This Kid is Wild

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THIS WEEK // 8.7.19-8.13.19 // VOL. 33 ISSUE 19

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THIS KID IS WILD Duval pays tribute to Paten Locke

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THE MAIL

WE MUST INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION

THE LEGITIMACY OF JACKSONVILLE CITY government is on the line. I think it is important for the City Council to call for an investigation into what Sam Mousa and Tim Baker did. We also need to know what the mayor knew and when.

As for as I can tell it’s not illegal for the mayor and City Council to sell out the city’s children and schools. Immoral, yes; illegal, no. However, if it’s not illegal for Sam Mousa—while employed by the city—to hatch a scheme with another of Lenny Curry’s top lieutenants, Tim Baker, to extort a halfmillion dollars from the school board, then nothing is. If the mayor coordinated it somehow—and I can’t imagine those two doing anything without Curry’s approval—then this is an even more serious matter, one that the City Council should be duty-bound to investigate.

City Council should immediately call for an investigation, and the last agency that should handle it is the Office of General Counsel. When said office failed to recuse itself in the sales-tax referendum process, in which it has a clear conflict of interest, it proved it could not be trusted to be impartial. Furthermore, the folks in the office are beholden to the mayor for their jobs, and the mayor is very much under scrutiny here.

Again, it’s not illegal to sell out the city’s schools and children. I get that. But public officials should not be conspiring to profit from this sell-out. We need to know if that is what the mayor and two of his top lieutenants did. If the people of Jacksonville don’t have a government they can trust, then we should replace the people governing with people we can. I urge the City Council to do the right thing and call for an investigation.

Chris Guerrieri via email

DCPS, CITY HALL & RACE

RE: Citizens Versus City Council by Terry D. Bork, July 24

THANKS, ONCE AGAIN, TO ATTORNEY TERRY D. Bork for his guest editorial. It’s not possible to ignore the contrast between Bork’s gratis marshaling of his formidable legal and writing skills on behalf of Duval County Public Schools, and perennial City Hall insider Sam Mousa’s proposition to “fix” the School Board’s problems for a sizable fee, a grubby overture that forever soils Mousa’s reputation. (A second fixer named Baker wants a cut of the action.)

Bork’s account of the recent City Hall meetings between School Board members and Council members jibes with that of Florida Times-Union reporter Emily Bloch. Bork’s piece takes a serious, historical turn by positing white racism as the underlying dynamic of the current, unnecessary conflict between City Hall and DCPS. As the student population of Duval public schools has

shifted to majority minority, especially African Americans, so has the GOP become more peremptory in its quest for additional charter schools and individual vouchers. Above all, there exists overwhelming evidence of continuing racial disparities in Duval County.

Mayor Lenny Curry had a golden opportunity to positively demonstrate that he isn’t a practicing white racist by moving to the political center on the Confederate monuments issue. A Special Committee on Historical Remembrances was appointed last year by Aaron Bowman to study the monuments issue and make recommendations. The committee met a handful of times and generated some paperwork (see COJ website). But, in his final act before leaving the Council President’s office, Bowman put the monuments issue in his pocket and exited stage right. The public heard nothing: no recommendations, no policy regarding existing Confederate monuments on public property (which offend a large number of Duval citizens), and no press releases to the media. And not a mumbling word from Curry.

My guess is that as the news gets around that Team Curry has stiff-armed them, we can expect renewed activity and further initiatives from anti-Confederate monument groups. Some want to take down all Confederate monuments; others want to contextualize existing monuments, and plant a stele memorializing Duval County African-American lynching victims in Hemming Plaza. The confluence of these avowedly antiracism activities, and the inevitable lawsuit to be brought by DCPS against Team Curry, will unfold during football season. Will Curry be shunned in the Jags locker room?

Michael Hoffmann via email

I’M WITH GARRETT

I FULLY SUPPORT JACKSONVILLE CITY COUNCILmember Garrett Dennis’ efforts to decriminalize cannabis possession in small quantities.

I believe Dennis is working hard to bring common sense to our criminal justice system.

As an educator, I’ve seen far too many of my former students fall prey to the criminal justice pipeline for committing nonviolent and minor offenses. I also find fault with how our current drug laws are enforced. Such laws tend to favor those of means and those who know their civil rights. I’m only half-kidding when I say some of those who’ll oppose your efforts have themselves engaged in cannabis consumption but managed to get away with it. “There but for the grace of God go I” is no way to approach this serious issue. Let’s please make it a civil citation and focus efforts to stop the violence ravaging our streets.

John Louis Meeks Jr. via email

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BRICKBAT TO SCOTT WILSON The Jacksonville City Council president has taken to airing council business on his personal Facebook page. Naturally, many of his friends “like” his recent work-related posts. If, however, users express criticism, as did one Chris Guerrieri, they are blocked forthwith. Not a good look. Keep it fair, keep it transparent, or keep it off social media.

BRICKBAT TO THE DUVAL COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY The local organization apparently blocked Zachary Johnson after the Democratic voter attempted to publicly take leadership to task. Johnson’s complaint: The party failed to field a mayoral candidate earlier this year, and some senior members, like Tommy Hazouri, actively supported Republican incumbent Lenny Curry in his reelection campaign.

BRICKBAT TO FREDERIC STERRY SMITH Another Florida man has gone viral for bad behavior, Smith was arrested on July 27 and charged with misdemeanor battery for assaulting a restaurant manager in St. Augustine, where he lives (and apparently serves as a minister). He also refused to tip his server, citing his sexual orientation. Meanwhile Smith’s mug shot photo has been scrubbed from SJSO’s website. Rumor has it Smith iws a descendant of one of Henry Flagler’s business partners.

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FOLIO VOICES : POLITICS

SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES

CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION SETS UP DUVAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE KILL THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WHAT ISN’T said tells the story. That was the case at the July 31 organizational meeting of the Jacksonville Charter Revision Commission, where no mention was made of the previous CRC’s decadeold recommendation that a politically appointed school board replace the current elected board. Still, thanks to maneuvers by city powerbrokers (see Florida Rep. Jason Fischer’ s recently announced local bill) and veiled signals by the incoming CRC members, Duval public schools now appear to be at greater risk of takeover than before.

The CRC meets every decade to see if the consolidated government structure established in 1968 needs tweaking, so the first order of business for freshman members was a history lesson on the subject of Consolidation. Again, what wasn’t said tells a story. The presentation gave token mention to the unfulfilled economic and infrastructural promises made to African-American communities for their important support in joining county and city governing bodies. Fact is, consolidation government’s half-century of neglect has contributed to a vicious cycle of joblessness, high crime, gun violence and other social issues in these communities, which directly contributes to the performance of public school students.

Ironically, then, some CRC members are convinced the answer to better education in those communities is to put a city official in charge. Though none of the incoming members specifically mentioned revisiting the controversial proposal— which was rejected a decade ago by the City Council—it is all too clear that this CRC will push for mayoral control of schools. Two CRC members alluded to and expressed veiled support for a school board takeover without ever saying the words. Significantly, these are people who run in circles close to city powerbrokers and the mayor’s office, and often rub elbows with proponents of charter schools and school vouchers.

Enter Jessica Baker. She’s the wife of Tim Baker, the chief political strategist for Mayor Lenny Curry, who wants to control the school system. Curry is behind maneuvers to thwart a proposed 2019 voter referendum on a half-cent sales tax to address long-neglected public school facilities with deteriorating conditions that impact learning. Baker told the group she saw no need to “recreate the wheel that has already been done for us on a lot of issues.” She suggests trying to improve on the former commission’s work and resubmitting it.

Her husband also happens to be the political advisor to several newly elected city councilmembers who get to vote

up or down on CRC recommendations.

Tim Baker made headlines recently for overtures to the school board chair; he pitched his services as a consultant who could usher through the referendum—for a consulting fee of $12,500 a month.

With the thumbprint of the Curry political machine on the majority of the newly elected City Council, and a CRC appointed by a Curry ally, the pins appear to be strategically aligned for a strike on public schools.

The other CRC member who wants to dust off the old CRC report is Heidi Jameson, who works for the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. Members of that lobby group include political donors who sit on the powerful Jacksonville Civic Council (which also supports mayoral control of schools). Jameson is the director of business development for the JaxUSA Partnership, a division of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce that works to attract jobs and private capital investment to a seven-county region of Northeast Florida. She was appointed to the CRC by former City Councilman President (and Curry sycophant) Aaron Bowman.

Bowman also happens to be senior vice president of JaxUSA. Additional support for reviving dead CRC school proposals comes from Lyndsey Brock, who chairs the incoming commission. After the meeting, Brock told news media that he supports a review of prior recommendations that didn’t get passed—the majority of them having to do with schools. He seemed unconcerned by criticism that past CRC proposals for schools were unreliable because the deck was stacked with advocacy testimony and a noticeable absence of input from academic researchers. Brock wrote checks for $25,000 to the Republican Party of Duval in 2017, according to public records.

Matt Schellenberg, a termed-out city councilmember who now sits on the CRC, suggested bringing former CRC members in for a chat. Ali Korman, whose family has financial ties to KIPP charter schools, was named. A Folio Weekly story noted she and a majority of those on the CRC a decade ago had ties to groups that would benefit from school privatization and/or charter schools.

The next CRC meeting is tentatively scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Aug. 14 at a City Hall meeting room to be announced. Future meetings will be held at the same time every other week through September. Those meetings will determine areas of study by individual committees, whose recommendations will be presented to City Council in the first quarter of 2020.

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10 THE MANY COLORS OF BARONESS

Savannah’s Grammy Award-nominated hard-rock quartet presents tunes from its fifth studio album Gold & Grey, which follows Red Album (2007), Blue Record (2009), Yellow & Green (2012) and Purple (2015).

Taste the rainbow, 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, 1904 Music Hall, Downtown, 1904musichall.com, $25.

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9 ROCKFORD PEACHES A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

Community First Night Owl Cinema presents an open-air screening of Penny Marshall’s 1992 comedy starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna.

8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, The Amp, St. Augustine, staugamphitheatre.com, free.

THIS WEEK’S BIGGEST & BEST HAPPENINGS

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11 INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY POP-UP CAT CAFE

Jax Humane Society observes International Cat Day by converting its education room into a pop-up lounge for prospective pet parents to meet future fur-babies while sipping complimentary coffee. Cat adoptions are free for the day.

Noon Sunday, Aug. 11, Jacksonville Humane Society, Southside, jaxhumane.org, $5 donation.

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FRI

9 COWBOY MAN

LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND

The Grammy Award-winning troubadour brings his thoughtful country compositions, lopsided grin and large band to Northeast Florida.

8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, The Florida Theatre, Downtown, floridatheatre.com, $37.50-$69.50.

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10 FAR OUT

CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER FESTIVAL

Riverside Arts Market hosts the 24th annual edition of this Grateful Deadinspired extravaganza. It’s a celebration of Jerry Garcia and all things tie-dyed and psychedelic, featuring live music by Ouija Brothers, Not Quite Dead and Glass Camels.

10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission.

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RAISE THEM UP

#ROYAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP EXPLOSION

This free youth leadership conference empowers, inspires and encourages young people, ages 12-24, to take the initiative in their communities. Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Diana Greene is a keynote speaker. Registration required.

8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, annieruthfoundation.org, free.

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THREE, TWO, ONE, BLAST OFF! NASA IN-FLIGHT EDUCATION DOWNLINK

Meet a real NASA astronaut at this fun, space-themed event sponsored by Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library and Bookmobile Extension Services. Snap a selfie at the spacey backdrop, get in some hands-on STEM activities and sample outerspace treats. Registration required.

Noon-2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, Ponte Vedra Library, 101 Library Blvd., sjcpls.org, free.

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BACK TO SCHOOL!

INAUGURAL BOOKBAG GIVEAWAY

School bells will soon be ringing and the Jacksonville Car Club Coalition (J3C) wants to help local students prepare for a successful year. Free haircuts, bounce houses, music and a free, clear, bookbag with school supplies are featured.

2-6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, Henry L. Brown Kooker Park, 1400 E. 20th St., Talleyrand, free.

