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RE.: “What Political Consultants Do,” by A.G. Gancarski, Aug. 30 ANOTHER WEEK AND ANOTHER A.G. Gancarski column about what a genius mayor Lenny Curry is. Why does Folio Weekly continue to publish his work? Gancarski makes his living writing positive press about Curry for both Folio and the notoriously “pay-to-play” FloridaPolitics.com. He is the Leni Riefenstahl of this administration, carefully running every column and article past the mayor and his political advisers prior to publication. In case you haven’t gotten the message, Gancarski (and Curry’s team) want you to know that Lenny Curry works harder than everyone else. He’s also smarter and more cunning than everyone else. If you cross Curry on any issue, it is a fatal and foolish mistake that you will live to regret. Also, Curry’s political consultants Tim Baker and Brian Hughes are super-smart and frequently underestimated. In fact, anyone who dares oppose the trifecta of Curry, Baker and Hughes is obviously a simple-minded buffoon. It is bad enough that the Republican establishment owns the Florida Times-Union. Why is the city’s lone alternative newsweekly giving weekly space to the mayor’s personal fluffer? Albert Burgess via email

PRESERVING THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

RE.: “Pro-Confederate Group Descends on Jacksonville,” by Claire Goforth, Aug. 25 IT’S IMPORTANT TO PRESERVE AND REMEMBER history, good or bad. Go to Berlin, Germany and you’ll see statues and monuments from WWII and they use them to teach and to learn from their history. People are offended by anything these days. If we remove everything that offends some people, where will it end? Sarah McCrystal-Harris via Facebook

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RE.: “DCPS Attacked on Two Fronts,” by Julie Delegal, Sept. 6 TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. I THINK we already decided that’s not OK. Samuel Fisher via Facebook

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RE.: “Driving Distraction,” by Mary Maguire, Aug. 23

PENISES ONLY THINK OF THEMSELVES

IT’S JUST AS DANGEROUS, IF NOT MORE dangerous, than being high or drunk behind the wheel. If you’re drunk or high, then at least your eyes are on the road and not staring down. It’s not that important. Put your damn phone down or text when you’re at a stoplight—or even smarter: Pull your car out of the way into a parking lot. If your choice is between “OMG I have to respond” and crashing or being five minutes late where you’re going, then be five minutes late. Most of the time it’s not that important. Additionally, the argument of “well, I’ve always done it and I’ve been fine” is the same argument drunk drivers use. You are always fine until you’re not. Stop being a selfish dick. Teddy Greene via Facebook

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I’VE BEEN BEHIND SO MANY PEOPLE TEXTING or being distracted by their stupid cell phone... They swerve all over, slow down, etc. I’ve honked, and hollered [for them] to get off! Anieca Turner via Facebook

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YOU CAN’T EVEN GET PEOPLE IN JACKSONVILLE to use a turn signal or stop at a red light. You don’t really expect them to put down their phones, do you? Richard E. Milstead via Facebook

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO GROWERS ALLIANCE After Hurricane Irma passed, St. Augustine’s Growers Alliance Café & Gift Shop helped keep their neighbors fresh and caffeinated during the cleanup by handing out free coffees from their food truck. Owners Purity Gikunju and Martin Kabaki have a history of giving back; a portion of the funds from sales of the delicious coffee grown by friends and neighbors in Kenya, their home country, helps improve access to health care and clean drinking water there, and they organize trips to Kenya where visitors can volunteer. BRICKBATS TO TED YOHO As Hurricane Irma poised to unleash its terrible fury on Florida, Congressman Yoho (R) voted against $15 billion of emergency hurricane relief. Yoho and Congressman Matt Gaetz, a fellow Floridian Republican and hurricane aid denier, seemed not to grasp the irony of hiding behind fiscal conservatism just weeks after voting to increase defense spending by $68 billion. But perhaps Yoho revealed the true cause of his opposition when he told C-Span before the vote: “[W]hen you make a deal with Charles E. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi on a spending bill, a lot of times it can’t be good for the American consumer.” Partisan much? BOUQUETS TO AMANDA MORRIS BAIN Natural disasters are hard on everyone, but often put a particularly tough strain on families with small children or infants. In an extraordinary act of charity, Bain posted an offer on Facebook to donate diapers, wipes, bottles, formula and baby girl’s clothes to any family who needed them. Not only that, but Bain, a registered nurse with Florida Blue, also offered to drop off the items personally. Kindness at its finest! DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A BRICKBAT? Send submissions to mail@folioweekly.com; 50 word maximum, concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest. SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5

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My dudes, can you shred? Or perhaps you prefer the laconic grace of a long board, or maybe you’re into tandem rides or that new-fangled SUP stuff. However you catch ’em, the waves and the Sisters of the Sea are waiting, so pull on your luckiest rash guard and get wet (or watch from shore) for the 19th annual surf classic, 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, Jax Beach Pier; to enter: $40 advance per event, $60 day of; free to watch, sistersofthesea.org.

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In Florida, if a person ends up with a felony conviction, they lose the right to vote forever. Activist Desmond Meade, who has studied the law and is deeply affected by it, speaks about the Second Chance Initiative to restore voting rights to all Floridians, noon Thursday, Sept. 21, Florida Coastal School of Law, 8787 Baypine Rd., Southside, latinojustice.org.

BANNED BOOKS LARRY BAKER

Author Baker reads from the portion of his book The Flamingo Rising that got it slapped on a banned book list–we’re betting sex, profanity or the ACLU (gasp) is involved. The writer follows with a discussion about censorship and free speech issues and signs books, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24 at Main Library, Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org.

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There’s absolutely no way to overstate the impact that Lauryn Hill and Nas have had on decades of hip hop. And they continue to make their extraordinary voices heard on this tour as the music legends raise funds in support of education, health, agriculture, technology and other initiatives to build businesses and equity within the black community. 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, Daily’s Place, Downtown, $51-$229, dailysplace.com. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017

BUMP IN THE NIGHT JERROD BROWN

As you look at Brown’s work, it’s OK to feel a small measure of relief that this artist gets to vent his spleen in gruesomely amusing ways. Just imagine what he–clearly qualified to inherit Dr. Frankenstein’s mantle–might get up to without painting. The show 10 Years of Monsters & Mayhem highlights some of his “most successful” works; it displays through October at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992.

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FROM THE EDITOR

With politicians on the take, who will from PPROTECT ROTECT TTHE HE PPEOPLE EOPLE fro om eexploitation? xplooitation? THE AMERICAN WORKER IS GETTING SCREWED. And we’re doing it to ourselves. Every day, people wake up hungry, work a full day, go home and fall asleep with an empty knot where their supper should be. Instead of growing in wealth as they age, every year they get leaner, hungrier and older, their cost of living increasing along with all those pesky age-related maladies, while their income remains essentially the same. Today, a minimum-wage worker in Florida lucky enough to have a full time job earns just $324 a week before taxes, or $16,850 a year—just a skosh above the federal poverty line for a family of two. This means that no matter how demeaning the hat and hairnet, how demoralizing the parroted lines they have to chirp every single time someone calls or comes in the door, or how many pieces of flair the corporate overlords decree they wear, they’ll probably never get ahead, never own a home or a reliable car. It’s hard to be upwardly mobile when your feet are nailed to the floor. Natural disasters like Hurricane Irma bring this harsh truth into sharp focus. For the comfortably middle class, itself a shrinking demographic making do with less every year, a few days’ furlough and some extra expenses are a minor inconvenience in an otherwise easy existence. For all the janitors, cooks and clerks out there punching that $8.10-an-hour clock, a few days of lost wages may be the difference between making rent or getting evicted, driving to work or relying on the chariots of JTA, taking their medicine with a meal or choosing either medicine or a meal. Add a tree through the roof or three feet of water in the den, and they’re looking at a shelter or Section 8, if they don’t live in such already. Yet, thanks to leaders like Ronald Reagan who famously vilified “welfare queens,” it’s become popular to criticize handouts, to demonize welfare recipients and sneer about entitlement spending. That’s why any time a candidate suggests raising the minimum wage, or requiring employers to provide paid maternity or paternity leave, or the government offering affordable childcare, or switching to a single payer healthcare system, their opponent clambers up onto the bully pulpit and crows long and hard about all the small businesses that will close if they have to pay a single red cent more in wages, or taxes, or to make sure working mothers don’t end up wearing diapers to work days after giving birth because the family can’t afford for them to

miss a shift. As if these business owners are somehow more entitled to a living wage than the people who sweep their floors, assemble their sandwiches and answer their phones. To add insult to injury, these are usually the same politicians who insinuate that ‘poor’ is an inherent condition caused by inferiority rather than bad luck and circumstance. Fewer people would be on welfare if we raised the minimum wage, fewer families would be homeless or on food stamps if daycare were affordable, or if a pregnancy weren’t tantamount to losing at least two months’ pay. (Meanwhile, every clinic providing reproductive care that includes abortion risks losing funding.) But that logic is lost on these candidates and those of us who vote for them. Everyone knows politicians are bought and paid for, that the hollow words spewing from their mouths like so much excrement are essentially solicitations for campaign donations. There’s no sincerity behind it, except inasmuch as they sincerely want to be reelected and are sincerely in positions of power. It wasn’t always this way. PreCitizens United, politicians were slimy; now they seem to crawl from the very depths of depravity and vice, power-hungry creatures from the darkest trenches on Earth. Sure, some stand for something, others begin with good intentions—but after they give it up to the special interests, dark money, focus groups and pay-to-play peeps, there’s little valor left to go around for the poor, downtrodden and oppressed who are getting sicker and hungrier every year. For many decades, the tiny fraction of wealthy and powerful people who run this country have been chipping away at the laws that created the strong middle class of the 20th century. Millennials grew up in the twilight of the golden years of the middle class, blithely unaware that the good times were not going to keep rolling. Little by little, they’ve undermined workers’ protections and alms for the poor, leaving people like you and me to foot the bill for those left behind. Who pays when a mother can’t afford her child’s surgery? We do. Who pays when a family’s income doesn’t cover rent, daycare and dinner? We do. Who strokes the check when a third of the population is income-insecure and a major disaster hits? We all do. Remember that next time you vote. Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com

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WAS IRMA

GOD’S WILL? Kim Daniels EMBARRASSES Jacksonville again

AS I RECLINED ON MY sunporch watching Irma as it bore down, I never wondered if it was “God’s will.” I never wondered that when I watched the starburst lightning of transformers popping hither and yon. I never wondered that as storm waters flooded Downtown roadways and the streets a few blocks from my home. It never occurred to me. Like many, and despite youthful programming toward skepticism, I was heartwarmed by the #JaxStrong narrative: daring water rescues, neighbors helping neighbors, tireless linesmen and lineswomen dealing with tough restoration projects on dark streets. It was incredible; like the ardor of first love, sustainable in the short term. I also knew that, as with every tragedy, the religious mountebanks would emerge with their gruesome theories as to why people had to suffer. What I didn’t anticipate, mostly because it seemed so asinine, was one of those mountebanks being in our state legislature. Last week, Rep. Kim Daniels (D-Prosperity Gospel) advanced an interesting theory. Daniels posted to Facebook—on her official State Representative Kimberly Daniels page—that a pastor you’d never have heard of unless you were dialed into this hustle circuit “prophesied that a surge was coming to Fla [sic] in July (Open Heaven Conference in Tallahassee) He saw something coming up the middle of Fla [sic] and put a map of it on the screen. Nothing happens except God reveal [sic] it to prophets first.” Nothing happens except God reveal it to prophets first? In that case, anoint every climate-change scientist, and half the people in this country; after all, they could’ve guessed that global warming would drive more storms, such as Irma, uniquely able to draw energy from both sides of the peninsula as it filleted the heart of what the marketers call Real Florida. Daniels doubled down, of course, also casting aspersions on this writer in the process. “I wouldn’t post it on Facebook if I didn’t believe it,” Daniels said, adding that she was “sure” I “wouldn’t understand” where she was coming from. “That’s for spiritually-minded people,” Daniels said, “and you can’t explain spiritual things to carnally-minded people. And so if I was in a church, I would talk about the prophetic, but out here it’s not in order.” We asked Daniels why God would want Irma to hit Florida. Her response: “You pray and ask God that.” “Put this on note: You do nothing but negative. You’re a very negative reporter, and

that’s why I knew that anything you ask has no good meaning or root,” Daniels said. Negative? Perhaps. But when I keel over in however many years, every important person in this city will cry crocodile tears and emote on social media. Because I uniquely delve into uncomfortable truths, saying things they don’t dare. Beyond all that, though, we are dealing with a public policy nightmare: A state representative, whose constituents deal with poverty and outcome deficits almost exclusive to their region, who has incapacitated her moral authority to push for aid because she posted that prophets saw the storm coming— ergo, the analysis follows, we “deserved” it in some way. The people on oxygen machines, languishing in dumpy hotboxes as overstretched utility crews attempted a lightning-speed grid restoration? The folks in flooded homes along the Ribault River? Those eight people who died down south in an overheated nursing home? In Daniels’ demented calculus, all deserved their fates—or at least prophets saw it coming. This kind of conflation of emotive, cashhustling pseudo-theology and the role of a politician is nothing new for Daniels. Her push against Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance expansion proved that locally. As did her sole legislative accomplishment this last year—the “religious freedom in public schools” bill, because nothing will prepare people for STEM jobs quite like an afterschool meeting of the Benny Hinn Club. I talk to City Hall people more than I talk to my friends, and a recurrent frustration is that this delegation doesn’t bring money back to Jacksonville, in part because they’re consumed with symbolic, bullshit legislation (I am paraphrasing a bit). The delegation will be competing with Tampa and Orlando, yes, but also the Keys, Miami and Southwest Florida. The state didn’t have a meaningful budget surplus before the storm, which one economist called a “black swan” event. There will be scant resources beyond those of leadership priorities. And Rep. Daniels hurt Jacksonville’s case by not being able to resist a specious theological read on the storm—a natural disaster that seems like an augury of things to come, which requires real public policy solutions. Rest assured that even if legislators from other regions think that, they aren’t posting it on Facebook. A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com @AGGancarski SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9

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DREAMING IN MONTEREY As the president waffled on whether the nation will kick the “Dreamers” out of the country, ^ some of the beneficiaries of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program took to the grounds of Cal State University Monterey Bay to march for the program, reports Monterey Weekly. Roughly 50 Dreamers and their supporters participated in the event on Sept. 11. “Among them were Women’s March President Estefania Rodriguez and Jose Ansaldo, the subject of a PBS film, East of Salinas, and who is the only one of his siblings who is not a U.S. citizen,” Monterey Weekly reported. One woman, herself a Dreamer, who asked not to be identified, spoke tearfully of coming to America, “the only country she’s ever known,” as an infant, reported Monterey Weekly. “We’re coming here less than 2 years old,” she said. “We didn’t have a say, we just went.” California is home to the nation’s largest population of undocumented immigrants, some 2 million. Since indicating that he was going to cancel the program, Trump has seemingly backed away from that assertion, Tweeting last week, “Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!” and “They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own—brought in by parents at young age.”

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Mountain Xpress reports that a simple question opened the Sept. 13 Asheville City Council candidate forum hosted by the Asheville Democratic Socialists of America: “Do you consider yourself a socialist?” The candidates were competing for the DSA’s endorsement. Of the six on the panel, four, four candidates said that, yes, indeedy, they are socialists. The other two identified as an independent as an unaffiliated “militant moderate,” respectively. No, we are not making this up. There are 12 candidates in total, Mountain Xpress noted, only six of whom showed up for the forum. Other topics that caught interest there included the city’s high cost of living—candidate Rich Lee opined such is a “threat” to the “diversity of people in Asheville” while candidate Dee Williams said, “The other thing we can do is start paying people a living wage”—and disproportionate police enforcement against minorities. On Sept. 14, Williams got the endorsement.

