found a new one yet, if there is to be one. I closed my first new show with Joey Ramone, and I won’t be playing that Placebo track at all. Similarly, I started my first episode of “Forbidden Planet” in 1995 with Ride’s “Leave Them All Behind,” and played it for
the first song on every anniversary episode of “Forbidden Planet.” Since Ride came out with their first album in 20 years last year in 2017, and I returned in 2018, it seemed appropriate to start with them again. After all, we both had a long hiatus, and are back. I started with Lannoy Point from 2017’s Weather Diaries. How many songs do you play in a typical episode? How long does it take to plan out the playlist? The new “Forbidden Planet” will air 30 to 35 songs weekly in two hours. The older “Forbidden Planet” played 48 to 53, as it was three hours long. It takes way more time than I’m willing to admit, a lot of research and listening time, and a lot of organizing and tweaking time as well. Do you organize the playlists by themes, or just whatever strikes your fancy? I look for inspiration in many different ways. I can tell you one thing: I put a lot of thought into what’s going to be played, and always try to make the show more than a new music show. That would be too easy. “Forbidden Planet” was never just a new music show, it was almost its own radio station that aired within Planet Radio. It plays new music, left-of-center classics, and pushes musical boundaries from many different styles. That’s what “Forbidden Planet” always did, and always will do. What was the first record you ever bought, and where did you buy it? First record I ever remember buying was the Sylvers, “Boogie Fever” (7-inch) and I bought it at a department store. The first albums I remember buying are ELO’s Out of the Blue and Rush’s 2112, and I bought them at Abe Livert Records. First 12-inch single was Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight,” also bought at Abe Livert Records. For years, we’ve seen a decline in independent music stores nationwide, and a similar decline in independent radio. Do you think the internet and social media have sparked a resurgence of both? Definitely. The internet is great for grassroots movements, and music is no exception. Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ “Forbidden Planet” airs 8-11 p.m. every Saturday on Planet Radio 97.3FM.
BIANCO Brings It: Singer Christina Bianco performs with the Jacksonville Children’s Choir, 7:30 p.m. April 28 at UNF’s Lazzara Performance Hall, Southside, $39-$57, jaxchildrenschorus.org.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
10,000 MANIACS 8 p.m. April 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall (PVCHall), 1050 A1A N., pvconcerthall.com, $38-$40. WEST BROOK & FRIENDS 8 p.m. April 25, Blue Jay Listening Room (BlueJay), 2457B S. Third St., Jax Beach, bluejayjax.com, free. LEELYNN OSBORN, COOKIN IN DA KITCHEN 6 p.m. April 25, Prohibition Kitchen (ProhibitKitch), 119 St. George St., St. Augustine, pkstaug.com. NOLAN NEAL 7 p.m. April 25, Shanghai Nobby’s (Nobby’s), 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188. THE INDEPENDENTS 8 p.m. April 25, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside, $10. LYDIA LOVELESS, JACKIE STRANGER, DEADKAREN 8 p.m. April 25, Jack Rabbits (JackRabbs) 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $15. TAD JENNINGS 9 p.m. April 25, Surfer the Bar (Surfer), 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 372-9756. GINGER BEARD MAN 9 p.m. April 25, Cheers Park Avenue (Cheers), 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855. RAMONA TRIO, THE SUEDES 6 p.m. April 26, ProhibitKitch. OFFICIAL ROCKVILLIAN PRE-PARTY: BLEEDING IN STEREO, SOULSWITCH, F.I.L.T.H., SCRUFFY BUM & THE FAT MAN 7 p.m. April 26, Jacksonville Landing (JaxLanding), Downtown, jacksonvillelanding.com. ALBERT CUMMINGS 8:30 p.m. April 26, Café Eleven (Café11), 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $20 advance, $25 day of. MADI CARR 8 p.m. April 26, BlueJay. RUEN BROTHERS, SALT & PINE, CAIN’T NEVER COULD 8 p.m. April 26, JackRabbs, $10. JOHNNY MATHIS 7:30 p.m. April 26, The Florida Theatre (FlaThtr), 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com, $49-$79. ERIC COLLETTE & COTY 6 p.m. April 26, Boondocks Grill & Bar (Boondocks), 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove Springs, 406-9497, boondocksrocks.com. OZZY OSBOURNE, FOO FIGHTERS, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, QUEENS of the STONE AGE, POP EVIL, PALACE ROYALE, BLACK MAP, BILLY IDOL, FIVEFINGER DEATHPUNCH, GODSMACK, STONE SOUR, BLACK VEIL BRIDES, AVATAR April 27-29, Metro Park, 1410 Gator Bowl Blvd., welcometorockvillefestival.com, $205-$800. BLACK JACKET SYMPHONY, JAX ROCK SYMPHONY: SGT. PEPPER’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY 8 p.m. April 27, FlaThtr, $29-$49. MIKE SHACKELFORD, LARRY MANGUM, LUKE PEACOCK 7:30 p.m. April 27, Mudville Music Room (Mudville), 3105 Beach Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, raylewispresents.com. KYRA LIVINGSTON, COLLEEN ORENDER 6 p.m. April 27, Seachasers Lounge (Seachase), 831 First St. N., Jax Beach, seachaserslounge.com. EVERCHANGE BAND 8 p.m. April 27, JaxLanding. CHILLULA 9 p.m. April 27, Surfer. BLACK CREEK RI’ZIN, MATT KNOWLES 7 p.m. April 27, Boondocks.
RAISIN CAKE ORCHESTRA, RAMONA 6 p.m. April 27, ProhibitKitch. SOUTHERN BURN BAND 8 p.m. April 27, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SwanneeMusic), 3076 95th Dr., Live Oak, 386-364-1683, musicliveshere.com. CASSIDY LEE, WILDFIRE RISING 5 p.m. April 27, Cheers, $3. TAUK, S.P.O.R.E. 8 p.m. April 27, 1904 Music Hall (1904MH), 19 Ocean St., Downtown, 1904musichall.com, $12-$15. ALLMAN GOLDFLIES BAND 8 p.m. April 27, BlueJay, $25. WINTER WAVE, BANQUET, STRANGERWOLF, MODERN VIOLENCE 8 p.m. April 27, JackRabbs, $8. YANNI 7:30 p.m. April 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre (StAugAmp), 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $34-$129. JOHN AUSTILL 6 p.m. April 28, Seachase. SONDRA HUNT BAND 8 p.m. April 28, SpiritSuwannee. B-SIDES 9 p.m. April 28 & 29, Surfer. AUDIOKICK 8 p.m. April 28, JaxLanding. THE COPPER TONES, TRAE PIERCE & THE T-STONES 6 p.m. April 28, ProhibitKitch. TOMMY TALTON 8 p.m. April 28, BlueJay, $25. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, CARL PALMER 8 p.m. April 28, FlaThtr, $35-$125. THE DOG APOLLO, THE FORUM, DADS DAY OFF, MODEST IMAGE 8 p.m. April 28, JackRabbs, $8. SCOTT McGINLEY, SOULS OF JOY, PAUL IVEY 7 p.m. April 28, Boondocks. THE GRASS IS DEAD 8 p.m. April 28, 1904MH, $12-$15. CHRISTINA BIANCO 7:30 p.m. April 28, UNF’s Lazzara Hall, Southside, clear-give.com, $39-$57. CUZ WE LOVE CUZ: BENEFIT CONCERT JJ GREY & MOFRO & FRIENDS 7:30 p.m. April 29, PVCHall, $40, pvconcerthall.com. SALT & PINE, CIELO 2 p.m. April 29, ProhibitKitch. THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL Noon April 29, Seachase. JOHN MULANEY 8 p.m. April 29, FlaThtr, $39.50-$49.50. BIG BABY 5 p.m. April 29, JaxLanding. THE WILLOWWACKS 6 p.m. April 30, ProhibitKitch. VICTOR WOOTEN, SINBAD, REGI WOOTEN, ROY WOOTEN, BOB FRANCESCHINI 8 p.m. May 1, PVCHall, $43-$68. SOL RYDAH 9 p.m. May 1, Surfer. LARRY MANGUM 7:30 p.m. May 1, Mudville. CASSIDY LEE, WES COBB 6 p.m. May 1, ProhibitKitch. SUWANNEE RIVER JAM: ALAN JACKSON, JOSH TURNER, LOCASH, EASTON CORBIN, TYLER FARR, THE LACS, KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS, WILLIAMS & REE May 2-5, SpiritSuwannee. TOMORROWS BAD SEEDS, SUN-DRIED VIBES, ROOTS OF A REBELLION 8 p.m. May 2, 1904MH, $13-$15. LEELYN OSBORN, COOKIN in da KITCHEN 6 p.m. May 2, ProhibitKitch. KEN ANOFF’S TIME TO DRUM 7:30 p.m. May 2, Mudville. CALAHONEY 8 p.m. May 2, BlueJay, $10. MATT HENDERSON 9 p.m. May 2, Surfer.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ May 3, Café11 STEPHEN SIMMONS, TOM & NATALIE May 4, Mudville
