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THE MAIL GUN CONTROL FROM THE BOTTOM UP

HERE IS GUN OWNERSHIP MADE SIMPLE. Everyone should own a gun. Except for the guy who shot at those Republicans playing baseball. He should have never been allowed to have a gun. In fact, I would say anyone who doesn’t like Republicans should not be allowed to own guns. This would mostly be Democrats. We could mark their forehead with a bar code to alert gun sellers to show them the door. For those hipsters who already have a bar code tattoo on their forehead just to be ironic, we need some kind of metal clip tag. The main person we need to protect is President Trump. Some Republicans don’t like Trump.

This means we should ban all Democrats and some Republicans from owning guns.

Members of independent parties should only be allowed to own paintball guns if they like to rough-house or tranquilizer darts if they want to move bears to safer environments. Finally, those remaining Trump supporters who own guns would need to take an oath of loyalty every three months. But they could be lying under oath, so they should not be allowed to own guns, either. Not even Pence. The only person who should own a gun is Donald Trump himself. But he should not carry it all the time.

It would be reserved for certain contingencies.

For example, if there is ever a forceful takeover of the Trump administration, Mr. Trump should be given a fully loaded automatic pistol to carry with him down into an underground bunker for safety. I welcome feedback.

Bill Ectric via email

SOME “CHOICE” ADJECTIVES

RE.: “Hug a Trump Supporter,” by Claire Goforth, Oct. 18 I READ YOUR LITTLE RAG ALMOST EVERY Wednesday when I have diner at Whitey’s Fish Camp. (Had to throw in a plug.) I like to keep an open ear to your target market. I don’t spend a lot of time with our younger community.

I must admit this piece is quite a departure from your usual M.O. I applaud you for taking time

to try to bring people together. Typically, groups mingle among their own without taking time to listen to anything contrary to their beliefs. A more open mind might get us closer to the light at the top of the rabbit hole.

Your comment about our enemies is right on. Divide and conquer. The sad part is that a lot of the dividing is coming from within this great country. There is a large thought process that thinks the United States is to blame for the rest of the world’s problems, that we should not be the richest, most powerful country. Grouping us into tribes who fight each other supposedly will bring the USA down a notch or three.

I even Googled both Trump and liberal. You left out some of the more choice adjectives.

Al Shuptrine via email

WILL THE SUPREME LEADER PLEASE STAND UP

RE.: “On Bended Knee,” by A.G. Gancarski, Sept. 27 I’M HAPPY WE HAVE AN OWNER WHO SUPPORTS his players’ basic Constitutional right to free speech.

If the racists want everyone to be forced to stand every time you see a cardboard cutout of dear leader, they should move to North Korea.

Beck Stein via Facebook

GOFORTHS ARE PEOPLE, TOO

RE.: “Mr. Sheriff Goes to Washington,” by Claire Goforth, Oct. 11 CLAIRE, I’M GLAD YOUR MOTHER DIDN’T think of you as a fetus, but her child. Riddle me this: Why is unlawful killing a pregnant woman’s child considered murder? FSS 782.09. Statute doesn’t recognize fetus, just a child at any stage of pregnancy?????

Rick Lewis via Facebook _____________________________________ Editor’s note: For unlawful killing of a fetus to be deemed murder under Florida statute, the fetus must be viable, i.e. capable of surviving outside the womb, which typically occurs at 24-28 weeks.

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO LGBT COMMUNITY FUND As part of its “Out in the South” initiative, Funders for LGBTQ Issues awarded the LGBT Community Fund for Northeast Florida with a $40,000 grant to support its work to enhance the lives of the local LGBT community. The local fund, which pools philanthropists’ and other donations to increase overall impact, supports causes including JASMYN, ElderSource, PFLAG and more.

BRICKBATS TO THE PROP THIEF In what seemed to be a spur-of-themoment boneheaded decision, on Oct. 14 some jerk grabbed a prop hammer from Warehouse 31 Unleashed and ran off with it. Some staff gave chase, but the perp managed to escape in a getaway car. (Police have been notified.) The hammer, which belongs to one of the actors, is valued at roughly $500—but such treasured gear is priceless to a performer. To make matters worse, the 18-25-year-old male alleged to have stolen the hammer had just gone through the haunt. What a dick.

BOUQUETS TO HOOSHANG ORIENTAL RUG GALLERY Sept. 15 marked a major milestone for Avondale’s Hooshang Oriental Rug Gallery, which opened for business on that day 40 long years ago. The longest-running business in Avondale has been in the same spot ever since, weathering hurricanes, economic slumps and hipsters with equal perseverance and class. Owner Hooshang Harvesf, originally of Persia, is a fixture in the community, some even lovingly refer to him as the “Mayor of Avondale.”

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When little monsters and big floats wend their way through Murray Hill, it’s a sure bet to be an adorably spooktackular time! This inaugural party and parade promises to be Jacksonville’s biggest Halloween Party yet (and Jacksonville knows from big parties).

4 p.m.-10 p.m. (parade starts at 7 p.m.) Sunday, Oct. 29, Edgewood Ave., between Post St. and Kerle St., murrayhilloween.com.

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Watch an intrepid nanny outwit Nazis while singing about raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens and string, so much string, in this new production of the family classic, The Sound of Music. The production is staged Oct. 31-Nov. 5 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, 300 Water St., $45-$106, fscjartistseries.org.

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This weekend, kick off your after-hours Halloween hilarity with The Best Drag Queen in Jacksonville, Ms. BeBe Deluxe and her crew of glamorous ghouls and classy cretins, show times at 10:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 27, The Metro Entertainment Complex, 859 Willow Branch Ave., Riverside, $7.

VIRTUOSITY AND DRAMA THE CALIDORE STRING QUARTET

Don’t miss this internationally lauded and 2017 Lincoln Center emerging artist award-winning chamber music group comprised of violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist Jeremy Berry and cellist Estelle Choi.

They perform in a manner that has been called “a miracle of unified thought.”

11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, free, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com.

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS

Why Shad Khan is BETTER than we deserve

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH

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THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I WAS SKEPTICAL OF Shad Khan.

It was early on in his tenure as Jags owner, that era when the marketing push consisted of those synthetic mockups of Khan’s immortal mustache. Remember? Everyone had one—they were so wacky and whimsical, the kind of thing that people here would be counted on to embrace.

You don’t see them around much anymore. And you won’t see them again—not after Khan spent the last few weeks telling the truth about where our country is in the Trump Era. When members of the Jaguars took advantage of a rare national spotlight to use the national anthem as a forum for protest of state violence at home, it was genuinely jarring to people locally, who, rather than resist the cobranding of the military and local companies, embrace it.

There’s no room for an alternative narrative when looking at a flag covering the entire field or a flyover; there’s no space to look at it and think “well, this is a calculated decision to appeal to key demos,” or to try to add up all the countries we’ve bombed/droned in just the Obama/Trump Era alone. Much less to catalogue the civilian casualties in these farflung outposts of the world.

Khan is from one of those countries where the U.S. military and covert ops have operated for decades, of course. When he stood by his team as individuals struggled with the decision as to whether to kneel or not, there was Khan-troversy, for sure.

Khan could have backed down. Instead, and despite having given Pres. Trump $1M for his inauguration, he doubled down.

“I supported him in the campaign because I loved his economic policies and I thought, you know, politicians do a lot of stuff to get elected,” Khan told Sports Illustrated days after the London protest.

Khan expected a pivot “to the middle.” Nyet.

“But I was appalled, right after his inauguration, how things started out,” Khan continued, “being more divisive and really being more polarizing on religion and immigration.”

Earlier this month, in Chicago, there was a Khan-tinuation of the theme.

“What [Trump] has done is shown leadership as the great divider, not uniter.

We are used to being warm and fuzzy and cuddled. Well, it’s a different time,” Khan said at an executive conference.

That speech also had a money quote on Steve Bannon, Trump’s former key adviser.

“Steve Bannon or whoever is analyzing the data realizes, ‘How do I get elected?’ I get elected by dividing this person or this group against this group. What are the worst fears, phobias somebody has, how do I tap that button and get them with my people? There’s a lot of predictive behavior here,” Khan asserted.

Then there was last week, when Khan slammed Trump in an interview with USA Today Sports for botching a condolence call to the widow of an Army Sergeant as “below the lowest of the lowest expectations … bizarre.”

“Let’s get real,” Khan added. “The attacks on Muslims, the attacks on minorities, the attacks on Jews. I think the NFL doesn’t even come close to that on the level of being offensive. Here, it’s about money, or messing with—trying to soil a league or a brand that he’s jealous of.”

Those comments, over weeks, set the stage for an event at Jacksonville City Hall on Friday, after which I attempted to get Jags’ President Mark Lamping to contextualize Khan’s statements.

His forehead sweated, his upper lip sweated, but when it came to putting the Jags’ owner’s reasoned and informed takes on the president in context, Lamping did what the Jags have done so many times over the years: punted.

Mayor Curry, who counts Khan as his biggest donor these days, at least admitted there was an elephant in the room.

“As inartfully as [Trump’s] policies are expressed at times, we’re all passengers on the plane right now. I’m pulling for the pilot,” Curry said.

I then asked Curry if he thought Khan was still “pulling for the pilot.” Curry pivoted to points of agreement: “support for the military.

We are aligned on economic development, jobs, trying to do things to make this a better city.”

Khan is the most legitimate change agent in this city, one who can call even the most gutless members of the City Council and, with just a few words, convince them to vote in favor of the HRO expansion.

Khan’s truth telling doesn’t make him popular with those locals who cling to the fictions and the constructs of the past. But what’s clear is that Khan doesn’t need to care about popularity. Unlike so many in this city, he cares more deeply about truth.

Those who can’t handle it might as well learn to deal with it. Money talks, and this will be Shad Khan’s town until he decides otherwise.

A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com @AGGancarski

FOLIO COMMUNITY : NEWS “I CUT UP BEARS IN MY UNDERWEAR.” The Toymaker opens up about These words from anyone else’s how he became A CREEPY CLOWN lips may seem strange, particularly who savages plushies sitting in dappled sunshine in the peace of Old City Cemetery surrounded by the long-dead.

Somehow it feels natural to sit in a cemetery chuckling about slicing open teddy bears with Jeremy Spicer, the brains, needle and glue behind Germ Spider Designs, a line of dystopian circus toys that are the cause of his near-stitch-less stitching.

Otherwise, he explains, he’ll get (fake) blood all over his clothes.

Well, that and when he’s not thrilling and chilling as The Toymaker, a demented clown character who skirts the line of creepy and funny, Spicer likes to feel the breeze.

Actually, he laughs, sometimes he likes to feel the breeze when he is performing as The Toymaker.

While MC-ing a recent event for local burlesque troupe Infernal Doll Factory, he dropped trou on stage.

“It’s what I love to do; I love joking around,” Spicer says.

Growing up, the 31-year-old Jacksonville native never would have predicted he’d become a performer comfortable being pants-less before a crowd. The excessively shy redheaded child with pale skin and startling green eyes saw a future that followed the center lane of the beaten path, perhaps as an accountant or something equally average.

After high school, Spicer dove right into middle-of-the-road America and The name G Germ Spider d S d Designs is a play l got a job at JC Penney in Orange Park. He on his name—Germ is a common nickname loved the world of horror, however, and, for people named Jeremy and Spicer was often when he couldn’t sleep, would pass the confused with Spider when he was in school. time watching movies featuring vampires, Though Halloween is naturally a busy time, werewolves and other such ghouls. Working Spicer said his toys sell year-round to places as retail gradually stripped away his reservations far away as Asia and to celebrities like Naomi and, eight years ago, he agreed to play a creepy Grossman of TV series American Horror Santa for an event. He’d already been creating Story. Christmas is a big time for sales, and, horror-inspired 3D paintings, but this was his oddly, so is Valentine’s Day. first performance.

“There are some weird people out there The creepy Santa costume, he says, who are probably single after they give it,” he was “really bad. I really just looked like a says, chuckling.

Some of the toys he creates have special homeless person.” names—Toxic Tara, Carnivorous Carl, PinkBad costume or no, the experience gave eye Paula, Gonorrhea Gary—others are him a taste of exciting possibilities, stoking stock characters like the little “Biters.” He the flames of a passion that had probably been also takes custom jobs. He’s just completed there all along. work on a seven-foot tall bear, eight-feet tall Over the next few years, he tried different after his alterations, for a customer in North costumes, including a burn victim clown called Melt-O, before lighting on The Carolina. Spicer will work on pretty much Toymaker, which, along with Germ Spider any stuffed animal: Care Bears, Muppets, Designs, has made him a fixture in the horror stuffed gators, Hello Kitty dolls, whatever. community and convention circuit.

They’re all fair game.

At Warehouse 31 Unleashed on a recent “Oooh, I love Hello Kitties,” he says. “Their evening, The Toymaker was an unmistakable heads are perfect to mess with.” favorite; hardly a few minutes passed before As recognizable as his work has someone called out to him for a picture or become—Spicer was even voted the Best just to talk to The Toymaker. He’s natural Local Weirdo in Best of Jax, surely the with the crowd, trading barbs, delivering crowning achievement of his career thus far lines and quips with such joy and ease that (okay, perhaps not)—Spicer takes words of anyone can see he loves what he does. Just praise with charming humility. (He also still don’t call him Spicer when he’s performing. paints and has a painting in the contest at the After all, he is in character.

Haunted Brewery at Anheuser Busch.) When Several years ago, Spicer got the idea to it’s pointed out that he’s become successful as create the first versions of his infected circus, a performer and entrepreneurial toymaker retrofitted toys (probably from Hades). with no formal training in performing, Designs vary widely, but from behind, most applying makeup, creating costumes, making of the toys look like common retail plushies; toys or sewing, he seems honestly surprised. face the front you’ll be confronted by a gaping “When you put it like that, it sounds pretty mouth, oversized fangs dripping blood, cool,” he says. surrounded by gory, pulpy flesh.

Claire Goforth “As soon as I started doing the infected mail@folioweekly.com toys, it took off,” he says. @ClaireNJax

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Originally the University of Florida wanted to refuse to rent a venue to white supremacist Richard Spencer, but after he threatened to sue, the university relented. As UF braced for white supremacists coming like a pestilence of cockroaches on Oct. 19, Orlando Weekly reports that Spencer’s supporters said he wasn’t racist and wasn’t responsible for the violence at their rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which cost one woman her life.

The governor issued a state of emergency for the area on the day of the event and hundreds of police and National Guard were deployed to keep the peace.