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Miamians experienced both the worst and best of humanity in the face of the catastrophic hurricane that rocked the entire state of Florida Sept. 9-11 and beyond. Miami New Times reports that just before the storm hit, looters stole the plywood protecting the Amarena Bakery & Bistro. The owners, spouses Ariel and Daniela Oyarzabal, had already evacuated to Georgia with their two young daughters, so there was little they could do but put out a plea for help on social media. What happened next stunned the pair, immigrants who had fled Venezuela to escape its high crime rate just a year ago. “The response was incredible. People started calling me, writing me, they offered to come and help us. Complete strangers leaving their home to help,” they told Miami New Times. By Saturday, Sept. 9, the business, a bakery that specializes in Argentine favorites, was protected by a new patchwork of plywood and metal. Though a tree fell in front of the bakery, thanks to the kindness of strangers, the family lost only their refrigerated items, not their livelihood.

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Though the paper had to go to press five days early due to Hurricane Irma—we feel ya on that one, we really do— Charleston City Paper made sure to give some ink to the city’s upcoming Pride Week. Though Editor Kinsey Gidick conceded an inclination to instead write an editor’s note that read simply, “Dear Irma, Fuck off. Sincerely, Kinsey,” the paper provided oodles of info and love for the LGBT community, who will take to the streets through Sept. 23 for a festivus of love, acceptance, entertainment and equality. Aaahhhhh. 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017

Oceanfront lots on Amelia Island represent some of the most attractive and valuable real estate in the Southeast, with parcels typically selling for almost $1 million, sometimes more. Yet the lots in American Beach, situated between two high-end resorts and gated communities on the barrier island’s waterfront, list for half that price or less. It sounds like one of the greatest real estate investment opportunities in the region—and that may actually be the case—yet something is holding back land value. Most people with knowledge of the area and the situation agree that public services—principally, water and sewer services—are the main reason for lagging property values. Given American Beach’s location and history, however, the cause and solution to this dilemma comprise a complicated story. CONTINUED NEXT PAGE >>> STO RY BY M A RY MAG U I R E SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 11

Carlton Jones’ American Beach home sustained more than a million dollars of damage in a house fire in January 2016. Due to the scarcity of public utilities, others in the coastal community might not have been so ‘lucky.’

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When Carlton Jones’ stately three-story vacation home caught fire on a damp and breezy morning in early January last year, Jones was actually in luck. Location is very important in real estate and, being a block from the ocean and the state’s tallest sand dune lend Jones’ house obvious cachet, but its proximity to something even scarcer in American Beach is arguably the reason for the home’s survival: a fire hydrant. Jones and his family had already left to return to their home in Jacksonville when neighbors sounded the alarm at 9:19 a.m. Crews from Nassau County Fire Station 20, which is a half-mile away on S.R. A1A First Coast Highway, arrived within five minutes. Firefighters pulled water hoses into the house but were forced to evacuate and regroup. Dozens of firefighters from Fernandina Beach, and Nassau and Duval counties were called to help. According to the incident report issued by the chief ’s office, a truck equipped with aerial apparatus was used to dump water from above, onto the house. While that effort would eventually help extinguish the blaze, it could not save sections of all three levels and a large chunk of the roof from collapse. Reporters arrived. House fires with big flames are typically front-page news and lead local newscasts. But this fire, which substantially destroyed Jones’ home and caused more than a million dollars in damage, attracted attention for other reasons, as well. Jones is a well-known real estate developer and pastor in Jacksonville. And American Beach is a historic community, established in 1935 as a coastal playground for African Americans who couldn’t share the beach with white people during legalized racial segregation under statutes and sanctions known as Jim Crow laws. So when Jones’ house went up in flames, people paid attention. “I heard from many, many people locally and across the country who were happy to

learn that my family was safe and also that no other homes in this historic community were hurt by the fire,” he said. “It could have easily spread.” The nearby tree canopy is 100 years old; behind Jones’ house is a dune with a small, brittle maritime forest. Jones, who’s owned the house for 15 years, told Folio Weekly that the fire was started due to problems with electrical equipment in the attic. He’s sensitive to the fragile conditions of his home’s natural surroundings. “If you had a lightning strike, this area could have a serious fire,” he said. In American Beach, fire protection— as well as water and sewer services—are important issues. That’s because public utilities are scarce. Most property owners maintain private wells and septic systems, with setback restrictions on where they can be located. There is a fire station nearby, but there aren’t many hydrants near houses. Jones has one close by his house on Gregg Street near Burney Road, where the county has utility lines for water and sewer service. Osprey Village, an upscale assisted living facility, and Burney Park, with its restroom and shower pavilion, are both located along the roadway and tie into the public service. Jones’ house and those of his closest neighbors also connect to utilities. Their houses are voluminous dwellings with values in the seven figures because they’re not limited in square footage or the size of a well and septic tank. Yet Jones said the additional fire crews called to his home were asked to bring water. “I also heard the water pressure was low,” he said. There is no mention of an inadequate water supply in the county report on Jones’ house fire and Assistant Fire Chief Scott Hemmingway said he doesn’t recall any problems with water pressure. But for years, county officials have been looking for ways to improve fire safety at American Beach, as well as water and sewer services and, with it, economic development. In 2013, Nassau County paid Jacksonville company GAI Engineering, Planning & Environmental Consulting $10,000 to study how to provide reliable public water service for potable water, sewage collection and fire protection. The study considered various options and determined that the cost to provide the services to 319 lots was $1.1

million for water and $2.2 million for sewer. Under the proposal, property owners would each pay $26,144, including a one-time payment of $8,869 and a 15-year annual assessment fee of $1,151. “This undertaking would provide a safe and reliable water and sewer system, provide fire protection, improve the health and welfare of the new community, and promote economic growth in the area,” according to the report. “American Beach residents will be able to abandon their existing private wells and septic tanks and benefit from a reliable and quality water supply system that eliminates sewage seepage into the ground and groundwater.” Jones embraced the plan but realizes that the costs are prohibitive for many owners. He is president of Friends of American Beach, a nonprofit that raises money for local projects, such as American Beach Museum, which opened in a county building on Julia Street in 2015, as well as placing historical markers. He led an effort in 2016 to place a marker at 5466 Gregg St., once home to A.L. Lewis, president of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company and founder of American Beach. The organization is also focused on raising funds to restore Evans Rendezvous Club, a former oceanfront restaurant and club where jazz great Cab Calloway played and Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aaron visited.

hile efforts to preserve the community’s history are welldocumented, less well known is the organization’s top priority to connect to Nassau Amelia Utilities, the county system. “Water and sewer is our No. 1 issue,” said Jones. Owners, who embrace the idea, rejected the plan due to cost. Ruth Waters McKay, who worked at Jacksonville City Hall under three mayors before retiring, once led a delegation to Washington, D.C. seeking congressional support for the development of municipal services on American Beach. McKay said many property owners simply can’t afford the out-of-pocket expense. “A lot of people are on fixed incomes,” she said, and cannot comply with the various requirements of the study’s recommendations. “At one time there was a big push there. It’s still a hot issue we haven’t been able to move on yet.” Jones is rebuilding; the scaffolding that has surrounded his house since last year is expected to come down by the end of the summer. It’s been an extensive and lengthy project and first-time or casual visitors to American Beach may think a new house is under construction and perhaps the area is seeing a new wave of development. And American Beach is indeed attracting some new residential construction and significant renovation projects. Dumpsters can be seen in front of neglected houses, many of which date back to the 1940s and 1950s; their state of disrepair is such that they could use an overhaul. But development and redevelopment is coming at a much slower and more modest pace than what might be expected. As a general rule, American Beach has not seen the fortune that has come to the rest of Amelia Island, or even much new development since Abraham Lincoln Lewis purchased 200 acres of a pristine maritime forest with

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ocean frontage and sold lots to employees of his Afro-American Insurance Company as a vacation haven more than 80 years ago. Longtime business consultant Bill Moore, who lives on Amelia Island and specializes in community planning, said large-scale developers can’t make money at American Beach under the current conditions. He has worked with the developers of Amelia Island Plantation Resort and directs the South Amelia Island Shore Stabilization Association, a special taxing district for property owners on Amelia Island’s south end that collects money to maintain and re-nourish local beaches. “The lack of water and sewer has limited development more than anything,” he said. Nassau Amelia Utilities, owned and operated by Nassau County, provides potable water and a waste-water system to some 3,000 customers on the island, including a handful of houses on the south end of American Beach. Jones’ residence, which is tucked among a cluster of high-priced homes on the south end, also taps into NAU. The rest of American Beach must make do with well water and septic systems, or a very small utility provider that does not have to meet the same criteria as standard municipal providers. Nassau Public Works Director Scott Herring said in an interview in July that the county continues to look for ways to ease the financial burden. In August, an employee was sent to an engineering conference to learn guidelines for new state and federal grants, including requirements and deadlines, and how to successfully complete paperwork from Tallahassee and Washington. While American Beach is just one of the projects under consideration, Herring said tying properties into the county system is important. “The more wells you have, the greater the risk of contamination for septic tanks, especially older ones,” he said in a phone interview. “We think [the county supply] is a better environmental system.” Herring said the county receives about five or six inquiries a year asking about connection fees. “The cost is high,” he said. “The big fees are running the lines.” The Nassau Health Department handles inspections, only for those seeking to modify or install a new system, said Michael

Godwin, Environmental Health Service Director of the Florida Department of Health in Nassau County. At American Beach, the systems are old and the lot sizes are small, most 50-feet-by100-feet. Godwin said septic systems must be five feet from the house and 75 feet from a private well. Where the neighbor has their system is also a factor. “A bigger home needs a bigger septic system,” he said. “It’s hard to fit a bigger system under current lot sizes.” He said property owners who want to build a bigger house that requires a bigger system (it’s based on the number of bedrooms and size of living space) can ask for a variance from the state. “They make a decision based on site evaluations, soil conditions, setbacks. Things like that,” he said. Godwin said his office receives two or three variance requests each year from American Beach property owners, who typically work through a private company for a customengineered system that also requires an annual maintenance agreement. “They require continual inspection,” he said. “Our minimum is once a year.” Water companies are regulated by the state Department of Environmental Protection. At American Beach, this includes NAU and American Beach Villas, a small system that provides water to a transient motel on Gregg Street that was once a thriving vacation resort known as the Lewis Motel, after the community’s founder. Russell Simpson, public liaison for the state’s northeast district of the Department of Environmental Protection, said monitoring is very limited for American Beach Villas and testing is done every five years. He said Bobby Dollison, who owns the property and lives onsite, provides his own water sample. “We haven’t had any issues,” he said. His colleague Joni Petry, a DEP coordinator, said in a conference call with Simpson that the DEP does less testing for small systems that provide water to fewer than 25 people or 15 connections, such as the American Beach Villas. While a big service may test for chemicals, such as petrol and phosphates, the small companies (the DEP reps said there are hundreds in Florida) don’t offer extensive testing.

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<<< FROM PREVIOUS American Beach. Cole said he’s often asked about water and sewer systems. “I know there’s a guy down the road who’s got a system but I don’t know if he can help,” he said in an impromptu interview last month near his client’s house along Gregg Street. “This is the ocean, people want a big, tall house where you can have everyone over and see the water,” he said. “But it’s not possible on a lot of these properties.” Conditions also make it difficult to sell real estate, including oceanfront property. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, the greatgranddaughter of American Beach founder A.L. Lewis and the sister of MaVynee “The Beach Lady” Betsch, who protected the environment and one particular giant sand dune she christened ‘NaNa,’ is selling a vacant lot on the water. While there is strong interest in the land, she has not yet found a buyer. Cole, who lives in Virginia near D.C., said by phone she has plans to use the money from the sale to buy a house in the community further inland. The property is listed for $495,000. “While I have deep, deep, family roots in American Beach … I have no intention of selling that property until I can get what it’s worth,” she said. “I’m sentimental but American Beach is a good investment. The values will go up and up.” Her realtor Jack Shanklin said it’s a good deal. “To live on Amelia Island? It’s amazing,” he said. “American Beach has taken a while to catch up with prices but I think it’s a wonderful place.” Joyce Jefferson, president of the American Beach Property Owners Association, thinks so, too. Jefferson purchased her house on Lewis Street after retiring as an archivist for The Weather Channel in Atlanta two years ago. She had vacationed in the community for years, starting when she was a child. “Homes are a prized possession for those who live here,” she said. But, she added, the community is blighted. “Some people might take offense to that, but it’s true,” she said. “Go down any street. Take a look. Around the corner I can show you three [blighted] properties in a row.” American Beach is a motley mix of ramshackle and abandoned buildings, modest and well-kept homes, and a smattering of million-dollar dwellings. For people who see the ocean, sand dunes, turtles and the public park that often plays host to music festivals, family reunions, bike tours and campers, it’s a head-scratching puzzle: Why haven’t developers overrun this beautiful place with condominium towers or blown-up beach homes? Jefferson would like to see improvements, but she’s also concerned that polishing American Beach could potentially wipe away its history as an African-American enclave and create a high-end community with access restricted by the size of one’s bank account. “I don’t want to see this island turn into another Hilton Head, with people putting up gates and locking out the public,” she said. “The average person should have access to the beach.” Jefferson lives in a pretty, single-story home painted a beachy shade of salmon, with a porch and a sign that says ‘Joyce’s Place.’ She

spoke to FW in an interview in her spacious living room, decorated with cushy sofas and family photos. She understands that if utilities come to American Beach, it could bring about significant change, including widespread property sales. While many owners have long-standing connections to the community, most do not homestead, and she knows that. Of the 56 parcels on Lewis Street, there are 10 homestead properties, according to the Nassau County Property Appraiser. “I don’t want to see condos on either side of us,” she said. “We want to keep it a family community. But I know money talks.” Jefferson opens a photo album chronicling her family’s American Beach vacations through the years. There are many shots of smiling groups and an image of a sundries store, with a

cactus painted near an entry that was shuttered long ago, along with many other businesses that once plied their trades on American Beach. “We should have something now that sells food or ice cream. Something to enjoy at the beach,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be a fivestar restaurant.” Realtor Sherri Rinker of Amelia Coastal Realty in Fernandina Beach is selling an ocean view lot on Lewis Street that’s zoned for business. “It could be a first-floor shop with a second-story apartment or a boutique hotel with fabulous ocean views,” she said. The property is listed for $385,000. “I’ve got a woman from Augusta, Georgia who understands the value but her concern is price,” she said. And utilities? “The county has got to do something about utilities here,” said Rinker.

The property comes into view from the crest of a shrinking dune. The ocean sparkles in the background. It’s easy to imagine spending a weekend in a small hotel steps from the water, enjoying morning coffee or an evening glass of wine on the deck. But does American Beach have enough foot traffic to support commercial business without being tied to a resort or a golf course? Rinker thinks so. “If they could establish something that would get things rolling,” she mused. Mary Maguire mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ UPDATE: At the September 18 Nassau County Commission meeting, the commissioners drcided to put water and sewer for American Beach on its list of legislative priorities for the upcoming session.

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rian Regan is always on the lookout. That’s what 30-plus years of standup comedy will do. Of course, the craft–and ultimately art–of his style of humor is the skill to convey the personal and have it hit a universal audience. He’s succeed greatly on both fronts, blending personal insight and a kind of fearless sarcasm, and even silliness, which have earned him a devoted audience spanning generations. Some of that is surely due to his riffs on our shared experiences of childhood, but his stabs at the pedestrian monotony and frustration of the human experience make his material entirely relatable. While Regan works “clean,” (an omission to which he seems indifferent) a lack of vulgarity only increases his humor and abilities, since he has no fall-back of firing off F-bombs from a foxhole to try to shake up the audience. The use of the descriptor “organic” has become increasingly inorganic. Yet Regan’s rise from the ’80s standup comedy boom progressed in a seemingly natural way. He was a favorite on Late Show With David Letterman, ultimately appearing a staggering 28 times, more than any other comedian on that show’s history. Aired in 2015, Brian Regan: Live from Radio City Music Hall, was the first live broadcast of a standup special in Comedy Central’s history.