JELLY ROLL, STRUGGLE JENNINGS, YONOS May 3, JackRabbs JERRY SEINFELD May 3, T-UCtr STEPHEN SIMMONS May 3, Mudville LITTLE BIG TOWN, KACEY MUSGRAVES, MIDLAND May 4, StAugAmp DICARLO THOMPSON, PARTY CARTEL May 4, Seachasers GYPSY STAR May 5, Mudville BEN STROK & THE FULL ELECTRIC May 4, Surfer JIM MURDOCK, CITY OF BRIDGES May 4, Cheers HUNTERTONES May 4, Riverside Fine Arts PAUL IVEY & SOULS OF JOY May 4, Hyperion Brewing TODRICK HALL May 4, PVCHall GYPSY STAR May 4, Mudville KEVIN MAINES & the VOLTS May 4, BlueJay SKILLET, FOR KING & COUNTRY May 4, Dailys ZACK DEPUTY May 4, ProhibitKitch MUDTOWN, COSMIC HIGHWAY, FERNWAY, DIGDOG May 4, JackRabbs HERB ALPERT, LANI HALL May 4, FlaThtr JIM MURDOCK, CITY OF BRIDGES May 4, Cheers GAMBLE ROGERS MUSIC FESTIVAL: PETER ROWAN, VERLON THOMPSON, MEAN MARY, VERONIKA JACKSON, BRIAN SMALLEY, PASSERINE, SAM PACETTI, THE STARLIGHT TRIO, THE ADVENTURES OF ANNABELL LYNN, BELL & THE BAND, RED & CHRIS HENRY’S ALLSTAR BAND, WILD SHINERS, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, THE OBSCURE BROTHERS, BRIAN SMALLEY, THE ASHLEY GANG REUNION, REMEDY TREE, ROTAGEEZER, BELMONT & JONES May 4-6, Colonial Quarter, St. Augustine OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW May 5, T-UCtr’s Moran Theater THE NATIONAL, BIG THIEF May 5, StAugAmp BIG JOHN, CAT McWILLIAMS May 5, Seachasers ADAM EZRA GROUP May 5, Café11 MORNING FATTY May 5 & 6, Surfer 5 CENT PSYCHIATRIST CD RELEASE May 5, Hyperion Brewing SKATING POLLY, RUNNERS HIGH, SOUTH POINT BAND May 5, JackRabbs CITIZEN, PRONOUN, SOUVENIRS May 6, 1904MH KRIS KRISTOFFERSON May 6, FlaThtr JACOB HUDSON, STRANGERWOLF May 6, BlueJay THE GIPSY KINGS, NICOLAS REYES, TONINO BALIARDO May 6, StAugAmp KASH’D OUT, TUNNEL VISION, SERANATION May 6, JackRabbs JAMES TAYLOR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND, BONNIE RAITT & HER BAND May 8, VetsMemArena SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL May 8, 1904MH COLIN PATERSON May 8, Surfer VANCE JOY May 8, StAugAmp RUBEN STUDDARD Luther Vandross Tribute May 9, FlaThtr RYAN CAMPBELL May 9, Surfer TFDI & KRISTOPHER JAMES May 9, BlueJay TIMOTHY LEON May 10, BlueJay JOE BONAMASSA May 10, StAugAmp POST MALONE, 21 SAVAGE May 10, Dailys IGOR & THE RED ELVISES May 10, Café11
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC REBEKAH LONG May 11, Mudville STACEY BENNET, SMOKESTACK May 11, Seachasers OZONEBABY May 11 & 12, Cheers REBECCA LONG BAND May 11, Mudville RAMONA May 11, Surfer THE WONDER YEARS, TIGERS JAW, TINY MOVING PARTS, WORRIERS May 11, Mavericks MAGIC GIANT, YOUNG RISING SONS May 11, JackRabbs LARRY FLEET & PHILLIP WHITE May 11, BlueJay CHOIR OF BABBLE, THE NED, KID YOU NOT, ANCESTROS CORD May 11, Sarbez STEVE FORBERT, JESSE BARDWELL May 12, Mudville BIG JOHN, FOLK IS PEOPLE May 12, Seachasers CODY WEBB May 12, Ritz Theatre UNCOMMON LEGENDS May 12, Surfer THE PAUL THORN BAND, HEATHER LEE, JORDAN WYNN May 12, PVCHall CHOIR OF BABBLE May 12, RainDogs FLAGSHIP ROMANCE May 12, BlueJay THE LIFE & TIMES, PLS PLS May 12, JackRabbs MARC COHN & HIS TRIO May 13, PVCHall STEELY DAN, THE DOOBIE BROTHERS May 13, Dailys BRADFORD LOOMIS May 13, BlueJay TWO BY FAUX May 13, Hyperion Brewing RAMONA May 13, Surfer BAHAMAS May 14, PVCHall BAY KINGS BAND SHOWCASE May 14, BlueJay OH WONDER, ASTRONOMYY May 15, PVCHall AARON THOMAS May 15, Surfer ODESZA May 16, Dailys BUCKETHEAD May 16, PVCHall DEAD EYES ALWAYS DREAMING, TODAY’S LAST TRAGEDY, ALBERT THE CANNIBAL May 16, JackRabbs THE SUPERVILLIANS May 16, Surfer LOVE MONKEY May 17, Cheers SAVAGE MASTER, BEWITCHER May 17, JackRabbs DYNOHUNTER, UNIVERSAL GREEN, CHARLIE HUSTLE 8 p.m. May 17 BLISTUR May 18, Cheers DICARLO THOMPSON, STACEY BENNET May 18, Seachasers G. LOVE ACOUSTIC May 18 & 19, Café11 PAUL IVEY & SOULS OF JOY May 18, Hyperion Brewing CHAD PRATHER May 18, PVCHall THE STEELDRIVERS May 18, ProhibitKitch DIALECTABLE BEATS, NICKFRESH May 18, 1904MH RACHEL McGOYE May 18, BlueJay THE ELLAMENO BEAT May 18, Surfer ATLANTIC CITY BOYS, ABAGAIL, JAX SILHOUETTES, MAC GANOE May 19, Mudville STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, THE MASTERSONS May 19, PVCHall CHELSEY MICHELLE, HIGHWAY JONES May 19, Hyperion Brewing BIG JOHN, BILLY BUCHANAN May 19, Seachasers KYLE JENNINGS May 19, BlueJay ZANDER May 19, Surfer NEW ROCK SOUL May 20, Surfer
ROB STERLING, DOUG & HEATHER May 20, Hyperion Brewing RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS May 21, Mudville AARON LEBOS REALITY, MATT HENDERSON, COLIN PATERSON May 21, JackRabbs LINCOLN DURHAM, THE GHOST WOLVES May 22, JackRabbs SHANNON McNALLY May 22, Mudville TREVOR BARNES May 22, Surfer THE BUNNY, THE BEAR, IT LIES WITHIN May 23, Nighthawks WEST BROOK & FRIENDS May 23, BlueJay TAD JENNINGS May 23, Surfer MATTYB & THE HASCHAK SISTERS May 24, PVCHall MORGAN HERITAGE, JEMERE MORGAN, E.N. YOUNG May 24, JackRabbs DICARLO THOMPSON, SMOKESTACK May 25, Seachasers NOUVEAUX HONKIES May 25, Café11 DAMON FOWLER May 25, BlueJay THE INTRACOASTALS May 25, Surfer EVERCLEAR, MARCY PLAYGROUND, LOCAL H May 25, Mavericks BIG JOHN, CAT McWILLIAMS, MAMA BLUE May 26, Seachasers THE BIRD TRIBE May 26, BlueJay BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION May 27, 1904MH AZUL’S ALLSTARS May 27, Seachasers THE B-SIDES May 27, Surfer DAVID CROSBY, JAMES RAYMON, MAI AGAN, JEFF PEVAR, STEVE DISTANISLAO, MICHELLE WILLIS May 27, PVCHall FLIPTURN, SKYVIEW, SOUTH POINT May 27, JackRabbs BRANDON McCOY May 27, BlueJay BIG BOI May 28, 1904MH DIRTY HEADS, AWOLNATION, JUDAH & THE LION, FRONT BOTTOMS, AJR May 27, StAugAmp HYMN FOR HER, DIXIE RODEO May 30, BlueJay THE COATHANGERS, THE WOOLLY BUSHMEN, MERCY MERCY May 30, JackRabbs NICK IZZARD May 30, Surfer AMPLE ANGST June 1, Mudville CHASING JONAH, LANNDS, GABE DARLING June 1, JackRabbs 4 YOUR EYEZ ONLY WORLD TOUR: J. COLE June 2, Mavericks LONGINEU PARSONS June 2, Mudville BREAKING THROUGH, GFM, BLEEDING IN STEREO June 2, Cheers DANCE GAVIN DANCE, I SEE STARS, ERRA, SIANVAR June 2, PVCHall DR. NEU & BLUJAAFUNK June 2, Mudville THE DICKIES, THE QUEERS, BLURG, FRIENDLY FIRE June 3, JackRabbs DISCORD CURSE, BECOMES ASTRAL June 4, JackRabbs GRANT PEEPLES, JAIMEE HARRIS June 5, Café11 JOHN FOGERTY, ZZ TOP June 5, StAugAmp THE ASSOCIATION, THE TURTLES, CHUCK NEGRON, GARY PUCKETT, MARK LINDSAY, THE COWSILLS June 7, FlaThtr LEE HUNTER June 7, Mudville HARRY CONNICK JR. June 8, StAugAmp SIXES, HOLLOW LEG June 10, JackRabbs PARAMORE, FOSTER THE PEOPLE June 12, StAugAmp LA LUZ, TIMOTHY EERIE June 14, Root Down DAVID RYAN HARRIS June 15, Café11 McFARLAND June 15, JackRabbs
