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FROM THE EDITOR

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Florida lawmakers more concerned with peeps WHACKING THAN PACKING ON WHAT PLANET IS DEBBIE DOES OES Duval more dangerous than n an AR-15?

Well, this one, apparently. tly.

At least that’s the message the Florida House telegraphed d to the world last week when n it declined to even debate an assault weapons ban … on the same day it voted in favor of a resolution recognizing the he “public health risk” posed by pornography. h SSubsequently, b tl straight and comedic news outlets alike lobbed jokes and criticisms at the dimwits who didn’t have the presence of mind to delay the vote on the laughable porn resolution to literally any other day.

Of course, if you’ve been in Northeast Florida for at least five minutes, you know what’s coming next: The anti-porn resolution was co-sponsored by one of our very own, Republican Clay Yarborough, whose previous forays into protecting the civic virtue include threatening to defund MOCA Jacksonville for displaying a picture of a woman’s boobies.

(If you’ve ever wondered why our little corner of Florida is the laughingstock of the state, that’s it.)

I have no doubt that Yarborough means well and that he is truly convinced of the dangers of pornography. Though I’d be willing to bet he thoroughly enjoyed the research for this resolution. I also have no doubt that if a time machine were available to whisk him to the 1950s, in mere minutes he’d be slicking his hair back with Brylcreem (a little dab-a-doya) and doing the jitterbug, mindful to always, always leave room for Jesus between him and his partner.

Here in 2018, however, watching porn is as easy as Googling “watch porn,” or, as I accidentally learned the hard way in a dull moment at a public meeting recently, logging onto Twitter. Thank god no one goes to the Planning Commission anymore. If you ask Yarborough, they’re probably all home watching porn.

Back to the matter at hand: Before they recognized the grave threat posed by Pornhub, the Florida House—including local representatives Cord Byrd, Jason Fischer, Cyndi Stevenson, Paul Renner, Jay Fant and Yarborough (all Republicans)—once again bowed to their NRA overlords and essentially spit on the graves of the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting by refusing to have a conversation about banning assault weapons while being stared down by grieving, outraged teens who’d lost friends, teachers, a coach and their innocence to an AR-15 assault rifle less than a week before.

Since then, boneheads such as the president and House Speaker Richard Corcoran (R-Lutz) have doubled down on the stupidity and proposed deputizing

teachers and allowing them to pack heat in their lunchboxes to deter school shootings. I guess they th think thi k teachers t h should h ld literally lit ll and d figuratively have kids’ lives in their hands.

But let’s be real: Arming teachers won’t stop school shootings, it will cause them. It could be when a kid accidentally or intentionally gets hold of an unsecured weapon, or a teacher feels threatened, or a teacher just loses it, but there will be blood, kids’ blood, if we fill schools with guns. What will we do then? More guns in schools seems to be the preferred response.

A rifle for every teachers’ aide! Handguns for cafeteria workers! Armed guards in every classroom! And bulletproof vests as a mandatory part of the school uniform.

Honestly, it doesn’t make a lick of sense that teachers, who aren’t even allowed to spank their students in most Florida counties—yes, the state does still allow corporal punishment in schools—should essentially be given license to shoot their students.

Further, if a teacher is armed, how are they to decide whether deadly force is justified? If history is any indicator, arming teachers will lead to disproportionate numbers of black boys leaving school in body bags. Lest we forget, when Duval finally got around to banning corporal punishment in schools 13 years ago, it was right around the same time the Florida Times-Union reported nearly 80 percent of kids getting paddled in the district were black.

These uncomfortable and inconvenient facts are not likely to sway the Republican/ NRA-controlled Florida legislature, not as long as they believe their political survival depends on doing whatever the gun lobby demands.

But the days of the NRA controlling our government with campaign donations may be waning. For even as some of our lawmakers refuse to talk about gun control, record numbers of Americans are rallying behind the brave students from Stoneman Douglas who are standing up to the bully pulpit and insisting on common sense reforms. A Feb. 20 Quinnipiac University Poll found that two out of three Americans support an outright ban on the sale of assault rifles; more than four out of five support mandatory waiting periods for weapons purchases; and support for universal background checks, even among gun owners like me, was almost universal.

The poll did not inquire about the dangers of porn.

Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com @clairenjax

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PIPPI NO-STOCKINGS

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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL

In 2004, The New York Times suggested this ensemble work, starring the “runaway stripper, Pippi” would be destined for bigger things. It has graced stages across the nation and earned warm-hearted praise, but it’s also been accused of trading in on out-of-date stereotypes. Campy or condescending, we’re guessing it will strike a note of recognition … after all, Trailer Park is set in our beloved, deeply weird, Sunshine State. The show opens 8 p.m. Friday, March 2, and runs through March 24, at Players by the Sea, Jax Beach, 249-0289, $25-$28, playersbythesea.org.

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ALL FOLKED UP FOLK IS PEOPLE Unaffected and autobiographical, the Jacksonville-based band, led by

OUT OUT THE BLIND SPOTS Described as “moxy rock,” their sound

is joyous, raucous and funny. Fronted by Maddy Walsh, the Ithaca, New York band’s infectiously danceable “Hey Boy” is absurd in an ’80s-inflected arthouse kind of way (so yes, we totally have it on repeat). The band recently released a song in support, love and solidarity with Planned Parenthood, “I Won’t Give Up,” the proceeds of which will, in perpetuity, be donated to that stalwart women’s healthcare provider. They set the Oldest City a-light, with The Young Step and Banquet, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1, Sarbez, St. Augustine, $8, 342-0632.

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Stacey Bennett (pictured), has amassed such a loyal local following, their First Coast performances have been getting big buzz for weeks (and have been co-signed by our own Nick McGregor). If you’re a fan (if not, go get converted), don’t miss your chance to see them play cuts from the 2016 album The Devil Always Comes, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at Blue Jay Listening Room, Jax Beach, $20, bluejayjax.com.

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GET DOWN THE GREAT GUITAR GATHERING It’s the 25th annual fundraiser to benefit the guitar department of Douglas

Anderson School of the Arts. But don’t fear: It’s not a bake or candy sale (though they are delicious). Headliner Los Angeles Guitar Quartet has been praised by The New York Times for its ability to fill a concert hall with sound, and to deftly negotiate the instrument in a graceful, subtle manner.

The guitars and their players gather, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $25-$35, floridatheatre.com.

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SARCASM & WORD BILL BOMBS MAHER

No stranger to controversy, and occasional screeching ineptitude (dude, you so don’t get to drop the N-bomb, ever), Maher has weathered multiple storms, and still endeavors to help us navigate the current political pickle in which we find ourselves, often by telling hard truths, like his opinion that the Democratic party has gone “from protecting people to protecting feelings.” He speaks his mind, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $66-$115, floridatheatre.com.

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THE MAIL EASIER TO BE VICTIMIZED, APPARENTLY

RE.: “Easier than What?,” by A.G. Gancarski, Feb. 14 I LIVED THERE FROM 2004 TO EARLY 2017. I MOVED there in hopes of getting more ride time and access to the beaches. It only took me about a year to realize a woman DOES NOT go to the beach alone. Nine times out of 10, I was harassed by either some beggar or some guy with no manners. I stopped going to the beach. To me, outside of the city’s awful road planning at I-295 and Blanding and a few other bottlenecks, I found traffic easy to manage by avoiding expressways. Crime, on the other hand, was a whole other issue. One DOES NOT leave windows open at night in Jacksonville. One does NOT take an evening stroll on the Riverwalk. One does NOT hang out Downtown day or night. And aside from a museum and an occasional ArtWalk, Downtown Jax is boring as it gets. Nothing to see that you can’t do in one day passing through. Bus transportation?

Sure... if you work 9-5, which most of the non-office class does not. Even if you don’t have to be there until 7 or 8 a.m., plan on two to three hours to get there IF the buses aren’t running late. Anybody working 7-3 or nights MUST drive their own car or pay $50 one way for a cab. (Personally, I don’t get why they even waste the $$ on a bus system at all unless it’s only meant to cater to those who have all day to get to the grocery store.)

All in all, my 12-plus years in the city of Jax was a huge disappointment and security risk that led me to leave it. I do miss the great friends I made in the veteran and motorcycle community but the city itself is a huge disappointment and one of the most unsafe places I have ever lived.

Mary White via Facebook

WE FEEL DIRTY NOW … AND WE LIKE IT

RE.: “Easier than What?,” by A.G. Gancarski, Feb. 14 I PREFER, “IT’S SLEAZIER HERE.”

CUDD FOR MAYOR!

Aaron McMenamy via Facebook

RE.: “Easier than What?,” by A.G. Gancarski, Feb. 14 GREAT ARTICLE. IT IS EASIER HERE—EASIER TO ignore the big issues, easier to pass the buck, etc.

Crissie Cudd via Facebook

PUT THAT ON A BUMPER STICKER

RE.: “Easier than What?,” by A.G. Gancarski, Feb. 14 IT’S CERTAINLY EASIER to die in a traffic accident in Jax, I’ll give it that.

Brianne Vallenari-Frieder via Facebook

FOR THE WIN

RE.: “Easier than What?,” by A.G. Gancarski, Feb. 14 COME FOR VACATION, LEAVE ON PROBATION.

Christopher Baggett via Facebook

A SIDE OF REVENGE, PLEASE

RE.: “Entitled to Care,” by Claire Goforth, Feb. 7 YOUR EDITORIAL NAILED IT! OUR FOUNDING FATHERS stated in the Constitution that we have RIGHTS to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. You canNOT have LIFE without “healthcare”.

I often wondered the same thing you did: Is it really that socialized medicine is expensive and people would rather keep more of their earnings?

But then I see the percentage of the wealthiest people keeping most of their earnings. And they really should own it; they just are selfish! U.S. government entities spend more per capita on healthcare than all but two other countries in the world. The two advanced economies with the most economically free healthcare systems—Switzerland and Singapore—have achieved universal health insurance while spending a fraction of what the U.S. spends. Let’s face it, the U.S. really is below a lot of “shit hole” countries (No. 45’s words, not mine) when it comes to healthcare for all.

So in this flu epidemic this year, don’t go out to eat because those low-wage workers who are serving up the food—guess what, they do NOT have healthcare and they’re going to work with the FLU! So cheers to all you “selfish people”—enjoy your meal.

Robyn Morgan via email

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BRICKBATS TO JAY FANT On Feb. 20, the Florida house voted nearly unanimously to commission a statue of civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune to replace that of a Confederate general in the nation’s capitol. The sole holdout was our own Jay Fant, a candidate for Florida Attorney General, who has gone so far right, he’s starting to look like a dog chasing its tail.

BOUQUETS TO MELISSA NELSON In the admirable tradition of leading by example, State Attorney Nelson personally tried the capital case of Donald Smith and secured a guilty verdict for his atrocious assault and murder of 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS AN INCREDULOUS JACKSONVILLE CITY COUNCILMAN was laughing on the phone with me.

“I never thought there would be a chance that Lenny Curry wouldn’t be re-elected,” he said.

But the JEA issue, he added, might be dispositive.

The decision to sell JEA, right now, is like that Zen Kōan J.D. Salinger cited in one of his books. The one where 12 blind men are walked up to an elephant, their hands placed somewhere on its body, and asked to describe what they felt.

You know where this is going: One describes the trunk, one describes the feet, and the unluckiest of them all describes the elephant’s ass.

In doing so, they feel like they described the entire elephant.

But in reality, their perspective was choked off, limited to only the part of the elephant they personally experienced.

Right now, the JEA discussion is much like that. It depends on who you ask.

Some people, such as Council President Anna Lopez Brosche and Councilman Garrett Dennis, note that the mayor’s team was actively seeking suitors, via the same company that did a wildly optimistic JEA valuation report that said the city could clear up to $6 billion on a sale, to help broker the deal.

That was described as a “smoking gun,” as proof positive that Mayor Curry was running an Iran Contra-style shadow operation to dump the utility almost as soon as council passed emergency legislation to authorize the next steps in exploring a sale.

People in the Mayor’s Office believe that’s bullshit.

They say that a JEA sale would not be lock, stock and barrel—rather, that there are components involved, interlocal agreements, intergovernmental agreements, property rights deals and so on.

However, cynics counter/allege, some in the mayor’s political orbit have met with certain councilmembers trying to grease the wheels as unregistered lobbyists. And of course, there are energy lobbyists in town, such as Marty Fiorentino, who also lobbies for the City of Jacksonville.

Curry said the move to release documents that make his administration look like it’s pushing a sale is a “political hit job.”

Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa says that the city is routinely exploring the valuation of assets, as private companies contact the city to cut deals on airports, bridges, parking garages and so on.

Whatever the case here, even if the mayor’s office is telling the truth completely, and the council critics are trying to undermine him as Curry allies like Bill Gulliford claim, the narrative divergence leaves an opening for a real-deal challenge to Mayor Curry—and, by proxy, the donor class/

Good Ol’ Boy structure that has dominated Jacksonville politics for ages.

So who will or could buy the ticket and take the ride … to either the mayor’s office or political oblivion?

Let’s start with Councilman Garrett Dennis.

He told me the JEA revelations essentially undermine Curry’s ability to govern.

Finance chair Dennis has been a persistent irritant to the mayor. He pushed back on pension, on the Kids Hope Alliance and now on the JEA sale.

He’s said Curry has a “bounty” on him and other councilmembers (Council President Brosche, Katrina Brown, Reggie Gaffney and Danny Becton).

He urged his council colleagues to “turn the gun” on the mayor, weeks after saying that a member of the mayor’s staff said he was a “walking dead man,” a turn of a phrase that led Dennis to get a concealed weapons permit.

Though Curry has the NRA endorsement on lock, Dennis clearly likes to talk ammo.

He’d be a spirited challenger, even though he says he’s not interested.

Council President Brosche, for whatever reason, is still a Republican—even though at this point she fits in with the Trump/Gorka/ Hannity/assault weapons party as well as Lawrence Welk fits in at a Slayer concert.

Brosche has battled a persistent drumbeat from the mayor. Most recently, she was called “disgraceful” for saying Chief of Staff Brian Hughes was trying to push emergency legislation on her.

Brosche has found a political ally in a party chair—however, that’s Democratic chair Lisa King, who lost the Planning Commission chair when Curry moved in his cohort. The Republican Party chair put out a statement effectively disowning Brosche for not letting Curry speak at a council meeting.

Could Brosche run as an NPA with the Democrats’ endorsement? Could she win?

Someone is worried—there was a poll out this month matching Curry/Brosche.

Even those in Curry’s political sphere think he’d struggle to top 55 percent against a legit challenger head-to-head. Of course, if Brosche, Dennis or someone else filed, a stalking horse candidate would enter the mix to shear away votes.

ONE-TERM

LENNY? Is the mayor’s re-election IN DOUBT?

All that said, 2019 is actually shaping up to be more interesting than I thought just weeks ago.

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NEWS AAND NOTES: IMPACT EDITION TOP HEADLINES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA ALT-WRITE(R) FOR GOVERNOR!

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In news that had our entire office laughing like hyenas, the senior staff writer and arts editor of Oregon’s Eugene Weekly are running for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, in … wait for it … KANSAS! See, Kansas law does not require a person to be a resident of the state to run for governor, reports EW. (Aside: A poorer acronym than Orlando Weekly’s has been found.)

Bob Keefer, candidate for governor/ EW senior writer, writes that his decision to jump into the race was precipitated by his reading about six Kansan teens, ages 16 and 17, who filed to run for governor after learning that their state doesn’t have an age requirement for the job. The kids are displeased with the leadership of Republican Jeff Colyer, a prominent birther who became governor when his predecessor Sam Brownback bailed on Feb. 1 to join the Trump Administration as ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom. Brownback is also credited with putting the state in fiscal freefall by cutting taxes to the rich.

Keefer intended to cast his “young, smart and good-looking” cat Bernstein as his running mate until he learned that Kansas’ secretary of state had actually rejected the application of 3-yearold dog “Angus P. Woolley, who was running on an anti-squirrel agenda.” [See News of the Weird, pg. 45.] So he enlisted EW arts editor Rick Levin to be his running mate. Keefer’s slogan: “We’re not in Kansas anymore.” (Or, apparently, ever, dudes.) Now all they need to do is convince 5,000 Kansans to sign a petition to put their names on the Nov. 6 ballot.

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In Colorado, lawmakers still haven’t gotten around to making it easier to change the gender on one’s birth certificate, nor have they banned the horror of gay conversion therapy, of which the recently deceased Billy Graham was an ardent supporter. Colorado Springs Independent reports that the Birth Certificate Modernization Act made it through committee and is now heading to the state house for a vote; the conversion therapy ban has recently been introduced in committee.

To support these and other measures, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, One Colorado, hosted its annual LGBTQ Lobby Day on Feb. 26. CSI notes that citizens unable to participate in person can visit One Colorado’s website for email templates and contact information for their state representatives.

