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Former G-man ALBERT SYELES wants to build a performing arts center in St. Augustine, and he may succeed story by JOSUÉ A. CRUZ photos by MADISON GROSS

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DUVAL ’TIL I DIE

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BY CLAIRE GOFORTH Plan for city to buy land for THE DISTRICT is a head-scratcher

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THE MAIL LENNY CURRY’S PATHETIC #METOO MOMENT

HOW RIDICULOUSLY LACKING IN SELF-AWARENESS is Mayor Lenny Curry? Just check out his Twitter feed.

Recently the mayor tweeted a link to a news article about major corporate donors who are requesting contribution refunds from Senator Jack Latvala’s political organizations.

Latvala recently resigned from the Florida Senate amid allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior. One of Latvala’s accusers is a Tallahassee staffer named Rachel Perrin Rogers, the wife of big money Republican consultant Brian Hughes. Hughes, as reported by Folio Weekly, was named Curry’s chief of staff earlier this year.

The mayor’s tweet reads: “Every donor should make this request. Actually, demand. Rachel spoke.

Rachel was attacked. Others were silent.”

Let that sink in for a minute. This is coming from a mayor who openly embraced a presidential candidate that was repeatedly accused of sexual assault. His accusers spoke. They were attacked. Curry was silent.

Actually, he wasn’t all that silent.

Curry hosted Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Jacksonville. He took his whole family to D.C. for the inauguration, and he’s continued to heap praise on the president in recent months. He endorsed the Muslim travel ban, he tweeted support for Trump’s move to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Accord.

If you thought Curry’s Trumpsterism was just a product of being a Republican mayor while Donald Trump is in office, think again. Scroll back through the mayor’s feed a bit further. During the height of birtherism, Lenny Curry couldn’t get enough of Trump.

July 2012: “@realDonaldTrump on Fox with Greta telling it like it is. Man that’s refreshing.”

August 2012: “@realDonaldTrump. Says on FOX he would like to see Obama college records. I agree with @realDonaldTrump.”

October 2012: “Obama talking @ realDonaldTrump. Obama is jealous of @ realDonaldTrump.”

October 2012: “Obama absolutely hates success.

He’s not about lifting peeps up. He’s about pulling peeps down. That’s his equality.”

October 2012: “To the trolls hitting @ realDonaldTrump. Go back in your holes. You are stinking up twitter. The stench forced me to respond.”

June 2013: “@realDonaldTrump ignore them.

Haters gonna hate. Losers gonna lose.”

The mayor’s pathetic nod to the #MeToo movement drew no notice from local media.

The fact that our city’s murder rate has continued to climb into record territory doesn’t seem to bother Curry too much, either. While curbing violent crime was the central focus of his campaign in 2015, a record of total failure on the issue hasn’t stopped him from jumping aboard the private jet of Shad Khan and flying all over the world to attend NFL games. Perks of the hustle.

The stench of Curry’s hypocrisy is so foul, it boggles the mind no Democrats have yet stood up to challenge the mayor’s re-election. Will anyone have the courage to step forward?

Albert Burgess via email

PROGRESSIVES IN THE STREAM

RE.: “Identity Crisis,” by A.G. Gancarski, Dec. 27 WOW, WHAT AN INCREDIBLY NEGATIVE VIEW. I AGREE that the shipyards is a daunting task and our public transportation is really bad. I also believe this kind of attitude is pervasive throughout Northern Florida and is one of the key reasons why we don’t experience the cultural and economic growth we should. The surface is thick with good ol’ boy but the undercurrent of progressiveness is very strong here and the pressure is building.

Kirt Tucker via Facebook

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RE.: “Person of the Year: Ron Littlepage,” by Claire Goforth, Jan. 3 RON LITTLEPAGE’S COLUMNS ABOUT FLORIDA’S environment were priceless. However, he retired a month too soon. I would like to know his thoughts about Rick “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” Scott twisting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s arm concerning oil drilling off the coasts of Florida.

According to Rick “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” Scott, oil drilling is OK everywhere except off his precious Florida.

Can Rick Scott spell N.I.M.B.Y.?

BTW, offshore oil drilling should be banned everywhere.

Bob Refo via Snail Mail

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BRICKBATS TO JSO Rather than address the findings of the T-U/ProPublica story, “Walking While Black,” which found that minorities in Jacksonville received disproportionate numbers of pedestrian tickets, JSO has essentially decided to fight facts with claims of “fake news,” releasing a scathing 35-point criticism of a follow-up story. Subsequently, ProPublica responded to each alleged inaccuracy and, along with the T-U, stood behind its reporting. But JSO was probably too busy taking victory laps on social media (or ticketing black people for jaywalking) to notice.

BOUQUETS TO THE FLORIDA THEATRE Attendance at the beloved, storied theater in the heart of Downtown Jacksonville has always been high, but in 2017, it reached the rafters.

Last year, attendance at The Florida Theatre was in the top five nationwide for theaters with fewer than 2,000 seats—and it was the second-highest attended concert venue in Northeast Florida, according to Pollstar Magazine. With upcoming shows like Musical Thrones: A Parody and artists and performers including Tanya Tucker, Gordon Lightfoot, Adam Ant (squee!), Paula Poundstone and many more, it’s no wonder they’re packing the house on the regular.

BRICKBATS TO IRRESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS In 2017, St. Johns County gun owners continued their upward trend of irresponsible weapons safety practices; according to The St. Augustine Record, 64 of the 72 cars from which thieves stole guns were unlocked. That compares to 55 guns nicked from unlocked cars in 2016 and 39 in 2015. For real, people, secure your weapons.

DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A BRICKBAT? Send submissions to mail@folioweekly.com; 50 word maximum, concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest.

CORRECTION: The Jan. 10 cover story incorrectly stated the Jaguars’ 2017 regular season record.

The Jags finished 10-6.

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FROM THE EDITOR Plan for city to give funds to The District is a HEAD-SCRATCHER

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COULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY PETER Rummell asked for millions of our dollars?

So far, the best answer I’ve heard is “cause he wants it.” Hey, I want lots of things—an iPhone X, a guest bathroom, a Viking River Cruise through Europe—but I don’t see any city officials hastening to appropriate public funds to make this basic bitch’s every dream come true. Of course, I don’t have thousands to donate to their campaigns, so that’s probably not going to happen in the near future, either.

Last Wednesday afternoon, while you were daydreaming about a divisional victory and hiding your Facebook status from your boss, I was enduring four hours of a Downtown Investment Authority board meeting to decide whether to approve the $18 million purchase and $26 million infrastructural improvements of a 29-acre parcel on the Southbank for Elements of Jacksonville, the investor/developer group run by Rummell and Michael Munz. Spoiler alert: They approved it unanimously.

Then, in a surprise move, on Tuesday, Rummell and company asked the JEA board to approve the original terms of the deal— meaning that they’ll buy the property straight up as agreed in 2014—with one potential teensy caveat. Well, 26 million potential teensy caveats. They still might want the city to pay for infrastructural improvements. As of press time, that remains to be seen.

The whole thing is pretty damn confusing, in all honesty. First they want to buy the property. Then they want the city via DIA to buy the property. Then, no, never mind, they’ll buy the property.

In case you’re lost—and who wouldn’t be?—let’s recap. In 2014, Elements wins the bid to buy 29 acres of JEA property on the Southbank for $18 million. It is to become Rummell’s opus to healthful living; originally called the laughable “Healthytown,” it later comes to be called “The District,” and hell to anyone who confuses it with the early aughts’ same-name television series about crime fighting in the nation’s capital.

Extension after extension after extension later, in the last year or so, a new scheme is concocted wherein the city will buy the property instead. Then DIA staff, all of whom work for the taxpayers of Duval County, spend the year hammering out the terms of a deal with the Mayor’s Office, JEA and Elements, wherein we

will borrow money from ourselves to buy the property for Elements and, in case that’s not gracious enough, spend 26 million more of our dollars improving it to the total tune of $45 million. Then, in November 2017, we all learn about the double-secret negotiations in an article in the Florida Times-Union.

Lest ye worry, of course we were to pay ourselves interest on the loan … but now all that is up in the air.

See, after the DIA board did what any of us would’ve done in their shoes, lest they wanted to earn the ire of one of the wealthiest people in town and the Mayor’s Office, gave the deal a green light, City Council President Anna Lopez Brosche appointed a Special Committee to review it. Which did not sit well with Rummell at all, who took it upon himself to send a nasty email to business leaders around town, in which he seemed to blame pushback on the deal on ill will between Brosche and Mayor Lenny Curry, a characterization the mayor criticized as inaccurate after the T-U reported it.

You be the judge: Rummell wrote, “[T] his ploy by Anna Brosche (City Council President) and Matt Schellenberg (City Council member) has to be politically motivated—she hates Lenny among other things—and we are caught in the cross-fire.”

Seems pretty ill to me.

Rummell was particularly incensed by Brosche’s appointment of Schellenberg to chair that committee, whom he disparaged as being “the only member of City Council to vote against the DIA’s master plan in 2014!” and “the only out-in-the-open outspoken critic of the project.” The horror!

Still, no one seems to know why Rummell and Munz want—or wanted—our money. Nor does anyone know how much money they stand to make. Nor does anyone seem to have a clue why, if they can raise $433 million, they were asking for $45 million from us, or $26 million, or even change for the meter.

Honestly, the whole thing has too many moving parts to encapsulate in 800 words. At the DIA meeting Councilman Schellenberg asked me if I could summarize it in two paragraphs. That’s a big negatory, good buddy.

As Schellenberg said, “If it’s this difficult to explain, it’s never a good thing.”

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Loki, Loki, Loki … you grandiloquent charmer, you witty imp, you megalomaniacal narcissist demagogue with a pointy hat (and our favorite “hero” of all), when will you stop trying to take over the world? No time soon, we bet. That’s why a mighty chunk of the Marvel Universe superheroes will once again be deployed to battle ol’ Walter Lawson. He’s plotting again: This time, he’s questing after the Wand of Wattoomb. The result? An action-packed live fight (and jokes) with Spider-Man, Black Panther, the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Doctor Strange.

7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19; 11 a.m., 3 & 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20; 1 & 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, Veterans Memorial Arena, Downtown, $12-$125+, jaxarena.com.

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CELLULOID DREAMS

RETURN OF THE LUCID DREAMER

SAINT AUGUSTINE FILM FESTIVAL The Oldest City

hosts this event, and we’re especially excited about Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story, a look at the famous makeup artist; Train Driver’s Diary a Serbian/Croatian dark comedy; and Heaven’s Floor (pictured) a semi-autobiographical look into writer-director Lori Stoll’s life. Thursday, Jan. 18-Sunday, Jan. 21, Corazon Cinema & Café, Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, GamacheKoger Theater in Ringhaver Student Center; individual tickets $7-$10, passes $60-$180, staugfilmfest.com.

GEEXELLA SOLAR RETURN PARTY This night the rapper celebrates

her birthday, so in true Capricorn-Aquarius cusp fashion (mystery and imagination), she’s sharing it with Honeydo—who spins all the beats to make ya rump shake … so don’t “ask her for no damn request,” with Heavy Flow who raps about periods and blow-jobs. And don’t touch her hair. 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, Rain Dogs, Riverside, facebook.com/events.

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AMELIA ISLAND RESTAURANT WEEK

Few things are better than a glorious meal enjoyed with witty, amazing friends (hey, we all have them), and Amelia Island is about to make your bi-weekly gossip, er, strategy sesh that much better! During this 10th annual event, some of the area’s best and most-loved restaurants roll out the prix fixe red carpet.

Friday, Jan. 19-Sunday, Jan. 28, Fernandina Beach/ Amelia Island, $19-$29, ameliaisland.com.

IMPERMANENT BEAUTY BODY ART REFINED EXHIBITION

For some of us, the phrase “body art” brings to mind bright, life-sized International Klein Blue silhouette-ish human forms mashed/printed on huge canvases. That’s not what’s happening here. Award-winning duo Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco (of Livingbrush Body Painting) are featured; they say that body painting lays bare hidden elements of the deep self hitherto unseen by others in the exterior world.” Startling transformations await, 6-9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, UNF’s Herbert University Center, Southside, $20-$100, bodyartrefined.com.

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS IT’S DIFFICULT TO SAY GOODBYE TO THOSE WHO pass away too young.

When someone is older, when you can see that the body is struggling for breath, when consciousness comes and goes in some fleeting and transitory manner, you can make your peace with it.

You sort of have to, at least by the time someone is in hospice or otherwise clearly on the way out.

But it’s harder when that person is younger than you. Harder still when that person represents the promise and possibility of youth. And when that representation is gone, it solidifies an understanding that all these representations— the things we hold so dear—will be gone soon enough also.

I was thinking about my old friend Kyle, who died 14 years ago last week; a suicidal plunge off a parking garage in Pittsburgh was her final act. We lived in the same neighborhood during those years when college and driving a car felt like purest freedom.