SALT N PEPA, SPINDERELLA, KID ’N PLAY, COOLIO, TONE LOC, THEA AUSTIN, C&C MUSIC FACTORY, FREEDOM WILLIAMS June 16, StAugAmp BLUE HORSE June 16, Mudville STARBENDERS, 5 CENT PSYCHIATRIST June 16, JackRabbs PHIL KEAGGY June 16, Murray Hill Theatre BRIT FLOYD ECLIPSE June 17, FlaThtr JESUS WEARS ARMANI, IN CONFIDENCE June 19, JackRabbs LUKE PEACOCK June 20, Mudville COMBICHRIST, WEDNESDAY 13 June 20, Mavericks LATE NIGHT SPECIAL June 21, JackRabbs LUKE BRYAN, JON PARDI, MORGAN WALLEN June 22, VetsMem CHARLIE FARLEY June 22, JackRabbs PIXIES June 24, FlaThtr REBELUTION, STEPHEN MARLEY, COMMON KINGS, ZION I, DJ MACKLE June 24, StAugAmp CITY IN THE CLOUDS, MODEST IMAGE June 24, JackRabbs JOHN THOMAS GROUP June 25, Mudville INANIMATE EXISTENCE, The LAST of LUCY, FIELDS of ELYSIUM June 25, JackRabbs ANGEL VIVALDI June 26, 1904MH AMERICAN AQUARIUM, TRAVIS MEADOWS June 27, JackRabbs DON McLEAN July 27, PVCHall BELLE & THE BAND June 28, Mudville TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, MARCUS KING BAND June 29, Dailys BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB, B-52S, TOM BAILEY June 29, StAugAmp CHEAP TRICK June 30, Dailys SANDRA LYNN June 30, Ritz Theatre LUKE PEACOCK June 30, Mudville THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS, WALK THE MOON, MISTERWIVES, JOYWAVE July 1, Dailys DONNY & MARIE OSMOND July 1, StAugAmp INTERACTIVE INTROVERTS: DAN & PHIL July 5, StAugAmp BARENAKED LADIES, BETTER THAN EZRA, KT TUNSTALL July 6, StAugAmp 3 DOORS DOWN, COLLECTIVE SOUL July 7, Dailys COHEED & CAMBRIA, TAKING BACK SUNDAY July 8, Dailys ANNABELLE LYN July 12, Mudville ORDINARY BOYS July 14, 1904MH CRAIG WAYNE BOYD July 14, Rotz Theatre SLIGHTLY STOOPID, PEPPER, STICK FIGURE July 19, StAugAmp OAK RIDGE BOYS July 20, Thrsh-HrnCtr STEVE MILLER BAND, PETER FRAMPTON July 20, StAugAmp VIOLENT FEMMES, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN July CHICAGO, REO SPEEDWAGON July 22, Dailys FRACTURED FAIRYTALES July 26, JackRabbs DON McLEAN July 27, PVCHall POCO, PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE, ORLEANS July 27, FlaThtr PAUL REISER July 28, PVCHall DISPATCH, NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, RAYE ZARAGOZA July 29, StAugAmp LAURYN HILL Aug. 2, Dailys VANS WARPED TOUR: 30H!3, THE INTERRUPTERS, KNUCKLE PUCK, MAYDAY PARADE, REEL BIG FISH, STATE CHAMPS, THIS WILD LIFE, WATERPARKS, LESS THAN JAKE, THE MAINE,
NEFL favorites JJ GREY & MOFRO perform 7:30 p.m. April 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, pvconcerthall.com, $40.
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC MOVEMENTS, REAL FRIENDS, SIMPLE PLAN, TONIGHT ALIVE, WE THE KINGS, AMITY AFFLICTION, CHELSEA GRIN, DEEZ NUTS, ICE NINE KILLS, KUBLAI KHAN, MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE, SHARPTOOTH, TWIZTID, WAGE WAR, AUGUST BURNS RED, CROWN THE EMPIRE, DAYSEEKER, EVERY TIME I DIE, IN HEARTS WAKE, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, NEKROGOBLIKON, AS IT IS, ASSUMING WE SURVIVE, CAPSTAN, DON BROCO, PALACE ROYALE, SLEEP ON IT, STORY UNTOLD, TRASH BOAT, WITH CONFIDENCE, FAREWELL WINTERS, LIGHTERBURNS Aug. 2, Old Cypress Lot near Met Park COUNTING CROWS, LIVE Aug. 4, Dailys POWERGLOVE Aug. 4, 1904MH O.A.R. Aug. 5, Dailys MARIE MILLER Aug. 12, Café11 JASON MRAZ, BRETT DENNAN Aug. 17, Dailys UMPHREY’S McGEE, SPAFFORD Aug. 18, StAugAmp LINDSEY STIRLING, EVANESCENCE Aug. 20, Dailys JEFF BECK, PAUL RODGERS, ANN WILSON Aug. 23, Dailys STEPHANIE QUAYLE Aug. 25, Ritz Theatre KICK OUT THE JAMS 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR: MC50 (WAYNE KRAMER, KIM THAYIL, BRENDAN CANTY, DUG PINNICK, MARCUS DURANT) Sept. 6, StAugAmp ROGER McGUINN Sept 19, PVCHall LEE ANN WOMACK Sept. 21, PVCHall HERE COME THE MUMMIES Sept. 22, PVCHall DAVID BYRNE Sept. 26, FlaThtr NEED TO BREATHE, JOHNNYSWIM Oct. 2, Dailys (HED)PE Oct. 7, 1904MH SUWANNEE ROOTS REVIVAL Oct. 11-14, SpiritSuwannee GENE WATSON Oct. 13, PVCHall WELCOME TO MOCKVILLE Oct. 13, 1904MH STEEP CANYON RANGERS Oct. 14, FlaThtr KATHLEEN MADIGAN Nov. 15, FlaThtr PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, PVCHall INDIGO GIRLS Feb. 9, PVCHall FAREWELL YELLOW BRICK ROAD TOUR: ELTON JOHN March 15, VetsMemArena
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA
GREEN TURTLE Tavern, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith Thur. Dan Voll every Fri. Yancy Clegg Sun. Vinyl Nite Tue. SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & Pili Pili April 25. Tad Jennings April 26. Hupp de Huppman 2 p.m., Cyrus & Lynszy 7 p.m. April 27. Charlotte P Band April 28. JCnMike, Brian Ernst April 29. Savannah Leigh Bassett April 30. Brian Ernst May 1
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores Wed. Jazz Sun. Live music Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free Tue. & Thur. Indie dance Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance Fri. MONTY’S/Shores Liquor, 3644 St. Johns Ave., 389-1131 Good Wood Band 10 p.m. April 27. Side Hustle 10 p.m. April 28
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
ATLANTIC BEACH Brewing Co., 725 Atlantic Blvd., 372-4116 Ciaran Sontag 8 p.m. April 28 BLUE JAY Listening Room, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 West Brook & Friends April 25. Madi Carr April 26. Allman Goldflies Band April 27. Tommy Talton 8 p.m. April 28. Calahoney May 2 BO’S CORAL REEF Club, 201 Fifth Ave. N., 246-9874 Pete Bones, Rocks n Blunts, Mike Shea, KT Slawson, Brox, Two Wolves, Groove Conductor April 29 CULHANE’S Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595 DJ Heather every Wed. DJ Hal Fri. & Sat. Michael Funge Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 Lunar Coast 10 p.m. April 27 & 28. Samuel Sanders 8:30 p.m. April 29 GREEN ROOM Brewing, 228 Third St. N., 201-9283 Brady Reich April 27. Dustin Bradley April 28 GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. Wed. Michael Smith Thur. Milton Clapp Fri. LYNCH’S Irish Pub, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Evan Michael & Well Wishers 10 p.m. April 27. Sidereal, Party Cartel April 28 MEZZA Restaurant, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer Thur. Mezza Shuffle Mon. Trevor Tanner Tue. RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Redfish Rich April 25. Decoy April 26. Cloud 9 April 27 & 28. Jetty Cats April 29 SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Kyra Livingston 6 p.m., Colleen Orender 9 p.m. April 27. John Austill, Noisy Neighbors, Isaac Corbitt April 28. The Firewater Tent Revival April 29 SURFER the BAR, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Tad Jennings 9 p.m. April 25. Chillula 9 p.m. April 27. B-Sides April 28 & 29. Sol Rydah May 1. Matt Henderson May 2 WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 John Bravo 8 p.m. April 25. Jerry Maniscalco, Catch the Groove April 29
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 Fifield, Runners High April 26. Tauk, S.P.O.R.E. 8 p.m. April 27. The Grass is Dead April 28. Tomorrows Bad Seeds, Sun-Dried Vibes, Roots of a Rebellion 8 p.m. May 2 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall every Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Grand Re-Opening: Spade McQuade, Allstars 8 p.m. April 27. Gypsie Kiss April 28 JAX LANDING, 353-1188 Rockvillian PreParty: Bleeding in Stereo, Soulswitch, F.I.L.T.H., Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh,
Scruffy Bum & Fat Man 7 p.m. April 26. Everchange Band April 27. Audiokick April 28. Big Baby 5 p.m. April 29 MYTH Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 FW’s 31st Anniversary Party, 5:31 p.m. April 25. Dililyankee Mandalla Band, Too Kind April 27. DJ Icey April 28
OVERSET
FLEMING ISLAND
BOONDOCKS, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Eric Collette & Coty April 26. Black Creek Ri’zin, Matt Knowles April 27. Scott McGinley, Souls of Joy, Paul Ivey April 28 WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Robbie Litt 6 p.m. April 26. Love Monkey 9 p.m. April 27 & 28. Chelsey Michelle April 29
INTRACOASTAL
CLIFF’S, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Last Stand 10 p.m. April 25. No Saints 10 p.m. April 27. Smokestack April 28 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Vegas Gray 8:30 p.m. April 27. Yowsah 8:30 p.m. April 28
MANDARIN
ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci April 25 & 29 IGGY’S, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, 209-5209 Jay C Jr April 26. Duval Station April 27. Smooth McFlea April 28 TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 The George Aspinall Band 8 p.m. April 25. Dirty Pete April 27. Redfish Rich April 28
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
CHEERS, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 Ginger Beard Man 9 p.m. April 25. Cassidy Lee, Wildfire Rising 5 p.m. April 27 DALTON’S Sports Grill, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Shayne Rammler April 28. Lonely Highway 7 p.m. May 5 The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on piano Tue.-Sat. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Chelsey Michelle 10 p.m. April 27. Melt Behind the Wheel 10 p.m. April 28. DJ Keith Tue. DJ Covert Thur.
PONTE VEDRA
MEDURE, 818 A1A, 543-3797 Ace Winn April 25 & May 2. Ryan Campbell April 26. Will Hurley April 27. The Groov April 28 TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker April 25. Barrett Jockers April 26. Kevin Ski April 27. Latin Allstars April 28
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 John Mark McMillan, Ascend the Hill, LaPeer 7:30 p.m. April 26 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. The Independents April 25 ROB’S Place, 13715 Lake Newman St., 374-5918 Bill Ricci 7 p.m. April 25 & 27
ST. AUGUSTINE
ARNOLD’S Lounge, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon, 824-8738 Lisa & the Mad Hatters 9 p.m. April 28. DJ Alex Fri. CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Albert Cummings April 26. Matthew Logan Vasquez May 3 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Southern Ruckus 9 p.m. April 27. Vegas Gray 9 p.m. April 28 PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George, 209-5704 Leelynn Osborn 6 p.m. April 25. Ramona Trio, The Suedes April 26. Copper Tones, Trae Pierce & T-Stones April 28. Salt & Pine, Cielo April 29. WillowWacks April 30. Cassidy Lee, Wes Cobb May 1 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Nolan Neal April 25 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Cottonmouth April 27 & 28
SAN MARCO
JACK RABBITS, 15280 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Lydia Loveless, Jackie Stranger, Deadkaren 8 p.m. April 25. Ruen Brothers, Salt & Pine, Cain’t Never Could April 26. Winter Wave, Banquet, Strangerwolf, Modern Violence April 27. The Dog Apollo, The Forum, Dads Day Off, Modest Image April 28 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Mike Shackelford, Larry Mangum, Luke Peacock 7:30 p.m. April 27. Larry Mangum, Ellen Bukstel, Jim Carrick, Tom Edwards May 1. Ken Anoff May 2. Stephen Simmons May 3 RIVER CITY Brewing Co., 835 Museum Cir., 398-2299 Billy Buchanan April 26. Full Circle April 27 & 29. DJ David Sat.
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Anton LaPlume April 26. Black Martini April 27. Robbie & Felix April 28 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Live music weekends. Melissa Smith Thur.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
HYPERION Brewing Co., 1740 N. Main St., 518-5131 PRIDE Benefit: Jasmyn & Strides, DJ Liz Owen 8-11 p.m. April 27. Cindy Davenport, Highway Jones 6 p.m. April 28. Music on weekends PALMS Fish Camp, 6359 Heckscher Dr., 240-1672 Cassidy Lee April 26. Bush Doctors April 27. Billy Bowers April 28. Tony Novelly April 29 _________________________________________ To list a band’s gig, send time, date, location (street address, city/neighborhood), admission and a contact number to print to Madeleine Peck Wagner, email madeleine@folioweekly. com or by the U.S. Postal Service, 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Events run on space-available basis. Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. publication.
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FOLIO DINING The scallops melt in your mouth at Restaurant Orsay, giving new meaning to the word 'tender.' photo by Devon Sarian
AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH
BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. On the water at Centre Street’s end. Southern hospitality, upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F Family-owned café in historic building. Worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh veggies, seafood. Dine in or al fresco under oakshaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub brews beer onsite; imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season THE CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap.com. F For nearly 40 years, family-ownedand-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L Sa-M; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza.net. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20-plus toppings, pie/slice. Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassauhealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa POINTE RESTAURANT, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily
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THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 2nd-story outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310, traysburgerstation.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/ favorite. Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa
ARLINGTON + REGENCY
LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.
AVONDALE + ORTEGA
FOOD ADDICTZ GRILL, 1044 Edgewood Ave. S., 240-1987. F Family-and-veteran-owned place is all about home cooking. Customer faves: barbecued pulled pork, blackened chicken, Caesar wrap and Portobello mushroom burger. $ K TO B L D Tu-Su HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/ favorite. Pulled pork and Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish. Avondale’s Mojo has shrimp & grits, specialty cocktails. Local musicians on weekends. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. 40+ years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362, south.kitchen. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Southern classics: crispy catfish with smoked gouda grits, family-style fried chicken, burgers, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. $$ FB K TO L D Daily
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. INDIA’S, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajaxcom. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.
DINING DIRECTORY METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Since 1989, the family-owned place has offered an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Low-sodium & gluten-free. $$$ BW TO L D Tu-Sa THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. Gluten-free pizzas, desserts. HH specials. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Popular gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and–sure–whiskey. HH M-F. $$ FB B Sa & Su; L F; D Nightly
BEACHES
(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM SUBS, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, 374-5735. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BREEZY COFFEE SHOP WINE BAR, 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211, breezycoffeeshopcafe.com. Local beachy coffee & wine shop by day; wine bar by night. Fresh baked pastries, breakfast sandwiches all day. Grab-n-Go salads, cheeses, hummus. $ BW K TO B L D Daily The CRAFT PIZZA CO., 240 Third St. N., Neptune Beach, 853-6773, thecraftpizzaco.com. F Al Mansur’s new place has innovative pies made with locally sourced ingredients. Dine inside or out. $$ BW L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. 2017 Best of Jax
BIG SHOTS!