Along with his loyal fanbase, Regan is admired by notable fellow comics—Bill Burr, Marc Maron, Patton Oswalt, Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld are just a few among many who sing his praises and call him their personal favorite. Regan keeps too busy to let this unilateral success go to his head. He’s a road veteran, still performing up to 100 shows a year; Netflix is soon releasing two new Regan comedy specials. In conversation, Regan is erudite, humble and–naturally–funny, discussing his career and the ongoing development of his craft. Here are some highlights of our conversation. Folio Weekly: So you’re releasing not one, but two, specials on Netflix. Both in the same year? Brian Regan: It’s kind of confusing. I have a deal with Netflix for two separate onehour specials. The first one will be coming out in November; I’ve already shot that. And the next one will be in 2019. How much pressure is that? I think it’d be one thing if you’re riffing on stuff that’s not being filmed … but is there greater pressure in filming two shows like that, which could easily be watched by millions of people? It’s a challenge. I don’t go as far as to say it’s pressure because I like the challenge. You know, I wouldn’t have accepted the opportunity if I didn’t feel like I could do it. I’ve done this so long that I feel like two years is enough time for me to really

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In the realm of contemporary OBSERVATIONAL COMEDY, the peerless Brian Regan is on-point have some strong-enough material to create a new hour. But it’s not easy. It’s really a lot of work–but I enjoy it. I enjoy that process of trying to make it better and better, night after night. Regarding that process: Are you among those writers who lock themselves in a room for eight hours until they’ve written at least one good joke–or are you more flexible or fluid? I’m not that good at sitting down and forcing myself to come up with stuff. I just kind of go through my day the way I’d normally go through my day and every once and a while, things jump up and down. You know, I don’t know how that works–I’ll see something, hear something or experience something–and go, “Hey, that good be a bit.” And once you have the nucleus, then you can apply a “craft” to it and try to convey the words to make it tight as possible; and it might or might not work. Sometimes you can tell it onstage and get literally nothing. [Laughs.] Sometimes it’ll kill right away, but usually if there’s something there, they’ll laugh; but it’s not tight yet. So then there’s a process you have to go through where you need to figure out better words and a better way of conveying it. So it sounds like the keys to this are brevity and clarity. If you tell a story that’s too long, people will start staring at the ceiling or readjusting their watchbands. [Laughs.] Well, that’s part of it. But I also feel like you can make it too tight also where you suck the humanity out of it. [Laughs.] You know what I mean? So you’ve gotta be careful–at least it’s my perspective and it depends on the comedy you do–you don’t want to take so many words out that it sounds like there’s no longer a person onstage just talking with you. It’s a fine line. You don’t want information that’s unnecessary for the joke but you also don’t want so little information that you suck the personality out of the joke. Sure. Like: “There was a guy who did something, then he saw something and then he fell down. Thank you and good night.” Like a Mad Lib: “You fill in the words, folks. Shout out a noun.” [Laughs.] I wish I was taping that. That’d be my next joke!

Take it! I also have a killer 45 seconds on “How do you throw away a trash can?” Seems like you’re of the breed where you, or at least the characterizations, are the punchline. I mean, unless someone is a total narcissist, psychopath or Donald Trump, self-deprecating humor is a never-ending wellspring of ideas. Do you agree? Yes. But similar to the previous answer where a joke can be too tight, I feel the same way about self-deprecation. As the guy onstage the audience is listening to, I also have to be self-aware enough that I’m making these observations. If I’m just a goofball, then it’s buffoonery. You know what I mean? So it has to be a person who can make fun of himself; but I’m also trying to let the audience know I’m wise enough and sharp enough to make observations about the world that are hopefully sharp–occasionally–and within that, I can also make fun of myself. But if you take away the sharpness, you lose the overall message. Regarding performing, in your interview on [podcast] You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes and a [Sept. 28, 2015] Vanity Fair piece, you talk about “playing the audience” as this “instrument” or “big blob of humanity.” When did you realize that this perception or approach was what worked best for you? Well, it’s easier for me to try to do things I think are funny than it is for me to try to do things other people think are funny. [Laughs.] I’m not qualified to know what people … in the audience think is funny. That’s too daunting a task. [Laughs.] But I can share with them what I think is funny and if they agree? Great. Then I have an act and then I have a career. And I’m fortunate they often agree. They agree enough that I can do this for a living. And so, because of that, I’m not thinking, “What would that guy laugh at? What would she over there laugh at?” I’m really just trying to say what I would laugh at if I was out there. And then the audience just becomes this thing. I’m trying to make this entity laugh. And you can call it whatever you want: … an instrument, … a blob, … a thing … But it’s easier for me as a comedian to get as much volume and noise out of this writhing mass I can. [Laughs.] Daniel A. Brown mail@folioweekly.com _______________________________ Edited for clarity and content. For our full interview with Brian Regan, go to folioweekly.com

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dds are, anyone reading this column may ay be unfamiliar with Edward L. Cahn, a prolific filmmaker whose career spanned d more than 40 years, from 1917 until his death th at age 64 in 1963, his last movie completed a year earlier. At the same time, anyone who o frequented movie theaters in the 1950s (or watched TV reruns of sci-fi and horror filmss in the ’60s and ’70s) probably saw and loved d Cahn’s genre films in particular. It’s a testament to the enduring appeal of such genre “B” movies that they’ve been lovingly restored to Blu-ray so fans can finally lly revisit (or discover for the first time) the works in much the same quality as when thee films first graced the silver screen. Though he worked with whatever material ial and in whatever genre he was assigned, Cahn’s hn’s most popular films were several sciencefiction and horror projects he cranked out in a five-year period in the late ’50s, such as Invasion of the Saucer Men, Zombies of Mora a Tau, Creature with the Atom Brain and The She-Creature. While we wait for restoration of these “classics,” we can glut our nostalgia cravings with four titles already out in high-definition, n, enabling us to see even better the lines in thee actors’ faces and the creases in the monsters’ s’ rubber suits. Undoubtedly the most famous of Cahn’s films, It! The Terror from Beyond Space (’58) may have been a major inspiration for Ridley ey Scott’s Alien. I say “may have,” because the matter has never been resolved legally or otherwise, though it’s hard to contest some major similarities. Without going into a lengthy plot summary of It! which, like Cahn’s other films, runs just over an hour, a monster stows aboard a spaceship, hides in the ventilation system, and picks off the crew one by one, till the few survivors finally figure out how to kill the thing, in a manner not unlike Alien. The rubber-suited monster (“Crash” Corrigan) looks much better in the shadows (as director Cahn obviously realized), but certainly filled the bill for the late ’50s. The seasoned supporting cast, led by Marshall Thompson, added credibility to Jerome Bixby’s script. One of the very few sci-fi writers to actually write for the movies, Bixby’s fame rests on his classic short story “It’s a GOOD Life!” which became one of the more memorable episodes of the original “Twilight Zone” series; it was later one of the four tales in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Another Bixby script, Curse of the Faceless Man, was originally the second-billed feature to It! (Ah, the grand old double-feature days!) The plot is quite similar to The Mummy, both the first ’32 Boris Karloff feature and the ’59 Hammer version with Christopher Lee. This time it’s a former gladiator, stone-fried and petrified at Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, who comes to life in pursuit of his reincarnated former love. It’s sheer hokum, but the monster suit is impressive enough if you don’t look too

closely at the wrinkles. Richard Anderson (later a TV regular (l l in i series i like lik “The “Th Six Million Dollar Man”) is the stalwart research scientist who eventually saves the day. As one eminent sci-fi scholar noted, “Curse of the Faceless Man gets little respect from today’s impatient monster fans, but I have to say it was good enough to pass muster when it was made.” As the title hints, Invisible Invaders (’59) is incredibly cheap in the special effects department, but as much fun to watch as It! Moon-based aliens threaten to destroy Earth if we puny humans don’t submit. In addition to blowing up everything in sight, the invaders inhabit the bodies of the dead and walk around like zombies. Noble Dr. Penner (Philip Tonge), his beautiful daughter Phyllis (Jean Byron), her former fiancé Dr. Lamont (Robert Hutton), and her new boyfriend Maj. Jay (John Agar) hunker down and save the world by inventing a sound device that makes the sneaky culprits visible, so humans can destroy them. Sci-fi fans will nod sagely among themselves, recalling a similar device saved the world three years before in the classic Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (special effects courtesy of the great Ray Harryhausen). Next in line in ’96, Tim Burton used Slim Whitman’s yodel to the same effect in Mars Attacks! The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, released six months after Invaders, has Edward L.

Cahn return to horror in a tale of magic and voodoo, d with i h shrunken h k heads h d and d vengeful f l archaeologist Dr. Emil Zurich, played by the excellent British actor Henry Daniell, who specializes in villainous roles, much like his countryman George Sanders. The best feature in Jonathan Drake is Zurich’s henchman, a zombie-like dude with a sewn-up mouth. The recipe for shrinking heads is also way cool. “Cheesy” they might be by today’s or even yesterday’s standards, but the late ’50s films of Edward L. Cahn are still fun to watch, looking better than ever. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ The Trip to Spain and Menashe run. Throwback Thursday runs Cyrano de Bergerac, noon Sept. 21 and 6 p.m. Sept. 24. The Last Dalai Lama starts Sept. 21. Flamingo Rising runs Sept. 23. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. SUN-RAY CINEMA Critters, It, Patti Cake$ and 2017 Sundance Short Film Tour run. Kingsman: The Golden Circle starts Sept. 22. Sun Ra: Space is the Place, in a new 4K print, runs Sept. 27. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. IMAX THEATER Amazing Mighty Micro Monsters 3D, It, Inhumans, Prehistoric Planet 3D, Dream Big and Amazon Adventure run, World Golf Village, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

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YOU DON’T KNOW ME Based on the letter that rapist Brock Turner’s victim wrote to him, The 5 & Dime A Theatre Company presents a staged reading of the play– conceptualized and directed by Diana Herman, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org/jax-makerspace. RENUNCIANT Writer/singer/playwright Jennifer Chase’s solo work brings to life stories of refugees she taught for 14 years. Chase performs 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 and 29 at Bab’s Lab @ CoRK Arts District North, 603 King St., Riverside; tickets $15 advance, $20 day of; artful.ly/store/events/13067. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Theatre Jacksonville stages this lauded story that Truman Capote’s best friend (at least as children) Harper Lee penned about racism, the law and small town life in the Deep South. The play runs 8 p.m. Sept. 22, 23, 29 & 30; 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 & 28; and 2 p.m. Sept. 21, 24 & Oct. 1 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., 396-4425, $11-$21, theatrejax.com. SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ The legendary hitmakers Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber practically invented rock-and-roll. Directed by Jereme Raickett, choreographed by Samuel Hills III, the musical runs through Sept. 30 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, $20-$28, 249-0289; playersbythesea.org. FLOYD COLLINS A Kentucky man trapped in a cave in 1925 caused the first modern media frenzy. Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre stages the musical 8 p.m. Sept. 22 & 23, 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., $20, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. DIXIE SWIM CLUB Starring Morgan Fairchild, this tale of friendship spanning decades runs through Sept. 24 at Alhambra Dinner Theatre, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$57, alhambrajax.com.

to arrange an audition for the community youth chorus; staugustineyouthchorus.org.

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MOBILE GROCERY STORE Saturiwa Trading Company offers affordable, healthy foods for Downtowners, 11 a.m.2 p.m. every Wed. at The Court Urban Food Park, along Hogan Street between Bay and Independent Drive. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local, regional art; 9 a.m. yoga, live music–Opening Ceremony, Kim Reteguez, Courtnie Frazier, Sept. 23–farmers market, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

CLASSICAL + JAZZ

STEPHEN ROBINSON, PHILIP PAN, RHONDA CASSANO The trio performs works inspired by Mediterranea, 1:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., members free, nonmembers $10, 355-0630, cummermuseum.org. LEO SUAREZ, THOMAS MILOVAC, ALEX RAVITZ, SULYNN HAGO Two sets of experimental music are performed at 7 and 8 p.m. Sept. 25 at SoLo Gallery, 1037 Park St. (Hoptinger Building, second floor), $10, sologallery.org. NEXUS STRING QUARTET, GUITARIST GIORGIO MIRTO The musicians play 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at University of North Florida’s Fine Arts Center, free, 620-2961, unf.edu/coas/ music/calendar.aspx. KATIE THIROUX Bass player Thiroux carries on the traditions of jazz greats, while putting her own stamp on the genre, 7 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $34-$39, ritzjacksonville.com. SIMON KLOCHKO The guitarist performs 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at SoLo Gallery, 1037 Park St., $10, sologallery.org. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA’S JAZZ COMBO CONCERT The concert is held 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at UNF’s Fine Arts Center, free, 620-2961, unf.edu. TAYLOR ROBERTS The jazz guitarist is on 7-10 p.m. every Wed. at Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com. Also 4 p.m. Thur. at lobby bar; 6 p.m. Fri. & Sat., Salt Restaurant, Ritz-Carlton, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., 277-1100, ritzcarlton.com. BEETHOVEN AND THE BLIND BANISTER Courtney Lewis conducts pianist Jonathan Biss, 8 p.m. Sept. 29 and 30 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 354-5547, $19-$79, jaxsymphony.org.

COMEDY

STEVE BROWN Widely recognized for his distinct highpitched voice and his high-energy physical antics, Brown performs 8 p.m. Sept. 21; 10 p.m. Sept. 22; and 7:30 and 10 p.m. Sept. 23 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $15-$30, jacksonvillecomedy.com. AIDA RODRIGUEZ You’ve seen her everywhere; Rodriguez’ star is rising. She appears 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Sept. 22 and 23 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $15-$18, comedyzone.com. DOUG STANHOPE Stanhope performs 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 646-4277, $38-$60, jacksonvillecomedy.com. FRED’S ALL-STAR COMEDIANS Local comedians perform 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 & 27 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

ACT SEEKS ACTORS A Classic Theatre auditions for The Real Housewives of Tennessee (Williams) and Intimate Apparel, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28; 1 p.m. Sept. 30 at St. Augustine Beach City Hall Community Room, 2200 A1A S., aclassictheatre.org. Be ready to read from the script. Bring a current headshot and résumé. ST. AUGUSTINE YOUTH CHORUS Singers ages 8-18 call 806-7781 or email kfradley@staugustineyouthchorus.org

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TRIPLE THREAT STEPHEN ROBINSON (pictured), PHILIP PAN and RHONDA CASSANO share an afternoon of fine music at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Riverside on Saturday, Sept. 24 as they perform works inspired by Mediterranea.

MUSEUMS

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu. Fall artist-inresidence Jamaal Saber is on the gallery grounds–through Oct. 20–contact the museum for events and talks related to the residency. Artist Gamaliel Rodriguez’s exhibit, A Third Way to Look at You runs through Oct. 20. BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Tide Runs Quiet: The Photographic Works of Thomas Hager, through Oct. 15. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. David Ponsler: Chasing Shadows, through Oct. 4. A Collector’s Eye: Celebrating Joseph Jeffers Dodge, through Feb. 4. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992. 10 Years Of Monsters & Mayhem, the unsettling works of Jerrod Brown, is on display through October. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Project: Atrium installation, Plexus No. 38 by Gabriel Dawe, through Oct. 29. Synthesize: Art + Music, by contemporary sound-based artists, through Sept. 24. An opening reception for the exhibit Margaret Ross Tolbert: Lost Springs is held 7-9 p.m. Sept. 24. THE RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, africanvillageinc.org, ritzjacksonville. com. The African Village Bazaar with vendors, exhibitors, local speakers, painters, designers, authors and small businesses, is held noon-6 p.m. Sept. 24.

GALLERIES

ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828. An opening reception for an exhibit of Sandy Harrington’s colorful works is held 5 p.m. Sept. 21. THE CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT 207 N. Laura St., Ste. 300, Downtown, madeleinewagner.com. The Labor of Learning, by artist Madeleine Peck Wagner, exhibits through Dec. 14;

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ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

to arrange an audition for the community youth chorus; staugustineyouthchorus.org.