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East Bay Express cites a poll, commissioned by the Bay Area News Group and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which found that roughly a third of apartment dwellers and a quarter of those in their 20s and 30s report having difficulty affording housing in the Bay Area.

The report states, “Bay Area residents under 40 were more than three times as likely to report they slashed other expenses ‘a great deal’ to cover their housing costs than those over 60, the survey found.” So Don Ameche and Wilford Brimley would be set, but Steve Guttenberg would be living in a van by the river?

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It’s not news that since the Citizens United decision was handed down, political action committees, or PACs, have infiltrated our election system and impeded democracy more effectively than guys named Boris, fake news and Twitter bots combined. Though we’re still well within the era of dark money pouring into our elections from the top shelf of the highest income bracket, there may be hope in the form of frustrated citizens resorting to using homegrown dollars to create their own PACs, according to Ithaca Times.

IT reports: “Though PACs often don’t appear in smaller Congressional races until after the primaries have been finished, two groups appeared on the yearend returns filed with the [Federal Election Commission] last month. Unlike the funds to rear their heads in the past three elections, both PACs were headquartered and financed within the district.

And both will benefit Democrats.”

Both PACs are targeting incumbent Republican Congressman Tom Reed, who has benefited bigly from dark money in earlier elections in 2016, 2014 and 2012, IT reports. See, folks, in a democracy, turnabout is fair play.

Local nonprofit helps sex trafficking SURVIVORS HEAL

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here is a singing feeling in your chest when the sun breaks gold over the ocean and the air is clean and tastes of promise and hope and renewal. Your soul bursts with gratitude and joy; you cannot wait to greet the day. You are not merely living; you are alive.

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Adjusting to a daily routine takes time and patience for trafficking survivors. “Our goal is to help these women achieve independence,” says Rachel White, founder of Her Song.

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Those times keep most of us going when life is hard, giving us something to look forward to. We hear the music of the moment, enthralled and amazed by beauty we have overlooked, and we take a deep breath to congratulate ourselves for paying attention, because at least we have that moment, and we can look back on it, certain we will feel that way again.

It’s in that symphony of the soul that we smile and believe. This is hope. The idea that life will get better.

But what if you knew hope was dead?

What if your body was battered and violated and your soul crushed and you could no longer hear the music of a sunrise or taste the magic in a smile or feel a genuine touch without gasping for air and wishing that you were not you? What if you were sold, traded and monetized?

What if evil people destroyed you and murdered your song?

Thousands of women in our area, right now, scream in silence, their lights extinguished, their voices stolen against their wills.

Her Song is a light against that darkness.

Founded in 2013 by Rachel White, Her Song provides shelter and services to survivors of human trafficking, and is the only organization of its kind in Northeast Florida.

One of Her Song’s earliest clients, Olga (not her real name), was a young mother when she answered an ad in her local paper in Honduras for an opportunity to work short-term in the United States. She and some friends traveled to the U.S. with high hopes of earning money to send back to their families. Although she was educated and

employed, in Honduras she lived in poverty, and her husband had deserted her. She left her children in the care of their grandparents, intending to return soon with enough money to change their lives.

But the minute she set foot on U.S. soil, she was separated from her best friend and sold into a sex-trafficking ring in South Florida. The perpetrators moved her around constantly, finally to the West Coast of Florida, where she was sold for $25 per sex act. One of the drivers for the sex ring eventually took pity and helped her to escape. She fled to Miami, but was further exploited as a sex slave, locked in a room and forced to work all day with little food and no pay. She eventually escaped and made it to Jacksonville, where she found legal help.

She was severely traumatized and in need of care. Her Song began helping Olga work through the trauma and begin the process of recovery. Five years later, Olga is doing well and has found happiness again. She is married, and reunited with her children. She is learning English, and hopes to one day become an advocate for women like her.

THE DEVIL’S DOMAIN IT’S EASY TO OVERLOOK THIS PROBLEM, EASIER STILL to blame the victims. But human trafficking is going on here in our own backyard. From backpage advertisements offering sex for money, to sex workers on Philips Highway and Sin City, it’s not hard to see. The problem goes deeper than that, though, reaching agricultural areas where trafficked victims are forced to work, unpaid, in a field all day long only to be assaulted throughout the night. Victims may be employed in massage parlors, restaurants, strip clubs and in the hotel industry.

There is voracious demand, and terrible people are more than happy to meet that demand for profit. Predators seek out their victims, many of them runaways and underage girls, at bus stops, rehab centers,

halfway houses, and strip clubs. They lure the girls with promises of security, drugs, clothing, shelter and affection, grooming them for what comes next.

The girls and women are stripped of their identities, isolated, and then subjected to unimaginable degradation of the mind, body and spirit. They are held in bondage, not necessarily physical, as chains of addition, servitude and utter desolation imprison them in a cycle of misery.

Society stigmatizes these women, insisting that they should have made better choices.

People turn a blind eye and shun them, complacent in their moral superiority, rather than wonder about the back-story, the reason that this woman or that girl wound up without any good choices. Many trafficking victims were abused from a young age, fled one hell and found another. What choice did she really have? How can she extricate herself without help? For this woman, and others, the future is brutish and dark and hopeless.

HER SONG I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO SIT DOWN WITH RACHEL White, the founder and director of Her Song, at the newly renovated Freedom Cottage.

There are certain people who seem to shine, imbued with an inner light that can only come from essential goodness and a passion to do what’s right. White is one of those rare people, gifted with the empathy, intelligence and heart required to work seven days a week in the tireless pursuit of helping those whom society has left by the wayside.

White’s nonprofit seeks to help women break free of the cycle of abuse by providing a home with services built in. Survivors get therapy, are taught coping skills and have a roof over their heads.

“Our goal is to help these women achieve independence,” White says. “We focus on a holistic approach of body, mind and spirit … they’re all connected. We are all about helping

these women to heal.” It takes a lot of work to heal survivors of human trafficking, for the hurt runs deep.

Her Song teaches essential living skills, from cooking and cleaning to personal health and fitness because, White says, “Most of these women come from broken homes and never learned the basics.” Women are also coached on getting jobs, budgeting their finances and going back to school.

Freedom Cottage features quiet spaces for reading and meditation and a lovely screenedin porch surrounded by trees. White hopes to plant a garden, where survivors can get dirt on their hands and help things grow.

The home provides a stable, nurturing environment, where survivors learn to feel safe and to trust, often for the first time in many years. Volunteer counselors work with the women in both group and individual settings on a daily basis. These survivors have gone through hell, yet are still able to find the strength to hope and the will to keep moving forward. The therapy, like everything else in Her Song, is about healing.

THE BELLY OF THE BEAST WEBSITES LIKE BACKPAGE.COM AND CRAIGSLIST are Ground Zero for sex trafficking locally.

There, women and girls are advertised and sold, rates advertised for all to see, along with nude and semi-nude pictures. Men call in, set appointments, go to a local hotel for sex, or have the women come to them. Pimps are often close by, monitoring how long the men stay.

Some of these women are trafficked, but some are not. It’s impossible for law enforcement to keep up, based on sheer numbers. Sting operations routinely net arrests, but the problem persists. And the arrests skew strongly toward charging the women with prostitution, rather than the men with solicitation.

Another site, usasexguide.info, goes even further. This site provides “street-walker

reports,” massage parlor reports, and stripclub updates. The site has open threads where men exchange information on police activity in areas known for prostitution, and which dancers perform “extras” during private dances. The men use code words like “BBJTC” (bareback blowjob to completion) to describe what is on “the menu.” They use words like “mic-check” and openly discuss the best spots to find a “SW.” (That’s ‘sex-worker’ in scumbag-ese.) They warn one another about sting operations and undercover police officers, right down to hotels and street locations.

This is a national site, and in Jacksonville, it’s updated ’round the clock. The selfdescribed “whore mongers” exchange phone numbers and advice.

Following up on a thread I’d seen on that website, I went to local strip joint on a Saturday afternoon. The club was fairly crowded, the air thick with smoke and perfume. An obnoxious DJ spun songs and called out stage names, as the women climbed onto three different stages.

“Nichole” sat down beside me at the bar; after a few minutes of small talk, I told her I was working on a story about local sex trafficking. She was pretty, and easy-going. She let me buy her a burger and a drink, and was willing to talk, though she was a little afraid.

“Aren’t you worried about writing this stuff?” she said. “Bad stuff happens.”

She had no hard evidence, but she used phrases like “everybody knows.” She talked

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NOT ALL ROSES RESTORATION AND HEALING TAKE TIME, AND because the shelter is located within the city, danger lurks close by. Some of the women take buses to work, passing by homes where they were trafficked. There are triggers and pitfalls, temptations and fears.

White would like to open a facility in the country with up to 12 beds that would serve as a retreat from the city itself.

“Who knows?” White says. “Maybe a couple of horses? Wouldn’t that be amazing?”

Florida ranks third in the nation for human trafficking, behind only California and Texas.

Duval County ranks No. 5 for sex trafficking cases in Florida, and Jacksonville ranks 42nd in the nation in human trafficking cases. Roughly seven out of 10 victims are female.

Contrary to what some may believe, the majority of the women with whom Her Song works grew up right here in Jacksonville and were trafficked here. It happens in gated neighborhoods, it happens during football games and big events. It happens every day.

Many are juveniles when it begins.

There is a thin veil between the evil in our city and the reality most of us inhabit.

We drive Philips Highway and don’t see tragedy, the truth that people are suffering and dying on our streets. We look away, cover our children’s eyes and squirm when things get too close and mean. The homeless veteran asking for money at the intersection of I-295 and Blanding Boulevard and the streetwalker down the road are all part of the urban landscape. Yet for many, they aren’t people with hopes and dreams and families, because seeing them that way is too sad, too hard. This shroud shields us from our good intentions, and we reinforce it for selfpreservation. We give money to a church, a charity at the grocery store checkout, and drive blithely past the suffering, still convinced of our innate goodness.

Once the veil is lifted, it’s hard to see our city the same way. If silence is compliance, then what have we become? When does inaction become complicity? When does that click on a website, that patronage to a club, the grotesque locker-laugh, become a look in the mirror, a tearing of the veil?

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about “the Cubans,” a clique that sounded a lot like a group of trafficked women.

“They get dropped off two or three at a time,” she said. “They will do anything in the back for $200. Their pimps come in and watch to see how many dances they are doing. The girls keep to themselves, and only speak Spanish. They don’t talk to any of us.

But they’re doing more than just dancing. It happens in all the clubs. For a while, there were a bunch of girls from Serbia.” Dancers make most of their money from doing “private dances,” which typically cost about $30 per song.

“Do the owners know?”

Nichole grinned and walked away.

SARAH’S* STORY

My story begins when I was a child. My mom was addicted to alcohol and we lived in an abandoned house without any heat. I never knew where my food would come from. My grandparents lived close by and I would visit them and they loved me and helped me. I started using drugs at age 11 because there was nothing else to do. The mailman lived across the street from my grandparents and invited me over for a meal and a warm place to stay. I was only 14 when he abused me and promised me if I had sex with him, he would give me a place to stay and food to eat.

I did not have any other options, so I got deeper into drugs. It seemed like an escape from my reality.

Things grew worse when I got involved with men who sold me so I could get drugs. I was addicted to heroin. The man selling me would lock me in a room with no clothes, he would video me and other girls while I was sleeping, and then he’d get high on crack and do insane things.

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The next woman who sat down beside me looked offended and afraid when I broached the question. About two minutes after she excused herself, a bouncer with tree trunks for arms politely asked me to leave.

The veil torn, I saw prostitutes shivering in front of a store on Philips Highway on the way home. I wondered what happened to bring them to that point on a freezing Saturday.

Human beings are precious. There are no throwaways.

On the verge of tears at the end of our interview, I asked Rachel White what she needed.

“We need support from the community.

Prayers, but also funding.”

Sean Smith mail@folioweekly.com

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More information about Her Song is at hersongjax.org. To report a suspected case of human trafficking, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888.

punch me … . He made me get on my knees with no clothes on and beg for my life, and then he would tase me over and over and he wouldn’t stop.

Then he would tell me I stole things from him and tell me I owed him $600 and make me pay him back or he said he would kill me. He stomped on girls, too.

It’s over now.

Her Song brought me home to Freedom Cottage and I couldn’t believe it! It is so beautiful and I get to live here. I get to find out who I am. To come home here at Freedom Cottage to me means being surrounded by love and joy and peace, to be warmed by the love of everyone around me and just having the people at Her Song care about me and be involved in my life. Even though I’m still scared sometimes, I’m better now, and I’m safe. It feels amazing to be at a place I can call home and I am reuniting with my family, and we talk a lot and it feels really good.

I have a future. _____________________________ *not her real name

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veryone who’s passionate about music has one of two dreams: If you make music, you hope the right person will notice your talent and connect you with the resources that can transform a hobby into a career.

On the other hand, if you’re not blessed with the gift of creativity (your humble reporter will now take a bow), you eagerly seek the opportunity to discover a promising artist at the start of his or her career and then follow along as they earn overdue acclaim.

Both scenarios fit for 27-year-old Jacksonville native Yuno. After spending a few years quietly crafting exquisite pop nuggets in his home studio, Ishmael Butler, frontman of avant-garde hip-hop groups like Digable Planets and Shabazz Palaces, discovered Yuno’s tunes on Soundcloud.

They corresponded digitally for a year, then Butler introduced Yuno to the folks at Seattle’s Sub Pop Records, who snapped him up; his debut full-length drops later this year. For context, Sub Pop is famous for introducing bands like Soundgarden, Nirvana and Mudhoney to the world in the ’80s and defining the modern diversity of indie rock in the ’00s and ’10s with bands like Beach House, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney and Fleet Foxes.

“I guess Ish stumbled across me on Soundcloud and told me he liked my music,” Yuno tells Folio Weekly in an interview that sets records for humility.

“Eventually, he said he wanted to show my music to the rest of the people at Sub Pop and apparently they liked it. So signing with them just kinda happened.”

For an artist as decidedly DIY as Yuno— he writes, records and produces all his music; directs, edits and even stars in his own music videos; shoots his own press photos and used Kickstarter to fund the 2013 debut album, V—signing with such a big label could go one of two ways. But even under the new Sub Pop banner, Yuno says he’ll still retain complete control of his breezy, bedroom jams.

“It’s great because Sub Pop will still let me handle everything myself as much as I want to,” he says.

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my own music video, I did my own track artwork—now I can just upgrade my gear and have some extra support.”

If Yuno’s first Sub Pop single is any indication, that support is going to be a game-changer. “No Going Back” is a buoyant jam based around spiky keyboards, insistent snare hits and warm, layered vocals. When Yuno breaks into a series of high-pitched “na na na” phrases, there’s no resisting the urge to sing along; when he adds in a pained “Yeah, baby,” you can just feel the emotion on the edge of breaking free. As Yuno told Sub Pop, the song is about “Wandering around, not too sure about where I want to go, but definitely sure about where I don’t want to be. Just trying to make sure I have some fun along the way.”

Discussing it with Folio Weekly, Yuno was similarly low-key about the song’s roots. “It just started with that

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keyboard sound,” he says. “It’s pretty simple, musically—just keyboards, bass guitar, drums and a guitar solo at the end.”

But what a guitar solo it is! The music crackles with Yuno’s nearly two decades of experience—started playing at age 8 when his dad bought him a $20 flea market guitar.

What takes “No Going Back” to the next level is the video, which juxtaposes scenes of Yuno hanging out on New York’s vibrant, sunny streets, with shots of him and a friend driving around the vast, empty parking lot at Regency Square Mall.

Though it’s a now-shuttered relic of Jacksonville’s late-20th-century retail heyday, it’s also a special place for Yuno. “It’s so empty there now,” he says, “but growing up, there was always so much going on. Now it’s kind of just gone.”

Yuno’s been a Jacksonville resident since he was 10; his parents are originally from the UK by way of Jamaica.

He says that multicultural upbringing, along with frequent trips to New York (he finished the shoot for “No Going Back” there two

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weeks ago), are reflected in the diversity of his music. “The experiences I’ve had in New York with my friends influenced the sound and lyrics of the music, along with the Caribbean culture I grew up with, the rock music I listened to when I used to skate with my friends, the hip hop my dad would listen to in the car … it’s a combination of a lot of different things.”

Yuno says his debut album, finished but not dropping till this summer, will feature such stylistic skips, inspired by his love of skateboarding videos and their far-flung multiplicity. “When I’m trying to get the right vibe for a song, I’ll listen to it with a skate video on mute in the background and base the feeling off of that. The new songs are all pretty different from each other, so it’ll be nice to hear everyone’s reactions to them,” he says.

That wide-eyed view may be what makes Yuno unique—though he’s been making music for years, he rarely plays out in public nor does he often go to a show— he’s not quite sure how people will react to his creations. “I did a couple of shows with some friends, like, 10 years ago when I was just starting out, so I’m looking forward to putting together a band and figuring out the logistics of playing a live show,” Yuno says. “I’ve always made my music myself in my room, and now it’s going to be out in the world. It’s kind of weird knowing that other people are going to start hearing my intimate stories. But it’ll be cool to perform and see people in front of me enjoying my music.”

