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HUG A TRUMP SUPPORTER It’ll make America FEEL BETTER

RACIST. STUPID. CRAZY. EVIL. FASCISTS. NAZIS. This isn’t a word association game at one of those horrible corporate team-building activities that serve no purpose other than reminding everyone just how much we all hate team-building activities. These words appear in the top results when you search for “Trump supporters are” on Google. This single bit of evidence encapsulates the 21st Century American rift. We’ve started shutting people out of our live, hearts, and social media echo chambers for the high crime of voting differently than we do. We’ve come to hate each other so much that we can’t hear each other. And this, more than any Tweet or twat or bare chested horseback rider leading a legion of hackers, is the greatest danger to our survival. We must cooperate to endure, but we can’t cooperate if we won’t listen. Does “idiots” who are “ruining America” sound like the way one should describe their fellow citizens with whom, in a democracy, they must find some common ground to decide the nation’s future? Would you want to compromise with someone who describes you in this way? The national mood is bipolar, in turns manic, depressed, terrified and smug—on all sides. True, throughout our history, we have often disagreed vehemently on a litany of issues. We have also often been wrong. Today we are wrong about each other. You may be a liberal who believes that anyone who supports the president embodies the very spirit of each and every slight being thrown at them day in and day out. Or you may be a Trump supporter who believes that anyone who rails against the president is narrow-minded and deserving of his ceaseless insults and smears. It may behoove you to imagine sharing a laugh with anyone on the other side of the political divide swallowing America in semi-masticated chunks of righteous indignation. You may believe your disagreements so fundamental, so deep and abiding, that no trust fall, sheep and shepherd, silent circle or even a group hug could cure it, that we’re so far down the rabbit hole of division that the tunnel’s entrance is an unreachable pinpoint of light in the dark distance. But you should try. If you’re a liberal, hug the Trump supporters in your life. If you’re a Trump supporter, hug the liberals in your life. This entire nation would greatly benefit from participating in one big, awkward, sweaty, oddly uncomfortable yet comforting group hug.

With permission, of course, and handshakes are also fine, whatever it takes to remind you that at the end of the day, you’re both human beings, and you’re both Americans, so you’re not really all that different. You should also know that the words at the beginning of this piece actually show up when you Google “liberals are.” These are some of the top suggestions that actually appear when you search “Trump supporters are”: Traitors. Uneducated. Trash. Fascists. Hypocrites. Sheep. Not a lot of difference, is there? “Fascist” even appears in both. This similarity underlines the sickness plaguing our country. It’s a pestilence that, if left untreated, can be deadly. A local woman told me that last weekend she was harassed and kicked out of a public festival because two merchants didn’t like her shirt, which said “Impeach 45.” She said they taunted her and told the cops that she was the guilty party. This is just one of many, many examples of how fractious we’ve become, and it is sadly one of the more benign. In April, a sword-wielding man in Kentucky attacked liberals in a café. In June 2016, liberals attacked Trump supporters after a rally in California. These will probably not be the last such incidents of politically motivated violence. How much blood will stain our soil before we admit that we’re both right and we’re both wrong? If our enemies have their way, our great nation will become a great footnote in world history. Not because our enemies hate America, or democracy, or imperial capitalism, but because they love power. We have it. They want it. That’s the brass tacks of the matter. We’re letting them win because we’re too busy fighting each other to unite against our common enemies. We are the strongest, most powerful nation in the history of the world, yet we are becoming consumed with infighting. Our enemies have realized that the only way to beat the strongest nation in the history of the world is to turn it against itself. If we are to persevere, we cannot let our country continue down this path. To survive, we must embrace one another, if not celebrating our differences, at least accepting them. No matter which side of the aisle we, or our president, are on. We’re on the same team. Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com @ClaireNJax OCTOBER 18-24, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5

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an orgasm every time he plays–whether this is true or not, we know that he’s been giving folks eargasms since Woodstock. The rock legend (and Metatron intimate) takes the stage 7 p.m. Tue., Oct. 24, Daily’s Place, Downtown, 633-2000, $79-$379.

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THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS

Continuing a tradition started in 1871, the Fisk University singers introduced ‘slave songs’ and have been pivotal in preserving the unique American musical style known as Negro spirituals. They were also among the first African-American entertainers to reject the “minstrel fashion” of performing. 146 years later, they still lift their voices; 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 465 11th Ave. N., Jax Beach, free, 270-1771, beachesfinearts.org.

COORDINATION NATION JOHN WITHERSPOON

This standup comedian might be most known for his scene-stealing turns in the Friday movies and his time spent destroying bathrooms, but his humor is much more than that: He hosts his own comedy series Cooking for Poor People “because when you’re hungry, everything tastes good.” Witherspoon brings his mercifully inimitable style to Jacksonville 7:30 p.m. Thur., Oct. 19, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Oct. 20 & 21, The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $22.50-$27.50, comedyzone.com.

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Pop/folk/acoustic musician House received acclaim when he started out, and it’s good to see (hear) that his music has matured as he has. With warm tones and a quiet kind of humility, his newest album, 2016’s So On and So Forth, is an examination of his own life. And if you think that his music sounds familiar, perhaps you’ve heard it while binge-watching One Tree Hill. He plays 7:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 25, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $20, raylewispresents.com.

Again and again, writer, poet, performer, reporter Letson proves the pen is mightier than the sword and artists can be agents of change. Whether Letson is having a reasonable conversation with Seb Gorka, literally jumping into the fray at a protest or penning a comic book, he brings his whole being to the fore. That’s why this multiple media award-winner has become–not just one of Jacksonville’s leading voices– but one of our generation’s. Plus rumor has it that he’ll be debuting a new piece. 7 & 9:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 21, Bab’s Lab, CoRK Arts District North, 603 King St., Riverside, $35, barbaracolaciello.com.

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THE MAIL ATTN: CLAIRE GOFORTH’S BOSS

RE.: “The Money Shot,” by Claire Goforth, Oct. 4 IF FOLIO WASN’T A FREE PUBLICATION, because of your biased writing, I wouldn’t even pick it up! You are so totally left-leaning I can’t stand to read your editorials. If I knew who your boss was, I would write and suggest that you be fired. Everyone (mostly left) has jumped on the bandwagon since the Vegas shootings, spouting their biased rages, using various statistics to support their position. You have done the same. Recently there was an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal reviewing gun use statistics, which you wouldn’t consider because it starts off with the largest percentage of gun deaths are suicides. Pretty hard to pass legislation to stop that? I’m sure that you are aware but wouldn’t mention that there are “loads” of pieces of gun legislation and that the Vegas killer would not have been legally stopped from purchasing guns. If Chicago courts would enforce gun legislation already on the books there would be fewer murders in Chicago. I will continue to pick up Folio Weekly since I particularly enjoyed Gancarski’s insightful writings and enjoyed the Best of Jax in this issue. George Snow via email

BRING LAWYERS … AND MONEY

RE.: “The Money Shot,” by Claire Goforth, Oct. 4 THE ONLY TWO REASONS FOR A CITIZEN TO own a firearm are for hunting or defense of the household from intruders. In either case, ownership of a handgun, shotgun or rifle is more than adequate to satisfy these purposes. There is absolutely no need for any U.S. civilian to own any weapon more powerful or sophisticated than these. Accordingly, all handguns, shotguns and rifles must be licensed and registered to the degree necessary to match weapon to owner at the click of a computer key. Furthermore, we must guarantee that the mentally ill do not gain access to them under any circumstances. Finally, if we had prohibited the purchase of more sophisticated weapons, several innocent victims would not have died or been

harmed at shopping malls, college campuses, Congressional meetings, churches and now concerts. We as a country must deal with this issue immediately lest our society fall back to the days when everyone carried a holster. Joe Bialek via email

ADVICE FOR HURRICANE RECOVERY

IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE IRMA, people are scrambling to rebuild their lives and homes. Unfortunately, bad actors can take advantage of honest folks during these moments of stress, when everyone is eager to get their lives back in order. There are resources available that can help homeowners avoid being taken advantage of during this challenging time. First and foremost, homeowners should check the Florida Construction Industry Licensing Board’s website, myfloridalicense. com, to verify that a contractor’s license is real and up-to-date before hiring any company to do work on your home. When looking for a Florida licensed contractor, visit the Disaster Contactors Network, dcnonline.org, for a contractor in your area. For those not quite ready to make repairs, FEMA offers disaster assistance at disasterassistance.gov and can help people find emergency housing at femaevachotels. com. Homeowners can also take advantage of the public-private partnership HERO Property Assessed Clean Energy to fi nance hurricaneresilient improvements and repairs with no upfront cost, allowing them to rebuild the right way and protect against future storms. HERO vets contractors and tracks their customer satisfaction records. Finally, homeowners should not hesitate to report bad actors to the consumer price-gouging hotline at 866-966-7226. Honest players in the construction industry are here to help and will be happy to settle any concerns or disputes through appropriate channels. Lisa Pate Executive Director, Florida Roofing, Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors Association via email

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BRICKBATS TO UNF’S WORST Last week, a SnapChat video of two male University of North Florida students miming what appears to be apes or gorillas with the caption, “What actually went on at the BML [sic] rally” exploded onto the internet in the worst way. Spinnaker reports that the student who posted the video, freshman Zack Morse, denied that it was intended to mock the Black Lives Matter rally that took place the same day the video was released, and denied that it was racist. The two males in the video have not been identified. UNF is investigating the incident. BOUQUETS TO ANGELS OF MERCY Recognizing a gap in care for lowincome and uninsured residents of Jacksonville, Borland-Groover Clinic has opened a free gastroenterology specialty clinic, We Care BorlandGroover Clinic, dedicated to treating such patients. The facility is the newest endeavor of a longtime partnership between the clinic and We Care Jacksonville, a nonprofit that gets economically disadvantaged folks in touch with physicians who provide medical services pro bono. Learn more at wecarejacksonville.org. BRICKBATS TO PEDOPHILE PORNOGRAPHER There are too many criminals in Northeast Florida to brickbat them all, but Andrew Ryan Leslie is more than worthy. On October 10, the 22-year-old from Middleburg pled guilty to federal charges of sexual abuse of an infant and a toddler, whom he also used to create pornography. Leslie faces 15 to 60 years in prison for his crimes. DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A BRICKBAT? Send submissions to mail@folioweekly.com; 50 word maximum, concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest. 8 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 18-24, 2017

FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS challenger should manifest, there are all kinds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA RELEASED of third-party mailers that can be sent out from an interesting poll last week, in which it political committees hither and yon—the kinds was revealed that virtually every incumbent of mailers that take a quote or two and twist it politician in town is popular. up, the kinds of mailers that flooded mailboxes The State Attorney, the Public Defender, in 2015 and sent Alvin Brown packing. the Mayor, the Sheriff—all are above water in Can Brosche counter that? polls, with even Mayor Lenny Curry polling (A corollary conflict: Curry and Finance around 60 percent approval with Democrats. Chair Garrett Dennis, who did everything Even the City Council is popular, possible to kill the KHA bill. Dennis failed relatively speaking. In fact, the only politician there, and marginalized underwater with any t himself in the process. group is Council President h There’s no reason to think Anna Brosche, who is -3 that, despite the outcome, with Republicans, as a t Team Curry won’t look for consequence of advocating T payback at the ballot box removal of the Confederatee p in monuments in the wake i 2019.) Another battle of Charlottesville. (To put Beneath POLL to watch: that of that in perspective, Mayor NUMBERS, turmoil Councilwoman Katrina Curry, who sat out that Brown and the Fraternal controversy, is +95 with at Jax City Hall Order of Police. Republicans in the poll.) FOP Head Steve Zona These dreamy has already said there will be a union-backed numbers led pollster Michael Binder to say candidate in Brown’s District 8. During budget that Downtown Jacksonville is a “political discussions in August, Brown irked Zona with paradise”—an interesting irony for any of those comments that were, shall we say, skeptical of who have sat through contentious council policing as it’s practiced in this town. meetings in recent months. From budget and swim lessons to summer And when Councilman Reggie Gaffney camps and Kids Hope Alliance, there has been was pulled over for a quasi-stolen tag in so much territorial pissing that the carpet September, Brown drove up and accused cops should be replaced with kitty litter. of racial profiling. The conflicts we are seeing right now are And then, even when Gaffney rolled over shaping the political landscape of the 2019 and begged forgiveness, Brown stood her campaign. And make no mistake, we will ground and wouldn’t walk back. see real money in this cycle, even though the Zona wrote a letter demanding she apologize Mayor’s Office and Sheriff ’s Office look to be or resign. She did neither. And even when heads on lock. of the state and national FOP waited until almost The major conflict, at the moment: Mayor midnight to compel an apology during public Curry and Council President Brosche. comment, Brown didn’t back down. Brosche voted for the Kids Hope It played well. But is it good for business? Alliance—Curry’s children’s program reform Will donors be willing to match money package—on Tuesday. That likely surprised coming from Fraternal Order of Police those who heard her, just hours before, stand affiliates from Key West to the Kenai up from the president’s chair and accuse the Peninsula? Because it will get personal. Curry Administration of locking the public If you were digging for opposition out of a chance to review the legislation. research, you wouldn’t have to go too deep. (Despite pressure from the mayor, Brosche Her family business defaulted on a few million didn’t walk that back.) dollars of grants and loans, incentives which That was the culmination of a number were supposed to create jobs. The city is doing of interesting news cycles for Brosche, who forensic accounting on corporate records. cut a TV interview on the same day that Even the most incompetent operative can get something out of that mess. Councilman John Crescimbeni, who wanted The cops’ candidate won’t have an very much to be council president himself, incompetent op. did an end-run around Brosche, cancelling A.G. Gancarski a Monday meeting to discuss the KHA mail@folioweekly.com legislation by getting councilors to sign on to @AGGancarski his request for a Tuesday meeting. That meeting led to a vote to move the bill to the floor; 18-1, and Brosche was the one in opposition—a stunning rebuke of the council president. The dynamic between Brosche and Curry has never seemed particularly natural. As I wrote months back, the mayor’s office preferred Crescimbeni to Brosche in that office. It came down to trust. Undeterred, Brosche built her winning coalition from people who were not dealt into to what had been the hierarchy, one dominated by second-term councilors who lined up with Curry and Sam Mousa on policy. FOP Head Steve Zona has It was never pretty. Now demanded Councilwoman it’s ugly. And it’s likely Brosche Katrina Brown apologize will not be so lucky as to run for or resign. re-election against Kim Daniels in meltdown mode. And if a legit

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NEWS AAND NOTES: MEN BEHAVE BADLY TOP HEADLINES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA < AN AVOIDABLE RAPE

A Houston woman whose rape kit spent five years waiting to be tested has sued the city on the grounds that rape kit backlogs lead to avoidable rapes, including hers. Like many cities, including Jacksonville (“Don’t Call It a Backlog,” Folio Weekly, July 2015), Houston has in recent years been embroiled in controversy concerning its thousands of untested rape kits. Houston Press reports that DeJenay Beckwith has been “haunted” by the knowledge that her rapist assaulted multiple women in 2002 and 2009 before assaulting her in 2011. Her attorney told the outlet that Beckwith’s rapist was charged with a 2002 sexual assault, finally, in 2014. Beckwith’s attorney told Houston Press that police first collected her attacker’s DNA in 1991. She intends the lawsuit to become a class action suit.

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Worship services provide the opportunity to look up to god. For former Memphis Grizzlies announcer Rick Trotter, church was a chance to look up women’s skirts. Memphis Flyer reports that Trotter was “indicted [on Oct. 12] on four counts of unlawfully photographing women under their skirts at a church where he was a worship leader.” Church officials, who filed the complaint against Trotter in May 2016, said that Trotter used his church-issued phone to video under a woman’s skirt while he knelt behind her during services; police later found up-skirt videos of other women, ages 29-63, on his church-issued laptop. According to Memphis Flyer, Trotter has admitted to the charges and faces up to 47 months in prison and fines of $10,000.

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David Lewis got the chance to live what simultaneously sounds like every reporter’s dream and nightmare when he went undercover to go to a secret convention … of racists. Lewis shares his experience in a spellbinding tale in The Stranger, “We Snuck into Seattle’s Super-Secret White Nationalist Convention.” You’ll be riveted from the start, when he reveals the clever ruse that got him in—pretend to be a film editor writing an essay called “Tear Down Lee and Put Up Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln, World’s Greatest White Nationalist.” Some details are less-than-surprising—very, very few women in attendance, and a large number of “fashy” haircuts and white polo shirts—others pathetic—the super-secret code to gain entry was basically a lookout asking honkies, “Are you here for the thing?”—but some observations are astonishing—many young tech industry workers and, ugh, even some children attended. It’s unsettling, yes, and dark, obviously, but also deeply, deeply amusing. Take this line: “For a second, I got a vision of what Seattle would be like with zero ethnic diversity: It would be dull, like being at one of those bougie, middle-aged white person parties minus the talk about which countries their kids are teaching English in.” What white person hasn’t been to that party?