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Photo by Eldy Mendez

HIT ’EM WHERE THEY AIN’T JUMBO SHRIMP BASEBALL

The Jumbo Shrimp take on the Mississippi Braves for five consecutive games.

Christian musical artist Jason Gray performs a postgame concert on Saturday; Sunday is Super Hero Day featuring your favorite caped crusaders.

7:05 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, Aug. 7-9; 6:35 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10; 3:05 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11; Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, 301 Randolph Blvd., milb.com/jacksonville, $5 and up.

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10 BRUISE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR ROLLER DERBY

It’s a doubleheader: Jax City All-Stars vs. Windy City Rollers All-Stars, followed

by River City Rat Pack vs. Windy City Rollers Second Wind.

7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, Skate Station Mandarin, 3461 Kori Rd., jacksonvillerollerderby.com, $10.

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10 I THOUGHT THEY SAID “RUM” JAGUARS 5K RUN/WALK

Watch the participants of the annual Jaguars 5K Stadium Challenge run around, through and over TIAA Bank Field. Proceeds benefit the Jaguars Foundation and local youth sports programs.

6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, TIAA Bank Field, Sports Complex, 1stplacesports.com, free to watch.

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10 FREE LUNCH & UNEXPECTED OPPORTUNITIES VETS 4 VETS QUARTERLY GATHERING

The free networking event is for veterans, military families and supporters. All kinds of exhibitors and speakers and a free lunch and coffee are featured.

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Sports Complex, v4vflorida.org, free.

MON

12 LEARN NEW SKILLS

HOME BUILDERS INSTITUTE (HBI) PROGRAM

This 12-week, no-cost, construction industry training and job placement program is open to active duty members (within 180 days of separation/ retirement), their spouses and veterans.

Starts Monday, Aug. 12, Jacksonville Career Center, 2708 W. Beaver St., 451-7087, hbi.org, free.

Must Have Base Access

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SHOWCASE YOUR SKILLS DIY CRAFT SERIES: STITCH & GAB

Participants make go-pouches. Cost covers supplies and one drink per person (soda, beer or wine). Seats are limited; register in advance.

7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13, Dewey’s, NAS Jacksonville, 542-3227, $10/person.

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CARNAVAL!

JACKSONVILLE CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL

This annual four-day event highlights Caribbean culture, food, island music and more. The celebration starts on Thursday, Aug. 8, but the main event is Saturday’s parade at noon!

Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 8-10, Sports Complex, jacksonvillecarnival.com, $10-40.

FRI

9 14 YEARS OF SALSA BACHATA ON THE BEACH

Dance Salsa Jax celebrates its 14th anniversary with a weekend-long dance event.

Festivities begin with a free bachata class on the sand near Jax Beach Pier, 9 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 9, followed by a Latin Addiction session at Avondale Dance Directions on Saturday, Aug. 10; then it’s Rueda in the Park at Riverside’s Memorial Park on Sunday, Aug. 11. dancesalsajax.com, free admission.

SUN

11 HEALTHY HISPANICS SALUD Y BIENESTAR

The local Hispanic women’s organization Mujer Emprendedora hosts its first wellness event. Dr. Inez Ortiz, Dr. Mayredlis Cruz and Franceline Gonzalez discuss the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle. In Spanish.

2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, 3728 Philips Hwy., Ste. 22, Southside, facebook.com/mujeremprendedorajax, free.

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THE LINE UP

HIP HOP LINE DANCING FITNESS CLASS

Healthy Jacksonville and Justice League of Fitness offer weekly fitness classes every Wednesday; participants increase their cardio health in a fun way.

5:15-7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, Florida Department of Health in Duval County, 900 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 253-1489, healthyjacksonville.net/events, free.

FRI

9 CATS ON MATS

“MEOWMASTE” YOGA WITH CATS

Get your yoga on with certified instructor Beth Jordan and some purrfect adoptable kitties. All levels may participate in a one-hour session–bring your own mat. Donations support JHS and its cat adoption program.

5:45-6:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., jaxhumane.org/yoga, $20 donation.

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12 BE STILL

MEDITATION MONDAYS

Tamara Bettes leads a guided meditation session to help the over-stressed achieve a deep state of relaxation and inner peace.

6-7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12, Yoga Den Avondale, 3653 St. Johns Ave., yoga-den.com, $25.

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Moon River Pizza

Brett’s Waterway Café

925 S. 14th Street 904-321-3400

Fernandina Harbor Marina at the foot of Centre Street 904-261-2660

Moon River Pizza treats customers like family.

Cooked in a brick oven, the pizza is custom-made by the slice (or, of course, by the pie). Set up like an Atlanta-style pizza joint, Moon River also offers an eclectic selection of wine and beer. Open for lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Dine in or take it with you.

Overlooking Fernandina Harbor Marina, Brett’s offers an upscale atmosphere with outstanding food. The extensive luncheon and dinner menus feature daily specials, fresh Florida seafood, chicken and aged beef. Cocktails, beer and wine.

Casual resort wear. Open at 11:30 a.m. daily.

The Mustard Seed Cafe 833 T.J. Courson Road 904-277-3141

T-Ray’s Burger Station

Inside Nassau Health Foods, The Mustard Seed is Amelia Island’s only organic eatery and juice bar, with an extensive, eclectic menu featuring vegetarian and vegan items. Daily specials include local seafood, free-range chicken and fresh organic produce. Salads, wraps, sandwiches and soups are available – all prepared with our staff’s impeccable style. Popular items are chicken or veggie quesadillas, grilled mahi, or salmon over mixed greens and tuna melt with Swiss cheese and tomato. Open for breakfast and lunch, 8 a.m.3 p.m. Mon.-Sat. nassauhealthfoods.net

202 S. Eighth Street 904-261-6310

T-Ray’s offers a variety of breakfast and lunch items. In addition to an outstanding breakfast menu, you’ll find some of the best burgers you’ve ever put in your mouth. The Burger Station offers a grilled portabello mushroom burger, grilled or fried chicken salad and much more. The spot where locals grab a bite and go! Now serving beer & wine. Open Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Closed Sundays.

The Pointe Restaurant 98 S. Fletcher Avenue 904-277-4851

The Pointe, located at Elizabeth Pointe Lodge, is open to the public daily from 7 a.m.–10 a.m. for breakfast and 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. for lunch.

Sunday brunch is served one Sunday each month from 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Oceanview indoor and outdoor seating is available. Please call the Inn to reserve a table or to enquire further about the restaurant.

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Duval pays tribute to Paten Locke story by MADELEINE PECK WAGNER photos courtesy of SHANNON COLEMAN

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hat house was paid for with hip hop,” says Shannon Coleman as we stand chatting outside her home. We’re looking at a low-slung Modernist construction in Arlington. It’s hot, and I make awkward jokes about sweating, then small talk about graphic novels, all while stumbling over my words, trying to convey sympathy and compassion. Because Paten Locke, aka DJ Therapy, aka Boris Ortiz, one of Jacksonville’s hip hop ambassadors, is inside, and he is dying.

Coleman is Locke’s fiancée. She is graceful and kind; she’s been communicating with me, trying to finesse a meeting between Locke and Folio Weekly. It’s been tricky, understandably, as Locke is placing an emphasis on time with loved ones, especially his daughter Asha.

One of Northeast Florida’s most productive, prolific and successful artists, Locke has been in demand since the mid-1990s. In a city where creatives of all stripes struggle to find support, he has never had a “day job.” He has always been able to support himself through music, working continuously and collaboratively. Often he is in more than one group at a time, and he’s always focused on more than one thing.

Fans of Duval hip hop will recall that Paten Locke rose to prominence with Asamov, the Jacksonville supergroup that defined an era—at least for a certain crowd of now-forty-something hip hop heads. But long before Asamov landed, circa 2001, DJ Therapy was already a presence on the scene. Those who knew him then describe him as “that guy,” that guy who always knew more about music than you, that guy who had better records than you, that guy who comported himself with more dignity than you, and that guy who would out-deejay or out-rap you. He was also “that guy” you could find spinning records at area venues—places like (more recently) Rain Dogs, where he had a regular night.

A short but by no means exhaustive list of Locke’s projects includes album projects: Asha’s Groove, Studies in Hunger, Food Chain, Clean Plate Club, Super Ramen Rocketship and, rumor has it, a couple more on deck. He was a member of the aforementioned Asamov, alongside Willie Evans Jr., Ja-OneDa and Basic; he also catalyzed The Smile Rays (as a gift to his friends and collaborators, Batsauce and Lady Daisy); he was one of the Steam Mechanics with Arsun Fist and Stillwater, and a member of Stono Echo with Jay Myztroh. He toured internationally with The Perceptionists, and co-owned the Atlanta-Jacksonville record label Full Plate with Dillon Maurer, and was in the experimental(ish) group Dumbtron with Willie Evans Jr. Maurer (Lobsterdamus, Full Plate), recalls their first interaction. Locke had heard him perform and responded: “Who’s this kid from Jax rhyming like that? I need to holler at him and tell him he’s not that great, but he’s all right.”

Even as they became friends, collaborators and business partners, the crustacean-inflected rapper says he has always “been a fan first.” Paten Locke was

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activism. “He was raised going to protests and rallies,” observes Maurer. Though offered in the guise of biographical information, this insight was in response to a question about Locke’s incredible, principled creativity.

On July 5, Locke made a public post on Facebook: He announced his terminal cancer diagnosis and his choice to “live whatever I have left.” He also wrote, “I still got them beats and raps […] I’m still me.” The triple-threat performer—rapper, deejay, producer—would keep creating until the end; what’s more, he would keep relishing his creative partnerships with the people who helped him define his life.

In turn, to a person, they say he’s helped to transform theirs.

Joe Cox, who performed in Asamov as Ja-One-Da and now owns the Bofresco clothing brand, will never forget the night he met Locke: “I first met him on the Westside, off 103rd Street. It was in the parking lot of either Miami Subs or Burger King. At that time a lot of creators or artists in the scene use to always hit up that spot after we played basketball at Cecil Field. And I remember one night after eating, walking out into the parking lot, and Paten pulling up in a black

Big Bucks Crew,) recalls, “When we were coming up, it was always ‘skill or be skilled,’ and he was always the best at everything. The first and only time I got into a freestyle battle, I was 20 years old. I had a silver chain and my baggy skateboard pants on. I go up first, and it’s against Therapy. He just destroys me, like absolutely. I tried to say one slick line about him, and it was all downhill from there.”

Yet “he really operates from a position of love,” explains Evans. “He could pour all his knowledge into these people and watch them grow.”

It is important to note that Locke’s love is a rigorous, challenging thing. Al Letson (poet, playwright and host of NPR’s Reveal), says, “In any room he’s in, Paten is always the most talented person.

That doesn’t always make him the easiest person to work with.” (There are several jokes circulating on social media about Locke’s propensity to kick folks out of his house and studio—but no one yet has gone on record to admit to actually having been removed.)

In preparing for this article, I have heard snatched conversations whispered in passing, and in-depth talks about

showed up at his house, and he pulled out a drawer and he had hundreds and hundreds of floppy disks, full of beats,” says Evans with a laugh. About that first beat? “It was a first beat,” he answers diplomatically, “but it wasn’t wack.”

Asked about the kind of work ethic it takes to makes hundreds and hundreds of thing, Jones comments, “He’s a machine, the way he creates is just continuously pumping out every idea he has—and he never runs out of ideas.”

That commitment to ideas is a leitmotif that ran through all of Locke’s life.

One colleague compared him to a mad scientist who didn’t care about dollars.

Almost everyone interviewed for this article can recall the first time they saw Locke, and the first time he spoke to them.

For contemporaries like Evans, Cox, Mas Appeal and Jones, there was a sense of give-and-take, of camaraderie and family.

For the younger artists, there was a sense of being seen and understood.

Mas Appeal recalls that there was a time when he frequented Locke’s house.

They were working on projects together, but their connection went deeper. They talked about the challenges of raising children (a connection he shared with

Making music with Paten felt like I had snuck backstage at the illest Ma Mak show ever, and everyone back there acted like I belonged.

his mentor: “He’s, like, constantly playing chess—constantly moving seven pieces at a time.”