The UF event attracted thousands of protesters, far outnumbering the white supremacists.

Orlando Weekly wrote that Spencer was “getting boo’d into oblivion” by the crowd. Even Florida politicians like state Attorney General Pam Bondi and Governor Rick Scott condemned Spencer and his minions. You listening, POTUS?

< A NIGHTMARE ON CAMPUS

Cleveland Scene reports, “Despicable fliers encouraging members of the LGBT community to commit suicide were posted around Cleveland State University’s main classroom building [on Oct. 16.]” The fliers, which also said, “Follow your fellow faggots,” were posted on the day that the school opened an LGBT center.

If that wasn’t monstrous enough, in response CSU President Ron Berkman issued a statement that the school is committed to “protect free speech to ensure all voices may be heard and to promote a civil discourse where educational growth is the result.”

This unsurprisingly did little to cool the emotions of students and Prezzy Berkman became the subject of calls for his immediate ouster, which led Berkman to release another statement saying he was sorry for not being more sorry, Cleveland Scene reports. (Now if only that plaza of the same name would apologize for clogging the J-ville skyline with its creepy, hollow shell…) Students were not mollified by Berkman’s make-up attempt and continued calling for him to step down.

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Pennsylvania State Senator Dan Laughlin penned a deeply interesting newsy editorial in the Erie Reader about how his small business dealt with problems with the toxicity of its small flow treatment facility. Frustrated and facing a $10,000 fine, Laughlin turned to an “all-natural approach” to reduce high levels of ammonia-nitrogen, carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, fecal coliform, pH, and total phosphorus in the water: cattails (not to be confused with pussy willows). And it worked!

After much research, Laughlin planted water-loving cattails in sand beds of the treatment pond, which he expected to cure all the toxicity except ammonia.

To lower ammonia levels, Laughlin added a ‘live well fish bubbler’ that cost a mere $20. These simple fixes had the added benefit of reducing monthly labor hours from roughly 20 to “virtually maintenance-free.” Laughlin is trying to convince Pennsylvania to adopt this model statewide, and hopes that it can be introduced nationwide. In closing, Laughlin wrote, “We all have an obligation to protect our environment. I encourage other citizens to share their best practices in finding natural solutions to balance our lives with respect to our natural surroundings.” Well said.

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Although there’s been much chatter about the “war” on coal and bringing those jobs back bigly, coal’s decline has less to do with liberals than, well, economics. See, solar, wind, and natural gas power have become lots cheaper, leading companies to switch sources. Athens, Georgia-based Flagpole Magazine reports that the state’s largest utility, Georgia Power, which at one time got about 70 percent of its power from coal, today gets roughly 30 percent from it. The utility has also closed 15 coal-fired facilities in seven years.

Georgia is hardly alone in this trend. Nationwide, coal is way down. In the ‘70s, the industry employed 250,000 people; today only 70,000 Americans work in coal. Since 2010, Flagpole notes, “nearly half the country’s 523 coal-fired plants have been closed or are being phased out.” Even in WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA. 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 25-31, 2017

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he first thing that hits you is the cold, several degrees below most air conditioning. (Word from the wise: wear layers.) You may be briefly mesmerized by that first glimpse of stunningly smooth white, by the speed, agility and energy of players skating back and forth, chasing the puck and smashing it towards the net. Then there’s the spitting, the fighting, the blood that seem to contradict graceful figures racing to and fro in a dance as brutal as it is elegant. And no one could forget the dark gaps where teeth should be—a hockey player’s badge of honor.

On Oct. 14, the region’s newest professional sports franchise officially kick-started a highly anticipated season of chilly competition when the Jacksonville Icemen hit the ice against their first challengers, in-state rivals the Orlando Solar Bears.

The upper level of the arena is closed for games, so there’s really no such thing as a bad seat; all 9,000 seats are floor-level.

Veteran fans will appreciate the brandnew glass boards that allow for a crystalclear view of all the action, particularly when players crash into the three-meterhigh pellucid walls.

The Icemen’s journey to the Jacksonville ice began nearly two years ago.

The team was previously based in Evansville, Indiana, but due to a lease renewal disagreement with the city last year, they decided to move.

“They had a good run in Evansville, but unfortunately they couldn’t find a lease that made financial sense to continue to operate there,” said Icemen President Bob Ohrablo.

Once both the Icemen and SMG—a worldwide venue management group that manages the arena—were comfortable with the terms and conditions, Ohrablo started procuring the necessary investors to bring the team to town.

Players arrived in town in September for training camp at the Veterans Memorial Arena, where the Icemen will play home games, and the Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex on Philips Highway on the Southside. Each warrior has been carefully selected with one purpose in mind: victory.

“It’s very exciting,” said Ohrablo with only a few days to go before their first game. “[Icemen CEO] Ron Geary and I put this team together in February.”

In August, left winger Garet Hunt, a 10-year professional hockey veteran who most recently played for the nowrelocated Alaska Aces, was the first player signed. Well-known for his bruising style on the ice, before this season, Hunt had racked up 2,177 penalty minutes in 565 games, placing him in the top 10 for penalties in the league. Hunt having previously played for Icemen Head Coach Jason Christie further facilitated the transaction.

“I think the city really wants hockey and Jason Christie’s coaching style is tough, which makes him always hard to play against,” said Hunt, who turned 30 the day of the team’s inaugural game, beginning a new decade of life for Hunt, a new era for Jacksonville hockey.

After one of the team’s early practices, Hunt, still sweating and red with exertion,

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told Folio Weekly that he sees great promise for the Icemen. It’s only natural for a minor league player to dream of being called up to the majors, but Hunt seemed entirely focused on the season before him.

Hunt, who hails from British Columbia, said that the chance to work in a tropical state for the better part of a year was enticing, particularly as his last team was in Alaska.

But he’s most excited to do what he loves: play hockey.

“I get to be around guys on the same wavelength,” he said. “We all have similar interests so there’s really good camaraderie … you can come out here and either be a winner or loser in one night, and that’s what I love about it.”

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he Icemen are the sixth team in Jacksonville hockey history. The Rockets were the first, beginning in 1964 as part of the now-obsolete Eastern Hockey League. During this period, most games were held at the Jacksonville Coliseum, which was torn down in 2003; Veterans Memorial Arena was erected on the same spot. The last local team was the Barracudas, which lasted six years and

ceased play in 2008; however, most locals will probably best recall the much-beloved Lizard Kings (’95-’00), who made the East Coast Hockey League playoffs twice.

Geary and Ohrablo were drawn to the Southern Division because it’s one of the toughest and most competitive in the nation.

Jacksonville seemed like the perfect place to begin anew.

Some may have trouble conceptualizing a successful hockey team in a state better known for beach bikinis than puck bunnies— not only due to the weather, but also the fan base. Typical Floridians don’t grow up playing or watching much hockey. Ohrablo isn’t concerned about attracting fans, though.

“Many people that live here or other tropical states came from up north. They grew up with hockey and the fans are extremely passionate.

It has mushroomed into a national sport and will continue to.”

The Icemen are an ECHL team, an intermediate professional league based in Princeton, New Jersey that functions as a development league for the American Hockey League, the highest level of minor league hockey, and National Hockey League, the major league sector. The Icemen are affiliated with AHL’s Manitoba Moose and the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets, both based in Canada. The Jets sign players for themselves and for the Moose. Six to eight players from Winnipeg are assigned to the Icemen–generally younger and/or college graduates. The rest of the team consists

mostly of veterans discovered by scouts and Icemen administration.

Left winger Emerson Clark, 24, a four season ECHL veteran who also previously played for Coach Christie, said his “love of the game” keeps him motivated.

“I’ve played this game since I was four years old with family,” said Clark, who, like Hunt, is Canadian. “The challenges are every day. Even during the summers when we don’t play hockey, we’re always training.

“You get in the routine of skating, practice and then working out afterwards. We have two-hour practices, so it’s a little tough, but you get used to it.”

Although this is the entertainment business, it isn’t just a game. They play out of passion and love for the sport, putting it all on the line and at times risking their health, relationships, even livelihood. At the end of the day, it’s a commitment to pursue a dream, albeit a dream with significant challenges.

All hockey players’ career objective is to advance in the league. At any given game there could be scouts watching, which creates added pressure on the players to perform their best. Prevailing professionally requires considerable sacrifice and dedication.

“There are hundreds of thousands of hockey players,” said Clark. As to the chances of making it into the major league, he said, “Just odd-wise, it’s pretty unlikely. [But] I’m

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“I think the city really wants hockey and Jason Christie’s coaching style is tough, which makes him always hard to play against,” said forward Garet Hunt.

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“They had A GOOD RUN in Evansville, but unfortunately they couldn’t find a lease that made FINANCIAL SENSE to continue to operate there,” said Icemen President Bob Ohrablo.

“I’ve played this game since I was four years old with family,” said forward Emerson Clark. “The challenges are every day. Even during the summers when we don’t play hockey, we’re always training.

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hen a player moves up during the season, they usually don’t transition directly to the NHL; instead, they start in the AHL. As their skill develops, they may be considered for promotion to the NHL. Sometimes the NHL will call men up midseason to replace an injured player or to give a standout talent a shot. The opportunity to prove themselves can last anywhere from a few days to a full season. That’s why it’s crucial to remain dedicated and hungry. “It’s not just in the rink, it’s away from the rink. It’s what you put in your body and how you prepare for games,” said Coach Christie. “The game is as hard as you make it.”

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Several teams tried to recruit Christie due to his record as the winningest coach in ECHL history—he has 547 victories and has led teams to the Kelly Cup Playoffs 11 out of 14 seasons.

“We wanted the best. We want to win on the ice; we want to win off the ice,” said Ohrablo. With Christie as head coach, Ohrablo isn’t shy about predicting a winning season and hopes to quickly foster a loyal fan following. (His hopes may have already come to fruition; their first game sold out well in advance.)

All Icemen opponents are from the ECHL Southern Division, which includes Fort Meyers, Orlando, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Greenville, South Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. The season will consist of 36 home games, 36 away.

Coach Christie said that one of his top priorities is cultivating a solid foundation of positive relationships with the community and fan base. Without the fans, there is no audience, and without an audience, there is no team. “The only thing we can control is ourselves and we want to make sure that, at

Before the season began, forward Garet Hunt had racked up 2,177 penalty minutes in 565 games.

the end of the day, we’re an entertainment business,” said Christie.

ECHL Commissioner Brian McKenna is similarly confident of the team’s success. “The continuing growth of Jacksonville, along with the experienced and enthusiastic ownership group, the wonderful venue and support of the city officials, creates a very positive outlook for the future of pro hockey in Jacksonville,” he told the Florida Times-Union in February.

Over the years, many adaptations and changes in the sport have transpired. Ohrablo recalled how different things were decades ago. “Back in the 80s, the guys used to go out back between periods and smoke cigarettes,” he said. “You don’t see that anymore.”

Players today hold themselves to a higher disciplinary standard than their predecessors. Their elevated focus, impetus and determination creates a recipe for speed, agility and jaw-dropping collisions, not to mention shattered teeth, groin tears and swelling contusions from head, navel to toe.

Christie explained it isn’t the enormity of talent variation of players today that makes the difference; it’s the discipline and mental stability. If players take care of themselves and dedicate more to their training, not does the team perform at a higher level, they have a better chance of breaking through to the next level. Simply adding 20 minutes to every practice can provide an advantageous edge.

That edge was on display on Oct. 14 when the Jacksonville Icemen first took to the frozen battleground before a sold out crowd. Many waiting to get inside the stadium were already sporting Icemen merchandise; others started lining up well before the game to buy hats, t-shirts

and the like. Thunderous music sent bass ricocheting around the arena, adding to the intensity of the experience. The crowd roared when defenseman Scott Savage scored the first goal of the game, and of Jacksonville Icemen history, three and a half minutes into the first period. Children in front row seats scrambled and screamed to be the first to grab the puck one player tossed over the Plexiglas boards.

Although the Icemen lost by one point (4-5) in sudden death overtime, judging by the smiling faces leaving the arena, no one was the least bit disappointed. A joyful snowball fight even broke out in a large pile of snow that the team arranged to have waiting just outside the arena to mark the occasion. They’d come for a hockey game and they got a spellbinding show complete with stick-clacking chaos, sharp skids, and three fist-flying brawls, one instigated by birthday boy Hunt, whose brawl thrilled the crowd (and earned him a penalty).

Though the team fell to the South Carolina Stingrays 3-2 on Oct. 21, overall, both games showcased the Icemen’s athleticism, commitment and grit.

“It’s amazing, even from five years ago, the difference in the players, it’s unbelievable,” said Christie, who at the opener tied the ECHL record for the most games coached. “Hockey is as hard as you make it; it’s getting the guys to understand what needs to be done.”

Tommy Robelot mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Icemen take on the Atlanta Gladiators 7:30 p.m., Oct. 26, then go on the road for three weeks, returning home Nov. 14 to face the South Carolina Stingrays. $17-$43, jacksonvilleicemen.com.

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n the mid ’80s, London-born musical renaissance man Vernon Reid put together the pioneering band Living Colour, which mixed and matched jazz, funk, metal, thrash, punk, blues, and hip-hop into the living, breathing definition of fusion rock. Improbably, the band became a mainstream sensation, landing an MTV hit with its first single, “Cult of Personality,” performing on Saturday Night Live, opening for the Rolling Stones, winning a Grammy for its 1990 album Time’s Up. Founding bassist Muzz Skillings left the band in 1992, while his replacement, Doug Wimbish, guitarist Reid, singer Corey Glover, and drummer Will Calhoun all parted ways in 1995. Each band member pursued eclectic side projects—Glover as Judas Iscariot in a touring version of Jesus Christ Superstar, Reid as a prolific producer, composer, collaborator, and solo artist, and Calhoun and Wimbish in drum and bass project Head Fake, among others—but eventually reunited, first in 2000 and again sporadically over the years. But last month’s new studio album Shade and current tour Living Colour

r represent a new opportunity for th seminal band to deliver its mix this o punk energy, jazz precision, and of p political passion to the masses.

L week, Living Colour played a Last b benefi t concert in Charlottesville, V Virginia.

How important was that to th band? th the V important. As artists, you Very h have a platform to speak your mind and create what you want, whether people like it or not. In this country right now, that’s under close watch— rights are being taken away, some in the shadows and some right in front of our faces. Whether you’re a poet, a playwright, an actor, a singer, or a musician, we’re all storytellers. And in my 30+ years of traveling around the world, the only language I’ve been able to communicate equally with is art. When people express themselves, it creates a vibration that makes them fell good and allows them to think clearly. We’re honored to participate in these types of events, where maybe a 15 or 16-yearold can learn about these things.