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Chief film critic for LA Weekly, April Wolfe penned a gripping editorial acknowledging the asshole elephant in the hotel room who can’t keep his nasty trunk to himself: Harvey Weinstein, the successful film producer whose sexual harassment and assault scandal rocked not only the movie industry, but the entire nation. Wolfe pondered whether our culture is at a turning point “where abusers will finally be exposed,” and, if so, believes “we’re about to have a massive emotional, public breakdown.” She also opined that the onslaught of allegations puts an enormous emotional burden on women, who in addition to being far and away more frequent victims of all types of sexual violence and harassment, are also often the ones “largely tasked with breaking these delicate stories.” Rather than fold under the pressure, Wolfe resolves to keep her eye on the prize, do her work, and support the work of other women, as she writes in closing, “Because I know it took them double the effort just to get out of bed in the morning and do what they do best.” Our all-female editorial staff salutes all the brave women, like Wolfe, fearlessly shouldering a burden that even honorable, well-intending men just don’t understand.

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HEART OF THE MATTER Barbara Colaciello keeps the art of STORYTELLING and COMMUNITY alive and well ONLY THE DIEHARDS ARE HERE THIS LATE. During daylight hours, the denizens who call CoRK Arts District their creative home zip in and out of the vast compound. Hatchbacks and trucks vie for precious parking, driving over the curb to park on the grass. People of every possible creative creed spend hours in personal or shared studios, while others grab a canvas or meet with a peer, then drive off down Rosselle Street. Barbara Colaciello executes her vision within CoRK’s North Gallery. Ever busy, today she’s running a little bit behind. “Hey! Sorry about that.” Colaciello swings open the door, smiling and motioning me inside. In a flower-child dress, Colaciello leads the way to the main gallery space. A veritable who’s-who collection of works by local artists adorns the walls, including pieces by Mateo Applecrumbs, Matthew Bennett, Christina Boykin, Mark Creegan, Overstreet Ducasse, Crystal Floyd, Liz Gibson, Margete Griffin, Lori Guadagno, Marsha Hatcher, Dustin Harewood, Malcolm Jackson, Mal Jones, Karen Kurycki, Tiffany Manning, Deborah Reid, Anne Roberts, Jefree Shalev, Sharla Valeski, Roosevelt Watson, Edison William and Tony Wood. Placed by each are large white placards with black lettering, identifying the poem that inspired them. The poems are from Chalk, Al Letson’s “poetical.” Colaciello smiles and glances over her glasses. “What do you think?” The exhibit is split between North Gallery and Yellow House, cultural leader and Chalk co-curator Hope McMath’s new community arts headquarters just across the street. “You know my whole thing is really about integrating the arts,” Colaciello says. “And this is National Bullying Prevention Month. So this show is 30 minutes, since it’s just some poetry excerpts from Chalk, but then we’re going to have a community ‘story share’ around bullying and also some improvised story share.” The community section of the show seems crucial to Colaciello. “We just invited people to tell their story: ‘Oh, I was a bully,’ or ‘Well, I watched someone being bullied and I never did anything about it. And now I feel guilty about it’,” she explains. “Some

of that pain we carry around or we make light of it. In a way, I don’t think people really empower their kids or teach them to be able to deflect bullying.” For the four performances of Chalk, starring actors ages nine to 30, Colaciello is presenting a prism of bullying experiences, from the schoolyard to the workplace, the aggressor and the wounded. She hopes people bring their kids, middle schoolers and high schoolers, even teachers. “I think that’s when the new space will really become ‘activated.’” Her goal is to do another full production, something she and Letson did in 2004 at the University of North Florida, for 2,400 school kids. For Colaciello, the play hits close to home. Growing up, her son Matthew felt the wrath of bullies. “He always liked to talk to adults. He used words like ‘compromise’ and ‘negotiate’ when he was four and when he got into school he’d sing opera on the playground and always defend the girls,” she laughs. “But by the time he got to high school, he just became bored. But it got really, really bad.” The family eventually decided homeschooling would be better for Matthew; Colaciello says her son, now an adult, is an “astoundingly well-centered person.” Bullying is not something Colaciello endured in childhood. “I really wasn’t bullied, but I used to defend those kids who were bullied,” she says. “I used to wonder why a certain kid was being ostracized.” If there was a “problem kid” in the class, the teacher would “assign” the child to Colaciello, as their new guard and friend. “I’d stand at the end of every line with them and I would listen to them. I don’t know why, but I’d always find something in them and I’d make them laugh,” she says. “It’s just like what I’m doing now.”

READING THE LINES MINUTES INTO THE INTERVIEW, IT’S apparent Colaciello is an almostpathologically non-linear speaker. I set aside my questions and let the interview evolve as it will. She has a story; I have some questions. It’s my hope that we’ll meet in the middle. Fittingly, our conversation begins almost like a stage production. The set is

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sparse; two facing chairs, her closed MacBook on the ground. While hardly pushy, Colaciello has some salient points she hopes make it to the page. “Look, I really want to stress this … ” she’ll say, stopping midstream in an anecdote to stress a significant point or memory. I bring up her childhood. She pauses for a beat. “You know, I’ve never really talked at length in the press about Andy. Maybe we could talk about Andy,” she says instead. She’s speaking of her onetime boss and perhaps greatest mentor: Andy Warhol. “No one has ever really talked to me about how that experience has shaped what I do now and how it has permeated what I do.” We split the difference: I ask about her childhood–and we talk about Andy.

ANDY’S GANG

BARBARA COLACIELLO WAS BORN IN 1952 IN Brooklyn, New York. Her family eventually moved to Plainvew, Long Island, and when Colaciello was 12, they settled in Rockville, Centre, Long Island. She grew up on stories. John and Libby Colaciello were excellent, even spellbinding, storytellers. Each night at the dinner table, after shifts on the sales floor, John and Libby would regale her and her older siblings Bob and Suzanne with stories. “We’d sit down for dinner every night and we’d tell stories. My mother would say, ‘This woman came in with these shoes and lemme tell you, these shoes went through a lot. And she wanted to return them, and I said ‘You can’t return them!”” recalls Colaciello, thickening her Long Island accent and widening her eyes to invoke her mother’s performance of a day’s work at Saks Fifth Avenue. “When I was very young, I realized the power of performing. I wanted to sing and act, and when people weren’t paying enough attention to me, if I sang the song, with all of

the motions, everyone would say, [her voice softens] ‘Oh, look at Barbara.’” Some 40 years later, Colaciello would dip into her family lore with her 2005 one-woman show, Life on the Diagonal. “I’m talking about growing up in my Italian family, and things like how they thought that I was Japanese.” When she wasn’t valiantly defending kids from bullies, Colaciello was a good student. In 1973, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus on theater from Rider University. By then Colaciello’s older brother Bob had moved to Manhattan. As Bob Colacello (dropping the “i” from his surname), he became a respected writer and contributor to the Village Voice. Bob soon orbited into the galaxy of Andy Warhol, de facto guru of both the NYC art and celebrity scenes. Interview magazine was Warhol’s latest venture, a large-format publication with stories and images of some of the biggest names in arts, fashion and entertainment. He hired Bob as editor. Colaciello soon left Long Island and started working in sales at Madison Avenue’s Yves St. Laurent boutique. “Andy would come into the boutique and he knew who I was because of Bob working for him.” Though he browsed the merchandise, Warhol was really on a mission to recruit Bob’s kid sister. “Andy liked me because I was a talker—he liked talkers. He told my brother, ‘Your sister is really funny and we need her working with us.’” Bob disagreed. “My mom always said, ‘Never work with a relative,’” she laughs. Not that she was interested; Colaciello was content at Yves St. Laurent. But after three years of visits and invitations, in 1977

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HEART OF THE MATTER <<< FROM PREVIOUS Colaciello signed on, even though she knew nothing about publishing or advertising. “When I first came to work for Andy, I was a little bit of an outsider and that’s how I wanted it.” Colaciello employed a universal, improvisational performance tool: fake it ’til you make it. “The first year was really difficult. I knew nothing about all of it.” Within two years, Colaciello was promoted to advertising director. Colaciello’s masterstroke at Interview came in the form of blueprinting a strategy to attract new clients at dinners and luncheons. She was essentially selling Interview by “selling” Andy Warhol and his glitterati kingdom of red carpets, popping flashbulbs and an almost-blinding hipness. Superstars like Bianca Jagger and Farrah Fawcett sat sideby-side with prospective clients. During these gatherings, Colaciello kept her cool; Warhol was a nervous wreck. “His hands would be shaking as he poured the wine.” Her plan worked. “My ultimate pitch was that we had a readership of 100,000 and they’re all trendsetters, in part because they’re emulating the ultimate trendsetter: Andy. So by the end of the luncheon, we’d get a 12-month contract and a new client.” In 1983, Bob left the paper. Now considered one of the greatest living American biographers, he’s penned a critically praised book about Warhol, and spent three decades as an editorial and journalistic voice at Vanity Fair. The experience of working so closely with Warhol and the rest of the staff helped expand Colaciello’s skills as a facilitator and, eventually, director and teacher.

By the time she left the magazine in 1983, the girl with a penchant for protecting the underdog had grown into a savvy adult who had no time for bullshit but always kept her humor, qualities that surely endeared her to the genius, albeit awkwardly reticent, Warhol. In 2012, Colaciello performed her multimedia talk, I Was a Factory WorkerInside the Warhol Machine, at MOCA Jax, recounting her experiences working with her employer and friend. On his way to Montauk, Warhol would routinely visit the Colaciello family home on Long Island for authentic Italian dinners. “He loved to hear stories and my family was full of stories. But Bob and I also saw this thing about Andy where he liked twins and he liked ‘family acts.’ We think it was because he thought we’d be less likely to leave, since Bob and I already had a kind of ‘shorthand,’ in finishing each other’s sentences. And Andy was right, because we both stuck around for years.”

THE SPOTLIGHT KID

AFTER LEAVING INTERVIEW IN 1983, Colaciello traveled to Europe then returned to Manhattan and a new endeavor. “When I left Warhol, I started doing standup, like at this lesbian club called WOW, Women of the World.” Colaciello’s performance artist friend Reno got her the gig. Onstage, in lieu of one-liners and jokes, Colaciello told stories, riffing on subjects like men and doctors, in an act she describes as “quirky.” Colaciello was doing standup in an era when NYC performance artists and comedians often crossed paths, intersections that at times led them to forge new paths. At the time, Karen Finley was creating radical performance works that mashed feminism and humor in intense, successful combinations. When she started to bomb onstage, Colaciello simply added more fire to the fuse. “What did Johnny Carson do for years? If he didn’t get a laugh, he’d put himself down.”

Colaciello says she learned two things from her standup days. One, some audiences are just jaded and two, always try for a good performance. “After that, I realized people are really paying to see your best. I [can] say anything if I’m gutsy.”

LINES OF CHALK

COLACIELLO MET AL LETSON IN THE ’90S, when he was transitioning from being an acclaimed slam poet into creating more extended, theatrical works. A graduate of Orange Park High School, the now-45year-old Letson is a creative force to be reckoned with. In the last two decades, he’s established himself through spoken word, playwriting and acting. As the host of the NPR radio show and podcast State of the Re:Union, Letson created a winning blend of watchdog journalism and travelogue, fueled by insights and an empathetic tone. Since 2013, he’s hosted the radio-and-podcast show Reveal. Letson has won several awards for his journalism, including the 2015 Peabody. “In 2005, I was commissioned by the Baltimore School for the Arts to write a play for their graduating class. The class was mostly girls, so I wanted to write something that felt right for them,” Letson says via email of his impetus for writing Chalk. “I started researching relational aggression and that’s where the play came from. The theme of the piece is how violence/aggression is handed down from society to our kids, and how that manifests in their lives.” Colaciello and Letson met at interesting nexuses in their lives. In 1992, Colaciello and second husband Mark Williams, along with seven-year-old Matthew and two-year-old Luke, had moved from New York to Ponte Vedra Beach. A musician-songwriter, Williams also worked for stock photography house SuperStock in Manhattan. When the company moved to Florida, the family headed south.

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“I thought I was going to kill myself,” Colaciello says of her hard landing from Baldwin, Long Island to sandy beaches walledin by gated communities. “I was working for my brother part-time. My parents were there and loved to babysit the kids, and all of my friends were in New York.” Ever adaptable, she improvised. When she was 45, a woman few years older than she with grown children posed a powerful question to her. “She straight-up asked me, ‘What is your mission? Write a mission statement for yourself. Because the kids are going to grow up—and then what?’” The next day Colaciello sat on her porch, writing that she “wanted to do a creative project from beginning to end.” “I suddenly realized that throughout the years, I’d lose myself. I’d think, ‘Oh, yeah— what was my goal?’” Acting training combined with raising two creative sons who loved to play-act with their mom led Colaciello to teach acting. She contacted the Cultural Center in Ponte Vedra Beach, and soon created an afterschool acting program, culminating in a stage production. It was an immediate hit. Colaciello expanded her teaching skills and acting methodology as the education and outreach director for Players by the Sea; a position she held for nine years until 2014. The Colaciellos then started Soirée Away, an invitation-only immersive theater experience, featuring musical and theatrical performances. Hundreds attended the soirées; audience members ranged from doctors and lawyers to people Colaciello had met earlier that day in Publix. When her son Matthew was in the ninth grade at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, the school had a fundraiser for its creative writing program at Fuel Coffeehouse, the onetime coffee bar and performance space opened by Jim Webb in Five Points. Al Letson was one of the featured performers. “Al read and I remember it was like he was Superman. I didn’t know what the poem said exactly because he was coming off the slam circuit, so you had to get it done in three minutes,” she says, snapping her fingers for emphasis. “But it was truly impressive.” Still in his 20s, Letson was already writing and performing brilliant monologues, effortlessly changing body language and

voices of different characters as they arrived in his stories. “I thought she was strange when we first met,” says Letson of Colaciello. “But then I realized she was brilliant.” Colaciello and Williams soon began working with Letson. “Mark and Al worked on some music together and Al was working on a play and wanted to run the script by me.” Letson also gave a highly successful performance at one soirée. Letson asked Colaciello for some help morphing his spitfire-spoken word into more languid performance pieces. “Everything Al does is done with determination … He was always honing his work,” she says. “So I think, even though he knew me fairly well, he was a little resistant.” In 2005, Colaciello directed Letson in his one-man show, Essential Personnel, for a run at NYC’s Nuyorican Poets Café. The next year, she produced and directed Griot: He Who Speaks the Sweet Word, a collaboration among Letson, David Girard and Larry Knight. The staging of the one-man show at the 2006 NYC International Fringe Festival was a smash hit. Letson is performing a new piece at Babs’ Lab on Oct. 21. There will be two performances of the piece In Dialogue; Colaciello’s certain both will sell out. “We have a good relationship,” she says. “Al is never not working. But if we need a heartto-heart talk, we’ll call each other.”

PERMISSION GRANTED

AFTER AN HOUR, IT’S APPARENT THERE ISN’T a real lull in any conversation with Barbara Colaciello. It isn’t that she’s a chatterbox, nervously stringing sentences together until ideas arrive. Rather, like a true storyteller, discernment is ingrained in her narratives. Words are her prima materia and she knows how to shape them, coaxing out narratives. The improvisation she’s known for is evident, even as she shares her story to an audience of one. She has a lot to say and a helluva lot of New York attitude to back it up; a kind of quick-paced contemplation not unlike the 1974 two-part poem by NYC wordsmith Anne Waldman, “Fast-Speaking Woman.” In the poem, Waldman spits out a rapid-fire celebration of self, an identity of a love of words and a love of where words will take you: I’m a bird woman / I’m a book woman / I’m a devilish clown woman / I’m a holy clown woman / I’m a whirling dervish woman / I’m a whirling-foam woman / I’m a playfullight woman / I’m a tidal-pool woman / I’m a fast-speaking woman. References, accesses to the interior, even games, are all part of Colaciello’s process as a teacher and storyteller.

“People won’t tell their stories because they feel like they don’t have permission. Give yourself permission. I’ll give you permission.”

LAB EXPERIMENTS

SINCE HER DAYS IN PONTE VEDRA, COLACIELLO has wanted her own space. But the only vacant spaces were in strip malls, or owned by people who didn’t want to rent to her. “When I was teaching some kids here locally, they’d been acting for three years— and they couldn’t act. It’s fine to do musical comedies, but they need to learn emotional literacy, and really notify when they were happy or sad.” She discovered the same inhibitions and shortcomings in some local actors as well. Those early, frustrating experiences inspired her to create a kind of evolving curriculum. Regardless of age, developing craft is key to Colaciello. Her goal is to teach actors how to draw out emotions and find selfconnection. Two years ago, she created Improv to the Rescue, which coaches both actors and non-actors on how to hone their delivery. With Babs’ Lab, Colaciello has her own space to teach, produce, direct, present and perform. She shares the 1,200-square-foot space with longtime collaborator Mark Creegan, whose art-making space is in an adjoining room. Most recently, local playwright and educator Jennifer Chase presented her new one-woman show, Renunciant at Babs’ Lab. Both nights sold out, turning the 60-seat space into standing room only. The space gives Colaciello the chance to really roll up her sleeves and dig even deeper into her work. While she’s worked for decades with community theater, she seems like a parallel entity, if not force, in local stage arts. “That’s probably true,” she says. “I work well with others but I also work pretty damn well alone.”

WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY …

THERE’S AN EGALITARIAN IDEA IN THE ARTS that “anyone” can be an artist, or a musician, or a dancer, or an actor … the entire punk rock community is based on this DIY ideal. Persistence is surely key to unlocking and developing any discipline, creative or otherwise. But for many, there’s a point when gut-level honesty and humility arrive like divine providence. Self-awareness can sting. For every John Coltrane, there are thousands of discarded saxophones rusting in junkyards. That bloated manuscript might be best appreciated crackling in the fire pit. The loudest, most confident voice at a gallery opening is often that of the wheezing dilettante, weaving their way to the cheese cubes. When you expect the world to cosign your bullshit about being an artist, don’t be surprised when that same world shuts you down, hard. Everyone is not an artist. Knowing your limits can actually free you to move on, maybe find success elsewhere. Colaciello agrees but also doesn’t agree. “Some people are naturally good storytellers; they use gestures well and it’s just natural,” she says. She believes a slight adjustment can be all that’s needed to create a powerful presence. “For other people it’s painful, just to do anything related to storytelling. It’s like they’re in a box, like their body’s been encased. You can’t get them out.” Does everyone have the potential to be a great storyteller? “No.” So do you think they can be taught to tell their own story?

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“People won’t tell their stories because they feel like they don’t have PERMISSION. Give yourself permission. I’LL GIVE YOU PERMISSION.”

HEART OF THE MATTER <<< FROM PREVIOUS She pauses. “Maybe … probably. But I do believe, if someone is focused on what they’re saying, and could let go of how they think they’re being perceived, they’ll let go. They can tell their story. And if they’re touched by their own story—we are touched.”

OPENING UP

CROWDFUNDING SEEMED AN OBVIOUS CHOICE to raise money for lights and a new sound system for Babs’ Lab. A week before launching a Kickstarter campaign, Colaciello went for a routine thyroid checkup. For 31 years, she knew she had a heart murmur; she’d sometimes notice an odd “clicking” sound when listening to her heart. On this day, the doctor ordered an echocardiogram. “I knew there was something wrong,” she says. When the results came back, the doctor explained her heart murmur was actually a congenital birth defect, a bicuspid aortic valve, and had led to stenosis, or narrowing of the valve. Colaciello also had a lung-sized aneurysm in her chest. She was stunned. Walking up nine flights of stairs to her apartment each day, having low cholesterol and not being overweight, Colaciello had always assumed she was in good health. “He told me that I was absolutely going to have open-heart surgery,” she says. “To which I thought, ‘What the fuck?’” 18 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 18-24, 2017

With open-heart surgery looming, Colaciello initially felt the Crowdfunding campaign would somehow be “deceitful.” On one hand, she didn’t want to appear like she was making a money grab. On the other, she was afraid she’d die before the campaign was over. “I had to sit with that,” she says. “But then I decided I was going to go through this and embrace it because I have things I want to do.” The Kickstarter campaign ended on Aug. 9; Colaciello had surgery on Aug. 11. She won on both counts: her initial goal of $10,000 was exceeded, and the surgery was a total success. “This sobered me,” she says of the experience. Colaciello then tells a sobering story, straight from the heart. When she was 25, she was sexually assaulted. “The guy told me he was going to kill me. And that made me realize that just ’cause you’re young, does not mean protection. At that time, I ‘woke up,’ and tried to live a certain way but I just didn’t have the maturity. Now, at 65, I know what’s important to me, what my gifts are, what I want to do, and how I want to be with my sons.” During the five-hour surgery, the doctor removed her aorta and its root, fixing her up with Dacron, a polyester textile fiber, and putting a pigskin valve in her heart. She jokes that she’s now “Bionic Babs.” Taking a sip of water, the laughter fades and Colaciello turns pensive, leaning her chin on her open hand and staring off to the right, toward the stage. “I don’t have time to play around. I write stories, but I want them to leave this room.” Daniel A. Brown mail@folioweekly.com ______________________________________ Al Letson’s Chalk is staged 8 p.m. Oct. 19, 20, 26 & 27 at Babs’ Lab, CoRK Arts District North, 603 King St., Riverside; doors 7:30 p.m., $12; barbaracolaciello.com/register/chalkatbabslab

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FOLIO A + E THE MAN WITH

NO PLAN 40 years into a LOW-KEY CAREER, Lyle Lovett still marvels at the magic

hat does it say about America’s attention deficit disorder when an artist as accomplished as Lyle Lovett is still best known for his hairdo—a curly, leaning-tower pompadour—and a brief marriage to Julia Roberts? Then again, maybe it’s easier to understand a maverick musician like Lovett—whose cache of Texas-born tunes runs the gamut from country to jazz to swing to folk to blues and back—when we turn him into a caricature of himself. His voice creaks and groans in the vein of fellow iconoclasts Randy Newman and Townes Van Zandt; his guitar lines swoop and shimmy like fellow expert pickers Ray Benson and Willie Nelson; and his wry wit knifes through the cookie-cutter country scene like fellow outlaws Steve Earle and Dale Watson. Lovett, like all the aforementioned artists, is Texas through and through, a Lone Star original still firmly occupying the same artistic ground where he was birthed in the ’70s, when he started playing coffeehouses and local bars in College Station as a Texas A&M Aggie. “I have no idea [how I got here],” Lovett told NBC’s The Drink in August. “It really is amazing. Doing something that you love to do can turn into your life. I didn’t plan it.” Since 1986, every single one of his albums has been released in conjunction with his original label, Curb Records—though 2012’s Release Me represented the final fulfillment of his contract with the iconic country label. Echoing Lovett’s ironic humor, it even featured cover art depicting him tied up in rope; in a famous Esquire interview Lovett gave that year, he said, “My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. A record company doesn’t keep you because they like you. They keep you because you make them money.” Perhaps it was Lovett’s eccentric upbringing that made him view fame from a pragmatic

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p perspective. Both his parents worked for Exxon, b had him in guitar, choir, tap and ballet but le lessons by age four. Lyle grew up working his g great-great-grandfather’s farm, and even though h has four Grammys and six gold records to his he c credit, Lovett still lives on the family plot of land, h helping his uncle raise cows and breed horses. Ju last month, he told Billboard Magazine, Just “B “Being in tune with your horse is absolutely a analogous to becoming part of your instrument. Through feel, you’re able to help your horse do the things you want it to do. Likewise, you’re able to play notes in an expressive way, not in a mechanical way, where you have to think about it.” The best part of horsemanship, Lovett added with his trademark Texas wit, “[At shows,] I’m not a novelty. I’m just a guy with a horse. No one asks about music.” At this point, no one much asks about Lovett’s acting career, which began in 1992 when legendary director Robert Altman cast him in The Player. Lovett met Roberts on set, and the two fell hard for each other, eloping after only three weeks and generating classic tabloid headlines like “Pretty Woman Marries Ugly Man.” Less than two years later, the couple divorced, though the two stars are reportedly still friends. In her 1998 film Stepmom, Roberts even sang “If I Needed You,” a break-your-heart Townes Van Zandt ballad Lovett recorded and released the same year. Earlier this year, Lovett married longtime girlfriend April Kimble—to much less tabloid fanfare. Since The Player, Lovett has appeared in 10 more films, including three of Altman’s, and a handful of TV shows. He’s also written and performed tunes for The Crying Game, Toy Story, Deadwood and True Blood. And he even made his stage debut in a 2010 Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles production of Much Ado About Nothing, playing Balthazar. And he pen several new compositions for the modern-day adaptation. Cementing his low-key rep, Lovett told Garden & Gun he relishes the relative anonymity of acting: “With my music, I’m responsible for everything … When I act, I get to be a guy in the band. I just show up and do something very specific.”

FILM Director Xavier Gens ARTS Lily Kuonen & Tonya D. Lee ARTS Myra Oh LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CALENDAR

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This tour has Lovett trading out the tour format of his 14-piece “Large Band” to walk an alternate path he’s enjoyed immensely the last five years: harking back to his roots by playing intimate acoustic sets with fellow underrated America troubadour John Hiatt. Maybe it’s Lyle’s way of slipping quietly into that good musical night—or maybe it’s a perfect distillation of Lovett v3.0 after the ascendant ’70s and ’80s and mainstream-courting ’90s and ’00s. Either way, the ever-erudite Lovett is clearly in it for the long haul. “I started getting questions about retirement when I was about 55 years old, and I thought to myself, ‘If retiring is having enough time to just do things you love to do, then I’ve been retired my whole life’,” he told Iowa’s Little Village last fall. “I don’t see any need to retire from doing something I would want to do anyway.” Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

An Acoustic Evening with LYLE LOVETT & JOHN HIATT

8 p.m. Oct. 24, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $35-$65, 355-2787

FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS TER TE ERN RNS RNS

THE END OF THE

WORLD AS WE

KNOW IT …and NOTHING is Fine

fter Dark Horrorfest was an annual U.S. festival that ran from 2006-2015, featuring original films that were subsequently released to home video. The 2007 offerings included Frontier(s), the first feature by French filmmaker Xavier Gens, which was pulled from the festival after it was slapped with an NC-17 rating (it was subsequently released in theaters). However, Frontier(s) was included with the group of annual releases. I saw it, and never forgot it. Since then, director Gens had his first American film release with Hitman starring Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood & Justified), a violent thriller based on a video game. Though Gens did not have another big-screen film until 2011’s The Divide, he currently has two films scheduled for release: The Crucifixion and Cold Skin. His films are not to everyone’s taste and The Divide in particular was negatively received by many reviewers, but he is no hack. Often unsettling, yes, but that’s the nature of his specialty. A Gallic riff on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the opening titles of Frontier(s) feature a close-up of a sonogram. A speaker identifies herself as Yasmine, three months pregnant. “One day, someone said: Men are born free with equal rights. The world in which I live is the opposite. Who would want to be born to grow in the chaos and the hate?” she asks. Then we have a close-up of the young woman announcing that she does not intend to have the child, followed by a quick cut revealing her face covered in blood. Amid political riots, four young Parisians find themselves on the run after a robbery. Splitting up after agreeing to meet somewhere in the north (the frontier of the title), Tom (David Saracino) and Farid (Chems Dahmani) find themselves at a remote homestead. They soon wish they hadn’t. Yasmine (Karina Testa) and Alex (Aurélien Wiik), the father of her unborn child, arrive a bit later in the night, with the same quick regrets. The family, it turns out, are vicious Nazi cannibals. Presided over by a terrifying father (Jean-Pierre Jorris), replete with starched uninform and Luger, the clan includes a hulking butcher, two “normallooking” brothers, a couple of women who might be sisters and one abductee who has become the family breeder. Her children prowl the cellars. Obsessed with “pure blood” as a means of strengthening the line, “Father” welcomes the pregnant Yasmine into their brood, while her companions become hors d’oeuvres. The second half of the film focuses on Yasmine’s struggles to escape. Gruesome and graphic, Frontier(s) is more than just exploitation: It’s not hard to detect the political/social context that makes the grotesque human monsters the allegorical embodiment of fascism.

Frontier(s) is also unrelenting in its depiction of the barbarity and savagery of the human animal, and far bleaker than most such films. Testa as Yasmine is put through the wringer—her hair is slashed off and she is alternately coated in mud and blood. Like Marilyn Burns in the original Chainsaw Massacre, Yasmine is a gutsy survivor, the film’s only beacon of shell-shocked hope at the end of the film. The Divide is even grimmer and more realistic. No nutso Nazis cannibals here, just a bunch of ordinary folks trying desperately to survive. Like Frontier(s), whose opening featured a close-up of the female protagonist, The Divide begins with a close-up of Eva (Lauren German) staring out the window of a Manhattan high-rise as the city skyscrapers—reflected in her eyes— begin to explode and burn, the results of a nuclear war. Together with eight other former residents, Eva and her boyfriend/husband make it through a crowd and into the basement where the building’s janitor and maintenance man (Michael Biehn) has been planning for just such an event. There they all stay growing ever more vicious and depraved, denizens of this underground hell who mirror the wasteland above. As he did in Frontier(s), the director puts his gutsy cast through what must have been a meat grinder of a shoot. Roseanna Arquette, playing a mother who goes off the deep end when her child is taken from her, is horrifically brutalized. In turn, the brutes (played by Milo Ventimiglia and Ashton Holmes) end up shaving their heads like Yasmine, and Holmes is shown wearing a filthy slip as all restraints and basic humanity collapse. Unlike other apocalyptic films (like those of Roland Emmerich), Xavier Gens does not make the end of the world fun to watch, but it does remain very compelling to do so. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ The King’s Choice (in Norwegian, German, Danish and Swedish) and Rebel in the Rye run through Oct. 26; Throwback Thursday runs Little Shop of Horrors at noon Oct. 19 and 4 p.m. Oct. 22; Divest and Sonic Sea run 7 p.m. Oct. 20; Foster Shock noon Oct. 21. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. SUN-RAY CINEMA Columbus and Lucky run through Oct. 17; Blade Runner 2049 continues; and The Snowman starts Oct. 20. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. IMAX THEATER Blade Runner 2049 through Oct. 19; Amazing Mighty Micro Monsters, Amazon Adventure, Dream Big Engineering Our World and Walking With Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet through Oct. 27; and Geostorm opens Oct. 19. World Golf Village, 940-4133, woldgolfimax.com.

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AL LETSON IN DIALOGUE The writer and poet performs work from his repertoire, tells stories, and possibly previews a new piece. 7 & 10 p.m. Oct. 21 at Bab’s Lab, CoRK Arts District North, 603 King St., Riverside, $35, barbaracolaciello.com. LONELY PLANET A map store owner has a close friendship with a younger man as both face the beginning of the AIDS crisis, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19, 20 & 21; 2 p.m. Oct. 21 at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2245 San Diego Rd., 346-5620, datheatreboosters.org. BROADWAY’S NEXT HIT MUSICAL The music, humor and audience participation is an unscripted theatrical awards show, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $34, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com. THE MONOLOGUE SHOW FROM H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS Everything that can go wrong will in this collection of tall tales. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 & 21 at Amelia Musical Theatre, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina, $10, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. THE ADDAMS FAMILY In this ghoulish clan, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of dreams; through Nov. 12 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$57, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL Zombies and music merge, 8 p.m. Oct. 20, 21 & 27, midnight Oct. 21 & 28 at The 5 & Dime a Theatre Company, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, $22, the5anddime.org. THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre unites science and social commentary in this strangely affecting play about a widow and her daughters, 8 p.m. Oct. 20, 21, 27 & 28; Nov. 3 & 4; 2 p.m. Oct. 29 & Nov. 5 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., $20, abettheatre.com. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE A chilling study in mounting terror; several “psychically receptive” people are brought together, based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 book. Mounted 8 p.m. Oct. 20, 21, 27 & 28; 3 p.m. Oct. 22 & 29; 8 p.m. Oct. 31 at Orange Park Community Theatre, 2900 Moody Ave., 276-2599, $18-$25, opct.info. CHALK Written by favorite son Al Letson, the play about the repercussions of bullying, directed by Babs Colaciello, runs 8 p.m. Oct. 19, 20, 26 & 27 at Bab’s Lab, 603 King St., Riverside, $15, barbaracolaciello.com. ANY BODY FOR TEA Dinner and a funny, fast-paced murder-comedy, 6:15 p.m. Oct. 20 at The Golf Club of Amelia Island, 4700 Amelia Island Pkwy., $100, ameliaislandbookfestival.org.

CLASSICAL + JAZZ

NULL-STATE [WHITING/CHUA] Plays 7-9 p.m. Oct. 18 at SoLo Gallery, 1037 Park St. (Hoptinger Building, second floor), $10, sologallery.org. SYMPHONY IN 60, CZECHMATE The musical moods of Bohemia echo throughout this program, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19, 11 a.m. Oct. 20 & 21 (coffee with Conductor Courtney Lewis and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston) at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., 354-5547, $19-$79, jaxsymphony.org. DREW TUCKER, SHAUN MARTIN Vibraphonist Tucker and pianist Martin perform, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at University of North Florida’s Fine Arts Center, Southside, $5 adults, students free, 620-2961, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. BRASIL GUITAR DUO The duo performs a technically adroit and musically moving repertoire, including tradition Brazilian music, 8 p.m. Oct. 20 at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1100 Stockton St., Riverside, $25, riversidefinearts.org. IF IT AIN’T BAROQUE The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus stages a fall concert with Renaissance/Baroque vocalists and instrumentalists Echoing Air, 3 p.m. Oct. 21 at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church, 4001 Hendricks Ave., $20, jaxchildrenschorus.org. BACHTOBERFEST Jacksonville Symphony celebrates all things “Bach”-like, 8 p.m. Oct. 21 & 22; 3 p.m. Oct. 23 at T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 354-5547, $22-$62, jaxsymphony.org. THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS The singers travel worldwide continuing a tradition started in 1871, which introduced ‘slave songs,’ instrumental in preserving the American musical style of Negro spirituals. They perform 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 465 11th Ave. N., Jax Beach, free, 270-1771, beachesfinearts.org. WEBER & BRAHMS Florida Chamber Music Project performs 8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $25, pvconcerthall.com. PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE CONCERT Dr. Andrea Venet conducts, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, $5 adults, students free, 620-2961. FIRST COAST WIND SYMPHONY The symphony performs with Les Philharmonistes Des Pays De Vaucluse, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. THE MUSIC OF HOWARD HANSON The JU Orchestra performs, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at Terry Concert Hall, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.