ART WALKS + MARKETS

CLASSICAL + JAZZ

COMEDY

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

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ARTS + EVENTS FSCJ’S KENT CAMPUS GALLERY 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside, 646-2300, fscj.edu. Shaun Thurston, Christy Frazier, Matthew Abercrombie and Mark Ferreira display works through Oct. 17. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, ccpvb.org. New works by Jim Benedict and David Nackashi display through Sept. 29. The Jacksonville Watercolor Society presents artist Mike Grecian demonstrating techniques and materials, 7 p.m. Sept. 26. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., staaa. org. The 16th annual Tactile Art Show, touchable art that’s visually appealing and engaging for the blind and Ordinary People, a commemorative exhibit celebrating the city’s 450th birthday, with Don Trousdell’s works, are on display until Oct. 1. THE YELLOW HOUSE 577 King St., St. Augustine, 419-9180, yellowhouseart.org. With 18 artists, Small Matters is the first show in this new space dedicated to art and activism, through Sept. 24, by appointment. BOLD BEAN RIVERSIDE 869 Stockton St., 374-5735, boldbeancoffee.com. Tattooer Myra Oh displays the good taste and wit that put her among the area’s most soughtafter artists, through October. BOLD BEAN JAX BEACH 2400 Third St. S., 853-6545. Meghan Welch’s work, a mash-up of formal figuration and mysticism with a heavy dose of politics, displays through September. BOLD BEAN SAN MARCO 1905 Hendricks Ave. Nature Studies, by extraordinary draftsman Franklin Matthews, shows through October. GALLERY ONE FORTY FOUR 144 King St., St. Augustine. The works of nationally recognized photographer Lenny Foster are on display, lennyfoster.com. MAKERSPACE GALLERY Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org/jax-makerspace. Survive to Thrive: Life Beyond Sexual Violence runs through Oct. 22. MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, 217-0637, monyarowegallery.com. Artist Vera Iliatova explores coming-of-age melodramas and themes in the show Views, Scenes & Other. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, southlightgallery.com. John Pemberton is September’s guest artist. THE ART CENTER AT THE LANDING 2 Independent Dr., tacjacksonville.org. Call of the Wild, a juried show, runs through September.

EVENTS

MUSEUMS

GALLERIES

5K AVONDALE Classic, 1-MILE FUN RUN The ninth annual Shoppes of Avondale-sponsored run benefitting the Sanctuary on 8th Street starts 8 a.m. for Fun Run, 8:30 a.m. for 5K on Sept. 23. Post-race block party has music, free beer, prizes. Details: 424-5368, janet@sanctuaryon8th.org; 1stplacesports.com. QUILTFEST 2017: Once Upon a Quilt Three days of nothing but color, fabric and camaraderie: quilts, quilting demos, dolls, food, silent auction, raffle and kids’ corner, 9 a.m.5 p.m. Sept. 21-23, Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St., Downtown, $10, quiltfestjax.com. YOUTH BLUES SOLO/DUO ACT CHALLENGE The First Coast Blues Society hosts a Regional Solo/Duo Act Challenge, 1 p.m. Sept. 24 at Mudville Music Room, 3105 Beach Blvd., firstcoastbluessociety.org. The winner may compete in the 2018 International Blues Challenge in January in Memphis. SASSY TAPPERS The Tappers tap their little hearts out in The Big Parade, a delightful take on humorous tap stylings, 2:30 p.m. Sept. 23 at St. John’s Catholic Church, 2200 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach. WHEN HERITAGE EQUALS HATE The Jacksonville Progressive Coalition offers a potluck dinner and an ACLU educational video of Jeffery Robinson, the ACLU’s top racial justice expert, discussing the history of Confederate symbols and what can be done to combat systemic racism, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 23 at IBEW Local 177, 966 N. Liberty St., jacksonvilleprogressivecoalition.org. ACOUSTIC NIGHT IN BULL PARK Hosted by local musician Mike Shackelford, the night features amateurs and professionals, 5 p.m. Sept. 24 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 610-7461. BANNED BOOKS Author Larry Baker reads from the portion of his book Flamingo that got it slapped on a banned book list; he’ll also chat about censorship and free speech issues and sign books, 2 p.m. Sept. 24, Main Library, Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LIBRARY The St. Johns County Public Library celebrates 40 years of book larnin.’ The fun starts with story time and ends with a chess night and a screening of Clue; 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, 101 Library Blvd., 827-6950.

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FOLIO F OLIO A OLIO A+E +E : MUSIC MUSIC Deer Tick bridges the gap between RAUCOUS AND RESERVED on new double albums and Twice Is Nice tour

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have a purpose to go back out on the road. ast Friday, Rhode Island’s Deer Tick Everybody is excited. dropped their first album in four years. But they didn’t release just one record; Deer Tick is a notoriously off-the-cuff they released two, simply titled Deer Tick band—I think “ragged” might be the Vol. 1 and Deer Tick Vol. 2, one full of adjective used to describe you all the most. stripped-down acoustic folk and one full of We’ve been rehearsing all week! [Laughs.] rowdy barroom rock. Even better, on their What’s really great about playing these two current Twice Is Nice Tour, frontman John albums is that we recorded them very simply, McCauley, guitarist Ian O’Neil, bassist Chris so when we started to play them, it was Ryan, and drummer Dennis Ryan will play surprising—almost shocking—how quickly two sets, further highlighting the career-long they sounded good. We did some acoustic dates dichotomy between their two competing sets earlier this year, and that’s when we started to of influences. really hammer down what we would want the Consider it a fresh rebirth for Deer Tick, set to be like. And now we’ve got enough covers which nearly fell apart after 2013’s Negativity, together that we can have on which the famously some fun variety throughout hard-living and hardDEER TICK, WOLF PARADE, the tour, too. partying McCauley BLACKFOOT GYPSIES worked through substance 6:45 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, Maybe an intermission abuse issues, a failed Sing Out Loud Festival, St. return of Deervana, the engagement, the death of Augustine Amphitheatre, free, famous Nirvana cover his uncle, and the strange SingOutLoudFestival.com project? story of his father, a There was a time when well-known Providence we probably played as many covers in a politician, receiving a 27-month prison night as we did original songs. Which was sentence for tax fraud. Two months after A) us just having a good time but also B) us Negativity was released, McCauley married expressing a moderate form of rebellion. A lot Vanessa Carlton in a ceremony officiated by of modern bands resist doing that bar band Stevie Nicks; 18 months after that, the couple thing, but we’ve always had fun doing it. Now welcomed their first child, Sidney, into the we actually work on the covers and inject world. Which led to a radical change and something of our identities into them. Make reassessment in Deer Tick’s trajectory, one them a little more thought-out. O’Neil happily discussed with Folio Weekly.

Folio Weekly: In the press material for Deer Tick Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, John [McCauley] says he thought Deer Tick was done in 2016. Did you guys think the same? Ian O’Neil: We felt he felt that way. We didn’t really deal with it, though—maybe some blind sense of denial. I always felt we were going to make more music, and we were all doing stuff on the side, realizing we better have our creative ducks in a row in case [Deer Tick did end]. The problem was, we played the Newport Folk Festival last year, and that inspired us. We realized playing together produced something special we couldn’t get anywhere else. Now, if the recording of these albums [Vol. 1 & Vol. 2] had dragged on, maybe we would have ended it. But it was a really fun, seamless and healthy process. That should give us another couple decades at least. [Laughs.] The Twice Is Nice format should be exciting, too, both for fans and for the band. It’s really exciting—just good to have something to do, period. It’s been a really long time since we’ve worked a record or had a really good reason to go out and play shows. We’ve played a few peppered throughout the last year-and-a-half, but now it feels like we

Deer Tick just played Nashville’s Americana Music Festival. Have you thought more about how you fit in that “New Nashville” or “altcountry” scene? Not really. Maybe we should take it into consideration more. 2017 was the first year we were ever asked to be play the Americana Music Festival, so we definitely do not feel a part of the New Nashville sound. We have lots of friends in that scene, but I think we strongly identify more with bands like Felice Brothers or Big Thief—individuals that come from different corners of the genre. We have never been quite fully accepted into the Americana scene, and that’s probably by our own design. As soon as we got accepted, we made [2011’s rowdy, punk-fueled] Divine Providence, which was probably a conscious move. Maybe what helped our band survive was not paying attention to that stuff at all. Going all the way back to 2008’s Born on Flag Day, the combination of loud and laid-back was always what I loved about Deer Tick. Thanks. We were kind of thinking about people like you when we made these two new albums. Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25

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n modern blues circles, Selwyn Birchwood individually with people easier. But it doesn’t is considered a youthful redeemer. As a matter what the venue is—we just show up and teenager, the Orlando native received his try to put on the best show we can every night.” initial training on the road with Texas-born Though Birchwood absorbed early lap-steel master Sonny Rhodes. Since then, inspiration from trad-blues masters like Birchwood has won Buddy Guy and the Blues Foundation’s Albert King (the International Blues young axeslinger has Challenge, released opened for both), the two albums on songwriter/guitarist/ revered label Alligator singer is intent on Records, scored carving out his own effusive praise from modern blues path. Rolling Stone and “The first time I saw NPR, and earned his Buddy Guy, I felt that MBA—all by the ripe natural high from old age of 32. the blues, and since It’s impressive that then I’ve been trying Birchwood has pushed to chase that dragon himself to both write again,” Birchwood and perform original says. “It’s something music, eschewing the I’ll never forget. I’ve convenience of sticking never been one to copy, SELWYN BIRCHWOOD BAND with crowd-friendly imitate or emulate, 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, covers and tried-andthough, so it was 247-6636, $15, mojobbq.com true traditionals. Part of natural for me to learn that lesson came from the tradition and then his early road journeys try to search for my with Rhodes, where Birchwood served as the own voice. That’s what’s cool about the blues— veteran’s second-in-command. Part of it came it’s expressive and individual. You can really from time hitting the Southeastern club circuit put your own signature on it.” hard, where bar bands are a dime a dozen and Birchwood big-ups the folks at Alligator true originality stands out. Add impeccable Records who’ve helped expand his reach over licks and fiery stage energy into a 6-foot-3-inch the course of his last two albums. “When I package, topped with a prodigious Afro and a found out there were 16 people working over propensity to prowl the stage barefoot, and it’s there, I thought that was a lot,” he laughs. clear why Birchwood has succeeded. “Once I met them, though, I realized that those 16 people do the work of 60.” There’s That success oozes from his 2017 album, no denying the fact that a photogenic young Pick Your Poison. “I was really happy with bluesman with one eye on the past and one the way it came out,” he tells Folio Weekly. “I eye on the future and an MBA in his back really tried to write the best songs and record pocket is an easy commodity to promote. (Not ’em with my band the best way so they’d have to mention that Selwyn Birchwood answered an organic feel. We don’t think too much Folio Weekly’s phone interview request while beyond that—take care of what we can on our driving around his Tampa neighborhood end and let everything else fall into place.” trying to find an air-conditioned hotel in the With a higher profile come much greater immediate wake of Hurricane Irma.) opportunities—two weeks ago, Birchwood “Having the degree helps you to understand performed on NPR’s World Café, and his different aspects of the business—and current tour toggles between small blues understand it is a business,” Birchwood says. rooms and bigger festival stages. And after “That’s what Sonny Rhodes and Joe Louis three consecutive appearances at the local Walker did for me, and it’s directly helped me Springing the Blues Fest (each of which were do my thing a little better. I’ve always been one widely hailed), Birchwood and his band have to do my own thing, in all aspects of life.” built up a solid audience in Northeast Florida. Nick McGregor “Jacksonville’s been cool to us,” he says. “I mail@folioweekly.com like Mojo Kitchen, where we can interact

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Eclectic rapper YELAWOLF (pictured) brings a typically edgy set to MAVERICKS LIVE Downtown, where he plays with MIKEY MIKE and BIG HENRI Saturday, Sept. 23.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

DJ CAPONE 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20, Cheers Park Avenue, 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855, $3. SOUTH of SAVANNAH 8:30 p.m. Sept. 20, Whiskey Jax, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Jax Beach. JAKE McVEY 8 p.m. Sept. 20, Dee’s Music Bar, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, Orange Park, 375-2240; first responders free to any 2017 McVey show; jakemcvey.com. J. MARQUIS 8 p.m. Sept. 20, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $20. BLACK CREEK RI’ZIN 9:30 p.m. Sept. 21, Cheers Park Avenue, $3. 3 the BAND 9 p.m. Sept. 21, Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. CAIN’T NEVER COULD, The COPPER TONES, POEWIC FAMILY 8 p.m. Sept. 21, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside, $7. TREEHOUSE!, SOL SEED, ZACH FOWLER (Sun Dried Vibes), BUBBA LOVE, COLIN PATERSON (Sidereal), BRENT BYRD TRIO 8 p.m. Sept. 21, 1904 Music Hall, $10. ZAC BROWN BAND 7 p.m. Sept. 21, Daily’s Place, Downtown, 633-2000, $114-$408. UB40, LEGENDS ALI, ASTRO & MICKEY 6:30 p.m. Sept. 21, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340C A1A S., $34-$64. IYA TERRA, GARY LAZER EYES 8 p.m. Sept. 21, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $10 advance. CHRIS THOMAS BAND 8 p.m. Sept. 21, Whiskey Jax, Jax Beach. LIFT 9:30 p.m. Sept. 22 & 23, Cheers Park Avenue, $2. MIKE SHACKELFORD 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22, Mudville Music Room, $10. CHUCK NASH BAND 10 p.m. Sept. 21 & 22, Flying Iguana. DEBT NEGLECTOR 9 p.m. Sept. 22, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, $3. Sing Out Loud Festival: ASLYN & the NAYSAYERS, The GOOD BAD KIDS, TUBERS, ALEX PERAMAS, NOT QUITE DEAD, more Sept. 22, St. Augustine, singoutloudfestival.com. PELLICER CREEK BAND, NOT QUITE DEAD 8 p.m. Sept. 22, Mardi Gras Sports Grill, 123 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, mardibar.com. MIKE McCARTHY TRIO 8 p.m. Sept. 22, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance. GIANT, COLD WAR KIDS, JOYWAVE 7 p.m. Sept. 22, Daily’s Place, $23-$110. Sing Out Loud Festival: CONSTANT SWIMMER, SPACE HEATERS, GRANT PAXTON BAND, KENNY & the JETS, The GOOD BAD KIDS, EMA CHISWELL, TOM McKELVEY 5 p.m. Sept. 22, Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. GOOD TIME CHARLIE 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22, Whiskey Jax, Jax Beach. SELWYN BIRCHWOOD 8 p.m. Sept. 22, Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-6636, $15. BROADWAY BOYS 8 p.m. Sept. 22, Ritz Theatre, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $19-$44. Sing Out Loud Festival: ROB PECK, The RUBIES, CRY NO MAS, STRANGERWOLF, MOCK TOXINS, CHILLULA, KIM BROWN, dozens more Sept. 23, St. Augustine venues.

LAURYN HILL, NAS, CHRONIXX, NICK GRANT 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23, Daily’s Place, $18-$201. Festival of Flight Angels for Allison: KIM RETEGUIZ, COURTNIE FRAZIER 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 23, Riverside Arts Market, free. 2 CELLOS 6:30 Sept. 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $44-$74. The TOM BENNETT BAND 9 p.m. Sept. 23, Mardi Gras Sports Grill. The GRASS IS DEAD 8 p.m. Sept. 23, 1904 Music Hall, $15. BLUESAPALOOZA 8 p.m. Sept. 23, Whiskey Jax, Jax Beach YELAWOLF, MIKEY MIKE, BIG HENRI 8 p.m. Sept. 23, Mavericks Live, Downtown, 356-1110, $25-$125. Sing Out Loud Festival: REELS, SEVERED + SAID, VIRGIN FLOWER, STRANGERWOLF, GRIS GRIS BOYS, UNCLE MARTY All day Sept. 23, various St. Augustine sites. The PSYCHEDELIC FURS, BASH & POP, TOMMY STINSON Sept. 23, P.V.C. Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, sold out. MARION CRANE, BURDEN AFFINITY, TOGETHER in EXILE, SKY ABOVE 8 p.m. Sept. 23, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance. SAMUEL SANDERS 8:30 p.m. Sept. 24, Flying Iguana. MICHAEL FUNGE 6:30 p.m. Sept. 24, Culhane’s Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595. The Sing Out Loud Festival: The DOG APOLLO, SALT DRIVEN RIDE, BUFFALO ROSE, WOLF PARADE, DIGDOG, more Sept. 24, varied St. Augustine venues. KEEGAN GREEN 8 p.m. Sept. 24, 1904 Music Hall, $10. ANCIENT CITY SLICKERS Sept. 24, Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $5. KATIE THIROUX 8 p.m. Sept. 24, Ritz Theatre. SIZZLA & FIREHOUSE BRAND, SELECTA AJAH, POSITIVE IRATION SOUND 8 p.m. Sept. 24, Mavericks Live, $30. INSOMNIAC FOLKLORE 8 p.m. Sept. 24, Jack Rabbits, $8. HELLOCELIA DUO 6 p.m. Sept. 25, Prohibition Kitchen, 119 St. George St., St. Augustine. MORGAN JAMES 8 p.m. Sept. 26, P.V.C. Hall, $28-$38. DJ CAPONE Sept. 27, Cheers Park Avenue, $3. KEYCHAIN, ASKMEIFICARE, SILENT RUNNING RIP JUNIOR, BURDEN AFFINITY 7 p.m. Sept. 27, Nighthawks, $6. NOTHING MORE, The STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES, MY TICKET HOME, HELL or HIGH WATER, AS LIONS 6 p.m. Sept. 27, Mavericks Live, $20-$125. TERRI CLARK 8 p.m. Sept. 27, P.V.C. Hall, $40-$50.