Shade came out in September. How is its spirit different from Living Colour’s albums in the ’80s and ’90s?

It’s a different medium now. There is no MTV as it was; the radio isn’t what it was. The internet has taken over, so Shade is reaching a different range of audiences. Some people experienced Living Colour for the first time playing Guitar Hero; some hear our songs without knowing who we are. But this record was produced

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by Andre Betts, a longtime friend of the band, who’s known for producing Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, and other R&B and hip-hop artists. His approach was different: we cut a lot of tracks then we’d come back and assemble the stems into tunes. That was 60 percent of the process. But I pushed for the original method of cutting records in the studio, where we plug in and play.

Living Colour is a very live band and I didn’t want to make Shade without that experience. We’re all nerds when it comes to gear, so there’s that nerdy section of recording combined with our really street section of playing beats, chords, and riffs together.

You’ve got cover versions of songs by Robert Johnson, Notorious B.I.G., and Marvin Gaye on there as well, which is cool.

Absolutely. That was a fun and artistically challenging part. Corey has rapped the B.I.G. song during mic checks for six or seven years, so it was a naturally brilliant idea to put that with rock music. That’s the greatest part of touring—all four of us are always on the search for new musical ideas.

Was that the original impetus for starting Living Colour?

I can’t take credit for that since Vernon had different incarnations of Living Colour before I joined. But when I met him, he was still in the

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search mode. When he did approach me, I specifically told him I’d love to be a part of Living Colour, but I said I wasn’t going to approach this as a rock ‘n’ roll drummer. I wanted to let him know that with me, you’re gonna hear the Bronx, Mali, Senegal, a little Max Roach…. I felt that rhythmically the music could use all sorts of flavor. We wanted to make the music fearless— we didn’t want to assign it a label.

In that sense, it seems like Living Colour fits in better in 2017 than it may have in 1988.

Fitting in is something that we’re not interested in doing. That’s a dangerous term since it implies that we would have to sacrifice something. We’re interested in being Living Colour. Now, we’ve maybe programmed ourselves to be ourselves in new mediums.

We don’t have to wear the uniform anymore. Yes, we like to remind people of what we did in ’88 and ’89.

Opening for the Stones. Getting “Cult of Personality” on MTV. Those things make up the Living Colour we are now.

They represent the connecting road to Shade. The first time we drove down to Florida in 1988 in a rented church van, we crossed the state line and heard our record on the radio for the first time. But when you see us live in 2017, you’re getting a real experience.

Some aspects of this band are like a jazz ensemble. We can improvise at the drop of a hat, react to the audience, and change how we play a song so it has a different impact in one space compared to another. But what’s important to us is that we remain true to ourselves.

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

LIVING COLOUR with DEREK DAY

7:00 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A North, $30-$33.50, 209-0399, pvconcerthall.com

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ood news for Tennessee Williams fans!

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) have both recently made their debut in high definition, cause for high spirits indeed despite the painful, hardto-navigate nature of their plots.

Suddenly, Last Summer deals with cannibalism, madness and lobotomy. Slightly cheerier Cat on a Hot Tin Roof deals with alcoholism, fractured family relationships and cancer. Both films earned well-deserved multiple Oscar nominations, including back-to-back honors for Elizabeth Taylor, the star of both. In addition, each featured its own bit of off-screen drama and solid doses of controversy.

Directed by Oscar-winning writer/ director Joseph L. Manckiewicz, the script for Suddenly, Last Summer, (originally a one-act play) was adapted for the screen

by Williams and his friend Gore Vidal.

Katherine Hepburn (nominated with Taylor for Best Actress) plays Violet Venable, a New Orleans matron who recruits Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) to perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine (Taylor) in order to stop the disturbed young woman from sullying the name of Violet’s beloved son Sebastian, who died suddenly, last summer.

The film’s climax, of course, details exactly what did happen and the lead-up to that moment features some absolutely terrific performances from the two female leads.

Montgomery Clift, unfortunately, showing the physical effects of the horrendous auto accident which disfigured and almost killed him—and which fueled his increasing drug addiction, is lost in their shadows.

In fact, it was only due to Taylor’s influence and friendship that Clift got the role. Apparently the actor was so continually berated by director Mankiewicz that an irate and sympathetic Hepburn actually spit on the director after the last take. Taylor was more forgiving—or at least more pragmatic— Mankiewicz would direct her in Cleopatra four years later.

Vidal and Williams reportedly hated the movie as well, mostly because of Mankiewicz’s supposed homophobia, but Suddenly, Last Summer showcases the same deftness and skill that he brought to his work including The Philadelphia Story and All About Eve. Considering homophobia, it was Sebastian’s homosexuality—never stated but obvious even to the dullest viewer—that generated a lot of the controversy. One year later, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof the subject would be even more muted, provoking grumbles from those critical of the perceived censorship.

Adapted from Williams’s Pulitzer Prizewinning 1955 drama directed onstage by Elia Kazan, the film version of Cat was co-written & directed by 5 time Oscar nominee Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood), certainly no slouch even when compared to Kazan. Its worth noting that pressure from the Hays Office

resulted in an even greater dampening of the original play’s homosexual subtext.

The first adaptation of Tennessee Williams to be filmed in color (reportedly to take advantage of Elizabeth Taylor’s and Paul Newman’s incredibly famous and gorgeous peepers), the action of Cat is largely confined to one evening in the plantation home of Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives).

After a lengthy medical checkup, Big Daddy has been told that his painful abdominal disorder was only an intestinal stoppage. Everyone else, however, quickly learns that the fierce old bull of a man is actually home to die of terminal cancer.

His son Brick (Paul Newman) is an alcoholic ex-athlete with a busted ankle.

Brick’s wife Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) is desperate to have a child and revive their physical intimacy, but Brick is just as determined not to have her touch him.

Meanwhile Brick’s older brother Gooper (Jack Carson) and his obnoxious wife Mae (Madeleine Sherwood) have bred a passel of brats in hope of laying claim to Big Daddy’s estate. Echoing the unhappy marital theme, Big Momma (Judith Anderson) tries to convince herself once she and Big Daddy loved one another.

Tennessee Williams had trouble from the get-go with the staging of the play. In fact, it was due to Elia Kazan that Big Daddy was brought back in the third act of the play and movie—not Williams’ original concept—but one that was right, as the playwright himself acknowledged. Brooks’ version expands Big Daddy’s role even more and brings the film to a more positive, if not exactly happy, conclusion.

A big hit on its release despite Williams’ public grousing, Cat was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director. Though it ended up winning none, Burl Ives did snag a Best Supporting Actor the same Oscar night for The Big Country.

Ironically, he wasn’t even nominated for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which he is even better.

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 The Hunchback of Notre Dame at noon Oct. 26 and 6 p.m. Oct. 29; The Teacher (in Slovak) runs 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Oct. 27-29; Viceroy’s House runs 3 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Oct. 27-29, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 697-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA The Snowman and Blade Runner 2049 continue, The Florida Project screens Oct. 27. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

IMAX THEATER Amazing Micro Monsters and Geostorm, through Oct. 26 Room on the Broom and Spookley the Square Pumpkin through Oct. 29, Amazon Adventure, Dream Big engineering Our World and Walking with Dinosaurs show Oct. 27, and Jigsaw opens Oct. 26.

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t Cannes The Florida Project received a standing ovation from audience members.

Critics have said it creates a “cinematic playground,” is “authentic and movingly told,” and “packs an emotional wallop like nothing else I’ve seen this year.” Already it has been nominated for a number of awards.

The Florida Project screens for one night only, Friday, Oct. 27, at Sun-Ray Cinema and includes a Q & A session with producer (and Jacksonville native) Kevin Chinoy. A graduate of Jacksonville’s Episcopal High School and the Wharton School of business, two of the producer’s most recent ventures include movies with writer/director Sean Baker.

Baker, whose works have been praised by Variety as: “raw, real, revolutionary,” is the co-writer (with Chris Bergoch) and director of Florida.

Once upon a time, “The Florida Project” was the working/ planning phase name of Disney World. As the film focuses on the families living in the weekly stay motels of Kissimmee—abutting Disney World—that title encapsulates and pays homage to a shadow world influenced by vacation fantasy vibes, but that teeters on tragedy. “I’ve always been drawn to the underground economy. Especially now, in the U.S., in 2017, what people have to resort to,” said Baker.

Florida must have seemed like an obvious choice: the state has a low-wage service economy dependent on tourism and constant expansion. This creates a large underclass that populates Kissimmee’s motels. Yet the movie is elevating and funny. Baker channels the work of The Little Rascals in Our Gang, which was produced during the Great Depression “The focus was the joyous nature of children,” he explained.

Six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) is the Spanky of this band of merry pranksters.

She cusses, spits and tells people off as well as any boy—including her sidekick Scooty (Christopher Rivera). In her world a trip to a central Florida cow pasture becomes a safari, scattered couch stuffing in an abandoned apartment becomes “ghost poo” and strangers on the receiving end of a prank become fast friends. Moonee lives with her young mother Halley, played by first time actor and Instagram discovery Bria Vinaite. Together the two make their own reality and live by their own rules. But they are still in the real world and there are painful consequences to living a Waffle House subsidized life.

Folio Weekly caught up with Kevin Chinoy

for a chat. What follows has been edited for space and clarity.

How did you come to work with Sean Baker?

When my little brother, Spencer, went to NYU film school he and Sean were roommates. So I’ve known him since he was 19. He and Spencer originally put the comedy television program Greg the Bunny on the public access channel in New York City.

How does a humble kid from Jacksonville become a big time movie producer?

Well, I don’t know about “big time.” My uncle was in the business as a producer and he was very creative. Both of my younger brothers went to NYU film school. I was on a business track but I was influenced by my uncle and my brothers. I helped Spencer and Sean take Greg the Bunny from local public access to Fox where it played nationally.

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Were you guys concerned about hiring Bria Vinaite as she had never acted or taken lessons? Did you had to balance that with the authenticity she bought to the movie?

Sean is so committed to authenticity. He spent a lot of time over a year and a half staying in these weekly stay motels around Orlando to better understand this area and the people who live there. For Halley we needed someone young, as funny as Amy Schumer and with the looks of Angelina Jolie. We saw Instagram videos of Bria and they really made us laugh.

There is some Oscar buzz around the movie, especially Willem Dafoe’s performance, is that something you can talk about?

The first awards of the season, The Gotham Awards, came out today (Oct. 19) and the movie was nominated for Best Feature.

Willem Dafoe was nominated for Best Actor, and Brooklynn Prince was nominated for Breakthrough Actor. We’re excited.

Is this movie political?

I keep telling Sean he’s like a sociologist. He finds these unique areas and learns all about them. In Tangerine he wanted to write about how people live [on the margins in Hollywood, California] and how they make a living. He did the same thing here and liked the juxtaposition of this place, which was very economically depressed, but just outside of Disney World.

Scott Gaillard mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ The Florida Project screens at 6:45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, sunraycinema.com.

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Much of your work revolves around what ho was this strange man who founded might be termed “Jacksonville’s forgotten the city in the first place? What was Jacksonville like before it was history,” what drives this impulse?

Jacksonville?” asked Tim Gilmore of the I’m fascinated with cities, with the subject of his newest histories embedded book, city founder in the landscape.

Isaiah Hart.

Historically, one of Gilmore is one of this city’s biggest Jacksonville’s most problems is that it prolific writer-activists. hasn’t known itself.

With humor, aplomb, I try to explore unflagging energy and and investigate this attention to the forgotten identity problem and and overlooked spaces of write the stories of the city, this seemingly those investigations. unassuming English professor is creating an Since this is a book archive of the stories based on actual and images that helped events, how do you shape the city. He is also extrapolate emotion involved in dialogue from historical around issues of civil accounts?

THE BOOK OF ISAIAH rights and social justice, I try to get to know Launch Party, 8 p.m. Saturday.

Oct. 28, The Second Floor (above he writes at JaxPsychoGeo. whomever I’m writing Hoptinger), 1037 Park St., Riverside, com and organizes the about. I’d like to think $15-$25, 904tix.com.

JaxbyJax literary arts that someone in the festival taking place Nov. future is looking back 11. His most recent effort is The Book of at us now and trying to see who we are.

Isaiah, a full-length historical novel (complete There’s this ghostly line in Walt Whitman’s with a soundtrack and illustrations). Fellow “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” that’s always FSCJ English professor Shep Shepard was given me chills. Whitman’s writing in enlisted to create the illustrations that 1856 and he asks, “Who knows, for all the illuminate the thrust and pictorial disposition distance, but I am as good as looking at you Gilmore imagined. now, for all you cannot see me?”

The Book of Isaiah is a Gothic tale with contradictions and fascinatingly specific You seem to work very quickly, how much details. Hart opposed the Confederacy even as time do you dedicate to these stories/projects? he owned slaves; he left a share of this wealth I write every night. Digging up any one to one of his slaves, Amy, who’d become a story unearths so many more. I love to root kind of second wife while his wife Nancy was around in old newspapers, old books, and still alive; and had thoughts that conflated wander through strange places that are hard people and vegetation. to notice. I have two book projects going In advance of the book release, Folio at the same time, one budding as the other Weekly caught up with Gilmore to ask him nears completion. a few questions (they have been edited for Madeleine Peck Wagner clarity and space). madeleine@folioweekly.com

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An excerpt from The Book of Isaiah OH POOR NANCY, DAUGHTER OF NANCY! Her eyes never looked you in the eye, even when they did. Her adulthood was but a childhood. She never thought when she spoke and never thought when she thought.

In the brutal vernacular of the day, Isaiah’s and Nancy’s daughter Nancy was an “idiot,” in the same way that Georgia’s state mental hospital opened in 1842 as Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum.

The family had the means and the family had the slaves, and if the slaves at Paradise Plantation on Cracker Swamp raised the Hart children, they could take care of Nancy as a young woman child too.

Nancy’s mother Nancy had grown weary in the taxing of the swamps even in the fine great rooms staged above the landscape for ventilation. Here, sickness followed sickness followed sickness. Water and air were interchangeable with the earth. If a thing died in the earthen water, you would strain it through your lungs all night and day for days.

The greatest violence Nancy’s mother Nancy felt daily, however, was Isaiah’s lust for that slavegirl who devoured him as the summer did the dead.