Like many folks, Maurer speaks of Locke as an aesthete and collector.

Dedicated record collecting (digging) was a huge part of his process. The joke was always that not only did Locke “have about a million records,” but that he’d need to have 17 of a particular album before he could let even one go.

But even more remarkable than the depth of his collection was the scope of his knowledge. Locke commanded an archivist’s mastery of the materials on all the records he owned—and an ability to pluck just the right track at the right time.

Mal Jones (Lyricist Live) explained that Locke would research how record stores intersected with a city. He saw record shops as integral parts of a music community. He would find out information about the store owners, and go from there. He also wanted the rarest, hardest-to-find things, and would only ever sample from a record he owned.

A native of Boston, Locke moved to Jacksonville circa 1994. A 2011 Florida Times-Union article noted that it was hard to pin down Locke’s age (the author guessed it was “between 30 and 85”). So too is it difficult to pin down the exact year he materialized in Northeast Florida.

The son of Ron and Cheryl Locke—a lawyer and nurse, respectively—Paten grew up in a home of intellectualism and

[Nissan] Maxima, and Paten jumping out of the car with the doors left wide open, rapping as if he was performing while his [own] vocals played in the background out of the car. It was mad random. In my mind, I was thinking, ‘This kid is wild,’ but the song he was performing was really dope. I laugh every time I think about it.”

Cox’s description is a foreshadow of a career that would defy the boundaries of Jacksonville, and in so doing help define hip hop in Duval (Duuuval for those of you who recall The Cave, The Voodoo Lounge and Thee Imperial). A polymath with a near eidetic memory (though he couldn’t hum a tune, “like at all”), in the 20-plus years of his career, he went from a cutthroat B-boy (“Oh, you’re good, I have to destroy you”) to a mentor and connoisseur of hip hop music. Which is not to say he wouldn’t still call out wackness, but he’d always tell its author how to make it better.

Locke’s guiding philosophy was: “Don’t monkey with the funky.” What does that mean? Evans (Asamov, Dumbtron) explains the concept: “It was about appreciating the beauty in simplicity.”

“I always want to impress him, and I always kind of looked for his approval even though I knew I wouldn’t get it,” says rapper Mr. Al Pete with a laugh.

He wasn’t the only one. Locke once told rapper Tough Junkie, “Ah, you suck. Do more work.” Ian Ranne (Hip Hop Hell,

what an artist like Locke means to his community. Rapper and deejay Mas Appeal (Hip Hop & Hookah) says, “Yeah, he’s an asshole, but it was tough love.

His ear is sonically light years ahead of everyone.” One night, circa 1995, Letson recalled, one of his spoken-word poetry events turned into a freestyle battle, “and Paten came from behind the booth and ate everyone for lunch, dinner and the buffet the next morning. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”

The consensus, about what he’s accomplished and how he charged a scene with his own electricity, is nearly universal. It’s also impossible to quantify.

Essays could be written about his albums, while he himself could deliver lectures on the history and context of hip hop.

In fact, he did just that more than once.

According to a January 2019 interview with the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, he delivered the first lecture on hip hop in Saudi Arabia.

To illustrate Locke’s energy, curiosity and “genius without qualifiers,” Evans gestures to an ancient piece of equipment in the corner of his studio and whisks us back in time. “That’s an ASR-X,” he explains. In the mid-’90s, it would have been state-of-the-art and Evans would have been using it to make beats for years. Locke, on the other hand, had never made a single one. After asking what gear to buy, Locke purchased the same sampler; about a month later, “I

several friends), they broke bread together, and sometimes they chopped up and drank the tequila worm together.

But more than the memories shared here is the way that everyone Folio Weekly spoke with for this article sparkled and seemed to become luminous talking about Locke, as if by choosing just the right words, they could give him the gift of immortality.

When asked what it meant to make music with Locke, Jones answers succinctly: “like an achievement.” When Evans was asked, he pauses, “Making music with Paten felt like I had snuck backstage at the illest show ever, and everyone back there acted like I belonged.”

Locke’s legacy lives on, not just in his own back catalogue, but in the work of his daughter, Asha—a deejay (Kitty Stitches) and musician in her own right (her punk band, Gilt, has been touring and building a name for itself). It lives on in the work of his fiancée, Shannon Coleman, who also deejays (Pizza Galore, because there’s never a bad time for pizza). It also lives on in the Paten Locke projects yet to be released.

On Friday, Aug. 2, Paten Locke died.

If, as a poet suggests, “the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting,” then it stands to reason that Locke was Excalibur.

He was not the standard-bearer for excellence—he was the excellence.

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Paten Locke on what’s possible

AS TOLD TO FOLIO WEEKLY BY HIS FRIENDS*

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DON’T MONKEY WITH THE FUNKY

BEATS FIRST. STOP THINKING LOCAL, AND YOU WON’T BE LOCAL. GET THAT WORK TO NEW ZEALAND! PUT OUT THINGS YOU DO AND THAT IS THAT. HAVE YOUR OWN SHINE. KEEP THE WEIRDNESS. KNOW YOUR WORTH (BETTER TO STAY HOME AND MAKE BEATS THAN TO GO OUT AND GET LOWBALLED OR UNDERMINED). PAY ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS (NO MISSPELLINGS ON FLYERS). BE PASSIONATE AND DISCIPLINED. DON’T GET SO RELAXED AND ACCOMPLISHED THAT YOU SIT ON TOP OF THE THING THAT YOU DID. GIVE SPARKS. HELP OTHERS SPRINGBOARD. BE PROFESSIONAL. BE ABOUT YOUR OWN BUSINESS. DO THE WORK. UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY. SHOW UP FOR YOUR PEOPLE. DON’T GIVE OUT PROPS LIKE CANDY. CHOP THE WORM, TAKE THE SHOT. SAY NO. GET UP AND GO TO SCHOOL. DON’T MONKEY WITH THE FUNKY. ERUDITE EREMITE. *Thanks and love to Shannon Coleman, Willie Evans Jr., Mas Appeal, Joe Cox, Basic, Dillon Maurer, Mal Jones, Mr. Al Pete, Tough Junkie and Ian Ranne.

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e stick out like a sore thumb, for people who like sore thumbs,” says Josh Cannon, one-half of the electronic rock group Dancing with Ghosts.

Along with Stephanie Conner, Cannon has worked hard to stick that thumb out as far as possible in the Jacksonville music scene.

The group itself is relatively new, but both Cannon and Conner have been performing locally for many years.

Cannon founded Dancing with Ghosts as a solo project after being fed up with other musical ventures.

“It started out of frustration, really,” he tells Folio Weekly as photographer Alex Harris preps a shot.

(Cannon and Conner have joined us at one of our weekly #FindYourFolio Happy Hours. We’re at Southside’s Wicked Barley Brewing Company, and neighboring Goodbys Creek suggested itself as an appropriately foreboding backdrop for a photo shoot. The duo is, naturally, in full costume and makeup.) “[I was] spending all of my twenties bouncing around from band to band.

We would always get to that certain point of success, and then someone would quit.”

Instead of starting the process all over again, Cannon decided to take his musical career into his own hands. After speaking with a friend and mentor—shout out to the talented Tom Bennett—he was inspired to start his own group. Bennett even gave Cannon the name, Dancing with Ghosts, a reference to the toxic people and habits that we negotiate throughout our lives.

Cannon got to work quickly, recording and releasing the album Koyaanisqatsi on his own in June 2017.

Dancing became a duo shortly thereafter, in the eye of the storm. The storm in question was Hurricane Irma.

“We had become friends that summer, and were hanging out,” Conner recalls. “I was a huge fan of [Cannon’s] first album.

I knew it frontwards, backwards and sideways. His power was out, and he was playing some of the songs acoustically.

I was able to sing the harmonies for everything. I always wanted to be in a duo like this, but I had never had the option. I wasn’t going to ask. I had gotten a piano,

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and I was already trying to transpose some of his songs.”

Cannon was still smarting from his last band break-up, but here was the ideal Dancing partner. “I had a whole mentality that I didn’t want anyone else in the band again,” Cannon explains.

“I didn’t want anyone to take my band away from me by losing an integral member. But she was adding so much to my sound. She already knew all the harmonies in my songs, and her voice was so good. I would be stupid to not include her. So I took a risk and said, ‘You should join.’ I think she’s just as insane as I am. She’s really put her money where her mouth is as far as sticking around and contributing.”

At this point in the interview, still loitering by the water’s edge, we’re

greeted by a baby possum.

Cannon and Conner take a moment to lower their makeup-covered visages to fawn over the ball of fluff. They take the creature’s appearance just then as a harbinger of good fortune.

Once established as a duo, Dancing with Ghosts were gigging live within three months. Sonically, the band pushed further into the hard-edged synthesized pop pioneered by Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails. Visually, they are indebted to the likes of theatrical Canadian goth-rock outfit The Birthday Massacre. Take all these influences with a grain of salt, however, because Cannon and Conner have an aesthetic that’s all their own.

Dancing with Ghosts clearly spends a lot of time considering the visual aspects

of their venture. Naturally, they find inspiration from the cinematic world.

Cannon points to the works of music video director Chris Cunningham, who may be most famous for Aphex Twin’s unbelievably jarring “Come to Daddy” video. Stanley Kubrick’s strong visual statements have also influenced the band’s presentation, as have the spooky but slapstick worlds crafted by Beetlejuice director Tim Burton.

The addition of wearing makeup during performances was something that always appealed to both members of the group. They began wearing their now-signature face paint at a 2018 Halloween gig.

“It felt right. It felt like this is how it should be for every show,” says Cannon.

Dancing with Ghosts ramped up the theatrics in its music videos, creating costumed characters which band members continue to inhabit on stage. Cannon’s impish alter ego is Kallus, a nefarious presence, perhaps a distant relative of Howling Jimmy Jefferson.

Conner performs the faun-like role of Alaric, a scantily clad and over-caffeinated woodland sprite.

“The visuals are one reason why people will stick around,” Conner explains. “They may be confused at first, but they are interested. They want to watch and know what it is.”

The duo released Hex earlier this year. A collection of new tunes and re-recorded material from previous releases, the album is an excellent example of what the band has been doing on stage. The name of the record has a special meaning to the band and to Cannon in particular. It’s been the watchword of everything the guitarist has done musically since launching this new project.

“When you listen to the album, I want it to feel like it’s some kind of incantation being cast on you,” he explains. Like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Dancing with Ghosts want to put a spell on you.

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GOLDEN BOYS of the GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD’S DICAPRIO AND PITT SHINE DESPITE TARANTINO

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he freshness of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, from writer/ director Quentin Tarantino, is in its performances and atmosphere. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are superb, while the production and costume designs, cinematography and ’60s soundtrack create a warm, nostalgic look at a picturesque Hollywood in the year 1969.

DiCaprio is Rick Dalton, an actor with a careworn career after he left his successful television show to try his hand at movies (this character’s career trajectory has been likened to Clint Eastwood’s). Pitt is Cliff Booth, his stunt double, driver, drinking buddy and best friend. The film follows their adventures as Rick struggles to find work, and is peppered with flashbacks of their earlier careers, including Cliff engaging in some martial arts maneuvers with Bruce Lee (Mike Moh).

Rick’s neighbors in the Hollywood Hills are Rosemary’s Baby director Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha) and his wife, actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). It’s a bit clunky as Tarantino intercuts between Rick and Cliff ’s escapades and Sharon, who spends most of the first half of the movie dancing and looking amazingly beautiful.

At a Playboy mansion party, Steve McQueen (Damian Lewis) tells us Jay Sebring (Emile Hirsch) was engaged to Sharon, but she left him after meeting Roman. Yet Jay is good friends with them both, and clearly still cares deeply for her.

The love triangle, though, goes nowhere— Tarantino is busy filling the narrative with superfluity. No exaggeration—45 minutes could’ve been torn from a 161-minute running time and the film would’ve been infinitely better. For, as good as they are, Al Pacino and Kurt Russell’s characters are

extraneous. As is the scene in which Rick talks to a young actress (Julia Butters) on the set of his latest western. As is the scene in which Sharon goes to see her movie, The Wrecking Crew, at a screening in a local theater. As is the lengthy scene in which Cliff encounters a herd of Charles Manson’s followers at one of his former shooting locations. And so on. If you want to argue these moments are important for character development, fine, but—my goodness—at least trim them!