Since Yuno is overwhelmingly modest about the impact of his music, we’ll give the last word to Ishmael Butler, who brought Yuno to the attention of Sub Pop: “First time I heard Yuno, I peeped, of course, that he possessed all the trappings of a great musician, impeccable taste on his riffs, songs catchy but not corny, familiar but dopely strange. There was seductive magic that I couldn’t and still can’t put my finger on, which is the essence of his uniqueness. Kid’s a star, man.”

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com _________________ Listen to "No Going Back" on Soundcloud, or connect with Yuno at facebook.com/ Yvvno.

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chaotic year in Hollywood has led to a fairly bland awards season, as many of the favorites in major categories have dominated the early accolades.

That is, except for Best Picture. That’s anyone’s guess, and what fun it’s been to trace that race’s trajectory this year.

Of course, there’s more reason to watch the Oscars than just the awards. There’s the fashion. The tradition. Host Jimmy Kimmel.

This year, the 90th Academy Awards falls on Sunday night, March 4, on ABC. Also, more important, there’s the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement, which we can expect to be addressed throughout the night.

We already know it’s affected the Oscars in a few ways: Tradition holds that acting winners from the previous year return to present the same award to the other gender, but last year’s Best Actor winner Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) will not return. You may recall he financially settled sexual misconduct allegations made against him during production of his film I’m Still Here (2010), so he voluntarily bowed out of the obligation. Similarly, James Franco was thought to be a shoo-in for a Best Actor nomination for his great work in The Disaster Artist, but sexual misconduct allegations from five women shortly before Oscar balloting closed likely eradicated his chance at a nomination.

Speaking of the acting categories, they’ve been a foregone conclusion for months. This year is the first time the same four actors won all the main precursors that foretell Oscar glory: the Critics Choice, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and British Oscars

(BAFTAs). SAG and BAFTA are the most important because they comprise industry professionals, and some members also vote for the Oscars. However, this doesn’t mean all those nominated should be the winner; I’ll go through the “big six” categories and tell you who should win and who will win each.

For Best Actor, Gary Oldman has been winning all season long for his work as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. It took him three hours every day to have his makeup and hair applied (the film will win an Oscar for that, too), then another half-hour to get him in his costume. Then he’d go shoot for 16 hours. This is a tour-de-force grand slam performance, one to be admired as a careertopping achievement most actors only dream of. He’s competing against Daniel Day-Lewis (going for a record-tying fourth Best Actor win) for Phantom Thread, Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out, Denzel Washington with his ninth career nomination, for Roman J. Israel, and the tremendous Timothee Chalamet for Call

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Similarly, Frances McDormand is the strong favorite for her force-of-nature turn as an angry, grieving mother in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. She is phenomenal here, and if/when she wins, it’ll be her second Best Actress Oscar after Fargo (1996).

Her opposition is Sally Hawkins from The Shape of Water, Margot Robbie for I, Tonya, Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird and Meryl Streep, with her 21st career nomination, for The Post. Will win: McDormand. Should win: McDormand.

Sam Rockwell has been on a streak of Supporting Actor wins for Three Billboards, and many expect the streak to continue. To win, he’ll have to defeat his co-star in the same film, Woody Harrelson, who brought muchneeded humor and poignancy to the story.

Also nominated are Christopher Plummer for All the Money in the World, Richard Jenkins for The Shape of Water, and Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project. Will win: Rockwell.

Should win: Harrelson.

If there’s an upset to be had in the acting races, it’s in Supporting Actress. Allison Janney is the favorite for her unforgettable work as Tonya Harding’s mother in I, Tonya, and she’s campaigning hard to add an Oscar to her stash of seven Emmys. She faces stiff competition from Laurie Metcalf as a struggling mother in Lady Bird, as well as Lesley Manville in Phantom Thread, Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water, and Mary J. Blige in Mudbound. Will win: Janney. Should win: Janney.

The Shape of Water director Guillermo Del Toro won the Golden Globe, Director’s Guild (DGA) and BAFTA, so he’s a lock for Best Director. The film is bold, visionary and, since it’s about a woman who falls in love with a sea creature, yes, a bit strange. But it’s also beautifully made and wholly impressive.

Christopher Nolan’s accomplishment with Dunkirk was so technically proficient in terms of sound and editing, it’s truly a filmmaking marvel. Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman in Oscar history to be nominated for Director; only Kathryn Bigelow has won (for The Hurt

Locker in 2009). Similarly, Jordan Peele is only the fifth African-American to be nominated for Director; no African-American has ever won. Paul Thomas Anderson rounds out the five nominees for Phantom Thread. Will win: Del Toro. Should win: Nolan.

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’m so grateful the most prestigious category of the night is also the most competitive. The early awards split fairly evenly among three of the Best Picture nominees: Get Out, The Shape of Water and Three Billboards. Get Out won the Writer’s Guild, which Moonlight also won last year on its way to taking Picture. The Shape of Water won the Producer’s Guild and DGA, but was not nominated for the SAG Ensemble won by Three Billboards; the last film to win Picture without at least a SAG Ensemble nom was Braveheart in 1995.

Three Billboards also won the BAFTA, but it doesn’t have a Director Oscar nomination, which can be a kiss of death: Only four films in 89 years of Oscars have won Picture without a Director nomination, the last being Argo in 2012. Could another film slip in for an upset? Call Me By Your Name will likely win Adapted Screenplay; Darkest Hour will win Best Actor and Makeup; the eight nods for Dunkirk are the second most this year; Lady Bird could ride the #MeToo movement to victory; Phantom Thread came out of nowhere the morning of the nominations, and could do so again when it matters most; and The Post was made by Hollywood heavyweights (Spielberg, Streep, Hanks). It’s a tough call, so I’m going with my No. 1 film of 2017, Three Billboards, to win it all. Will win: Three Billboards.

Should win: Three Billboards.

Dan Hudak mail@folioweekly.com Oldman as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.

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hough its demise has been sounded for years, the Western is very much alive and well, thank you. A genre favorite from film’s earliest days through the 1950s, yet only three Westerns have won a Best Picture Oscar: Cimarron (1933), Dances with Wolves (’90) and Unforgiven (’92). No Western cracked the top of American Film Institute’s recent 100 Best American Films of All Time, though John Ford’s The Searchers did get a nod at No. 12. Curiously, the British Film Institute rated the same film as No. 7 in a similar poll ranking international films.

Currently, Hostiles, starring Christian Bale, is being well-received in theaters, while Godless and Hell on Wheels have scored on Netflix, and HBO has season 2 of Westworld waiting in the wings.

So Western fans like me have good reasons to be psyched. New HD releases have returned some of the great oldies to their former glory.

I call your attention especially to the releases of Valdez Is Coming and Lawman (both 1971), the first two films of a Western trilogy starring Burt Lancaster. It culminated in one of the star’s finest performances, in Ulzana’s Raid (’72). The last film has yet to get an HD restoration, but it’s impossible not to watch it after seeing the first two.

Though the plots are unconnected, Lancaster made the films with two themes uppermost in his mind, according to his biographer Kate Buford: “law and order and the Vietnam War.” It was the early 1970s and Lancaster had always been a forceful voice for the liberal left.

Valdez Is Coming features the veteran actor as a weary Mexican sheriff, Bob Valdez, dutybound to kill a black man falsely accused of murdering a white woman’s husband. When Valdez seeks compensation for the dead man’s Indian wife from the ruthless white landowner who incited the shooting, he’s ridiculed and then tortured, tied to a cross he’s forced to drag through the desert.

Recovered from the ordeal, the exArmy scout dons his old uniform, straps on hardware (including a Sharps rifle), and goes back for blood. Totally outnumbered, Valdez is relentless in his quest for justice and dignity. Kidnapping the rancher’s mistress as a bargaining chip, he makes his pursuers pay dearly, up to the inevitable showdown, as surprising as it is thematically honest.

Adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel and directed by newcomer Edwin Sherin, whose career continued mostly in television, Valdez Is Coming used the new graphic violence of postPeckinpah Hollywood to address racial issues and, at the same time, deliver an exciting story with unexpected twists. Lancaster’s great in a decidedly non-glamorous role.

Brash young English filmmaker Michael Winner, who made a name for himself with several Charles Bronson movies (including the first three Death Wish flicks), made

Three films are undergirded with themes of LAW & ORDER and the VIETNAM WAR his American debut directing Lancaster in Lawman. This time, the principled actor, who’d turned down Dirty Harry because of its perceived fascist overtones, plays uncompromising, hell-bent for law regardless of justice U.S. Marshal Jared Maddox.

When an old man is accidentally killed by drunken ranch hands (Robert Duvall among them), Jared goes after the whole bunch.

Robert Ryan is terrific as Marshal Cotton Ryan, a cynical worn-down sheriff; Lee J. Cobb brings his usual gravitas to the role of wealthy landowner Vince Bronson.

The lines between right and wrong, hero and villain are deliberately blurred in this character study of violence and ruthlessness, with an unsettling showdown again revealing the unexpected. Playing a radically different person than sympathetic Bob Valdez, Lancaster is again picture-perfect.

Awaiting its HD conversion, Ulzana’s Raid is considered the best of the three, mostly due to director Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen). As hard-headed and opinionated as Lancaster, the two clashed frequently off-camera, but retained a mutual respect. Aldrich had directed Lancaster in Apache and Vera Cruz (’54), and Lancaster was producing the new film.

Graphic and violent, the movie is about a ruthless Apache leader who flees the reservation with a small group of men, intent on destroying as many whites as possible.

Lancaster plays McIntosh, a seasoned scout, who guides the cavalry unit in pursuit, led by Lt. Garnett DeBuin (Bruce Davison), a freshfaced idealist just out of West Point.

Unsentimental and unapologetic, the film highlights the clash between two radically different cultures, with echoes of Vietnam sounding in the minds of audiences at that time. Truly a grim gem.

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Oscar-nominated animated shorts and live action shorts and Molly’s Game screen. Throwback Thursday runs The Horse Whisperer noon March 1. A Night at the Oscars, a red-carpet affair marking the 90th anniversary, has music by Howard Post Trio and Alison Michel, heavy hors d’oeuvres, champagne, prizes and the Oscars live on the screen, 6 p.m. March 4, $25, RSVP 679-5736. Shore Stories, six shorts about the oil drilling resistance movement, runs 7 p.m. March 8. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 697-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

IMAX THEATER Black Panther, Amazon Adventure, Extreme Weather, Amazing Mighty Micro Monsters and Dream Big screen. Wrinkle in Time starts March 8. Tomb Raider starts March 15. St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Annihilation and Black Panther screen.

The Dark Crystal runs Feb. 28. Lisa Henson, whose father Jim made the film, discusses him and his amazing career.

Wrinkle in Time starts March 9. Check website for details.

1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

WOLF HALL One feels sympathy and fascination for the social-climbing secretary, reformer and “blacksmith’s boy” Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s chief minister. The tale has been described as opening like “House of Cards” and ending like “Game of Thrones.” Opens 8 p.m. March 2, runs through March 18, at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., $25 general, $21 students/seniors/military; theatrejax.com.

THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband–the storms begin to brew. The show opens 8 p.m. March 2; runs through March 24 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $28, $25 students/seniors/military, playersbythesea.org.

THE ILLUSIONISTS Magic and illusion are featured in this reality-bending show, 8 p.m. March 2; 2 & 8 p.m. March 3 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, 300 Water St., Downtown, $38.50-$84.50, fscjartistseries.org.

THE WALLS A complicated inheritance is on the line as a daughter examines her role in her mentally ill mother’s life.

Staged through March 4 at The 5 & Dime, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, 637-5100, the5anddime.org, $17-$25.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Because no one can ever get enough of Audrey II, or so it seems, the show runs 7:50 p.m.

Tue.-Sun., 1:15 p.m. Sat. and 1:50 p.m. Sun. through March 25 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $38-$59, alhambrajax.com.

CLASSICAL + JAZZ

SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT Under the direction of Dr. Paul Weikle, a diverse musical selection is performed, 7:30 p.m.

March 1 at FSCJ South Campus’ Wilson Center for the Arts, 11901 Beach Blvd., free, 646-2222.

FLORIDA CHAMBER MUSIC PROJECT Webern’s “Langsamer Satz” and Schubert’s “String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D.810,” aka “Death and the Maiden,” are played 3 p.m.

March 4 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., $25, pvconcerthall.com.

GERMAN ROMANTICS Timothy Tuller presents organ music in the German tradition, including “Overture to St. Paul” by Felix Mendelssohn and the Jacksonville premiere of “Saul,” a “monumental” work by the 19th-century composer Johann Gustav Stehle. 5 p.m. March 4 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, free, 356-5507, jaxcathedral.org.

CRAZY ARC OF LOVE The fabulous and often controversial Storm Large joins the Jacksonville Symphony and Principal Pops conductor Michael Krajewski for favorite classic songs of romance, 11 a.m. & 8 p.m. March 2; 8 p.m. March 3 at the T-U Center, Downtown, $19-$82, jaxsymphony.org.

JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS CONCERT The young musicians perform their selections for this spring concert, 5 p.m. March 4 at T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, $8 adult, $3 child.

SYMPHONIC ODYSSEY This presentation features many well-known European composers, from Mozart, Verdi, Shostakovich and Dvorak, to some lesser-known, such as Grieg and Nicola and covers nearly 100 years, 1840s-1930s.

It’s a musical journey across Europe during a time of social change, upheaval, wars and rebellions, 8 p.m. March 7 at Lightner Museum, 25 Granada St., St. Augustine, $22, staugustineorchestra.org.

SYMPHONIC HIP HOP & WYCLEF JEAN Over his long career, the multiple-Grammy-winning artist has blended the lines of hip hop with other styles; for the first time, the “hip hop guitarist” performs live with a full symphony orchestra; 8 p.m. March 10 at Daily’s Place, Downtown, $49-$109, jaxsymphony.org.

JONAH SOFA JAZZ SESSIONS Jazz sessions hosted by John Lumpkin & the Covenant, 7:30 p.m. March 1 at The Local, 4578 San Jose Blvd., 683-8063, thelocaljax.com.

MATTHEW HALL The pianist performs every Thur., Fri. & Sat. at Corner Bistro/Glass Hat Piano Bar & Grill, 9823 Tapestry Park Cir., Southside, 619-1931.

COMEDY

BILL MAHER The smarmy, smarter-than-thou comic with a salacious personal appetite and queasy relationship with feminism brings his needle-pointed humor to the First Coast, 8 p.m. March 3, at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $66-$115, floridatheatre.com.

TK KIRKLAND The comic appears 8 p.m. March 2; 7:30 & 10 p.m. March 3 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $19-$150, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

TOMMY DAVIDSON Best known as one of the stars of the hit TV show In Living Color, his exceptional range has made him a household name known for innovative talent. He performs 7:30 p.m. March 1; 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. March 2 & 3 at Comedy Zone, 3103 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $20-$114.50, comedyzone.com.

OPEN MIC 8 p.m. March 1 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $12-$20, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

MELISSA DOUTY, ANGELA NACCA The comics are on 8:30 p.m.

March 3 at The Comedy Club with Jackie Knight at Gypsy Cab Company’s Corner Bar, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 461-8843, $12, thegypsycomedyclub.com.

LAUGH LOUNGE A weekly showcase of funny NEFla folks is 8 p.m. March 3 at Dos Gatos, 123 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, creativeveins.com.

THE HODGETWINS Edgy, unfiltered comedy, from these YouTube favorites, 7:30 p.m. March 5 at The Comedy Zone, Mandarin, $25-$50, comedyzone.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

ST. JOHNS COUNTY PARKS & REC DEPT. CAMP LOTTERY For SJC resident kids ages 5-12, the camp’s lottery registration opens at 8 a.m. March 5 through 5 p.m. March 16; names are drawn at random March 26, results mailed out. Camp is June 4-July 20. This year’s theme: Be a Superhero! Fees $410/child; reduced rates available upon qualification, sjcfl.us/youth.

CASTING CALL: BOBBYk BOUTIQUE Seasoned models or savvy amateurs, if you think you’ve got what it takes to walk the runway, or are interested in volunteering for a fashion show, stop by 8-10 p.m. March 3 at Bobbyk Boutique, 1188 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, shopbobbyk.com.

AUDITION: MAMMA MIA Auditions are 1 p.m. March 3 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., theatrejax.com.

The play is mounted June 8-24.

PROMENADE THE ALCAZAR To celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Alcazar Hotel and Lightner Museum’s 70th anniversary, folks may submit original artworks inspired by the anniversary’s theme, Promenade the Alcazar. Winning artwork is selected by museum staff; $1,000 prize; deadline May 31, lightnermuseum.org/art-contest.

PICASSO’S KIDS The Art Center Cooperative calls young artists to submit works for inclusion in a show highlighting Picasso’s belief that kids make the most interesting artworks; $10/entry, all mediums accepted, no size limit. Deadline March 21, tacjacksonville.org.