UPCOMING CONCERTS DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, ST. PAUL & the BROKEN BONES Sept. 28, Veterans Memorial Arena LYCKA TILL, CHARLIE SHUCK, The TENTACOOLS, FLEASNTICKS, SCUMBAG DAD Sept. 28, Rain Dogs SOUTH of SAVANNAH Sept. 28, Cheers Park Avenue 3 The BAND Sept. 28, Flying Iguana LUNAR COAST Sept. 28, Whiskey Jax, Jax Beach ALISON KRAUSS, DAVID GRAY Sept. 28, St. Augustine Amphitheatre NAUGHTY PROFESSOR, DEXTER GILMORE, MIKE DILLON, CLIFF HINES Sept. 28, 1904 Music Hall GHOST MICE & LYCKA TILL Sept. 28, Rain Dogs XEB Sept. 28, Jack Rabbits

PARTY CARTEL Sept. 29, Whiskey Jax, Jax Beach LEROGIE Sept. 29, Jack Rabbits The UMBRELLA THEORY Sept. 29 & 30, Mardi Gras BEACH CITY Sept. 29 & 30, Flying Iguana SMOOTH McFLEA Sept. 29 & 30, Cheers Park Avenue STEVE FORBERT Sept. 30, Mudville Music Room The SPINNERS, The CHI-LITES, The DRAMATICS Sept. 30, T-U Center The LOVELY BUDZ Sept. 30, The Roadhouse BILLY & BELLA, MIKE SHACKELFORD BAND, SCOTT JONES DANCERS Sept. 30, Riverside Arts Market MARION CRANE, BURDEN AFFINITY, TOGETHER in EXILE, SKY ABOVE Sept. 30, Jack Rabbits CLOUD 9 VIBES Sept. 30, Whiskey Jax, Jax Beach TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Oct. 1, P.V.C. Hall MICHAEL FUNGE Oct. 1, Culhane’s Irish Pub JACK JOHNSON, BAHAMAS Oct. 2 & 3, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOSEPH, LIZA ANNE Oct. 2, P.V.C. Hall JAKE MILLER, The STOLEN, NEVRLANDS Oct. 2, Jack Rabbits CAYETANA, TERRAIN, HEMMING Oct. 3, Nighthawks CORPSE LIGHT, THUNDERCLAP, UNEARTHLY CHILD, COUNT the DEAD Oct. 3, Rain Dogs JESSE COOK Oct. 3, Florida Theatre The QUEERS, The ATARIS, KID YOU NOT Oct. 3, Jack Rabbits The MAIN SQUEEZE Oct. 4, 1904 Music Hall DJ CAPONE Oct. 4, Cheers Park Avenue HARD WORKING AMERICANS, LOS COLOGNES Oct. 4, P.V.C. Hall LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS, BLOODSHOT BILL Oct. 4, Jack Rabbits SEU JORGE presents The Life Aquatic: Tribute to David Bowie Oct. 5, Florida Theatre STUMPWATER Oct. 5, Cheers Park Avenue Emarosa: BRADLEY SCOTT WALDEN, ER WHITE, JORDAN STEWART, MATTHEW MARCELLUS, A LOT LIKE BIRDS, JULE VERA Oct. 5, 1904 Music Hall ELEPHANT REVIVAL Oct. 5, P.V.C. Hall HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD, BUTCHER BABIES Oct. 6, Mavericks Live OCTOBER’S FLAME Oct. 6, Sarbez DELBERT McCLINTON & the SELFMADE MEN Oct. 6, P.V.C. Hall LOVE MONKEY Oct. 6 & 7, Cheers Park Avenue FLORIDA OKTOBERFEST & MUSIC FESTIVAL Oct. 6, 7 & 8, Metro Park KUBLAI KHAN, NO ZODIAC, LEFT BEHIND, I AM, DISDAIN Oct. 7, Nighthawks SOUND TRIBE SECTOR (STS9), JADE CICADA, SUNSQUABI, DAILY BREAD Oct. 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre STS9 After Party: The UNDERHILL FAMILY ORCHESTRA, OBSERVATORY, FLO WAV! Oct. 7, Sarbez CITIZEN COPE, NEON TREES, The EXPENDABLES, MAGIC!, more Oct. 7, Metro Park J RODDY WALSTON & the BUSINESS, SLEEPWALKERS Oct. 7, Jack Rabbits The VIBRATORS Oct. 8, 1904 Music Hall

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Amelia Island Jazz Festival: JAZZ in the PARK Oct. 8, Amelia Park MICHAEL FUNGE Oct. 8, Culhane’s Irish Pub Amelia Island Jazz Festival: JAZZ FESTIVAL SPONSORS PARTY Oct. 9, Horizons Restaurant JUDAH & the LION, The ACADEMIC, TYSON MOTSENBOCKER Oct. 10, Mavericks Live CHRIS ISAAK Oct. 10, Florida Theatre Amelia Island Jazz Festival: WINE TASTING & JAZZ Oct. 10, Amelia Island Wine Company SEASONS AFTER, ANOTHER LOST YEAR, BLACKLITE DISTRICT Oct. 11, Jack Rabbits Amelia Island Jazz Festival: JUMP, JIVE & WAIL SWING NIGHT Oct. 11, The Sandbar & Kitchen The Smooth Tour: FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, NELLY, CHRIS LANE Oct. 12, Veterans Memorial Arena Amelia Island Jazz Festival: TRIO CALIENTE Oct. 12, Sandbar & Kitchen Suwannee Roots Revival: BÉLA FLECK, ABIGAIL WASHBURN, STEEP CANYON RANGERS, The WOOD BROTHERS, DONNA the BUFFALO Oct. 12-15, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park DAVINA SOWERS & the VEGABONDS Oct. 12, Ritz Theatre LONELY HIGHWAY Oct. 12, Cheers Park Avenue LYNYRD SKYNYRD, The OUTLAWS Oct. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ST. AUGUSTINE SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL Oct. 13 & 14, Prohibition Kitchen, Colonial Oak Music Park GUY, TEDDY RILEY, MONICA, JAGGED EDGE, GINUINE, DRU HILL Oct. 13, Veterans Memorial Arena Amelia Island Jazz Festival: ROSEANNA VITRO IN CONCERT Ella Fitzgerald Tribute Oct. 13, Fernandina Beach Golf Club JULIA GULIA Oct. 13, Cheers Park Avenue INTERSTELLAR ECHOES Oct. 13, 1904 Music Hall KINGS of HELL, HATED 3, GHOSTWITCH Oct. 13, Jack Rabbits Amelia Island Jazz Festival: LATE NIGHT JAM, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE, KEVIN JONES Oct. 13 & 14, Dizzy’s Den at Sliders IGOR & the RED ELVISES Oct. 14, The Original Café Eleven WILDFIRE RISING Oct. 14, Cheers Park Avenue Amelia Island Jazz Festival: NESTOR TORRES Oct. 14, Fernandina Beach Golf Club MOTOGRATER Oct. 14, Nighthawks WILL HOGE, DAN LAYUS Oct. 14, Jack Rabbits DIGITOUR Oct. 15, 1904 Music Hall Amelia Island Jazz Festival: DIXIE to SWING SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH, The SPARE RIB SIX Oct. 15, Horizons DANCE WITH the DEAD, GOST Oct. 15, Nighthawks The JAMES HUNTER SIX Oct. 16, P.V.C. Hall CONOR OBERST, The FELICE BROTHERS Oct. 17, P.V.C. Hall The MARCUS KING BAND, BOBBY LEE RODGERS Oct. 17, Jack Rabbits AGNOSTIC FRONT, COLDSIDE Oct. 18, Nighthawks Once a Month Punk: SCATTER BRAINS, LOOSE BEARINGS Oct. 19, Blue Water Daiquiri & Oyster Bar JASON EVANS BAND Oct. 19, Cheers Park Avenue The CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS Oct. 19, P.V.C. Hall PROPENGANJAH Oct. 20, The Roadhouse TEMPTATIONS, FOUR TOPS Oct. 20, Florida Theatre Broken Crows Tour: MATISYAHU, COMMON KINGS, ORPHAN Oct. 20, P.V.C. Hall Party in the Pines: KEITH URBAN, MIRANDA LAMBERT, JAKE OWEN, MAREN MORRIS, BROTHERS OSBORNE, EASTON CORBIN, RYAN HURD Oct. 20 & 21, Bienville Plantation, White Springs ONE EYED DOLL, DOLL SKIN Oct. 20, Jack Rabbits BLISTUR Oct. 20 & 21, Cheers Park Avenue SPOON, MONDO COZMO Oct. 21, Mavericks Live The AVETT BROTHERS Oct. 21, St. Augustine Amphitheatre RANDY, MR. LAHEY’S NEVER CRY SHITWOLF TOUR Oct. 21, 1904 Music Hall PJ MORTON Oct. 21, Jack Rabbits LORDS of ACID, COMBICHRIST, CHRISTIAN DEATH, EN ESCH of KMFDM, WICCID Oct. 22, Mavericks Live The DEVIL’S CUT Oct. 22, Jack Rabbits LYLE LOVETT, JOHN HIATT Oct. 24, Florida Theatre TWIZTED, MOONSHINE BANDITS, BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE, WHITNEY PEYTON Oct. 24, 1904 Music Hall SANTANA Oct. 24, Daily’s Place GRIFFIN HOUSE Oct. 25, Mudville Music Room BROADWAY’S NEXT HIT MUSICAL Oct. 25, Ritz Theatre KINGS of LEON, DAWES Oct. 25, Daily’s Place DOPE, HED(PE) Oct. 25, 1904 Music Hall PUNK ROCK BURLESQUE, IVY LES VIXENS, ANITA NIGHTCAP, JESS A. BELL, MUDTOWN Oct. 25, Nighthawks FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL Oct. 26, Cheers Park Avenue ANDY MINEO Oct. 26, Mavericks Live DEANA CARTER, SWEET TEA TRIO Oct. 26, P.V.C. Hall MERCYME, RYAN STEVENSON, UNSPOKEN Oct. 26, T-U Center for the Performing Arts MDC Oct. 26, Nighthawks TOAD the WET SPROCKET Oct. 27, P.V.C. Hall MIKE SHACKELFORD Oct. 27, Mudville Music Room Suwannee Hulaween: STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, BASSNECTAR, RUN the JEWELS, NATHAN RATELIFF & the NIGHT SWEATS, more Oct. 27-29, Suwannee Music Park IVEY LEAGUE Oct. 27 & 28, Cheers Park Avenue ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Oct. 28, Florida Theatre The MOVIELIFE, IRON CHIC Oct. 28, 1904 Music Hall DAN BERN Oct. 28, The Original Café Eleven CASEY JAMES Oct. 28, Jack Rabbits The MAGPIE SALUTE Oct. 29, Florida Theatre

Get your ’80s-fueled “Red Red Wine” groove on with UB40’s original legends Ali, Astro and Mickey on Thursday, Sept. 21 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre.

VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & the TRAIN Oct. 29, Café Eleven MICHAEL LAGASSE & FRIENDS Oct. 29, Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre HARMS WAY Oct. 30, Nighthawks JOHNNYSWIM Nov. 1, P.V.C. Hall RESINATED Nov. 3, The Roadhouse ROGER DALTREY Nov. 3, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SHENANDOAH Nov. 3, Thrasher-Horne Center CANNIBAL CORPSE, POWER TRIP, GATECREEPER Nov. 3, Mavericks Live JOHN CLEESE screens Monty Python & the Holy Grail Nov. 4, Florida Theatre SISTER HAZEL Nov. 4, P.V.C. Hall The WORLD IS a BEAUTIFUL PLACE & I AM NO LONGER AFRAID to DIE, ROZWELL, ADJY Nov. 4, Nighthawks JETHRO TULL Nov. 7, Daily’s Place NOBUTU Nov. 7, Ritz Theatre TOUBAB KREWE, LPT Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits CHRIS SMITHER Nov. 10, Mudville Music Room VON STRANTZ, NATIVE LAND Nov. 10, Sarbez BEN FOLDS Nov. 10, Florida Theatre BON IVER Nov. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SAMMY HAGAR & the CIRCLE (Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham, Vic Johnson), COLLECTIVE SOUL Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHRIS STAPLETON’S All American Road Show: MARTY STUART, BRENT COBB Nov. 11, Veterans Memorial Arena LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, CHRISTINE McVIE Nov. 12, T-U Center’s Moran Theater OTTMAR LIEBERT, LUNA NEGRA Nov. 12, P.V.C. Hall BARB WIRE DOLLS, SVETLANAS Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits MICHAEL FUNGE Nov. 12, Culhane’s Irish Pub The YOUNG DUBLINERS Nov. 16, The Original Café Eleven WINTERTIME Nov. 16, Jack Rabbits SON VOLT Nov. 17, St. Aug. Amp’s Backyard Stage ROY BOOKBINDER Nov. 17, Mudville Music Room BAND of SILVER Nov. 17, Jack Rabbits MILES ELECTRIC BAND Nov. 18, P.V.C. Hall BLU & EXILE 10th Anniversary: DAS SAVAGE, CHOOSEY, CASHUS KING Nov. 22, Jack Rabbits JOHN McLAUGHLIN, JIMMY HERRING (play Mahavisnu Orchestra) Nov. 24, Florida Theatre HODERA Nov. 25, Rain Dogs DAVE KOZ, PETER WHITE, RICK BRAUN, DAVID BENOIT, MAYHEM, IMMOLATION, BLACK ANVIL Nov. 25, Mavericks Live LINDA COLE & JAZZ MUSICIANS Nov. 26, Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre The BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA Nov. 29, Florida Theatre 98° AT CHRISTMAS Nov. 30, Florida Theatre The Big Ticket: WALK the MOON, BLEACHERS, ANDREW McMAHON in the WILDERNESS, SAINT MOTEL, NEW POLITICS, MONDO COZMO Dec. 1, Metro Park KANSAS LEFTOVERTURE Dec. 2, Florida Theatre Hip Hop Nutcracker: KURTIS BLOW Dec. 3, Florida Theatre D.R.I., KAUSTIK Dec. 6, Nighthawks Jingle Jam for St. Jude: GRANGER SMITH, LAUREN ALAINA, MIDLAND, DYLAN SCOTT Dec. 7, T-U Center’s Moran Theater PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 7, Mudville Music Room BIRTHDAY BENEFIT Dec. 9, Mudville Music Room JANET JACKSON Dec. 12, Veterans Memorial Arena OF MONTREAL, CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER’S GENIUS GRANT Dec. 13, Mavericks Live JOHN PRINE Dec. 13, Florida Theatre BEN HAGGARD Dec. 13, P.V.C. Hall The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 14, Veterans Memorial Arena MARE WAKEFIELD Dec. 15, Mudville Music Room LUKE COMBS Dec. 15, Florida Theatre GIDEON, WAGE WAR Dec. 16, 1904 Music Hall HARLEY FLANAGAN (Cro-Mags) Dec. 17, Nighthawks Horton’s Holiday Hayride: REV. HORTON HEAT, JUNIOR BROWN, The BLASTERS, BIG SANDY Dec. 19, P.V.C. Hall TEN TENORS Dec. 20, Florida Theatre DONNA the BUFFALO Dec. 29, P.V.C. Hall MIKE SHACKELFORD BAND Dec. 29, Mudville Music Room