This is a common critique of Tarantino’s films: He can’t get out of his own way. He overwrites and doesn’t leave the excess on the editing room floor. It feels like too much of a not-so-good thing. Worse, as happened in The Hateful Eight, the story lacks structure and direction—it’s going nowhere and taking too long to get there. It’s not until the end, when one reflects on the totality of the movie, that true appreciation is felt. During viewing, it drags.

It’s a good thing, then, that DiCaprio and Pitt are excellent. Each shines more individually than when they’re together: DiCaprio, when he’s yelling at himself for not knowing his lines and Pitt, as he plays every situation as cool as can be (given what Cliff encounters, this says a lot). Robbie is good as the doomed actress as well, but doesn’t have as many lines or as big a part as the marketing campaign leads you to expect.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is merely good Tarantino, not great. It’s his ninth film, and ranks somewhere in the middle if you list his best films from top to bottom, best to worst. See it for the performances, as well as the sentimentality for a bygone era Tarantino clearly loves.

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NOW SHOWING • NOW SHOWING • NOW SHOWING • NOW SHOWING SUMMER CLASSICS SERIES The series marks the 25th anniversary of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, with Jim Carrey, 2 p.m. Aug. 11, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Ste. 300, Downtown, $7.50; 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Non-Fiction and Late Night screen. Throwback Thursday is If a Man Answers … Don’t Hang Up, noon and 6:45 p.m. Aug. 8. All Is True and Echo in the Canyon (yay!) start Aug. 9. Le Bonheur runs Aug. 10. And Two If by Sea: The Hobgood Brothers (Q&A with director Justin Purser; CJ Hobgood also appears) also screens Aug. 10. Mrs. Doubtfire, 6 p.m. Aug. 20 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 7-13, 2019

11. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

WGHF IMAX THEATER The Lion King, Great Bear Rainforest and Great Barrier Reef are screened.

World Golf Hall of Fame, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Maiden and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood screen. Death Becomes Us Series features Harold and Maude, Aug. 7. 1028 Park St., Five Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

NIGHT OWL CINEMA There’s no crying in baseball!

A League of Their Own screens 8 p.m. Aug. 9, The Amp, 1340 A1A S., free, 471-1965.

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ARTS + EVENTS RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local & regional art, organic produce, works by local craftspeople & music–China Cat Sunflower Festival, featuring Ouija Brothers, Not Quite Dead and Glass Camels Aug. 10–10 a.m. Saturdays underneath Fuller Warren Bridge, free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

NIGHT MARKET The Amp’s Night Market is held 7:45 p.m. Aug. 13, and every second and fourth Tue. & Thur., 1340C A1A S., 315-9252, free admission. Local handmade crafts, goods and art, food trucks and live music, by Chelsea Saddler and Patrick Crawford, are featured.

NOCATEE FARMERS MARKET More than 70 local vendors offer organic produce, herbs, spices, crafts, more; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 17 at 245 Nocatee Center Way, nocatee.com.

MUSEUMS

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NOT-SO-OLD SPICE

A man of many talents, DEON COLE has written for Conan O’Brien and appeared in the hit TV series Black-ish (as well as a run of surreal, stream-of-consciousness Old Spice commercials). Our favorite Cole role, however, was Detective D.J. Tanner in Angie Tribeca. He performs at Jacksonville’s Comedy Zone sans canine cop partner David Hoffman, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8 and 7:30 & 10 p.m. Aug. 9 & 10, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, comedyzone.com, $25-$35.

PERFORMANCE

FUN HOME A young girl who grew up in a funeral home tries to memorialize her dead father, 7:30 p.m. Thur.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., through Aug. 24, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org, $26.

THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY The comedy presumes there’s something amusing about Southern ladies getting together to talk and drink. Why, I never. Staged 8 p.m. Aug. 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 & 24 and 2 p.m. Aug. 22 at Amelia Community Theatre, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, ameliacommunitytheatre. org; $22; $10 students.

SHREK the MUSICAL The beloved green ogre, his pal Donkey and a princess with a secret appear 8 p.m. Aug. 8, 9 & 10 and 2 p.m. Aug. 11, Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, $25-28, 2490289, playersbythesea.org.

MAMMA MIA! Here we go again! The global smash musical comedy, about love and friendship, with the soundtrack of ABBA’s greatest hits, is staged Aug. 7-Sept. 15, Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com, $41-$67.

BE MORE CHILL The musical is staged Aug. 9-25 at The Island Theater, 1860 Town Hall Cir., Ste. 54, Fleming Island, 254-1455, $15 adults, students $19, theislandtheater.com.

SWEAT The Northeast Florida premiere of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about friendship and its challenges is staged at 8 p.m. Aug. 9, 10, 16 & 17 and 2 p.m. Aug. 11 & 18 at The 5 & Dime, A Theatre Company, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, 637-5100, the5anddime.org, $27 advance, $30 door.

THE GOD IN ME Ebony Payne-English presents a children’s concert celebrating the launch of her new book, Your Heart Must Return, illustrated by Erin Kendrick, 3-5 p.m. Aug. 11, Brunet-Garcia Advertising, 1534 Oak St., Ste. 201, Riverside, free.

BOOKS & POETRY

FLASH READING Bridge Eight presents a live reading during Art Walk, with creative writing workshop participants Molly Agney, Carley Blank, Ellen Cohen, Sarah Gojekian, Cheryl Goodman, Christy Jackson, Michael 22 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 7-13, 2019

O’Connell, Michele Perry, Joanna Ring, Greta Scheledorn and Ashley Wilson, sharing in two minutes or fewer, 7 p.m. Aug. 7 at MOCA Jax, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, bridgeeight.com, free admission.

EVERY SINGLE ARTIST LOUNGE The place to see, be seen, and exchange ideas of profundity and absurd grace, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13, The 5 & Dime A Theatre Company, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, culturalcouncil.org.

DRUNKEN BOOK REVIEW PODCAST Imbibers Caleb, Justin and Jennifer discuss Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, at 7 p.m. Aug. 14, Chamblin’s Uptown Café, 215 N. Laura St., Downtown, 674-0868.

I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER Live Ink presents a staged reading of Jenny Allen’s story of cancer and recovery, performed

by Cynthia Riegler, Rachel Tyler and Sinda Nichols, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 10 and 4 p.m. Aug. 11 at Story & Song Neighborhood Bookstore & Bistro, Fernandina Beach, 601-2118, storyandsongbookstore.com, $20.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Hosted by Johnny Masiulewicz, with poetry, spoken word, song & more. Held Aug. 28 and every last Wed., Chamblin’s Uptown Café, 215 N. Laura St., Downtown, 674-0868.

COMEDY

COMEDY NIGHT IN ST. AUGUSTINE Zach Bennett hosts several local comics at 8 p.m.

Aug. 9 and every second Fri., at Corazon Cinema & Café, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, $5, corazoncinemaandcafe.com, $10.

COMEDY ZONE LOL Comedy Night with Ozrick Cooley is at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7, $10.

Deon Cole appears at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8 and 7:30 & 10 p.m. Aug. 9 & 10, $25-$35.

3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

JACKIE KNIGHT’S COMEDY CLUB Ian Gutoskie and Jason Granger appear at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 9 & 10, 830 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 461-8843, thegypsycomedyclub. com, $15.

ART WALKS, MARKETS

ARTRAGEOUS ART WALK Downtown Fernandina art galleries are open for selfguided tours, 5-8 p.m. Aug. 10 and every second Sat., 277-0717, ameliaisland.com.

ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., 256-7371, arts.ju.edu. MFA in the Works presents the works of grad students, Masters of Fine Arts, including Heather Jones, Devon Variano, Jamal Adjamah, Danielle Doctor and Theresa Rykaczewski.

The exhibit runs through Aug. 29.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Artist Annelies Dykgraaf’s exhibit Water. Life. Art. is up through Nov. 11.

CUMMER MUSEUM of ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer museum.org. French Moderns: Monet to Matisse runs through Sept. 6. Carlos Rolón: Lost in Paradise runs through Oct. 21. Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art, through Dec. 1.

Edmund Greacen & World War I runs through Dec. 15. Free Tuesday is Aug. 13.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First Street, Springfield, 356-2992, karpeles.weebly.com. Darwin: On the Origin of Species and Other Matters is on exhibit through August.

MUSEUM of CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Abstraction to Figuration: Works from MOCA is open at the T-U Center, with works by Memphis Wood, Mary Ann Bryan and Nancee Clark; Caitlin Swindell, curator. Camp/Wall/Flock, Khalid Albaih’s new installation, is on exhibit through Oct. 27. Of Many Ancestors exhibits through Dec. 28.

MUSEUM of SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Northbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Expedition: Dinosaur, with cool interactive stuff, is up through Sept. 2.

Hands-on exhibit Creation Station is open.

GALLERIES

The ART CENTER COOPERATIVE 9451 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 430, Regency Square, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. Works by member artists include oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, photography and sculptures in various media. The first show, Nature Abounds, opens Aug. 16.

ARTISAN VILLAGE of AMELIA 2188 Sadler Rd., 491-2180, artisanvillageamelia.com.

Local artists display their works. Rental spaces, classes, monthly art show.

THE ART STUDIO & GALLERY 370A A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 295-4428, beachesartstudio.org. The gallery participates in First Friday Artwalk.

AVILES GALLERY 11-C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 728-4957, avilesgallery.net.

ARTS + EVENTS Members are Joel Bagnal, KC Cali, Byron Capo, Hookey Hamilton, Ted Head, Paula Pascucci and Gina Torkos.

BOLD BEAN SAN MARCO 1905 Hendricks Ave., 853-6545. Tiffany Manning’s works, Flow State, are exhibited.

BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com. Per Hans Romnes’ photography and Teri Siewert’s works are currently on exhibit.

CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT/HEATHER MOORE COMMUNITY GALLERY 207 N. Laura St., Ste. 300, Downtown, capkids.org.

By the Water, an exhibit of Alma Ramirez’s new works, displays through Oct. 25.

The CULTURAL CENTER at PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb. org. The exhibit Compromised Boundaries opens with a reception, 6-8 p.m. Aug. 9.

The works are by members of the Society of Mixed Media Artists. The exhibit is up through Sept. 21. An opening reception is also held for the exhibit A World of Their Own, comprising works by pediatric patients of Wolfson Children’s Hospital, 6-8 p.m. Aug. 9. It’s Art with a Heart in Healthcare’s eighth annual exhibition.

GRAY 1908 GALLERY 73 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 850-384-3084. Jenna Alexander’s series, The Flower Map of the United States, is on display.

HASKELL GALLERY Jacksonville International Airport, 741-3546, jiaarts.org.

Works by Memphis Wood, Charlie Brown and Stephen Heywood are exhibited on the Connector Bridge.

MAKERSPACE GALLERY Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org. Reclaimed: Life Beyond the Landfill has art made with repurposed waste objects. Artists include Clifford Buckley, Malath Albakri, Keshauna Davis, John Drum, Zac Freeman, Donald Gialanella, Aisling Millar McDonald, Khamil L. Ojoyo, Lana Shuttleworth and Wendy Sullivan. It’s exhibited through Sept. 22, free.

PAStA FINE ART GALLERY 214 Charlotte St., St. Augustine, 824-0251, pastagalleryart. com. Photographer Julie Noel Smith

is August’s featured artist. Her show Intentional is on exhibit.

ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. Manila Clough’s mosaics depict native birds and plants, through Sept. 19.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Ste. 113, Downtown, southlight.com.

A new exhibit, The Three Graces, features sculpture, abstraction and still lifes by artist Nofa Dixon, Dee Roberts and Nancy R. Schultz. The works’ complementary qualities are not to be missed. MJ Hinson’s expressive canvasses, on the second floor, are up through Sept. 6.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. From Asia to the Americas: The Art of Jean Wagner Troemel exhibit and art sale is ongoing through Aug. 25.