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THE CALIDORE STRING QUARTET “Deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct,” says The New York Times. The quartet performs 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, free, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com. DAVE STEINMEYER: A LEGEND SALUTES THE LEGENDS The trombonist performs 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29 at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, Southside, $8-$15, 620-2961.

COMEDY

JOHN WITHERSPOON Witherspoon is on 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Oct. 20 & 21 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $22.50-$27.50, comedyzone.com FRED’S ALL-STAR COMEDIANS A mix of local and upcoming comics are on 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 & 24 at The Comedy Zone, $10, 292-4242, comedyzone.com. JAX SHORT FILM AWARDS & COMEDY SHOW The winners are announced, followed by a comedy show, 7 p.m. Oct. 19 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $20-$30, jacksonvillecomedy.com. TERRY HARRIS The bad boy of comedy is on 8 p.m. Oct. 20 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 646-4277, $17-$40, jacksonvillecomedy.com. STEVE WANNAMAKER This funnyman takes the stage 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 646-4277, $25-$40, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL CALL FOR ARTISTS The 52nd annual St. Augustine festival features painters, glassblowers, potters, fiber artists, photographer, jewelers and more; staugustineartfestival.com. ABET AUDITIONS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre auditions for its January production of The Clean House, noon Oct. 22 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., 249-7177, abettheatre.com. ARTS ON DOUGLAS A division of the Atlantic Center for the Arts is accepting submissions to Small Things Considered, an annual year-end art exhibit of works 10”x10” or smaller. Deadline is Oct. 21; notification Oct. 28; artsondouglas.net.

ART WALKS + MARKETS

NORTH BEACHES ART WALK The galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open 5-9 p.m. Oct. 19, from Sailfish Drive to Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw.org. AVONDALE ART WALK Browse more than 70 local artists and makers, locally owned shops, boutiques and retail shops with extended hours. Held the second Thur. each month on St. Johns Avenue between Talbot and Dancy, avondaleartwalk.com. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Musicians play 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 21 under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu. Artist-in-residence Jamaal Saber is on the gallery grounds through Oct. 20. Artist Gamaliel Rodriguez’s exhibit, A Third Way to Look at You through Oct. 20. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Poetry of Landscape: the Art of Eugene Louis Chavot, through Oct. 22. A Collector’s Eye: Celebrating Joseph Jeffers Dodge, and Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection, through Feb. 4. Bijoux Parisiens: French Jewelry from the Petit Palais, Paris is open. Todd McGrain: The Lost Bird Project runs through Oct. 21, 2018. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992. 10 Years of Monsters & Mayhem, Jerrod Brown’s unsettling works, displays 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. Margaret Ross Tolbert: Lost Springs through December. Call & Response, selections from MOCAJax’s permanent collection, shows Oct. 20-April 1; an opening reception for members is 6-9 p.m. Oct. 20. MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Rd., mandarinmuseum.net. Exhibits include Civil War era artifacts recovered from the Union steamship Maple Leaf, items related to Harriet Beecher Stowe, a World War I exhibit, and displays related to the only remaining one-room schoolhouse in Duval County. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-MOSH, themosh.org. Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers! shows artifacts and ancient technology reconstructed with designs from the height of the Roman Empire; through December. Monsters in Space, an exploration of cosmic phenomena, 7 p.m. Oct. 20, members free, $8 nonmembers. THE RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010. Making Do: The African & Gullah GeeChee Connection through Jan. 12. VILLA ZORAYDA 83 King St., St. Augustine, villazorayda. com. Steve Anderson’s works exhibit through Oct. 29.

GALLERIES

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA UNF Gallery of Art, 620-2534, unf.edu/gallery. See who’s teaching the artists of tomorrow, at the annual Faculty Exhibition, Oct. 19-Dec. 8.

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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA UNF Gallery of Art, 620-2534, unf.edu/gallery. See who’s teaching the artists of tomorrow, at the annual Faculty Exhibition, Oct. 19-Dec. 8.

ARTS + EVENTS BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, SAN MARCO 1905 Hendricks Ave. Dustin Harewood’s and Hiromi Moneyhun’s new works, through November, opening reception 7 p.m. Oct. 21, dustinharewood.com. ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, arts.ju.edu. Alan Skees, American Glitch: Neo-Regionalism through October. 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. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, ccpvb.org. Penumbra: The Space between Light & Dark, works by Julianne French, Debra Mixon Holiday and Masha Sardari, in the Main Gallery; works by Jacksonville Coalition of Visual Artists in Scene Gallery, both up until Nov. 3. Jacksonville Watercolor Society presents artist Margaret Roseman 7 p.m. Oct. 24, free. FSCJ’S KENT CAMPUS GALLERY 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside. Indirect Constructs: New Works by Tonya D. Lee and Lily Kuonen through Nov. 14; an opening reception is 6 p.m. Oct. 24. FLORIDA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS St. Johns River State College, 50001 St. Johns Ave., Palatka, floarts.org. The Indiscriminate Beauty of Riff Raff, digital photography by Mozart Dedeaux, through Nov. 30. GALLERY 1037 Inside Reddi Arts, 1037 Hendricks Ave., San Marco. Robert Hall and Enzo Torcoletti exhibit through October. MAKERSPACE GALLERY Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org/jaxmakerspace. Survive to Thrive: Life Beyond Sexual Violence through Oct. 22. MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, 217-0637, monyarowe.com. Group Exhibition through Nov. 12. PLUM GALLERY 9 Aviles St., St. Augustine, plumgallery.com. Sharon Goldman’s The Colors of Water, through October. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, southlightgallery.com. Kevin Arthur is October’s guest artist. SPACE 42 2670 Phyllis St., Riverside, 888-421-9222, spacefortytwo.com. “Candy” The Land of Donks, photos by Malc Jax, Andre Burgess, Esdras “Phototea” Thelusuma and Aaron J. Jackson display; by appointment through October. STELLERS GALLERY 3139 Philips Hwy., Southside, 396-9492. Southern Grown, an exhibit of works by artists living and working in the South, through October. THE SPACE GALLERY 120 E. Forsyth St., 651-9039. On Being: Kevin Arthur, Jason John, Christina Mastrangelo and Jeff Whipple, through Nov. 24. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. Fall Members Show and Aftermath: The Healing Power of Art, works created in response to Hurricane Matthew, run though Oct. 29. THE YELLOW HOUSE, CORK NORTH & BAB’S LAB 577 King St., Riverside, 419-9180, yellowhouseart.org. and someone gets lost along the way, a group show of works inspired by Al Letson’s Chalk, a play about bullying, is up through October.

EVENTS

OKTOBERFEST 5 POINTS Go to Riverside’s 5 Points and pretend 5 Points is really a tiny hamlet in rural Germany as you heft a hefeweizen and make lewd sausage jokes with your friends, noon-10 p.m. Oct. 21. KAYAK TRIP AT MOULTRIE CREEK A paddle of the marsh along Moultrie Creek shows the ecosystem and the animals that live there; 10 a.m. Oct. 23, free, to register, call 209-0335. senoiRITAs A three-day double tennis tournament to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research; kickoff party Oct. 18 at Pusser’s, 816 N. A1A, Ponte Vedra, $25; first round of play is 8 a.m. Oct. 20 at Sawgrass Country Club; through Oct. 22; he-rita-foundation.org/senioritas. A CLASSIC THEATRE HOSTS GATHERING Rescheduled annual gathering and info on the upcoming season, 6:30 p.m. at the Art Studio, 370 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, aclassictheatre.org. RUTH COE CHAMBERS Chambers reads from and signs copies of her newest book, House on the Forgotten Coast, 7 p.m. Oct. 19 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026. SUMMER’S END SOIREE & GALA Nassau County Council on Aging celebrates the summer that just passed, 6-10 p.m. Oct. 20 at Omni Amelia Island Plantation, 39 Beach Lagoon Rd., $100, nassaucountycouncilonaging.com. HAVANA NIGHTS Authentic Cuban cuisine, cocktails, silent auction, music and live entertainment, 6-10 p.m. Oct. 21 at Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, 50 Executive Way, ccpvb.org. STORIES OF HOME NEIGHBORHOOD WRITING CIRCLE A collection of the tales that make historic homes special, 10 a.m. Oct. 21 at 2623 Herschel St., free, womenwritingjacksonville.com. JAX RECORD & CD FESTIVAL That CD Guy offers more than 50 tables of records, CDs, tapes, T-shirts, tie-dye, posters, memorabilia, stereo stuff, guitars and necessities, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 21 at UNF’s University Center, Southside, free. JACKSONVILLE FALL FESTIVAL Two days of competitive hunter jumper events; varied entry fees, Oct. 21-24 at the Equestrian Center, 13611 Normandy Blvd., Westside, 573-4895, jaxequestriancenter.com. D.A. FIELD Field reads from and signs copies of his fastpaced thriller Blood Memory Society, 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026. THE WIZARD OF OZ SENSORY-FRIENDLY SCREENING Family-friendly, with reduced noise levels, no flashing

lights and other adjustments, 2 p.m. Oct. 22 at The Florida Theatre, $10, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com. SCULPTURE WALK Dr. Jenny Hager and Lance Vickery open a sculpture park in Klutho Park in Springfield. The installation is Oct. 27 and 28. LOCAL WRITERS LAUNCH LITERARY ADVENTURE Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos, Stanton College Prep grads who went to New York City for writing careers, return to town to launch The Adventurers Guild, a tale of magic, monsters and mystery. A reading and book signing is 5 p.m. Oct. 28 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026. AN EVENING WITH COURTNEY LEWIS Lewis shares the details of the 2017-’18 Jacksonville Symphony season and takes questions. Ponte Vedra Library, 101 Library Blvd., 827-6950, free, sjcpls.org. BOOK OF ISAIAH HALLOWEEN LAUNCH PARTY Written by Tim Gilmore, The Book of Isaiah is the first book about Isaiah Hart, founder of Jacksonville. It’s the first of Gilmore’s books to include a soundtrack. There’s a big party, too; 8 p.m. Oct. 28 at 1037 Park St., $15 advance/$25 door, 904tix.com.

HALLOWEEN EVENTS

HARRY POTTER HALLOWEEN MAGIC A magic show, with magician Mark Alan, celebrates J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, 2:45-3:45 p.m. Oct. 18 at Anastasia Island Branch Library, 124 Sea Grove Main St., St. Augustine Beach, 209-3730, sjcfl.us. Kids and caregivers can dress up. Alan also performs 4:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at Bartram Trail Branch, 60 Davis Pond Blvd., Fruit Cove, 827-6960, sjcfl.us. WAREHOUSE 31 UNLEASHED These very scary haunted houses—Boss Bobo’s Carnival, The Swamp, Mr. Tasty’s Meat Factory, The Fear Lab—are open 7 p.m.-mid. Oct. 1922, 26-29; Nov. 2-4 at 11262 Beach Blvd., Southside; fast pass $10; four haunts Thur. & Sun. $25; four haunts Fri. & Sat. $30; 833-904-3327, warehouse31unleashed.com. HAUNT NIGHTS HAUNTED HOUSES Four haunted houses—Apocalypse Clown 3D Takeover, Pinehurst Asylum, Containment, Descent—are open 7-10 p.m. Oct. 19, 22, 26; 7-11 p.m. Oct. 20, 21, 29, 30 & 31; 7 p.m.-mid. Oct. 27 & 28 at Adventure Landing, 1944 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach; fast pass $10; all haunts $26.99; 246-4386, hauntnights.com. THE HAUNTED BREWERY ZOMBIE HUNT Zombies and zombie-hunters take over Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Oct. 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 111 Busch Dr., Northside, $10-$179, thehauntedbrewery.com. SPOOKTACULAR The annual Spooktacular is held 6:30-10 p.m. Oct. 20-22 and 27-31 at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens, 370 Zoo Pkwy., Jacksonville. The Pumpkin Patch, Wizard of Oz, fall festivities, food, animal exhibits, Candy Trail and three scare zones are featured. Admission is $8 for members, $10 for nonmembers; 757-4463, spooktacular. jacksonvillezoo.org. BOOK CLUB: MAGNUS CHASE Teen Girls Book Club reads and discusses Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase / The Ship of the Dead, 3 p.m. Oct. 20 & 27, Nov. 3 & 10 at Anastasia Island Branch Library, 124 Sea Grove Main St., St. Augustine Beach, 209-3730, sjcfl.us. Books provided by Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 10 students who sign up. Sign up online or email njebbia@sjcfl.us. SUPERNATURAL SLEEPOVER WITH THE ELEMENTS OF MOSH Creepy cocktail hour, a TacoLu buffet, scavenger hunt and open bar are featured. Dr. Jennifer Dierksen, Jacksonville associate medical director, discusses working with the dead. Planetarium director Ed Whisler presents Monsters in Space. 8 p.m. Oct. 20-8 a.m. Oct. 21 at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank; members $60, nonmembers $75; 21 years old and older only; 396-6684, themosh.org. HALLOWEEN DOORS & MORE The 13th annual benefit, with Fantasy Doors, Superhero City, The Island Adventure, Monster Mash Dash, Scooby Doo Disco and Jaxson de Ville, is held 2-7 p.m. Oct. 21, Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall, 510 Fairgrounds Place, Downtown, 268-5200; $100 adult, $50 child ages 2-12; kids under 2 free; proceeds benefit Community PedsCare programs; communityhospice.com. WIZARDS, WITCHES & WARLOCKS A Night at the Leaky Cauldron Masquerade Ball, 9 p.m. Oct. 21 at The Hourglass Pub & Coffee House, 345 E. Bay St., Downtown. ALCATRAZ THE UNTOLD STORY Isle of Lost Souls, 8 p.m. Oct. 28, 29 and 31 at 7830 Normandy Blvd., Westside, 800-8452, free, alcatraz.arenajax.com. THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL Two acres of terror! And a legit haunted historical building; Fri. & Sat. nights through Oct. 28 at 13535 W. Beaver St., Westside, ostjax.com. MURRAY HILL-O-WEEN A Halloween party and parade are held 4-10 p.m. (parade 7 p.m.) Oct. 29, with live music, food trucks, costume contest, kids’ stuff, floats, puppets, bands. Block party Post to Kerle streets; parade starts in the 900 block of Edgewood Avenue. murrayhilljax.com. LIBRARY TRICK OR TREAT Walk a spooky hallway, play a game for a trick and get a treat on the way out, 5:307:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at Anastasia Island Branch Library, St. Augustine Beach, 209-3730, sjcfl.us. GUSTO’S HALLOWEEN PARTY The third annual costume party, with a buffet, cash bar and live music by Boogie Freaks, is 5-11:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at Gusto, 1266 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 372-9925, $10-$30, gustojax.com. NIGHT TERRORS HAUNTED HOUSE With three bloodchilling walk-through attractions, it feels like being in a horror film! Through Oct. 31 at 11740 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 315-8590.

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FOLIO A+E : ARTS LEFT: Lily Kuonen, Sound, gouache, acrylic, graphite, and baking soda on raw canvas, 10.5 in. x 20.5 in., 2017. BELOW LEFT: Tonya D. Lee, Untitled, oil on canvas, 38 in. x 26 in., 2017.