Then fire consumed Paradise.

Paradise Lost.

The swamp went up in flames.

Nancy’s daughter Nancy had grown weary at Paradise, 21 years old but a small child, and oh sometimes did she resent her slave mothers.

Fire lies at the heart of all things. If you cut the swamp with a knife, fire oozes down the blade.

So did it.

So Nancy’s daughter Nancy fell burning through the heartpine floorboards and burnt to death in the waters burbling beneath the house.

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ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

CHALK Written by Al Letson, the play about the repercussions of bullying, directed by Babs Colaciello, runs 8 p.m.

Oct. 26 & 27 at Bab’s Lab, 603 King St., Riverside, $15, barbaracolaciello.com.

URINETOWN A musical that takes cues from Flint Michigan (not really), but does address issues of class disparity and monopolization of much-needed services, opens 7 p.m.

Oct. 26, runs through Oct. 29, Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7345, $10, ju.edu.

YOUTH AND PROOF A youth open mic night, 6-9 p.m. 4 p.m.

Oct. 28 at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., theperformersacademy.org.

EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL Zombies and music merge, 8 p.m.

Oct. 27, midnight Oct. 28 at The 5 & Dime a Theatre Company, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, $22, the5anddime.org.

LILLIAN, PAULA, CARSON A staged reading of the play that showcases three brilliant, historical women in Georgia in 1953, Oct. 29, 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.

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. 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. 27 & 28; 3 p.m. Oct. 29; 8 p.m. Oct. 31 at Orange Park Community Theatre, 2900 Moody Ave., 276-2599, $18$25, opct.info.

CLASSICAL + JAZZ

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.

SYMPHONIC STRINGS Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s string section performs 8 p.m. Oct. 27, at Lazzara Performance Hall at the University of North Florida, Southside, $35, jaxsymphony.org.

OPERA’S MOST HAUNTING MELODIES A concert of ghostly encounters and beautiful tunes, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Mark Lance Armory, 190 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, $35; and 4 p.m. Oct. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A North, $35, firstcoastopera.com.

GABRIELA PEÑA-KIM Works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Beethoven, with the Lawson Ensemble 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 at UNF’s Fine Arts Center, free, 620-2961.

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.

MICHAEL LAGASSE & FRIENDS 6 p.m. Oct. 29 for Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $5, limelight-theatre.org.

BRYAN CONCERT ORGAN The Jacksonville Symphony’s showcases the organ a 20-ton instrument, 3 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., 354-5547, $19-$79, jaxsymphony.org.

AXIS I Plays 7-9 p.m. Oct. 30 at SoLo Gallery, 1037 Park St. (Hoptinger Building, second floor), $10, sologallery.org.

JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ENSEMBLES Varied chamber music performed by top student groups, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 2, Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7345, $10, ju.edu.

THE VILLIERS QUARTET 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5, Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7345, $25, ju.edu.

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RICKY VELEZ One of Variety’s “Top Comics to Watch,” appears at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26-28; 9:45 p.m. Oct. 27 and 28 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $18, 2924242, comedyzone.com.

FRED’S ALL-STAR COMEDIANS A mix of local and upcoming comics are on 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 & 31 at The Comedy Zone, $10, 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

HALLOWEEN PARTY AND COMEDY SHOW Come in for the boos, stay for the booze! Cash prize for the best costumes: $200 first, $100 second, $50 third, 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $10, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

ANGEL SALAZAR Salazar has come a long way since he was “Chi Chi” in Scarface, 8 p.m. Oct 27; 7:30 & 10:00 Oct. 28, 646-4277, $18-$23, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

ATLANTA’S FUNNIEST COMEDY SHOWCASE The funniest Atliens take the stage 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 646-4277, $23-$33, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR Hosted by Chris Buck, 9:30 p.m.

Oct. 30, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside.

COMEDY UNCORKED Hosted by Brian Zeolla, 9:30 p.m. Oct. 31, The Wine Bar, 320 N. First St., Jax Beach.

HOURGLASS COMEDY OPEN MIC Hosted by Christina Schriver, 9:30 p.m. Nov. 2, The Hourglass Pub, 345 E. Bay St., Downtown.

THE AFTER DARK COMEDY SHOW Hosted by Forest Scott, 10 p.m. Nov. 3, The Hourglass Pub, 345 E. Bay St., Downtown.

Nov. 3, The Hourglass Pub, 345 E. Bay St., Downtown.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

THEATRE JAX AUDITIONS Theatre Jacksonville auditions for its January production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., theatrejax.com.

JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT The Jacksonville International Airport (JIA) Arts Commission invites artists to apply for temporary exhibition at the airport for the four quarters of 2018, jiaarts.org.

PROJECTS GALLERY Seeks work for Art Basel, Aqua Art Fair.

Open to all artists working in all medias. Work must not exceed 12” x 12” or weigh more than 50 pounds, $100 for two artworks, deadline Oct. 31, projectsgallery.com.

VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY A call to artists for a juried art exhibition, $1,500 in awards, $35 for 3 images, deadline Nov. 6, callforentry.org.

SANTA FE COLLEGE Seeks artists for their annual springtime arts celebration, which is held outdoors, in Gainesville, $25 to apply, Dec. 31 deadline, raul.villarreal@sfcollege.edu, zapplication.org.

ART WALKS + MARKETS

UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT A self-guided tour of galleries, antique stores and shops open from 5-9 p.m. Oct. 28, in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 824-3152.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET It’s Halloween at RAM, come out and enjoy candy, monsters and musicians—Gang of Six and Ciaran Sontag—playing 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 28 under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

AFRICAN VILLAGE BAZAAR Vendors, exhibitors, local speakers, painters, designers, authors and small businesses, noon-6 p.m. Oct. 29 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, africanvillageinc.org, ritzjacksonville.com.

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK A Salute To Service with the Jacksonville Symphony, performing the rousingest of compositions in Hemming Park during the walk, 5-9 p.m.

Nov. 1, with more than 60 venues, live music, restaurants, galleries, museums, businesses and hotspots (some open after 9 p.m.) spanning 15 blocks Downtown Jacksonville. iloveartwalk.com.

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CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. 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.

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, through April 1.

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.

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

ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd. Atlantic Beach. Remembrance of Images Past Photography by Ted Mikalsen through October.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA UNF Gallery of Art, 6202534, unf.edu/gallery. See who’s teaching the artists of tomorrow, with the annual Faculty Exhibition, through Dec. 8.

BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, SAN MARCO 1905 Hendricks Ave. Dustin Harewood’s and Hiromi Moneyhun’s new works, through November, dustinharewood.com.

BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, RIVERSIDE 869 Stockton St. Tattooist Myra Oh displays her linocut prints through November, myraoh.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.

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t’s been a while since Folio Weekly spoke with Hiromi Moneyhun, and the Kyoto, Japan-born paper cut artist has been exceedingly busy. From installations at the exclusive State of the Art exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas to the city of St. Augustine’s Obelisk 450 event, to shows in Augusta, Georgia and Del Ray Beach, Moneyhun’s already prolific production levels have been put to the test, cementing her status as of one of the Southeast’s most in-demand artists. Even so, she’s remained deeply connected to her adopted hometown, participating in some of Northeast Florida’s most noteworthy exhibits of the past few years, like Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River and LIFT: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience (both at the Cummer). She even led students in kirie (paper cutting art) instruction as The Bolles School’s artist in residence during February 2016.

It’s a workload that Moneyhun has been more than happy to take on, but one that the self-taught artist might not have imagined when she moved to Jacksonville in the early 2000s. Though she began developing her own paper-cut style inspired from Edo period Japanese woodblock prints when she was a teenager, Moneyhun was developing her craft in relative obscurity—showcasing her intricate, super-modern creations at small, non-traditional art spaces, when she met local artists Mark Creegan and Dustin Harewood.

After seeing Moneyhun’s work at the Open Road Bicycles, Creegan and Harewood–both FSCJ professors–organized Moneyhun’s first solo show at the school’s Kent Campus Gallery.

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runs through November at Bold Bean Coffee Roasters, 1905 Hendricks Ave., San Marco

“There are many talented artists in Jacksonville who don’t necessarily have access to galleries at academic institutions,” said Harewood of his initiative for finding and showcasing new or obscure local artists.

“Someone’s got to be actively looking out for those talents who may have not yet figured out how to meet and socialize with the socialites–those fantastic artistic introverts who aren’t necessarily plugged into the Jacksonville ‘scene.’”

ABOVE: Dustin Harewood, Nobility and Beauty, acrylic, spray paint, resin, collage on wood, 17 in. x 17 in., 2017. AT RIGHT: Hiromi Moneyhun, Fox, cut paper.

In Moneyhun, Harewood–whose abstract, textural kaleidoscopes of coral, Japanese folk demons, and newsprint have made him another indemand artist–found an artist tuned to a similar frequency.

“I think that Hiromi and I share very similar tastes, even though the work itself physically doesn’t draw immediate obvious connections,” said Harewood.

The two distinctive artists will be sharing wall space at Bold Bean Coffee Roasters San Marco, beginning Saturday, Oct. 21. The installation Garden, Temple, God showcases each artist’s own contemplation of the natural interpretations of phenomena often viewed through a more supernatural lens here in the West. It’s a broad theme Moneyhun says Harewood suggested after seeing some of her work.

“Hiromi’s recent work has been dealing a lot with religious architecture both Japanese and European,” Harewood said. “My work [lately] has been concerned with our relationships to our higher and lower selves and the environment. The show title just popped into my head.”

“I think that neither [Dustin nor I] contemplate the supernatural aspect of these terms,” Moneyhun added. “But instead I think we think of these things as a natural part of life, mystical but not in the sense of what mysticism means here in the West, with all of its references to a possible afterlife and all that stuff. Japan is the home of Zen. Zen may be seen as mystical, especially by Westerners–many of whom may also consider it to be a bunch of hocus-pocus–but we Japanese see it as no more mystical than the growth of a plant or the decomposition of a dead body. Mother nature is the ultimate mystic.”

And although each artist has a unique style, the influence of Japanese art and culture is an obvious overlap between the two.

Harewood’s wife is Japanese and he spends part of each year there.

“Dustin and I have similar aesthetic tastes,” Moneyhun said. “It could be the Japanese influence, but I do draw inspiration from his work in general. I mean that I’m inspired by the quality and integrity of his work.

“It’s kind of like when Jacob Dylan was asked during an interview if he was influenced by the music of his father, and he replied, ‘So let me get this straight. You’re asking me if I, as a musician of the late 20th century, have been influenced by the music of Bob Dylan?’

“I think that anyone who has seen Dustin’s work will be influenced by it in one way or another, to some degree. It’s that good.”

Aside from producing work for the show, Moneyhun and Harewood drew on the Garden, Temple, Gun theme to collaborate on a commemorative zine, which will be available for purchase at the opening. And although they were tuned to the same frequency, Harewood says they’re leaving it up to the viewer to decide where to turn his or her own dial.

“It’s up to you and the rest of the viewers to decide whether or not our collaboration makes sense or not,” he said. “But I can say, with no reservations, that it makes perfect sense to me.”

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ARTS + EVENTS 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.

FSCJ’S KENT CAMPUS GALLERY 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside. Indirect Constructs: New Works by Tonya D. Lee and Lily Kuonen through Nov. 14.

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.

HASKELL GALLEY Located inside of the Jacksonville International Airport, 2400 Yankee Clipper Dr., Cafcules, Middleton, Walburn, on display through December.

MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, 2170637, 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. Tony Woods turns 60! Pop by during the Nov. Art Walk to celebrate this master painter.

STELLERS GALLERY 3139 Philips Hwy., Southside, 396-9492.

Southern Grown, an exhibit of works by artists living and working in the South, runs 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.

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Oct. 29 for Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $5, limelight-theatre.org.

EVENTS

ON NEGATIVITY (AND THEATER) Playwright Julia Jarcho talks about her experiences in the theater community, 7 p.m. Oct. 26, UNF Gallery of Art, Southside, free.

COMMUNITY SUPPERS Designed to encourage meaningful dialogue in our community, four suppers at 6 p.m. Oct. 26, registration required, unf.edu/onejax/community_ suppers.aspx.

SQUIDBILLIES Before the big game, join the cast and crew for a special screening of new Squidbillies episodes, 8 p.m.

Oct. 27, Hoptinger, 1037 Park St., Riverside, free with RSVP eventbright.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.

PARTY AT THE LANDING Kicking off at noon Friday, Oct. 27 at The Landing, celebrate Florida/Georgia weekend with football (obvi), good food, drink specials, bands and games, jacksonvillelanding.com.

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.

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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.

EL DIA DE LOS DIFUNTOS The ancient Spanish tradition of El Dia de los Difuntos (the Day of the Deceased), is hosted by the Tolomato Cemetery Preservation Association, A discussion of this custom followed by traditional events takes place, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Oct. 28; 7 p.m. the traditional Marcha de la Santa Compaña (the March of the Holy Company) at the south end of St. George St.; 8 p.m. a short, candle-lit production of the classical Spanish play, El Muerto at the Tolomato Cemetery, free, floridalivinghistory.org.

ART FUSION Get messy at MOCA Jacksonville, kids’ hands-on projects related to works in the museum, 5-8 p.m. Nov. 1 at 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com.

ART REPUBLIC MURAL FESTIVAL Is held again at various sites throughout the city, Nov. 1-12, artrepublicjax.org.

WOODBLOCK TALISMANS FROM VIETNAM A lecture by Professor James Kemp supporting his collection of talismans intended for the dead takes place 4 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Fernandina Beach Library, 25 N. 4th St., free, fernandinaFOL. org, 530-6500.

LIBRARY BOOK SALE Get ready for winter reading! 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Nov. 2 & 3, Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library, 101 Library Blvd., free, 827-6950, sjcpls.org.

COMMUNITY SUPPERS Designed to encourage meaningful dialogue in our community, four suppers at 6 p.m. Nov. 2, registration required, unf.edu/onejax/cross-cultural.aspx.

KAIRA ROUDA Bestselling author Rouda reads from and signs copies of her newest thriller, Best Day Ever 7 p.m.

Nov. 3 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026.

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TEAM HALLOWEEN A charity fundraiser/group costume contest, 7 p.m. Oct. 26, Hyperion Brewing Company, 1740 N. Main St., Springfield, $150/team of four, hopeathand.org.