NEW VOICES: YOUNG VOICES Players by the Sea announces its annual New Voices program. Applicants 13-18 may submit a proposal and dialogue. Deadline March 16; playersbythesea.org/new-voices-young-voices.

HER EXPERIENCES

MELODY JACKSON’s works, which revolve around her diagnosis of acoustic neuroma, are on view at the Ritz Theatre’s current show, Through Our Eyes, Journey to South Africa: A Cultural Exchange along with the works of 26 other artists of the African diaspora, through the end of April, Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, Downtown, ritzjacksonville.com.

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ARTS + EVENTS ART WALKS + MARKETS

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK A self-guided tour of exhibits, live music and refreshments offered by 27 members of local art galleries, is 5-9 p.m. March 3 and every first Fri. in St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach, 377-0198, artgalleriesofstaugustine.org.

JACKSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET Open daily from dawn to dusk (except Thanksgiving and Christmas), Beaver Street, as it’s known, is a real farmers market in every sense. It’s the state’s oldest of its kind, plus there’s a gallery (we don’t know if Elvis on Velvet is available) and vendors hawking every item you didn’t know you needed. 1810 W. Beaver St., Westside, 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Every Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m., rain or shine, featuring a variety of small businesses, everything from artists to farmers to makers and bakers; and all the fresh herbs you want. 715 Riverside Ave., under the Fuller Warren Bridge, ram.riversideavondale.org.

FERNANDINA BEACH MARKET PLACE A weekly event: Farmers, growers and entrepreneurial folks sell locally grown and produced goods to those living in, and visiting, the friendly little community. The market runs 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat. at North Seventh Street, in Fernandina Beach’s historic district, fernandinabeachmarketplace.com.

ORANGE PARK FARMERS’ MARKET More than 100 vendors sell fresh, local produce and homemade crafts, musicians play, and artisans cook, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 4 and every first & third Sun., 2042 Park St., orangeparkmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

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ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM 2800 University Blvd. N., 256-7374, ju.edu. The Aesthetic of Eden, works by Brooks Dierdorff and Context of Utility, works by Shannon Lindsey, are up through March 7.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, flagler.edu. Four Channels, two sound installations by artist Olivia Block, are accessible March 2-April 14.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. In the Garden, through April 22. Thomas Hart Benton & the Navy, through June 3.

Fields of Color: the Art of Japanese Printmaking, through Nov. 25. Spring Celebration & Plant Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

March 3, front lawn; free admission. American art is discussed 10:30 a.m. March 6; nonmembers $10, members free.

THE BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Lana Shuttleworth’s Nature Reconstructed runs through June 3.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. In the old Alcazar Hotel built in 1888, the museum has an eclectic collection of fine and decorative arts, and items that would’ve made any 19th-century collector preen: a mummy, shrunken heads and human hair.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Juan Fontanive Lopez’s Movement 4 is the atrium project. Call & Response, through April 1. Unverified by collaborative artists Kahn & Selesnick, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Lori Nix, Jojakim Cortis, Adrian Sonderegger, Jennifer B. Thoreson and Thomas Jackson, through March 25. Circumvolve: Narratives & Responses to Life Cycles, by UNF student artist-inresidence Rachel Huff Smith, through March 18.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Hands-on exhibit NANO presents basics of nanoscience and engineering, through June 17. Science Fiction, Science Future, through May.

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THE 5 & DIME, A THEATRE COMPANY 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, the5anddime.org. This month’s artwork is Inside Out, a selection of works by mentally ill individuals, up through March, istillmatter.org.

BREW 5 POINTS 1024 Park St., Riverside, 374-5789. Gabi Corley and Perla Reyes show new works.

FSCJ KENT CAMPUS GALLERY 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside.

MAIMS: Antisocial Media, works by Daniel A. Brown, currently on view. Instagram: the_real_daniel_brown.

MAKERSPACE 333 N. Laura St., Main Library, Downtown, jaxpubliclibrary.org. Banksy’s Haight Street Rat and Writing on the Walls, Visual Literacy through Street Culture display through April 14.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Downtown, southlightgallery.com. A collaborative art gallery exhibiting and selling works by professional regional artists.

THE SPACE GALLERY 120 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, longroadprojects.com. Sum + Substance, works by Dustin Harewood, Hiromi Moneyhun, Christina Chandler and Elena Øhlander, are on view.

THE YELLOW HOUSE 577 King St., Riverside, yellowhouseart. org. (Re)Set the Table, an exhibition of works by eight artists, through March.

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INDIVISIBLE ST. JOHNS The nonpartisan organization, which focuses on issues involving local economy, environment, healthcare, social justice and good government, presents St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes, who discusses election security for the midterm elections, 7 p.m.

March 1 at Unitarian Universalist Church, 2487 A1A S., St. Augustine, indivisible-st-johns.blogspot.com.

PEACE & DIALOGUE AWARDS DINNER The purpose of the awards is to recognize those who’ve made contributions toward intercultural dialogue and peace by promoting mutual understanding and thereby achieving greater cross-cultural

cooperation. Keynote speaker is Carla Power, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist. Community Service Award Winner R.L. Gundy; Diversity in Media Award Winner Claire Goforth (woot woot); and Educational Service Award Winner John Thrasher are recognized. 6 p.m. March 1 at University of North Florida’s Herbert University Center, 2000 Alumni Dr., Southside, $60, eventbrite.com.

BEER AND HYMNS A community sing with no regard to spiritual inclination or lack thereof, 7:30 p.m. March 1 at Bold City Brewery, 2670 Rosselle St., Ste. 7, Riverside.

BLIPS AND CHITZ A Rick and Morty themed dance party ... we’re guessing that means lots and lots of erm, experimental outfits. Get nerdy, 9 p.m. March 2 at Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside, 619-9978; $5, $3 in any cosplay.

AUTHOR PETER ZHEUTLIN The bestselling author of Rescued and Rescue Road, compassionate, joyful books about dogs and people who help them, headlines this fundraiser for an important NEFLa nonprofit, Pit Sisters, a rescue, rehab and outreach facility that helps bully-breed dogs get a second chance at life. 6 p.m. March 2 at FSCJ Deerwood Center, 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., $30, peterzheutlin.com.

ART NIGHTS The first Friday of each month, Element Earth Works opens its doors to showcase local artists’ wares; 6-9 p.m. March 2 at 1176 Edgewood Ave., 635-4172, elementearthworks.com.

COSMIC CONCERTS Laser shows are Pop 7 p.m., Laserock 8 p.m., Vinyl 9 p.m. and Wish You Were Here, 10 p.m. March 2 in Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank; online tickets $5 members; $10 nonmembers, 396-6674, themosh.org.

ONESIE BAR CRAWL Party at the beach in your jammies in Onesie Bar Crawl, 5 p.m.- 2 a.m. March 3; check in at Ritz Bar, 183 Third Ave. N., or The Brix Taphouse, 300 Second St. N., Jax Beach; $8.34 early bird, eventbrite.com. A canned food drive to benefit local food banks is held; bring nonperishable items and get raffle tix.

MUTT MARCH Jacksonville’s largest pet walk and family festival (make sure Roscoe can behave on a leash), is 9 a.m.1 p.m. March 3 at Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, $15 ages 5-17, $25 team member, $30 solo (dogs walk with their humans for free), jaxhumane.org.

JAX BOOK FEST Keynote speakers Nicola Yoon and Kimberla Lawson discuss and sign copies of their books. More than 100 authors are on hand and you could get tips from published writers, attend panel discussions and learn a bit about self-promotion. Locally based poet Aaron Woodson unveils his nonfiction poetry. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. March 3 at Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, free admission, jaxbookfest.org.

DOUGLAS ANDERSON WRITERS FEST George Saunders and Tracy K. Smith headline the festival, which includes Kristen Arnett, Agatha French, Teri Youmans Grimm, Caitlin Horrocks, Yvette Hyater-Adams, Billy Merrell, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Jamal Parker, Jim Peterson, Laura Lee Smith, Ira Sukrungruang, Sidney Wade and David Williams; workshops for all levels in fiction, poetry, memoir, journalism, playwriting, performance and literary nonfiction. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; evening readings 7 p.m.

March 3 at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., $75/all day; $35/student, educator, senior; $35 evening reading, dawritersfest.com.

SHELLED TRAVELERS Jonathan Mays speaks about Florida’s freshwater turtles at this month’s Jacksonville Herpetological Society meeting, 3 p.m. March 4 at MOSH, 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-6674, jaxherpsociety.com.

WORLD OF NATIONS 2018 The city of Jacksonville and local multicultural friends bring the world to you with a fascinating cultural destination that showcases the diversity of our planet, and puts the sights, sounds and tastes of different nations within reach, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. March 3 & 4 at Metropolitan Park, Downtown, $5, eventbrite.com.

NORTHEAST FLORIDA VEG FEST The seventh annual fest celebrates local, sustainable, eco-friendly, compassionate, organic, healthy and humane organizations and businesses.

Live music, cooking demos, beer garden, kids’ zone, pieeating contest, raffles and a scavenger hunt, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

March 3 at Riverside Park, 753 Park St., nfvegfest.org.

BLACK PANTHER SCREENING, DISCUSSION A discussion of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road follows the movie. Moderator is Shawana Brooks, Arts & Culture Developer, Jacksonville Public Library. Participants are Marq Mervin, visual artist, Ebony PayneEnglish, poet and spoken word performer; D’Angelo Samuels, visual artist; Christa “Fatoumata” Sylla, Nan Nkama PanAfrican Drum & Dance Ensemble; Andreia Thaxton-Simmons, PhD, professor of English and Humanities, FSCJ, noon-3 p.m.

March 4 at Sun-Ray Cinema, $8.50, sunraycinema.com.

LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE In Shaker Heights, a smug Cleveland suburb, everything’s planned. This book explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood, and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. Facilitated by Stacey Goldring, 6 p.m. March 6 at San Marco Bookstore, 1971 San Marco Blvd., $21.83, eventbrite.com.

SHORE STORIES Six short films that highlight the grassroots resistance taking place across the U.S. against offshore drilling, 7 p.m. March 7 at Corazon Cinema & Cafe, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

WIND CHIMES FOR SPECIAL NEEDS Local high school student Claire Fodor sells handmade wind chimes to help raise funds for the charity Sound Connections. They’re available at the Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra, 50 Executive Way, ccpvd.org. _________________________________________ 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. Items run as space is available. Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. printing.

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Makerspace. “I just felt very appreciative that ince first emerging as part of Bristol’s they even looked at us as a possible venue DryBreadZ Crew in the early 1990s, to showcase this.” Opening night coincided the name “Banksy” has become with Writing on the Walls, an exhibit of synonymous with social activism expressed street art showing in the same space at the through public art. Banksy wasn’t the first, same time. The Writing pieces were culled and will certainly not be the last, thanks from a temporary wall that Brooks installed in large part to his outsized influence, but at Springfield’s Phoenix Arts District and without question the legacy of this artist made accessible to anyone who wanted to figures epicentrically to the broader cultural participate. The only caveat? Respect other phenomenon. “Banksy is a true legend,” says artists’ decisions. local artist Nicole Holderbaum, activist and The Rat’s current owner, Brian Greif, founder of the Jax Kids Mural Project. “He’s insists that no fee be charged to view the piece, unstoppable, always one step ahead—the most something famously anti-capitalist clever artist I’ve ever He’s ver experienced. experiien encced. … H e s on some so mething of which which h tthe he famo artist would approve. his own level.” arti ar tist ti st w ould ou ld surely surel ely ly ap ppr p ove. e. That T stipulation has Banksy may also so h s been met through ha the be the only major the llargesse of VyStar Credit celebrity in the Creed Union. The end of iits modern era (asidee t run coincides with from UltraMantis with Public Art Week (scheduled April Black and whoeverr (sch 1-7), wears the Guy 1-7) 17 a joint venture between the Cultural Fawkes mask in the hee b tw be w Council and Art in Anonymous videos, os, Cou Co Public whom I and otherss Pub Places.

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“I’ve been working hard for the past year “I think it’s going to bring in a lot of tourism,” Brooks says of the exhibit. “It’s going to be here to really make the Jax Makerspace Gallery for only two months, and then it’s going into this place of contemporary to Abu Dhabi. I knew that I wanted to art for Northeast Florida’s artists,” develop an exhibit to go along says Shawana Brooks, JPL’s Arts with it that also deals with & Culture Developer and street art, as a subculture. the driving force behind There was an almost 30-year trajectory of street art being vilified and associated with blight. Now, you can’t even have a contemporary major neighborhood without murals in your area. The whole identity has changed, for the better.” Certainly, the works of Banksy have played a major role in the shifting of that dynamic, and it will be interesting to see what kinds of crowds Haight Street Rat draws during its run.

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__________________________________ Banksy, Haight Street Rat and Writing on the Walls: Visual Literacy through Street Art Culture, exhibit at Jax Makerspace, 303 N. Laura St., through Saturday, April 14.

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touch. It’s easy to imagine the calm tactile implicity is hard. So, too, is an pleasure he experiences using the implement unaffected-but-confident aesthetic. It is transmitted to the viewer through an takes hours of practice and dedication alchemical process that defies linear logic. to make things that seem to wholly inhabit Like Brancusi, whose works seem to their own space, and do so in a manner that’s occupy space even as they clear space, these sure-handed without being self-satisfied. pots are restful to the eye and mind yet Artist and award-winning interior still richly evocative; perhaps because, like designer Larry Wilson walks the fine line Brancusi’s work, they are rather idealized between solving the problem before it exists forms. In Wilson’s case, that means the vessels (after all, that’s what designers do) and letting he builds are in a recognizable lexicon, but the forms in/of his pieces unfold before him. tailored by his own hand, to his own journey.

“It’s just you and the clay,” he said of his “They’re unadorned because I didn’t want process, “I push and pull literally, [but] try not to give any sense of arrogance, or hint that I to overthink it.” could even replicate the A sculptor working primarily in clay, markings or how they stoneware with lots of grog (sand for texture handled the pots as far and body), Wilson has several concurrent as surface treatment,” bodies of work; figures, vessels and, very he said, regarding the recently, boat-like forms. For his upcoming unglazed and minimally show at the Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra altered exteriors.

Beach, a selection of his Spirit Vessels will be on view along with images by Angela Casini and Joe Crozier.

“The whole Spirit Vessels series is ongoing ... I spend a lot of time out in New Mexico [Santa Fe] and one of the things I really admire, enjoy and respect is Native American culture. Their history, traditions and past, and their understanding and love of Mother Earth and how to respect it,” said the artist. He then explained that in the Southwest, he feels much more grounded, and attached to a still-palpable wildness. “There, I feel like a part of the whole.”

The Vessels he makes are handmade pots (coil built) that take ancient utilitarian forms like seed pots, water pots and storage pots as points-of-departure. For the artist, working in forms that recall Southwestern Native American vessels is a way to pay homage and investigate how the materials and “desires” of the clay impact the final form. Reflecting on the title of the series, Wilson said, “For me, I was trying to find a way to describe the series that has the essence of the [original] Native American pottery.”

“The shapes are so beautiful and the philosophy behind them is so beautiful, so I want to be very clear: I’m not trying to ‘cash in’ on Native American pottery; this is my tribute,” he said emphatically.

When naming the pots, he often cites the original form used. For instance, in the piece Small Seed Pot with Cloud (pictured), Wilson indicated that in the research he conducted, scholars identified this particular shape as being that of a pot that held seeds, so he carries the convention forward in his own work.

However, unlike the ancient peoples of the Southwest, ANGELA CASINI, JOE CROZIER Wilson eschews decorating the & LARRY WILSON Exhibition of Works opens 6 p.m. surface of the forms, preferring March 9, The Cultural Center at instead to let the subtle Ponte Vedra Beach’s Main Gallery, manipulations of his hands and ccpvb.org. Through April 21. the simple tools he uses leave their marks. He favors a metal scraper and a flat, wedge-shaped wooden tool that’s as cool and smooth as silk to the

That the vessels are unglazed doesn’t mean they’re unembellished. On many of the works, the artist has constructed a handle of sorts, attaching found wood (often NEFLasourced). “The found wood is a reference to me being born and raised in Florida. I am not from the Southwest, so the language I inherently know is not of there,” he explained.

Thus in fusing the foraged Florida wood with ancient forms designed to withstand the desert, it’s as if Wilson is bringing two ascetic environments together.

The pots become a launching pad.

Symbolically, in addition to the artist’s stated use of wood as a linchpin to Florida, the shape of the “handles” is reminiscent of a door or passageway. Thus, the notion of a liminal space within the body of the works seems to suggest that maybe, just maybe, if one were to peek at the vessel at just the right moment, in a private time, one would glimpse the “being able to see forever[ness]” that is central to the physical experience of being in the Southwest.

And somehow, despite the clearly visible edges, foreverness seems to inhabit the very spirit of these forms, too.