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CORE Tonya D. Lee and Lily Kuonen present a UNIFIED FIELD of engaging work in two-person exhibit

ontemplating Nonduality is a cognitive bomb. In Western philosophy, the intellectual understanding of dualities (subject/object, cause/effect, etc.) can be seen as philosophically necessary. It’s an intellectual tension explored for release. Yet in the Eastern wisdom tradition of Advaita Vedanta— Advaita in Sanskrit, literally “not two”— Nonduality is its own kind of release, where the self/object is one and the same; the highest metaphysical reality. This theory of Oneness in visual art becomes even slippier. Process artists explore outright this shared or distant relationship between artist and the actual art; the result isn’t necessarily the goal, but rather the experience of its creation. Conceptual art is arguably the same as the artist it’s born from; the idea sovereign over all aesthetic, process, materials—even expression. Abstract and non-representational art also arguably toe the Nonduality line. While much abstract art departs from reality in its depiction of all being, it can also be viewed as unique, unifying with absolute reality, albeit through an inventive, and highly subjective, perspective. The final position of Nonduality in visual art is the actual experience of viewing any art. When a certain piece or visual experience “draws the viewer in” to the point of being mesmerized and humbled, isn’t that ephemeral moment based on Nonduality—art and audience now as one? In their upcoming exhibit, Indirect Constructs, artists Tonya D. Lee and Lily Kuonen present new works that address this nondualism of visual art, yet with distinct visions. Lee works in 2D, creating multimedia abstract works. In her pieces, mists of languid color meet crackling energy. Grid-like motifs and tourniquets of paint both restraining and directing the composition on the plane, creating a “burst” effect of several images in one, quickly frozen. “I make nonobjective work deeply rooted in the historical painting aesthetics of Les Nabis and Post-

Impressionism,” says Lee. “I’m concerned with form and color existing as object and subject, while exploring the aesthetic oppositions of rigidity and gesture.” Kuonen creates 2D and 3D pieces, a hybrid of painting, sculptural and installation-fueled work she calls PLAYNTINGS. Repurposed items ranging from highway road cones, adhesive tape, cinder blocks and sawdust are elements in Kuonen’s savvy arrangement of what may seem incongruent materials into wholly engaging visual art. “PLAYNTINGS is a selfprescribed moniker that describes my studio practice and philosophy for making (PLAY + PAINTING). I combine painting with additional forms, materials, surfaces and actions to create hybrid works that are part painting, drawing and constructed elements,” offers Kuonen. “These works rely on an optical interplay of media that often moves easily in between abstraction and nonobjective qualities.” The title of the show was the brainchild of Mark Creegan who, with fellow artisteducator Dustin Harewood, curates the campus gallery. Lee and Kuonen offer their definitions of the enigmatically named exhibit. “I believe we were selected because many aspects of our practice resonate,” says Kuonen. “For example, we both typically utilize layered fields within our drawings and paintings.” Lee says her invitation may be based on her “themes that run throughout” her work. “My compositions are derived from a convoluted process which includes onsite nonobjective sketches, digital collaging and traditional painting,” Lee says. “So the path to creating a finished composition can be rather indirect.” Whether the work has narrative may depend on whether it’s representational, nonrepresentational or a blurry hybrid. As Kuonen’s work is dictated by materials, one could argue the media is the story. “In recent shows, I’ve found myself in a process of making some big leaps visually in my work, and then

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finding ways to make more work that … ‘connects’ in between those bigger jumps,” says Kuonen, citing a recent show at South Carolina’s McMaster Gallery, featuring 40-plus pieces covering ceilings, walls and floors. “I really appreciated seeing the connections between works I make do exist, and can be identified when all grouped together. Especially when what I make can ‘look’ very different, depending on the material choice and form.” Also void of any overt narrative or representational imagery, Lee’s work mines the gap between subject/object; at times filling that space. “There are references to the visual world. However, they’re presented out of context,” she says. “The references range from specific, like the shape of an awning from a Fairfield Porter painting, to general patterning of tile work. I like to think these references give the viewer a sense of kinship. I think that can give the sense the work is representing something specific in the visual world.” Process, chronology and place also come into play with both artists. “I’ve known for some time that the significance of ‘place’ has a big effect on how I develop visual relationships and forms,” says Kuonen, of her PLAYNTINGS, which are in an ever-evolving state. “Lately, though, especially after January 2017, I’ve come to consider place to not represent just physically or geographically where I am, but also signify the temporal time I’m in … what is happening right now in this place/time I live in, and how that affects what I make.” Lee explains being compelled to work in abstraction has its own aesthetic revelations. “I spent many years making quick instinctual nonobjective paintings that dealt with intangible qualities of the sublime in nature. The physicality of that body of work became repetitive and predictable. In shifting my work so it straddles the fence between abstract and nonobjective, I’ve embraced slower processes that restrict impulse and embrace boredom. It’s the slowing down I find compelling—I wouldn’t necessarily say my work is abstract. It is probably closer to nonobjective.” Both artists orbit, then intersect the proverbial Venn diagram of representational and non-representational, objective and nonobjective, process and result. At the very least, Indirect Constructs offers local art lovers a chance to see works by two astute, inventive artists—paired where their art is shown at the gallery where they may first meet—a blind date to join forces, representing two methods of art to celebrate a shared goal of expanding our view of what was once nonrepresentational.

INDIRECT CONSTRUCTS: NEW WORKS BY TONYA D. LEE AND LILY KUONEN Oct. 24-Nov. 14, FSCJ Kent Campus Gallery, Westside, fscj.edu/campuses/kent-campus; opening reception 6-8 p.m. Oct. 24

In their respective examination of nonrepresentational/representational art, there’s a shared cohesion in Lee’s and Kuonen’s confidence in using recognizable materials to draw out new work. Pushing and luring materials in alien directions and nonnarrative ideas and acknowledging the pulses of place and time. Yet for each element—artist, media and process are intrinsically linked—all is mirrored to the deliberate, accidental, even reluctant, unity and Oneness of art. Daniel A. Brown mail@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 18-24, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25

FOLIO A+E : ARTS

Myra Oh, Grimm Tiger, mixed media, 12 in. X 15 in., 2017. Photo by Patrick Ficher

THE PERSISTENCE OF

LINEWORK Tattooist Myra Oh displays new PRINT WORKS

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t’s 1 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon and there is scarcely an available seat inside Bold Bean Coffee Roasters’ Stockton St. location. Understandably so, because inside it’s the first day that Myra Oh’s mixed media linocut prints are displayed on the walls of the coffee shop. It’s also the launch of New Rose Ice Cream, an all vegan small-batch ice cream company of which Oh’s boyfriend, James Siboni, is co-founder. Oh was introduced to the process of printmaking while attending high school in California. She made her first prints in 2001. In 2007, after moving to Jacksonville, she obtained a tattoo apprenticeship with Thomas Asher of Autograf Tattoo, put printmaking aside and dedicated herself completely to learning as much as possible about tattooing and the industry. During her formative years in California, Oh had been involved in the punk rock and hardcore music scene and it was through that community that Oh developed her interest in tattoos. Her desire to become a professional tattoo artist was formed when she was 16 years old. Oh began studying the fundamentals of American traditional tattooing, which utilized a limited, yet highly effective, color pallet with a strong foundation of black shading. Today she is an in-demand tattoo artist at Diadem Tattoo in Orange Park. In 2014, Oh resumed printmaking. This is her first time creating and exhibiting a full series of linocuts. Oh prefers linocut to woodblock prints because of the bold lines that she is able to achieve—linocuts are made from linoleum

blocks—they are often easier to cut and get very crisp results from. It is fitting for Oh to unveil her first series of linocuts at Bold Bean, because boldness has been consistently present throughout her career– in her watercolor paintings and the tattoos that she creates. This series of prints highlight how the artist merges the first medium she worked in with the medium that she is most known for. Her prints are derivative of the tattoos that she designs; they cull from images iconic to the tattoo industry—snakes, wolves, flowers and tigers—as well as Oh’s tombstones-images, often embellished with sentiments like “Let there be night” and “Forget me not,” which have become so popular that they almost serve as her calling card. Over the course of her 10-year career as a tattooist, Oh has done a remarkable job creating an aesthetic that is identifiable to her, and that aesthetic is conveyed in her prints. But in 2014—when Oh returned to printmaking— she further honed her particular tattooing style, finding ways to make a maximum impact through limited embellishments, largely working in black and gray. As she refines her craft, Oh remains committed to challenging herself on her artistic journey. In 2016, she told the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, “One thing I’ve learned after all these years is that I will always love producing art, but I will never be completely satisfied with the art I produce. And that’s fine because I think it’s necessary for growth and progression.” And for those close, curious readers: The black coffee ice cream with chocolate sprinkles and a toasted marshmallow is a strong recommendation to keep a look out for New Rose’s next pop up event (follow their Instagram for announcements). Patrick Fisher mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ MYRA OH’S work displays through December at Bold Bean Coffee Roasters, 869 Stockton St., Riverside, myraoh.com.

Performing chilled-out harmonies with a country/jazz tinge (trust us, it sails), the CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS take the stage Thursday, Oct. 19 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

GOST, DANCE with the DEAD 7 p.m. Oct. 18, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside, $15-$18. IVAN SMITH 6 p.m. Oct. 18, Boondocks Grill & Bar, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove Springs, 406-9497. DJ CAPONE 9:30 p.m. Oct. 18, Cheers Park Avenue, 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855. FERNWAY, CROOKED TEETH, LAST MAN ON EARTH, SANGRIA 7 p.m. Oct. 18, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown $8-$10. SAMANTHA FISH 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $28. JON CLEARY TRIO, SHAWN PFAFFMAN 8 p.m. Oct. 19, 1904 Music Hall, $18-$23. ERNIE EVANS & The FLORIDA STATE BLUEGRASS BAND 6 p.m. Oct. 19, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, raylewispresents.com. JASON EVANS BAND 9:30 p.m. Oct. 19, Cheers Park Avenue. ALEX AFFRONTI 6 p.m. Oct. 19, Boondocks Grill & Bar. The CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS 7 p.m. Oct. 19, PVC Hall, $20-$25. Party in the Pines: KEITH URBAN, MIRANDA LAMBERT, JAKE OWEN, MAREN MORRIS, BROTHERS OSBORNE, EASTON CORBIN, RYAN HURD 2 p.m. Oct. 19-22, Bienville Plantation, White Springs, $60-$175, tent and camper camping available: $50-$275; partyinthepines.com. HEATHER GILLIS BAND 9 p.m. Oct. 19, Surfer the Bar, 200 N. First Street, Jax Beach, 372-9756. PROPENGANJAH 10 p.m. Oct. 20, The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611, $3. SOUTHERN RUKUS, MATT KNOWLES 10 p.m. Oct. 20, Boondocks Grill & Bar. THE REMAINS 7 p.m. Oct. 20, Cheers Park Avenue. The TEMPTATIONS, The FOUR TOPS 8 p.m. Oct. 20, Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $45-$85. Broken Crowns Tour: MATISYAHU, COMMON KINGS, ORPHAN 7 p.m. Oct. 20, PVC Hall, $35.50-$38.50. ONE EYED DOLL, DOLL SKIN 8 p.m. Oct. 20, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $15. TATANKA 8 p.m. Oct. 20, Surfer the Bar. ZAINAB JOHNSON 8 p.m. Oct. 20, Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, $14-$29. BLISTUR 10 p.m. Oct. 20 & 21, Cheers Park Avenue. SISTER INSANE 10 p.m. Oct. 21, The Roadhouse. MORNING FATTY 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21, Surfer the Bar. ROGER THAT 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21, Cheers Park Avenue. HAWK NELSON, BLANCA 7 p.m. Oct. 21, Florida Theatre, $10-$19. CLIFF CORSEY 10 p.m. Oct. 21, Boondocks Grill & Bar. SPOON, MONDO COZMO 8 p.m. Oct. 21, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $30. The AVETT BROTHERS 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $49.50-$82. PJ MORTON, ASH 8 p.m. Oct. 21, Jack Rabbits, $15.

LORDS of ACID, COMBICHRIST, CHRISTIAN DEATH, EN ESCH of KMFDM, WICCID 7 p.m. Oct. 22, Mavericks Live, $25. AFTON 6 p.m. Oct. 22, 1904 Music Hall, $11.75. FOND KISER 4:30 p.m. Oct. 22, Boondocks Grill & Bar. The DEVIL’S CUT 8 p.m. Oct. 22, Jack Rabbits, $8. Florida Chamber Music presents WEBER & BRAHMS 2 p.m. Oct. 22, PVC Hall, $25. MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY 8 p.m. Oct. 23, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222. RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS 6 p.m. Oct. 23, Mudville Music Room. REDFISH RICH 6 p.m. Oct. 24, Boondocks Grill & Bar. LYLE LOVETT, JOHN HIATT 8 p.m. Oct. 24, Florida Theatre, $35-$65. STUMPWATER 7 p.m. Oct. 24, Cheers Park Avenue. TWIZTED, MOONSHINE BANDITS, BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE, WHITNEY PEYTON 8 p.m. Oct. 24, 1904 Music Hall, $25-$30. SANTANA 8 p.m. Oct. 24, Daily’s Place MARTY FARMER 6 p.m. Oct. 25, Boondocks Grill & Bar. GRIFFIN HOUSE 6 p.m. Oct. 25, Mudville Music Room, $25. BROADWAY’S NEXT HIT MUSICAL 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25, Ritz Theatre, $14-$34. KINGS of LEON, DAWES Oct. 25, Daily’s Place DOPE, HED(PE) 6 p.m. Oct. 25, 1904 Music Hall, $17-$20. PUNK ROCK BURLESQUE, IVY LES VIXENS, ANITA NIGHTCAP, JESS A. BELL, MUDTOWN 7 p.m. Oct. 25, Nighthawks

UPCOMING CONCERTS

The FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL Oct. 26, Cheers Park Avenue IVAN SMITH Oct. 26, Boondocks Grill & Bar ANDY MINEO Oct. 26, Mavericks Live DEANA CARTER, SWEET TEA TRIO Oct. 26, PVC Hall Candied Fest: I WAS AFRAID, BOSTON MARRIAGE, TEEN DIVORCE, SECRET STUFF, SAVE FACE, more Oct. 26, 1904 Music Hall MERCYME, RYAN STEVENSON, UNSPOKEN Oct. 26, T-U Center for the Performing Arts KORN AGAIN Oct. 26, Jack Rabbits MDC Oct. 26, Nighthawks GHOSTWITCH Oct. 27, Jack Rabbits TOAD the WET SPROCKET Oct. 27, PVC Hall MOON HOOCH, JACKSON WHALEN Oct. 27, 1904 Music Hall ERIC COLLETTE & BAND, FOND KISER Oct. 27, Boondocks Grill & Bar NO SAINTS Oct. 27, The Roadhouse BRAND NEW Oct. 27, Daily’s Place 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 DWAYNE McGREGOR, CLIFF DORSEY Oct. 28, Boondocks Grill & Bar The MOVIELIFE, IRON CHIC Oct. 28, 1904 Music Hall

DAN BERN Oct. 28, The Original Café Eleven LIVING COLOUR Oct. 28, PVC Hall CASEY JAMES Oct. 28, Jack Rabbits ALPTRAUM Oct. 28, The Roadhouse JIM LAMB Oct. 29, Boondocks Grill & Bar The MAGPIE SALUTE Oct. 29, Florida Theatre The SOCIAL ANIMALS Oct. 29, Jack Rabbits VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & the TRAIN Oct. 29, The Original Café Eleven MICHAEL LAGASSE & FRIENDS Oct. 29, Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre The CATTLEFISH FRITTER Oct. 29, Rain Dogs HARMS WAY Oct. 30, Nighthawks ROCKY HORROR-LIVE Oct. 31-Nov. 11, 1904 Music Hall DWAYNE McGREGOR Oct. 31, Boondocks Grill & Bar The CONVALESCENCE, WINGS DENIED, OBLITERATE, DEATH RATTLE Nov. 1, Jack Rabbits PAUL CONNOR Nov. 1, Boondocks Grill & Bar JOHNNYSWIM Nov. 1, PVC Hall DUBBEST Nov. 2, Surfer the Bar GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Nov. 2, Mudville Music Room MARTY FARMER Nov. 2, Boondocks Grill & Bar TREEHOUSE Nov. 3, Surfer the Bar RESINATED Nov. 3, The Roadhouse GRACE PETTIS Nov. 3, Mudville Music Room ROGER DALTREY, EDGAR WINTER Nov. 3, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOYCE MANOR, WAVVES, CULTURE ABUSE, FRENCH VANILLA Nov. 3, PVC Hall FREDERICK the YOUNGER Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits 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 BLUE OCTOBER Nov. 4, Mavericks Live THE STEEL WOODS Nov. 4, Jack Rabbits BLACKWATER GREASE Nov. 4, The Roadhouse SISTER HAZEL Nov. 4, PVC Hall The WORLD is a BEAUTIFUL PLACE & I AM NO LONGER AFRAID to DIE, ROZWELL, ADJY Nov. 4, Nighthawks SHELBY LYNNE, ALLISON MOORER Nov. 5, PVC Hall PRISONER, DEATHWATCH 97 Nov. 6, Shantytown JETHRO TULL Nov. 7, Daily’s Place NOBUNTU Nov. 7, Ritz Theatre MADI CARR Nov. 7, Mudville Music Room TOUBAB KREWE, LPT Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits The BLACK LILLIES, The DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Nov. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GENITORTURERS Nov. 9, Jack Rabbits RAY WYLIE HUBBARD Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHRIS SMITHER Nov. 10, Mudville Music Room VON STRANTZ, NATIVE LAND Nov. 10, Sarbez SIR CHARLES JONES, TUCKA, POKEY BEAR, TK SOUL, JEFF FLOYD, BISHOP BULLWINKLE Nov. 10, Veterans Memorial Arena