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. 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 HOUSESFour haunted houses— Apocalypse Clown 3D Takeover, Pinehurst Asylum, Containment, Descent—are open 7-10 p.m. Oct. 26; 7-11 p.m. Oct. 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 the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Oct. 27 and 28 at 111 Busch Dr., Northside, $10-$179, thehauntedbrewery.com.

FLORIDA-GEORGIA PIGSKIN AND WHISKEY NIGHT Kick off Florida-Georgia weekend with a whole hog roast and bourbon craft cocktail party, 7 p.m. Oct. 27, NOLA MOCA, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, $37.92, mocajacksonville.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. 27, Nov. 3 & 10 at Anastasia Island Branch Library, 124 Sea Grove Main St., St. Augustine Beach, 2093730, 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.

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.

KARISSA WADE HOSTS THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Wear your costumes, bring your props (no meat, please), and come early for live music by 4Play at 8 p.m. The Rocky Horror Picture Show screens after; Oct. 28 at The Florida Theatre, $15, 355-2787, floridatheatre.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 and bands. Block party Post to Kerle streets; parade starts in the 900 block of Edgewood Avenue. murrayhilljax.com.

TRICK OR TREAT IN THE STREET Dust off your capes and fangs, bring a friend, the family or the whole office and take part in Downtown’s trick or treat party (just don’t try to sit down), 11 a.m.–2 p.m. in Hemming Park, hemmingpark.org.

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 blood-chilling walk-through attractions, it feels like being in a horror film! Through Oct. 31 at 11740 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 315-8590. _________________________________________ To list an event, send time, date, location (street address, city), admission price, contact number to print to Madeleine Peck Wagner; email madeleine@folioweekly. com or mail 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202.

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Get your FILL OF THRILLS at these frightful Halloween attractions and parties

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t’s that time of the year again again, when the dead shall walk amongst the living—especially as they leave the bars around 2 o’clock. So dust off those vampire fangs and cut a couple holes in that old bed sheet, it’s Halloween!

Between the boozing and Netflix horror movie binges, we thought you might actually want to get out of the house this year. So we compiled a list of some of the best spots to celebrate with kindred Halloween spirits.

HAUNTED BREWERY AT ANHEUSER BUSCH

This year’s Haunted Brewery is going to make a KILLING as they SLAY the crowds with a menagerie of terrifying attractions. For the Walking Dead fans among us, you can go on the Zombie Hunt and do your best rendition of Rick Grimes. Just remember, they’re not real zombies. Killing them and wearing their mashed up corpses as zombie repellent is frowned upon. Or, if you want, head on over to the CarnEVIL and do a little organ tossing

or spin the Wheel of Misfortune.

Plus, there’s Misfortune Plus going to be beer. Who doesn’t like beer?

(Probably zombies.) If the chills make you mighty thirsty, ask about the on-site promo code for safe rides home from zTrip. 5-11 p.m.

Friday & Saturdays through Oct., kids 12 & under free, adults $10-55, 1100 Ellis Rd. N., Northside, thehauntedbrewery.com.

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lovable bunch of horror gluttons actually pay them to do it. When you step through the doors, you won’t know what to expect next as you wonder what’s waiting around every corner—also very reminiscent of current politics. If you like screaming at a crisp falsetto, this is the place to go.

Thursday/Sunday $25, Friday/Saturday $30, fastpass $10, 11262 Beach Blvd., Southside, (833) 904-3327, warehouse31unleashed.com.

SPOOKTACULAR SIGHTS AT JACKSONVILLE ZOO AND GARDENS

A little Halloween spooking for the whole family. Head on down for a hauntingly magical night at the ZOO as the whole place transforms into a Tim Burton-esque version of a Winter Wonderland. BOO and AWE at the Pumpkin Patch, and then grab some candy on the Sweet Pete trail. They even have some kid-friendly haunts with three different scare zones. For the adults in attendance, a real nightmare is in store: dealing with hundreds of sugar-high kids as they fight over candy and try to climb in the giraffe exhibit.

6:30-10 p.m. (gates close at 9), Oct. 27-29, $12 members, $14 non-members; Oct. 30 and 31, $11 members, $13 non-members; 370 Zoo Parkway, Northside, spooktacular. jacksonvillezoo.org.

CAPTAIN JACK’S GHOST BOAT TOUR

Your standard walk-and-talk ghost tour isn’t half bad. You see some sights, hear some stories and get a nice constitutional. If you want to take your ghost touring to the next level, hop on a boat down in good ol’ St. Augustine. Enjoy the ride as the GHOST BOAT traipses down the Matanzas Bay, which plays home to the souls of some 300 French soldiers—spooky, right? The sights will allure and mystify, as the stories enthrall and stupefy. Make sure you catch the last boat out, the spirits are always most active late at night—kinda like that one who keeps eating your leftovers in the fridge while you’re asleep. Kids 5-12 $16, adults $25.95, 8270807, 111 Avenida Menendez, St Augustine, staugustineghosttours.com.

WAREHOUSE 31 UNLEASHED

Warehouse 31 is where to go if you want that true sense of guttural and visceral horror.

When you watch a scary movie at home, you can at least rest easily knowing that it’s not actually happening—unless you’re watching Donald Trump give a speech in our fever dream hellscape called reality. Like the Donald, the peeps at Warehouse 31 know how to screw with your head. They’re so good, the

THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL

The Old Spanish Trail promises this year’s haunt to be a unique experience. With two acres of woodland trails filled with three haunts worth of spooks and scares, the Spanish Trail might keep its promise—unlike Rose (there was enough room on that raft!).

The event even boasts that you may come in contact with an actual ghost, whether you believe that sort of thing or not. Turns out ghosts don’t need you to believe in them to be real. According to the proprietors of the event, this haunt has been verified by legit paranormal investigators. Also, there’s no promises you won’t come in contact with creepy crawly bugs, bats, snakes and rats, seeing how you’re out in the middle of the woods. Kids 12 and under $15, adults $25, group rate ($20/person) for parties of 10 or more, 13535 W. Beaver Street, Westside, ostjax.com.

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Based on everybody’s favorite Halloween flick, Hocus Pocus, Blackfinn’s Halloween Party is set to be one of the more interesting places to be on that Hallowed Day. For the night, the pub is being transformed into Salem, Massachusetts. Witches and ghouls will be running amok and cutting a rug as the DJ will be playing all of your favorite Halloween tunes—cue up the “Monster Mash” conga line remix featuring Pitbull.

And if your costume is up to snuff, you may be walking home with some cash and prizes. 9 p.m., Oct. 26, free, VIP tables $250 [seat 4-8 depending on section and comes with a bottle of Grey Goose and mixers (excluding Red Bull), a VIP bottle server and your choice of Mumm Brut or Mumm Rose], Blackfinn Ameripub, 4840 Big Island Drive, St. Johns Town Center, eventbrite.com/e/hocus-pocus-halloweenparty-tickets-36518282165.

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Suawnnee Music Park hosts Suwannee Hulaween featuring STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, BASSNECTAR, RUN the JEWELS, NATHAN RATELIFF & the NIGHT SWEATS, more 6 p.m. Oct. 27-29.

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MARTY FARMER 6 p.m. Oct. 25, Boondocks Grill & Bar, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove Springs, 406-9497.

GRIFFIN HOUSE 6 p.m. Oct. 25, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, raylewispresents.com, $25.

BROADWAY’S NEXT HIT MUSICAL 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25, Ritz Theatre, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, $14-$34.

KINGS of LEON, DAWES 7 p.m. Oct. 25, Daily’s Place, 1 Daily’s Place, Downtown, 633-2000, $69-$333.

DOPE, HED(PE) 6 p.m. Oct. 25, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $17-$20.

PUNK ROCK BURLESQUE, IVY LES VIXENS, ANITA NIGHTCAP, JESS A. BELL, MUDTOWN 7 p.m. Oct. 25, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside, $10-$20.

FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL 9:30 p.m. Oct. 26, Cheers Park Avenue, 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855.

IVAN SMITH 6 p.m. Oct. 26, Boondocks Grill & Bar. ANDY MINEO 6 p.m. Oct. 26, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $20.

DEANA CARTER, SWEET TEA TRIO 7 p.m. Oct. 26, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $38-$75.

Candied Fest: I WAS AFRAID, BOSTON MARRIAGE, TEEN DIVORCE, SECRET STUFF, SAVE FACE, more 4 p.m. Oct. 26, 1904 Music Hall, $10.

MERCYME, RYAN STEVENSON, UNSPOKEN 7 p.m. Oct. 26, T-U Center for the Performing Arts $40-$122.

KORN AGAIN 8 p.m. Oct. 26, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $10.

MDC 8 p.m. Oct. 26, Nighthawks, $12.

GHOSTWITCH 8 p.m. Oct. 27, Jack Rabbits, $8.

TOAD the WET SPROCKET 7 p.m. Oct. 27, PVC Hall, sold out.

MOON HOOCH, JACKSON WHALEN 8 p.m. Oct. 27, 1904 Music Hall, $10-$13.

ERIC COLLETTE & BAND, FOND KISER 7 p.m. Oct. 27, Boondocks Grill & Bar. NO SAINTS 10 p.m. Oct. 27, The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611.

BRAND NEW 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Daily’s Place, $39-$55.

MIKE SHACKELFORD 7 p.m. Oct. 27, Mudville Music Room, $20.

Suwannee Hulaween: STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, BASSNECTAR, RUN the JEWELS, NATHAN RATELIFF & the NIGHT SWEATS, more 6 p.m. Oct. 27-29, Suwannee Music Park, sold out.

IVEY LEAGUE 9:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Cheers Park Avenue.

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 8 p.m. Oct. 28, Florida Theatre, $15.

CLIFF DORSEY 10 p.m. Oct. 28, Boondocks Grill & Bar. IVEY LEAGUE 5 p.m. Oct. 27, Cheers Park Avenue.

SWILL, OH THE HUMANITY, RUNNER’S HIGH 8 p.m.

Oct. 27, Nighthawks.

The MOVIELIFE, IRON CHIC 7 p.m. Oct. 28, 1904 Music Hall, $17-$20 DAN BERN 8:30 p.m. Oct. 28, The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., originalcafe11.com, $15-$20, LIVING COLOUR 7 p.m. Oct. 28, PVC Hall, $30-$33.50.

THRILLCRAFT 6 p.m. Oct. 28, Nighthawks.

CASEY JAMES 8 p.m. Oct. 28, Jack Rabbits, $15.

ALPTRAUM 10 p.m. Oct. 28, The Roadhouse, $3.

NO RAZA, CRYPTERIA, DENIED TIL DEATH 7 p.m.

Oct. 29, Nighthawks.

JIM LAMB 4:30 p.m. Oct. 29, Boondocks Grill & Bar. The MAGPIE SALUTE 8 p.m. Oct. 29, Florida Theatre, $30-$39.

The SOCIAL ANIMALS 8 p.m. Oct. 29, Jack Rabbits, $8.

VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & the TRAIN 8 p.m. Oct. 29, The Original Café Eleven, $25-$30.

ICE BILLION BERG 9 p.m. Oct. 29, Mavericks Live, $25-$35.

MICHAEL LAGASSE & FRIENDS 6 p.m. Oct. 29, Music in the Box, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $5.

The CATTLEFISH FRITTER Oct. 29, Rain Dogs HARMS WAY 6 p.m. Oct. 30, Nighthawks, $12-$15.

ROCKY HORROR-LIVE 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31-Nov. 11, 1904 Music Hall, $20-$25.

The CONVALESCENCE, WINGS DENIED, OBLITERATE, DEATH RATTLE 7 p.m. Nov. 1, Jack Rabbits, $10.

PAUL CONNOR 6 p.m. Nov. 1, Boondocks Grill & Bar JOHNNYSWIM 7 p.m. Nov. 1, PVC Hall, sold out.

DJ CAPONE 9:30 p.m. Nov. 1, Cheers Park Avenue.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

DUBBEST Nov. 2, Surfer the Bar GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Nov. 2, Mudville Music Room JONATHAN LEE Nov. 3, Boondocks Grill & Bar TREEHOUSE Nov. 3, Surfer the Bar RESINATED 10 p.m. Nov. 3, The Roadhouse, $3.

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 LADY DAISY, BATSAUCE, GEEXELLA, WILLIE EVANS JR. Nov. 4 Nighthawks.

JOHN CLEESE screens Monty Python & the Holy Grail Nov. 4, Florida Theatre COLT FORD Nov. 4, Daily’s Place SMOKIN JOE, REDFISH BAND Nov. 4, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 PAUL IVEY Nov. 5, Boondocks Grill & Bar SHELBY LYNNE, ALLISON MOORER Nov. 5, PVC Hall PRISONER, DEATHWATCH 97 Nov. 6, Shantytown JAZZ IS PHISH Nov. 5, 1904 Music Hall JETHRO TULL Nov. 7, Daily’s Place NOBUNTU Nov. 7, Ritz Theatre ALEX AFFRONTI Nov. 7, Boondocks Grill & Bar

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 REDFISH RICH Nov. 8, Boondocks Grill & Bar GENITORTURERS Nov. 9, Jack Rabbits RAY WYLIE HUBBARD Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MARK EVANS Nov. 3, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 TRASHKNIFE, MADHAUS, LA-A, CORRUPTED SAINT Nov. 10, Shantytown ERIC COLLETTE & BAND Nov. 10, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 SMOKIN JOE, DEANNE & MARK Nov. 11, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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, TimesUnion Center’s Moran Theater OTTMAR LIEBERT, LUNA NEGRA Nov. 12, PVC Hall REDFISH RICH Nov. 12, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 MARTY FARMER Nov. 14, Boondocks Grill & Bar BROCCOLI SAMURAI Nov. 15, Jack Rabbits NEW KINGSTON Nov. 15, Surfer the Bar JIM LAMB Nov. 15, Boondocks Grill & Bar The YOUNG DUBLINERS Nov. 16, The Original Café Eleven WINTERTIME, SWAG HOLLYWOOD Nov. 16, Jack Rabbits THE YOUNG DUBLINERS Nov. 16, Café Eleven MARK EVANS Nov. 16, Boondocks Grill & Bar SADISTIK, NACHO PICASSO Nov. 16, Nighthawks SON VOLT Nov. 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre’s Backyard Stage KIM KENYON, THE NOBODIES Nov. 17, The Roadhouse ROY BOOKBINDER Nov. 17, Mudville Music Room BARRETT THOMPSON, ZEB PADGETT Nov. 17, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 SUPERVILLIANS Nov. 18, The Roadhouse ERIC COLLETTE & CODY, SOUTHERN RUKUS Nov. 18, Boondocks Grill & Bar