Madeleine Peck Wagner madeleine@folioweekly.com

Healer, author, speaker and Billboardtopping singer JOHN STRINGER performs 7 p.m. March 3 at Unity Church, Riverside, $7.50-$10, eventbrite.com.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

CANDLEBOX, STATE TO STATE 8 p.m. Feb. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall (PVCHall), 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, pvconcerthall.com, $33.50-$38.50.

JASON DEVORE, RUSS BAUM, WILD ADRIATIC 9 p.m. Feb. 28, Surfer the Bar (Surfer), 220 N. First St., Jax Beach, 372-9756, surferthebar.com.

DANIELLE EVA JAZZ DUO, LPIII 6 p.m. Feb. 28, Prohibition Kitchen (ProhibitKitch), 119 St. George St., St. Augustine, 209-5704.

ASKMEIFICARE, BLUG 7 p.m. Feb. 28, 1904 Music Hall (1904MH), 19 Ocean St. N., Downtown, 345-5760, 1904musichall.com, $8-$10.

BLACKBERRY SMOKE 8 p.m. March 1, The Florida Theatre (FlaThtr), 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com, $25-$45.

CHAD JASMINE 8 p.m. March 1, Blue Jay Listening Room (BlueJay), 2457B S. Third St., Jax Beach, bluejay.com, $20.

GINGER BEARD MAN 9:30 p.m. March 1, Cheers Park Avenue (Cheers), 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855, cheersparkave.com.

NIGHT OF BEE GEES 7:30 p.m. March 1, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts (ThrshHrnCtr), 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $39, thcenter.org.

LARA HOPE & THE ARKTONES, CAIN’T NEVER COULD 8 p.m. March 1, Nighthawks, (NightHwks), 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside.

MURIEL ANDERSON 7 p.m. March 1, Mudville Music Room, (Mudville), 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, raylewispresents.com, $10.

RAGLAND 7 p.m. March 1, Jack Rabbits (JackRabbs), 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8.

SAVI FERNANDEZ, APPLE SEED 6 p.m. March 1, ProhibitKitch.

DIXIE DREGS 8 p.m. March 1, PVCHall, $59-$79.

TOWER OF POWER 8 p.m. March 2, PVCHall, $69-$79.

TREBLE HOOK 8 p.m. March 2, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SpiritSuwannee), 9379 C.R. 132, Live Oak, 386-364-1683, suwanneerootsrevival.com.

OLYMPVS 9:30 p.m. March 2 & 3, Cheers.

PHILLIP PHILLIPS 8 p.m. March 2, FlaThtr, $35-$40.

KALANI ROSE, HIT PARADE 6 p.m. March 2, ProhibitKitch.

JIMMY GNECCO 8 p.m. March 2, JackRabbs, $15.

BARRETT THOMPSON, LYNDIE BURRIS 7 p.m. March 2, Boondocks.

BOBBY LEE RODGERS TRIO 8 p.m. March 2, BlueJay, $20.

GRANT PEEPLES 7 p.m. March 2, Mudville, $10.

FLEET FOXES 7 p.m. March 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre (StAugAmp), 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, staugamphitheatre, $48.

NBA YOUNG BOY 9 p.m. March 3, Mavericks, The Landing, Downtown, 356-1110, mavericksatthelanding.com.

JOHN STRINGER 7 p.m. March 3, Unity Church of Jacksonville, 634 Lomax St., Riverside, $7.50-$10, eventbrite.com.

MICHAEL MILLER BAND 8 p.m. March 3, SpiritSuwannee.

FOLK IS PEOPLE 8 p.m. March 3, BlueJay. TREVOR BYSTROM, LUV U 6 p.m. March 3, ProhibitKitch.

JOHN HAMMOND 8 p.m. March 3, PVCHall, $36.

ALBERT CASTIGLIA 10 p.m. March 3, Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-6636, $15, showclix.com.

THE GEORGIA FLOOD, THE GHOST OF PAUL REVERE 8 p.m.

March 3, JackRabbs, $10.

JUSTIN MOORE, DYLAN SCOTT 7 p.m. March 3, StAugAmp, $34-$59.50.

SCOTT McGINLEY, SOUTHERN RUCKUS 7 p.m. March 3, Boondocks.

MOON STALKER, SIDETRACK 7 p.m. March 3, Mudville, $10.

KICK THE INXS EXPERIENCE 8 p.m. March 4, JackRabbs, $15.

KNOCKED LOOSE, TERROR, JESUS PIECE, STONE 9 p.m.

March 4, 1904MH, $15-$20.

TIERNEY SUTTON BAND 7:30 p.m. March 4, Ritz Theatre, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com, $34.

BOTTOM FEEDERS 6 p.m. March 4, ProhibitKitch.

ASTOR IVY, THE WILDLIFE 7 p.m. March 4, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969, $8.

THE WILLOW WACKS 6 p.m. March 5, ProhibitKitch.

THE BONES OF DR. JONES 8 p.m. March 6, JackRabbs, $8.

ASLYN & THE NAYSAYERS, STEPHEN PIGMAN 6 p.m. March 6, ProhibitKitch.

ANA POPOVIC 8 p.m. March 7, PVCHall, $36-$39.

JOHN KADLECIK BAND, STOOP KIDS 8 p.m. March 7, 1904MH, $20-$25.

LEELYNN OSBORN, COOKIN’ IN THE KITCHEN 6 p.m. March 7, ProhibitKitch.

SEAN CLARK, UNCLE DAVE GRIFFIN, WILLIS GORE 8 p.m.

March 7, BlueJay, $10.

SONREAL, DAVIE 8 p.m. March 8, JackRabbs, $13-$85.

SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS 8 p.m. March 8, BlueJay. ZION I, LE SPECIAL 8 p.m. March 8, NightHwks, $13-$15.

MARK JOHNS 6 p.m. March 8, Boondocks.

NAUGHTY PROFESSOR, CHALI 2NA 8 p.m. March 8, 1904MH, $15-$20.

RAMONA TRIO, LPIII 6 p.m. March 8, ProhibitKitch.

LOVE MONKEY 9:30 p.m. March 8, Cheers.

ANDY McKEE 8 p.m. March 8, PVCHall, $36-$46.

THE LOS ANGELES GUITAR QUARTET 7:30 p.m. March 8, FlaThtr; DASotA benefit, $25-$35.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

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 TRAVIS TRITT, THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND, THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, THE OUTLAWS March 9, StAugAmp JUKEBOX OLDIES March 9, SpiritSuwannee JO & THE SAUCE, OZONEBABY March 9, Cheers CHRIS THOMPSON BAND, DISPLACE March 9, ProhibitKitch COAST MODERN March 9, JackRabbs JONATHAN LEE March 9, Boondocks RESONANT ROGUES March 9, BlueJay VOLUR, 1476, ETHER, XAEUS, TRANSIT March 9, RainDogs STEVE MARTIN, MARTIN SHORT, THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS, JEFF BABKO March 9, T-U Center RAISIN CAKE ORCHESTRA March 10, ProhibitKitch RYAN CAMPBELL March 10, Boondocks BIANCA DEL RIO March 10, PVCHall OZONEBABY March 10, Cheers

VELVET CARAVAN March 10, RitzTh WYCLEF JEAN, JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY March 10, Dailys SIDELINE March 10, Mudville KOLARS, ESCONDIDO, THE KATE RAYS March 10, JackRabbs BILLY BUCHANAN March 10, BlueJay EARTH, WIND & FIRE March 10, FlaThtr BRAD PAISLEY, CHASE BRYANT March 10, StAugAmp MOTOWN THE MUSICAL March 10 & 11, T-U Center RAISING CADENCE, A WOLF AMONGST SHEEP, FERNWAY, VOODOO FIX March 11, JackRabbs THE WILLOW WACKS March 11, ProhibitKitch INDIGO GIRLS March 11, PVCHall THE TENDERLOINS March 11, StAugAmp THE IRISH ROVERS March 11, FlaThtr THE MARVIN GAYE EXPERIENCE March 11, ThrshHrnCtr KEITH HARKIN March 11, BlueJay RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS March 12, Mudville KRISTEN LEE March 12, ProhibitKitch BAY KINGS BAND March 12, BlueJay ROBIN TROWER March 13, PVCHall COLTON TRIO, CHELSEA SADDLER March 13, ProhibitKitch THE DRUGSTORE GYPSIES March 13, JackRabbs ANITA BAKER March 14, T-U Center LEELYNN OSBORN, COOKIN IN THE KITCHEN March 14, ProhibitKitch MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET March 15, T-U Center LYNDIE BURRIS March 15, Boondocks ANTHONY RANERI March 15, 1904MH KATASTRO March 15, JackRabbs AMPLE ANGST, DAVE EGGAR March 15, BlueJay EASY STAR ALL STARS March 15, ProhibitKitch MIKE LOVE, JUNGLE MAN SAM March 16, 1904MH ASHTON TAYLOR, SOULS OF JOY, PAUL IVEY March 16, Boondocks SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY March 16, SpiritSuwannee BERNARD JAZZ TRIO, CHILLULA March 16, ProhibitKitch JOE JENCKS March 16, Mudville FOREIGNER, DAVE EGGAR ORCHESTRA March 16, StAugAmp CASSIDY LEE, JULIA GULIA March 16, Cheers STEVE HOFSTETTER March 16, JackRabbs HOTEL EXPERIENCE: A SALUTE TO THE EAGLES March 16, ThrshHrnCtr NAHKO, THE LATE ONES, XIUHTEZCATL March 16, PVCHall MIKE LOVE, JUNGLE MAN SAM March 16, 1904MH GET THE LED OUT March 16, FlaThtr MATT KNOWLES, HARD 2 HANDLE March 17, Boondocks BELLE & THE BAND, SMOKESTACK March 17, ProhibitKitch JOURNEY, BON JOVI TRIBUTE SHOW March 17, SpiritSuwannee JULIA GULIA March 17, Cheers 1964 THE TRIBUTE March 17, StAugAmp WALKER BROTHERS, OLD DAWGS NEW TRIXX March 17, Mudville RANDALL BRAMBLETT March 17, BlueJay FLIPTURN, GLASS HOUSE POINT, ASTER & IVY, SOUTH POINT March 17, JackRabbs TIFFANY March 17, PVCHall COREY SMITH, THE WILSON BROTHERS BAND March 17, Mavericks SPRING ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD FAIR March 18, StAugAmp FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 6, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 29

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CHELSEA SADDLER, BOTTOM FEEDERS, DOWNTOWN TOP RANKIN March 18, ProhibitKitch ALICE COOPER March 18, FlaThtr THE WILLOW WACKS March 19, ProhibitKitch A DAY TO REMEMBER, PAPA ROACH, FALLING IN REVERSE, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA March 20, StAugAmp THOMAS RHETT March 20, Dailys VINYL THEATRE, VESPERTEEN March 20, JackRabbs ASLYN & THE NAYSAYERS, JORY LYLE March 20, ProhibitKitch DANIELLE MOHR March 21, BlueJay MIKE & THE MECHANICS March 21, PVCHall LEELYNN OSBORN, JENNIFER WESTWOOD March 21, ProhibitKitch WALTER SALAS-HUMARA March 21, Mudville MAKARI, ADVENTURER March 21, JackRabbs MARK JOHNS March 22, Boondocks LUKE PEACOCK March 22, Mudville PAUL MILLER, STAN PIPER, STEFAN KLEIN March 22, BlueJay RAMONA TRIO, LPIII March 22, ProhibitKitch BUMPIN’ UGLIES, CLOUD9 VIBES March 22, JackRabbs FAT CACTUS March 22, Cheers INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, JIM LAUDERDALE, QUARTERMON, LARRY KEEL EXPERIENCE, DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET, DONNA the BUFFALO, DAR WILLIAMS, MORE March 22-25, SpiritSuwannee SHANE MYERS March 23, Cheers MARTY FARMER, BARRETT THOMPSON March 23, Boondocks RAISIN CAKE ORCHESTRA March 23, ProhibitKitch ESHAM March 23, NightHwks RODNEY CARRINGTON March 23, FlaThtr ROSE ROYCE, LENNY WILLIAMS, GLENN JONES, SHIRLEY MURDOCK, DENIECE WILLIAMS, REGINA BELLE March 24, T-U Center’s Moran Theater JUVENILE, TOO-SHORT, SCARFACE, TRINA, UNCLE LUKE, 8BALL, MIG March 24, VetsMemArena MATT KNOWLES March 24, Boondocks THE FALLEN SONS March 24, JackRabbs SAILOR JANE & THE SWELL, THE BAND BE EASY March 25, ProhibitKitch DWIGHT & NICOLE March 24, BlueJay ERIC COLETTE & BAND March 24, Boondocks BOOKER T. JONES March 25, PVCHall LANCE NEELY, THE WILLOW WOACKS, DOWNTOWN TOP RANKIN March 25, ProhibitKitch SUNSQUABI, EXMAG, MZG March 25, 1904MH WATAIN, DESTROYER666, NEXUL March 25, Mavericks THREE DOG NIGHT, THE LORDS OF 52ND STREET March 25, FlaThtr KATY SCHIRARD, CHELSEA SADDLER March 26, ProhibitKitch COLTON TRIO, GO GET GONE March 27, ProhibitKitch FORTUNATE YOUTH, BALLYHOO, TATANKA March 28, Mavericks LEELYNN OSBORN, COOKIN’ IN THE KITCHEN March 28, ProhibitKitch THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL March 29, Cheers BRIAN ERNST, HIT PARADE March 29, ProhibitKitch PAUL IVEY March 29, Boondocks AN EVENING WITH THE MAVERICKS March 29, PVCHall LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE March 30, PVCHall IVAN & BUDDY, FRATELLO March 30, Cheers RAISIN CAKE ORCHESTRA, SAVI FERNANDEZ March 30, ProhibitKitch DANGERMUFFIN March 30, Mudville PEACHES AND MINK March 30, Sun-Ray Cinema UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER, NEW DAY March 30, Mavericks TOP SHELF PEOPLE, SIDE HUSTLE, TOM BENNETT BAND March 30, JackRabbs SALT AND PINE, THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL March 31, ProhibitKitch ERIC LINDELL March 31, MojoKitchen RYAN DEPALO, PETER MICHAEL, MARK O’QUINN March 31, JackRabbs FRATELLO March 31, Cheers TERRY COLE BAND March 31, SpiritSuwannee BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, THE BELLE GAME April 1, PVCHall MY OLD LADY, 2FY OCTOPI, BLACK SPHERE, ENTROPY, DESERT ISLAND April 1, 1904MH LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND April 4, Café11 MACHINE GIRL, CHARLIE VELOURS April 4, Shntytwn JUNCO ROYALS April 4, BlueJay HAWKTAIL April 5, Café11 BUDDY GUY, JIMMIE VAUGHAN, QUINN SULLIVAN April 5, FlaThtr THE BAILSMEN April 5, BlueJay PRESSURE BUSS PIPE, BLACK DIAMOND BAND April 6, Mavericks EVE TO ADAM April 6, 1904MH LEGENDS SHOW April 6 & 7, SpiritSuwannee HANK WILLIAMS JR. April 6, StAugAmp HAWKTAIL April 6, BlueJay ZEB PADGETT, LOVE MONKEY April 16, Cheers TOMMY EMMANUEL, ANTHONY SNAPE April 6 & 7, PVCHall SETH WALKER April 7, Mudville SPRINGING THE BLUES AFTERPARTY April 7, MojoKitchen LOVE MONKEY April 7, Cheers THAT 1 GUY April 8, JackRabbs ALL TIME LOW, GNASH, DREAMERS April 10, Mavericks COREY KILGANNON, OH JEREMIAH April 12, BlueJay JULIA GULIA April 12, Cheers STYX, DON FELDER April 13, StAugAmp AMANDA SHIRES & HER BAND April 13, PVCHall CHRIS BOTTI April 13, FlaThtr PINEBOX DWELLERS April 13, BlueJay ANDY JONES, JASON EVANS BAND April 13, Cheers THE BLACK ANGELS, BLACK LIPS April 14, Backyard Stage, StAugAmp