WORD REVOLT ART GALLERY 1249 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 888-5502, wordrevolt.com. The fine art exhibit CO2 is on display. The exhibit Glass Works welcomes submissions; apply now. The opening reception is 6-9 p.m. Aug. 23.

EVENTS

FRIDAY MUSICALE RUMMAGE SALE The nonprofit’s inaugural fundraiser promises oodles of everything you didn’t know you needed–at bargain prices. 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Aug. 10 at 645 Oak St., Riverside, 3557584, fridaymusicale.com.

CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING WITH DOROTHY PITMAN HUGHES The Women’s March Alliance of North Florida’s series begins with a focus group featuring feminist icon Hughes, a co-founder of Ms Magazine, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at Corner Market Boutique, 97 MLK Ave., St. Augustine, eventbrite.com.

NIGHT AT THE ZOO Dancing Through the Decades features food trucks, a cash bar and live music by Bread & Butter and Neon Whiskey, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens, 370 Zoo Pkwy., Northside; 21 & older, jacksonvillezoo.org, $25 online.

DANCING THROUGH THE DECADES

Food trucks, a cash bar, live music by Bread & Butter and Neon Whiskey and a DJ spinning classics from the ’60s and ’70s–wow, man, like, far out.

And rad. A NIGHT AT THE ZOO, for the 21-and-older-but-wiser crowd, is held 6:30-10 p.m. Aug. 9 at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens, 370 Zoo Pkwy., Northside; jacksonvillezoo.org, $25 online; boomboxes and visors accepted, so dress the part, folks. Bitchin.

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CONCERTS

ELSEWHERE

SPIRIT of the SUWANNEE Music Park, 3076 95th Dr., Live Oak Doc Adams Band Aug. 9. Patrick Road Band Aug. 10

PCOMING CONCERTS U BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM Aug. 16, Mojo CD Release

QUARTER LIFE CRISIS

That’s the new album from DeGreaser, Ben Katzman’s band, with songs like “Too Old for Retail” and “Goodbye WIFI,” sharing the agony of being over 18 but younger than 40 … riiiight. DeGreaser appears along with Hunger Anthem, 86hope and Bedsweater, 9 p.m.

Aug. 10 at Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, sarbezstaugustine.com.

LIVE MUSIC VENUES

IGGY’S, 104 Bartram Oaks Robby & Felix Aug. 8. Rusty Shine Aug. 9. Boogie Freaks Aug. 10. Brett Bass & The Melted Plectrum Aug. 11

SALTY PELICAN, 12 N. Front St. Davis Turner Aug. 8 SJ Brewing Co., 463646 S.R. 200, Ste. 13 Shawn Layne Aug. 10 SLIDERS, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave. Tad Jennings Aug. 8. Joe King Aug. 12. King Eddie & Pili Pili Wed. Mark O’Quinn Tue. The SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher The Macys Aug. 7. Shawn Layne Aug. 9. John Waters Aug. 10. Full Moon Folk Aug. 11. Kyle Freeman Aug. 13

ORANGE PARK

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA

THE BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BLUE JAY Listening Room, 412 N. Second St. Coles Whalen Aug. 8. Sean Chambers Aug. 9. Bradford Loomis Aug. 10. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Aug. 11. Brett Dennen Aug. 12 & 13 COOP 303, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach Barrett Thomas Aug. 9 CULHANE’S, 967 Atlantic Blvd. Michael Funge Aug. 11 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 Live music 10 p.m. April 13 & 14 GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd. The Groov Aug 7. Akia Uwanda Aug. 8 & 15. Murray Goff Aug. 9 LYNCH’S, 514 N. First St. Solo Trio Aug. 9. Lunar Coast, Solar Tide Aug. 10. Spade McQuade Aug. 11. Dirty Pete every Wed. Split Tones every Thur. Chillula every Sun. Julia Gulia every Mon. Honey Hounds every Tue. MAVI Bar & Grill, 2309 Beach Blvd. Top Shelf Aug. 9 MEZZA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle Boxband every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB Neil Dixon Aug. 7.

Sidewalk 65 Aug. 9 & 10. Jimmy Parrish & the Waves Aug. 11 SURFER the Bar 200 First St. N. Black V Neck, Dirtybird, Rocks n Blunts, Sorce Aug. 8 WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy. Ivan Pulley Aug. 7. The Perry Phillips Collective Aug. 8. Van Go Band Aug. 9. SunJammer Band Aug. 10. Glass Camels Aug. 11. The Groov Aug. 13

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N. Dorms, First Case Scenario, Dog Church, Friendly Dads Aug. 7. Perpetual Groove Aug. 8. Stick to Your Guns, Counterparts, Terror, Sanction, Year of the Knife Aug. 9. Baroness, War on Women Aug. 10. Tilian Pearson, Landon Tewers, Brent Walsh, Rivals Aug. 11. The Nth Power, Side Hustle, Ben Strok & the Full Electric Aug. 12. Paul Wall Aug. 13 DAILY’S Place, Sports Complex moe., Blues Traveler, G. Love Aug. 7 The FLORIDA Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band Aug. 9 The JUSTICE Pub, 315 E. Bay St. The Bayou Beatdown Tour: Mirages, The Weekend Transit Aug. 8. DJ Cut Creator, Paten Locke, The Hater Free Aug. 10 MYTH Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St. Xander B2B Boogie Mane, Johnny Oz, Giani, Lil Yankee, DJ Squared Aug. 7. Vampa, Zia Aug. 9. Gordo, Tim Jarrell, Ryan Apollo Cash, Tyler M. Aug. 10 SPLIFFS Gastropub, 15 Ocean St. Perpetual Groove, John Parker Urban, Bryce Alastair Aug. 8

FLEMING ISLAND, GREEN COVE

BOONDOCKS, 2808 Henley Rd. Mark Johns Aug. 7. Zeb Padgett Aug. 8. Lisa & the Madhatters, Black Creek Ri’zin Aug. 9. Atlantic Alibi, Southern Rukus Aug. 10 WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220 Eric Alabiso Aug. 8. Vynyl Aug. 9. Circus Aug. 10. Chelsey Michelle Aug. 11

INTRACOASTAL, ARLINGTON

CLIFF’S, 3033 Monument Rd. Ridestock Aug. 17 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd. Don’t Call Me Shirley Aug. 9.

Yowsah Aug. 10

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd. Brian Iannucci every Wed., Sun. & Tue. Carl Grant every Thur., Fri. & Sat.

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CHEERS, 1138 Park Ave. Chillula Aug. 7. The Bluff 5 Band Aug. 9. Lifeline Aug. 10 DALTON’S, 2620 Blanding Blvd. Gabe Bullard Aug. 8. Southern Rukus Aug. 9. Jerry Sible Aug. 10 The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd. DJ Jamie Aug. 8. Space Coast Ghosts Aug. 9. Dancing With Ghosts, Nobody’s Darling, Harvey Hampton Aug. 10

PONTE VEDRA

FIONN MacCOOL’S, 145 Hilden Rd. Jimmy Solari Aug. 9 TAPS, 2220 C.R. 210 Stu Weaver Aug. 7. Seize the Day Aug. 9.

Chuck Nash Band Aug. 10

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

ACROSS the STREET, 948 Edgewood S. Blood Bath & Beyond Aug. 10 MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. Cross the Divide, Silent Running, Dave Hates It, iamsleepless Aug. 11 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Them Vagabonds Aug. 7.

TripLip, DigDog, Enji Aug. 8. The Holly Street Band, The Al Gore Rhythms, Peacock Muster’d Aug. 9. Luna Cruise, DarkHorse Saloon, Pajama Dogs, Cherry Springer, Crashes Down Aug. 10.

Rhythm of Fear, Cloak, Wørsen Aug. 15 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St. Pool Kids, Woolbright, Bobby Kid Aug. 9. Jake Landes, Jackie Stranger, Bobby Bad Ass, Charlie Shuck, Puck Aug. 11 RIVER & POST, 1000 Riverside Ave. John Earle Aug. 10 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave. Ouija Brothers, Not Quite Dead, Glass Camels Aug. 10

ST. AUGUSTINE

Kitchen BRAD PAISLEY, CHRIS LANE, RILEY GREEN Aug. 16, Daily’s UMPHREY’S McGEE, MAGIC CITY HIPPIES Aug. 17, The Amp The OBSCURE BROTHERS Aug. 17, Story & Song Bookstore STEWART TUSSING Aug. 17, Mudville Music Room ARCHWAYS album release, RICKOLUS, CORY DRISCOLL, BAER & LADY PALIMONY, FOLK IS PEOPLE Aug. 17, Jack Rabbits The TK HOOKERS final show Aug. 17, Surfer the Bar BUSH, LIVE, OUR LADY PEACE Aug. 18, Daily’s Place 2nd anniversary: SELWYN BIRCHWOOD Aug. 18, Blue Jay Listening Room MAC SABBATH, OKILLY DOKILLY, PLAYBOY MANBABY Aug. 20, 1904 Music Hall COLT FORD, BRETT MYERS, WADE B. Aug. 21, Surfer the Bar TYLER CASSIDY Aug. 21, The Justice Pub BREAK SCIENCE, MARVEL YEARS, VLAD the INHALER Aug. 22, 1904 Music Hall TRIBUTE: A Celebration of The ALLMAN BROTHERS Aug. 23, 1904 Music Hall PENTATONIX, RACHEL PLATTEN Aug. 24, Daily’s Place The ADVENTURES of ANNABELLE LYN Aug. 24, Mudville BREAKING THROUGH, BURDEN AFFINITY, 14 NORTH, The FALLEN SONS Aug. 24, 1904 Music Hall VAMPIRE WEEKEND, CHRISTONE INGRAM Aug. 25, The Amp PANDORA & HER BOX, BLACK MAGIC, FLOWER POWER, 9E Aug. 25, Jack Rabbits JOHN DICKIE, COLLAPSIBLE B, BAD DOG MAMA Aug. 27, The Amp Night Market 68, LISTENER, GREYHAVEN Aug. 27, The Justice Pub SOUTHERN CHAOS Aug. 28, St. Augustine Beach Pier JOHNNYSWIM Aug. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHRIS BROWN, TORY LANEZ, TY DOLLA $IGN, JOYNER LUCAS, YELLA BEEZY Aug. 30, Veterans Memorial Arena SAWYER BROWN Aug. 30, Thrasher-Horne Center ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES in the DARK Aug. 30, PVC Hall SUPERSUCKERS Aug. 30, Jack Rabbits 430 STEPS, FEVER STRIKE Aug. 31, The Justice Pub BARNES & the HEART Aug. 31, Lynch’s Irish Pub Bold City Beer Fest: The FRITZ, ZACH DEPUTY, TRAIL DIVER, BONNIE BLUE, BEN STROK & the FULL ELECTRIC, TALLER TREES Sept. 1, Riverside Arts Market PETER FRAMPTON, JASON BONHAM Sept. 4, Daily’s Place AL MANISCALCO QUARTET Sept. 6, Grape & Grain SING OUT LOUD FESTIVAL Sept. 6-29, St. Augustine MOON DUTY Sept. 6, Jack Rabbits HILLSONG UNITED Sept. 7, Veterans Memorial Arena KURT VILE & the VIOLATERS Sept. 7, The Amp Backyard Stage POCO, PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE, FIREFALL Sept. 7, Florida Theatre BOOK of LOVE Sept. 7, Jack Rabbits SENSI TRAILS, DANKA Sept. 7, Nighthawks RHETT & LINK Sept. 7, The Florida Theatre JENNY LEWIS, The WATSON TWINS, LUCIE SILVAS Sept. 8, The Amp Backyard Stage COLTON McKENNA Sept. 9, The Amp Night Market AMY GRANT Sept. 12, The Florida Theatre CHRIS YOUNG, CHRIS JANSON, LOCASH Sept. 12, Daily’s PROPAGANDHI & the COATHANGERS Sept. 13, Amp Backyard ONYX FEST II Sept. 14, 1904 Music Hall HOT WATER MUSIC, The MENZINGERS, SUBHUMAN Sept. 14, The Amp Backyard Stage UB40, ALI CAMPBELL, ASTRO Sept. 14, Daily’s Place ST. PAUL & the BROKEN BONES, DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND,