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC COLTER WALL Nov. 18, Jack Rabbits TONY FURTADO Nov. 19, Café Eleven ELVIN BISHOP Nov. 19, PVC Hall THE ORIGINAL WAILERS, JAHMEN Nov. 19, Jack Rabbits JIM LAMB Nov. 19, Boondocks Grill & Bar SLEEP SIGNALS, ELISIUM Nov. 21, Jack Rabbits MARK EVANS Nov. 21, Boondocks Grill & Bar BLU & EXILE 10th Anniversary: DAS SAVAGE, CHOOSEY, CASHUS KING Nov. 22, Jack Rabbits LEILANI WOLFGRAMM Nov. 22, Surfer the Bar ALEX AFFRONTI Nov. 22, Boondocks Grill & Bar JOHN McLAUGHLIN, JIMMY HERRING (play Mahavisnu Orchestra) Nov. 24, Florida Theatre JONATHAN LEE, REDFISH RICH Nov. 24, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 CLIFF DORSEY, PAUL IVEY Nov. 25, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 BATTALION OF SAINTS, THE NOBODIES Nov. 26, Nighthawks KINGS Nov. 27, Mudville Music Room REDFISH RICH Nov. 28, Boondocks Grill & Bar AERIAL TRIBE REUNION Nov. 29, Surfer the Bar The BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA Nov. 29, Florida Theatre MARTY FARMER Nov. 29, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 ERIC COLLETTE & CODY Nov. 3O, Boondocks Grill & Bar 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 LIL ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS Dec. 4, Café Eleven Psychic Warfare Tour: CLUTCH, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, The OBSESSED Dec. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre’s Backyard Stage ALLEN SHAD Dec. 5, Mudville Music Room ’68 WITH WHORES Dec. 5, Nighthawks D.R.I. KAUSTIK Dec. 6, Nighthawks Jingle Jam for St. Jude: GRANGER SMITH, LAUREN ALAINA, MIDLAND, DYLAN SCOTT Dec. 7, T-U Center Moran Theater WILLY PORTER, CARMEN NICKERSON Dec. 7, Café Eleven 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 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 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, OCEANS ATE ALSKA, VARIALS, LOATHE 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 1 Dec. 30, Mudville Music Room Travel Slideshow Spoken Word Tour: HENRY ROLLINS Jan. 1, PVC Hall BETTYE LAVETTE Jan. 4, PVC Hall PETER BRADLEY ADAMS Jan 5, Café Eleven Florida Chamber Music Project: BOCCHERINI, PUCCINI, NINO ROTA, WOLF Jan. 7, PVC Hall JACKSON BROWNE, GREG LEISZ Jan. 7, Florida Theatre 28 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 25-31, 2017

Blues and roots music artist VICTOR WAINWRIGHT performs at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 in Beaches Museum Chapel, 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, $25 advance, $30 day of, or $80 for the season (four concerts); beachesmuseum.org.

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, Fla. Theatre MARY WILSON (The Supremes) Feb. 3, Ritz Theatre FEEDING FINGERSFeb. 4, Nighthawks 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. Aug. 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. 29 SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 Pili Pili Oct. 25. Tad Jennings Oct. 26., 2 Dudes from Texas 2 p.m., Milltown Road 7 p.m. Oct. 27. Melissa Smith 2 p.m., 7 Street Band 7 p.m. Oct. 28. Chase Fouraker 1 p.m., JC & Mike 10 p.m. Oct. 29. Savana Basset Oct. 30 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Katfish Lee Oct. 25 & 31.

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. 27. Open mic 7 p.m. every Thur.

ATLANTIC BEACH BREWING COMPANY, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 3 & 15, Atlantic Beach, 372-4116 Samuel Sanders 8 p.m. Oct. 28 BLUE JAY Listening Room, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 West Brook Weds 7 p.m. Oct. 25. Bruce Katz Band 7 p.m. Oct. 28 BLUE WATER DAIQUIRI & OYSTER BAR, 205 N. First St., 249-0083 3 Day Bash Halloween Party, Oct. 28-30. Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. Oct. 25 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. 26. Don’t Cal Me Shirley 10 p.m. Oct. 27 & 28. Darren Corlew Oct. 29. 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 Robbie Lit 8 p.m. Oct. 27. Sol Rydah and Bill Begley Oct. 28. 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 Firewater Tent Revival 10 p.m. Oct. 27. Beach City 10 p.m. Oct. 28.

Split Tone every Thur. Chillula every Sun. K-Sick every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Felix Chang Oct. 26. 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. 25 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Live music every Wed.-Sun. THE RITZ LOUNGE, 185 Third Ave. N., 246-2255 The Beaches largest outdoor Party for Fl/GA weekend! Silent Disco Oct. 27 & 28 SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Live music every weekend SOUTHERN GROUNDS & CO., 200 First St., NB, 249-2922 Jazz Corner 6 p.m. every Tue. SURFER The BAR, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Aaron Thomas Oct. 25., Root of All Oct. 27., Chillula Oct. 28. Radio Love Oct. 31. Live music nearly every night WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Perry Philips 8 p.m. Oct. 26. 7th Street Band 8:30 p.m. Oct. 27.

Tuesday Night Blues Club 8 p.m. Oct. 31 ZETA BREWING, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Live music every weekend

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 Dope, (hed)PE

6 p.m. Oct. 25. Candied Fest 2017: Better Now, Boston Marriage, Boysin, lazed, I was Afraid, Jacob Darrell Hudson, Mona Blue, Rosemary Kennedy, save face, Secret, Stuff, Surrency, Teen Divorce Oct. 26. Moon Hooch, Jackson Whalen Oct. 27. The Movielife, Iron Chic Oct. 28. The Rocky Horror Show—Live Oct. 31.

DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 Ras AJ, De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Oct. 27 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. 25. Live music most weekends HOURGLASS PUB, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 Horror Movie Halloween Party, Oct. 31, Singer-songwriter open mic every 7 p.m. Sun. Live music 9:30 p.m. Fri. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Fl/GA 2017 Celebration Southern Rukus, DJ Kevin, Austin Park, DJ Wes, DJ Davin, Firewater Tent Revival, Boogie Freaks starting at noon Oct. 27; WildFire Rising, DJ Wes, Lonely Highway, DJ James, DJ Shawn, Austin Park starting 11 a.m. Oct. 28; and don’t miss the Game Watch Party on the Jumbotron!

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Andy Mineo Oct. 26., Ice Billion Berg Oct. 29, Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 Shlump 8 p.m.

Oct. 25., Goon and Goblins Hip Hop Halloween Party 10 p.m.

Oct. 27, Yin Yang Twins 9 p.m. Oct. 28, 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, 4069497 Marty Farmer 6 p.m. Oct. 25, Ivan Smith 6 p.m. Oct. 26, Fond Kisser 7 p.m. Eric Collette & Band 10 p.m. Oct. 27, Cliff Dorsey 10 p.m. Oct. 28, Jim Lamb 4:30 p.m. Oct. 29, Paul Conor 6 p.m. Nov. 1 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Al Torchia 8:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Wes Cobb 8:30 p.m. Oct. 28 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Sun Jammers 9 p.m. Oct. 27, Area 52 9 p.m. Oct. 28. Live music every weekend

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Good Wood Band Oct. 25. Fratello Oct. 27. The Remains Oct. 28. Open mic every Tue. Live music every Tue.-Sun. JERRY’S Sports Bar & Grille, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Retro Kats 8:30 p.m. Oct. 27. Live music every Fri.

MANDARIN

CHEERS PARK AVENUE 11475 San Jose Blvd., 262-4337 Love Monkey 9 p.m. Oct. 28 ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Murray Goff Oct. 26, Brian Iannucci Oct. 25 & 29, Carl Grant Oct. 28, Carlos Peterson Nov. 1 IGGY’S GRILL & BAR, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101, 209-5209 Hind Site 7 p.m. Oct. 27, No Saints 7 p.m. Oct. 28, Keith & Bob Oct. 29, DJ Greg 7 p.m. every Wed. TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Mark Chuck Nash Band 8 p.m. Oct. 27. 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. 25. Firewater Tent Revival 9:30 p.m. Oct. 26.

Cassidy Lee 5 p.m., Ivey League 9:30 p.m. Oct. 27 & 28.

DALTON’S SPORTS GRILL, 2620 Blanding Blvd., Middleburg, 282-1564 Halloween Bash 8 p.m. Oct. 27 DEE’S MUSIC BAR, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 3752240 Jimmy Murdock and Gabe Bullard 9 p.m. Oct. 27., Highway Jones 9 p.m. Oct. 29. 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 No Saints 10 p.m. Oct. 27. Alptraum, Sasquatch on Mars, HyperCel 10 p.m. Oct. 28. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SHARK CLUB, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline 9 p.m.

Oct. 25. Tom Bennett Band 9 p.m. Oct. 26

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music 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 The Katz Downstairz Oct. 28. Live music every Fri. MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Red, Bleeding in Stereo, Candor, 7 p.m. Oct. 28.

NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Punk Rock Burlesque, Ivy Les Vixens, Anita Nightcap, Jess A. Bell, Mudtown Oct. 25., MDC 8 p.m. Oct. 26, Oh the Humanity, Swill, Runner’s High, Rational Anthem 8 p.m. Oct. 27, ThriftCraft 6 p.m. Oct. 28, No Raza, Crypteria, Denied Till Death, Dead Centre, 7 p.m.

Oct. 27, Harms Way 6 p.m. Oct. 30 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Kid You Not, WolvesX4, Freya Wilcox, Cold Wrecks, The Run Up 8 p.m. Oct. 26. 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. Axis I7 p.m. Oct. 30 SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362 Live music most weekends

ST. AUGUSTINE

ARNOLD’S LOUNGE, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 824-8738 Lisa’s Mad Hatters 9 p.m. Oct. 28 CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Dan Bern 8:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Victor Wainwright & The Train 8 p.m. Oct. 29 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Ian Kelly Oct. 26, Billy Buchanan, Ancient City Keepers Oct. 27. TJ Brown, “Beautiful” Billy Blackmon & the B3 Blues Band 2 p.m. Oct. 28, Vinny Jacobs Oct. 29.

DOS COFFEE & WINE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Live music every weekend MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Salty Dog 9 p.m. Oct. 27., Not Quite Dead 9 p.m. Oct. 28. 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 Leelyn Osborne, Cookin’ in da Kitchen 6 p.m. Oct. 25, The Willow Wacks, Lu Robino & Chuck Nash 6 p.m. Oct. 26, Ramona, Parker Urban 6 p.m. Oct. 27, Raisin Cake Orchestra, Firewater Tent Revival 6 p.m. Oct. 28, The Willow Wacks 6 p.m. Oct. 30, Leelyn Osborne, Cookin’ in da Kitchen Nov. 1 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Pl., 342-0286 Jay Bird Oct. 26. Integral Latin Band Oct. 27. Tony Martin, Kevon Remonte Oct. 28., Jax English Salsa Band Oct. 29. Tempo Allstar Band Oct. 31 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Cottonmouth9 p.m. Oct. 27 & 28. The Down Low every Wed.

OVERSET

SAN MARCO

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Korn Again 8 p.m. Oct. 26, Ghostwitch, Ursula 8 p.m. Oct. 27. Casey James 8 p.m. Oct. 28, The Social Animals, Secret Cigarettes 8 p.m. Oct. 29, The Convalescence, Wings Denied, Obliterate, Death Rattle 8 p.m. Nov. 1 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Luke Peacock’s Other People’s Song, Rachel McGoye, Rick Kennedy 7 p.m. Oct. 26. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer, Dean Spry 7 p.m. Oct. 27. Big Band 7 p.m. Oct. 30

SOUTHSIDE, ARLINGTON & BAYMEADOWS

BAYARD ROOSTER, 12661 Philips Hwy., 880-7771 Live music 4 p.m. every Sun. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Side Hustle Oct. 27 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Melissa Smith 8 p.m. Oct. 26. Mojo Roux 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29.

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 and BakerLife Halloween 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 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 Live music every weekend

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Folk songstress RACHEL McGOYE joins Luke Peacock’s Other People’s Song and Rick Kennedy at MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM in St. Nicholas 7 p.m. Oct. 26.

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Fine craft cocktails, elite fare and a delightful dining experience make Avondale’s RESTAURANT ORSAY our readers’ choice for the Best Restaurant in Jax. photo by Ellyn McDonald

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH

Hurricane Patty’s Waterfront Bar & Grill American, Burgers & Seafood

69 Lewis Blvd. | 904-342-7338 Colorful Seafood Shack right at the River’s Edge Marina features the freshest seafood around. Inspired by f their th i bold b ld flavors fl the islands, our appetizers are famous for and fresh, homemade sauces. Stop on by for daily specials, signature tropical drinks and live music by the waterside!

Falafel Queen

Mediterranean Cuisine 1080 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd. | 904-217-4886 For the best healthy Mediterranean food in town, this cozy hideaway offers perfectly-spiced dishes and sandwiches.

Try family recipes for Falafel, Shawarma, Zaatar, handmade fresh. Fast and friendly service-owner Eva truly is the Falafel Queen! (Gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian available!)

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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. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season THE CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap.com. F For nearly 40 years, family-ownedand-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ 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, moonriverpizza.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

DINING DIRECTORY KEY AVERAGE ENTRÉE COST $ $$

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ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL NOTES BW = Beer/Wine

L = Lunch

FB = Full Bar

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

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

To list your restaurant, call your account manager or call or text SAM TAYLOR, Folio Weekly publisher, at 904-860-2465 (email: staylor@folioweekly.com).

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. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

DINING DIRECTORY

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

1st STREET LOFT, 502 N. First St., 241-7848, 1ststreetloft.com.

New beach spot serves breakfast and lunch all day. Local artists’ works are displayed. It’s a coffeehouse and live music venue, too. $ TO B L D W-Sa; B L Su & M ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM SUBS, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. F 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. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, award-winning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

SEE RIVERSIDE.

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. 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

GRILL ME!