Among my cynical group of friends when I was much younger, she was an outlier.

The most innocent, pure person.

She hated to cause pain to anyone.

And she fought against those dark forces of the suburban home: the grievances and the parental fights and all the shit that seems so repellant when one is 16 years old and feeling trapped like a dog in a kennel box.

She burned bright, then—as happens, at least to some of us—she couldn’t handle it anymore.

Who knows the catalyst? Someone smarter than I. Someone who stayed in touch. Maybe.

Or, as those with suicidal ideations know, perhaps no one knew the catalyst. Dark secrets, individual-sized shames, feed off our viscera like tumors until they become identity themselves.

Fourteen years on, and I still don’t know what drove her final act.

I was in what has become a familiar yearly reverie, the day after Epiphany, when I found out about the untimely death of another close friend.

She died, I was told, of a liver disease.

She knew she was going to die.

I hadn’t talked to her for 20 years; as you might imagine, being friends with me offers something of diminishing returns for people, or at least it did when I was younger and even more of an asshole than I am today.

But Jessica was—is—as vivid as those days last century, when I would drive across town and we would just go places.

The theme song for that era: “Protection”

by Massive Attack. When that drum kicks in, a thousand memories do, too, a kaleidoscopic flood.

There are people who, even when you lose touch with them, continue to leave their mark.

This was true in Jessica’s case.

The smartest person in most rooms.

The funniest person in most rooms. One of those people—all too rare—who could make me laugh uncontrollably, who could break that deadpan shell that usually offers protection from the depredations and degradations of life itself.

Jessica and I never would have dated; she was involved with a friend of mine, and I was involved with just trying to get through a stretch of my life that included living off Tylenol PMs for a year or three. I was barely present.

I was always present when she was around; it was like a ticket to a self that hadn’t been broken.

Jessica, in what has to be considered a cosmic coincidence, died within days of the date her twin sister Beth passed away a few years earlier.

As those who have read what I write for some time know, one of the events that shaped me the most was a near-death experience when I was 12. I was riding a bike, stopped on the turn lane of a four-lane stretch of road, when a car clipped me. The bike and I went up in the air—sort of like a punt that is more vertical than horizontal.

The bike, upon coming down, became modern art. I banged my head; a concussion that never quite healed, the headaches never actually abated, yet I came out of the coma.

And since that time, I’ve wondered why.

Even when I do things reasonably well (some decent journalism and, well, there must be other things), I’ve never quite understood why it was that I had to pull through.

These are the types of questions that I don’t know if others ask, but I assume they do. The existential nature of being. The suddenness of some deaths. The protracted slothian pace of others.

And at the end of the process, the inextricable feeling of loss: of knowing that, for all the pretensions of permanence, none of this lasts long at all.

Yet it hurts like it lasts forever.

DUVAL

’TIL I DIE How January became my MOURNING SEASON

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NEWS AAND NOTES: CALI EDITION TOP HEADLINES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA EARTHEN TRAGEDY BORNE OF FIRE

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In the wee hours of Jan. 9, torrential rainfall on lands still raw and barren from the Thomas Fire, the largest wildfire in California history, caused a catastrophic mudslide in Montecito. Santa Barbara Independent reported heavily on the catastrophe in their backyard, which destroyed 100 homes, killed at least 20 as of Jan. 16, with four more still missing, and injured dozens. The mudslides encompassed 280,000 acres; 1,000 people were evacuated.

SBI wrote that wreckage of trees, boulders, household debris and bodies of victims were strewn across “streets lined with mangled cars and several dozen shattered homes, some sheared completely from their foundations.” From the horrors officials described as akin to a “World War I battlefield” emerged tales of heroism and altruism as helicopters, volunteers, first responders and others raced to locate and rescue survivors, including hundreds who were trapped behind impassible roads days later. Our thoughts are with all affected by this catastrophe.

< SOBER GAMING EXISTS?

OK, OK, we got jokes; obviously some gamers are sober. (Probs ’cause their dealer got pinched.) Anyways, the headline, “The Disneyland of Stoned Gaming,” in L.A. Weekly caught our eye. In 2016, Zeus Tipado created the Stoned Gamer Championship Series, which L.A.W describes as “a roving tournament combining cannabis and esports/computer gaming.” This year, the grand prize “included a trip to Phuket, Thailand; a pound of cannabis; a limited-edition Stoned Gamer Arcade; and a contract with sports management and marketing company First Round Management.”

Was becoming the godfather of channeling stoned gaming into first a website, for which he and his buddies would smoke out, play games, then write about them, and a competition enough for this visionary? Nay! Tipado is launching the permanent Stoned Gamer Arena in L.A. in April.

Though their demo skews heavily young and male, all are welcome and participants vary widely, according to Tipado. What we want to know is: Edibles, smokables, vape or all three?

< DOCS FOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

An editorial in North Coast Journal makes the case for singlepayer healthcare as better for both doctors and their patients.

According to authors Corinne Frugoni and Wendy Ring, today physicians spend an average of nine hours every week wrangling with insurance companies and practices spend $72K annually per physician dealing with insurers. The editorial—written in response to a previous guest opinion by Assemblymember Jim Wood opposing state legislation that would create a single-payer system—asserts that such would simplify healthcare, save patients and physicians money, and lead to better health outcomes and happier people who today delay life decisions and treatment based on the availability of insurance coverage.

The authors state that the average patient pays $4K out-of-pocket before insurance even kicks in, rendering moot the argument that single-payer would be more costly, and asks of critics who say it would be “too complicated” to socialize medicine if the 1965 act that established Medicare, which was effective a year later: “Was it all that complicated?” They also point out that, in spite of those same critics’ complaints that a “small vocal group” supports a single-payer system, a majority of Californians supports it, and cities ranging from liberal strongholds like Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Francisco and West Hollywood to small towns like Arcata, El Cerrito, Emeryville and Manila, have endorsed it. Food for thought the next time you “cure” yourself or argue with your insurance company.

< BUILDING TO BECOME GOVERNOR

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently explained one of the key issues facing Californians: lack of affordable housing. (Sounds familiar.) According to Pacific Sun, Villaraigosa believes that in order to solve the crisis, which no one seems willing to treat as such, and curb homelessness and the housing shortage, California needs to restore its redevelopment program, quicken permitting for projects on the local level, create a housing trust, encourage its cities to plan “smart growth” housing construction, and not give affluent communities a pass on developing “smart growth” strategies and affordable housing. He also reportedly said affluent communities have a tendency to piss and moan anytime anyone tries to build. Is it just us or does this sound kinda like Arlington?

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Former G-man

ALBERT SYELES

wants to build a performing arts center in St. Augustine, and he may succeed

PERFORMING ARTS

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lbert Syeles has a gorgeous speaking voice.

Sitting across from him at a small table inside the Santa Monica Hotel lobby, I lean into his warm speech, compelled to listen, if only to hear the timbre of his voice. We’re meeting to transfer into my digital recorder the details of where he has been and what he has done throughout his life. Writing a profile hinges on a simple but unshakable tenet: Every person has a collection of interesting stories to tell, stories which thread together into the tale of a remarkable life. Syeles is a former Navy man and government worker who later in life decided to take on a cause. Adventure and excitement abound, right?

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But Syeles is the first to downplay how exciting a life he’s lived. The former government employee is admittedly more comfortable at home drinking coffee with his wife and their cadre of cats. The couple retired to St. Augustine in 2006 and, rather than hit the social scene in the Ancient City, embarked on a three-year renovation of an elegant Victorian home near the heart of the city. They slept in a closet and made coffee on a hot plate. They enjoyed the quiet time between swinging hammers and driving drills. All was set for a life of repose in a retiree-friendly community featuring great restaurants within walking distance. There was one thing missing, however, as far as Syeles was concerned, a thing which would have ensured the bliss of a comfortable retirement. They were missing a performing arts center.

Syeles volunteered to run the St. Augustine Celtic Music & Heritage Festival in downtown St. Augustine, which he and

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PERFORMING ARTS

VISIONARY <<< FROM PREVIOUS a few others founded some eight years ago.

The festival makes just enough money (in the last few years, at least) to cover expenses and get the next festival off the ground. The annual event takes place at Francis Field on West Castillo Drive; between its huge stage and Highland games pitch, the event really wouldn’t fit inside a performing arts center.

Still, Syeles is adamant about the venue. Cue the Lloyd Dobler boombox; this just may be his dare-to-be-great moment.

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WAS BORN IN SILVER SPRINGS, MARYLAND, A suburb of Washington, D.C. I lived there until I was 17 and went off to college in Pittsburgh,” Syeles says. His parents loved singing and his older sister played the piano as a child. “My father loved old, classical music. He was Irish-Hungarian and loved Hungarian folk music and nightclub music, which he would pick up on a shortwave radio from Budapest on Saturday mornings.” Syeles credits his parents for instilling a love of music in him.

His father was a metallurgist who worked for the U.S. Navy. Over his career, he helped the government secure 27 patents on materials and processes. His mother worked at the local telephone company for 35 years, starting back when telephones were connected by physically plugging a line in a hole in a board.

The young Syeles studied at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh; while there, he

played clarinet in a country-Western band. “I got a degree in political science with a minor in mathematics and as soon as I graduated, I was drafted into the Army to go fight in Vietnam,” Syeles says. Upon being drafted, he scrambled over to the Navy office and said that he’d rather be on a boat than at the wrong end of a bullet. He spent two-and-ahalf years seasick on three destroyers before getting out of the service and returning to Duquesne in 1973 to study philosophy, prompted perhaps because his stint in the Navy involved having his finger hover over the nuclear button.

While in the Navy, he married his wife Pat, whom he had met while an undergrad at Duquesne. Back in Pittsburgh after his tour of duty, she took a job at a law firm and he began working at the Social Security Administration. “Believe or not, working for Social Security taught me a lot about business and government. When I worked for them, they were really well run and spent a good amount of time educating managers, which I later became,” Syeles says. “Government employees have a bad reputation, but that’s all bullshit. Most of them are damn smart and are trying to do some good in a challenging environment.”

Syeles recalls with detail the good he was able to accomplish while working for the Social Security office, but that didn’t translate into a decent wage, so after a tour through an insurance company and Sikorsky Aircraft, both of which brought income boosts, he ended up working at the same telephone company where his mother had worked.

He moved with the telephone company from New Haven, Connecticut to Northern Virginia, where he served as an analyst

Syeles and his wife, Pat, traveled for years looking for the right city in which to settle down. “When we got to St. Augustine in 2005, we felt like we’d found our mecca,” he says. “I’ve had two loves at first sight: my wife and St. Augustine.”

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“I’m going to do this.

If it happens before I die, I’ll be happy.

If it happens next year,

I’LL BE VERY, VERY HAPPY.” and subjectt matter matt tter expertt for for the th telephone tellephone h lobby. lobb lo bby. y. “The head lobbyists lobbyyists would take thee congressmen and senators out all night and party and the next morning, I would present the numbers to a bloodshot, hungover batch of folks,” Syeles says.

“I spent those years practicing piano, but it wasn’t the priority. I was an accountant for 35 years and practiced that more than I did piano during that time.” Though he loves music, if he had to do it all over again, Syeles says, he would have taken the same path because he’s always been practical and needed to make a living. “Because I worked my butt off, I can now focus on running a nonprofit. We have enough now to do something we enjoy doing,” Syeles says.

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’D RATHER BE IN ST. AUGUSTINE THAN JUST about anywhere else in the world,” Syeles says. After he and his wife retired, they traveled to a number of cities in the South looking for a place to settle down. “We worked our way down from Wilmington, North Carolina to Key West, and when we got to St. Augustine in 2005, we felt like we’d found our mecca.”

They bought a house within three days of visiting the area. “I’ve had two loves at first sight: my wife and St. Augustine.”

After the restoration of their house was complete, Syeles found time to read every book and article on the history of St. Augustine that he could get his hands on.

“I even read the geology books on the area, just really trying to learn everything I could about it,” Syeles says.

As St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary approached, Syeles went to a city meeting to learn a bit more. “I raised my hand and said, ‘I’m a musician and I can help set up music stands or whatever. Can you tell me who is in charge of the music?’ and [then-] Mayor George Gardner said that since I was the first to ask, I was in charge of music.”

After learning there were nearly 45 festivals in St. Augustine every year, Syeles embarked upon research to find where a convenient gap in entertainment existed.

“This is how we started putting on the St. Augustine Celtic Music & Heritage Festival.

I figured out that you could get money from the St. Johns County Tourism Development Council if you held a festival during a lull in the tourist season,” Syeles says.

A year later, in 2012, Syeles and his team held Romanza Week, which became the Romanza Festivale of the Arts the next year, a 10-day celebration of arts and music. For the Romanza Festivale, a cohort of St. Augustine’s arts and music

organizations put on events in the area orgaani nizati under under one umbrella. The organizations pay $100 in annual fees to join, which are refunded if they use the Romanza logo in an ad to promote the festival. The event is so successful that they’ve started running out of space.