The ZOMBIES: Odessey and Oracle 50th Anniversary Jan. 12, P.V.C. Hall A TEMPTATIONS REVUE, BO HENDERSON Jan. 13, Ritz Theatre JONNY LANG Jan. 16, Florida Theatre Take Me to the River: WILLIAM BELL, BOBBY RUSH, DON BRYANT Jan. 30, Florida Theatre MARY WILSON (The Supremes) Feb. 3, Ritz Theatre JOHN McCUTCHEON Feb. 8, P.V.C. Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND Feb. 10, Florida Theatre The LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT Feb. 10, Ritz Theatre The HOT SARDINES Feb. 13, Florida Theatre BOTTLE ROCKETS, CHUCK PROPHET & the MISSION EXPRESS Feb. 16, P.V.C. Hall SIERRA HULL Feb. 17, P.V.C. Hall DANIEL O’DONNELL Feb. 17, Florida Theatre GEORGE WINSTON Feb. 23, P.V.C. Hall MICHAEL McDONALD Feb. 27, Florida Theatre JOHN HAMMOND March 3, P.V.C. Hall TIERNEY SUTTON BAND March 4, Ritz Theatre GET the LED OUT March 16, Florida Theatre MIKE + the MECHANICS March 21, P.V.C. Hall STEEP CANYON RANGERS March 22, Florida Theatre LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III March 30, P.V.C. Hall CHRIS BOTTI April 13, Florida Theatre BLACK JACKET SYMPHONY: Sgt. Pepper’s 50th Anniversary Tour April 27, Florida Theatre

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA ALLEY CAT BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Amy Bassett every Fri. Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. every Wed. EMERALD GOAT IRISH PUB, 96110 Lofton Sq., 441-2444 Chuck Nash 9 p.m. Sept. 23 LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 Pili Pili Sept. 20. Tad Jennings Sept. 21. 2 Dudez from Texas, Soulshine Sept. 22. Jamie Renae, Honeybadgers, Davis Turner Sept. 23. JC & Miki, Hupp & Ray Sept. 24. Cassidy Lee Sept. 25. Mark O’Quinn Sept. 26 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Katfish Lee Sept. 20 & 21

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Live music every Thur.-Sat.

THE BEACHES (All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

1st STREET LOFT, 502 N. First St., 241-7848 Open stage night 8 p.m. Sept. 22. Open mic 7 p.m. every Thur. BIG DAWGS, 2309 Beach Blvd., 249-8200 Billy Bowers 6 p.m. Sept. 21. Live music every weekend BLUE WATER DAIQUIRI & OYSTER BAR, 205 N. First St., 249-0083 Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. Sept. 20 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595 Michael Funge 6:30 p.m. every Sun. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. Sept. 21 & 28. Chuck Nash Band 10 p.m. Sept. 21 & 22. Samuel Sanders 8:30 p.m. Sept. 24. Live music every weekend FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 Sailfish Dr., AB, 246-4293 Live music on weekends GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 Third St. N., 201-9283 Live music most weekends GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Michael Smith every Thur. Milton Clapp every Fri. Under the Bus every Sat. Robert Eccles 6 p.m. every Sun. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Dirty Pete 10 p.m. Sept. 22. Austin Park 10 p.m. Sept. 23. Split Tone every Thur. Chillula every Sun. K-Sick every Mon.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 J Crew Band 9 p.m. Sept. 21 MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Selwyn Birchwood 8 p.m. Sept. 22 OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., AB, 247-0060 Taylor Roberts 7 p.m. Sept. 20 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Billy Buchanan 7 p.m. Sept. 20. Jetty Cats 9 p.m. Sept. 21. Cloud 9 Sept. 22. Kenny Holliday Band Sept. 23 SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Briteside 8 p.m. Sept. 23. Live music every weekend SOUTHERN GROUNDS & CO., 200 First St., NB, 249-2922 Jazz Corner 6 p.m. every Tue. SURFER The BAR, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Aaron Thomas Sept. 20. El Dub Sept. 23. The Joe Marcinek Band, members of Heavy Pets, Blackwater Grease Sept. 26. Tad Jennings Sept. 27. IVibes Sept. 29. The Ellameno Beat Sept. 30. Live music nearly every night WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Chris Thomas Band 8 p.m. Sept. 21. Good Time Charlie 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22. Bluesapalooza 8 p.m. Sept. 23. Tuesday Night Blues Club 8 p.m. Sept. 26 ZETA BREWING, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Live music every weekend

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.

CAPTAIN STAN’S Smokehouse, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552 Sweet Sweet 6:30 p.m. Sept. 20. Paul Ivey & Souls of Joy 6:30 p.m. Sept. 22. Bluff 5 6:30 p.m. Sept. 23. Eddie Pickett 6:30 p.m. Sept. 27. Lost Southern Boys 6:30 p.m. Sept. 29. Jamie & the Walkers 6:30 p.m. Sept. 30. Live music Wed.-Sat. J’S TAVERN, 711 Osborne St., St. Marys, 912-882-5280 Live music most weekends

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 J.Marquis 8 p.m. Sept. 20. Treehouse!, Sol Seed, Zach Fowler (Sun Dried Vibes), Bubba Love, Colin Paterson (Sidereal), Brent Byrd Trio 8 p.m. Sept. 21. The Grass is Dead 8 p.m. Sept. 23. Keegan Green 8 p.m. Sept. 24 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 Ras AJ, De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Sept. 22 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jacksonville Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Sept. 20. Ace Winn Sept. 22. Live music most weekends HOURGLASS PUB, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 7 Stone Riot 9 p.m. Sept. 22. Singer-songwriter open mic 7 p.m. Sun. Live music 9:30 p.m. Fri. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Austin Park Sept. 22. Sista Strut, Wildfire Rising, Waterloo Revival Sept. 23. Live music most weekends MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 GlowRage Sept. 22. Yelawolf, Mikey Mike, Big Henri 8 p.m. Sept. 23. Sizzla & Firehouse Brand, Selecta Ajah, Positive Iration Sound 8 p.m. Sept. 24. Nothing More, The Stories We Tell Ourselves, My Ticket Home, Hell Or High Water, As Lions 6 p.m. Sept. 27. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 D3Tay Sept. 20. DJ Law, Artik, Killoala, D2tay Wed. Latin Nite DJs Sat.

FLEMING ISLAND

BOONDOCKS GRILL & BAR, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Ivan Smith 6 p.m. Sept. 20. Alex Affronti Sept. 21. Brandon Leino, South Paw Sept. 22. Cliff Dorsey, Matt Knowles Sept. 23. Jake Cox Sept. 24. Marty Farmer 6 p.m. Sept. 26. Redfish Rich 6 p.m. Sept. 27. South Paw Sept. 28. Fond Kiser, Cliff Dorsey Sept. 29 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Scott Elley 8:30 p.m. Sept. 21. Al Torchia 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22. Wes Cobb Sept. 23 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Conch Fritters 4 p.m. Sept. 24. Live music every weekend

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Back in Time Band Sept. 20. Black Creek Riz’in Sept. 2. No Saints Sept. 23. Open mic every Tue. Live music every Tue.-Sun. JERRY’S Sports Bar & Grille, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Boogie Freaks 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22. Live music Fri.

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Sept. 20 & 23 IGGY’S GRILL & BAR, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101, 209-5209 DJ Greg 7 p.m. every Wed. TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Live music every weekend

ORANGE PARK + MIDDLEBURG BIG DAWGS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 135, 272-4204 Live music every weekend CHEERS PARK AVENUE, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 DJ Capone 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20 & 27. Black Creek Ri’zin 9:30 p.m. Sept. 21. Lift 9:30 p.m. Sept. 22 & 23.

DEE’S MUSIC BAR, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 375-2240 Jake McVey 8 p.m. Sept. 20; first responders free to any 2017 McVey show; jakemcvey.com. 4syTe, Chelle Wilson Sept. 21. DJ Troy every Wed. The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Live music every Fri. & Sat. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Lovely Budz 10 p.m. Sept. 22. Propaganjah 10 p.m. Sept. 23 SHARK CLUB, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline 9 p.m. Sept. 20. Tom Bennett Band 9 p.m. Sept. 21

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Billy Buchanan 7 p.m. Sept. 21 TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., 280-5515 Live music every Wed., Thur. & Sat.

OVERSET

RIVERSIDE + WESTSIDE

ACROSS the STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 You Vandal Sept. 23. Live music most weekends HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 10, 513-4272 Live music every Fri. MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Civilian, STrangerwolf, The Nixon Tapes 7 p.m. Sept. 21 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Cain’t Never Could, The Copper Tones, Poewic Family 8 p.m. Sept. 21. Keychain, Askmeificare, Silent Running Rip Junior, Burden Affinity 7 p.m. Sept. 27 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Lycka Till, Charlie Shuck, The Tentacools, Fleasnticks, Scumbag Dad Sept. 28 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Festival of Flight Angels for Allison: Kim Reteguiz, Courtnie Frazier 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 23 SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362 Live music most weekends

ST. AUGUSTINE

DOS COFFEE & WINE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Live music every weekend MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Pellicer Creek Band, Not Quite Dead 9 p.m. Sept. 22. The Tom Bennett Band 9 p.m. Sept. 23. Fre Gordon acoustic open mic 7 p.m. Sun. Justin Gurnsey, Musicians Exchange 8 p.m. Mon. ORIOLES NEST, 9155 C.R. 13 N., 814-8298 Live music most every weekend PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George St., 209-5704 Leelyn Osborn, Danielle & The Cookin’ in the Kitchen Band Sept. 20. The Coppertones Sept. 21. The House Kats, Luvu Sept. 22. Tasty Tuesday, Funk Butter Sept. 23. Hellocelia, The Flood 6 p.m. Sept. 25. Aslyn & the Naysayers Sept. 26 SARBEZ!, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 Choir of Babble 9 p.m. Sept. 23 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Pl., 342-0286 Jay Bird 7 p.m. Sept. 21. Alex Peramas, Deron Baker Sept. 22. Tony Martin, Kim Brown, The Dewars Sept. 23. Jax English Salsa Band 6 p.m. Sept. 24. Bluez Dudez, Solou Sept. 26 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Cottonmouth Sept. 22 & 23. The Down Low every Wed.

SAN MARCO

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Iya Terra, Gary Lazer Eyes 8 p.m. Sept. 21. Mike McCarthy Trio 8 p.m. Sept. 22. Marion Crane, Burden Affinity, Together in Exile, Sky Above 8 p.m. Sept. 23. Insomniac Folklore 8 p.m. Sept. 24 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Larry Mangum, Tom & Natalie Sept. 21. Mike Shackelford 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22. Reckless & Blue Sept. 24

SOUTHSIDE, ARLINGTON & BAYMEADOWS

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Barrett Jockers 9 p.m. Sept. 21. Ryan Crary Sept. 22 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 South of Savannah 8:30 p.m. Sept. 20. Break Even Band Sept. 22. Live music every weekend WILD WING CAFÉ, 4555 Southside Blvd., 619-3670 Live music every weekend

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

CROOKED ROOSTER BREWERY, 1478 S. Sixth St., Macclenny, 653-2337 Wade Barlow & the Pineywood Boys 7 p.m. Sept. 22. Open mic 7 p.m. every Wed. FLIGHT 747 LOUNGE, 1500 Airport Rd., 741-4331 Live music every weekend KNUCKLEHEADS Bar, 850532 U.S. 17, 222-2380 Live music every weekend MELLOW MUSHROOM, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843 Live music most every weekend OCEANWAY BAR, 12905 Main St. N., 647-9127 Live music most every weekend SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth, 798-8222 Debt Neglector 9 p.m. Sept. 22. Live music every weekend

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FOLIO DINING Kyle and his fellow servers make the café at NATIVE SUN in Jax Beach a must-visit destination for the many folks who frequent the market. photo by Madison Gross

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH

BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at Centre Street’s end. Southern hospitality, upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F Family-owned café in historic building. Worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh veggies, seafood. Dine in or al fresco under oakshaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub brews beer onsite; imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season THE CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, amelia crabtrap.com. F For nearly 40 years, family-owned-andoperated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L Sa-M; D Nightly JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianescafe.com. F Renovated 1887 shotgun house. Faves: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese, crêpes. Vegan items. Inside or porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D M, W, F, Sa; B L Su LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646, lamancharestaurante.com. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moon riverpizza.net. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie/slice. Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa THE PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro.com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s global menu uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su

DINING DIRECTORY KEY AVERAGE ENTRÉE COST $ $$

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ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL NOTES BW = Beer/Wine

L = Lunch

FB = Full Bar

D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted Free Folio Weekly Bite Club Event F = Folio Weekly Distribution Spot

K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch

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POINTE RESTAURANT, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. 2nd-story outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily THE SURF RESTAURANT & BAR, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711, thesurfonline.com. Oceanview dining since 1957, inside or on the deck. Steaks, seafood, burgers, daily food and drink specials; Wing It Wednesdays. $$ FB K TO L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310, traysburgerstation.com. F 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa

ARLINGTON + REGENCY

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

FOOD ADDICTZ GRILL, 1044 Edgewood Ave. S., 240-1987. Family-and-veteran-owned place is all about home cooking. Customer faves: barbecued pulled pork, blackened chicken, Caesar wrap and Portobello mushroom burger. $ K TO B L D Tu-Su HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F 2016 BOJ finalist. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Pulled pork and Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish. Avondale’s Mojo has shrimp & grits, specialty cocktails. Local musicians on weekends. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2016 Best of Jax winner. 40+ years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362, south.kitchen. Southern classics: crispy catfish with smoked gouda grits, family-style fried chicken, burgers, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. $$ FB K TO L D Daily

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE INTRACOASTAL. INDIA’S, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajaxcom. F 2016 Best of Jax winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

DINING DIRECTORY

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

1st STREET LOFT, 502 N. First St., 241-7848, 1ststreetloft. com. New beach spot serves breakfast and lunch all day. Local artists’ works are displayed. It’s a coffeehouse and live music venue, too. $ TO B L D W-Sa; B L Su & M ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM SUBS, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. F 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, 374-5735. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. The CRAFT PIZZA CO., 240 Third St. N., Neptune Beach, 853-6773, thecraftpizzaco.com. F Al Mansur’s new place has innovative pies made with locally sourced ingredients. Dine inside or out. $$ BW L D Daily CRUISERS GRILL, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, award-winning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2016 Best of Jax finalist. SEE RIVERSIDE.

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F SEE RIVERSIDE. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.com. F 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly

GRILL ME!

MOON RIVER PIZZA

925 S. 14th St. • Fernandina Beach Born in: Boise, Idaho Years in Biz: 11-ish Favorite Restaurant: Fancy Sushi in Fernandina Favorite Cuisine Style: Crock Pot or Italian Go-To Ingredients: Garlic ♥ Ideal Meal: Candlelit dinner with Chuck Norris and the finest box of white zin. Will Not Cross My Lips: Rocky Mountain oysters and Mich Ultra Insider’s Secret: If I told you I’d have to killl you. Celebrity Sighting at Your Restaurant: Henry Lockhart Hinkle Culinary Treat: Nothing beats a good cheesecake.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA

CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552. Barbecue, sides, hot dogs, burgers, desserts. Dine in or out on picnic tables. $$ FB K TO L & D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 6586 GA. Hwy. 40 B6, St. Marys, 912-576-7006. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

Fare found only in 5 POINTS and NEPTUNE BEACH

DOWNTOWN

BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura St., 802-7745, bellwetherjax. com. Elevated Southern classics in an understated setting, with chef/owner Jon Insetta’s focus on flavors, and chef Kerri Rogers’ culinary creativity. The Northeast Florida menu changes seasonally. Rotating local craft beers, regional spirits, cold brew coffee program. $$ FB TO L M-F CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth, 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Serving Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa SPLIFF’S GASTROPUB, 15 N. Ocean St., 844-5000, spliffsgastropub.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Music venue has munchie apps, mac & cheese dishes, pockets, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. HH M-F. $ BW L D M-Sa URBAN GRIND COFFEE COMPANY, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F URBAN GRIND Express, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F. $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

Jenny Supan

FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Classic Old World Roman fare, big Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shackburgers.com. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. 2016 BOJ winner. SEE MANDARIN. RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 34 years and counting, the iconic seafood place serves blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973. SEE BAYMEADOWS.