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC TRASHKNIFE, MADHAUS, LA-A, CORRUPTED SAINT Nov. 10, Shantytown BUMPIN’ UGLIES Nov. 10, Jack Rabbits BEN FOLDS Nov. 10, Florida Theatre BON IVER, AERO FLYNN Nov. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SAMMY HAGAR & the CIRCLE (Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham, Vic Johnson), COLLECTIVE SOUL Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre STAYNE THEE ANGEL Nov. 11, Jack Rabbits YOUNG NA$DAK Nov. 11, Mavericks Live CHRIS STAPLETON’S All American Road Show: MARTY STUART, BRENT COBB Nov. 11, Veterans Memorial Arena RUSTY SHINE Nov. 11, The Roadhouse NANASHI, WITHER, DECAY, DISDAIN Nov 11, Shantytown LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, CHRISTINE McVIE Nov. 12, Times-Union Center’s Moran Theater OTTMAR LIEBERT, LUNA NEGRA Nov. 12, PVC Hall BARBWIRE DOLLS, SVETLANAS Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits MICHAEL FUNGE Nov. 12, Culhane’s Irish Pub RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS Nov. 13, Mudville Music Room THE PSYCHEDELIC MONKS Nov. 14, Surfer the Bar BROCCOLI SAMURAI Nov. 15, Jack Rabbits NEW KINGSTON Nov. 15, Surfer the Bar The YOUNG DUBLINERS Nov. 16, The Original Café Eleven WINTERTIME, SWAG HOLLYWOOD Nov. 16, Jack Rabbits SON VOLT Nov. 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre’s Backyard Stage ROY BOOKBINDER Nov. 17, Mudville Music Room TABI P, BAND of SILVER Nov. 17, Jack Rabbits ROGER THAT Nov. 18, The Roadhouse ORDINARY BOYS Nov. 18, 1904 Music Hall MILES ELECTRIC BAND Nov. 18, PVC Hall COLTER WALL Nov. 18, Jack Rabbits ELVIN BISHOP Nov. 19, PVC Hall THE ORIGINAL WAILERS, JAHMEN Nov. 19, Jack Rabbits SLEEP SIGNALS, ELISIUM Nov. 21, Jack Rabbits BLU & EXILE 10th Anniversary: DAS SAVAGE, CHOOSEY, CASHUS KING Nov. 22, Jack Rabbits LEILANI WOLFGRAMM Nov. 22, Surfer the Bar JOHN McLAUGHLIN, JIMMY HERRING (play Mahavisnu Orchestra) Nov. 24, Florida Theatre MIKE SHACKELFORD Nov. 24, Mudville Music Room SUPERVILLANS Nov. 24, The Roadhouse GLAZED, FAZE WAVE, DENVER HALL Nov. 24, Jack Rabbits A MATTER OF HONOR, AXIOM, FIGHT FALL Nov. 25, 1904 Music Hall ELDUB Nov. 25, The Roadhouse HODERA Nov. 25, Rain Dogs DAVE KOZ, PETER WHITE, RICK BRAUN, DAVID BENOIT, MAYHEM, IMMOLATION, BLACK ANVIL Nov. 25, Mavericks Live LINDSEY STIRLING Nov. 25, St. Augustine Amphitheatre LINDA COLE & JAZZ MUSICIANS Nov. 26, Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS Nov. 27, Mudville Music Room AERIAL TRIBE REUNION Nov. 29, Surfer the Bar The BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA Nov. 29, Florida Theatre KEIKO MATSUI, EUGE GROOVE, LINDSEY WEBSTER, ADAM HAWLEY Nov. 29, PVC Hall FLORIDA BRASS QUINTET Nov. 29, Mudville Music Room 98° AT CHRISTMAS Nov. 30, Florida Theatre CAROLINE COTTER Nov. 30, Mudville Music Room The Big Ticket: WALK the MOON, BLEACHERS, ANDREW McMAHON in the WILDERNESS, SAINT MOTEL, NEW POLITICS, MONDO COZMO Dec. 1, Metro Park JJ GREY Dec. 1, Beaches Museum Chapel THE BYESTANSDERS BAND Dec. 1 Monty’s/Shores Liquor DANIELLE NICOLE Dec. 1, Jack Rabbits CHRISTMAS MESSIAH Dec. 2, PVC Hall KANSAS LEFTOVERTURE Dec. 2, Florida Theatre LEROGIE Dec. 2, Jack Rabbits Hip Hop Nutcracker: KURTIS BLOW Dec. 3, Florida Theatre Psychic Warfare Tour: CLUTCH, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, The OBSESSED Dec. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre’s Backyard Stage ALLEN SHAD Dec. 5, Mudville Music Room 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 Inaugural Christmas Caravan Tour: SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS Dec. 8, Ritz Theatre The WERKS, PASSAFIRE, The RIES BROTHERS, BIGFOOT BAREFOOT Dec. 9, Mavericks Live BIRTHDAY BENEFIT Dec. 9, Mudville Music Room RICKIE LEE JONES Dec. 9, PVC Hall R.LUM.R Dec. 10, Jack Rabbits THREE REDNECK TENORS Dec. 10, Thrasher-Horne Center RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS Dec. 11, Mudville Music Room SHOOTER JENNINGS Dec. 12, Jack Rabbits GIN BLOSSOMS Dec. 12, PVC Hall JANET JACKSON Dec. 12, Veterans Memorial Arena OF MONTREAL, CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER’S GENIUS GRANT Dec. 13, Mavericks Live RITTZ, SAM LACHOW, DENVER HALL Dec. 13, Jack Rabbits JOHN PRINE Dec. 13, Florida Theatre BEN HAGGARD Dec. 13, PVC Hall

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SPOON performs the songs that made them the toast of the indie rock scene, Saturday, Oct. 21 at Mavericks Live, Downtown.

The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 14, Veterans Memorial Arena PERPETUAL GROOVE Dec. 14, 1904 Music Hall DAVID RAMIREZ Dec. 14, Jack Rabbits THE FRITZ, GROOVE ORIENT, THE BLEU CATS Dec. 15, 1904 Music Hall 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, PVC Hall TEN TENORS Dec. 20, Florida Theatre JERROD ALLEN, HERE COMES the HERO, KELLY WHITE Dec. 29, Jack Rabbits DONNA the BUFFALO Dec. 29, PVC Hall MIKE SHACKELFORD BAND Dec. 29, Mudville Music Room UNF JAZZ ENSEMBLE I Dec. 30, Mudville Music Room Travel Slideshow Spoken Word Tour: HENRY ROLLINS Jan. 1, PVC Hall BETTYE LAVETTE Jan. 4, PVC Hall Florida Chamber Music Project: BOCCHERINI, PUCCINI, NINO ROTA, WOLF Jan. 7, PVC Hall JACKSON BROWNE, GREG LEISZ Jan. 7, Florida Theatre The ZOMBIES: Odessey and Oracle 50th Anniversary Jan. 12, PVC Hall A TEMPTATIONS REVUE, BO HENDERSON Jan. 13, Ritz Theatre JONNY LANG Jan. 16, Florida Theatre BLACK VIOLIN Jan. 27, PVC Hall Take Me to the River: WILLIAM BELL, BOBBY RUSH, DON BRYANT Jan. 30, Florida Theatre JOE SATRIANI, PHIL COLLEN, JOHN PETRUCCI Jan. 31, Florida Theatre MARY WILSON (The Supremes) Feb. 3, Ritz Theatre JAKE SHIMABUKURO Feb. 6, PVC Hall JOHN McCUTCHEON Feb. 8, PVC Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND Feb. 10, Florida Theatre The LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT Feb. 10, Ritz Theatre BLUES TRAVELER Feb. 11, Florida Theater The HOT SARDINES Feb. 13, Florida Theatre BOTTLE ROCKETS, CHUCK PROPHET & the MISSION EXPRESS Feb. 16, PVC Hall SIERRA HULL Feb. 17, PVC Hall DANIEL O’DONNELL Feb. 17, Florida Theatre COLIN QUINN Feb. 18, PVC Hall GEORGE WINSTON Feb. 23, PVC Hall THE WEEPIES Feb 24, PVC Hall An Evening with MAVIS STAPLES Feb. 25, PVC Hall MICHAEL McDONALD Feb. 27, Florida Theatre JOHN HAMMOND March 3, PVC Hall JUSTIN MOORE, DYLAN SCOTT March 3, St. Augustine Amphitheatre RAGLAND March 3, Jack Rabbits TIERNEY SUTTON BAND March 4, Ritz Theatre ANA POPOVIC March 7, PVC Hall EMMET CAHILL, DUBLIN CITY RAMBLERS, SEVEN NATIONS, RATHKELTAIR, EMISH, ALBANNACH, ENTER the HAGGIS, STEEL CITY ROVERS, HOUSE OF HAMILL March 9-11, Francis Field, St. Augustine GET the LED OUT March 16, Florida Theatre ALICE COOPER March 18, Florida Theater MIKE + the MECHANICS March 21, PVC Hall STEEP CANYON RANGERS March 22, Florida Theatre THREE DOG NIGHT, The LORDS of 52ND STREET March 25, Florida Theatre LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III March 30, PVC Hall UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER March 30, Jack Rabbits CHRIS BOTTI April 13, Florida Theatre BRUCE COCKBURN April 19, PVC Hall BLACK JACKET SYMPHONY: Sgt. Pepper’s 50th Anniversary Tour April 27, Florida Theatre LITTLE BIG TOWN, KACEY MUSGRAVES, MIDLAND May 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOE BONAMASSA May 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DON McLEAN July 27, PVC Hall

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA

LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. THE SALTY PELICAN, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811 Dan Voll & Michelle 4:30 p.m. Oct. 22 SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 Pili Pili Oct. 18. Tad Jennings Oct. 19. Chase Fouraker 2 p.m., Reggae SWAT Team 7 p.m. Oct. 21. JC & Mike, 7 Street Band Oct. 22. Cassidy Lee 6 p.m. Oct. 23. Mark O’Quinn Oct. 24 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Katfish Lee Oct. 18 & 19. Whiskey Heart 6 p.m. Oct. 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.

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. Oct. 20. Open mic 7 p.m. every Thur. ATLANTIC BEACH BREWING COMPANY, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 3 & 15, Atlantic Beach, 372-4116 Sol Rydah 8 p.m. Oct. 21 BLUE JAY Listening Room, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 NW Izzard 7 p.m. Oct. 19. Corey Kilgannon 8 p.m. Oct. 21. Bear & Robert 7 p.m. Oct. 24 BLUE WATER DAIQUIRI & OYSTER BAR, 205 N. First St., 249-0083 Once a Month Punk: Scatter Brains, Loose Bearings Oct. 19. Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. Oct. 18 THE CORNER, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Dixie Rodeo, Tamara Colonna 7 p.m. Oct. 21 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 Oct. 19. J Crew 10 p.m. Oct. 20 & 21. Samuel Sanders Oct. 22. 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 Mark O’Quinn 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Matt Henderson Oct. 21. 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 5 O’Clock Shadow 10 p.m. Oct. 20. Evan Michael & the Well Wishers 10 p.m. Oct. 21. Split Tone every Thur. Chillula every Sun. K-Sick every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Makeup Week for Cancelled Bands Oct. 19-21. Live music most weekends 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. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., AB, 247-0060 Taylor Roberts 7 p.m. Oct. 18 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Oct. 18. Live music every Wed.-Sun. THE RITZ LOUNGE, 185 Third Ave. N., 246-2255 Clay Brewer 10 p.m. Oct. 22 SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 The Groov 8 p.m. Oct. 20. 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 Soulo Lyon Oct. 18. Heather Gillis Band 9 p.m. Oct. 19. Tatanka, Lovely Budz

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Morning Fatty 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Brian Ernst Oct. 24. Aaron Thomas Oct. 25. Live music nearly every night WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Chris Thomas 8 p.m. Oct. 19. Firewater Tent Revival 8:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Catch the Groove 8:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Jerry Maniscalco Oct. 22. Tuesday Night Blues Club 8 p.m. Oct. 24 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 Eddie Pickett Oct. 18. Milltown Road Oct. 20. Bluff 5 Oct. 21. Brian Ernst Oct. 25. 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 Fernway, Crooked Teeth, Last Man on Earth, Sangria 7 p.m. Oct. 18. Jon Cleary Trio, Shawn Pfaffman Oct. 19. Wade B Oct. 20. Randy, Mr. Lahey’s Never Cry Shitwolf Tour Oct. 21. Afton, SoSo Ish Oct. 22. LoveBomb GoGo Oct. 23. Twizted, Moonshine Bandits, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Whitney Peyton 8 p.m. Oct. 24. Dope, Hed(PE) 6 p.m. Oct. 25. Candied Fest: I Was Afraid, Boston Marriage, Teen Divorce, Secret Stuff, Save Face Oct. 26 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 Ras AJ, De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Oct. 20 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. Oct. 18. Ace Winn 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Live music most weekends HOURGLASS PUB, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 Singersongwriter open mic every 7 p.m. Sun. Live music 9:30 p.m. Fri. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Cindy Davenport, Highway Jones, Tim Kates 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Live music most weekends MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 D’Vinci Deceptive Cadence 9 p.m. Oct. 20. Spoon, Mondo Cozmo 8 p.m. Oct. 21. Lords of Acid, Combichrist, Christian Death, En Esch of KMFDM, Wiccid 7 p.m. Oct. 22. Andy Mineo Oct. 26. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 Clips X Ahoy, Felmax 9 p.m. Oct. 20. Wasabicon afterparty: Nerdcore, DJ iBay, DJ Ens, None Like Joshua, DJ Andy Hughes Oct. 21. Shlump 8 p.m. Oct. 25. DJ Law, Artik, Killoala, D2tay Wed. Latin Nite DJs Sat. VOLSTEAD, 115 W. Adams, 414-3171 Snacks Blues Band 9 p.m. Oct. 27

FLEMING ISLAND

BOONDOCKS GRILL & BAR, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Ivan Smith 6 p.m. Oct. 18 & 26. Alex Affronti Oct. 19. Southern Rukus, Matt Knowles 10 p.m. Oct. 20. Cliff Corsey 10 p.m. Oct. 21. Fond Kiser Oct. 22. Redfish Rich Oct. 24. Marty Farmer Oct. 25 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Scott Elley 8:30 p.m. Oct. 19 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Spooktacular Halloween Party 9 p.m. Oct. 21. Live music every weekend

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Kelli & Ken Oct. 18. Life Line Oct. 20. Smokestack Oct. 21. Open mic every Tue. Live music every Tue.-Sun. JERRY’S Sports Bar & Grille, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Boogie Freaks 8:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Live music every Fri.

MANDARIN

CHEERS, 11475 San Jose Blvd., 262-4337 Blistur 9:30 p.m. Oct. 25 ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Oct. 18 & 21 IGGY’S GRILL & BAR, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101, 209-5209 Break Evn Band 7 p.m. Oct. 20. DJ Greg 7 p.m. every Wed. TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Mark Stevens 8 p.m. Oct. 18. 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. Oct. 18. Jason Evans Band 9:30 p.m. Oct. 19. Shane Myers 5 p.m., The Remains 9:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Roger That 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Stumpwater 7 p.m. Oct. 24. The Firewater Tent Revival 9:30 p.m. Oct. 26 DALTON’S SPORTS GRILL, 2620 Blanding Blvd., Middleburg, 282-1564 Zeb Padgett 8 p.m. Oct. 27 DEE’S MUSIC BAR, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 375-2240 John Citrone 7 p.m. Oct. 18. One Night Stand 9 p.m. Oct. 20. 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 Propenganjah 10 p.m. Oct. 20. Sister Insane 10 p.m. Oct. 21. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SHARK CLUB, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline 9 p.m. Oct. 18. Tom Bennett Band 9 p.m. Oct. 19

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Savanna Leigh Basset 6 p.m. Oct. 19. Andrew Sapin Oct. 25. Live music every Wed.-Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., 280-5515 Live music every Wed., Thur. & Sat.

RIVERSIDE + WESTSIDE

ACROSS the STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Live music most weekends HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 10, 513-4272 Live music every Fri. MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 KB, Trip Lee 7 p.m. Oct. 19. All4Jesus 7 p.m. Oct. 21 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Gost, Dance with the Dead 7 p.m. Oct. 18. Solid Laugh Advice Oct. 21. The Jukebox Romantics 7 p.m. Oct. 24. Punk Rock Burlesque, Ivy Les Vixens, Anita Nightcap, Jess A. Bell, Mudtown Oct. 25. MDC 8 p.m. Oct. 26 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Discordant Generation 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Live music most weekends RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Live music 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 21 SOLO GALLERY, 1037 Park St. Null-State 7 p.m. Oct. 18 SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362 Live music most weekends

OVERSET

ST. AUGUSTINE

ARNOLD’S LOUNGE, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 824-8738 Jason Evans Band 9 p.m. Oct. 21 CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Dan Bern 8:30 p.m. Oct. 28 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 SMG, Hit Parade Band Oct. 20. Tony & Nick, Tony & Nick’s All Star Band Oct. 21. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. Oct. 19 & 22 DOS COFFEE & WINE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Live music every weekend MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 JW Gilmore & the Blues Authority 9 p.m. Oct. 20. Ron Norris 9 p.m. Oct. 21. Fre Gordon acoustic open mic 7 p.m. every Sun. Justin Gurnsey, Big Logic & the Truth Serum Musicians Exchange 8 p.m. every Mon. ORIOLES NEST, 9155 C.R. 13 N., 814-8298 DJ Alex every Fri. Live music most every weekend PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George St., 209-5704 Empire East Band, Cookin’ in da Kitchen Oct. 18. Danielle Eva Jazz Duo 6 p.m., Who Rescued Who 10 p.m. Oct. 19. Raisin Cake Orchestra 6 p.m., Mama Blue 9 p.m. Oct. 20. Sailor Jane & the Hurricanes 6 p.m., Be Easy 10 p.m. Oct. 21. Sam Shin & Alex Peramas Oct. 23. Colton McKenna 6 p.m., Claire Vandiver Duo 10 p.m. Oct. 24. Leelyn Osborne Oct. 25 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Pl., 342-0286 Jay Bird Oct. 19. Integral Latin Band 8:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Alex Richman Band 8:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Kevon Remonte, Jax English Salsa Band Oct. 22. Bluez Dudez, Solou Oct. 24 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky 9 p.m. Oct. 20 & 21. The Down Low every Wed.