“There are all of these organizations putting on great events throughout the city and the event is growing every year, but there are no new venues added to the festival. There is a crisis of available space,” Syeles says.

“Right now, there are only a few performance spaces in the city. You can use the Flagler College auditorium, which seats about 775, and the next available space is the Limelight Theatre, which seats 125,” Syeles points out. “Between 775 and 125, there is nothing to book. The St. Augustine Orchestra, the First Coast Opera Company and a number of dance companies currently have no home.”

Through research, Syeles learned that in 2010, the Tourist Development Council paid an outside consultant to do a destination marketing plan; its findings included a recommendation to build a performing arts center as a strategic opportunity to enhance local arts and culture. That was all that Syeles needed to know to start his mission.

He has fundraisers and architects lined up and ready to go, if the county is willing to pull the trigger.

In October 2017, the St. Johns County Tourist Development Council approved a feasibility study to measure the possibility of building a performing arts center. “I know what they are going to find, because I’ve done the work. My only criteria is that it’s done within three miles of the city’s center,” Syeles says. “I’m going to do this. If it happens before I die, I’ll be happy. If it happens next year, I’ll be very, very happy.”

Increasingly animated, Syeles pounds the table to emphasize the progress made thus far on turning the dream into reality.

The folks at the table next to us glance in our direction. For a man who says he prefers to be more reclusive, he’s starting to draw some serious attention—and he’s fine with that.

In spite of his obvious excitement, Syeles is a government man through and through— his captivating voice remains even, though slightly louder than when we first began to talk. He understands that moving forward takes patience and time.

“I’m getting so much satisfaction from what we’ve accomplished already and, really, I am just having fun trying to see this through.”

Josué A. Cruz mail@folioweekly.com

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FOLIO A + E S

ince its 2001 founding, the annual Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival has been one of the real not-so-hidden gems of Northeast Florida’s cultural scene. And now, 2018 has been designated “The Year of the Piano.” And the esteemed board of directors and Christopher Rex, general and artistic director, are not kidding.

Season 17 kicks off in mid-January showcasing one of the most influential pianists of the modern era, however one cares to define the phrase. Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea achieved global prominence by holding fast to his values and refusing to compromise his particular peculiar musical vision, despite ample pressure to do so.

Playing the Omni’s Magnolia Ballroom on Friday night, Jan. 19, Corea brings a half-century’s worth of professional experience to the AICMF stage. “What people can expect at the concert is an extraordinary display of improvisation at the piano by a consummate artist,” says Dr. Joe Marasco, the festival’s Executive Director.

“He does not have a written program; he will sit down at the piano and play.” You may have noticed that Corea’s picture has appeared on the front cover of Folio Weekly several times in recent weeks, being the centerpiece of AICMF’s advertising. The man has put in so much work (87 albums as a leader, 67 as a sideman), it’s easier to recap what he hasn’t done than what he has, but let’s give it a try.

Born in 1941, Chick Corea’s first decade as a professional musician was a period of exhaustive creative diversity, moving him from Cab Calloway and Willie Bobo to Larry Coryell and Anthony Braxton. Technically, his official debut as a leader was on Tones for Joan’s Bones (Vortex, 1966), but it was 1968’s Now He Sings, Now He Sobs that etched him forever on the musical cornerstone at the tender age of 27. Featuring ace bassist Miroslav Vitous and Jax Jazz Fest veteran Roy Haynes (also a force of nature who’s still touring in his 93rd year) on drums, it easily ranks among the top five piano trio albums ever recorded, and it remains the best point of entry a tyro can take into Corea’s voluminous output for the ensuing 50 years.

By the time Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was released, Corea had already succeeded Herbie Hancock on the piano stool for Miles Davis, in the process helping to inaugurate the jazz-fusion era on Filles de Kilimanjaro and In a Silent Way,

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the two live Fillmore albums, and the seminal Bitches Brew, before striking out on his own in 1970, first leading Circle with Braxton and Barry Altschul, following with Return To Forever, maybe the key fusion band of that era. Recording seven albums in five years, Corea augmented his keyboards by a revolving lineup of legends like Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Steve Gadd, Al Di Meola, Lenny White, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim (easily the most interesting jazz singer of the era; her album Stories To Tell is a masterpiece of the form).

Since the 1980s, Corea (a snowbird who spends his winters on Florida’s Gulf Coast) has worked extensively with colleagues from those former bands, maintaining a punishing schedule of touring and composition lasting well into his 70s. After years of dabbling with string quartets, orchestral music and copious solo material, Corea is currently working Florida with his Akoustic Band, stopping off at Amelia Island’s Magnolia Ballroom for what may be his only solo performance in the United States this year.

The festival has just three full-time employees and a small army of volunteers, all under the leadership of founder and artistic director Christopher Rex, who moonlights as principal cellist in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. “He sure came up with a winner this year,” says

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Marasco, chuckling. Perhaps the MVP of the whole affair, though, is Jack Melvin, owner of Keyboard Connection, who has generously provided the Yamaha grand piano upon which the pianists perform, at no cost to the festival organization, since 2005.

The Chick Corea show is not to be missed—a rare opportunity to hear one of the most versatile musicians in the world, stripped down to his essence, completely unconstrained—real bucket-list stuff.

Piano enthusiasts, take note: Corea’s appearance is just the second of some 19 concerts encompassing a wide range of styles, formats, genres and settings that AICMF has scheduled (including a variety of educational outreach efforts, always a priority among this crowd) between now and April 29, when all the goingson conclude with a stunning display of four-hand pianism by festival faves Julie Coucheron and Elizabeth Pridgen. Theirs is a performance of skill and knowledge anyone who’s ever plunked the ivories will appreciate. Be sure you’re part of it.

We’ll be writing more about all the musicians, venues and details here in Folio Weekly in the weeks ahead—keep reading.

Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com

HANDS FULL OF

KEYS “The YEAR OF THE PIANO” begins briskly on Amelia Island

CHICK COREA

7:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Omni Amelia Island Plantation, Magnolia Ballroom, $50-$100, 261-1779, ameliaislandchambermusicfestival.com

FOLIO OA A+E E : MAGIC LAN LANTERNS

DAMNED

FINE MOVIES

OVERSET

ELEVATORS & SERIAL KILLERS go together like ostriches and alligators

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aking their debut in impressive hi-def upgrades are two ’80s horror films from Dick Maas, the Dutch John Carpenter. The Lift (’83) is about a psychopathic elevator (it goes all the way to the top and then some); Amsterdamned (’88) has a psychopathic serial killer who wears a wetsuit and prowls Amsterdam’s canals, picking off his luckless victims with sadistic ingenuity.

Silly as both plots may sound, each works as far as the demented logic (or its opposite) often in more absurdist horror films, like Halloween. The production values, acting and direction are far more detailed and expansive than usually expected from such films. In Amsterdamned in particular, we get a nice overview of one of Europe’s more interesting, unusual cities.

Given the confining nature of the plot, The Lift is mostly limited to an office building with elevators that have taken on a life of their own. Or not. The opening sequence shows two wild and crazy Dutch couples leaving the building’s restaurant on the upper floor, with booze in their blood and sex on their brains. Screwing around in the elevator, they nearly die when the system stalls the car between floors and the air conditioning turns to heat.

Other colorful methods of attack and demise include a blind man punching the wrong button, a guy who sticks his head where he shouldn’t and a little girl with her doll.

The film’s unlikely hero is Felix Adelaar (Huub Stapel), an elevator company service technician in charge of the building’s lifts.

He tries to figure out what’s going on. The bad guys are a familiar breed: corporate bigwigs-in-bed-with-an-electronics-firm that’s developed a new microchip capable of literally taking on organic life.

Add a bolt of lightning to the brew, and there’s your plot.

Like Carpenter, Maas provides his own synthesizer music for both The Lift and Amsterdamned. Again like Carpenter, whose creepy theme presaged every appearance of Michael Myers in Halloween, Maas prepares us for the next jolt with a tonal riff. It’s corny but it works.

Everything about Amsterdamned’s approach to suspense would seem to indicate the shadow of Carpenter, yet in the director’s commentary on the new release, Maas credits Spielberg’s Jaws as his major influence (John Williams, by inference). As unlikely as that sounds, this particular elevator does demonstrate a healthy appetite, dining to music.

The script pads out a slim story with a side plot involving Saskia (Josine van Dalsum), Felix’s wife. She suspects he’s having an affair with reporter Mieke (Willeke van Ammelrooy) who sniffs a good story in the works. The Lois Lane kind of gal and the hunky mechanic are capable dealing with the curious vertical monster, but their relationship is strictly platonic.

Huub Stapel returns as the lead in Amsterdamned, this time playing city detective Eric Visser, who has to plumb the city’s canals for a killer who’s been methodically killing the locals. The Jaws influence is obvious in the first scene; it resembles Spielberg’s classic opening in several ways.

After a long night, a cab driver kicks a hooker out of his cab when she refuses to give him a freebie. Meanwhile, someone’s tracking all the action below the surface of the water, bubbles rising from his breathing apparatus.

As the wretched slattern tries to gather her scattered things, the rubber-suited killer strikes with a long knife, pulling his prey into the water.

In the morning, her butchered body, dangling from a city bridge, shocks a boatload of tourists.

That’s the first of many such murders, gleefully concocted by Mass, again tripling as writer, composer and director. A whodunit of sorts, the script deliberately leads us to suspect the killer’s identity a little more than halfway through, only to uncork another surprise with the final unmasking. Contrived? Maybe, but Amsterdamned, like The Lift, will appeal to horror fans, a rare breed of viewers as forgiving as they are finicky.

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING ST. AUGUSTINE FILM FESTIVAL The fest, featuring international and indie films, runs Jan. 18-21 at Corazon Cinema, Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium and GamacheKoger Theater; $7-$10; prices, dates, times vary so check staugfilmfest.com.

CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Loving Vincent, Lucky and Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story screen. The Solution, about rising sea levels, is staged 7 p.m. Jan. 25 & 26, $20. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 697-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

HYPERION BREWING CO. Movie After Dark (or playoffs) on the big screen every Sun., 1740 N. Main St., Springfield, 518-5131, hyperionbrewing.com.

IMAX THEATER Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet and Dream Big screen. St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA The Post and I, Tonya screen. Phantom Thread and Call Me by Your Name start Jan. 19. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

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ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

MLK BOULEVARD A staged reading of Juilliard student Julian Robertson’s new piece; his work is said to “capture the emotions and imagination of his audiences.” 8-11 p.m. Jan. 18, MOCA Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, $25, phaseeight.org.

TANGO FIRE The extraordinary Buenos Aires dance troupe performs versions of the complex, beautiful dance, 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 18, T-U Center, 300 Water St., Downtown, $32.50$74.50, fscjartistseries.org.

THE CLEAN HOUSE Matilde is a housekeeper with aspirations of comedic fame … and this play, presented by Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre, is a funny look into class, love and laughter. Staged Jan. 19-Feb. 4 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., 249-7177, abettheatre.com.

LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO Gone with the Wind is playing and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta’s German Jews are more concerned with who’s going to the social event of the season, Ballyhoo. Staged through Jan. 28 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., $21-$26, theatrejax.com.

The Who’s TOMMY It’s the unforgettable tale of a deaf, dumb and blind boy who becomes an international pinball superstar, staged through Jan. 20 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, $15-$20, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.

SYLVIA This is the playful pooch who comes to fill the lives of two empty-nesters (Greg and Kate) as they settle into a new way of living. But all is not sunshine-y dog walks as Kate and Greg have different ideas of what their child-free life now holds. The play runs through Jan. 27 at Players By the Sea, Jax Beach, $20-$23, playersbythesea.org.

THE PILLOWMAN With cues from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Kafka and Antonin Artaud, this tale of authoritarianism and parental hope is written by Martin McDonagh. Both thriller and uncomfortable think piece, it ruminates on the nature of creating and the cost of being an artist. It’s staged through Jan. 20 at Amelia Community Theatre, Studio 209, 209 Cedar St., Fernandina, 261-6749, $10-$15, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.

CLASSICAL + JAZZ

BOLD CITY CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE In 2017, BCCE put out a “Call-For-Scores” and this entirely new concert is the result; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at University of North Florida Recital Hall, Southside, free, boldcity.org.

JASON FARNUM Comedy and don’t-miss-a-beat playing come together in this exciting performer who’s a little absurd, 10:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at Thrasher-Horne Center, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, $15-$20, thcenter.org.

AN EVENING OF GRANDEUR The 2018 Jacksonville Symphony Gala features Grammy-Award-winning artist Renee Fleming, 7 p.m. Jan. 20 at Times-Union Center, 300 Water St., Downtown, $75-$125, jacksonvillesymphony.com.

ORGAN CONCERT Adam Brakel brings the organ to life, 5 p.m. Jan. 21 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, 356-5507, free, beachesfinearts.org.

THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL Local band plays 10 p.m. Jan. 20 at Prohibition Kitchen, 119 St. George St., St. Augustine, prohibitionkitchen.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

COMEDY SHOWDOWN Gregory Perritt, Pete Burdon, Harry Snover, David Red, Michelle Keith, Holly Landrum, Gordon Harrelson and Alex Sanders compete for a $100, audienceselected prize. Shay Clemmons hosts; 8:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at The Comedy Club with Jackie Knight at Gypsy Cab Company’s Corner Bar, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 461-8843.

DOUGIE ALMEIDA Funnyman Almeida headlines, Perry Sak is featured, and Elgin David hosts, 9 p.m. Jan. 19 at The Comedy Club at Gypsy Cab Company, St. Augustine, $12, 461-8843.

THEO VON Von—of Deal With it and Primetime in No Time— performs 8 p.m. Jan. 18, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Jan. 19 & 20 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $18-$43, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

A TRAIN LIVE Malik S, actor and writer for hit TV show Soul Man, is the featured performer. Also known for Soul Train Awards (writer), Black-ish (writer, actor), Legends of Chamberlain Heights (writer), and Last Comic Standing, he performs 8 p.m. Jan. 19 at Ritz Theatre & Museum, $24-$29, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, ritzjacksonville.com.

RON FUNCHES (Bunches of) Funches has been described as a “triple threat”: standup comedian, actor and writer. Here’s hoping he “writers” all over that stage. And honestly, we’re not sure what that even looks like … but we’re certain it’ll be weird. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18-20, 9:45 p.m. Jan. 19 & 20 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20-$114.50, comedyzone.com.

LAUGH LOUNGE A weekly showcase of funny NEFla folks—or so says Creative Veins—performs 8 p.m. Jan. 20 at Dos Gatos, 123 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, creativeveins.com.

OPEN MIC AT HOURGLASS PUB Hosted by Will Neal, this is the chance you’ve been waiting for, so grab your best material and hop on stage, 7 p.m. Jan. 18 and every Thur. at 345 E. Bay St., Downtown, 469-1719.

FRED’S ALL-STAR COMEDIANS The funniest NEFLa comics (or so the website says) 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 & 23 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

TREE FOR THE ROAD

In observance of Florida’s ARBOR DAY, the UF/IFAS Extension St. Johns County Master Gardeners give away tree seedlings, 8:30 a.m. Jan. 19, at Ponte Vedra Beach Library, Southeast Branch Library, Bartram Trail Library, Hastings Library and Publix at Murabella, St. Augustine. Species include red buckeye, wild black cherry, redbud, beautyberry, Southern red cedar, elderberry, arrowwood viburnum and sycamore.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA Grant opportunities are available for those serving young children, for individual professional artists to elevate their work and organizations serving at-risk and underserved populations at or near the Jacksonville-area Beaches, applications due Jan. 10-March 5, depending on grant, jaxcf.org.

ART WALKS + MARKETS

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET WINTER SEASON Live music plus food, artists and a farmer’s row, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 20 under the Fuller Warren Bridge at 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE FARMERS MARKET Veggies, flowers, baked goods, handmade arts & crafts, a community booth, live music, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at 1340C A1A S., staugamphitheatre.com. Admission, parking free.

FERNANDINA BEACH FARMERS MARKET Every Sat., 9 a.m.-1 p.m., year round, rain or shine. North Seventh Street, Fernandina, fernandinamarketplace.com.

MUSEUMS

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. A Collector’s Eye: Celebrating Joseph Jeffers Dodge and Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection, through Feb. 4.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W., First St., 356-2992. 1st Things 1st, 28 First Coast Visual Artists address the First Amendment, through February.

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, runs through March 25; Circumvolve: Narratives and Responses to Life Cycles new work by UNF student artist-inresidence Rachel Huff Smith displays through March 18.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-MOSH, themosh.org. Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators & Engineers! shows artifacts and ancient technology through Jan. 28; NANO, a hands-on exhibit that presents the basics of nanoscience and engineering, on display through June 17.

GALLERIES

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THE 5 & DIME, A THEATRE COMPANY 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, the5anddime.org. This month’s featured artist is Madeleine Peck Wagner, showing a small selection of animalthemed works, through February.

THE ART CENTER Jacksonville Landing, tacjacksonville.org.

January’s featured artist is Razvan Balotescu; Monumental shows through March; a closing reception is 6-8 p.m. March 2.

ADELE GRAGE CENTER 7160 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828. Coastal artist Alan Phillips’ new works,

through February. Opening reception is 5 p.m. Jan. 18; alanphillipstudio.com.

BREW 5 POINTS 1024 Park St., Riverside, 374-5789. Sarah Colado shows new works, through February.

HASKELL GALLEY Jacksonville International Airport. Thony Aiuppy shows his works through February.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. Faces and Figures, interpretations of the human form; Emmett Fritz: A Centennial Collection runs through Jan. 29.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Wells Fargo Bldg., Downtown. January’s guest artist is Allison Watson.

SPACE 42 2670 Phyllis St., Riverside, 888-421-9222, spacefortytwo.com. Dream/Sueño/Rêve, installation by John Carr and Estée Ochoa, through January; UNF Student Ceramics Show displays through January.

THE SPACE GALLERY 120 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, longroadprojects.com. Sheida Soleimani’s Oppress(er) (ed) runs through February in conjunction with Paul Owner Weiner’s Ol’ Glory, Ol’ Apologies.

THE VAULT at 1930 1930 San Marco Blvd., 398-2890, thevaultat1930.com. Art from Around the World, Susan Astleford’s new works, is on display.

WOLF & CUB 205 N. Laura St., Downtown, wolfandcubjax. com. For the Love of Munny, an exhibit of vinyl toys named “Munny,” is on display.Each collectable toy is designed, painted, destructed and created by Jax-based artists; through January.

EVENTS

COSPLAY ARCADE NIGHT Photo booth, video games, beer and a high-score Pac-Man contest (plus Cosplayers get bar discounts), 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at Keg & Coin, 1269 King St., Riverside, 388-0033.

SCIENCE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP Jacksonville Science Festival is discussed, 3 p.m. Jan. 17 at Museum of Science & History, 1027 Museum Cir., Southbank, free, 493-3535.

SPRING PLANTING Learn how to prep land and identify invasive plants, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at Duval Extension Office, 1010 N. McDuff Ave., $5, 255-7450.

COMMUNITY VINYL MASHUP & RECORD SHOW You can never have too much vinyl. Check it out 7 p.m. Jan. 19 at River City Brewing Company, 835 Museum Cir., Southbank, 398-2299, rivercitybrew.com.

FREE BABY TREES Florida’s Arbor Day, the UF/IFAS Extension St. Johns County Master Gardeners giving away tree seedlings, 8:30 a.m. Jan. 19, Ponte Vedra Beach Library, Southeast Library, Bartram Trail Library, Hastings Library and Publix at Murabella, St. Augustine, 209-0430.

CUTWATER SPIRITS LAUNCH PARTY G&T in a can—who thought of portable, potable beverages? San Diego distillery Cutwater Spirits puts its signature cocktails in cans: spicy Bloody Mary, Rum & Ginger, flavored vodka & soda drinks. Grape & Grain Exchange’s launch party, 7 p.m. Jan. 20, 2000 San Marco Blvd., 396-4455, grapeandgrainexchange.com.

BEEKEEPING 101 Bees are such a central part of our lives that scientists (and don’t you go “alternative fact-ing” us) suggest that without these pollinators, humans won’t survive. Beekeeper Meghan Orman holds a two-hour course on the inside-the-hive and outside-the-hive life of bees as a primer on bee care and keeping, 1-3 p.m. Jan. 20 at Cultivate, 2766 Park St., Riverside, $15, 619-6003, cultivatejax.com.

ART BUZZ Held the third Sat. of every month, AB is a collection of locally made fine art and fine oddities, 5-9 p.m.

Jan. 20 at The Urban Bean Coffeehouse, 2023 Park Ave., Orange Park, 541-4938.

SORAB FRACIS Fracis reads from and signs copies of We Can’t Help It If We’re from Florida: New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula, the anthology to which he contributed, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 20 at San Marco Bookstore, 1971 San Marco Blvd., 396-7579, sanmarcobookstore.com.

URBAN CORE, BREWERY EDITION BIKE TOUR Mmmm … beer. Check out the Urban Core’s awesome breweries. Noon-6 p.m. Jan. 20; meet at Uptown Bar & Kitchen, 1303 Main St., facebook.com/events.

SoMMA MONTHLY MEETING The Society of Mixed Media Artists hosts artist Mike Grecian, who showcases some of his materials, 10 a.m. Jan. 20 at Ponte Vedra Cultural Center, 50 Executive Way, $10, milonbarbara2@yaoo.com.

WOMEN’S DAY OF ACTION One the anniversary of the historic Women’s March on Washington, Women’s March Florida leads a statewide “Day of Action” bringing awareness and support to some of our most marginalized communities; donations for the U.S. Virgin Islands, The Keys and Puerto Rico are accepted. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Jacksonville Landing, Downtown, womensmarchjax.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.

FOLIO A+E : ARTS

Jibade-Khalil Huffman makes works within the realm of WORD PLAY and WORD POWER

COMPLICATED

POETRY

Still from Poems For Every Occasion, 2018, single channel video, sound, color, 19 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Anat Ebgi Gallery

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rtist Jibade-Khalil Huffman was born in Detroit, went to Bard (BA), Brown (MFA, Literary Arts), and USC (MFA, Studio Art), and was a resident at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2016).

He’s published three books of poetry—19 Names for Our Band (2008), James Brown is Dead (’11) and Sleeper Hold (’14)—he lives in New York City, and is now showing his art at St. Augustine’s Crisp-Ellert Museum; he’s in residence there as well.

Folio Weekly was able to find a moment to chat with the very busy artist in advance of his show, A Tondo for Rajon Rondo. In it, Huffman takes the tondo form (typically a circular painting) and uses it symbolically in a tribute to New Orleans Pelicans player Rajon Rondo.

Folio Weekly: Why Rajon Rondo?

Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Rajon Rondo for me typifies a kind of mercurialness that is barely tolerated or outright not allowed in polite society. Rondo is, by all reports, one of the headiest players to ever play the game, which has led to him often disagreeing with coaches, management and fellow players. Instead of further problematizing this, I wanted to make a kind of tribute to complicated blackness, to celebrate this, if that makes sense, even though Rondo does not actually appear in the show.

In the past, you’ve said, “the work happens in the space during install” ... while you’re in St. Augustine, what do you think you’ll focus on and how do you imagine you’ll operate?

In St. Augustine, I am presenting a new video, a new installation and a bunch of recent and new inkjet paintings, some of which make use of projection as well. So, really, it is the installation/sculptural work, which may get cut in favor of a recent video that relates to this idea. I can only plan so much. And because I work in so many different ways, I’m usually behind anyway. But working out ideas in the space, especially projections specific to a particular architecture, make way more sense for me.

Your work navigates and takes elements and ideas from sculpture, photography and poetry—but you’ve said you’re most interested in “doing the thing [idea] in the form that best suits it.” How do you determine the “best form” and do you think that this adds a bit of risk to the work; the making and displaying of it?

I figure out the best form through a process of research. I spend a lot of time looking up related videos on YouTube, articles; make lots of sketches and weird notes to myself.

And then at a certain point, it all just starts coming together, in relation to the other works surrounding a particular piece. It’s about trusting the work instead of just your ego and whatever ideas you may have about expertise.

In an essay for the Poetry Society of America, you wrote “a certain kind of work is destroying the art world.” Can you expound on this?

At the time, coming up on 10 years ago, I was mostly in the poetry scene in New York but worked to pay the bills as an art installer. I don’t think any one kind of work is destroying the art world or anything so dramatic. But I’m continually disappointed by the vulgarity of it all, the winner-take-all-mentality, the lack of real diversity, the almost-blind emphasis on painting and outright hostility toward anything that doesn’t satisfy the art market or is challenging in a complicated (as opposed to really simple and obvious) way: the complicatedness of blackness itself versus the typical MLK Black History month overcoming struggle, oppr0ession, pornography.

You’ve also talked about “objecthood” as it relates to language and leveling hierarchy. Tell me how you tackle these ideas in your work.

I have an odd relationship with objects, mostly owing to my impatience. Video (of the appropriated variety, where you’re not going through all the motions of a production but instead working from an archive) and writing are so much more immediate than photography or the other mode of video that I work in (which entails casting and working with performers, rehearsals, etc.). Ultimately, I’m interested in the text in the painting being as important as the fact that it’s a painting. Or not making a painting at all and making a performance instead because that better suits the idea.

Finally, you address making work as a black man in America ... and I found myself thinking about this especially in relationship to the two works: White People Explain John Baldessari to Me, (’17) and Black People Explain the Facts of Life to Me (’17). Both seem to start out—at first read— with a dose of pointed humor, but upon subsequent/lingering consideration, reveal

themselves to be painful truths: Baldessari in the assumption of a “needed” explanation on the part of the lecturer; Facts as they relate to navigating the world as a person of color. Can you discuss the impetus for these works, and how you chose their central ideas?