BITE-SIZED

OUTERBANKS SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 140 The Lakes Blvd., Ste. H, Kingsland, 912-729-5499. Fresh seafood, burgers, steaks, wings. $$ FB TO D Nightly SALT.PEPPER.THYME, 105 N. Lee St., Kingsland, 912-510-0444, saltpepperthyme.net. Varied American Southern fare in an elegant setting. Dine in or out. $$ BW K TO L W; L & D Th-Sa

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. 30 years of awesome gourmet pizza, baked dishes. All day HH M-Th. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

MANDARIN + NW ST. JOHNS

AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE INTRACOASTAL. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199, athenscafejax.com. 20+ years of Greek fare, serving dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), Greek beers. Vegetarian-friendly. Full bar. Early bird menu Mon.-Fri. $$ FB L M-F; D M-Sa CRUISERS GRILL, 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd., 739-7070, jaxdiner. com. Simple name, simple concept: Local. Chef Roderick “Pete” Smith, a local culinary expert with nearly 20 years under his apron, uses locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, vendors and the community for American and Southern dishes. Seasonal brunch. $ K TO B L M-F, D F METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax winner. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/ wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily

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METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. Since 1989, the family-owned place has offered an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Lowsodium & gluten-free. $$$ BW TO L D Tu-Sa THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. Gluten-free pizzas, desserts. HH specials. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Popular gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and–sure–whiskey. HH M-F. $$ FB B Sa & Su; L F; D Nightly

OVERSET

MISO HUNGRY! HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE HAS BEEN a go-to spot in Riverside for a few years, and for good reason. Neptune Beach Hawkers just opened, with new items—it’s a good time to hit the Asian Streets! Both places have a wide variety of tapasstyle small plates including noodle, soup and rice. The dishes are served when they’re ready, so they don’t pile up all at once—dig right in. Keeps a nice flow of food and sharing at the table. The chefs often switch up the menu; to bid summer Tam biêt, they threw in new and, frankly, fun fare to try. You must begin with Roti Canai ($3). It’s like Naan and a biscuit had a baby, you just can’t get enough. The non-vegetarian curry dipping sauce is so good you’ll want to use it on everything. If … that’s if … there’s any left over, keep it for later!

HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE 241 Atlantic Blvd. N., Neptune Beach, 425-1025, eathawkers.com 1001 Park St., 5 Points, 508-0342

Of these new items, the 5 Spice Soft Shell Crab ($9.50) may be the most notable, presentation-wise. It’s a shareable medium-ish crab—if you’re new to soft shell crab, this is how to learn. The shell has a nice little crunch, like you’d want in a nicely fried bite. The flavor of the 5 Spice, a traditional Asian spice mix of fennel, Szechuan pepper, anise, cinnamon, clove and star anise, paired well with crab but, really, it works on everything. The different components boost the sweetness of the tomato and egg-y sauce ladled atop the crab—sauce is boss. The ’Nam Nem Rolls (2/$6.50), a chicken sausage summer roll, was the most surprising. I’m usually not into textured rice paper rolls; too gummy or mushy, even when done right. However, Hawkers strikes gold, using a very skinny crispy spring roll. The added crunch, with grilled sausage and veggies, was a perfect bite. The beautiful mint leaf on the outside of the roll was nice and refreshing, like you expect in a summer roll. #DimSumCrunchyBalls (3/$8) are on the new menu and, no, I didn’t throw a hashtag in there—that’s the name their mama gave them! These were the most fun of all the new choices, due to a wavy, crunchy fried outer shell. It’s a clumsy chopstick maneuver, but that’s part of the fun challenge! Your order includes salty, spicy soy sauce, so dunk ’em in. Hawkers has a really great happy hour, held 3-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. with select small plates for $3 and an excellent selection of local and imported beers, bottle and tap. However, to do it right, I recommend sake, a Japanese rice wine. If you’re not sure what kind to order, go for a flight. Mix and match tasty options and get a feel for the kinds of sake there are. You may be drawn to a sweet one, like milky Momokawa Pearl, or something that clicks with a fresh dish, like crisp Ty Ku Cucumber. Whatever the choice, it’s fun to test new stuff—but don’t forego dessert! You’ve had your fill of savory roti, and now it’s time for sweet cinnamon roti with ice cream ($6) or a mochi trio ($7.50) in flavors like Thai tea, lychee and green tea. Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 31

DINING DIRECTORY PINT-SIZED Collaboration Synergy with Hyperion Brewing Company BEARS FRUIT

LAUNCHING A

MISSILE

LAST MONTH, I WROTE ABOUT BREWING BEER at Springfield’s Hyperion Brewing Company. As you may recall, I developed a recipe and brewed a Russian Imperial Stout with molasses and cinnamon named Missile Crisis. I chose the name for several reasons. 1) The Cuban Missile Crisis was in 1962, the year of my birth. 2) Russia was involved in that crisis. 3) The beer includes molasses, a byproduct of refining sugar, which is a major crop in Cuba. Now you know how I named my beer; let’s learn about the style. Russian Imperial stouts evolved from dark beers called porters brewed in 18th-century England. Popular with baggage-handlers along waterways and streets, the name honors those hardworking men. Porter was a brown ale brewers began to more heavily hop and brew with stronger alcohol content. These stronger brews were known as ‘stout porter.’ Eventually, ‘porter’ was dropped and they were simply ‘stouts.’ Some accounts of the origins of Russian Imperial stouts say the beer was made stronger and hoppier to survive the arduous ocean trip from England to Tsarist Russia. They allege the higher alcohol content kept it from freezing and the higher hops helped preserve it. Both claims are technically true, but research disagrees. It’s most likely the beer was brewed stronger because folks wanted that. Just a happy coincidence that strength made it keep better. As stouts became stronger, the Anchor Brewery in Southwark Parish, London gained notoriety for its Thrale’s Intire (now spelled Entire). Named for its developer, Henry Thrale, the quaff got the attention of beer lovers in the Russian Empire, most notably Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. In The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St. Saviour’s, Southwark, Matthew Concanen and Aaron Morgan note: The reputation and enjoyment of Porter is by no means confined to England. As proof of the truth of this assertion, this house exports annually very large quantities; so far extended are its commercial connections that Thrale’s Intire is well known, as a delicious beverage, from the frozen regions of Russia to the burning sands of Bengal and Sumatra. The Empress of All Russia is indeed so partial to Porter that she has ordered repeatedly very large quantities for her own drinking and that of her court. Brewing was—and is—a highly competitive endeavor; Thrale seized upon Catherine’s endorsement and began saying his beer was an Imperial Extra Double stout. The Russian designation was likely added later by promoters to play up the connection to the glamorous Tsars. According to Beer Judge Certification Program Guidelines, Russian Imperial stouts should produce rich, complex aromas reminiscent of coffee, dark fruits and dark chocolate, with flavors mimicking these same qualities. The color should be the darkest of browns to inky black with a tan, frothy head. Now you know, so try a Russian Imperial Stout. Missile Crisis is on tap at Hyperion Brewing Company, ready for your palate. Come by, give it a try and let me know what you think. Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com

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OVERSET Preparation, presentation and perfection are three of the principles that make Neptune Beach’s FLYING IGUANA among the area's most popular spots. photo by Madison Gross

ORANGE PARK

THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MILL BASIN, 1754 Wells Rd., 644-8172, mill-basin.com. Serving modern interpretations of classic Italian fare and upscale craft cocktails. Late night menu. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouse online.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily SPRING PARK COFFEE, 328 Ferris St., Green Cove Springs, 531-9391, springparkcoffee.com. Cozy shop; fresh-roasted Brass Tacks coffee, handcrafted hot & cold drinks, specialty lattes, cappuccino, macchiato, teas, pastries, sandwiches, breakfast. $ B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE INTRACOASTAL. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK. M SHACK NOCATEE, 641 Crosswater Pkwy., 395-3575. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE SAN MARCO.

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE INTRACOASTAL. BIG OAK BBQ & CATERING, 1948 Henley Rd., Middleburg, 214-3041. 1440 Dunn Ave., 757-2225, bigoakbbqfl.com. Family-owned-and-operated barbecue joints have smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides and stumps, which sounds damn good. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep 5points.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Small-batch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting single-origin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, handcrafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based drinks, sandwiches, desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su

EUROPEAN STREET Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Dine outside at some ESts. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Authentic Italian cuisine; wood-fired pizzas, pasta, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot offers made-to-order sandwiches, wraps. $ TO B L M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE SAN MARCO. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. SEE BEACHES. SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Fresh vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0047, sunraycinema.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. First-run, indie and art films screened. Beer, local drafts, wine, pizza–Godbold, Black Lagoon Supreme–hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax winner. Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Inside/patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. SEE INTRACOASTAL. The CORAZON CINEMA & CAFE, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Sandwiches, combos, salads and pizza are served at the cinema house, showing indie and first-run movies. $$ Daily CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. THE FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients. Vegetarian, glutenfree options. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 34+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS Sports Bar, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily

METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A, 217-3256. SEE BEACHES. WOODPECKER’S BACKYARD BBQ, 4930 S.R. 13, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. Smoked fresh daily. Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, turkey: in sandwiches, plates by the pound. 8 sauces, 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

THE BEARDED PIG SOUTHERN BBQ & BEER GARDEN, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Barbecue joint Southern style: brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally. 250+ wines. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 1905 Hendricks Ave. 2016 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale; fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, katsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily HAVANA-JAX CAFÉ/CUBA LIBRE BAR, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609, havanajax.com. Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches are the real thing: big, thick, flattened. Traditional fare: black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, chicken & rice, roast pork. Spanish wine, drink specials, mojitos, Cuba libres. Nonstop HH. $ FB K L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodinercom. F 2016 Best of Jax winner/finalist. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. Open 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas,

DINING DIRECTORY lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. 2016 Best of Jax finalist. SEE BEACHES.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

ANDY’S GRILL, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. Inside Jax Farmers Market.

Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast, sandwiches. $ B L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK. UPTOWN KITCHEN & BAR, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptownmarketjax.com. Bite Club certified. Fresh fare, innovative menus, farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily

CHEFFED-UP

(Psst: Whatever you do, don’t ask Chef Bill HOW HE HUNKERS)

SOUPED UP

AFTER IRMA NOT TO RANT BUT … IF I EVER HEAR THE phrase “hunker down” again, I might rip a throat out. And if anyone actually needed a reason to throw the TV out the window, the constant, repetitive, information-free newscasts about the hurricane clearly convinced them to do so. The newsfolks even had the gall to interrupt the most incredible Jags game in years with more doomsday drivel. Irma quickly turned from impending disaster to overwhelming boredom. Hurricane parties get old once you tire of party supplies or run out of interesting food. And with no grocery stores or restaurants open, the variety of edibles rapidly evaporated. I absolutely love food and all things about eating. I spend my days consumed with thoughts of food and different products, unique ways to mix and match common items, as well as the many ways to prepare these foodstuffs. So when forced to choose from my freezer or the few fresh items left in the fridge, I struggled for inspiration. I had no choice but to make do with what I had. To make it more challenging, I had a houseful of picky eaters and people with dietary restrictions. This could have made cooking a chore; fortunately, I had a private Cheffed Up stash of quail and duck confit. Yeah, baby, sometimes it pays to be me! As I happened to have some choice gluten-free condiments, I quartered the very attractive little quail, marinated them briefly with a couple of things and some cornstarch, lightly fried them in a little sesame oil then stir-fried some fresh vegetables and voilà: pretty and delicious. As for the duck confit, well, I won’t say I ate it straight from the bag but … Right now, I’m fantasizing about this delectable white gazpacho. Give it a try.

CHEF BILL’S WHITE GAZPACHO Ingredients: • 1/4 cup olive oil

• 1 large 3/4-inch-thick slice day-old • country bread, crust removed • 3 cloves garlic, halved • 1 cup whole almonds, toasted and • roughly chopped; plus more for garnish • 2 cups seedless green grapes; plus more, • halved, for garnish • 1 cup peeled, seeded, chopped cucumber • 2 tsp. mustard seeds • Salt to taste • 2 cups cold water • Sherry vinegar to taste • 4 thin slices Serrano or Virginia ham Directions: 1. Heat oil in a medium skillet over 1. medium heat. Once hot, add bread; 1. gently fry on one side until very crisp 1. and golden, about 3 minutes. Add 1. garlic to oil, flip bread; fry until both 1. garlic and bread are golden and crisp, 1. another 2 to 3 minutes. 2. Make gazpacho: Purée fried bread, 1. garlic and almonds until smooth. Add 1. grapes, cucumbers and a pinch of salt 1. and purée until uniform. Add cold 1. water and purée until smooth, adding 1. more if soup is too thick. Season to 1. taste with salt and vinegar. Set 1. gazpacho aside. 3. Heat a large sauté pan over medium1. low. Once hot, add ham, working in 1. batches if needed to avoid 1. overcrowding. Fry until crispy, about 1. 2 minutes per side. Transfer ham to a 1. paper-towel-lined plate. Break crisped 1. ham into bite-size pieces. 4. Ladle gazpacho into chilled bowls and 1. garnish with halved grapes, almonds 1. and ham, if using. Until we cook again,

Chef Bill Thompson cheffedup@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Contact Chef Bill Thompson, owner of The Amelia Island Culinary Academy, at cheffedup@folioweekly.com to find inspiration and get you Cheffed Up! SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 33

PET PARENTING FOLIO LIVING G DEAR

DAVI

An interview with the FIRST DOGS OF DUVAL

ONE CITY,

TWO PORKIES REGARDLESS OF YOUR POLITICAL persuasion, there’s one thing we can agree on: Dogs make life better. Almost all politicians in American history have found comfort and joy in sharing their time in office with a dog. National Dogs in Politics Day, aka Checkers Day, is held Sept. 23 exalting all things canine, to remember just how important pets are, even to those who hold the highest offices in the land. The holiday dates all the way back to 1952 when Richard M. Nixon, candidate for vice-president when Dwight Eisenhower was running for president, mentioned his dog, Checkers, in a speech broadcast to the nation. Nixon, accused of mishandling political funds—Checkers was among “gifts” he’d gotten—was defending his choice. Folks didn’t focus on the funds, they went wild for Checkers. Ever since, Dogs in Politics is celebrated each year. In the spirit of the holiday, I sat down to bark about local politics with our First Fidos, Blake and Beatrice Curry. Davi: What is your age in doggy years? Blake & Bea: We are 14 years old, or two in human years. You’re Mayor Lenny Curry’s Top Dogs. Folks want to know what your pedigree is. We are Porkies. It’s a pinch of Pug and a dash of Yorkie. The best of both breeds. When did you join the Curry family? In 2015. What do you most like about Mayor Curry? The mayor lets us sleep on the sofa! Describe your typical day for us. Walk, eat, sleep, repeat. What places in the city get your tail wagging? Jacksonville’s parks are grrrrreat! Everyone should paws to enjoy them! They’re clean and very dog-friendly. Some

even let us run off-leash and use our outside voices!

JHS CALL FOR HELP & DONATIONS • Jacksonville Humane Society (JHS) has been in “disasterresponse” mode since Hurricane Irma. Before the storm, JHS evacuated animals to other shelters. Area folks fostered the rest as part of JHS’ Storm Trooper program, leaving empty kennels—a lifesaving move. When the storm abated, Clay County Animal Care & Control’s shelter flooded. JHS took in 26 dogs and 33 cats. Middleburg’s Safe Animal Shelter was also flooded; JHS took seven dogs. JHS worked with Charleston Humane Society to transfer pets to South Carolina on Sept. 16, thanks to the Humane Society of the United States. JHS will be ready to receive more evacuated pets from damaged Florida shelters. To support the animals affected by Irma, go to jaxhumane.org/donate and select “Hurricane Relief”. JHS had to cancel its annual fundraiser, Toast to the Animals, which usually raises more than $150,000, so donations are much appreciated. Follow JHS on Facebook and check jaxhumane.org for updates.