The Happy Tomato Cafe & BBQ 7 S. Third St. • Fernandina Beach Born in: Jacksonville Years in Biz: 28 Favorite Restaurant: Mon Ami Gabi (Las Vegas) Favorite Cuisine Style: French Go-To Ingredients: Butter & cream Ideal Meal: Grilled NY strip steak topped with cambozola cheese and fried shallots in a red wine demi-glace Will Not Cross My Lips: Liver & onions Insider’s Secret: My wife’s cookies … and no, you can't have the recipe Celebrity at Your Restaurant: Robin Williams Culinary Treat: Milk chocolate-covered Oreo cookies

CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA

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

Dine in or out on picnic tables. $$ FB K TO L & D Tu-Sa

You might be too busy STUFFING YOUR FACE to chat, though

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

RICHARD BOLTON

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. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shackburgers.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. 2017 Best of Jax 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

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

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 2017 Best of Jax finalist. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches,

photo by Brentley Stead

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

COFFEE TALK IN

ORANGE PARK

A PLACE THAT SERVES GREAT COFFEE, delightful breakfast and tasty pastries is a place you want to know more about, amiright? The Urban Bean Coffeehouse Cafe, a bright spot in Orange Park, has it all and more.

The sizeable location has a cool, industrial look with raw concrete floors and large glass display cases for their many baked goods.

They serve breakfast all day and their lunch menu is pretty clutch too, with a variety of sandwiches, salads and sharable (or not–your call) snackable items.

We’ll start with breakfast, as most normal people do. A standard, the Bagel Breakfast Sandwich, was up to bat first. They make their bagels in house and this one included an awesome stack of cheese, egg and bacon on a fresh toasted bagel. This breakfast sandwich definitely hits the spot. Stepping it up a little, the Breakfast Black Bean Burrito ($4.99) is a great deal, filled with scrambled eggs, brown rice, black beans, cheddar and cilantro wrapped in a spinach tortilla tucked in a bright green wrapper. It’s definitely a breakfast, or early lunch, that sticks to your ribs and keeps you going throughout the day.

A mix of traditional and new flair, the Mexicali Omelette ($7.99) features fluffy eggs with chicken breast, onion, tomato, guacamole, green chili pepper, smothered in Monterey jack cheese.

The omelette was delicious but didn’t have a lot of chicken; the eggs made up for the extra protein, though. As it’s a Mexican style omelette, you’ll also get a side of sour cream and salsa.

THE URBAN BEAN COFFEEHOUSE CAFÉ 2023 Park Ave., Orange Park, 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com

For lunch, I went with the Park Avenue Sandwich ($7.89) ham and cheese with onion jam on asiago white bread. They got me with the caramelized onions, my favorite, but the jam turned out to be a little too sweet for my savory sandwich wants. They have several sharable options as well, like their Deluxe Hummus Plate ($8.49) and the Ultimate Guacamole ($8.49).

Honestly, though, the price is a little high for a bowl of roasted pepper hummus topped with diced tomatoes and marinated feta served with baked pita points. Nevertheless, this could totally be a lunch if you’re really into hummus. It wasn’t as creamy as a Mediterranean place would make it, but it did have a homemade feel; you could tell it was made in house with love.

We touched briefly on the dessert case selection, and our final decision wasn’t easy.

The pumpkin doughnut stuffed with a pumpkin cheesecake almost won but then I spotted this gooey, caramel situation and that was it. Armed with a fork, I was ready when the Caramel Pecan Pumpkin Bacon Roll came towards me.

There wasn’t as much pumpkin as I would have liked, but the caramelized pecans and bacon were present and at attention!

The coffee and tea selection is also standout at The Urban Bean. Their house made loose leaf teas are gorgeously presented and you can’t help but want one. I ordered the Jasmine Green and delighted in a fragrant, delicious, perfect cap to my meal.

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DINING DIRECTORY PINT-SIZED

Beloved Irish brew celebrates TWO CENTURIES of American fans

Captivating charcuterie and a lovely bistro experience are the signature of PATIO PLACE on Amelia Island.

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WHEN MAKING A LIST OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL brews in the world, it is impossible to not put Guinness Dry Stout near the top. The story of this iconic beer goes back more than 250 years and is firmly entrenched in Irish lore. This year, Guinness is celebrating 200 years of exporting to America.

In 1759, Arthur Guinness began brewing ales at the now famous St. James Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. To ensure that his company would maintain control, Guinness famously signed a 9,000-year lease for just £45 (approximately $1,600 in today’s dollars). At the time, this was a bold move as the St. James Gate property was rather dilapidated and poorly equipped.

Prior to setting out for Dublin, Guinness used a £100 inheritance from his godfather, Archbishop Price, to set up an ale brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare. Just a few years later, he set his sights on pulling the brewing industry put of its slump and set out for Ireland’s capital to found the Guinness Brewing Company. Ten years later, in 1769, Guinness shipped six-and-a-half barrels of beer to Great Britain and set a brewing dynasty in motion.

Guinness had originally brewed lighter ales, but a darker, richer brew was becoming more and more popular in London. Called a porter for the hard-working baggage-handlers of the city’s river docks and streets, the brew made the leap from London to Dublin, where it quickly gained favor.

True to his courageous form, Guinness abandoned ale production in 1799. The porter he created is the precursor to the stout we now know and love.

After his father’s passing, Arthur Guinness II inherited the brewery and, as were his father’s wishes, embarked upon a mission to perfect the porter, becoming the only brewery in Dublin to produce porters exclusively. In 1817, his son Benjamin brewed the first Guinness beer with a new roasted grain called Black Patent Malt, laying the groundwork for how Guinness would brew for the next 200 years.

Over the next century, the Guinness Brewery grew into an international company, shipping beer to such far-flung locations as the West Indies, New Zealand and the young United States.

Sales of the “black stuff” soared; by 1886, when the Guinness became a public company, the brewery was producing more than 1.1 million barrels per year. The unparalleled growth necessitated an expansion in 1868 that more than doubled its size. Among the additions were a dedicated railroad system, a cooperage for crafting barrels and an on-site barley maltster.

The company placed its first print advertisements in 1929. The now-famous campaign featured the slogan “Guinness is Good for You” and included the fan-favorite Guinness toucan.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Guinness’ first shipment to the U.S. Company records indicate that eight barrels of Guinness porter were sent to John Heavy of North Carolina.

To commemorate this auspicious event, the brewery has come up with Guinness 200th Anniversary Export Stout, a rich and full-bodied brew with notes of caramel, toffee and sweet chocolate. Six-packs of this special beer are available now in stores everywhere.

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OVERSET

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, handcrafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com.

Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su

CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 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 ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture.

Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas,

DINING DIRECTORY lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES.

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

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

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

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CHEFFED-UP

AT THE BUFFET Can you trust that angry, sweaty person in the chef coat? YOU BETCHA! OVER THE PAST WEEK I ATTENDED A COUPLE of terrific functions involving, you guessed it, FOOD, and for some reason it got me to thinking about trust.

So here I was standing in line with a bunch of total strangers, grabbing multiple little samples of delicacies prepared by unknown individuals from many different kitchens. Because of the dim lighting within the different venues, and also because I didn’t have my glasses on (gotta look sexy) it was very difficult to see exactly what it was that I was snatching up with reckless abandon. This got me to thinking about buffets and how trusting we guests are of the people who produce the products we consume.

What with all of the food safety scares of the past few years caused by meats and vegetables contaminated with various pathogens, you would think people would be a bit more intimidated by the prospect of eating outside of the home. Does anyone remember the recent Chipotle scare? This was a company that built its business model around fresh and sustainable sourcing, and they made how many hundreds of unsuspecting people ill? Yet it’s remained business as usual for the rest of the food service industry.

Fortunately, as a dining public, we have short memories and are incredibly forgiving.

Not to mention we are suckers for a good time. Few things in life are as fun as noshing and boozing. Besides, over 90 percent of food-borne illness originates from your own home kitchens! That’s your kitchen, not mine, shoemaker.

Yep, it’s actually very safe to be adventurous when dining at buffets even when you can’t quite see what you are putting in your mouth. Hence, when I did a fun culinary demonstration during the cocktail hour at the Taste of Amelia Island charity event several weeks ago, I had no fear of joining the paying guests in tasting any and everything that was being offered by the various restaurants in the loud and crowded ballroom. It didn’t matter that I

had no idea what many of the dishes were; it was all delicious. See, I am as trusting as the rest of the dining public.

Just in case you were wondering what I made for my demo, it was Muhamara.

The main ingredients are roasted red peppers, walnuts, and molasses, very simple yet with a little love and some of my lavosh crackers, it’s truly kinda addictive. TRUST ME.

CHEF BILL’S MUHAMMARA Ingredients: • 2-1/2 lbs. red bell peppers • 2 jalapenos • 1/2 cup panko • 1-1/2 cup (6 ounces) walnuts • coarsely ground • 1 tbsp. lemon juice • 3 tbsp. molasses, sometimes more • to taste • 1/2 tsp. cumin • 1/2 tsp. sugar • Salt to taste • 2 tsp. olive oil Directions: 1. Roast the bell peppers and chili 1. peppers, remove the skins and seeds.

2. In the work bowl of your food 1. processor, combine and process the 1. panko, walnuts, lemon juice, molasses, 1. cumin, and sugar, until smooth. Add 1. the red peppers and process until 1. creamy. With the machine running, 1. add the olive oil in a thin stream.

3. Add the chili pepper and salt to taste.

1. If it is too thick, thin with a few 1. tablespoons of pomegranate juice.

1. Adjust the seasonings.

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 25-31, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 33

PET PARENTING BABY GOT

BACK

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FOLIO LIVING DEAR

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Behind every good human is AN AWESOME PET waiting to share its story

PETS LIKE ME:

BUDDY MEET BUDDY

Sigmund Freud once said that time spent with cats is never wasted. Though it’s wise to approach anything said by Freud with doubt, I do agree with him on this one, especially after meeting Buddy. This small furry ball of cute utterly destroyed my ability to tap into my natural instincts and made me realize that cats do live cool lives– just like dogs.

ABOUT BUDDY

Davi: Describe yourself in four words.

Buddy: Ninja. Moody. Handsome. Hungry.

How would you change the world?

I would get rid of all the dogs that are bigger than I am so I can continue to swat at the little ones.

What do you do when your humans are away?

If I told you that they might stop leaving me alone.

How many hours a day do you sleep?

Not enough.

Do you have a favorite treat?

The stinky fish flakes my humans get at the store. They are delectable.

What is the strangest thing that has happened to you recently?

Moving houses. I prefer to stay in one place, and being stuck in a carrier for two days was awful.

If you could text your human, what would you say?

“Where R U? Food bowl MT” What’s the most interesting thing about you that we wouldn’t learn from simply meeting you?

I like to watch soccer with my dad and see the ball bouncing all over the place.

What do you do in your free time?

Walk in front of my humans’ faces while they are watching TV, and I’ve recently started chewing on my mom’s feet in the morning when she wakes me up too early.

Do you have any canine companions?

I have two dog sisters and a dog brother, but I only like my brother because he doesn’t try to eat my face or go 10 full rounds in the ring.

NATIONAL CAT DAY IS OCT. 29

The good people behind the day have worked hard to bring attention to the number of cats rescued each year, and the growing problem and possible solutions to feral cat colonies.

While many cats will probably mark the day with a nap or romp with a paper bag, cat people will be celebrating the unconditional love and companionship they bestow upon them. These furry little gods have been cherished members of the family since long before the days of the pyramids and continue bringing joy and laughter to millions of people around the world.

Celebrating can be as simple as having a conversation with your cat. They will talk to you, if you talk to them. You may both be talking about totally different things, but there’s definitely a conversation going on there. If you don’t have a cat, consider adopting a kitty of your own because what greater gift than the love of a cat, except maybe a dog—or better yet, volunteer at a local shelter—your visit is sure to be a bright spot in a shelter cat’s day.

Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund doesn’t often say this about cats, but Buddy is purr-fectly delightful.

PET PE T TI TIP: P: OW OWLS LS A N NO-GO O GO OEVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE BEEN POPULARIZED IN THE WORLD of fantasy film and literature as being cuddly and noble pets, in truth, owls aren’t suited for the cage life—sorry, Harry Potter fans. If you do decide to get an owl as a pet, you better be prepared with a full size aviary— we’re talking ZOO proportions—and a well-stocked supply of mice. No nuts and fruits for these guys, they’re less vegan and more pterodactyl. Also, once they become attached to a mate—that’s you—they see all other things as either prey or competition, thus attacking any unwanted guests. There goes poker night.

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LOCAL PET EVENTS HALLOWEEN PET PHOTO BOOTH • Bring Joanie and Chachi the chihuahuas down to Pet Supermarket for some new wall fillers of your pups dressed in their best costumes. The event runs from 12-4 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 28 at 12740 Atlantic Blvd.

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.

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 held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday at 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 834-3223,

ADOPTABLES

K.J.

OVERSET

‘K’ STANDS FOR KOOL • If you’re looking for a pup with a BIG personality, K.J. is your dude. He is as sweet as can be, with a goofy personality. Need a running buddy? Well, he’s here at JHS waiting for you! Stop by our new shelter, so K.J. can charm you with that big ole smile of his! Meet K.J. at 8464 Beach Blvd. katz4keeps.org. Katz 4 Keeps seeks volunteers, age 18 and older, to help with its cat-centric programs; email peggyhatfield63@comcast.com.

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.

S.A.F.E. PET RESCUE • Saving Animals from Euthanasia (S.A.F.E.) runs a resale store and adoption

ADOPTABLES

LIMA

KITTEN SPIRIT • Lima is one of JHS’s sweet, older kitties, but don’t let her age fool you, she gets better with age and still purrs like a kitten. If you’re looking for a companion who wants to snuggle on the couch after a long day at work, Lima’s your girl! Come on by the Jacksonville Humane Society to meet our feline friend, Lima! We’re open seven days a week.

Learn more about Lima at jaxhumane.org. center at 1250 C.R. A1A S., St. Augustine and 6101 A1A S., Treasure Beach, 460-0556, safe-pet-rescue-fl. com. S.A.F.E. is in need of donations and funds; go to the website or mail a donation to P.O. Box 840215, St. Augustine FL 32080 or go to the locations.

PET ADOPTION • 60-plus cats and kittens, 40-plus dogs and puppies need homes; find your furever friend at Wags & Whiskers Pet Rescue, 1967 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, 797-1913, 797-6039, petrescue.org. All animals are spayed/neutered and up-to-date on shots. _________________________________________ 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

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Yes, We Have No Bananas” was a big hit in 1923.

Its absurdity led to wide use for humorous effect. On The Muppet Show, puppets made of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune.

That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas” songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the climax of religious oratorio Messiah. I’d love to see you engage in comparable transmutations. You can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I share Vincent Van Gogh’s belief that “the best way to know life is to love many things.”