SAN MARCO

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 One Eyed Doll, Doll Skin, Appalachian Death Trap 8 p.m. Oct. 20. PJ Morton, Ash 8 p.m. Oct. 21. The Devil’s Cut 8 p.m. Oct. 22 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Ernie Evans & The Florida State Bluegrass Band 7 p.m. Oct. 19. River City Rhythm Kings 6 p.m. Oct. 23. Griffin House 6 p.m. Oct. 25

SOUTHSIDE, ARLINGTON & BAYMEADOWS

BAYARD ROOSTER, 12661 Philips Hwy., 880-7771 Blistur 4 p.m. Oct. 22. Live music 4 p.m. every Sun. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Barrett Jockers Oct. 19. Bryan Ernst Oct. 21 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Melissa Smith Oct. 19. Don’t Call Me Shirley Oct. 20. North of 40 9 p.m. Oct. 21. Mojo Roux 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 WILD WING CAFÉ, 4555 Southside Blvd., 619-3670 Live music every weekend

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

CROOKED ROOSTER BREWERY, 1478 S. Sixth St., Macclenny, 653-2337 Hollee Mollee Food Truck Party 4 p.m. Oct. 28. 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 Skytrain 9 p.m. Oct. 21. 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 Choir of Babble Oct. 20. Manhattan Murder Mystery 8 p.m. Oct. 23. Live music every weekend

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FOLIO DINING Our readers voted Mojo (pictured, Mojo No. 4 in Avondale) Best Barbecue in our 2017 Best of Jax poll. 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, ameliacrabtrap.com. F For nearly 40 years, familyowned-and-operated. 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. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moon riverpizza.net. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20-plus toppings, pie/slice. Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ 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

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POINTE RESTAURANT, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 2nd-story outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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 Locally owned & operated 20+ years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Pulled pork and Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish. Avondale’s Mojo has shrimp & grits, specialty cocktails. Local musicians on weekends. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2017 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. 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE INTRACOASTAL. INDIA’S, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajaxcom. F 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 METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2017 Best of Jax finalist. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. 2017 Best of Jax finalist. Since 1989, the family-owned place has offered an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Low-sodium & gluten-free. $$$ BW TO L D Tu-Sa THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. Gluten-free pizzas, desserts. HH specials. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Popular gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and–sure–whiskey. HH M-F. $$ FB B Sa & Su; L F; D Nightly

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

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 2017 Best of Jax winner. Fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, 374-5735. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BREEZY COFFEE SHOP WINE BAR, 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211, breezycoffeeshopcafe.com. Local beachy coffee & wine shop by day; wine bar by night. Fresh baked pastries, breakfast sandwiches all day. Grab-n-Go salads, cheeses, hummus. $ BW K TO B L D Daily The CRAFT PIZZA CO., 240 Third St. N., Neptune Beach, 853-6773, thecraftpizzaco.com. F Al Mansur’s new place has innovative pies made with locally sourced ingredients. Dine inside or out. $$ BW L D Daily CRUISERS GRILL, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill.com. Locally owned & operated 20+ years.

BIG SHOTS!

burgers, desserts. Dine in or out on picnic tables. $$ FB K TO L & D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 6586 GA. Hwy. 40 B6, St. Marys, 912-576-7006. F SEE ORANGE PARK. OUTERBANKS SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 140 The Lakes Blvd., Ste. H, Kingsland, 912-729-5499. Fresh seafood, burgers, steaks, wings. $$ 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

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE.

Green Room Brewing

228 Third St. N • Jacksonville Beach

Born in: Woodbridge, Virginia Years in Biz: 8 Favorite Bar: Fly's Tie Irish Pub Favorite Beer Style: Sour Go-To Ingredients: Water, hops, malt & yeast Hangover Cure: Gatorade & gummies Will Not Cross My Lips: Wheat beer Insider’s Secret: Nothing is "not good," and we don't have liquor at a brewery, so don't ask. Celebrity at Your Bar: Jags, Jax Axemen, UNF rugby team; all the players :) When You Say "The Usual" You Mean: A good beer with a whiskey back

CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA

CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552. Barbecue, sides, hot dogs,

1,000 WATT

BOOST

DOWNTOWN

BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura St., 802-7745, bellwetherjax. com. Elevated Southern classics in an understated setting, with chef/owner Jon Insetta’s focus on flavors, and chef Kerri Rogers’ culinary creativity. The Northeast Florida menu changes seasonally. Rotating local craft beers, regional spirits, cold brew coffee program. $$ FB TO L M-F CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth, 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Serving Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa SPLIFF’S GASTROPUB, 15 N. Ocean St., 844-5000, spliffsgastropub.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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 St., 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

SARAH GOJEKIAN

Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, awardwinning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman fare, big Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shack burgers.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. 2017 Best of Jax finalist. 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

WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE INTRACOASTAL. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199, athenscafejax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. 20+ years of Greek fare, serving dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), Greek beers. Vegetarian-friendly. Full bar. Early bird menu Mon.-Fri. $$ FB L M-F; D M-Sa CRUISERS GRILL, 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874. 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 2017 Best of Jax winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F

OVERSET

Jax Beach juicery will START will JJUMP UMP S TART yyour our llife ife IF YOUR TASTE BUDS ARE READY FOR AN electric ride, head to Watts Juicery. The tiny storefront has enough bright, fresh flavors to power you up and propel you into next week. The Watts’ originals are grab ’n’ go goodfor-you juices prepped and bottled daily. The juices are broken down into fruits, roots and mega greens and assigned a number based on the goodness content. The higher the number, the more veggies. For example, the 36 Watt, the lowest, has cucumber, pineapple, mint and lime, and the highest, the 215 Mega-Watt, has dandelion greens, kale, spinach, chard, lemon, bok choy, cucumber, parsley and pink salt. The juices are used as bases for the smoothies; beachgoers will dig the light, fresh, fruity offerings, but if you’re in the mood for something more rich and dessert-like, Watts has got you covered. I tested The Islander ($11) with the 75 Watt base (carrot, orange, pineapple and turmeric) and baobab super fruit powder, pineapple and ginger. Also catching my eye was the Bold Electric with Bold Bean coffee, almond milk, vanilla cinnamon and banana. You can make your own blend, too. Also serving breakfast and lunch, Watts Juicery’s prepped savory foods are delicious, vegan and filling. The protein power bowl ($9) is a hearty mix of curry-roasted chickpeas, sweet potatoes, spinach, kale, yellow pepper, pumpkin seeds, quinoa and rice with a side of a currycarrot dressing. Each bite mega-colorful and the chickpea and pepper crunch adds nice texture.

WATTS JUICERY

1010-B N. Third St., Jax Beach, 372-7818, wattsjuicery.com

Breakfast lovers will dig the coconut yogurt parfait ($6) and its layers of granola, fresh fruit and pumpkin seeds. The layers are generous; you’ll scoop each ingredient in every bite. The coffee and milk section, the most decadent part of the menu, is to die for. These amazingly healthy concoctions actually taste great. I got the 08 Watt: chocolate cashew milk ($8) with cashews, dates, vanilla, cinnamon, sea salt, cacao nibs, cacao powder and alkaline water. That punch of chocolate from the sharp cacao nibs is unbeatable. It’s like digging into a rich, chocolaty dessert that’s legit healthful—a true whoa moment in food. True dark chocolate lovers gotta try it. From Watts Juicery’s mini-boost shots, try elixirs like the Immunity Boost 3, which has a smoky kick from oregano oil and one helluva light-the-tongue-on-fire zap from cayenne and ginger. The fresh lemon finishes it with a slightly bitter taste. While that doesn’t sound like the most appealing thing to sip, I can tell you that I didn’t want to stop until it was all gone. Watts clearly cares about how healthful each product is for your body. The juices and food are designed to boost you up, like a friend giving a helping hand without expecting anything back (except currency, of course). After a visit to Watts Juicery, you’ll be ready to take on the world … and then some! Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 18-24, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 31

DINING DIRECTORY OR O RY PINT-SIZED

Favored Belgian style was a BOLD MOVE for monks

As winner of Best Burger on Amelia Island in our 2017 Best of Jax readers’ poll, T-Ray’s Burger Station has plenty to smile about.

TRIPEL THE

TRADITION

IF IT WEREN’T FOR MONKS, MANY OF THE classic beer styles we enjoy today may not have ever been. We owe particular thanks to Belgian monks of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, a Roman Catholic contemplative order that believes monasteries should be self-sustaining. Because of this, monks took up many trades; among these was brewing highly coveted beer. A favorite style they produced, the tripel, was developed at Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle (Westmalle Brewery) in 1934. Goldenhued tripels have aromas and flavors of apple, pear, citrus, or banana-like fruitiness, clove-like or peppery spice. Other characteristics of the style are its high alcohol (7 to 10 percent by volume) and dry finish. As early as the 6th Century, monks brewed beer. The story of the Westmalle Abbey brewery begins in 1836, when the beer wasn’t intended to be sold or produce a profit; it was merely refreshment for monks and their guests. In 1856, the Abbey began selling a small amount of the beer to villagers at the monastery gates. As demand grew, the Abbey did, too. Expansions were undertaken in 1865 and 1897. In those early years, the brewery produced mostly dark beers. Westmalle was best known for its dubbel, strong dark ale that got its flavor from boiling the wort for eight to 10 hours. The long boil was thought to develop deep color and complex tastes. Demand continued to rise and, in 1921, the Abbey began selling beer to outside resellers. This necessitated another expansion, including construction of a dedicated yeast room and workshop. The new additions were complete in 1934 and celebrated by the introduction of a new style: the tripel. Because Belgians’ palates were more attuned to darker, richer ales, the release of the goldenhued tripel was considered a radical move for a group known to be overwhelmingly traditional. Demand grew after drinkers tasted the fruity, high-alcohol brew. For years, the monks tinkered with the recipe until 1954, when Brother Thomas Sas dialed the formula back and created the tripel we know today. So important was it to the monks that the character of the tripel remain intact, they instructed Jan Adriaensens, who has overseen brewing at Westmalle since 1982, to make no alterations. When the brewery decided to switch from square fermenters to the more modern conical style, he spent eight years experimenting on a smaller pilot system to ensure the beer wouldn’t be affected. Though the tripel produced by Westmalle is the original and standard-bearer for the style, other breweries have produced their own versions. Here are some your local market should have. NEW BELGIUM TRIPPEL • Creamy with plenty of alcohol punch, this beer from the Colorado (and now North Carolina) brewery reveals citrus, dark fruit and other spicy flavors. VICTORY GOLDEN MONKEY • Easy drinking and refreshing despite its 9.5 percent ABV, this one will sneak up on you if you aren’t careful. WICKED BARLEY MONKS MÉNAGE • When this tasty Belgian-style tripel is on tap, it treats drinkers to a solid, boozy experience redolent with cracker, spice and pepper. Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com

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OVERSET

2017 Best of Jax finalist. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily

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. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MILL BASIN, 1754 Wells Rd., 644-8172, mill-basin.com. Serving modern interpretations of classic Italian fare and upscale craft cocktails. Late night menu. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. Live music. $ FB L D Daily SPRING PARK COFFEE, 328 Ferris St., Green Cove Springs, 531-9391, springparkcoffee.com. 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 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE INTRACOASTAL. BIG OAK BBQ & CATERING, 1948 Henley Rd., Middleburg, 214-3041. 1440 Dunn Ave., 757-2225, bigoakbbqfl.com. Family-owned-and-operated barbecue joints have smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides and stumps, which sounds damn good. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Small-batch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting single-origin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, hand-crafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su

CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based drinks, sandwiches, desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2017 Best of Jax winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Dine outside at some E-Sts. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. 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 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Fresh vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0047, sunraycinema.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. First-run, indie and art films screened. Beer, local drafts, wine, pizza–Godbold, Black Lagoon Supreme–hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejax.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Inside/patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 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. $$ Daily CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. SEE BEACHES. THE FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug.com. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 34+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily

MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A, 217-3256. SEE BEACHES. WOODPECKER’S BACKYARD BBQ, 4930 S.R. 13, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. Smoked fresh daily. Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, turkey: in sandwiches, plates by the pound. 8 sauces, 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

THE BEARDED PIG SOUTHERN BBQ & BEER GARDEN, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. 2017 Best of Jax 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. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale; fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, katsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily HAVANA-JAX CAFÉ/CUBA LIBRE BAR, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609, havanajax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches are the real thing: big, thick, flattened. Traditional fare: black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, chicken & rice, roast pork. Spanish wine, drink specials, mojitos, Cuba libres. Nonstop HH. $ FB K L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodinercom. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Open 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE O. 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. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

ANDY’S GRILL, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmers market.com. 2017 Best of Jax finalist. 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

Exotic chips INSPIRE a Cuban classic

PLANTAIN

A FLAG THE OTHER DAY I WAS SHOPPING AT Restaurant Depot and, no, I didn’t mention it in either of my grocery store columns because it’s not a store for typical foodies. It’s a huge food warehouse where restaurants and other food-related businesses shop for bulk food or disposable food-service items. Anyhooo, one of my sons noticed a large bag of plantain chips and asked if he could try them. Was I happy with this? You know it! I love it when my teenagers actually request interesting food and plantains definitely fit that bill. For those of you not in-the-know, the plantain originated in India yet it’s used mainly in West African, Central and South American, and Caribbean cuisines. The plantain, a member of the banana family, looks like a banana on steroids. There are several differences between standard bananas and these ’roided-up cousins. First is the size–they’re about a third bigger than a standard banana. And they’re much starchier and can be used in different ways, depending on ripeness. A green or unripe plantain is generally used as a savory ingredient. Think of it as a tuber, like a potato or a turnip. That means, my hungry little friends, they’re perfect for rustic stews and soups. The Colombians lay claim to an exquisite version: Sopa de Pollo y Plantano Verde, featuring diced green plantains, chicken and corn. This is not traditionally a spicy soup, but a chipotle in adobo might make it a tad more interesting. Just sayin’. Puerto Ricans, aka the doctors of deliciousness, have a way with these starchy little gems as well. They have a dish with the fun name of Mofongo. In this terrific example of rural culinary genius, green plantains are cut into a rough dice, fried, then mashed to a smooth-ish consistency before becoming the bed for a succulent Puerto Rican-style shrimp creole. YUM! As the plantain ripens, the sweeter and softer it becomes. This makes it perfect for exotic-sounding desserts. I have caramelized thick slices of the ripened fruit to garnish Tres Leches Cake. How about slicing them

horizontally, gently grilling them and glazing the hot caramelized slices with a rum, brown sugar and reduced orange juice—not bad, eh? BTW, if you do buy a bag of plantain chips, they make an amazing Cheffed Up chip to scoop up a Cuban goodie: picadillo.

CHEF BILL’S PICADILLO Ingredients: • 1-1/2 lb. ground beef, browned • and drained • 2 tbsp. olive oil, or as needed • 1 medium onion, brunoise • 1/2 red bell pepper, brunoise • 1 tbsp. tomato paste • 1 tbsp. garlic, paste • 2 tsp. cumin • 1 tbsp. oregano • 2 bay leaves • 2 oz. white wine • 1 cup diced tomatoes • 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce • 1/3 cup raisins • 1/2 cup pimiento-stuffed olives • 2 tbsp. capers • Cayenne, salt and pepper to taste Directions: 1. Sweat the onions in oil until 1. translucent; add the garlic peppers 1. and cumin. Continue to sweat until 1. peppers soften. 2. Stir in tomato paste and caramelize. 1. Deglaze with white wine, reduce au sec. 3. Reduce heat and add remaining 1. ingredients. Simmer for 15 to 1. 20 minutes. 4. Adjust seasoning to taste.6. Heat a 1. nonstick pan over medium 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! OCTOBER 18-24, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 33

PET PARENTING FOLIO LIVING DEAR

DAVI

Sure, you love that li’l chub, but PET OBESITY is no joke

BABY GOT

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FAT Dear Davi, I love me some kibble, but my human says I’m getting a little thick around my rolls. What are the risks of being overweight? Perry the Pug Perry, More than half the pets in America are overweight or obese. Yes, this is an unfortunate truth about cats and dogs today—flabby felines and portly pups are the new normal. The good news? You aren’t going to be bullied or fat-shamed for being a little chubby around the collar, but you do need to check yourself before you wreck yourself. Pet obesity can lead to arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, respiratory problems and skin and fur conditions. It can also decrease your life expectancy by up to three years—yikes! Weight loss isn’t nearly as traumatic an experience for pets as it is for humans. We generally love to run and play, but it still takes some persistence, and a whole lot of resistance, to shed those extra pounds. The reasons pets become obese are the same as those for humans; they eat too much and exercise too little. The only difference is that we cannot control our portions; if humans offer treats, we’ll eat them. And we can’t run in the park by ourselves—leash laws restrict us from running at large. It’s vital for our humans take responsibility. Obesity is entirely preventable through proper nutrition and exercise. Introducing more exercise into your daily routine will not only help you lose

weight, it’ll keep your mind active. Aim for 15 minutes of strenuous activity twice a day. That doesn’t mean enrolling in a fancy canine aerobics class, though they do exist. Getting in shape can be as simple as picking up the pace on your daily walks. The next step to combat obesity is to count calories. Keeping track of your meals and treats can give you a better picture of the calories as they add up. Try swapping healthier snacks for those fatty treats; better yet, opt for fun, not food, and know your calorie count—mine is 317 calories a day! And when it comes to pet food, weigh your options and select foods that are nutritious and delicious. Figuring out your ideal weight can be tricky because each of us is unique. As a general rule of paw, you should have a tucked tummy with ribs that can be felt though not seen. If you can’t see your waist, and if your back is broad and flat, it may be time to cut calories and create an exercise plan—simply put, eat less, move more. Right now, more than half of all cats and dogs in the U.S. are overweight. Putting a pudgy pup or fat cat on a diet can be a challenge, but it’s worth the effort. Pets who maintain a healthy weight have a higher quality of life and, often, lower vet bills. The trick is keeping your paws on the pavement and out of the treat jar. Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund can’t get enough yummies in his tummy, but he uses that fuel to be a onepup love machine.