ADOPTABLES

FRED

As our city’s most dutiful dogs, which pet policy do you hope people will obey most often? Be responsible and clean up after your pets. It’s the law. If you could change any Northeast Florida pet rule, which one and why? We’d love full access to the beach! There’s nothing better than running around on the sand and jumping in the water along our salty shores. What would you do to attract more canine visitors here? Probably offer unlimited dog food buffets at all of the pet-friendly hot spots around town. If you could start a campaign to help local pets, what’s your platform? Something wag-worthy, like “the scenery doesn’t change unless you are the leader of the pack.” As Jacksonville’s First Dogs, what would you like to say to the dogs of the city? Ruff Ruff! Or for those not in the know: Wag Locally, Act Responsibly. In addition to porkies Blake and Bea, the Currys’ pet family includes cats, rabbits, chickens and iguanas. Jacksonville is a city that puts pets first—I should know, I’ve visited quite a few cities in my few short years. Nothing compares to the pet-friendly fun around Florida’s First Coast. Not only is our city full of locations and activities for pets, it’s the largest city in the nation to adopt a no-kill pet shelter policy. Good policy is good politics. Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund is Top Dog in the Folio Weekly family. He gets our vote every time.

PET TIP: AUTUMN CALLING IT’S FALL! Now, just ’cause Florida doesn’t experience winter in the traditional sense, don’t be fooled into thinking your pooch doesn’t need to be ‘winterized.’ See, dogs shed for warmer months and grow thicker coats for colder ones. Kinda explains those Labrador tumbleweeds blowing all over your house. So, with non-winter approaching, you may wanna schedule Harry Henderson for an extra clipping–of his fur, dirty minds–or just start telling guests your couch and all your clothes are mohair. 34 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017

LOCAL PET EVENTS

TOO SEXY FOR THIS SHELTER • Like Right Said Fred, I can shake my little tush on the catwalk. When I first came to JHS, I had an eye issue, but they’ve fixed me up and now I’m so sexy it hurts! Please come on over and ask to meet me. If you can’t adopt today, consider donating to JHS by calling 493-4566. KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Adoption days are 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 23, 24 and 30 and Oct. 1, and every Saturday and Sunday, at 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org. Katz 4 Keeps seeks volunteers, age 18 and older; email peggyhatfield63@comcast.com. MALAMA KA A’INA DOG WALK • Salty Paws Healthy Pet Market holds this walk, 8-9 a.m. Sept. 23 starting at Jax Beach Pier, 500 N. First St. Bring trash bags and your pup, leashed of course. saltypawsmarket.com. MEET THE CRITTERS • You and your kids meet critters with scales, tails and other traits during the free event, 1-3 p.m. Sept. 23 at Petco, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Jax Beach, 273-0964, petco.com.

ADOPTABLES

LUKE

WHERE IS MY FATHER? • Hi, I’m Luke! I’m a happy-go-lucky boy who loves to run and play. Toys are my absolute favorite. I stayed with a “Storm Trooper” family during Hurricane Irma and they said I was a perfect gentleman. Please meet me at JHS, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside. To help with hurricane relief, go to jaxhumane.org/donate. TAILGATING EVENT • The chain offers free treat sampling, chalking your team’s colors or a football Pet Expression and $5 off your next team apparel purchase, noon-2 p.m. Sept. 23 at PetSmart, 356 Monument Rd., 724-4600; 8801 Southside Blvd., 5198878; 10261 River Marsh Dr., 997-1335; 1956 Third St. S., Jax Beach, 853-2135; 1919 Wells Rd., 579-2362; 9515 Crosshill Blvd., 777-8688; 13141 City Station Dr., 696-0289; 1779 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 495-0785, petsmart.com. A new PetSmart opens on San Jose Boulevard on Sept. 30. PET LIFE SAVER CLASS • The CPR & First Aid class for dogs and cats is 6-9 p.m. Sept. 26 at American Cancer Society, 1430 Prudential Dr., Southbank, $149, petlifesaverjax.com. A donation of $50 from each class fee goes to ACS’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. LEASH MANNERS WORKSHOP • You and Fideaux learn how to behave tethered together in public, 6-7 p.m. Sept. 28 at Petco, 11111 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 260-3225. petco.com. _________________________________________

WOLVES AND WHISPERS

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LANGHORNE SLIM

With roots in folk, soul and blues, Langhorne Slim sometimes shouts and sometimes whispers; most of the time, he delivers a memorable show. Though we’re occasionally suspicious of his “cooler-than-thou meets follow-your-bliss spiritual-guru” vibe, all in all, we love to watch him perform, even when he sings about wolves. Dog-whisperer Slim sings and shouts about life, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, Colonial Oak Music Park, 33 St. George St., singoutloudfestival.com.

SOL PICKS PUNK AT HEART MOCK TOXINS

Power chords married to kinda pop-ish, punkish, speed-metal-y playing recall the glorious ’80s, if the decade had been filtered through a couple of navel-gazing emo bands. And Mock Toxins’ lyrics are hilarious … though we’re not certain it’s intentional. As the name suggests, these dangerous-looking but actually sensitive rockers take the stage (and your heart), 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., singoutloudfestival.com.

TOMORROWLAND IS ANOTHER DAY THE DOG APOLLO

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On seeing a video of the band performing, our first thought was “Klaus Nomi lives … and he moved to the beach. Isn’t that interesting?” Though The Dog Apollo lacks the frenetic energies of the storied Nomi, the group manages to capture some of the sophisticated weirdness of his e earlier era, while clearly thinking quite a bit about David Bowie. 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, Front Porch at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., singoutloudfestival.com.

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THE WEIGHT OF SATURN KATIE GRACE HELOW

We saw Helow perform at the Barnett Bank building a couple of years ago, and the image of her–a guitar and a countryinflected voice that seemed to float up to find the light–has stuck with us ever since. She performs 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, Colonial Oak Music Park, 33 St. George St., singoutloudfestival.com. SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Psychologists say most folks need a scapegoat, a personification of wickedness and ignorance onto which they can project unacknowledged darkness in their hearts. That’s the bad news. The good news? The weeks ahead will be a great time to neutralize that and rid yourself of the need for scapegoats. Identify your darkness with courageous clarity. The more you deal with the shadowy stuff within, the less likely you’ll demonize others.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Filmmakers often have test audiences evaluate their work before its wide release. If a lot of viewers express a particular critique, the filmmaker may make changes, cutting scenes or altering the ending. Try a similar tack in the next few weeks. Solicit feedback on new projects and trends you’ve been working on; not just from anyone, but from smart folks who respect you. Be sure they won’t tell you only what you want to hear. Treasure honesty and objectivity. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Poet E.E. Cummings said, “To be nobody-butyourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” On the other hand, naturalist and writer Henry

David Thoreau declared “We are constantly invited to be who we are,” to become “something worthy and noble.” Which of these is correct? Is fate aligned against us, working hard to prevent us from knowing and showing our authentic selves? Or is fate conspiring on our behalf, seducing us to master our fullest expression? Not sure of a definitive answer, but in the months ahead, Thoreau’s view will be your predominant truth. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “When you do your best, you’re depending to a large extent on your unconscious, because you’re waiting for the thing you can’t think of,” said Scorpio director Mike Nichols describing his filmmaking process. I’m telling you in time for the beginning of a phase I call “Eruptions from Your Unconscious.” In the next few weeks, you’ll be ripe to receive and make good use of messages from your psyche’s depths. Any other time, the simmering bits of brilliance might stay below the rim of your awareness, but for the foreseeable future they’ll burst through, ready to pluck. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Barbara Ehrenreich has done extensive research on the annals of partying. She says modern historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time medieval Europeans spent having fun together. “People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end,” she writes. 17th-century Spaniards celebrated festivals five months a year. In 16th-century France, peasants devoted an average of one day out of every four to “carnival revelry.” In accordance with astrological omens, you’re authorized to match those levels of conviviality. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Kittens made French Emperor Napoleon III flip out. He shook and screamed around them. Butterflies scare actress Nicole Kidman. My friend Allie is frightened by photos of Donald Trump. I have an unnatural fear of watching reality TV. What about you? Are you susceptible to odd anxieties or nervous fantasies that provoke agitation? If so, the weeks ahead are a great time to overcome them. You’ll have an unprecedented slow-motion outbreak of courage to free yourself from long-standing worries. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The brain is wider than the sky,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “The brain is deeper than the sea.” I hope you cultivate a vivid awareness of those truths in the coming days. To accomplish improbable tasks ahead, unleash your imagination, allow it to bloom to its full power so it can encompass vast expanses and delve into hidden abysses. Visualization exercise: Picture yourself bigger than Earth, holding it tenderly in your hands. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I got an email from a fan of Piscean singer Rihanna. He complained my horoscopes rarely mention celebrities. “People love astrological predictions about big stars,” he wrote. “So what’s your problem? Are you too ‘cultured’ to give us what we the people really want? Get off your high horse and ‘lower’ yourself to writing about our heroes. You could start with the lovely, talented and very rich Rihanna.” I told Rihanna’s fan my advice for mega-stars is sometimes different from that of average folks. For Piscean stars like Justin Bieber, Ellen Page and Bryan Cranston, the weeks ahead are a time to lay low, chill out, recharge. But non-famous Pisceans will have good chances to boost their reps, expand their reaches and wield a stronger-than-usual influence in their domains. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD DUDES? YOUR TIMING’S OFF

In Florida, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority CEO Brad Miller and board chair Darden Rice helped Barbara Rygiel celebrate her 103rd birthday on Aug. 15, presenting her with a lifetime bus pass. Rygiel rides the bus to church about four times a week and said the pass will help with the costs. “Look at how much I can save,” she said.

WHERE CAN WE GET THAT APP?

A school resource officer at Lexington Middle School in Lee County saw something alarming on Aug. 15 as he looked out a second-floor window toward the parent pickup lane. Christina Hester, 39, of Fort Myers was using her iPhone to cut and snort cocaine. After seeing Hester use a straw to inhale the substance, the SRO asked her to come inside the school. He retrieved her purse, found .5 gram of cocaine inside and charged her with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. Twelve-year-old Spencer Yeager commented: “That’s crazy. That’s just so irresponsible and they shouldn’t be doing that.”

I SAID HOT FUDGE WITH NUTS!

Michael Delhomme couldn’t abide a Delray Beach McDonald’s running out of ice cream on Aug. 15. So while he and his friend, Jerry Henry, 19, waited in the drive-thru line, Delhomme asked Henry to get the “stick” out of the trunk. A McDonald’s employee watched on surveillance video as Henry went to the trunk and removed a replica AR-15 airsoft rifle, then got back in the car. The workers couldn’t tell ] the weapon wasn’t authentic and called 911; Henry was charged with improper exhibition of a firearm.

ECLIPSING WEIRD

A California man with European heritage “strong and pure” placed an ad on Craigslist in advance of the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, seeking a “worthy female” to have sex with him in Oregon and “conceive a child that will be on the next level of human evolution.” “Everything will be aligned in the local universe. Both of our cosmic orgasmic energy will be aligned with the planets,” the ad posited. He had one caveat: “You must like cats.” Thank god no more eclipses for a while.

RISE OF THE MACHINES

Irish equine veterinarian Louise Kennedy, who’s worked in Australia for two years on a skilled worker visa, decided to stay Down Under. She took the Pearson Test of English, part of the requirements for permanent residency. Imagine her surprise when, as a native English speaker with two university degrees, she flunked the oral component of the computer-based test. “There’s obviously a flaw in their computer software when a person with perfect oral fluency cannot get enough points,” Kennedy said. For its part, Pearson denied there’s any problem with its test or scoring “engine.” Kennedy will pursue a spouse visa so she can stay with her Aussie husband.

NEW WORLD ORDER

In Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, near Plattsburgh, New York, the Canadian military is building a refugee camp to house asylumseekers from the United States, where recent migrants fear the current administration’s immigration crackdown. Montreal has already turned its Olympic Stadium into a refugee shelter. The new camp would house 500 folks in heated tents while they wait for refugee applications to be processed. More than 3,300 people crossed into Quebec from the U.S. between January and June 2017.

THOSE DANG ICE AGENTS ARE JUST BULLSHIT

United States Border Patrol agent Robert Rocheleau and Alburgh, Vermont, resident Mark Johnson, 53, had tense words on Aug. 3 when Johnson climbed down from his tractor, demanding to know why Rocheleau wasn’t doing more to apprehend illegal immigrants. Johnson said people working in the U.S. illegally were damaging his livelihood. (Alburgh is south of the Canadian border.) After the spat, Johnson got back on his tractor and, as Rocheleau reported, “While passing by my vehicle Mr. Johnson ... engaged the PTO shaft to his trailer and covered my vehicle in cow manure.” Mr. Johnson pleaded not guilty in Vermont Superior Court in North Hero, saying he didn’t know the car was near when he began to spread manure. weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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Is John Morgan using MMJ advocacy to LAUNCH A CAMPAIGN for governor?

Some KNEE-JERK REACTIONS to the opioid epidemic may do those with chronic pain more harm than good

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FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, THE EFFORT TO legalize medical marijuana in Florida has been nominally led by attorney John Morgan, who has lately begun to piggyback the issue on a possible run for governor in 2018. These efforts have borne copious fruit, with Morgan establishing his identity in national politics, while pulling in highprofile support from strange bedfellows, indeed. Rapper Snoop Dogg, whose name is synonymous with weed more than any other public figure, except maybe his friend Willie Nelson, offered a tacit endorsement by retweeting an article about Morgan on Aug. 7 (at 2:42 a.m., incidentally). With Snoop slated to headline Gator Growl at University of Florida’s Flavet Field in Gainesville on Oct. 6, odds are good that Morgan will be there, too, maybe even doing a cameo onstage. Veteran Republican operative Roger Stone, auteur of dirty tricks profiled in these pages in June, is famously 420-friendly. Stone, who lives in Miami and almost ran for the senate as a Libertarian in 2014, even proudly displayed a Nixon bong in his recent NetFlix. He wrote in May 2013, “My own father died a horrific death from bone cancer just eight weeks ago. I watched as the poisonous drugs they gave my father to ease his pain destroyed his quality of life and did more harm than good. I am convinced medicinal marijuana would have helped my father. Those in the Florida Legislature who would not allow even a hearing on medicinal marijuana should be ashamed of themselves.” “Many ask me if I’m for [Adam] Putnam, [Richard] Corcoran or [Ron DeSantis] for Gov of FLA,” he tweeted on Aug. 4, before offering a full-throated endorsement of Morgan’s undeclared candidacy. This represents a break from his patron, Donald Trump who, as president, has been lukewarm on the issue, at best. The omnibus spending bill Trump signed into law included a bipartisan rider blocking both the DEA and Department of Justice from using federal funds to go after medical marijuana businesses in states that have already legalized it. Trump signed it because political exigencies left him no choice, but he’s been noncommittal about his plans to actually honor that part of the law. The rider was sponsored by Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who boast a combined 48 years’ experience in the U.S. House, and represent states with financial interest in the issue. Stone’s support for Morgan and medical marijuana has led to significant pushback from activists on both sides of the aisle. Conservatives are dismayed at what they perceive as a lack of fidelity with the Trump agenda, whereas liberals and progressives never really liked him, anyway. Note, again, that it remains unclear if Morgan will even run. He may be teasing it as a means of pushing the existing Democratic contenders to the left on an issue that the party has hardly been enthusiastic in its support. For their part, in May, gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham called for a Special Session to discuss the legislation in Tallahassee, and that city’s mayor, Andrew Gillum (also a gubernatorial candidate), joined her call two weeks later, so it appears that Morgan’s moves may have had the desired effect. It remains to be seen how those positions will hold up under the intense pressures of next year’s midterm campaign. Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Questions about medical marijuana? Let us answer them for you! Email mail@folioweekly.com.

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