OUTERBANKS SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 140 The Lakes Blvd., Ste. H, Kingsland, 912-729-5499. Fresh seafood, burgers, steaks, wings. $$ FB TO D Nightly
DOWNTOWN
BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura St., 802-7745, bellwetherjax.com. Elevated Southern classics in an understated setting, with chef/owner Jon Insetta’s focus on flavors, and chef Kerri Rogers’ culinary creativity. The Northeast Florida menu changes seasonally. Rotating local craft beers, regional spirits, cold brew coffee program. $$ FB TO L M-F CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth, 356-8282, casadoraitalian.com. F Serving Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa SPLIFF’S GASTROPUB, 15 N. Ocean St., 844-5000, spliffsgastropub.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Music venue has munchie apps, mac & cheese dishes, pockets, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. HH M-F. $ BW L D M-Sa URBAN GRIND COFFEE COMPANY, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F URBAN GRIND EXPRESS, 50 W. Laura St., 516-7799. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F. $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa
FLEMING ISLAND
GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly
LAUREN DLUGASCH
Myth Nightclub
333 E. Bay St. • Downtown Born in: Miami Years in Biz: 9 Favorite Bar: Better Days (Miami) Favorite Cocktail Style: Whiskey sour w/ egg white Go-To Ingredients: Lime juice & sour Hangover Cure: 3 Advils & 2 water bottles Will Not Cross My Lips: Jager! Insider’s Secret: Safety words! Celebrity Sighting At Your Bar: Jags players galore When You Say "The Usual": Jameson
winner. Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. F Classic Old World Roman fare, big Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shackburgers.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE MANDARIN. RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 34 years and counting, the iconic seafood place serves blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE BAYMEADOWS.
CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA
CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552. Barbecue, sides, hot dogs, burgers, desserts. Dine in or out on picnic tables. $$ FB K TO L & D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 6586 GA. Hwy. 40 B6, St. Marys, 912-576-7006. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. 30 years of awesome gourmet pizza, baked dishes. All day HH M-Th. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.
MANDARIN + NW ST. JOHNS
AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199, athenscafejax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. 20+ years of Greek fare, serving dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), Greek beers. Vegetarian-friendly. Full bar. Early bird menu Mon.-Fri. $$ FB L M-F; D M-Sa FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd., 739-7070, jaxdiner.com. Simple name, simple concept: Local. Chef Roderick “Pete” Smith, a local culinary expert with nearly 20 years under his apron, uses locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, vendors and the community for American and Southern dishes. Seasonal brunch. $ K TO B L M-F, D F METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Dinner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily
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DINING DIRECTORY BITE-SIZED WE CANNOT LIE: It ain’t your college Ramen
OVERSET
WE LIKE
BIG POTS RAMEN LOVERS REJOICE, BECAUSE CRANE RAMEN has come to Jacksonville! For having a small footprint, the space is quite ample, with two outdoor seating areas: on a front porch-ish area and on a back patio, where a ramen bar lets you see the chef prep bowls and crisp Brussels sprouts, and a second bar from which you order Japanese beer like Asahi and Kirin, traditional sake and fantastic cocktails. Crane’s cocktail program is run by Austin Reinhard, and the choices are refreshing. The gin-based Riverside Sling with Yellow Chartreuse ($10) and after-dinner bourbon cocktail Mr. Nobody with Ginger Syrup, Peychaud’s Bitters and Absinthe Ordinaire ($11) caught my eye right away. Everyone’s all about the ramen and Crane gets the job done. From al dente noodles, halved egg with juicy yolk, tender pork and rich broth, it’s got what you crave, ramen fans! The meat is top notch; tuck into meltaway chashu (roast pork) in the Tonkotsu, or fragrant ginger chicken meatballs in Paitan 2.0. If you’re looking for a broth that isn’t meat-based, the Market Veggie Miso is for you. Order adult ($10.95-$13.50) or kids ($7.95$8.95)—no age limit. Even the kid-sized is a hearty portion, so plan accordingly. You can add items like enoki mushrooms, chicken meatballs, more noodles, etc. Expect to get a little messy—this Japanesestyle bowl is meant to be slurped down in all its flavorful glory. No slurp-shaming.
CRANE RAMEN JACKSONVILLE
1029 Park St., Riverside, 253-3282, craneramen.com
Let’s move along to the small bites menu, or Otsumami, which translates to snacks (usually consumed with alcohol) in English. Never thought I’d be drooling over something besides ramen at a ramen shop—but turns out the Agedashi Tofu Steamed Buns ($5.95) are my must-eat list’s new addition. The soy-marinated tofu is wrapped in dried seaweed, fried and slathered in hoisin. The bao buns are as light and fluffy as yeasty clouds. Each bite brings a blend of textures—the crunch of fried tofu, the lusciously creamy inside, and the softness of the bao. It’s a little like heaven. There’s a star anise pork belly version ($6.95), too, cooked so expertly it may be my favorite pork belly in the city. We all know I fall in love with mushrooms at first taste, but the Bonito & Butter Mushrooms ($8.95) were a cut above; my chopsticks kept going back to pinch another bite. The dish features white and brown beech mushrooms, maitake and shiitake in a rich butter sauce. What more do you want? Another dish on the must-have list is kimchi Brussels sprouts ($8.95). These giant sprouts are tossed with garlic (as is right and good with the world) and mushrooms, but the kick here is the kimchi purée. I’m usually a Brussels purist—salt, garlic, olive oil, nothing else—but I’ve seen the light and kimchi is a perfect companion to Brussels. Dig in, friends, dig in. The small but extremely well-laid-out restaurant is bound to enchant your taste buds, and not just with ramen. Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ If you have a recommendation, shoot me an email at biteclub@folioweekly.com. 32 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018
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ORANGE PARK
THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. Live music. $ FB L D Daily SPRING PARK COFFEE, 328 Ferris St., Green Cove Springs, 531-9391, springparkcoffee.com. F Cozy shop; freshroasted Brass Tacks coffee, handcrafted hot & cold drinks, specialty lattes, cappuccino, macchiato, teas, pastries, sandwiches, breakfast. $ B L D Daily
PONTE VEDRA BEACH
AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. M SHACK NOCATEE, 641 Crosswater Pkwy., 395-3575. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO.
RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. BIG OAK BBQ & CATERING, 1948 Henley Rd., Middleburg, 214-3041. 1440 Dunn Ave., 757-2225, bigoakbbqfl.com. Family-owned-and-operated barbecue joints have smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides and stumps, which sounds damn good. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Small-batch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting single-origin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, hand-crafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based drinks, sandwiches, desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su
EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2017 Best of Jax winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Dine outside at some E-Sts. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. Casual spot offers made-to-order sandwiches, wraps. $ TO B L M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Fresh vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0047, sunraycinema.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. First-run, indie and art films screened. Beer, local drafts, wine, pizza–Godbold, Black Lagoon Supreme–hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejax.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Inside/patio. $$ BW L D Daily
ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. The CORAZON CINEMA & CAFE, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. F Sandwiches, combos, salads and pizza are served at the cinema house, showing indie and first-run movies. $$ Daily THE FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug.com. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 34+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. F Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq. com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A, 217-3256. F SEE BEACHES. WOODPECKER’S BACKYARD BBQ, 4930 S.R. 13, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. F Smoked fresh daily.
Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, turkey: in sandwiches, plates by the pound. 8 sauces, 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su
SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK
THE BEARDED PIG SOUTHERN BBQ & BEER GARDEN, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Barbecue joint Southern style: brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally. 250+ wines. Wood-fired oven-baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 1905 Hendricks Ave. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. Upscale; fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, katsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily HAVANA-JAX CAFÉ/CUBA LIBRE BAR, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609, havanajax.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches are the real thing: big, thick, flattened. Traditional fare: black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, chicken & rice, roast pork. Spanish wine, drink specials, mojitos, Cuba libres. Nonstop HH. $ FB K L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodinercom. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily
SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN
ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Open 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. F Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES.
SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE
ANDY’S GRILL, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Inside Jax Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast, sandwiches. $ B L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. UPTOWN KITCHEN & BAR, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptownmarketjax.com. F Bite Club certified. Fresh fare, innovative menus, farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily
PINT-SIZED British brewer commemorates ROYAL WEDDING
A ROYAL
CASK
OVERSET
IN JUST A FEW WEEKS, GREAT BRITAIN’S HIS Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales will marry Meghan Markle, an American actress. As the big day draws nigh, the feeding frenzy of news coverage is sure to get more frantic. For those not fortunate enough to have received an invitation to the wedding of the year, Windsor & Eton Brewery has come up with a way to celebrate the nuptials with a royal beer. Just a mile from Queen Elizabeth II’s weekend home, Windsor Castle, which dates to the 11th Century, is Windsor & Eton, which brought brewing back to the area on the outskirts of London. The last brewery in Windsor, Burge & Company Brewery, closed in 1931 after being acquired by Meux’s Brewery Co. Ltd. The acquisition was consummated for the sole purpose of acquiring public houses Burge owned. Just as they did for Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton in 2011, the brewers at Windsor & Eton set out to brew something to not only celebrate the royal union, but reflect the couple’s unique character. This beer, a sequel to William and Kate’s, is named Harry and Meghan’s Windsor Knot and includes a few twists that speak of the cultural differences between the bride and groom. Most apparent is the label. Atop a crimson background, it depicts a necktie, half the Union Jack and half the Stars and Stripes. The tie is tied into—what else?—a Windsor knot. In the loop are interlocking hearts styled after the male and female symbols, meant to symbolize a modern marriage of equals. Inside the bottle, the special limited edition pale ale has other surprises that speak of the nationally mixed marriage. As
a nod to the couple’s first public appearance at Toronto’s Invictus Games in 2017, the brewers made use of a special blend of hops called Invicta. To this, they added a dose of West Coast Simcoe hops, in homage to Markle’s California roots. Combined with mated barley from the Royal Farms in Windsor and champagne yeast, this is a well-rounded brew fit for a prince who needs to keep his wits about him. The ABV is 4.5 percent in bottles, 4 percent in casks. Since the beer is relatively new, just released in March, there are few ratings. The original Windsor Knot brewed for Will and Kate’s wedding earned very high ratings on BeerAdvocate.com; similarly, the ratings of the new version on RateBeer.com are positive. “With the authenticity of being brewed here in Windsor in the shadow of Windsor Castle, using local ingredients, it has got a fantastic appeal,” said Will Calvert, 60, one of the directors of Windsor & Eton, in a Reuters article. One question still unanswered: Will the beer be served at the reception, after the ceremony at St. George’s Chapel on May 19. The first edition was banned, along with all other beer, from William and Kate’s wedding. Beer, it was explained, was not a regal-enough potable to be served at such an auspicious event. For Harry, a true lover of beer, this tradition may be overruled. But no one is saying anything … yet.
Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com
PINT-SIZED PINT-SIZ ZED B BREWERS’ REWE RE WERS RS COMMUNITY COMM MMUN UNIT ITY Y A1A ALE WORKS 1 King St., Ste. 101, St. Augustine
BOTTLENOSE BREWING 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, Jacksonville
PINGLEHEAD BREWING COMPANY 12 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park
AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY 1461 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville
DOG ROSE BREWING CO. 77 Bridge St., St. Augustine
RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach
AMELIA TAVERN RESTAURANT & BREWPUB 318 Centre St., Fernandina Beach
ENGINE 15 BREWING CO. DOWNTOWN 633 Myrtle Ave. N., Jacksonville
RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY 835 Museum Cir., Jacksonville
ANCIENT CITY BREWING 3420 Agricultural Ctr. Dr., St. Augustine
ENGINE 15 BREWING CO. 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, Jax Beach
SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY 9735 Gate Pkwy., Jacksonville
ANHEUSER-BUSCH 1100 Ellis Rd. N., Jacksonville
GREEN ROOM BREWING, LLC 228 Third St. N., Jax Beach
SOUTHERN SWELLS BREWING CO. 1312 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach
ATLANTIC BEACH BREWING COMPANY 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 3, Atlantic Beach
HYPERION BREWING COMPANY 1740 Main St. N., Jacksonville
VETERANS UNITED CRAFT BREWERY 8999 Western Way, Ste. 104, Jacksonville
BOG BREWING COMPANY 218 W. King St., St. Augustine
INTUITION ALE WORKS 929 E. Bay St., Jacksonville
WICKED BARLEY BREWING COMPANY 4100 Baymeadows Rd., Jacksonville
BOLD CITY BREWERY 2670 Rosselle St., Ste. 7, Jacksonville
MAIN AND SIX BREWING COMPANY 1636 Main St. N., Jacksonville
BOLD CITY DOWNTOWN 109 E. Bay St., Jacksonville
OLD COAST ALES 300 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine
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CHEFFED-UP She doesn’t want to talk about WHAT HAPPENED to the lamb
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HUNGER EVEN THOUGH THE WEATHER OF LATE FEELS like February, the calendar tells us that it’s springtime in Northeast Florida. No, spring hasn’t quite sprung yet temperature-wise, but c’est la vie, I’m ready for spring cuisine just the same, especially if it features lamb. I’m usually fairly oblivious to celebrities, especially movie or TV stars. Still, it was cool to see Chef Jacques Pépin strolling down the street in front of my cooking school. I also enjoy being stopped on the streets of Fernandina Beach by either former customers or people who’ve seen me on TV (usually HGTV). Even more fun is when I go to a restaurant and hear a voice call out “Chef!” This actually happens kinda frequently. My family likes to tell stories of this restaurant or that where I ignored and abandoned them to go off with the cooks, chef or staff. Just last week, I was checking out Rue Saint Marc—I’d heard they had a respectable in-house charcuterie program and I’m a sucker for housemade pâté, terrines and sausages—when lo and behold, I hear the familiar call of “Chef!” This time, it was the sous-chef Jeremy. Chef Jeremy, a former student of mine, was responsible for the outstanding pork and cherry pâté I was in the process of inhaling, and also the lamb sausage on the Mediterranean flatbread I devoured. Both were so delectable I can’t stop thinking about them. Chef Jeremy should be proud. It’s obvious he learned well from his garde manger teacher: ME! Yes, over the years I have taught a huge number of the culinary talent in the 904. You’re welcome! While lamb does make for a killer sausage—like the one Chef Jeremy made for me—sausage is only one of billions of ways to prepare this slightly gamey, grassy, rich, juicy, umami bomb of a meat. The most common cuts of lamb available in grocery stores are lamb racks or legs. These are easy to prepare, with just a little
seasoning and then roasting or grilling. But don’t be afraid to stray away from the tried-and-true. No, sir. Be brave, be bold, be willing to Chef-Up your lamb prep. Here’s a little recipe to get you thinking about and maybe having lamb. Next week, we’ll continue with our lamb adventure. In the meantime, I think I’ll head to Black Sheep and have something amazingly delicious prepared by yet another one of my former students, Chef Chason. Again, you’re welcome.
CHEF BILL’S LAMB SPICE Ingredients • 1 cup coffee • 1 tbsp. ground ginger • 3/4 cup ground cinnamon • 1 tbsp. ground allspice • 3/4 cup brown sugar • 2 tsp. sumac • Salt to taste, olive oil as needed • 2 lamb racks Directions 1. Mix all ingredients except lamb in 1. a bowl. 2. Rub the lamb racks liberally with 1. olive oil, then sprinkle a good 1. amount of spice blend over the racks 1. and rub into the flesh. Save remaining 1. spice in a sealed container. 3. Let the lamb rest in the refrigerator 1. for several hours before cooking. 1. Use remaining spice as desired during 1. cooking process. Until we cook again,
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ALL ABOUT IT IF THERE’S ONE THING I TREASURE, IT’S THE memory of bedtime stories from puppyhood. Back then, storytime was a treat—a bit of together time at the end of an active day. Though I could not read any of the words in the book, the sounds and smells of pages turning evoked feelings of comfort and happiness. Suddenly the scary shadows in the corner and the mysterious monsters crouching in the closet seemed to vanish. Turns out, we’re a lot more like humans than we may realize—and a program created by the Jacksonville Humane Society illustrates how and why in some rather powerful ways. The idea is simple: Teach kids to sit in front of kennels and read to dogs and cats. The shelter pets really benefit from it, as it gives them a chance to sit with people for long periods of time and build trust. It’s a simple gesture that goes a long way. Pawsitive Reading is a program designed to help shelter pets become more comfortable around people, which ultimately helps them become even better candidates for adoption. Shy dogs and cats learn to relax around new people, while energetic pets learn that calm behavior is desirable. And who knows? Maybe these animals will even learn a new word or two. The program admits school-age children, who attend a short information session, a shelter tour and a free book, courtesy of The Jim Moran Foundation. They’re taught how to read an animal’s body language in a stressful shelter setting. Some animals get very lonely being in a shelter environment and they enjoy the company. To encourage interaction, the young volunteers offer treats to animals when they approach the front of the kennel, positively reinforcing
their behavior. Once the animals associate humans with happy things, they’re more likely to interact with potential adopters and find their furever home. What’s more, youngsters are able to improve their reading skills in front of a non-judgmental audience, helping build confidence in the classroom. It’s a peaceful, quiet activity that encourages kids to develop affection and harmony with animals. They see an animal’s initial fears melt away, which shows them the positive effect they can have. It encourages kids to look at things from an animal’s perspective, understanding they have feelings, too. That helps the children to better connect with animals and people in their lives. It’s also an opportunity to learn about pet adoption and animal welfare issues, and build an understanding of why it’s important to treat animals with compassion. This could help prevent any future animal abuse. It’s amazing how something as simple as reading can have such an incredible impact on animals. But this program goes beyond helping animals become calmer and more confident; it helps children, too, teaching invaluable life lessons about how to treat animals, and creating a new generation of compassionate individuals who want to make a difference in the lives of animals. In the end, both the kids and the animals win. Learn more about JHS Education Programs at jaxhumane.org.