Yikes. Yeah, that humor/painful truth dichotomy is at the heart of my work but also—and I’m being super-reductive here— the heart of the experience for lots of people of color. The Baldessari piece, which of course riffs on Rebecca Solnit’s writing on man-splaining, comes from the recurring annoyance of having, in most cases, white curators, critics and fellow artists ascribe my ideas to a Eurocentric model of knowledge or beauty. It is about the anxiety of influence, but the influence you are told repeatedly matters more than your own actual references.

Though both pieces make use of appropriated sources (a few magazine ads in the case of the Baldessari piece; a picture of Kim Fields on the cover of Jet Magazine for the Facts of Life piece), they are among the most personal works I’ve ever made in their attempt to articulate the rage, confusion and humor that is one version, my version, of navigating a world that’s still so intent on upholding white supremacy and patriarchy. The fact that this is something I feel compelled to deal with in the work is both great and maddening, once you start to think of the many artists in the mainstream who don’t have to really deal with these considerations, though often feel compelled to tell us how little identity matters, again, in the face of this Eurocentric model of everything and who get annoyed that they even have to think about these things and other forms of protest. But it’s like what someone said, if you’re tired of hearing about it, about oppression, then how tired do you think I am of living it and having to explain it in interviews or otherwise?

Madeleine Peck Wagner madeleine@folioweekly.com

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A Tondo for Rajon Rondo, an exhibition of JibadeKhalil Huffman’s recent works, runs Jan. 19-Feb. 22; an artist’s talk is 5 p.m. Jan. 19 at Gamache-Koger Theater, Ringhaver Student Center; an opening reception follows at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, flagler.edu.

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FOLIO A+E : MUSIC

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hen it comes to music, the term Living Legend can be a descriptor for anyone who’s survived a musician’s life. When describing Jamaican producer-musician Lee “Scratch” Perry, though, it’s not only apt, it’s wholly true.

Since the late-’50s, Perry has pioneered recorded music. As inventor of sampling and reggae, his mark on recorded music is indelible, mercurial. Black Ark, his 1970s backyard studio, gave birth to crucial work

by Max Romeo & The Heptones, and kickstarted Bob Marley & the Wailers’ careers.

Perry produced the first recordings of what was being called “dub” and “remixes,” ducking out solo instruments to enhance electric bass and drums, sound shards swirling in slap-back echo and reverb, sweeping sounds through the spectrum. Perry was known for an unconventional nature and skill at innovation.

He cited the power of blowing pot smoke onto tape reels; in 1978 he burned Black Ark down.

Perry removed all barriers in the studio, changing a clinical vibe to one acknowledging space and equipment as living, even spiritual, entities. In this digitized, cut-and-paste era, it’s an endangered view, if not extinct.

“I don’t think some of the producers know the truth. So I don’t think they’re honoring the truth,” Perry tells Folio Weekly. “Some will and others won’t; but you can’t blame them because they don’t know the truth.”

That ineffable “truth” is the rock of Perry’s career. Now 80 years old, he’s a signifier of reggae, dub, hip-hop and electronic music.

Vital to Perry’s lifelong involvement in music has been his openness to collaborate.

His backing band, The Upsetters, were the core of early works. Over the years, The Clash, PIL, The Beastie Boys, George Clinton, Keith Richards—even Sir Paul McCartney— have all worked with Perry.

“It’s good to teach people something good … something that’s good for you that they can teach someone else. Your good will keep on forever,” says Perry, of his near-religious “good over evil” cooperation approach.

“Good over evil. Everyone wants to know what’s good. Even bad love’s good. I stop doing bad—I only do good.”

For the last 10-plus years, the man has been making good in intense collusion with Subatomic Sound System.

Formed in 1999 in NYC by musicianproducers Emch and Noah Shactman, Subatomic Sound System (SSS) are logical partners.

Synthesizing an egalitarian vibe of 1970s

Jamaican sound system culture, old-school roots reggae and dub with a 21st-century sensibility, SSS fuses genres and technology.

SSS has released dozens of recordings, working with distinct artists like Ari Up, Dr. Israel, Matisyahu and South and Central American musicians. Keeping an open palette at these levels has earned the band global praise. It’s obvious they’re pioneers of a nameless, ever-evolving genre.

“Our goal is to create a spiritual music that strikes at something universal to the human experience and to the nature of sound, a primal energy at the deepest level, the subatomic level, that’s why it’s Subatomic Sound,” explains Emch. “Sure, it’s about sub bass and atomic energy power, but it’s also about fundamental vibrations at the core of all existence, which I think are the root of the human fascination with music.”

Perry and SSS have released a potent project, a revamp/reinterpretation/mirror of Perry’s classic 1978 effort, Return of the Super Ape. Drenched in reverb, instruments and voices in and out of the mix, anchored by wobbly bass and drums, Super Ape is the definitive dub album, a reference countless musicians emulate and explain deep dub.

Dropping in ’17, Super Ape Returns to Conquer takes source material and expands its experimental tenor. Emch and Shactman create a gurgling background, as melodica, guitar and Perry’s voice intone over diffused soundscapes.

Veteran reggae conga player Larry McDonald slaps off thudding beats, voices move through sax and Ethiopian horn, and tour performances blend with studio music. The original Super Ape raised the dub and reggae bar high; with Super Ape Returns, Perry and SSS easily clear it.

“It’s a revolution and evolution of Super Ape, an introduction to those who come to Jamaica to have fun, to get rid of boredom, to make themselves happy, to know where the music comes from, and love Jamaica more,” says Perry of the update. “Enjoy the music.

And have fun for ever ever ever.”

SSS went into a singular realm of music and personality working with Perry. “It started out daunting, but became surreal.

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Dub lord Lee “Scratch” Perry teams with Subatomic Sound System to REBOOT his 1978 album, RETURN OF THE SUPER APE

INFINITE VIBRATIONS LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY and SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM 7 p.m. Jan. 17, Jack Rabbits, San Marco, $25, jaxlive.com

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that matter,” says Emch, adding that when he performs, Perry’s like “a film director and a performance artist. Our shows with Scratch really got good when we realized we needed to understand what he wanted, but [also] think more about making the music great than waiting for him to tell us what to do.”

Perry and SSS tour in support of Conquer, with McDonald, saxophonist Troy Simms and Indian-Scandinavian vocalist Talia Bentson.

It’s 40 years since Super Ape dropped, and Perry’s had time to reflect. “It was something special going on … on those songs with me and Boris Gardiner. After Marley grabbed The Wailers and ran [Ed. note: The Wailers were a studio band before Marley worked with Perry], I found a new bass man, a different drummer, bass player, organist and horns men, and made a new adventure, something greater than what Bob had. I didn’t miss anything.”

Emch heard reggae and dub through Bad Brains and Jimi Hendrix’s studio tests. Trace dub lineage; the source: Lee “Scratch” Perry.

“In the Subatomic crew … we listen to what Scratch listens to but also grew up on—disciples of hip hop, punk and electronic music—and it led us back to Scratch and all around the globe,” says Emch. “We’re extending the roots further into the past the same time we’re trying to push those sounds to the future. It’s the same kind of mission Scratch is on. In combining elements from older traditions, you create something new.”

Reexamining earlier work while making fresher sounds, Perry speaks well of SSS’s musicianship. “It’s a spiritual vibration and it’s very good ... for the spirit,” says Perry.

“We can bring the past to the present and the present to the past. It’s possible.”

Lee “Scratch” Perry has outlived most of his peers and influenced many more. How he stays a prolific artist at an age when many would’ve long since retired is, unsurprisingly, mystically imbued—invoking music’s magic.

“To share the magic, play magic and sing magic. Play magic. Balance magic. Advertise the magic and know the magic.”

Daniel A. Brown mail@folioweekly.com

Experiencing a church organ’s very best sound under the skilled hands of a master organist is an event not forgotten (Dracula vibes and all).

ADAM BRAKEL, a virtuoso organ prodigy, performs 5 p.m. Jan. 21 at St. John’s Cathedral, Downtown, beachesfinearts.org.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

LEE SCRATCH PERRY 7 p.m. Jan. 17, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, jaxlive.com, $25.

FINN MAGILL, ALAN MURRAY, OLD DAWGS NEW TRIXX 7 p.m. Jan. 17, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, raylewispresents, $10.

DJ CAPONE 9:30 p.m. Jan. 17, Cheers Park Avenue, 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855, $3.

LARRY MANGUM, DAVID MALLETT 7 p.m. Jan. 18, Mudville Music Room, $10.

AFROMAN 7 p.m. Jan. 18, Jack Rabbits, $17.

WHISKEY BENT 9:30 p.m. Jan. 18, Cheers Park Avenue, $3.

DECADES REWIND 7:30 Jan. 18, Thrasher-Horne Center, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $39.

DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA, BLACKWATER GREASE, TOM BENNETT BAND 8 p.m. Jan. 18, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, 1904musichall.com, $15.

MARK JOHNS 6 p.m. Jan. 18, Boondocks Grill & Bar, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove Springs, 406-9497.

KALEIDO, THE UGLY MUGS, LOWERCASE G 7 p.m. Jan. 19, Jack Rabbits, $8.

JOEY HARKUM 8 p.m. Jan. 19, Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $10.

BROTHERS WITHIN 9:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Surfer the Bar, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 372-9756, surferthebar.com.

MARY BRAGG 7 p.m. Jan. 19, Mudville Music Room, $10.

FADE TO BLACK 8 p.m. Jan. 19, 1904 Music Hall, $10-$15.

JASON FARNAM 10:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19; 3 p.m.

Jan. 20, Thrasher-Horne Center, $15-$29.

CASSIDY LEE 5 p.m. Jan. 17, Cheers Park Avenue.

JAKE OWEN 8 p.m. Jan. 19, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com, $39-$69.

BRANDON LEINO 7 p.m. Jan. 19, Boondocks Grill & Bar. CHICK COREA 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Omni Amelia Island Plantation, 39 Beach Lagoon Rd., Fernandina Beach, $50-$100.

FADE to BLACK Metallica Tribute 8 p.m. Jan. 19, 1904 Music Hall, $10-$15.

OLYMPVS 9 p.m. Jan. 19 & 20, Cheers Park Avenue, $2.

The TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, WILD SHINERS 7 p.m. Jan. 20, PVC Hall, 1050 A1A N., pontevedraconcerthall.com, $23.50-$27.50.

IN THIS MOMENT, P.O.D., DED 7 p.m. Jan. 20, Florida Theatre, $29.50-$35.

STEWART TUSSING BAND 7 p.m. Jan. 20, Mudville Music Room, $10.

MORNING FATTY 9:30 p.m. Jan. 20, Surfer the Bar. BOB MILNE 5 p.m. Jan. 20, Grace United Methodist Church, 8 Carrera St., St. Augustine.

BIG SOMETHING, BOBBY LEE RODGERS 8 p.m. Jan. 20, Jack Rabbits, $15.

MATT KNOWLES, ZEB PADGETT 7 p.m. Jan. 20, Boondocks Grill & Bar. TEEN DIVORCE, BOYSIN, BOSTON MARRIAGE, STRESS FRACTURES, RUNNERS HIGH 7 p.m. Jan. 21, Jack Rabbits, $8.

MOJO ROUX 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208.

AARON THOMAS 9 p.m. Jan. 23, Surfer the Bar. MUSICAL THRONES 8 p.m. Jan. 24, Florida Theatre, $25-$50.

SOULO LYON 9:30 p.m. Jan. 24, Surfer the Bar.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 7 p.m. Jan. 24, PVC Hall, $20-$25.

VENARDOS CIRCUS Jan. 24-Feb. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $15-$35.

DJ CAPONE 9:30 p.m. Jan. 24, Cheers Park Avenue, $3.

LUKE PEACOCK 7 p.m. Jan. 24, Mudville Music Room, $10.

JACOB JOHNSON, ARVID SMITH 7 p.m. Jan. 25, Mudville Music Room, $10.

MARTY STUART & his FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES 7 p.m.

Jan. 25, PVC Hall, $39-$59.

DOROTHY, LOVESICK RADIO 8 p.m. Jan. 25, Jack Rabbits, $17.50-$67.50.

IVAN PULLEY 6 p.m. Jan. 25, Boondocks Grill & Bar. FELLY, GYYPS, TRIP CARTER 8 p.m. Jan. 25, 1904 Music Hall, $17-$20.

THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL 9:30 p.m. Jan. 25, Cheers Park Avenue, $3.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

NEWROCK SOUL Jan. 26, Surfer the Bar NO MEANS YES, DANNY ATTACK Jan. 26, Jack Rabbits SALT & PINE ALBUM RELEASE SHOW Jan. 26, Café Eleven ZEB PADGETT, JULIA GULIA Jan. 26, Cheers Park Avenue MASON JENNINGS Jan. 26, PVC Hall CHILLULA Jan. 27, Surfer the Bar SOUTHPAW Jan. 26, Boondocks Grill & Bar The STOMPDOWN Jan. 27, Florida Theatre BLACK VIOLIN Jan. 27, PVC Hall CHRISTINA CARTER Jan. 27, Boondocks Grill & Bar CES CRU, The PALMER SQUARE, GPO Jan. 27, Jack Rabbits DIVE BAR, STEREO-TYPE, RIP JR., SLEEPLESS NIGHTS Jan. 27, The Hourglass ERIC COLLETTE Jan. 27, Boondocks Grill & Bar JULIA GULIA Jan. 27, Cheers Park Avenue YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, OLD SALT UNION Jan. 28, PVC Hall MOJO ROUX Jan. 28, Whiskey Jax, Southside KENNY YARBROUGH, SOUTHERN TIDE Jan. 28, Limelight Theatre WORLD INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY, COMMUNITY CENTER, TAIL LIGHT REBELLION, MUDTOWN Jan. 28, Nighthawks ROTTEN MANGOS, FERNWAY, BILLY & BELLA Jan. 28, 1904 Music Hall TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: WILLIAM BELL, BOBBY RUSH, DON BRYANT Jan. 30, Florida Theatre CIRQUE ZUMA ZUMA Jan. 30, Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum GAELIC STORM Jan. 30, PVC Hall ROBBIE LITT Jan. 30, Surfer the Bar VELON THOMPSON Jan. 30, Mudville Music Room HAUNTED SUMMER, GOV CLUB Jan. 30, Jack Rabbits G3 2018: JOE SATRIANI, PHIL COLLEN, JOHN PETRUCCI Jan. 31, Florida Theatre DJ CAPONE Jan. 31, Cheers Park Avenue TAD JENNINGS Jan. 31, Surfer the Bar ZOLOPHT, FOURBARREL BAND, JOHN PARKER URBAN TRIO Jan. 31, Jack Rabbits TANYA TUCKER Feb. 1, Florida Theatre ASHTON TAYLOR Feb. 1, Boondocks Grill & Bar LONELY HIGHWAY Feb. 1, Cheer Park Avenue HARRIS BROTHERS Feb. 1, Mudville Music Room

JOHN 5 & THE CREATURES, JACKIE STRANGER Feb. 2, 1904 Music Hall LIFT Feb. 2, Cheers Park Avenue MATT KNOWLES, JONATHAN LEE Feb. 2, Boondocks Grill & Bar ROOTS OF A REBELLION, KAT HALL Feb. 2, Surfer the Bar ANTHEMS TOUR: ADAM ANT Feb. 2, Florida Theatre MARY WILSON (A GREAT SINGER IN HER OWN RIGHT) Feb. 3, Ritz Theatre HARD 2 HANDLE Feb. 3, Boondocks Grill & Bar FAT CACTUS Feb. 3, Cheers Park Avenue SIXTIES SPECTACULAR: JAY & THE AMERICANS, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, DENNIS TUFANO (BUCKINGHAMS), BOB MIRANDA (THE HAPPENINGS) Feb. 3, Thrasher-Horne Center SPAFFORD Feb. 3, Jack Rabbits JOE MULLINS & THE RADIO RAMBLERS Feb. 3, Mudville Music Room SUN-DRIED VIBES, SOL RYDAH Feb. 3, Surfer the Bar THE VERVE PIPE Feb. 4, Café Eleven FEEDING FINGERS Feb. 4, Nighthawks JAKE SHIMABUKURO Feb. 6, PVC Hall DJ CAPONE Feb. 7, Cheer Park Avenue DIANA KRALL Feb. 7, Florida Theatre TESSA VIOLET, SECRET MIDNIGHT PRESS, GIVE ME MOTION Feb. 7, Jack Rabbits FRONT PORCH SERIES: JOHN MCCUTCHEON, GRANT PEEPLES Feb. 8, PVC Hall CODY JINKS, WARD DAVIS, SUNNY SWEENEY Feb. 8, Florida Theatre MARK JOHNS Feb. 8, Boondocks Grill & Bar ROGER THAT Feb. 8, Cheers Park Avenue L.A. GUNS, BUDDERSIDE Feb. 8, Jack Rabbits THE KENNEDYS Feb. 8, Mudville Music Room BRANDON LEINO Feb. 9, Boondocks Grill & Bar TESLA Feb. 9, Florida Theatre ERIC COLLETTE Feb, 9, Boondocks Grill & Bar IVAN & BUDDY, IVY LEAGUE Feb. 9, Cheers Park Avenue JOHN MORELAND Feb. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DECLAN McKENNA, CHAPPELL ROAN Feb. 9, 1904 Music Hall ELLAMENO BEAT, OF GOOD NATURE, N.W. IZZARD Feb. 9, Jack Rabbits OOGEE WAWA Feb. 9, Surfer the Bar BARRETT THOMPSON, JONATHAN LEE Feb. 10, Boondocks Grill & Bar G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE, KRISTY LEE Feb. 10, PVC Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND, PABLO CRUISE Feb. 10, Florida Theatre IVY LEAGUE Feb. 10, Cheers Park Avenue The LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT Feb. 10, Ritz Theatre UNDER THE STREETLAMP Feb. 11, PVC Hall JOHN MORELAND, RUSTON KELLY Feb. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JASON EADY Feb. 11, Mudville Music Room SETH GLIER Feb. 11, Café Eleven 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR: BLUES TRAVELER, LOS COLOGNES Feb. 11, Florida Theatre LESS THAN JAKE, FOUR YEAR STRONG, DIRECT HIT, BEARINGS Feb. 12, Mavericks Live ELIZABETH COOK Feb. 12, Jack Rabbits THE HOT SARDINES Feb. 13, Florida Theatre

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC DJ CAPONE Feb. 14, Cheers Park Avenue QUEENS OF THE NIGHT Feb. 14, Nighthawks MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT FOUNDATION BENEFIT Feb. 14, Mudville Music Room ERIC COLLETTE & COTY Feb. 15, Boondocks Grill & Bar PUDDLES PITY PARTY Feb. 15, PVC Hall BOTTLE ROCKETS, CHUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS Feb. 16, PVC Hall MATT KNOWLES Feb. 16, Boondocks Grill & Bar THE VALENTINE’S LOVE JAM: TYRESE, JOE, AVANT, DONELL JONES, SILK Feb. 16, Veterans Memorial Arena WOOD CHICKENS, CONCRETE CRIMINALS Feb. 16, Rain Dogs BARRETT THOMPSON Feb. 16, Boondocks Grill & Bar ANDY JONES, LOVE MONKEY Feb. 16, Cheers Park Avenue CHRIS YOUNG Feb. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MEKLIT Feb. 17, MOSH MARK JOHNS Feb. 17, Boondocks Grill & Bar LOVE MONKEY Feb. 17, Cheers Park Avenue RUNNER’S HIGH Feb. 17, Nighthawks SIERRA HULL Feb. 17, PVC Hall WRONG WAY (SUBLIME TRIBUTE), CRANE Feb. 17, Surfer the Bar DANIEL O’DONNELL Feb. 17, Florida Theatre 21 BLUE!, LONGINEU PARSONS, TED SHUMATE Feb. 17, Mudville Music Room THE HEAVY PETS, BIG MEAN SOUND MACHINE, CUSTARD PIE, WHALE FAREL Feb. 17, 1904 Music Hall WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY, LOS LONELY BOYS Feb. 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE STOLEN/PATTERNIST Feb. 18, Jack Rabbits BARRY MANILOW Feb. 18, Times-Union Center GORDON LIGHTFOOT Feb. 18, Florida Theatre COLIN QUINN Feb. 18, PVC Hall ROOTS OF CREATION Feb. 19, Jack Rabbits GEORGE BENSON Feb. 19, Thrasher-Horne Center ERIC JOHNSON, TOMMY TAYLOR, KYLE BROCK, ARIELLE Feb. 20, PVC Hall HEATHER MALONEY Feb. 21, Café Eleven DJ CAPONE Feb. 21, Cheers Park Avenue ROBERT CRAY & HIS BAND Feb. 21, PVC Hall RODRIGUEZ Feb. 21, Florida Theatre LUKE PEACOCK Feb. 22, Mudville Music Room MATT KNOWLES Feb. 22, Boondocks Grill & Bar VEGAS GRAY Feb. 22, Cheers Park Avenue SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS Feb. 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre’s Front Porch JAMEY JOHNSON Feb. 22, Florida Theatre DOYLE BRAMHALL II, BRANDY ZDAN Feb. 22, PVC Hall MINDI ABAIR & the BONESHAKERS, AIR SUPPLY Feb. 23, Ritz Theatre MARK JOHNS, BLISTUR Feb. 23, Cheers Park Avenue LYNDIE BURRIS Feb. 23, Boondocks Grill & Bar JAMIE DeFRATES, MIKE SHACKELFORD, LARRY MANGUM Feb. 23, Mudville Music Room EARTHKRY, I-RESOLUTION Feb. 23, Surfer the Bar ZEB PADGETT Feb. 23, Boondocks Grill & Bar CHRIS BARRON Feb. 23, Café Eleven JUSTIN SYMBOL & THE GOD BOMBS Feb. 23, Jack Rabbits GEORGE WINSTON Feb. 23, PVC Hall THE BLACKWATER SOL REVUE: JJ GREY & MOFRO, LOS LOBOS, NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, MARCUS KING BAND, MORE Feb. 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BRANDON LEINO Feb. 24, Boondocks Grill & Bar THE EXPENDABLES, THROUGH THE ROOTS, PACIFIC DUB Feb. 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre’s Backyard Stage

THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL catch a musical Holy Ghost, 10 p.m. Jan. 20, Prohibition Kitchen, St. Augustine, prohibitionkitchen.com.

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BLISTUR Feb. 24, Cheers Park Avenue LITTLE JAKE & THE SOUL SEARCHERS Feb. 24, Mudville Music Room The WEEPIES Feb. 24, PVC Hall ERIC COLLETTE Feb. 24, Boondocks Grill & Bar UNKNOWN HINSON, J.D. WILKES CD RELEASE FIRE DREAM Feb. 24, Jack Rabbits AN EVENING WITH MAVIS STAPLES Feb. 25, PVC Hall THE MOUNTAINTOP Feb. 27, Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum MICHAEL McDONALD Feb. 27, Florida Theatre AN EVENING WITH JORMA KAUKONEN Feb. 27, PVC Hall DJ CAPONE Feb. 28, Cheers Park Avenue WILD ADRIATIC Feb. 28, Surfer the Bar CANDLEBOX, STATE TO STATE Feb. 28, PVC Hall BLACKBERRY SMOKE March 1, Florida Theatre CAIN’T NEVER COULD, LARA HOPE & THE ARKTONES March 1, Nighthawks GINGER BEARD MAN March 1, Cheers Park Avenue NIGHT OF BEE GEES March 1, Thrasher-Horne Center MURIEL ANDERSON March 1, Mudville Music Room RAGLAND March 1, Jack Rabbits DIXIE DREGS March 1, PVC Hall 50TH ANNIVERSARY: TOWER OF POWER March 2, PVC Hall THE MAGNETIC TOUR: PHILLIP PHILLIPS March 2, Florida Theatre BARRETT THOMPSON, LYNDIE BURRIS March 2, Boondocks Grill & Bar GRANT PEEPLES March 2, Mudville Music Room FLEET FOXES March 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOHN HAMMOND March 3, PVC Hall THE GEORGIA FLOOD March 3, Jack Rabbits JUSTIN MOORE, DYLAN SCOTT March 3, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TIERNEY SUTTON BAND March 4, Ritz Theatre KNOCKED LOOSE, TERROR, JESUS PIECE, STONE March 4, 1904 Music Hall ANA POPOVIC March 7, PVC Hall SONREAL March 8, Jack Rabbits ANDY McKEE March 8, PVC Hall 25TH ANNUAL GUITAR GATHERING: THE LOS ANGELES GUITAR QUARTET March 8, Florida Theatre; DASotA benefit CELTIC MUSIC & HERITAGE FESTIVAL: 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 SOUTHERN UPRISING TOUR: TRAVIS TRITT, THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND, THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, THE OUTLAWS March 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre COAST MODERN March 9, Jack Rabbits AN EVENING YOU’LL FORGET FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE: STEVE MARTIN, MARTIN SHORT, THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS, JEFF BABKO March 9, Times-Union Center BIANCA DEL RIO March 10, PVC Hall VELVET CARAVAN March 10, Ritz Theatre SIDELINE March 10, Mudville Music Room EARTH, WIND & FIRE March 10, Florida Theatre BRAD PAISLEY, CHASE BRYANT March 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MOTOWN THE MUSICAL March 10 & 11, T-U Center ROBIN TROWER March 10, Mudville Music Room RAISING CADENCE March 11, Jack Rabbits INDIGO GIRLS March 11, PVC Hall The TENDERLOINS March 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE IRISH ROVERS March 11, Florida Theatre THE MARVIN GAYE EXPERIENCE March 11, Thrasher-Horne Center