KISS TRIBUTE SHOW April 14, SpiritSuwannee NEON WHISKEY April 14, Cheers THE WAILERS April 14, PVCHall THE REVIVALISTS April 14, FlaThtr THE BEACH BOYS April 15, StAugAmp DESCENDENTS April 15, Mavericks JERSEY BOYS April 15, Thrsh-HrnCtr DR. DOG, KYLE CRAFT, SON LITTLE, ALEX G April 15, PVCHall BIG SEAN, SHY GLIZZY, PLAYBOI CARTI, GASHI April 15, Dailys THE LONE BELLOW April 16, PVCHall ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN: GARY MULLEN & THE WORKS April 17, PVCHall ABBA THE CONCERT April 17, FlaThtr GLEN PHILLIPS April 18, Café11 BRIAN CULBERTSON April 18, FlaThtr ROGER THAT April 19, Cheers BRUCE COCKBURN April 19, PVCHall SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX April 19, FlaThtr WANEE 2018: WIDESPREAD PANIC, PHIL LESH & THE TERRAPIN FAMILY BAND, AS THE CROW FLIES, DARK STAR ORCHESTRA, ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES, JAIMOE’S JASSZ BAND, THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD, NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE, SONNY LANDRETH, THE MARCUS KING BAND, GEORGE PORTER JR. & THE RUNNING PARDNERS, LES BROS, BOBBY LEE ROGERS TRIO, BIG SOMETHING, BERRY OAKLEY’S INDIGENOUS SUSPECTS, CRAZY FINGERS April 19-21, SpiritSuwannee THOMAS RHETT, BRETT YOUNG, CARLY PEARCE April 20, Dailys CHRIS TOMLIN, KIM WALKER-SMITH, MATT MAHER, CHRISTINE D’CLARIO, TAUREN WELLS, PAT BARRETT April 20, VetsMemArena MARK JOHNS April 20, Cheers JOHN MULANEY April 20, FlaThtr ESSELS, MYSTIC GRIZZLY, LURK CITY, AFTERCITIES, REST in PIERCE, ROCKS n BLUNTS, VAMPA, DUROSAI, XOFF, AWT, RICHIE GRANT, JULIAN M, BENNY BLACK April 20, 1904MH BANDS ON THE RUN April 20, RainDogs MODEST MOUSE April 21, StAugAmp ABRAHAM PARTRIDGE April 21, BlueJay LIFT April 21, Cheers OLD 97’s, JAMIE WYATT April 22, PVCHall HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS, RICHARD MARX April 22, StAugAmp DAVID FOSTER April 24, FlaThtr

10,000 MANIACS April 25, PVCHall GINGER BEARD MAN April 25, Cheers JOHNNY MATHIS April 26, FlaThtr OZZY OSBOURNE, FOO FIGHTERS, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, POP EVIL, PALAYE ROYALE, BLACK MAP, BILLY IDOL, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, GODSMACK, STONE SOUR, BLACK VEIL BRIDES, AVATAR April 27-29, Metro Park BLACK JACKET SYMPHONY, JACKSONVILLE ROCK SYMPHONY: SGT. PEPPER’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR April 27, FlaThtr SOUTHERN BURN BAND April 27, SpiritSuwannee CASSIDY LEE, WILDFIRE RISING April 27, Cheers TAUK April 27, 1904MH YANNI April 27, StAugAmp SONDRA HUNT BAND April 28, SpiritSuwannee ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, CARL PALMER April 28, FlaThtr SUWANNEE RIVER JAM: ALAN JACKSON, JOSH TURNER, LOCASH, EASTON CORBIN, TYLER FARR, RODNEY ATKINS, THE LACS, KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS, WILLIAMS & REE, MORE May 2-5, SpiritSuwannee LITTLE BIG TOWN, KACEY MUSGRAVES, MIDLAND May 4, StAugAmp TODRICK HALL May 4, PVCHall GYPSY STAR May 4, Mudville SKILLET, FOR KING & COUNTRY May 5, Dailys HERB ALPERT, LANI HALL May 4, FlaThtr JIM MURDOCK, CITY OF BRIDGES May 4, Cheers GAMBLE ROGERS MUSIC FESTIVAL: PETER ROWAN, VERLON THOMPSON, MEAN MARY, VERONIKA JACKSON, BRIAN SMALLEY, PASSERINE, SAM PACETTI, THE STARLIGHT TRIO, THE ADVENTURES OF ANNABELL LYNN, BELL & THE BAND, RED & CHRIS HENRY’S ALLSTAR BAND, WILD SHINERS, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, THE OBSCURE BROTHERS, BRIAN SMALLEY, THE ASHLEY GANG REUNION, REMEDY TREE, ROTAGEEZER, BELMONT & JONES May 4-6, Colonial Quarter, St. Augustine OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW May 5, T-UCtr’s Moran Theater D.A. GUITAR STUDENT BENEFIT May 5, Mudville THE NATIONAL, BIG THIEF May 5, StAugAmp KRIS KRISTOFFERSON May 6, FlaThrtr THE GIPSY KINGS, NICOLAS REYES, TONINO BALIARDO May 6, StAugAmp VANCE JOY May 8, StAugAmp

LYNDIE BURRIS said she was “meant to sing.” The Middleburg native performs in a casual setting, ideal for her gospel-inflected country sound, 9:30 p.m.

March 2 at Boondocks Grill & Bar, Green Cove Springs, boondocksrocks.com.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC JAMES TAYLOR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND, BONNIE RAITT & HER BAND May 8, VetsMemArena JOE BONAMASSA May 10, StAugAmp POST MALONE, 21 SAVAGE May 10, Dailys OZONEBABY May 11 & 12, Cheers REBECCA LONG BAND May 11, Mudville STEVE FORBERT May 12, Mudville THE PAUL THORN BAND May 12, PVCHall CHOIR OF BABBLE May 12, RainDogs MARC COHN & HIS TRIO May 13, PVCHall STEELY DAN, THE DOOBIE BROTHERS May 13, Dailys BAHAMAS May 14, PVCHall OH WONDER, ASTRONOMYY May 15, PVCHall ODESZA May 16, Dailys LOVE MONKEY May 17, Cheers BLISTUR May 18, Cheers ROCK THE ’70S GALA May 19, FlaThtr GRATEFUL DEAD TRIBUTE SHOW May 19, SpiritSuwannee ORDINARY BOYS June 9, 1904MH ROD MacDONALD June 15, Mudville SALT N PEPA, SPINDERELLA, KID ’N PLAY, COOLIO, TONE LOC, THEA AUSTIN (EX-SNAPP!), C&C MUSIC FACTORY, FREEDOM WILLIAMS June 16, StAugAmp GARTH BROOKS TRIBUTE SHOW June 23, SpiritSuwannee REBELUTION, STEPHEN MARLEY, COMMON KINGS, ZION I, DJ MACKLE June 24, StAugAmp TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, MARCUS KING BAND June 29, Dailys THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS, WALK THE MOON, MISTERWIVES, JOYWAVE July 1, Dailys BARENAKED LADIES, BETTER THAN EZRA, KT TUNSTALL July 6, StAugAmp COHEED & CAMBRIA, TAKING BACK SUNDAY July 8, Dailys SLIGHTLY STOOPID, PEPPER, STICK FIGURE July 19, StAugAmp OAK RIDGE BOYS July 20, Thrsh-HrnCtr THE STEVE MILLER BAND, PETER FRAMPTON July 20, StAugAmp CHICAGO, REO SPEEDWAGON July 22, Dailys DON McCLEAN July 27, PVCHall EAGLES TRIBUTE SHOW July 28, SpiritSuwannee DISPATCH, NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, RAYE ZARAGOZA July 29, StAugAmp O.A.R. Aug. 5, Dailys JASON MRAZ, BRETT DENNAN Aug. 17, Dailys FOREIGNER, BAD COMPANY TRIBUTE SHOW Aug. 18, SpiritSuwannee SUWANNEE ROOTS REVIVAL Oct. 11-14, SpiritSuwannee GENE WATSON Oct. 13, PVCHall STEEP CANYON RANGERS OCT. 14, FlaThtr FAREWELL YELLOW BRICK ROAD TOUR: ELTON JOHN March 15, 2019, VetsMemArena

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA THE SALTY PELICAN, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811 Live music most weekends SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & the Pili Pili Band 6 p.m. Feb. 28. Tad Jennings March 1. Hupp 1 p.m. March 2. JCnMike March 4. Savannah Bassett March 5. Mark O’Quinn March 6

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 Tue. & Thur. Indie dance Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance Fri. MONTY’S/SHORES LIQUOR, 3644 St. Johns Ave., 389-1131 Live music most weekends

THE BEACHES

(ALL VENUES IN JAX BEACH UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) ATLANTIC BEACH BREWING CO., 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 3 & 15, Atlantic Beach, 372-4116 Jaime Noel 8 p.m. March 3 BLUE JAY LISTENING ROOM, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 Chad Jasmine March 1. Bobby Lee Rodgers March 2. Folk Is People March 3. Sean Clark, Uncle Dave Griffin, Willis Gore March 7. Sarah Shook & The Disarmers March 8. Resonant Rogues March 9 FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 Live music most weekends GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. Wed. Michael Smith Thur. Milton Clapp Fri. Under the Bus Sat. Robert Eccles Sun. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Live music nightly MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer Thur. Mezza Shuffle Mon. Trevor Tanner Tue. MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Albert Castiglia 10 p.m. March 3 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Red Fish Rich Feb. 28. Little Mike & the Tornadoes March 1. Bluff 5 March 2. Boogie Freaks March 3. Lunar Coast March 4 SURFER THE BAR, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Jason Devore, Russ Baum, Wild Adriatic 9 p.m. Feb. 28 WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Live music most weekends

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 Askmeificare, Blug 7 p.m. Feb. 28. Knocked Loose, Terror, Jesus Piece, Stone March 4. John Kadlecik Band, Stoop Kids March 7. Naughty Professor, Chali 2NA March 8 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur.

DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue.

JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 353-1188 Making Sum Noise 6 p.m.

March 7 MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 NBA Young Boy 9 p.m. March 3. Joe Buck, DJ Justin Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 Oscar G March 3. Midnight Tyrannosaurus March 9

OVERSET

FLEMING ISLAND

BOONDOCKS, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Eric Collette March 1. Barrett Thompson, Lyndie Burris March 2.

Scott McGinley, Southern Ruckus March 3. Mark Johns March 8 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Highway Jones 9 p.m. March 2. David Julia Band 9 p.m. March 3

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Live music most weekends JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Sidewalk 65 8:30 p.m. March 2. Yowsah 8:30 p.m. March 3

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Feb. 28 & March 4 TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Jay Garrett Feb. 28. Rumble Street March 2. Rough Mix March 3

ORANGE PARK + MIDDLEBURG

CHEERS PARK AVENUE, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 Ginger Beard Man March 1. Olympvs March 2 & 3. Love Monkey 9:30 p.m. March 8. Jo & The Sauce, Ozonebaby March 9 DEE’S MUSIC BAR, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 375-2240 Live music most weekends THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 DJs Jamie & Big Mike every Thur.

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Stephen Pigman March 1. Aaron Koerner March 3 TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28.

Kevin Ski March 3

RIVERSIDE + WESTSIDE

ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Bill Ricci 5 p.m. March 2 DALTON’S SPORTS GRILL, 2620 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 17, 282-1564 The Sondra Hunt Band March 2 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Lara Hope & The Arktones, Cain’t Never Could March 1. Zion I, Le Special 8 p.m. March 8 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Paralysis March 1.

Fossil Youth March 2. Astor Ivy, The Wildlife March 4. Volur, 1476, Ether, Xaeus, Transit March 9

ST. AUGUSTINE

ARNOLD’S LOUNGE, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 824-8738 Jason Evans 9 p.m. March 3 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. March 4 PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George St., 209-5704 Danielle Eva Jazz Duo, LPIII 6 p.m. Feb. 28. Savi Fernandez, Apple Seed March 1. Kalani Rose, Hit Parade March 2.

Trevor Bystrum, Luv U March 3. Bottom Feeders March 4.

The WillowWacks March 5. Aslyn & the naysayers, Stephen Pigman March 6. Leelynn Osborn, Cookin in the Kitchen March 7. Ramona Trio, LPIII March 8 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Pl., 342-0286 Jay Bird 7 p.m. March 1.

Jax English Salsa Band 6 p.m. March 4. Bluez Dudez, Soulo March 6

SAN MARCO

DOUBLETREE, 1201 Riverplace Blvd., 398-8800 Live music 4:30 p.m. every Thur.

JACK RABBITS, 15280 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Ragland March 1. Jimmy Gnecco March 2. The Georgia Flood, The Ghost of Paul Revere March 3. Kick the Inxs Experience March 4. The Bones of Dr. Jones March 6. Sonreal, Davie March 8.

Coast Modern March 9 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Muriel Anderson 7:30 p.m. March 1. Grant Peeples 7 p.m.

March 2. Moon Stalker, Sidetrack March 3

SOUTHSIDE, ARLINGTON & BAYMEADOWS

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Robby & Felix 9 p.m. March 1. Courtnie Frazier March 2. Ryan Campbell March 3 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Melissa Smith open mic every Wed.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

HYPERION BREWING CO., 1740 N. Main St., 518-513 Live music most weekends & 2:30 p.m. every Sun. SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth, 798-8222 Forsaken Profits March 2. Blind Spots March 3

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FOLIO DINING At THE HAPPY TOMATO COURTYARD CAFÈ & BBQ in Fernandina Beach, you'll find unique, fresh menu items prepared in a family-run restaurant.

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH

BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. On the water at Centre Street’s end. Southern hospitality, upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com.

F Family-owned café in historic building. Worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh veggies, seafood. Dine in or al fresco under oakshaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub brews beer onsite; imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season THE CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap.com. F For nearly 40 years, family-ownedand-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L Sa-M; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza.net. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20-plus toppings, pie/slice.

Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassauhealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa POINTE RESTAURANT, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu.

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ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL NOTES BW = Beer/Wine

L = Lunch

FB = Full Bar

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

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

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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. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310, traysburgerstation.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/ favorite. Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa

ARLINGTON + REGENCY

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802.

F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

FOOD ADDICTZ GRILL, 1044 Edgewood Ave. S., 240-1987.

F Family-and-veteran-owned place is all about home cooking. Customer faves: barbecued pulled pork, blackened chicken, Caesar wrap and Portobello mushroom burger. $ K TO B L D Tu-Su HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

Locally owned & operated 20+ years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/ favorite. Pulled pork and Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish. Avondale’s Mojo has shrimp & grits, specialty cocktails. Local musicians on weekends. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. 40+ years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps.

Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers.

Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362, south.kitchen. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

Southern classics: crispy catfish with smoked gouda grits, family-style fried chicken, burgers, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. $$ FB K TO L D Daily

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. INDIA’S, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajaxcom. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb,

DINING DIRECTORY chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2017 Best of Jax favorite.

SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite.

Since 1989, the family-owned place has offered an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Low-sodium & gluten-free. $$$ BW TO L D Tu-Sa THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. Gluten-free pizzas, desserts. HH specials. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Popular gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and–sure–whiskey. HH M-F. $$ FB B Sa & Su; L F; D Nightly

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM SUBS, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, 374-5735. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BREEZY COFFEE SHOP WINE BAR, 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211, breezycoffeeshopcafe.com. Local beachy coffee & wine shop by day; wine bar by night. Fresh baked pastries, breakfast sandwiches all day. Grab-n-Go salads, cheeses, hummus. $ BW K TO B L D Daily The CRAFT PIZZA CO., 240 Third St. N., Neptune Beach, 853-6773, thecraftpizzaco.com. F Al Mansur’s new place has innovative pies made with locally sourced ingredients.

Dine inside or out. $$ BW L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 6586 GA. Hwy. 40 B6, St. Marys, 912-576-7006. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. 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

DOWNTOWN

BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura St., 802-7745, bellwetherjax.com.

Elevated Southern classics in an understated setting, with chef/owner Jon Insetta’s focus on flavors, and chef Kerri Rogers’ culinary creativity. The Northeast Florida menu changes seasonally. Rotating local craft beers, regional spirits, cold brew coffee program. $$ FB TO L M-F CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth, 356-8282, casadoraitalian.com.

F Serving Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza.

Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com.

F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa SPLIFF’S GASTROPUB, 15 N. Ocean St., 844-5000, spliffsgastropub.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

Music venue has munchie apps, mac & cheese dishes, pockets, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. HH M-F. $ BW L D M-Sa URBAN GRIND COFFEE COMPANY, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F URBAN GRIND EXPRESS, 50 W. Laura St., 516-7799. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F. $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

SEE RIVERSIDE. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636.

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

Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car.

GRILL ME!

TONY WEISMAN

Sunset Sliders

9525 Regency Square Blvd. N. • Arlington Born in: Stuart Years in Biz: 6 Favorite Restaurant: Sub Cultured Favorite Cuisine Style: California cuisine Go-To Ingredients: Datil pepper Ideal Meal: Seared snook and asparagus Will Not Cross My Lips: Tuna fish Insider’s Secret: Be able to handle the heat.

Culinary Treat: Cupcakes SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. 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. F Classic Old World Roman fare, big Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shackburgers.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE MANDARIN. RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 34 years and counting, the iconic seafood place serves blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE BAYMEADOWS.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA

CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552. Barbecue, sides, hot dogs, burgers, desserts. Dine in or out on picnic tables. $$ FB K TO L & D Tu-Sa

$ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. 30 years of awesome gourmet pizza, baked dishes. All day HH M-Th. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.

MANDARIN + NW ST. JOHNS

AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199, athenscafejax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. 20+ years of Greek fare, serving dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), Greek beers. Vegetarian-friendly.

Full bar. Early bird menu Mon.-Fri. $$ FB L M-F; D M-Sa FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd., 739-7070, jaxdiner.com.