AARON LEE TASJAN Sept. 15, The Amp Backyard Stage DON FELDER Sept. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall AGENT ORANGE Sept. 16, Surfer the Bar DUBLIN CITY RAMBLERS Sept. 16, Culhane’s AB COLM KEEGAN Sept. 17 & 18, Culhane’s Southside ALL GET OUT, CITIES BURN, MANY ROOMS Sept. 18, Jack Rabbits GEORGE PORTER JR. & RUNNIN PARDNERS Sept. 19, 1904 Music Hall LOCAL NATIVES, DEVON GILFILLIAN Sept. 20, PVConcert Hall LOS STELLARIANS, S.A. MARTINEZ Sept. 20, Surfer WALTER PARKS Sept. 20, Mudville Music Room KASEY MUSGRAVES Benefit Sept. 21, The Amp Muddfest: PUDDLE of MUDD, SALIVA, TRAPT, SAVING ABEL, TANTRIC Sept. 21, Thrasher-Horne Center ALAN JACKSON, WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN Sept. 21, Veterans Memorial Arena VIRGIL DONATI Sept. 22, Surfer the Bar The GROWLERS, PHOSPHORESCENT Sept. 22, Amp Backyard JEREMY MORRISON Sept. 24, Amp Night Market SACRED REICH, TOXIC HOLOCAUST Sept. 26, Nighthawks BRANTLEY GILBERT, MICHAEL RAY, LINDSAY ELL Sept. 27, Daily’s Place SCOTT BRADLEE’S Postmodern Jukebox Sept. 27, Florida Theatre SHOVELS & ROPE Sept. 27, Amp Backyard Stage grandson, nothing, nowhere Sept. 28, PVC Hall TOUBAB KREWE Sept. 28, Jack Rabbits NONPOINT, HYRO the HERO, MADAME MAYHEM, ZERO THEOREM Sept. 29, Surfer the Bar SON VOLT Sept. 29, The Amp Backyard Stage GATLIN BROTHERS Sept. 29, The Florida Theatre BAD SUNS, LIILY, ULTRAQ Sept. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GUNS N’ ROSES Oct. 1, Veterans Memorial Arena SCOTT STAPP Oct. 3, The Florida Theatre THOMAS RHETT, DUSTIN LYNCH, RUSSELL DICKERSON, RHETT AKINS Oct. 4, Vets Mem Arena GUIDA, MERCY MERCY Oct. 4, Jack Rabbits PAPADOSIO Oct. 4, The Amp Backyard Stage JOHN MEDESKI’S MAD SKILLET Oct. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The SLOCAN RAMBLERS Oct. 6, Cafe Eleven BUILT to SPILL, PRISM BITCH, PAUSES Oct. 9, Jack Rabbits MARTY STUART The Pilgrim Oct. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall OTEIL & FRIENDS, LEFTOVER SALMON, DONNA the BUFFALO, KELLER WILLIAMS’ PETTYGRASS, The HILLBENDERS, JIM LAUDERDALE, REV. JEFF MOSIER, BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM, CORBITT BROS., JON STICKLEY, The LEE BOYS, SAUCE BOSS, BELLE & the Band, BRUCE COCKBURN, The SELDOM SCENE, HORSESHOES & HAND GRENADES, DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Oct. 10-13, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park CATFISH & the BOTTLEMEN Oct. 10, The Amp Backyard Stage The TOASTERS, The SCOTCH BONNETS Oct. 10, Surfer the Bar CHRIS STAPLETON, BROTHERS OSBORNE, KENDELL MARVEL Oct. 10, Veterans Memorial Arena BERT KREISCHER Oct. 11, The Florida Theatre MAGGIE ROGERS, JACOB BANKS Oct. 11, The Amp STEVEN PAGE Oct. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NAHKO & MEDICINE for the PEOPLE, NATTALI RIZE Oct. 12, The Amp Backyard Stage CHEAP TRICK, ZZ TOP Oct. 16, The Amp ZAC BROWN BAND Oct. 17, Daily’s Place The WOOD BROTHERS Oct. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHICAGO Oct. 18, Daily’s Place BILLY CURRINGTON Oct. 18, The Amp YOUNG THUG, MACHINE GUN KELLY, KILLY, POLO G, YBN NAHMIR, STRICK Oct. 19, Daily’s Place

The AMP, 1340C A1A Rebelution, Protoje, Collie Buddz Aug. 14 & 15 ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St. Open mic every Tue. ARNOLD’S, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd. Cottonmouth Aug. 10 CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Aug. Beach Stephen Kellogg, Tyrone Wells Aug. 15 FIONN MacCOOL’S, 145 Hilden Rd. Jimmy Solari Aug. 9 MUSIC by the SEA, St. Aug. Beach Pier Str8-Up Aug. 7 PLAZA de la CONSTITUCIÓN, 170 St. George Big Pineapple Aug. 8 PROHIBITION Kitchen, 119 St. George St. Zach Chester Aug. 7.

Sam Pacetti Aug. 8. Let’s Ride Brass Band, LUVU Aug. 9. Raisin Cake Orchestra, South City Live Aug. 10. Deron Baker, Twitch Wilson & the Sunday Vibe Aug. 11. Colton McKenna Aug. 13 SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd. Ben Katzman’s Degreaser, Hunger Anthem, 86hope, Bedsweater Aug. 10 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St. Livestream Aug. 9 & 10

SAN MARCO, NORTHBANK

JACK RABBITS, 15280 Hendricks Nightbreakers, The Sky Club, Driveaway, Brendan Morrison Aug. 8. The Dollyrots, The Pink Spiders, Borromakat Aug. 9. Nick Jordan, Hitch Cock Martin, Jaehross, Shane Malone Aug. 13. Josh Ward, J.R. Ward Aug. 15 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd. River City Rhythm Kings Aug. 12

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

TABULA RASA Brewing, 2385 Corbett St. Vibe RW Aug. 10 VETERANS UNITED Craft Brewery, 8999 Western Way Brenna Erickson Aug. 9 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd. Jason Evans Band Aug. 7. Mandala Aug. 8. 7 Street Band Aug. 9. Monkey Wrench Aug. 10. Mojo Roux, Munn & Broses Aug. 11

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

COPPERTOP, 12405 N. Main St. The Remains Aug. 10 PALMS Fish Camp, 6359 Heckscher Dr. Taylor Shami Aug. 8. Billy Bowers Aug. 9. Ciaran Sontag, Kelli & Ken Aug. 10. Eric Alabiso, Lisa & the Madhatters Aug. 11

SAD SONGS TO DANCE TO! Local emo quartet BOBBY KID waxes eloquent on topics ranging from love to loss. Also on the bill: Pool Kids and Woolbright.

9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, Rain Dogs, Riverside, facebook.com/raindogsjax, $5.

FOLIO COOKING

OPEN-FACED EASE

HOW HO OW & W WHY HY TTHE HE HUMBLE S SANDWICH ANDWIC CH WAS BOR BORN I SERVE A VARIETY OF SANDWICHES AT MY fast/casual lunch restaurant in historic downtown Fernandina Beach. The other day, a guest came in and requested that her sandwich be served open-faced. Now, that’s a term we don’t hear often in the restaurant industry. I began to wonder why. I also began to wonder if any of you are aware of the enthralling history of the sandwich.

If you’re not up on your food lore, let me enlighten y’all. The sandwich is said to have been invented by a fellow with the last name of …. Anyone have a guess? No, not Luncheon and, no, not McDonald (he’s famous for that farm). Give up? His last name was Sandwich! In fact, he was British royalty.

His esteemed title was The Earl of Sandwich!

It’s true! This time, I’m not running fast and loose with dubious facts. Surprised?

The Earl, aka John Montagu, Fourth Earl, was an extremely wealthy British good ol’ boy, who liked to spend his spare time doing what all good ol’ boys enjoy doing: drinking and playing cards with his buds.

And, quite naturally, when one is engaged in such rigorous activities, one tends to work up a voracious appetite.

Usually, ol’ Montagu would have his servants set out a thoughtful, wellappointed buffet, replete with various meats, cheeses, breads, salads and spreads, served in between card games at an appointed dining table. Tiresome? That’s what the Earl began to think after decades of these affairs. “How tedious these formal buffets have become. By George, there must be a superior way for a gentleman to enjoy a quick repast whilst matching wits and

skill with his esteemed companions.”

Like most great ideas, this one came to the Earl whilst in the bath. “I’ve got it! Quite right. If my faithful manservant simply places select items from the buffet, such as meats and cheeses, between two slices of bread … then I can hold my meal in one hand while holding my cards in the other. Brilliant! Now I won’t have to interrupt my game to—how should I say it?—enjoy my repast! What a remarkably ingenious Earl I am! But hold … by what name shall this invention be known? Why, the sandwich, of course! Jolly good form!”

Sadly, the Earl himself went to that Great Deli in the Sky in 1792, but his name remains attached to one of the world’s most iconic dishes. Oh, and BTW, 4th Earl of Sandwich also had a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean named in his honor as well. The Sandwich Islands are now more famous for their pineapple plantations than the Montagu connection—the tropical paradise isles have been renamed the Hawaiian Islands.

That’s a brief history of the noble (ha, ha) sandwich. Next week, I’ll discuss the sandwich anatomy and get to the bottom of the open-faced sandwich situation.

In the meantime, try out this skirt steak

marinade—it’ll be the base of the best steak sandwich you’ve ever had.

CHEF BILL’S BLOODY MARY MARINADE

Ingredients • 6 oz. V-8 juice • 3 Tbsp. horseradish • 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce • 2 tsp. black pepper • 1 tsp. celery seed • 4 shakes tabasco • 1 lemon, juiced • 2 oz. vodka • 2 skirt steaks Directions 1. Combine all ingredients, add skirt steak.

Marinate 24 to 48 hours.

2. Grill, rest, slice across the grain; put in a sandwich with your favorite accompaniments.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill Thompson cooking@folioweekly.com

Email Chef Bill, owner/chef of Amelia Island Culinary Academy and Island Kitchen, at cooking@folioweekly.com, to get cheffed up!

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FOLIO COOKING’S GROCERY COMMUNITY EARTH FARE 11901 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 250, Arlington GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET 2007 Park St., Riverside

NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKETS 11030 Baymeadows Rd. 10000 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin 1585 N. Third St., Jax Beach

JACKSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET 1810 W. Beaver St., Westside

PUBLIX MARKETS 1033 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine 2033 Riverside Ave. 4413 Town Ctr. Pkwy., Ste. 100

NASSAU HEALTH FOODS 833 T.J. Courson Rd., Fernandina

THE SAVORY MARKET 474380 S.R. 200, Fernandina

ROWE’S 1670 Wells Rd., Orange Park 8595 Beach Blvd., Southside FERNANDINA BEACH MARKET PLACE Art & Farmers Market, North Seventh Street WHOLE FOODS 10601 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin

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FOLIO PETS

LOCAL PET EVENTS & ADOPTABLES MUSIC BINGO Compete for prizes as your pups play, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at Kanine Social, 580 College St., Brooklyn, 712-6363, kaninesocial.com. Drink specials. And don’t forget National Spoil Your Dog Day, celebrated noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, with food trucks and lots of wuffable extras!

ADOPTABLES

CARDI

FOREVER FRIENDS

PET TRUSTS PROVIDE FOR COMPANIONS AFTER THEIR HUMANS ARE GONE

I DON’T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT DEATH. WHO

does? I’d rather be in the mountains, sniffing wildflowers, thinking about life. Nevertheless, whether you’re the proud owner of a miniature box turtle or massive Irish wolfhound, you have an obligation to ensure that your four-legged friends are cared for when you are no longer around.

Think about it. Your pets are totally dependent upon you. That’s why it’s so crucial for you to make careful, detailed plans for their future care in case you’re no longer able to take care of them yourself.