But I also think that the next 12 months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and singleminded in your involvement with love. That’s why I encourage you to take an approach articulated by the Russian mystic Anne Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” Halloween costume suggestion: a lover celebrating a sacred union.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next two weeks, you may have to navigate careless gossip, distorted “facts,” hidden agendas, fake news, and official disinformation. To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an Ace of Clubs, a red rose, images of superheroes, and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.” This crown should protect you. If that’s too weird, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Watch out for a fake pizza-delivery driver who’s trying to issue a legal summons. Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk, in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will soon fall into a toilet. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle, splashing mud on your fancy clothes. JUST KIDDING! The truth is, this should be one of the most worry free times ever. You’re welcome to dream up scary fantasies for entertainment, but they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is an excellent time to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets, and wash windows. But the imminent future will be even more favorable to purify motivations, tonify emotions, purge less-than-noble agendas and fact-check the stories you tell about yourself.

Which should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy for both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: King Janitor or Queen Maid.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “You never sing the same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday. “If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.” That’s an extreme statement, but I understand. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources. Avoid this behavior in the coming days.

Fresh inspiration available! Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How can you enjoy the lavish thrills of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now?

It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last 10 months. Put the past to rest as best you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay last respects to the old ways and days you’ll soon leave behind.

Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are no such things as magic healings and miraculous redemptions. Right?

Hard evidence provided by science precludes the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no. There is another real world that overlaps the material world, operating on different laws. But events in the other world can have tangible effects in the material world. This is especially true for you right now.

Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions, and numinous encounters. Halloween costume suggestion: white-magic sorcerer or good witch.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What material object do you want most but not have?

This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s. Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In your last hours on earth, you will have visions that show you how all your life events were crucial to your story. You will understand the lesson in each twist of your destiny. Every puzzle piece will slip into place, revealing what your mission has been. During that future climax, you may remember right now as when you got a long glimpse of the totality. Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Did you get a chance to go to circus school when you were a kid? How about magic school?

Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school? None of the above, right?

Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to learn rather than what would be fun to learn. I’m not saying it was bad. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next 10 months will be a favorable time pursue what you YEARN to learn. Halloween costume suggestion: a student.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You might pass for normal, but it will be better if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness.

Catch my drift? In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence.

Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD EWWWWW!

Quick-thinking paramedics in Dorset, England, saved the life of a man whose fishing outing went south when a dover sole jumped down his throat and blocked his windpipe on Oct. 5. Sam Quilliam, 28, had just caught the 5-1/2-inch-long fish and went to give it a kiss when it wriggled free and lodged in his throat. “I ran round the pier like a headless chicken and then passed out,” Quilliam told The Guardian. When first responders arrived, Quilliam was not breathing, but friends were performing CPR. Paramedic Matt Harrison said: “It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive. … I was able to eventually dislodge the tip of the tail and very carefully, so as not to break the tail off, I tried to remove it—although the fish’s barbs and gills were getting stuck on the way back up.” Finally, the fish “came out in one piece,” Harrison said. Quilliam said his brush with death won’t put him off fishing. “Once I am back at work and fit, I will probably get back at it again,” he said.

YARR! THAT’S SOME TIMING

Eva Pandora Baldursdottir, a member of the Icelandic parliament from the Pirate Party, was scheduled to take part in a debate on Oct. 12, according to UPI, but an unexpected injury lent her an especially jaunty look for the televised event: She had to conduct the debate wearing an eye patch after her toddler daughter scratched her eye.

“Sometimes astounding things can happen at the worst time,” Baldursdottir shared on Facebook, along with a photo of her wearing the eye patch.

NOW PAGING PASSENGER LUCY FERR

For the last time, Flight 666, traveling from Copenhagen, Denmark, to HEL (Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport), took off on Friday the 13th of October. A Finnair spokesman said the flight, questionably numbered for the superstitious among us, has been making the trip for 11 years and has flown on Friday the 13th 21 times. “Today will actually be the final time that our AY666 flight flies to HEL,” a spokesman told The Telegraph. Some Finnair flights are getting new numbers, and the infamous route will be renumbered to 954.

The flight arrived safely in Helsinki.

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Residents of Rogersville, Missouri, are protesting a high school fundraising plan to convert an abandoned funeral home into a haunted house, according to KY3.com, calling the idea distasteful and insensitive.

The Preston-Marsh Funeral Home had been scheduled for demolition, but the owner gave permission to students from LoganRogersville High School to use it at the end of October to raise money for a safe graduation celebration for seniors. Students said they would use leftover equipment such as gurneys to enhance the spooky experience. But one Rogersville resident said doing so is “akin to opening a strip club in an old church.”

OOPS!

In Vero Beach, Florida, a husband and wife made a hot bet on the Dallas Cowboys vs.

Green Bay Packers football game on Oct. 8: The loser would set their team’s jersey on fire.

When the Packers won, the husband, 27, took his blue and silver Cowboys jersey outside and set fire to it. But, as he later told sheriff ’s deputies, because he was drunk, he then tried to put the jersey back on, and that’s when things got heated. Family members pulled the burning jersey off the man and rushed him teo the Indian River Medical Center. A witness told the Sebastian Daily “skin was hanging off his arm and back.” He suffered second- and third-degree burns to his hand, arm and back.

HORSING AROUND

Lindsey Partridge of Ontario, Canada, booked herself at a pet-friendly Super 8 in Georgetown, Kentucky, for the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover on Oct. 4. At checkin, Partridge asked the front desk clerk if the pet policy included horses, to which the clerk answered, “Aw, I wouldn’t mind. You could do that.” So Partridge returned to her horse trailer and brought Blizz, her retired racehorse, into the hotel. Partridge and Blizz took a video and a few photos in the room, but eventually Partridge took Blizz to the Kentucky Horse Park, where the rooms are more suited to equine visitors. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Blizz took third place in the trail competition during the event. weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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When: Aug. 31. Where: Southside Home Depot. #1668-0906

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ILLUMINATING BREAST CANCER

Local doc thinks BREAST CANCER AWARENESS Month should focus less on detection and treatment and more on prevention IS THERE ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF 13 WHO is unaware of breast cancer? Not just because of Breast Awareness Month in October, but because almost everyone knows a woman who has had breast cancer.

Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in U.S. women.

In the most recent year for which data is available, 47,955 American women died of breast cancer. That number has held steady or increased in the last few years. Despite a slightly reduced incidence of diagnoses and deaths, an aging population means that more women will die each year—unless some effective means of prevention can be implemented. Prevention is far superior to early detection and treatment, which also bears an enormous cost in overall health, emotional trauma, and financial status.

THE RISK CAN BE REDUCED

How do you reduce the risk of lung cancer?

Easy, don’t smoke or hang with smokers.

How do you reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease? Again easy, do not smoke, exercise, stay slim, eat more plants and fish, less animals. What about osteoporosis? Take vitamin D3, calcium, exercise weight bearing and weight lifting, eat more plants than animal products.

So what about breast cancer?

Are there actions to effectively prevent most breast cancer cases? Emphatically, yes! Will Breast cancer Awareness Month help in that regard? Sadly, no. The month is mostly a way to increase donations to breast cancer charities like Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the American Cancer Society.

Both websites do provide some information on lifestyle factors that can reduce risk, but both are more concerned with treatments and detection. A very small percentage of their money is earmarked for prevention.

Susan G. Komen and ACS do mention the following lifestyle changes that can reduce a woman’s individual risk: 1.

Have children at an early age, 2. Remain physically active, 3. Maintain a healthy weight, 4. Don’t smoke, 5. Eat a plant-based diet, 6. Reduce alcohol consumption to no more than one drink per day.

Except for number one, each action will help prevent a host of other health issues— Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, other cancers, and stroke. The problem is that American women (and men) have not proven enthusiastic about doing any of them except maybe quitting smoking. After all, numbers two, three and five help maintain healthy weight, yet two thirds of American adults are overweight with one third are clinically obese. So much for lifestyle changes.

As a chiropractic doctor who has owned a gym/rehabilitation center and been a vegetarian for over 40 years, I have tried to interest my patients in lifestyle changes. I know how resistant most are to significant lifestyle changes. Everything I suggest to prevent breast cancer will also help reduce risk of other diseases. But everything I suggest will be easy, require minimal effort and cost very little.

EASY WAYS TO REDUCE RISK

The single most effective and easy preventive action is to take 5,000 IU’s (International Units) of vitamin D3 or more per day. The next time your MD orders a blood test, it should include a D3 test. Ask for it, it is more important than almost any other metabolic marker. Medical concerns about kidney stone formation should be aimed at low D3 levels, as research finds more stones form at low levels, not high.

D3 blood levels of 40-60 ng/ml have been shown to reduce risk of breast cancer (and other cancers) as much as 65 percent. If every woman would take 5,000 IU’s of D3, in less than three years, breast cancer incidence would be less than half what it is now.

D3 is the “sunshine vitamin,” forming in response to direct sunlight, but only when the sun is high overhead (around 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). This is because only UVB rays produce D3, and the much more plentiful and powerful UVA does not. Sunscreen blocks production of D3. Darker skin produces less, lighter skin produces more. This may be a factor in the greater incidence and death rate of African-American women from breast cancer compared to white women.

Vitamin D3 is dirt-cheap. My wholesale supplier sells 60 capsules of 5,000 IUs for five or six dollars, depending on the discount.

WalMart probably sells retail for just over that price. Other outlets will be more expensive, of course. Do not purchase D2, as it is not nearly as effective as D3.

The next action costs little or no money: sleep in complete darkness. Artificial light at night (ALAN) is responsible for an increase in breast cancer incidence that may be as high as 50 percent. Studies comparing ALAN in countries or counties reveal significant differences in breast cancer incidence. Sources of ALAN include streetlights, security lights, night-lights, devices. Turn them off or at least turn the light away from the bed. You can also use blackout curtains or a sleep mask to eliminate all ALAN. ALAN increases breast cancer (and other cancers, but less so) because the pineal gland in the center of the brain produces a hormone, melatonin, in response to darkness. The darker the room, the more

melatonin produced. Melatonin is also an immune system factor and fights cancer cells. Interestingly, blind people who perceive no light, have significantly lower incidence of all cancers. The more sunlight a person is exposed to during the day, the greater the production of melatonin that night. This is part of our ancient evolutionary responses of the circadian rhythm that regulates sleep and wakefulness.

Shift-work, in which a woman must change sleep patterns according to altering work schedules, is a major risk for increased breast cancer. Several studies found greater risk for breast cancer in nurses, airline attendants, and pilots.

Three mg of melatonin is the usual dose, but more can be taken.

Research finds that using a computer or watching television just before going to bed impedes melatonin production and disrupts sleep. On the other hand, studies show that reading in bed at night actually decreases breast cancer risk.

The third action is the reduction or elimination of milk products, carbohydrate rich foods such as bread and potatoes, and all animal foods except fish, and to instead eat more fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds.

Oops, that’s not what I promised, is it? It is not easy for most. Do it if you can—but if not, there is an alternative. It will cost a little money, though not as much as a daily latte.

Plant extracts, phytonutrients, herbs, Omega 3 fatty acids (fish oil) are some natural nutrients that have power to reduce risk for breast and other cancers. Life Extension Foundation’s website lists dozens of nutrients that diminish risk. Most likely to be beneficial are: curcumin, lycopene, ECGC (green tea extract), resveratrol, I3C and DIM (cruciferus vegetable extracts), iodine, soy extracts, vitamins C, E, K2 and B-complex.

MORE RISK FACTORS

There are other risk factors that should be acknowledged: household and agricultural products, pesticides and herbicides, x-ray and other ionizing radiation (including mammograms), hormone replacement therapy, obesity, dairy products, and high carbohydrate foods.

Every woman has different risks for breast cancer, but every woman can reduce her risks as much as 90 percent by using the actions listed.

Dr. Robert “Chip” Travis Jr. mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Dr. Robert “Chip” Travis Jr. is a chiropractic doctor and former Navy pilot. For much more information, go to: lef.org, mercola.com, pubmed.gov, and drchiptravis.com.

UP IN

Is Florida putting a match to tax revenue by refusing to legalize smokabale MDMJ?

SMOKE

FLORIDIANS FOND OF THE POT HAVE INVEIGHED about the current limitations on what can be bought and sold legally. Cannabidiol, commonly called CBD, oils and other ancillary products are allowed for qualifying patients, but the actual smokable plant is still illegal. A lot of folks just think that’s just splitting hairs and would like to see legal marijuana expanded in the future, which is precisely what opponents of the amendment were worried about. Attorney John Morgan is suing the state for banning smokable marijuana on the grounds that voters intended for it to be legal when they ratified the state constitutional amendment in 2016.

Pro-pot forces across Florida have long noted the salubrious results obtained by states like Colorado, Washington and Oregon, which have seen huge profits since decriminalizing, then legalizing, the stuff over the last few years, with no notable increase in either crime or bad music. These results were widely predicted by liberals and libertarians alike, and advocates can again look westward for further evidence to back their claims. USA Today reported on Sept. 28 that Nevada, which went for medical marijuana in 2014 and legalized recreational use last year, banked a freakish $10.2 million in their very first month of legal pot sales in July, with some $3.68 million coming in from taxes alone.

“The state reeled in $2.71 million from the 10 percent tax tacked on to the sale of all recreational marijuana sales at the register,” wrote reporter Jenny Kane. “Another $974,060 rolled in from the 15 percent wholesale tax, which cultivators pay for both medical and recreational marijuana.”

She added that Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval had originally projected about $100 million in sales over the next two fiscal years, but after this summer, the state has now revised their estimates upward by some 20 percent.

“The state Department of Taxation, which runs both the medical and recreational marijuana program, has received 333 applications for recreational marijuana establishment licenses,” Kane continued, “and has issued 250 licenses, including 53 retail stores, 92 cultivation facilities, 65 product manufacturing facilities, 9 testing labs, and 31 distributors. … The application fee for all recreational marijuana licenses is $5,000 and actual license fees range from $10,000 to $30,000.”

These numbers have observers in other states licking their lips, and not just from cottonmouth, from anticipation of potential tax windfalls. “It’s an impressive beginning,” wrote Chris Morris of Fortune Magazine, “but all eyes are on California, which will begin legal recreational marijuana sales in 2018 (no specific date has been announced).

Legal pot there is expected to bring in a smoking $5 billion in sales each year.” No similar estimates have yet been made for Florida, but one expects these numbers to start coming together in time for next year’s mid-term elections.

Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Got questions about medical marijuana? Let us answer them. Email mail@folioweekly.com.

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