Simple name, simple concept: Local. Chef Roderick “Pete” Smith, a local culinary expert with nearly 20 years under his apron, uses locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, vendors and the community for American and Southern dishes. Seasonal brunch. $ K TO B L M-F, D F METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Dinner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

SEE AVONDALE. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/wine.

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DINING DIRECTORY BITE-SIZED Tempura’s RISING G at Southside sushi place

Best of Jax-winning pizza and happy, smiling faces make MOON RIVER PIZZA’s Fernandina Beach location a local favorite.

OVERSET

ROLL

WITH IT

SOME DAYS, YOU NEED SUSHI–SOMETHING LIGHT, but something that sticks to your ribs, like an ideal summer repast. Don’t kid yourself–summer’s coming, hot, sticky conditions when nothing but sushi will cool the palate.

Sawa Sushi, tucked in a strip-mall, is the kind of place I love; the staff’s friendly, it’s nice and quiet, and has good, quality food at good prices.

When I order sushi, I use a sheet system; Sawa’s sheet is divided into salads, soups, traditional rolls, fried rolls, sashimi/house rolls, bento boxes, tempura, katsu, teriyaki, hibachi, sashimi à la carte, dessert, drinks. Most can be lunch-sized. You pay per piece, roll or dish.

There’s a small sushi bar for roll prep. Sawa defines sushi as fish with a rice bed and sashimi as solo fish. No confusion.

We tried tuna ($2.25) and scallop ($2.50) sushi.

Both were fresh with a nice texture. This was my first raw scallop and I didn’t know what texture to expect. Slightly pillowy, but not chewy or mushy, it was brushed with ponzu, a citrusy soy sauce; a nice plus to the flavor.

SAWA SUSHI

6426 Bowden Rd., Ste. 202, Southside, 379-0033, sawasushifl.com

In Sawa Special Roll section, there are 20-plus items. Seems to me if you’re gonna name a menu section after your place, then name a sushi roll the same … go for it. The Sawa Roll ($8.50) is tuna and avocado topped with spicy salmon. A good combo; I’d get it again.

It’s not a sushi party till ya get tried-and-true rolls. In the Roll or Hand Roll category, the Eel Avocado ($4.95) and Shrimp Tempura ($5.25) spoke to me. Fried Roll section had a Dynamite Roll ($6) of salmon, krab stick and cream cheese ($6) deepfried to krunchy krispness.

Those who run Sawa are sharp; they know some of their guests want food, not random, Golluminspired orts, so there’s a sizable selection of hibachi, tempura, appetizers, noodles and Chef’s Specials–General Tso chicken, sweet & sour chicken and sesame chicken. I picked a Dinner Bento Box; it looked like a lot of food for the money. For $14.50$16.50, feast on rice, choice of protein, six pieces of California roll, mixed veggie and shrimp tempura, fried rice, three mini shrimp shumai (dumplings) and soup and salad (clear soup plus ginger salad is the only way to go). The protein–chicken, shrimp, beef or salmon teriyaki and pork or chicken katsu (fried cutlet), looked good. The thinly pounded pork katsu was a clear winner. Almost zero fat and a crust that’d make yo’ mama’s fried chicken cry. So crisp–I didn’t know that kind of crispiness was possible. We asked about the katsu sauce ingredients, but the chefs keep the recipe under wraps. (Get it? Wraps?)

As we dined, we witnessed at least six food delivery services pick up lots of party food … imagine: Sawa Sushi brings delights right to your door.

Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com

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$ 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 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite.

Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. Live music. $ FB L D Daily SPRING PARK COFFEE, 328 Ferris St., Green Cove Springs, 531-9391, springparkcoffee.com. F Cozy shop; freshroasted Brass Tacks coffee, handcrafted hot & cold drinks, specialty lattes, cappuccino, macchiato, teas, pastries, sandwiches, breakfast. $ B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. M SHACK NOCATEE, 641 Crosswater Pkwy., 395-3575. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO.

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com.

2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. BIG OAK BBQ & CATERING, 1948 Henley Rd., Middleburg, 214-3041. 1440 Dunn Ave., 757-2225, bigoakbbqfl.com.

Family-owned-and-operated barbecue joints have smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides and stumps, which sounds damn good. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Small-batch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting single-origin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, hand-crafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com.

Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee,

espresso-based drinks, sandwiches, desserts, daily specials.

Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999.

2017 Best of Jax winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap.

Sandwiches. Dine outside at some E-Sts. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055.

Casual spot offers made-to-order sandwiches, wraps. $ TO B L M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933.

F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442.

F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Fresh vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0047, sunraycinema.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. First-run, indie and art films screened. Beer, local drafts, wine, pizza–Godbold, Black Lagoon Supreme–hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejax.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Inside/patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. The CORAZON CINEMA & CAFE, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. F Sandwiches, combos, salads and pizza are served at the cinema house, showing indie and first-run movies. $$ Daily THE FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug.com. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 34+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. F Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq. com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE.

SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A, 217-3256. F SEE BEACHES. WOODPECKER’S BACKYARD BBQ, 4930 S.R. 13, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. F Smoked fresh daily.

Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, turkey: in sandwiches, plates by the pound. 8 sauces, 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

THE BEARDED PIG SOUTHERN BBQ & BEER GARDEN, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. Barbecue joint Southern style: brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally. 250+ wines. Wood-fired oven-baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood.

Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside.

HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 1905 Hendricks Ave. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500.

F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. Upscale; fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, katsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily HAVANA-JAX CAFÉ/CUBA LIBRE BAR, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609, havanajax.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches are the real thing: big, thick, flattened. Traditional fare: black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, chicken & rice, roast pork.

Spanish wine, drink specials, mojitos, Cuba libres.

Nonstop HH. $ FB K L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodinercom. F 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building.

Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner/favorite.

Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza.

Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner.

Open 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus.

Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F 2017 Best of Jax favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. F Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture.

Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

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

Inside Jax Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast, sandwiches. $ B L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. F

PINT-SIZED

DUST ON THE BOTTLE AGING IS INEVITABLE. NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, you’ll get older. This revelation hits home particularly hard as I await the birth of my granddaughter. (She could be here by the time you read this column.) As I pondered my rapidly approaching grandparenthood, I decided to find a beer to purchase, cellar and present to my undoubtedly beautiful granddaughter on her 21st birthday. What to choose and how to cellar? Being a semipro, I have answers.

Cellaring beer has much the same effect as laying down bottles of wine; it mellows harsh edges and allows flavors to develop. Not every beer is cellar-able; as a rule, lighter beers should not be aged. Pale ales, most lagers and even IPAs should be enjoyed sooner rather than later. To age these brews is to make them lose the expected hop punch—hops’ oils are volatile and break down quickly.

There are some basic rules to aging beer successfully. One of the most important is to choose brews with higher ABVs—8 percent or greater is a good starting point. This opens the door for Russian Imperial Stouts, dopplebocks and eisbocks as well as Baltic porters and Belgian strong ales.

Another rule: malt-forward brews will develop nicely, bringing forth flavors reminiscent of chocolate, nuts and smooth, mellow coffee. Contrary to the first two rules, lambics, Berliner weisses and gueuzes—all sours with relatively low ABVs and malt content—mature beautifully and develop wonderfully complex characters as they age. Some sours can age for more than 20 years and continue to improve.

Follow these tips, and your aged brews will get SWEETER WITH TIME

OVERSET

Storing these is as important as choosing them. Light and heat are enemies of aging, so it’s best to take Tom Petty’s advice and ‘store it in a cool, dry place’ that’s also dark. Ideally, aging beer should be stored in complete darkness at 50-60°F. If the water table is too high or you can’t afford to dig a cellar, an interior closet works nicely. Just be sure it doesn’t get too warm in there. And unlike wine, happy to be horizontal, beer should be kept upright—even if it’s closed with a cork. This is to ensure residue settles to the bottom of the bottle. It’s especially true of bottleconditioned beers that may have yeast or sugar added.

So what did I choose to celebrate my forthcoming angel’s 21st birthday?

Couldn’t pick just one. First, I’m holding back several bottles of Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout. At 14.7 percent, it should age nicely. I expect that its sweetness will dry out and its booziness will mellow, and the liquid that’s left should be remarkable. Second, I’m setting aside two sours: a Cantillon Cuvée SaintGilloise gueuze and a Brouwerij Boon Gueuze Boon. Both should continue to develop in complexity and flavor over the next 21 years.

Whether you plan to cellar a beer for a few years or a few decades, you can be sure it will develop and change in character as time goes by. How you stash your liquid treasures depends on what your expectations are, so follow my tips and find the right methods for you … and your progeny when they come of age.

Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com

PINT-SIZED BREWERS’ COMMUNITY A1A ALE WORKS 1 King St., Ste. 101, St. Augustine

BOTTLENOSE BREWING 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, Jacksonville

OLD COAST ALES 300 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine

AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY 1461 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville

DOG ROSE BREWING CO. 77 Bridge St., St. Augustine

PINGLEHEAD BREWING COMPANY 12 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park

ANCIENT CITY BREWING 3420 Agricultural Ctr. Dr., St. Augustine

ENGINE 15 BREWING CO. DOWNTOWN 633 Myrtle Ave. N., Jacksonville.

RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach

ANHEUSER-BUSCH 1100 Ellis Rd. N., Jacksonville

ENGINE 15 BREWING CO. 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, Jax Beach

RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY 835 Museum Cir., Jacksonville

ATLANTIC BEACH BREWING COMPANY 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 3, Atlantic Beach

GREEN ROOM BREWING, LLC 228 Third St. N., Jax Beach

SOUTHERN SWELLS BREWING CO. 1312 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach

BOG BREWING COMPANY 218 W. King St., St. Augustine

HYPERION BREWING COMPANY 1740 Main St. N., Jacksonville

VETERANS UNITED CRAFT BREWERY 8999 Western Way, Ste. 104, Jacksonville

BOLD CITY BREWERY 2670 Rosselle St., Ste. 7, Jacksonville

INTUITION ALE WORKS 929 E. Bay St., Jacksonville

WICKED BARLEY BREWING COMPANY 4100 Baymeadows Rd., Jacksonville

BOLD CITY DOWNTOWN 109 E. Bay St., Jacksonville

MAIN AND SIX BREWING COMPANY 1636 Main St. N., Jacksonville

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CHEFFED-UP

All Chef Bill needs now is a CAPE SIDEKICK C APE AAND ND A S IDEKICK

CHAMPION OF

GOOD TASTE

IF THE RIDDLER WERE AN EVIL FOODIE, FOODIE HE WOULD probably query the Batman with, “Schnitzel me this: What if I caused all of the world’s veal supply to disappear? Then no one could have wiener schnitzel. Think of the chaos that would ensue! The world would be forced to come to me, The Riddler, on their collective knee, begging for the return of their most treasured meat!”

This leads me to the obvious question: Why isn’t there a foodie superhero? Marvel has completely dropped the ball, yet whenever I send this suggestion to their editors, I receive no response. What’s the deal? Perhaps I’ve discovered an untapped market. The main character would have to be an unassuming food blogger. For crime-fighting, he’d wear an indestructible meat suit and would punish wrongdoers by forcing them to eat school lunches for every meal. He could be named “PalateMan.” PalateMan’s storyline would probably include a hipster character and at least one craft brewer, maybe named “The Brewster.” Imagine The Brewster foiling crime by crushing would-be criminals with kegs! There could be a mixologist villain named “MixMaster,” a frustrated nuclear physicist turned evil by a multinational conglomerate specializing in GMO seafood. The heavily tattooed MixMaster would create cocktails to cause unwary consumers to unknowingly fund his devious plans to destroy the palates of the entire human race. With PalateMan and the Batman fighting side by side to defeat bad taste, shoemakers like The Riddler and MixMaster wouldn’t stand a chance.

As you may have guessed, I’d loathe living in a world without wiener schnitzel or any other schnitzel. For the unenlightened, schnitzels are exquisite little meat scallops, lightly pounded to a mere quarter-inch thickness then breaded and pan-fried.

Schnitzels can be made with chicken, pork, veal, reindeer or venison. The most refined is wiener schnitzel, which is lovingly prepared with delicate, tender, moist veal.

Only clarified butter should be used to cook these beautiful breaded morsels. The

mouthwatering result is definitely worthy of superhero protection. As these Cheffed-Up tidbits are so perfectly pleasurable alone, sauce is unnecessary. Just a splash of fresh lemon juice completes the experience. Here’s a quick recipe. Enjoy! And stay tuned for more adventures of PalateMan.

CHEF BILL’S SCHNITZEL

Ingredients • 4 boneless pork loin chops, 5 ounces each • 2 eggs mixed with 1 tbsp. milk, 1/2 tsp.

• Dijon mustard, 1/2 tsp. white wine • 2 cups panko crumbs, see recipe below • 2 cups seasoned flour Directions 1. Line a cutting board with plastic 1. wrap.Place the pork on the plastic 1. and cover it with another piece of 1. plastic wrap. Gently pound the pork 1. with a meat mallet’s flat side until each 1. is one-quarter-inch thick.

2. Dredge in seasoned flour, egg wash 1. and seasoned panko.

3. Pan-fry in 1” clarified butter until the 1. pork is a golden brown; flip and 1. brown the other side.

CHEF BILL’S PANKO CRUMBS

Ingredients • 1 tbsp. rosemary, chopped • 4 tbsp. parsley, chopped • 1 oz. parmesan, finely grated • 4 cups panko • 2 cups panko Directions 1. Place the rosemary, parsley, parmesan 1. and 4 cups of panko in the Vita Prep 1. and grind.

2. Pour into a bowl; mix in the 2 cups of 1. plain panko and salt and pepper to taste.

3. Store.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill Thompson cheffedup@folioweekly.com

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Email Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Fernandina Beach’s Amelia Island Culinary Academy, at cheffedup@folioweekly.com, for inspiration and get Cheffed-Up!

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PET PARENTING FOLIO LIVING DEAR

DAVI

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

PETS LIKE ME:

SADIE MEET SA ME SADI SADIE: DIE: E:

under blankets to binge-watch TV until I’m u back to good.

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY YOU MEET A DACHSHUND AS lovely as Sadie. We first rubbed noses at a dachshund mingle. She looked very much like Audrey Hepburn, if Audrey Hepburn had been a dog. Mostly we exchanged sniffs at the gate, and then I ran to join friends in the field. She never joined, just sat gracefully at the foot of the picnic table, watching from afar. It was at that moment I lost my cool and face-planted in the grass. This unspoken thing between us is something special, and isn’t going to fade anytime soon.

ABOUT IVDD

IVDD, INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISEASE, IS A VERY common and complex condition, one that doesn’t wait for old age to arrive to effect you.

Approximately 25 percent of dachshunds, as well as some other breeds, especially those with longer backs, experience some degree of IVDD when they hit middle age, or three to six years old. The loss of mobility alters one’s activity, and most are not ready to embrace this change—so it’s good to be educated, especially before it happens.

Our bodies have little discs between each vertebrae, sort of like jelly-filled donuts, that act as cushions. IVDD occurs when these discs become displaced, deteriorate, bulge or burst into the spinal cord space.

When this happens, the discs press on the nerves, causing pain, discomfort and, in severe cases, paralysis. Sometimes this occurs gradually, with osteoarthritis being a contributing factor; other times, it’s trauma, like leaping up onto a couch, that causes the discs to rupture. Sometimes it’s a combination of several incidents.

The good news? IVDD is not a death-toall-fun sentence for dogs. Modern medicine has allowed dogs to make full recoveries and thrive or, at the very least, has helped dogs manage their condition on a level that still allows them to be active, even if they’ve lost some capabilities.

SADIE ON IVDD

THERE IS ONLY ONE THING THAT AGES BETTER than dogs and that’s cheese—it’s delicious.

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been (and birthday cake).

But with age comes change. From nose to tail, change can be uncomfortable, even scary. Most of us like things the way they’ve always been, like running along a sandy beach or tossing squeaky toys high in the air. Whether we like it or not, we will all experience changes with aging, which has affected me physically.

The symptoms came out of the blue.

Hunched back, stiff body, shaking. My unwillingness to move was completely out of the norm, a telltale sign that something wasn’t right. A trip to the vet confirmed my condition—IVDD (intervertebral disc disease). I thought my back legs would go limp with IVDD, but that’s not always the case. Turns out mine is a mild form, so I should make a full recovery. Meanwhile, I’m on anti-inflammatory medication and crate rest for a few weeks. Guess I’ll be burrowing

PET TIP: POOPING INTO YOUR

Davi mail@folioweekly.com

____________________________________ Davi isn’t so keen on crate rest, but snuggling and binge-watching Animal Planet sounds amaze-balls.

Q

WANT A PET THAT PAYS THEIR OWN WAY? HOW ABOUT WORMS?! Not only are worm farms easy to keep and fit in most spaces, their droppings, or vermicompost, are known as “black gold,” one of the best plant fertilizers around. All you need is worms (Eisenia fetida is a common type), two large plastic bins, a drill, flowerpot or brick, old newspapers and table scraps. Follow the instructions at modernfarmer.com and watch your wiggly li’l babies produce. Bonus: the juice at the bottom is like “a high-energy drink for your plants.”