For a long time, the law hasn’t made this easy. Animals are considered property, not family, and can’t inherit assets. And even if, say, a pet owner left money to a relative, in a will, to care for a dog, there’s no guarantee the caretaker would spend the cash on Fido.

But times are changing. Now all 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize pet trusts, which allow an owner to name an animal a beneficiary. A trustee is named to carry out the pet owner’s wishes. And a court can replace that trustee if they’re not doing a good job.

So what’s a pet trust? It’s is a legal arrangement providing for the care and maintenance of one or more companion animals in the event of a grantor’s disability or death. In the trust document, you name a person to care for your pet, you provide instructions for your pet’s care, and you leave money for that purpose.

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will have to follow your instructions and make sure the caretaker uses the funds only for the care of your pet.

With a pet trust, it’s OK to be specific. For example, if your cat eats only one brand of food or your dog looks forward to daily park romps, those details can be included in a trust agreement. If you want your pet to go to the veterinarian four times a year, include that, too. Since pet owners know the particular habits of their companion animals better than anyone, they can describe the kind of care their pets should enjoy and list the people who’d be willing to provide that care.

The trust, depending upon the state in which it is established, continues for the life of the pet or 21 years, whichever occurs first. Some states allow a pet trust to continue for the life of the pet without regard to a maximum duration of 21 years.

This is particularly advantageous for companion animals with longer life expectancies than cats and dogs, such as horses and parrots.

Animals live in the now and take each moment—from eating food to snuggling with their owners—exactly as they come. That’s what makes us so delightful. We have no concept of the future. And it’s a good thing people can plan for us. Setting up a trust is the surest, simplest way to ensure your pets always get the care they need— even when you’re not around.

Davi Davi the Dachshund knows that no living thing goes on forever—but he’s still got his paws crossed!

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FLUFFY, CHILL FELINE SEEKS CAT LOVER FOR NAPS and scratches. When I’m not busy being fabulous, I like to bask in the sun, taste treats and watch the world on a cozy windowsill. Go to jaxhumane.org!

THE OFFICIAL ANIMAL RIGHTS MARCH The focus here is to teach us ‘how to be kind and compassionate to the voiceless,’ noon-2 p.m. Aug. 10, Riverside Park, 753 Park St., Riverside, animalherokids.org.

FOJA PET ADOPTION This event, in partnership with Beaches shelters and Pet Supermarket, is held 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 10 at Pet Supermarket, 609 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, unleashjax.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE HUMANE SOCIETY FREE SPAY & NEUTER SERVICES The Society’s surgery program, possible through a grant from Florida Animal Friends Inc., offers reduced fee or free services for owners who qualify. Go to the Humane Society, 1665 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, call 829-2737 ext. 100 or email cbessett@staughumane.org. The program runs through Aug. 20.

BARKS, BRUNCH & BREWS Food trucks, best friends, bottomless mimosas and Ruff Rubs doggie massages, all at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 11 at Kanine Social, 580 College St., Brooklyn, 712-6363, kaninesocial.com.

ADOPTABLES

BRUISER

HANDSOME, PEOPLE-LOVING GOOD BOY SEEKS human for cuddle sessions, walks and candlelit Pup-peroni pizza dinners. I’ve had a blast this summer hanging out with the JHS summer camp kids, but I’m ready to go home … with you! Visit 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, and meet me today.

JAX HUMANE SOCIETY POP-UP CAT CAFÉ Meet adoptable cats and kittens on International Cat Day–adoptions are free–noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11 at JHS’ Adoption, Education & Pet Help Center, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, 493-4565, jaxhumane.org/catcafe. For a $5 donation, cafégoers get a free Coffee Perks drink. Community First Credit Union will match each donation up to $500. Reservations recommended.

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28 Shoulder muscle 32 Fez wearer 34 “___ Billie Joe” 36 Nautilus skipper 37 Quip, Part 2 43 “Wassup?”

44 Boredom 45 Pro’s score at Ocean Links 48 Drops by 53 Congressman Yoho 54 Tony’s cousin 56 “Yikes!”

57 End of quip 61 Jax Farmers Market buy 64 Scent 65 Cloth scrap 66 Jumbo Shrimp pitch 67 ____ Mile Reef 68 “No more deets!”

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD DUDE’S LOADED When Flagler County Sheriff ’s officers pulled over Derick McKay, 36, for speeding on July 11, they noted he seemed ... uncomfortable, and though the deputies smelled marijuana, he denied having anything illegal. But when McKay got to the police station (arrested for driving on a suspended license), he admitted he had narcotics between his buttocks. Fox 43 reported McKay pulled out a baggie of crack, eight baggies of heroin, two baggies of Molly, a baggie of marijuana, 12 Lortab pills and 12 Oxycodone pills.

just three feet away in his garden. Police believe the body was that of a stowaway on a Kenya Airways flight, who fell out as the plane lowered its wheels on the approach to Heathrow Airport, some 10 miles away. The sunbather “didn’t even realize what it was to begin with. He was asleep and then there was a huge impact,” a neighbor told Reuters. A Kenya Airways spokesperson said the 4,250-mile flight from Nairobi takes about nine hours. When the plane landed, workers found a bag, water and food in the landing gear area.

KEEP IT UNDER YOUR HAT If you’re smuggling a half-kilo of cocaine through airport security, try harder than a middle-aged man from Colombia, detained in late June at Barcelona-El Prat airport, according to Spanish police. The man arrived at the airport on a flight from Bogota and seemed nervous—and no wonder! He wore a comically “oversized toupee” under his hat, Reuters wrote.

Spanish police searched him and found a cocaine stash, worth about $34,000, taped to his head.

WHERE’S MOMMA? Police in Seguin, Texas, arrested Delissa Navonne Crayton, 47, on July 10 in her home after finding her mother’s skeletal remains on the floor in a bedroom, CNN reported.

Investigators believe Jacqueline Louise Crayton died in 2016 a few days after falling in her room, hitting her head. She would’ve been about 71 years old then; officials say her daughter didn’t “provide adequate assistance,” resulting in the woman’s death. The younger Crayton and her daughter, who at the time was younger than 15, lived in other rooms of the house for about three years as the mother’s body deteriorated. Delissa Crayton was charged with “injury to a child under 15 through recklessly, by omission, causing a serious mental deficiency, impairment or injury.” Seguin police and Texas Rangers may file other charges.

JUST HAVIN’ FUN Four Australian kids took running away from home to a new level on July 13 when they wrote a goodbye note and absconded with cash, fishing gear and an SUV belonging to one of their parents. The three boys and one girl, ages 10 to 14, left Rockhampton, Queensland and headed south to Grafton—more than 600 miles. Along the way, they twice bought gas without paying and survived a short police chase in New South Wales, which was ended by the highway patrol “due to age of the driver and road conditions,” Acting Police Inspector Darren Williams told Fox News. Around 10:30 p.m. on July 14, cops finally caught up with the kids, who locked the car doors and refused to get out. An officer broke a window with a baton.

The young thieves will be charged, but they couldn’t be questioned until their parents showed up.

GOD? IS THAT YOU? On July 3, a Delta Airlines flight from Puerto Rico to New York had to return to San Juan after Carlos Ramirez, 30, “became unruly,” Reuters reports. “I am God!” Ramirez shouted, according to Puerto Rican police. “San Juan is going to disappear tomorrow. I came to save the world, and I am going to end terrorism.”

Flight attendants and passengers restrained dude until the plane landed, then Puerto Rico cops got him. The cockpit was secure during the fracas.

IT’S RAINING MEN In southwest London, as an unidentified man sunbathed in his backyard on June 30, he was startled by the body of another man that apparently fell from an airplane, landing

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LOOK OUT BELOW Rapper, sports agent and selfproclaimed “Mr. Alabama” Kelvin James Dark, 37, of Talladega, was arrested in Atlanta on July 10 after allegedly tossing several kilos of suspected methamphetamine from a high-rise balcony onto a street below. In a press release titled “It’s Raining Meth,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said its agents were searching the property as part of a smuggling investigation when the meth sailed; agents recovered the drugs, valued at about $250,000. Also nabbed were two semi-automatic rifles, a handgun, marijuana worth $60,000, plus a “substantial” amount of cash, AL.com reported.

Dark and 33-year-old Tiffany Peterson of Atlanta were arrested for trafficking meth and marijuana, among other charges.

THOSE CRAZY SWEDES On July 14, The New York Post reported more than 4,000 Swedes got microchips implanted in their hands to replace credit cards and cash. The chips can help folks monitor their health and can be made to allow building access. Jowan Osterlund, an ex-body piercer who pioneered the chips, says the technology is safe. weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

ROSICRUCIANISM, SIXTH SENSE, COMPOSTS & HALLELUJAH!

HARLEY QUINN & THE JOKER You: Stunning woman; sexy hair falls over right eye, amazing laugh; you smiled at me (day 2), I was in love for the last time. Me: A guy who’ll love you better than anyone. Where: Work.

When: Aug. 1. #1733-0807 YOU & BELLA Me: Short curly hair, brown eyes, mischievous dog in tow. You: Hanging with your dog and friends. You saved my seat. Would love to sit next to you again. Where: Brewhound, Neptune Beach. When: July 20. #1732-0807 COME LANDSCAPE MY LAWN You looked better than your work truck; maybe FCLC a lawn company? Me: dark pink top, light pink jeans, long brown hair. Parked green jeep beside you. I passed, you smiled, I smiled.

Meet for a drink? Where: St. Johns Town Center Target parking. When: June 26. #1731-0703 WAITRESS ZEUS PIZZA Zeus Pizza San Marco waitress, April 21. Where: Zeus Pizza San Marco. When: April 21. #1730-0529 CUTE CHICA @ COFFEE PLACE You: Beautiful, getting coffee w/friend near lunch, verticalstriped pants, white top, short blonde hair.

Locked eyes for a second; I got goosebumps.

Me: In booth w/friend, red shirt, grey shorts, short black hair. BE AT SRFS MAY 19, 1 P.M. When: May 10. Where: Southern Roots Filling Station. #1729-0515 SHOPPING 4 LOVE You: Handsome bearded man, in tie, with gallon water bottles. I’ve seen you shop on Fridays after work. Me: Blonde woman, sundress/leggings, purposely going down the same aisles you do. I’m shy, so please say something! When: April 12 & 26. Where: WalmartMarket @ San Pablo. #1728-0515 A GIRL NEEDS CHECKING OUT Bearded, dressed professionally, confident walk that damn near made me gasp. You in holds area, me in red summer dress. You glanced at me; checked out

before I could speak. Check me out? When: May 1. Where: Pablo Creek Library. #1727-0508 GYM BODY Over months saw you lose many pounds. Buzz-cut male, weeping angel tattoos on back of legs. Saw you sneaking glances when I did glute exercise. Be a gentleman first and take me to lunch after gym? When: April 20. Where: Bailey’s Gym, Loretto & San Jose. #1726-0501 TONY PACKO’S FAN Pumping gas and my T-shirt amused you. You asked about it and we talked briefly. Would like to talk more. When: April 8. Where: Fleming Island Daily’s/Shell Gas. #1725-0501 ATTRACTIVE CHURCH WOMAN Your group sat in front of me. You: Attractive, long hair, glasses, beverage. We locked eyes near sermon’s end. I’ll sit in same area next few Thursdays. I go to 5:22 Sunday services, too.

Coffee sometime? When: March 21. Where: Church of Eleven22, San Pablo. #1726-0417 BE MY ENDGAME? MCU CAPTURE You: Buttery bowtie alpha stud manager. Me: Thanos purple high-tops, interested in your gauntlet.

Rewind time, never stop, soul search this reality, use this space, see where this power takes us? More theories if interested. When: April 3. Where: Regal Avenues 20. #1724-0410 TRAFFIC CONE TROUBLE You: Trying to lure a pesky orange traffic cone out from under your front bumper. Me: Lent a hand, wrestled an obtrusive pylon out; you cutely muttered of being embarrassed. I’m free next Friday if you run it over again. When: March 29. Where: Gate Parkway Starbucks. #1723-0403 SHRINERS CIRCUS JUMP ROPE MIME You: Being a great guy helping the mime/clown.