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PET TIP: THIS LITTLE SPIDER OTHER THAN DOGS AND SNAKES, THERE IS ONE OFT-OVERLOOKED pet certain to increase home security: spiders! (Would YOU break in after seeing a sign that says “Beware of Attack Spiders”? Not even close.) Just make sure Spinderella has air holes that aren’t large enough to double as escape hatches, a teensy water dish, plenty of bugs to eat, and maybe some nice sticks and leaves for climbing and *shudder* hiding. Oh, and only one arachnid per enclosure. Spiders eat each other. APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather. To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool body heat. But when you try to get close, your quills hurt each other. The only solution is to move away from each other, even though you won’t get warm. This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma. We want to be intimate with others, Freud said, but we hurt them when we try. Often, a solution is to be partly intimate: not as close as we’d like, only as much as we can bear. Better news: In the next few weeks, neither your quills nor those of folks you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.
to sleep each night: “I will let myself think bigger and bolder than usual.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons, the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series, had a rough start. In the fall 1989, when producers had a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and results were better. When the program completes its 30th season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own project will have as enduring a presence, but like The Simpsons, it’ll eventually be better than it is now. Stick with it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The next seven weeks may be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. Astrological omens suggest it can be. Like to take advantage of the cosmic invitation? If so, try these: 1. Arrange for you and each of your close companions to relive the time you met. Recall and revitalize the dispensation that brought you together. 2. Talk about influences you’ve had on each other and ways the relationship has evolved. 3. Think about inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4. Brainstorm about benefits the connection has given and will give for all the world.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The weeks ahead might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream abandoned in a wasteland, restore a moldering treasure not cared for in a while, or revive a faltering commitment you’ve ignored for reasons not too high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve denied yourself without good cause? Renew that relationship. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to use it? You may be finally ready. Brave enough to dismantle a bad habit hampering self-mastery?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now is one of the rare times when you should be alert for potential downsides of blessings that usually sustain. Even the best things in life may need adjustment. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs may have pockets of ignorance. Don’t be a prisoner of your success or a slave to good habits. Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to an interesting kind of progress achievable in the weeks ahead.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Hollywood’s film industry relies heavily on recycled ideas. In 2014, for example, only one of the 10 top-grossing movies—Interstellar—was not a sequel, remake, reboot or franchise episode. In the weeks and months ahead, you generate maximum health and wisdom by being more like Interstellar than all the rehashes of 2014. Be original! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Long ago, in the land now called Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields, the fertility god who ripened the crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for blessings. As the Roman Empire rose, warriors began to outnumber farmers. The deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In accordance with current astrological omens, you should evolve in the opposite direction. Now’s a good time to transmute aggressiveness and combativeness into fecundity and tenderness. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re sometimes superstitious when life goes well. You worry about overconfidence. You’re afraid if you enjoy yourself too much, you’ll anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood now? It shouldn’t be. Truth is, your intuition is extra-strong and decision-making especially adroit. More luck than usual is flowing in your sphere, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing on it. The weeks ahead will be a good time to build up hunger for vivid adventures and bring fantasies one step closer to being realities. Whisper this as you drop off
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news is that 60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news, at least for historians, tourists and hikers? The Old West town of St. Thomas has re-emerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life: return of a lost resource, vanished possibility or departed influence.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist. In A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? You, too, are a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting in some other way. Ask for it! Seek it! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you afford to hire someone to do your busy work for a while? If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine skills at lounging and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and energetically suggest you should be quiet and placid. Time to recharge psychospiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches. Say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo. Trust the stars in your eyes. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s a favorable time to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches and initiators. My astrological omen-reading suggests you’re primed to learn twice as much, twice as fast about every important subject for the next two years. Future educational needs require full attention. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
NEWS OF THE WEIRD MAYBE MARY POPPINS DROPPED IT
Fort Pierce police pulled over a car on March 21 after observing it swerving down the roadway. As they approached, they smelled marijuana, and during the ensuing search, passenger Kennecia Posey, 26, was shocked— shocked!—when police found two bags in her purse: one containing marijuana, the other cocaine. WPLG TV reported that Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, but told officers: “I don’t know anything about any cocaine. It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.” Posey was charged with felony possession of cocaine and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
SHOULDA GOT THE BOX OF CHOCOLATES
Some people don’t like ham. When Beverly Burrough Harrison, 62, received a gift of ham from her family on Feb. 12, she waited until they left, then set it on fire and threw it in a trash can at Bomar Inn in Athens, Alabama, where she was living. As smoke filled the room, AL.com reported, Harrison took her dog and left without alerting anyone to the fire. As a result, she was spared from being a victim of the ham bomb that blew out the front wall of the room when a can of butane fuel was ignited. Harrison, held at Limestone County Jail on a felony arson charge, could face life in prison if convicted.
NO, THAT GUY’S ON SECOND
Things went from bad to worse for soccer player Sanchez Watt during a match in Hertfordshire, England, on March 6. Awarded a yellow card, Watt was asked his name by referee Dean Hulme, who mistook “Watt” for “What.” As Watt repeated his name over and over, the referee became perturbed and changed the yellow card to red for dissent, BBC Sport reported. Hulme rescinded the card when someone explained the mixup. “I think everybody found it amusing afterwards, including the referee,” said team chairman Dave Boggins. “He was very apologetic.”
GEEZ, JUST HANG UP & DRIVE, EH?
On March 6, Royal Canadian Mounted Police participating in an awareness campaign set up several large electronic signs in North Vancouver, British Columbia, that warned
drivers: “POLICE AHEAD—STAY OFF YOUR PHONE.” Despite that, within just two hours, officers ticketed 89 drivers, 74 for distracted driving, which results in a $368 fine, plus a $175 penalty payment on a first offense. “It is evident there is still more education and enforcement needed to make our roads safer,” remarked Cpl. Richard De Jong to CTV News.
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CHEEZY PEAZY, THAT SUX
Organizers of Brighton, England’s Big Cheese Festival on March 3 were forced to offer refunds to folks after the event failed on several levels: 1. The festival ran out of cheese. 2. The promised “craft” beers were Bud Light and Stella Artois. 3. The wet weather prompted some to call the event #BigMudFestival and kept some cheese-mongers and entertainment acts from getting there. “Sadly, due to this, a few compromises had to be made,” festival organizers said. The BBC reported the fest has offered half-price tickets to next year’s event for anyone who bought a ticket this year.
HE JUST CAN’T HELP IT
Jonathan Rivera, 25, of Hartford, Connecticut, dutifully appeared in Hartford Superior Court March 7 to answer charges of stealing a car on Feb. 17. While he waited his turn, the Hartford Courant reported, parking authority agents outside the courthouse spotted a 2014 Subaru Legacy with license plates reported as stolen. The car had also been stolen from Newington, Connecticut. Police waited for the driver to return and arrested Rivera as he started to drive away in the Subaru. He was charged with second-degree larceny and taking a car without the owner’s permission.
WHAT WOULD THAT GUY IN GAINESVILLE DO?