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LOCAL PET EVENTS PIT SISTERS EVENT • Peter Zheutlin, bestselling author of Rescued and Rescue Road, compassionate, joyful books about dogs and people who help them, headlines a fundraiser for nonprofit Pit Sisters, a rescue, rehab and outreach facility helping bully-breed dogs get a second chance at life; 6 p.m. Friday, March 2 at FSCJ Deerwood Center, 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., $30 (includes book), peterzheutlin.com.

Afterparty at Veterans United Craft Brewery, 8999 Western Way, Ste. 104, Southside, pitsisters.org.

POTTY TRAINING WORKSHOP • Get a basic intro to make a plan and set up a routine to potty-train your pup or dog, 5-6 p.m. Friday, March 2 at Petco, 430 CBL Dr., St. Augustine, petco.com. This workshop is also held 6-7 p.m. March 8 at Petco, 463713 S.R. 200, Yulee, 225-0014, petco.com.

ADOPTABLES

AUNTY TRISTEE

OVERSET

THE BEST IS YET TO BE! • Robert Browning wrote those words, with “Grow old along with me.” I’m no silly little girl; I’m a wise lady, ready to be your best friend.

Go to the Jax Humane Society and ask for Aunty Tristee; they’re open daily! Details at jaxhumane.org.

MUTT MARCH • Jacksonville’s largest pet walk and family festival (make sure Roscoe can behave on a leash), is held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, March 3 at Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, $15 ages 5-17, $25 team member, $30 solo (dogs walk with their humans free), jaxhumane.org.

KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Adoption hours and days to choose a new family member are 11 a.m.-3 p.m. March 3 & 4 and every Sat. and Sun. at 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org. Katz 4 Keeps seeks volunteers, ages 18 and older, to help with its cat-centric programs; email peggyhatfield63@comcast.com.

MEET YOUR DOG TRAINER • Discover the educated, dedicated trainer’s Positive Dog Training philosophy, as it relates specifically to you and your dog, 5-5:15 p.m.

Wednesday, March 7 at Petco, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Jax Beach, 273-0964, petco.com.

ADOPTABLES

FANCY

HERE’S YOUR ONE CHANCE! • Bobbie Gentry’s song isn’t about me exactly, but it does describe a strong, powerful female ready to conquer the world. That’s me!

Small and spirited; at Jax Humane Society, open daily on the Southside.

READ WITH DIVA & TENOR • Children of all ages practice reading to real, live local therapy dogs, 2-3 p.m. Saturday, March 10 at Mandarin Branch Library, 3330 Kori Rd., 262-5201, jaxpubliclibrary.org.

READ TO ROVER • Beginning readers practice reading skills when they read to real, live certified therapy dogs, 11 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 12 at Southeast Library, 6670 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 827-6900, sjcpls.org.

Read to Rover is also held 2:30-3:30 p.m. March 21 at Anastasia Island Branch, 124 Seagrove Main St., St. Augustine Beach.

READ WITH SPIRIT THE DOG • School-age kids practice reading skills with Spirit, a real, live therapy dog who loves to listen, 2:30-3:30 p.m. March 16 at Beaches Branch Library, 600 Third St., Neptune Beach, 241-1141, jaxpubliclibrary.org. _________________________________________ To list an event, send the name, time, date, location (complete street address, city), admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@folioweekly.com

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): On Sept. 1, 1666, London baker Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration igniting his little shop burned down large parts of the city. So 320 years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, admitting the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, you must finally dissolve a blob of guilt you’ve been carrying, express gratitude you should’ve spoken long ago, resolve a messy ending still bugging you, or transform your relationship with an old wound … or all of the above.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path running through the Eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Maine’s Mount Katahdin to Georgia’s Springer Mountain. Along the way, they may meet black bears, bobcats, porcupines and wild boars. These natural wonders may seem to be far from civilization, but they are conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail. The scenario is an apt metaphor.

With relative ease, you can escape routines and habits. Do so!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is 2018 turning out as I expected? Have you become more accepting of yourself and more at peace with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by close allies? If for some reason these developments aren’t yet blooming, withdraw from every lesser concern and focus on them. Make full use of gifts life provides.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected, hurt and misunderstood.” No better advice as you navigate through the next seven weeks. You’ll have a wildly fertile chance to find and create more intimacy. To take full advantage, be brave, candid and unshielded.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the weeks ahead, you could reach several odd personal bests.

For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at an apex. Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and may even work to your advantage. You’ll have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Astrological omens suggest you have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.”

American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I hesitate to offer these in any other sign’s horoscope but yours. And I’d hesitate to offer them to you any other time besides now. But I feel you have the strength of character and fertile willpower needed to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. Proceed with my agenda for you: Become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who’s Ever Lived.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The state of Kansas has more than 6,000 ghost towns—places where folks once lived, but then abandoned. Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written six books documenting these sites. He’s an expert on researching what remains of the past and drawing conclusions based on old evidence. In accordance with current astrological omens, consider research akin to that into your lost, half-forgotten history.

Generate vigorous psychic energy communing with origins and memories. Remembering who you were will clarify your future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What’s in the works is not quite a revolution, but it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly-shifting storylines demand resilience and flexibility. The unruly flow won’t throw you in a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice? Don’t stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression; rather be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your power word.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s your cycle’s Productive Paradox Phase. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. Like: 1. You enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment. 2. You gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness. 3. If you’re willing to appear naïve, empty or foolish, you set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come when you release a burdensome “asset.” 5. Greater power flows your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you make appointments in the months ahead, you could re-use 2007 and 2001 calendars. In those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. Beware: Don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in ’07 and ’01. Don’t get snagged in similar traps, sucked into parallel riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions. On the other other hand, it might help to recall detours you took then, thereby figuring out how to not repeat boring experiences you don’t need to repeat.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD AW, YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE! A North Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm celebrated Valentine’s Day unconventionally: Wilson & Haubert PLLC held a contest to win a free divorce (a $985 value). “Are you ready to call it quits?” the firm’s Facebook post asked. “Do you know someone that is?” Firm co-founder Brandon Haubert told WIS-TV the firm had received more than 40 entries the first day it was offered.

7 attempt to express-mail a Bengal tiger cub from Jalisco to Queretaro, reported WDBJTV. The cub had been sedated and packed in a plastic container; a dog sniffing for contraband detected it. Wildlife agents said the cub was underweight and dehydrated but otherwise OK, and its papers were in order.

However, because mailing it was considered mistreatment, it was relocated to a wildlife protection center.

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Michelle Myers of Buckeye, Arizona, suffers from blinding headaches, but it’s what happens afterward that until recently had doctors stumped. Myers, who’s never been out of the United States, has awakened from her headaches three times in the last seven years with a different foreign accent. The first time it was Irish; the second, Australian. The accents lasted only about a week. An event two years ago left her with a British accent she still has. Doctors have diagnosed her with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare condition that usually accompanies a neurological event, such as a stroke. Myers told ABC-15 that the loss of her normal accent makes her sad: “I feel like a different person. Everybody only sees or hears Mary Poppins.”

A helicopter crew contracted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in Wasatch County to track and capture an elk hit a snag on Feb. 12, according to KUTV. As the crew lowered the aircraft to less than 10 feet above the ground to cast a net over the elk, the animal jumped and hit the copter’s tail rotor, causing it to crash. Mike Hadley with DWR said helicopters are used to “capture and collar hundreds of animals every winter and we’ve never had this happen before.” Two crewmen got just scratches and bruises, but the elk was killed.

BE THE BALL CADDIE A new golf course at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in Seneca, Oregon, will take “the golf experience ... to a new level” in 2018, owner Scott Campbell announced in early February to GolfWRX. com. This summer, golfers will be offered goat caddies to carry clubs, drinks, balls and tees on the resort’s short seven-hole challenge course, McVeigh’s Gauntlet. “We’ve been developing an unprecedented caddie training program with our head caddie, Bruce LeGoat,” Campbell went on, adding that the professionally trained American Range goats will “work for peanuts.” (Rim shot.)

BY THE TAIL The Federal Agency for Environmental Protection in Mexico is investigating a Feb.

CLONE OF THE CRAYFISH Biologist Frank Lyko, of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, has a narrow field of study: marbled crayfish. As Dr. Lyko and his colleagues report in a study published Feb. 5, there’s more to the 6-inch crustacean than meets the eye. Until about 25 years ago, this species didn’t exist, The New York Times explains. A single, drastic mutation created a whole new species of crayfish—one that could clone itself. Since then, it’s spread across Europe and to other continents and threatened native varieties. The eggs of the crayfish all produce females, which don’t need a male to produce more eggs. Dr. Lyko’s DNA research offers new insights into why most animals have sex, because there are so few examples of sex-free species (they don’t last long). He admits the marbled crayfish may last only 100,000 years. “That would be a long time for me personally, but in evolution it would just be a blip on the radar,” he said.

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FOLIO VOICES : BACKPAGE EDITORIAL ON A DAY WHEN AMERICANS COLLECTIVELY celebrate love, Valentine’s Day, 17 people, mostly children, lost their lives. Their loved ones are now without them. For the survivors of this mass murder in Parkland, Florida, forevermore will Valentine’s Day carry with it the memories of anguish and terror instead of love. This is too close to home for me. It continues happening too close to home for all of us, yet there is no end in sight.

What will it take for us to begin seriously confronting gun violence? Will it take each of us losing a loved one and receiving thoughts and prayers and nothing else?

We as a nation cannot continue to allow this to be the accepted response to children being slaughtered at school. I am sick of the cowardice of our elected officials. I am sick of the cowardice of our collective political discourse. This, the 41st mass shooting on American soil in just the first two months of 2018, according to Mass Shooting Tracker, occurred on the 45th day of the year. There were 427 mass shootings in 2017 and 477 in 2016 and, as of Valentine’s Day, since 2013 there had been 1,979 mass shootings on American soil. (In the two weeks since the Parkland shooting, there have been six more. massshootingtracker.org/data/2018) In the last five years, mass shootings have claimed at least 2,576 lives and injured 7,677 people. That’s 10,253 lives directly affected, which doesn’t account for victims’ families and friends, nor victims of gun violence not classified as mass shootings.

In five years, we’ve had 1,979 instances of ‘thoughts and prayers’ and nothing else.

This has to end at some point, but when?

When will we collectively say enough is enough? When will we begin protecting innocents? When will we finally put this chapter of American history behind us?

I am sick of the hypocrisy of politicians.

That night, I heard Governor Rick Scott say, “The first thing you ever think about is, ‘God, I hope this never happens to my family.’ Then, you think about, you’re furious. How could this ever happen in this state? This is a state that is focused on keeping our children safe.

You come to the conclusion that this is just absolutely pure evil.”

Evil.

Saying that this was an act of evil takes agency from the young, broken man who planned and executed a heinous mass murder. This young man was once a baby, free from sin and anguish. Something went wrong in his life, in his mind, that led him to commit this atrocity. Something went wrong in the lives of all the broken men who have acted out on wicked impulses and taken innocent lives.

Each time there’s an abhorrent mass murder, our politicians don’t want to talk about guns, but mental health. The Columbine mass murder occurred when I was in middle school. We will reach the 20th anniversary of that traumatic event next year, yet nothing meaningful has been done nationally to address the deterioration of our society. If politicians are so certain that guns aren’t the problem, that mental illness is driving the gun violence epidemic, then why haven’t they created a national program to address growing mental health issues in our country?

Why do they continue to send their ‘thoughts and prayers’ and nothing else?

After Gov. Scott spoke, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi assured us that she was working with GoFundMe to ensure no one uses this tragedy to crowdfund illegitimately and local funeral homes weren’t overcharging victims’ families. While I’m glad that someone is working to stop despicable people from profiting from this carnage, these were not my primary, secondary nor tertiary concern.

Who is working to stop gun manufacturers from profiting from these tragedies? Who’s working to stop the NRA from using them for fundraising?

Most important, who’s working to stop the next mass murder?

Thoughts and prayers. That’s all the effort our elected officials can muster.

Perhaps we should just start praying it forward. Perhaps we should send our thoughts and prayers to the future for the next 2,500 people who lose their lives to senseless mass murder, because there is no end in sight.

Perhaps our thoughts and prayers can be sent to those broken people who will terrorize our nation in years to come, in an attempt to heal them before it’s too late.

We grew up being told we live in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Yet I see no bravery in elected officials. I see a government awash with craven men and women who care first and foremost about their careers. Senator Marco Rubio tweeted that “Today is that terrible day you pray never comes.” I don’t believe my fellow

Parkland school shooting proves that the time for LIP SERVICE is long past

Floridians sent him to Congress to pray on our behalf. I don’t believe my fellow Floridians elected any of our representatives to pray on our behalf.

If thoughts and prayers are all elected officials can muster, I believe it’s time we bring them all home and keep them in our thoughts and prayers as they look for new careers.

I refuse to stand idle as children are slaughtered indiscriminately time and again with no meaningful action taken afterward.

That’s why I have decided to run to represent District 11 in the Florida House of Representatives.

We need to have a robust debate that includes teachers, students, parents, law enforcement officials, gun owners, Republicans and Democrats, and citizens from all walks of life to properly address this issue. We need to find common ground and make a plan of action to finally address the scourge of gun violence plaguing our communities.

There are many steps we can take as a state to reduce the likelihood of another massacre like this happening. We need to develop a culture of gun safety by establishing mandatory training and licensing of firearms.

We need to consider expanding the three-day waiting period to all gun purchases, not just handguns. We need universal background checks on gun purchases. We need to bar domestic abusers and stalkers from purchasing guns.

However, simply passing laws regarding guns won’t fix the underlying problems. We need to increase funding for counseling in schools. We need to begin targeting troubled children and families using state resources to help them. Today’s criminals were once children full of potential. If we can’t commit additional resources for children now, we’re condemning ourselves to waste resources housing them in detention centers and jails in the future.

It will take years. It will be difficult. But we cannot shy away from taking action because the problem seems unsolvable. We cannot continue to allow the NRA to control the conversation and the situation and the legislation. We in the Sunshine State can be an example for the rest of the nation of what is possible when we stop fighting along partisan lines and work together as fellow Americans.

Let’s embrace Florida’s future, rather than try to turn back the clock to some mythologized past when the world was a better place. This is the best time to be alive and it will continue getting better, but only if we are willing to have difficult conversations and address the problems we face together.

Nathcelly Rohrbaugh mail@folioweekly.com

_________________________________ Rohrbaugh, a candidate for House District 11, has lived in Northeast Florida for 30 years.

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NOTHING ELSE

May the BEST BUZZ win

M.D. M.J.

SUDS V. BUDS

LIKE THE HATFIELDS AND McCOYS, THE GATORS and the Bulldogs, Lenny Curry and Anna Lopez Brosche, alcohol and cannabis have been bitter enemies from time immemorial, which is always a surprise to regular folks who note how well the two go together. With the emergence of a formalized marijuana industry over the last few years, what was traditionally a low-key, back-channel feud has metastasized into a full-blown death struggle. America’s vast network of breweries and distilleries is certainly in no danger of dissolution, now or ever, but like a White House intern caught unaware by the president, they’re feeling the pinch.

To wit: Fortune Magazine reported on Feb. 15 of alarmist rhetoric emanating from the most recent financial report issued by Molson Coors Brewing, an ace purveyor of watery suds with roots going back to the 18th century. With revenue reaching nearly $5 billion in 2016, they have the beer biz down to a sweet science, but now the company perceives that weed is an outlier on the come-up.

“Although the ultimate impact is currently unknown,” they write, “the emergence of legal cannabis in certain U.S. states and Canada may result in a shift of discretionary income away from our products or a change in consumer preferences away from beer,” according to a Valentine’s Day Securities & Exchange Commission filing.

Their peers will rightly scoff at the idea of any challenge to their primacy, since the real danger they face is posed by the explosive growth of craft-brewers coast to coast, which became a billion-dollar business seemingly overnight.

There may be something to it: Fortune cites similar language used by parent companies of venerable brands like Sam Adams and Corona, as well as Craft Brew Alliance, a consortium of eight Pacific Northwest brewers that pushes out roughly 725,000 barrels a year. They add that Constellation Brands, a behemoth company dealing in beer, wine and liquor, invested nearly $200 million in marijuana interests in Canada.

For their part, Molson Coors boasts a rather intimate knowledge of these trends; logical, since they’re headquartered in Denver, epicenter of the medical marijuana movement.

Only four hours away, their neighbors in Aspen just hit a major tipping-point: Last year, marijuana sales reached $11.3 million, almost a full million more than the $10.5 million made on alcohol sales.

That news went over like pole-vaulters at Trump’s border wall, sparking fear and loathing within an industry that, lest we forget, played a crucial role in getting marijuana banned way back in the day. Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but pot’s payback is being dished out flaming hot, literally.

Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com

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