Me: Blown away by your jump-roping and your body. The bumbleverse can’t keep up with me, but I think you could. Didn’t see a ring; single?

When: March 17, 1 p.m. Where: Shriners Circus. #1722-0403

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When it was time to write your horoscope, I felt unusually lazy. I could barely summon the energy to draw up the planetary charts. I prayed weakly to astrological muses, “Don’t make me work too hard to discover the message Aries people need; make the message appear in my mind.” A voice in my head said, “Try bibliomancy.”

I walked to my bookcase, shut my eyes, pulled out the first book I felt and flipped to a random page. Here’s what I read when I opened my eyes: “The Taoist concept of wu-wei is the notion that our creative active forces are dependent on and nourished by inactivity; doing absolutely nothing may be a good way to get something done.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s an old Rosicrucian vow you might have fun trying: “I pledge to interpret every experience that comes my way as a communication of God with my soul.” If you carry out this intention with relaxed jocularity, every birdsong you hear is an emblem of Divine thought, every eavesdropped conversation has hints of the Creator’s mood, the shape spilled milk takes on a tabletop is an intimation of eternity breaking into our time-gripped realm. In my years of giving advice, I’ve never suggested you try this exercise; I didn’t think you would. Now I do.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are unheralded gifts many Geminis have which aren’t usually named by traditional astrologers: 1. Skill for deprogramming yourself, for unlearning defunct teachings that might interfere with the ability to develop your highest potentials. 2. A sixth sense for recognizing artificial motivations, then shedding them. 3. A tendency to attract epiphanies that show why and how to break once necessary taboos. 4. Ability to avoid being overwhelmed and controlled by what you manage or supervise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1993, I began writing the book The Televisionary Oracle. By 1995, I’d generated more than 2,000 pages of material I didn’t like. Though driven by a desire to express insights long building inside me, nothing about my work felt right. I was stuck.

Finally I found a way and it freed me: I began to speak difficult truths of my life about which I was embarrassed, puzzled and ashamed. Everything fell into place. The agonizing, fruitless process became fluidic and joyful. Try this method to dissolve mental blocks you may have: explore what makes you feel ashamed, puzzled or embarrassed. It may lead to triumph and fulfillment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m overjoyed you’re not competing for easy reward or comparing yourself to mediocre herds.

Some in your sphere may not be overjoyed–to those whose sense of self is weak, you may be like an itchy allergen; they may say you’re showing off.

But those like me appreciate creative egotists like you when you treat your personality as a work of art. You’re a stirring example of how to be true to one’s smartest passions. For now, you can do most anything as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Let’s have a moment of poignant silence in honor of your expired illusions. They were soulful mirages, full of misplaced idealism and innocent misunderstandings. Generous in ways you don’t yet see, they exuded agitated beauty sparking courage and resourcefulness. As those illusions fade, they serve anew: they’re fertile compost for the next big production.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Old rules and traditions on how to conduct intimate relationship are breaking down. New rules are incubating. The details of how folks give and receive love seem to be riddles with no correct answers. How to proceed with a blend of confidence and receptivity? Can you find strategies to be true to your need for independence and your need for interdependence? These posers are just in time for your cycle’s Transforming Togetherness phase.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time for the annual shout-out to your most audacious possibilities. Ready? Say “Hallelujah! Hosanna! Happiness! Hooray for my brilliant future!” Next, say, “I have more than enough power to create my world in the image of my wisest dreams.” Now do a triumph dance and whisper, “I’m going to make sure I always know just what my wisest dreams are.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the next three weeks, load up on copious amounts of caffeine from 8 a.m. Monday till 6 p.m. Friday. Then drastically cut back on the coffee and consume large quantities of alcohol and/or marijuana from 6:01 p.m. Friday through 6 p.m. Sunday. It’s the ideal recipe for success. JUST KIDDING! That’s a lie. The truth?

Astrological indicators suggest you’d benefit from making the weeks ahead the most undrugged, alcohol-free time ever. Your potential to achieve natural highs will be extraordinary, as will your potential to generate breakthroughs while enjoying those natural highs. Take advantage!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I don’t presume you should or will happily embrace the task I propose. It may indeed be too much to manage now. If that’s the case, don’t worry. You’ll get another chance in a few months. If you are ready for a breathtaking challenge, here it is: Be a benevolent force of wild nature, a tender dispenser of creative destruction, a bold servant of soulful dreams–as you demolish outmoded beliefs and structures that kept part of your vitality shackled and latent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve cast a feisty love spell that’s triggered in anyone who reads the first line of this horoscope. Since you’ve done that, you’re now becoming smarter than you already were about getting the most out of intimate alliances. You’re primed to experiment with the joy of feeling with your head and thinking with your heart. You’ll have revelations about any unconscious glitches subtly undermining your togetherness, and you’ll get good ideas on how to correct them. Astrological rhythms flow in your favor for the next seven weeks!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): About 25 percent of your fear is the result of your hesitation to love deeply, openly and bravely. Another 13 percent is from an inclination to mistake some teachers for adversaries, and 21 percent is your reluctance to negotiate with the misunderstood monsters in your closet. Yet fully 37 percent of your fear is from the freefloating angst you telepathically absorb from the other 7.69 billion humans on Earth. So what about the remaining four percent? Is it based on real risks? Should you pay attention? Yes! The next few weeks will be a good time to diminish its hold on you.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

FOLIO WEED

REEFER SADNESS MARIJUANA GOES TO THE MOVIES THE FIRST ENTRY IN OUR NEW LIST OF movies about marijuana easily merits an entire column of its own. It’s the infamous, over-the-top 1936 cautionary tale Reefer Madness. What is there to even say about this notorious piece of drug-war propaganda that isn’t (probably) a lie? Well, here’s one truth: People took such blatant nonsense quite seriously at the time. The film features tropes that would define perceptions of cannabis for generations: unscrupulous dealers pushing weed on teenagers, precipitating a rapid descent into rape, hallucinations, suicide and, of course, jazz.

Reefer Madness was released at the height of the Swing Era, and folks like former Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger had already been explicit about the threat posed to proper society by the intersection of weed and jazz. This film checks almost every box for the government propagandists of the day. Hell, if it weren’t for the super-racist production codes of yesteryear, some of the movie’s villainous roles would’ve even been played by black people, such was the producers’ commitment to kayfabe.

The filmmakers had high hopes, so to speak, for their movie, but it was not to be—at least not the way they would’ve preferred. Reefer Madness bombed, rightly ruining the careers of everyone involved in it and tarnishing the credibility of all such efforts that followed. It did not achieve cult status until decades later, too late for the principals, but just in time for the home-video market. I was working at a bookstore at The Jacksonville Landing when I bought my VHS copy at Musicland, down at the other end of

the mall. It was probably the best $3.99 I ever spent. My friends and I watched it at least a dozen times that first week, and conversations were punctuated with dialogue from the film for months thereafter. I lent the tape to others, and it made the rounds, relentlessly. I let the tape rock until it popped, and then I bought another one from another store (also for $3.99).

Personally, my favorite visual is of a wild-haired—and wilder-eyed—piano player toking up in a closet, halfilluminated through the slats in the door, barely able to keep it together. I have always wondered if he understood what foolishness he was perpetrating on the world, or if he really was that high. We will never know. Ironically, though it’s intended as an anti-drug warning, it’s impossible to watch sober, and it has become a foundation piece of stoner culture. It’s inspired several remakes, all of which are also terrible, mostly on purpose. They stay fairly faithful to the source material, but they’re more blatantly conceived as obvious satire.

It’s worth reiterating that the original film was meant to be taken at face value; satire of such depth and complexity wasn’t a reality at that point in American culture.

It’s a shame the producers didn’t live long enough to see what became of their wouldbe masterpiece. Alas, one imagines they were perfectly content to wipe their minds of the memory, forever.

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COMIC-BOOK VILLAIN LENNY CURRY THINKS HE’S INEVITABLE IN THE LAST TWO AVENGERS MOVIES, OUR

heroes had to deal with Thanos, a cosmic villain who sought to make half of the galaxy’s inhabitants disappear with a snap of his Infinity Gauntlet. Jacksonville has its own Thanos. Emboldened by reelection, Mayor Lenny Curry is doing his best to make the great things about Jacksonville disappear—all the while lining his cronies’ pockets and padding his political legacy.

Lately, I have written about Duval County Public Schools’ efforts to hold a sales-tax referendum in order to pay for repairs to deteriorating schools.

Flouting the Florida Constitution, Jacksonville City Council has been stonewalling, presumably at the mayor’s behest. Now we know why. In the first of two political bombshells last week, the Florida Times-Union reported that Sam Mousa, Curry’s outgoing chief administrator, called school board member Warren Jones and told him that he could get the City Council to approve the referendum ... if the board would pay him an outrageous consulting fee and agree to give $150 million of the sales tax revenues to charter schools. Of course, Mousa’s proximity to Curry suggests that this is the mayor’s idea, and that Curry is willing to hold the kids of Duval County hostage until his demands are met.

So, do Jacksonville’s charter schools need the money? First of all, a Florida Department of Education Fixed Capital Outlay report shows that last year, Duval County charter schools received about $7,893,111 million in capital funds, while public schools received only $2,680,072 million. That is a $5,213,039 million difference. Second, the salestax referendum statute, Section 212.055(6), permits the sales tax revenues to only be spent on capital projects. Thus, giving charter schools too much of the revenues only

increases the disparity shown above.

Third, there is no evidence that our charter schools are suffering any maintenance problems. Most charter schools are new, while our public school facilities are some of the oldest in the state. Finally, the School Board’s plan already shares money with charter schools on the same building-square-footage formula that is being used for public schools.

Then another bombshell dropped.

Curry announced that the city of Jacksonville would give his friend Shad Khan $233 million to develop Lot J. That is on top of the $39 million Curry has earmarked to demolish the Hart Bridge ramps and funnel traffic to Khan’s proposed development. Why is the city giving Khan $233 million, most of it in cash, not tax breaks? Khan is worth $6.7 billion. He does not need the money.

The development involves building residential condos (which no one earning a middle-class income will ever be able to afford), a “boutique” hotel, an office tower and restaurants.

That sounds like a commercial development, not a public development like a park. Ironically, the city will build 1,330 parking spaces, something Curry refused to do for The Jacksonville Landing.

Even worse, Curry has designated Lot J as a Federal Opportunity Zone.

Opportunity Zones are supposed to be used to lower taxes in distressed neighborhoods to entice developers to invest. Simply put, they were designed to benefit an area like Northwest Jacksonville. Remember the Northwest?

That is the part of town where Curry cannot get pools open for poor kids to use during the summer. (How does the park director still have a job?) Lot J is also about 2.9 miles from Downtown.

Who will want to drive there after work, especially considering the traffic jams that will be created by the demolition of the ramps?

Next, it was announced that JEA was inviting sale offers.

During his reelection campaign, Curry promised not to submit any legislation to sell our communityowned utility. But Curry was cheerleading a sale the very day that the JEA board made the announcement. Indeed, such a transaction could pay for Khan’s incentives and clear Jacksonville’s debt—putting a feather in the mayor’s cap at the expense of JEA employees and consumers. So much for campaign promises.

Then there was another announcement. The Jacksonville Beach Pier will be closed for two years to repair damage done by Hurricane Matthew. You remember the Pier? That is the place where people go to fish because they cannot afford the boats that Curry’s donors own. Even though the hurricane was nearly three years ago, and the repairs done in February 2018 allowed fishing only at high tide, Curry is just now getting around to fixing it.

Like Thanos, Curry is trying to make great things disappear.

He is trying to make $150 million disappear when it is desperately needed to repair our aging public schools. He is trying to make the Hart Bridge ramps disappear, along with $39 million to tear them down. He is trying to make $233 million disappear for the benefit of a billionaire. He is trying to make our public utility, JEA, disappear. He is trying to make the Pier disappear for two years, if not forever. He is trying to make The Landing disappear. By now it should be obvious: Curry is the one who needs to disappear.

Terry D. Bork mail@folioweekly.com ________________________________ Bork is a Jacksonville-based attorney with more than 20 years’ experience.

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