PET TIP: COLD IN THE HE BLOOD, NOT THE HEART THOUGH OUR SCALEY FRIENDS MAY NOT BE AS FLUFFY AS Jimmy Chew or Cindy Clawford, it doesn’t mean they don’t want some lovin’, too. Don’t just ogle them from the other side of the glass, take ’em out and share the love. A little rubbin’ here, little scratchin’ there, and BOOM!, you got a brand-spankin’ new cuddle buddy. Sure, a cat may be an easier cuddle—if your idea of cuddling requires stitches—but you know what Private I. Guana doesn’t do? Silently judge as you clean up that hairball you stepped on at four a.m. on the way to the bathroom. 34 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 18-24, 2017

LOCAL PET EVENTS BARK-TOBERFEST GALA DINNER • The seventh annual fundraising event, hosted by Jax Beach Lions Club, includes dinner (catered by Carrabba’s), door prizes, raffles, a silent auction and live music by the Kenny Holliday Band, featuring Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger tribute artists. The fundraiser is held 6:30-11 p.m. Oct. 21 at American Legion Post 129, 1151 Fourth St. S., Jax Beach, $25, 294-0375, jaxbeachlions.org. Proceeds benefit Guiding Eyes for the Blind. 58th ANNUAL CRACKER DAY • St. Johns Cattlemen’s Association holds this equine-centric every year, with games, barbecue and more. The fun starts at 8 a.m. Oct. 21 at St. Johns County Fairgrounds, 5840 S.R. 207, Elkton, $5 per car, cash only. HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR • Dress your pet in a costume for a photo-op with Chance the Dog, from noon-3 p.m. Oct. 21 and 28 at PetSmart, 10261 River Marsh Dr., 997-1335; 8801 Southside Blvd., 519-8878; 356 Monument Rd., 724-4600; 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. HOWL-O-WEEN BASH • The annual Yappy Hour

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ADORABLE KITTEN SEEKS SAME • Sapsik is a tiny lion ready to spend Halloween cuddling on the couch with his new owner! You want more than one kitten? Great–JHS has BOGO kitties this month, so treat yourself to two kittens–no tricks! We all know two is better than one! Happy Halloween at Jacksonville Humane Society! event is held 2-5 p.m. Oct. 22 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown. Trick-ortreating, pooch costume contests, pet expo, games, prizes and live music are featured; admission is free, jacksonvillelanding.com. PUPS & PINTS YAPPY HOUR HALLOWEEN STYLE • Dress your favorite pup in Halloween style, hound the dog treat bar and sample the brews, held from 5-8 p.m. Oct. 31 at Atlantic Beach Brewing Company, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Stes. 3 & 15, Atlantic Beach, 372-4116, atlanticbeachbrewingcompany.com. There will be prizes for best-dressed pooch and human. KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Adoption days are 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 21 at 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org.

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WORLD, MEET DALI! • This little surrealist knows she’s got it going on! She’s been looking for a loving home with a fun and caring new owner who can meet her every need so she can be spoiled beyond her wildest dreams. Sound like you? She’s here at JHS 7 days a week! Come to 8464 Beach Blvd. on the Southside and meet this unique artist!

ADOPT AN ANIMAL • You can adopt a gorilla, a lemur, okapi or an Asian otter! Be an Honorary Zookeeper when you donate to the zoo, providing support for the care, housing and feeding of zoo animals. You get a certificate of adoption, a mini plush animal, a photo and interesting facts about your adopted animal, depending on the level you choose. Order online at jacksonvillezoo.org, download order form (mail/fax it in), call 757-4463 ext. 114 or email members@jacksonvillezoo.org. _________________________________________ To list an event, send the name, time, date, location (complete street address, city), admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 18-24, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Medical doctor Sigmund Freud lay the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the 20th century, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture. When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who became his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two first met in Vienna in 1907, they talked nonstop for 13 hours. According to my astrological omenreading, you could experience a comparable immersion soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, an enchanting provocative exchange or a fascinating course-shifting encounter.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am my own muse,” wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” Could you consider holding this perspective? If so, you may generate a few ticklish surprises. You may be led into your psyche’s mysterious areas, discover secrets you’ve hidden from you. What does being your own muse mean? How is it done? Maybe you could have pretend exchanges with the you of three years ago and the you in three years’ time.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the next 12 months, I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements to teach you more of what you want out of life. I’ll also subtly remind you that all the world’s a stage, and advise you how to raise your self-expression to Oscar-worthy levels. Romance? The method: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you enjoy. If you raise generosity to a higher octave, there’s another perk: You host an enhanced flow of creative ideas. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Want to dive down to explore the mysterious, evocative depths? Want to try spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards available if you pay reverence to influences to nurture your wild soul? Work on projects like these in the next few weeks. You’ll be in a phase when the single most important gift you can give yourself is to remember what you’re made of and how you got made. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Louisa May Alcott’s novel, A Long Fatal Love Chase, was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the months ahead, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than usual, and you’ll gather more than the standard quota of joy and self-worth. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A woman I know, Caeli La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses. So this is definitely the right place for me.” What

signs and omens would tell you what you needed to do to be in the right place at the right time? Be on the lookout in the weeks ahead. Life will be conspiring to provide clues on where you can feel at peace, at home and in the groove. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Simon & Garfunkel released their first album in October 1964. It got only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged, they stopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The Sounds of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement. When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention because you’re at a point comparable to the time just before Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Consider how hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Most of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the next few weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself. And if you succeed, the self-transformations may trigger interesting changes in those around you. Another useful Braude tip: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1969, two earthlings walked on the moon for the first time. To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years. In the months ahead, you may be drawn to a collaborative project not as ambitious as NASA’s, but still fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you have more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict your ambitions will burn more steadily in the next few months, producing more heat and light than ever. You’ll have a clearer conception of exactly what it is you want to accomplish, as well as a growing certainty of the resources and help you’ll need to accomplish it. Hooray and hallelujah! But remember: As you acquire greater access to meaningful success–not the kind that merely impresses others–you’ll have to take on more responsibility. Can you handle that? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What’s your top conspiracy theory? Does it revolve around the Illuminati, the occult group supposedly plotting to abolish all nations and create a world government? Or maybe the stealthy invasion by extraterrestrials allegedly seizing mental control over human political leaders, influencing them to wage endless war and wreck the environment? Or maybe your pet conspiracy theory’s more personal? Maybe you secretly believe the difficult events you experienced in the past were so painful and debilitating that they’ll forever keep you from fulfilling your fondest dream. Whatever conspiracy theory you most tightly embrace is ready to be disproved once and for all. Ready to lose your delusions? Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD BUT OSHIFER, THEY’RE COMING!

Bryant Johnson of Casper, Wyoming, was on a mission on Oct. 2 when police responded to a call about a man warning folks of an alien invasion coming next year. KTWO Radio in Casper reported Johnson told police he’d traveled back in time from 2048, explaining that the aliens filled his body with alcohol and had him stand on a giant pad that transported him to 2017–though he was supposed to arrive in 2018. He asked to speak with the “president of the town.” Instead, Bryant was arrested for public intoxication.

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The owners of Vitus, a spunky donkey in Vogelsberg, Hesse, Germany, have been ordered to pay for damages after the donkey apparently mistook an orange McLaren Spider sports car for a carrot. When Markus Zahn left his $411,000 car parked next to a paddock on Sept. 16, 2016, he returned to find Vitus had nibbled on its paint, doing almost $7,000 in damage. “The donkey had insurance, but the insurance didn’t want to pay,” Zahn told the BBC. Vitus’s rap sheet also includes biting a Mercedes.

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In Romania, it takes more than foul weather or a damaged field to stop football. On Sept. 24, a match between Bistrita Brosteni and Vanatorul Dorna Candrenilor was abandoned just 58 minutes in after all the teams’ balls ended up in the nearby Bistrita River, according to the Hindustan Times. Bistrita was winning 2-0 when they ran out of balls. Fans suggested they might find the balls at the Bicaz dam nearby.

DO NOT EAT!

Doctors thought a 47-year-old postman in Preston, Lancashire, England, who complained of a persistent cough, might have cancer; he was a long-term smoker whose X-rays showed a spot on his lung. But when they removed the mass, the BBC reported, they found the “long-lost Playmobil traffic cone” the patient had gotten as a gift on his seventh birthday. He told doctors he’d swallowed the small pieces when he was a lad and thought he’d inhaled the tiny cone. After the toy was removed,

the man’s cough almost disappeared and his other symptoms improved.

STEPHEN KING DESERVES A BREAK

The Russian division of Burger King has asked the country’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to ban Stephen King’s horror movie It from showing in Russian theaters because the clown character, Pennywise, looks too much like Ronald McDonald, and therefore the movie is advertising for McDonald’s. However, the Hollywood Reporter noted, the movie opened in Russia on Sept. 7 and had already grossed millions by late September. A spokeswoman for the FAS, confirming the complaint had been received, said, “We can’t be concerned with the content of the film,” but the agency would determine if it had advertising or product placement.

CARPE DIEM!

If you’re already shopping for your 2018 calendar, Metro News recommends you don’t overlook the Carponizer Carp Calendar, which features “12 beautiful carps with attractive women. On high quality paper.” Oh, and the women are naked. Hendrik Pohler, 28, the calendar’s creator, was struck with the idea when he was fishing with a friend “and at the spot next to us were two hot girls fishing,” he told Maxim, which described the models as having “stiff, pained expressions.”

HOME IS WHERE THE STUFF IS

Patrick Joseph Adams Jr., 36, of Great Falls, Montana, pulled quite the heist in July when he convinced two pals and his girlfriend to help him “move out” of a house that wasn’t his. One of the friends was suspicious when he saw a wall in the home dedicated to military service, but didn’t remember that Adams had been in the service, the Great Falls Tribune reported. That friend left before the move was complete, but the rest of the group loaded about $40,000 worth of stuff into a U-Haul, requiring two trips. Later that evening, the real homeowner of the burglarized house called cops and reported the theft, and through U-Haul records police tracked Adams down. He was charged on Sept. 28 with burglary and criminal mischief. weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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THE UNFINISHED

NOW Let’s tear down any idol, any celebration that mistakes or replaces human beings with things, any monument to our proclivities toward seeing OTHER PEOPLE AS MEANS TO OUR OWN ENDS …

IN THIS INCREASINGLY CHARGED CLIMATE OF fear, anger and mistrust, it is terribly important for progressives not to get too happy with ourselves simply because we’re “on the right side of history.” That cliché is only true to the extent that we are on the right side of this unfinished ‘now,’ and interact with those in the opposing camp as fully and irrevocably human and refrain from talking to them like children and looking at them like monsters. In addition to advocating the removal of memorials of intimidation or the celebration of human objectification in any of its forms, that Green Party and progressive Democrat voters and candidates also offer important, charitable and positively charged particles of the good and progressive moments and figures in our local and national histories. If even I, as a progressive, feel the painful and disorienting affects of stripping away the psychological comforts these celebrations of the past carry with them—and I question the motives of those who are so quickly prepared to burn it all, to tear down any monument with any connection to anything smacking of conservative guilt or liberal shame, those ready to leave history behind with ideology, who claim to have no need for some foundation, some ground, some green pasture to begin with—then I am highly concerned that people to the right, those who at their base need to conserve something, to hold onto something solid, might become resentful of a process they see as historically revisionist, morally bankrupt and socially destructive.

Remembering history, literally putting the body of it back together, re-stitching the lining of a story that should be exciting and kind, and not simply an excuse to condescendingly scoff as we tear down the idols celebrated by our neighbors, cherished precisely because they were erected not simply to honor something or someone, often for the wrong reasons, and even more often by the wrong storytellers, but celebrated because they are physical means of ordering and making sense of what these neighbors of ours see as their reality. We know it’s a mis-told or mistakenly weighted reality, an ideological addiction to an inhuman narrative. So reveal the truer stories. Let’s tear down any idol, any celebration that mistakes or replaces human beings with things, any monument to our proclivities toward seeing other people as means to our own ends rather than what human beings really are: free and extraordinary ends in themselves. So take them down, yes, these frozenhearted gods, tear them out of our story’s illustrated edition, but for all our sakes, let’s not replace them either with our own idols—and we have them if we’re honest with ourselves—or even worse, with nothing at all. Let’s remind our neighbors that in addition to painful and often evil facts, history is never void of human love, never empty of some good thing somewhere, perhaps in a small place we’ve glossed over. We must remember that, in addition to its moments of evil and monuments to terror, beyond our idiot tales of the more daily and banal failures we cannot forget and resolutely refuse to celebrate, despite its bone deep flaws, history has also brought us here. Here, in our broken fragments of what often strikes us as endlessly and meaninglessly bizarre, right here we are speaking in and to and for a place where equality and free speech and new ways of thinking and narrating our stories are real possibilities and often actually happy happenings. We may not live in a city or a nation where the liberty and selfdetermination of all people is a realized thing, but we are close enough to imagine a free and cooperative life together. I say we find characters or churches or court cases, anything we can get our hands on that helps tell the counter-narrative that conservative brains need; we must unearth any recoverable past, any institutional or individual act that made a flawed place better. We should build monuments reminding us that some of the past has brought us to the good stuff, to the better things we now enjoy, to the better stories of our unfinished now, and to those green futures we are working for together. Brock Adams mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Adams, a former professor of religion, humanities and literature, is a graduate student at Yale University.

M.D. M.J. First CLAY COUNTY BURG clears the way for MMJ dispensaries

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THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA REFERENDUM that passed last November was worded vaguely enough to allow individual municipalities sufficient leeway to implement the new laws as they see fit. That’s certainly annoying for advocates who would have preferred to see things progressing at a much faster pace, but it was crucial to getting enough mainstream support (or at least passive assent) from policymakers to offset the scads of specialinterest money that fl ooded in from out of state to block its passage in 2014. Now it falls upon leaders in each city to move forward in their own ways. Case in point: Orange Park, which finally opened the door to dispensaries just a couple weeks ago, after their Town Council logged a tight 3-2 vote on Oct. 3. The victory came right at the end of a year-long, self-imposed moratorium–slated to end in October–during which the logistics could be worked out. The city’s Planning & Zoning Board voted 3-1 to advance the debate in July, after figuring out exactly how the zoning would work. The new rules stipulate that dispensaries cannot be within 500 feet of a school, or of each other, and cannot have advertising signs that can be seen from the street. The city’s first dispensary has already gotten around that by having a delivery vehicle, which I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about soon. Mayor Scott Land led the way, along with Councilmembers Connie Thomas and Alan Watt (not to be confused with the late, great Alan Watts, who would’ve surely voted the same way), while Vice Mayor Gary Meeks and Councilman Ron Raymond voted no. City leaders had been building to this moment for most of the summer, and the denouement was received as a most pleasant surprise by citizens who, by and large, never really expected things would work out that way. As noted before, all 67 Florida counties voted for the amendment, including Clay by a roughly 3-2 margin with more than 74,000 “yes” votes. If there’s one thing that election cycle taught us, it’s that the will of the voters really means diddly-squat, in terms of the political endgame, which is why OP (where 67 percent of voters assented to the referendum) remains the only city in the county to actually do it, so far. The response from neighboring burgs, including Green Cove Springs, has been a resounding “Meh.” One thing’s certain: This will make it even more enjoyable to see Kingsman: The Golden Circle at Orange Park Mall, perhaps even more than MacGuffins Bar & Lounge. Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Questions about medical marijuana? Let us answer them! Email mail@folioweekly.com. OCTOBER 18-24, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 39