Phoenix mom Sharron Dobbins, 40, was determined to get her two teenage sons out of bed for Easter services April 1. When one of them sassed her, she grabbed a Taser and “I said, ‘Get up! It’s Jesus’ Day!’” she told KNXV TV. Dobbins said she “sparked” the weapon just to make noise, but the 16-year-old called police, who found two small bumps on the boy’s leg and arrested Dobbins for child abuse. Dobbins told KNXV, “I did not tase my son ... all I was trying to do is tell my kids to put God first.”
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cap, black sweatshirt, Adidas high-tops. Regret no “Hello.” Dinner? When: Feb. 2. Where: Beach Blvd. Quest Diagnostics. #1690-0207 TACO TUESDAYS We were feeding bottomless pits (our kids). You snagged last inside table, offered to share. You: Confident, beautiful, loving, enthusiastic mother. Me: Getting my head examined for not getting your number. Tacos again next week? When: Jan. 30. Where: Tijuana Flats Bartram Park. #1689-0207 MISSED YOUR LAST MESSAGES Waxed non-poetic on Sponge Bob, versions of ‘What a Fool Believes’. Easy, sweet conversation; missed messages before you ditched app (saw notifications; didn’t open). Silly to think you left number for me; feel you did. When: Dec. 28. Where: Tinder in the Duval. #1688-0117 PHOTOBOMB LIONS FOUNTAIN SAN MARCO The photographer turned into my path; I was a jerk, raised my hands. I got closer, you turned and faced me. I sat, put my arm around you; she took our picture. Lunch? Dinner? Drinks? When: Jan. 2. Where: San Marco Square. #1687-0110 HOGWARTS EXPRESS You: Stunning smile, blonde highlights, left hand tattoo. Me: Long hair, glasses, buying brother Hedwig mug. Talked about your Universal experience. I’d be honored to wait in butter beer line with you. When: Dec. 24. Where: Jax Beach Books-A-Million. #1686-0103 HANDSOME ELEVATOR DUDE Rode in elevator with you, leaving. I remember your blue eyes. We were with friends. I liked you. Let’s have a drink together. Me: tall(er)?, long hair, floral dress, combat boots. Think you wore a suit. When: Dec. 15. Where: River & Post. #1685-1227 BEAUTIFUL DRESS, STOCKINGS You: In cute dress, with bow pattern, black cute-patterned stockings. I sat two tables from you and noticed you walk by me to sit down. We briefly noticed each other as I walked out. When: Dec. 7. Where: JTB Chicken Salad Chick. #1683-1213 AIRPORT CUTIE You: Dark hair, slim, black shirt, gray pants, Nixon backpack. Me: Curvy, curly short hair, leggings, leather backpack. Went to Cali same day; back same day. Wanted convo; didn’t see you. Captivating aura. Who/where are you? Don’t go! When: Nov. 15. Where: Jax Intl. Airport. #1682-1206 APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 37
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Special program for special children holds fundraiser to bring MUSIC THERAPY to the classroom
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NEPTUNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAS A WING with seven classrooms, for children with moderate to severe medical, neurological and physical special needs. The school services children from the Beaches and throughout Duval County with diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Rett syndrome, Sanfilippo syndrome and other conditions. A music program was started at the school one-and-a-half years ago to offer kids classes by Bach to Rock or Kindermusik every Monday. The program, which is completely funded by a few parents who create and organize community events, has been very successful. Parents and teachers have noted increased learning and joy since it started and reported improvements in endurance, engagement and attention. We know that it makes a positive difference in their lives; the joy in the classrooms is palpable during Magical Music Mondays. For a parent of a nonverbal special needs child, simply seeing the child’s face light up with a huge smile at the sound of music can be a rare and precious gift. Candice Morris Sample says that the program encourages her seven-year-old daughter Evie’s love for music, which began in infancy. “The notes speak to her and, when given the opportunity to play an instrument, her smile is illumination and it gives her a new voice,” she said, adding that the program has helped foster a particular appreciation for classical music and inspired the family to take Evie to symphony performances, where she is riveted by the sounds, especially those of brass instruments. “Music enriches her life and furthers her development,” Sample says of her daughter, who has Rett syndrome, “which is why we love having this program at Neptune Beach Elementary.” We would now like to add music therapy to the program. Music therapy, or MT, is similar to other modalities such as speech, physical and occupational therapies in its approach and educational requirements for the therapists. The two music modalities would complement each other to create positive outcomes. The current music program brings the children together to learn, experience joy and learning through music and instruction; MT would be conducted by a certified therapist who will utilize assessment, planned indicators of desired behavioral outcomes and document results. There is evidence that when MT is combined with the other above-mentioned therapies, the outcome for children with special needs is significantly improved. Children who may not respond to a single therapy are inspired by MT and start to talk, move and respond. Throughout generations, music has been used as a method for healing physical and cognitive illnesses; it can also neutralize negative emotions and enhance natural stress tolerance levels. For kids with special needs, music therapy can have a powerful impact on
Republicans climb aboard the WEED WAGON
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THIS COLUMN HAS NOTED THE SLOW BUT STEADY uptick of support for decriminalization efforts among the Washington establishment, in open defiance of fed-level recalcitrance on the issue. It started with New Jersey Senator Cory Booker’s legislation to legalize the stuff and purge criminal convictions, a process already well underway in California, with more states to follow. The effort went officially bipartisan with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s move to reboot the country’s historic hemp industry, of which his home state of Kentucky would be a major beneficiary. The newest addition to this club may be the most surprising of all: former Speaker of the House John Boehner, who took to Twitter to tout his joining the board of advisors for Acreage Holdings (formerly known as High Street Capital Management). “I’m joining the board of #AcreageHoldings because my thinking on cannabis has evolved,” tweeted Boehner in the early morning of April 11—incidentally, the same day his successor Paul Ryan (the boho Brutus to his clearance-rank Caesar) announced his retirement from Congress. “I’m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities.” No word on whether he was weeping uncontrollably as his thumbs drummed the touchpad, but having been schooled in the grand Nixonian tradition of crying on command (which Poppy Bush has elevated to an art form in his dotage), one expects him to put this talent to good use on behalf of his new colleagues. Boehner, who’d come down firmly against legalization as late as 2009, has had a proverbial change of heart, which cynics situate closer to his left breast pocket, where he allegedly keeps his wallet. But, hey, a win’s a win, no matter how it happens—that’s been the modus operandi for Republican Party Reptiles from Day One. This is a party line departure, but given the way he was basically Ol’ Yellered out of his previous job, there’s no expectation of loyalty from him. Those of us old enough to remember that brief shining moment when it appeared the GOP’s future might lie in its moderate wing will be waxing nostalgic AF at the Acreage board, which added former Massachusetts governor William Weld (one of the all-time political weirdos) on the same day Boehner joined. The Maine company was founded in 2012, and quickly grew to include investments in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. It changed its name last year, opening cultivation facilities in Illinois and, yes, Florida, while holding at least 22 dispensary licenses, literally from coast to coast. And now they’ve bought themselves a little piece of the Beltway. Worth every penny!
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learning. We at NBE would like to start music therapy in the fall to complement our current music program, but we need community support to do so. Steve Amburn, a licensed music therapist, is currently conducting a 10week pilot at the school to obtain quantitative data to support the initiative in the fall. St. Johns County/Special Needs classes, Nemours and Wolfson all offer communityfunded music therapy programs and we believe that it is a vital modality to assist our children to achieve positive outcomes and make strides to access their potential. Cristel Fernandez, whose six-year-old son Rowen has Sanfilippo syndrome, has seen the positive effect of music firsthand. “Rowen is nonverbal, so music is able to meet sensory needs,” she says. “He is not limited by his abilities and never labeled by what he cannot do, but included for what he can.” The kids in this program have limited ability to communicate and learn, many are immobile or have limited mobility, compromised vision or hearing and are nonverbal. Over the past few years, the parents have managed to fund the music program; however, to maintain and enhance the initiative with MT, we need community support. We are looking for assistance with funding through sponsors, grants and donations. The festival we’re holding features Jacksonville bands The Firewater Tent Revival and Cain’t Never Could, as well as the NBE Xylophone Club, singer and NBE music teacher Leighton Serlo, and our very special children with Bach to Rock, will perform. There will be food, a silent auction, raffle, a kids’ Star Wars costume contest, play areas and much more. So, please, come out, have a great time and help our kids. Karen Demuth mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Demuth is the mother of a Neptune Beach Elementary School student. Connecting Through Music: May the 4th Be With You, is held 5:30-8 p.m., Friday, May 4, at Neptune Beach Elementary School, 1515 Florida Blvd., $5/person, $15/family (up to 6), eventbrite.com/e/connecting-thru-musicmay-the-4th-be-with-you-tickets-44068025651 or call/text 305-299-9247.
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