ROBIN TROWER March 13, PVC Hall ANITA BAKER March 14, Times-Union Center LARRY MANGUM March 15, Mudville Music Room JOE JENCKS March 16, Mudville Music Room DAVE EGGER ORCHESTRA March 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre STEVE HOFSTETTER March 16, Jack Rabbits HOTEL EXPERIENCE: A SALUTE TO THE EAGLES March 16, Thrasher-Horne Center NAHKO “MY NAME IS BEAR TOUR”: The LATE ONES, XIUHTEZCATL March 16, PVC Hall MIKE LOVE, JUNGLE MAN SAM March 16, 1904 Music Hall GET THE LED OUT March 16, Florida Theatre FOREIGNER March 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 1964 THE TRIBUTE: THE BEST BEATLES BAND ON EARTH March 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WALKER BROTHERS, OLD DAWGS NEW TRIXX March 17, Mudville Music Room COREY SMITH, FORTUNATE YOUTH March 17, Jack Rabbits TIFFANY March 17, PVC Hall ALICE COOPER March 18, Florida Theatre A DAY TO REMEMBER, PAPA ROACH, FALLING IN REVERSE, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA March 20, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MIKE & THE MECHANICS March 21, PVC Hall LUKE PEACOCK March 22, Mudville Music Room WALTER SALAS-HUMARA March 23, Mudville Music Room STEEP CANYON RANGERS March 22, Florida Theatre RODNEY CARRINGTON March 23, Florida Theatre MIKE SHACKELFORD March 23, Mudville Music Room LEGENDS OF SOUL: ROSE ROYCE, LENNY WILLIAMS, GLENN JONES, SHIRLEY MURDOCK, DENIECE WILLIAMS, REGINA BELLE March 24, T-U Center’s Moran Theater LEGENDS OF HIP HOP: JUVENILE, TOO-SHORT, SCARFACE, TRINA, UNCLE LUKE, 8BALL, MIG March 24, Veterans Memorial Arena THREE DOG NIGHT, THE LORDS OF 52ND STREET March 25, Florida Theatre WATAIN March 25, Mavericks Live FORTUNATE YOUTH, BALLYHOO, TATANKA March 28, Mavericks Live LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE March 30, PVC Hall DANGERMUFFIN March 30, Mudville Music Room UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER March 30, Jack Rabbits GANG OF SIX March 31, Mudville Music Room

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA

PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre. St., 491-3332 Chilly Rhino 9:30 p.m. Jan. 21 & 28 THE SALTY PELICAN, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811 Dan Voll & Michelle 4:30 p.m. Jan. 21 SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & the Pili Pili Band 6 p.m. Jan. 17. Tad Jennings Jan. 18. Savanna Leigh Bassett 6 p.m. Jan. 22. Mark O’Quinn 6 p.m. Jan. 23 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Katfish Lee 1 p.m. Jan. 17 & 18

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur.

Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance Fri.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC THE BEACHES

(ALL VENUES IN JAX BEACH UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) ATLANTIC BEACH BREWING CO., 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 3 & 15, Atlantic Beach, 372-4116 Ashley Wilkinson 8 p.m.

Jan. 20. Live music most weekends BLUE JAY LISTENING ROOM, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 Adron Jan. 17. Underdog Improv Jan. 18. Sam Burchfield & Luke Peacock Jan. 19. Howling Bros. 7 p.m. Jan. 20. Chris Undersal & Chelsey Michelle Jan. 23 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595 Heather every Wed. DJ Seven every Thur. Michael Funge 6:30 p.m. every Sun. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 J Crew 10 p.m. Jan. 19 & 20. Live music every Fri.-Sun. GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 Third St. N., 201-9283 The Firewater Tent Revival 6 p.m. Jan. 28. Live music every Fri.-Sun. GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Michael Smith every Thur. Milton Clapp every Fri. Under the Bus every Sat. Robert Eccles 6 p.m. every Sun. HARBOR TAVERN, 160 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 246-2555 Darkhorse Saloon 8 p.m. Jan. 20 LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Orange Constant 10 p.m. Jan. 19. Ramona 10 p.m. Jan. 20. Dirty Pete every Wed. Split Tone every Thur. Chillula every Sun. Ryan Campbell & the B Sides every Mon. NW Izzard every Tue. MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., NB, 2495573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., AB, 247-0060 Taylor Roberts 7 p.m. Jan. 17 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Jan. 17. SunJammer Band Jan. 18. Sidewalk 65 Jan. 19. 7th Street Band Jan. 20. Rebecca Day Jan. 24.

Live music every Wed.-Sun. SOUTHERN GROUNDS & CO., 200 First St., NB, 249-2922 Jazz Corner 6 p.m. every Tue. SURFER THE BAR, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Ryan Campbell Jan. 17. Brothers Within 9:30 p.m. Jan. 19. Morning Fatty Jan. 20. Aaron Thomas 9 p.m. Jan. 23. Soulo Lyon Jan. 24.

Live music every night WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Debbie Johnston Jan. 18. Cloud 9 Jan. 19. Austin Park Jan. 20. Live music most weekends

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.

CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552 Touch of Grey 6:30 p.m. Jan. 26. Eddie Pickett 6:30 p.m. every Wed.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 Bonnie Blue, Rusty Shine Jan. 17. Deadphish Orchestra, Blackwater Grease, Tom Bennett Band 8 p.m. Jan. 18. Fade to Black Metallica Tribute 8 p.m. Jan. 19. Afton Showcase Jan. 21.

Felly, Gyyps, Trip Carter Jan. 25 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur.

DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. INTUITION ALE WORKS, 929 E. Bay St., 683-7720 Futurebirds 7 p.m. Jan. 26. Live music most weekends JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Rick Arcusa Band 7 p.m.-mid. Jan. 19. Live music 7 p.m.-mid.

Jan. 20. Southern Boys Band 4-8 p.m. Jan. 21 MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 DJ Ibay, more 9 p.m. Jan. 20

FLEMING ISLAND

BOONDOCKS GRILL & BAR, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Mark Johns 6 p.m. Jan. 18. Brandon Leino 7 p.m.

Jan. 19. Matt Knowles, Zeb Padgett Jan. 20. Ivan Pulley Jan. 25 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Live music most weekends WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Small Town Pharmacy 9 p.m. Jan. 19. Smooth McFlea 9 p.m. Jan. 20

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Last Resort Jan. 17. Big Engine 9 p.m. Jan. 19 & 20. Open mic every Tue. JERRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Boogie Freaks 8:30 p.m. Jan. 19. Vegas Grey 8:30 p.m. Jan. 20. Live music every Fri.

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Jan. 17 & 21 IGGY’S GRILL & BAR, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101, 209-5209 DJ Greg 7 p.m. every Wed. TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Dennis Miller 8 p.m. Jan. 17. Don’t Call Me Shirley 8 p.m. Jan. 19. Robbie Litt Jan. 20

ORANGE PARK + MIDDLEBURG CHEERS PARK AVENUE, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 DJ Capone 9:30 p.m. Jan. 17 & 24. Whiskey Bent 9:30 p.m. Jan. 18. Cassidy Lee Jan. 19. Olympvs 9 p.m. Jan. 19 & 20. The Firewater Tent Revival Jan. 25 DALTON’S SPORTS GRILL, 2620 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 17, 282-1564 Scot McGinley 7 p.m. Jan. 18. Live music most weekends

DEE’S MUSIC BAR, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 375-2240 Big Engine 9 p.m. Jan. 26. DJ Troy every Wed. 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. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SHARK CLUB, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline 9 p.m.

Jan. 19. Live music most weekends

PONTE VEDRA

PALM VALLEY OUTDOORS BAR & GRILL, 377 S. Roscoe Blvd., Palm Valley, 834-7183 Live music every Fri.-Sun. PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Stephen Pigman Music 6 p.m. Jan. 18. Live music every Wed.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE + WESTSIDE

ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Bill Ricci 8 p.m. Jan. 19. Live music most weekends MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Five Iron Frenzy, Squad Five-O, The Taj Motel Trio 8 p.m. Jan. 19 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. The World Inferno Friendship Society, Everymen, Community Center 8 p.m. Jan. 28 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Matt Woods, Ghost Tropic 9 p.m. Jan. 18. Jared Grabb, Kristopher James 8 p.m. Jan. 20

ST. AUGUSTINE

ARNOLD’S LOUNGE, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 824-8738 Dewey Via & Moses Creek 9 p.m. Jan. 19. The Remains Jan. 20. Mr. Natural every Thur.

CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Joey Harkum 8 p.m. Jan. 19. Salt & Pine Album Release Show 8:30 p.m. Jan. 26 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Evan D., Hit Parade Band Jan. 19. TJ Brown, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg Jan. 20. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. Jan. 18 & 21 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Karissa Wade Jan. 18. Brent Byrd Band Jan. 19. Circus Band Jan. 20. Jax English Salsa Band Jan. 21. Bluez Dudes 9 p.m. Jan. 23 PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George St., 209-5704 Leelyn Osborn, Cookin in da Kitchen 6 p.m. Jan. 17. Tasty Tuesdays, South City Live Jan. 19. Chris Thomas Band, The Firewater Tent Revival Jan. 20. We Cobb Jan. 22. Aslyn & the naysayers Jan. 23. Blues Dudes, LPIII Jan. 24. Ramona Jan. 25 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh 6 p.m. Jan. 20 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Pl., 342-0286 Jay Bird 7 p.m. Jan. 18.

Jax English Salsa Band 6 p.m. Jan. 21 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Those Guys Jan. 19 & 20

OVERSET This is by far the longest “UPCOMING CONCERTS” in my memory bank. Suggest cutting from April 1-July 27.

—Chaz.

SAN MARCO

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

GRAPE & GRAIN EXCHANGE, 2000 San Marco Blvd., 3964455 Raisin Cake Orchestra 9:30 p.m. Jan. 19. Theodorous Rex 9:30 p.m. Jan. 20 JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Lee Scratch Perry 7 p.m. Jan. 17. Afroman 7 p.m. Jan. 18. Kaleido, The Ugly Mugs, Lowercase g 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Big Something, Bobby Lee Rodgers 8 p.m. Jan. 20. TEEN DIVORCE, Boysin, Boston Marriage, Stress Fractures, Runners High 7 p.m.

Jan. 21. Dorothy, Lovesick Radio Jan. 25 THE LOCAL, 4578 San Jose Blvd., 683-8063 John Lumpkin 8 p.m. Jan. 18 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Finn Magill, Alan Murray, Old Dawgs New Trixx Jan. 17. Larry Mangum, David Mallett 7 p.m. Jan. 18. Mary Bragg, Hensley Mason 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Stewart Tussing Band 7 p.m. Jan. 20.

TBA Big Band 6 p.m. Jan. 22. Luke Peacock Jan. 24. Jacob Johnson, Arvid Smith Jan. 25.

SOUTHSIDE, ARLINGTON & BAYMEADOWS

BAHAMA BREEZE, 10205 River Coast Dr., 646-1031 King Eddie & the Pili Pili Band 6 p.m. every Thur.

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Ken & Kelli Maroney Jan. 18. Brian Ernst Jan. 19 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Chris Thomas Band Jan. 19. Boogie Freaks Jan. 20. Mojo Roux 7:30 p.m. every Sun. Live music most weekends

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

CROOKED ROOSTER BREWERY, 1478 S. Sixth St., Macclenny, 653-2337 Open mic 7 p.m. every Wed. HYPERION BREWING CO., 1740 N. Main St., 518-5131 Justin Rogers 7 p.m. Jan. 21. Beau Knott & the Burners 6 p.m.

Jan. 27. Open mic 6:30 p.m. Jan. 18. Live music most weekends & 2:30 p.m. every Sun. KNUCKLEHEADS Bar, 850532 U.S. 17, 222-2380 Live music every weekend MELLOW MUSHROOM, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843 Live music most every weekend OCEANWAY BAR, 12905 Main St. N., 647-9127 Live music most every weekend SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield The Big Lonesome 10 p.m. Jan. 20

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FOLIO DINING Creative fare with an epicurean flair help MOXIE KITCHEN + COCKTAILS on the Southside to the top of our Best of Jax Readers’ Poll again and again. photo by Dennis Ho

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH

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

F Family-owned café in historic building. Worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh veggies, seafood. Dine in or al fresco under oakshaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub brews beer onsite; imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season THE CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap.com. F For nearly 40 years, family-ownedand-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L Sa-M; D Nightly JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianescafe.com. F Renovated 1887 shotgun house.

Faves: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese, crêpes. Vegan items. Inside or porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D M, W, F, Sa; B L Su LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646, lamancharestaurante.com. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

DINING DIRECTORY KEY AVERAGE ENTRÉE COST $ $$

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ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL NOTES BW = Beer/Wine

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FB = Full Bar

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

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

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

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MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza. net. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

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

Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa THE PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro. com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s global menu uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su POINTE RESTAURANT, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. In awardwinning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out.

Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 2ndstory outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Oceanfront.

Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily THE SURF RESTAURANT & BAR, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711, thesurfonline.com. Oceanview dining since 1957, inside or on the deck. Steaks, seafood, burgers, daily food and drink specials; Wing It Wednesdays. $$ FB K TO L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310, traysburgerstation.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa

ARLINGTON + REGENCY

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

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

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

Family-and-veteran-owned place is all about home cooking.

Customer faves: barbecued pulled pork, blackened chicken, Caesar wrap and Portobello mushroom burger. $ K TO B L D Tu-Su HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned & operated 20+ years.

American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta.

Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner.

Pulled pork and Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish.

Avondale’s Mojo has shrimp & grits, specialty cocktails. Local musicians on weekends. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. 40+ years.

Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. French/ Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362, south.kitchen. Southern classics: crispy catfish with smoked gouda grits, family-style fried chicken, burgers, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. $$ FB K TO L D Daily

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE INTRACOASTAL. INDIA’S, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajaxcom. F Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498.

F SEE ORANGE PARK.

DINING DIRECTORY METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2017 Best of Jax finalist.

SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. 2017 Best of Jax finalist. Since 1989, the family-owned place has offered an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Low-sodium & gluten-free. $$$ BW TO L D Tu-Sa THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. Gluten-free pizzas, desserts. HH specials. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Popular gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and–sure– whiskey. HH M-F. $$ FB B Sa & Su; L F; D Nightly

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

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

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

Dine inside or out. $$ BW L D Daily CRUISERS GRILL, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill. com. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, award-winning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

SEE RIVERSIDE.

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 6586 GA. Hwy. 40 B6, St. Marys, 912-576-7006. F SEE ORANGE PARK. OUTERBANKS SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 140 The Lakes Blvd., Ste. H, Kingsland, 912-729-5499. Fresh seafood, burgers, steaks, wings. $$ FB TO D Nightly SALT.PEPPER.THYME, 105 N. Lee St., Kingsland, 912-510-0444, saltpepperthyme.net. Varied American Southern fare in an elegant setting. Dine in or out. $$ BW K TO L W; L & D Th-Sa

DOWNTOWN

BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura St., 802-7745, bellwetherjax.com. Elevated Southern classics in an understated setting, with chef/owner Jon Insetta’s focus on flavors, and chef Kerri Rogers’ culinary creativity. The Northeast Florida menu changes seasonally. Rotating local craft beers, regional spirits, cold brew coffee program. $$ FB TO L M-F CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth, 356-8282, casadoraitalian.com.

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

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

F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa SPLIFF’S GASTROPUB, 15 N. Ocean St., 844-5000, spliffsgastropub.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Music venue has munchie apps, mac & cheese dishes, pockets, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. HH M-F. $ BW L D M-Sa URBAN GRIND COFFEE COMPANY, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels.

Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F URBAN GRIND EXPRESS, 50 W. Laura St., 516-7799.

SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F. $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly

BIG SHOTS!

SPARKY

The Garage

2692 Post St. • Riverside

Born in: Arlington, TX Years in Biz: 10+ Favorite Bar: Blue Fish (Avondale) Favorite Cocktail Style: One liquor/one mixer Go-To Ingredients: I feel like people overlook the simple things. Fresh muddled fruit goes a long way.

Hangover Cure: Titos screwdriver Will Not Cross My Lips: Rumplemintz Insider’s Secret: You can be as rude as you want as long as you smile.

Celebrity Sighting At Your Bar: Michael Irving (Dallas Cowboys) When You Say "The Usual": Orange bomb FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman fare, big Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen.

Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shackburgers.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. 2017 Best of Jax finalist. SEE MANDARIN. RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 34 years and counting, the iconic seafood place serves blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973.

SEE BAYMEADOWS.

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

INTRACOASTAL WEST

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

MANDARIN + NW ST. JOHNS

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

Full bar. Early bird menu Mon.-Fri. $$ FB L M-F; D M-Sa CRUISERS GRILL, 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874.

SEE BEACHES. FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477.

Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd., 739-7070, jaxdiner.com.

Simple name, simple concept: Local. Chef Roderick “Pete” Smith, a local culinary expert with nearly 20 years under his apron, uses locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, vendors and the community for American and Southern dishes. Seasonal brunch. $ K TO B L M-F, D F METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F 2017 Best of Jax finalist. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches,

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DINING DIRECTORY BITE-S BITE-SIZED SIZ

HOLOHOLO AT

ROY’S

Choose a fresh, natural smoothie or any of the other healthful choices available in the bistro at NATIVE SUN in Jax Beach. photo by Madison Gross

OVERSET

Dakine eatery at DA MAKAI “ALOHA!” SAYS THE HOSTESS AS I WALK IN THE friendly, upscale Roy’s on Third Street South in Jax Beach. The native welcome sets the tone for a lovely atmosphere and genuinely affable service for the Hawaiian/Asian fusion restaurant.

First, the server asks if you’d like a cocktail. The self-described Pacific Rim venue will satisfy any yens for a Mai Tai or similar tropical tiki-style drink.

From the extensive wine list of mostly California wines, the server can suggest one to pair with your meal. I recommend keeping with the Hawaiian theme and get the fruity, refreshing Cool Breeze ($11), served in a golden pineapple. My ladies’ night just got way more festive as I sip from a giant fruit-shaped vessel!

ROY’S RESTAURANT

2400 S. Third St., Jax Beach, 241-7697, roysrestaurant.com

Test your chopstick skills with a sushi appetizer or Lobster Potstickers ($13): Five pouches, filled with lobster, arranged like little soldiers on a long plate. Traditional-style potstickers are atop a silkysmooth, buttery sauce. It’s the kind of rich, creamy sauce you expect with lobster, the kind you know is making your arteries choke ... but you want to sop up every drop. There’s an undressed side of thinly sliced cabbage and carrots—the ideal vehicle for any leftover potsticker sauce.

The Braised Short Ribs ($32) are the solid reason I’ve hit Roy’s again and again. I’ve enjoyed this dish twice; both times, the flavor was on point.

The braised beef is hella tasty; placed on a scoop of creamy mashed potatoes and accompanied by broccolini—smaller crowns and longer, more slender, stalks than broccoli. I don’t usually “do” broccoli, but Roy’s broccolini, with its slightly Asian marinade … I ate it all. Note: The first time I dug into the short ribs was sublime—no knife needed, it almost fell apart on sight. The second time? Still tender, but I had to use a knife—annoying.

There’s not a bad seat in the house. The bar faces the kitchen; it’s among the best spots to sit.

Roy’s is one of the few places around where you can see all the kitchen action while you’re eating. You can watch the chefs as they expertly prepare the dishes—interesting.

Roy’s is a great date-night spot or girls’ night out hang (check out the Aloha Hour selections), so get dressed and get Pacific in Jax Beach!

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prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/ wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily

ORANGE PARK

THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com.

Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370.

1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups.

Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. Live music. $ FB L D Daily SPRING PARK COFFEE, 328 Ferris St., Green Cove Springs, 531-9391, springparkcoffee.com. Cozy shop; fresh-roasted Brass Tacks coffee, handcrafted hot & cold drinks, specialty lattes, cappuccino, macchiato, teas, pastries, sandwiches, breakfast. $ B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

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

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

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

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

Family-owned-and-operated barbecue joints have smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides and stumps, which sounds damn good. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner.

Small-batch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting single-origin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, handcrafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com.

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

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

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

Sandwiches. Dine outside at some E-Sts. $ BW K L D Daily

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2017 Best of Jax winner.

Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Authentic Italian cuisine; wood-fired pizzas, pasta, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055.

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

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

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

Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Inside/patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE INTRACOASTAL. The CORAZON CINEMA & CAFE, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Sandwiches, combos, salads and pizza are served at the cinema house, showing indie and first-run movies. $$ Daily CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. SEE BEACHES. THE FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug.com. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 34+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq. com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE AVONDALE. SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A, 217-3256. SEE BEACHES. WOODPECKER’S BACKYARD BBQ, 4930 S.R. 13, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. Smoked fresh daily. Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, turkey: in sandwiches, plates by the pound. 8 sauces, 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

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

Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside.

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

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

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

Spanish wine, drink specials, mojitos, Cuba libres. Nonstop HH. $ FB K L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodinercom. F 2017 Best of Jax winner. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. 2017 Best of Jax winner. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN

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

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

Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717.

2017 Best of Jax winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture.

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

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

ANDY’S GRILL, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. 2017 Best of Jax finalist. Inside Jax Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce.

Breakfast, sandwiches. $ B L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999.

SEE ORANGE PARK. UPTOWN KITCHEN & BAR, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptownmarketjax.com. Bite Club certified. Fresh fare, innovative menus, farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily

PINT-SIZED

THE GREAT

ELIXIR OF

BEER The solution to pulling BETTER PINTS is clear

WATER IS THE STUFF OF LIFE. OUR bodies contain more than 60 percent of it, more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by it and beer is more than 90 percent water. That’s a lot of water floating around.

How much does water affect the flavor of beer? Quite a lot.

Water is involved in three main characteristics of beer: PH, seasoning and off-flavors. PH in water is the expression of how acid or alkaline it is. Too much of either and beer made with that water will be unpalatable. A little, though, can be a good thing. (More on this later.)

Seasoning refers to the sulfate-tochloride ratio—in other words, the salinity.

Again, a little is OK, even good, but too much is a disaster. Off-flavors are caused by contaminants like chlorine and organic particles. Ground water, like that in Northeast Florida, is generally low in organic matter, but high in dissolved minerals—both can alter the flavor of a perfectly good beer.

Back to PH: Water in different parts of the world obviously has different PH. For instance, the Czech Republic’s Pilsen region is famous for its soft water and as the birthplace of pilsners; the U.K.’s Burton-upon-Trent’s renowned pale ales and IPAs are the result of the area’s extremely hard water. There are reasons why beers are uniquely suited to the water of a geographic location.

Low PH attenuates or heightens flavor, while high PH reduces the flavor profile.

The result is dull suds. Over time, pilsen brewers have learned their area’s water makes flavors pop; they adjusted the profile so Pilsen is flavorful and crisp, but not

crushingly bitter. The brewers of Burtonupon-Trent added more hops to counteract the dulling effect of its water’s high PH. Now, seasoning. Without going too deep in science, suffice it to say that, depending on the ratio of sulfate-tochloride in the water, the sweeter or drier the beer will taste. More chloride results in a sweeter, less bitter and meltier character; more sulfate gives a drier, hoppier balance.

Brewers’ woes are contaminants in the water. Even the smallest amount of particulate matter can harbor normally innocuous amounts of bacteria that could degrade even the most carefully brewed beer. This is why many brewers are meticulous about cleaning machinery and fastidious about water they use.

To many brewers, the only way to go is to strip all minerals from the brewing water and add them back in specific quantities to develop the water profile they want for the beer being brewed. This gives them complete control and minimizes disastrous results from untreated water. It also lets them duplicate water profiles of famous brewing areas like Dublin or Munich.

So the next time you pick up a pint of a favorite quaff, stop for a moment and consider the chemistry of the water that went into its production. Then take a sip and savor the stuff of life.

Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com

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

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

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

AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY 1461 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville

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

OLD COAST ALES 300 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine

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

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

PINGLEHEAD BREWING COMPANY 12 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park

ANHEUSER-BUSCH 1100 Ellis Rd. N., Jacksonville

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

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

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

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

RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY 835 Museum Cir., Jacksonville

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

HYPERION BREWING COMPANY 1740 Main St. N., Jacksonville

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

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

INTUITION ALE WORKS 929 E. Bay St., Jacksonville

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

BOLD CITY DOWNTOWN 109 E. Bay St., Jacksonville

KARIBREW BREW PUB 27 N. Third St., Fernandina Beach

WICKED BARLEY BREWING COMPANY 4100 Baymeadows Rd., Jacksonville

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CHEFFED-UP Best COLD-WEATHER cuisine? Pasta!

THE LONG

WINTER THERE TH HER EREE AR AREE TW TWOO TH THINGS THIN INGS GS OONN MY M MIND INDD ri IN right ight ht now now.

No. 1: THE JAGS! No. 2: I can’t wait much longer for the glacial temperatures to rise.

I’m beginning to understand the previously unfathomable conditions Laura Ingalls Wilder described in The Long Winter, except I don’t have to rely on making a sauce from the last codfish in the lean-to.

Speaking of preserved cod, a little bacalao would taste quite good right now!

Cold weather makes me ravenous—I’m not talking about eating light either; no, sir! I’m talking huge, hardy, rich, sumptuous, satisfying dishes. The kind of meal a lumberjack would covet. So what’s the problem? Well, it’s too darn cold to exercise. And believe me, I don’t require much of an excuse to replace a run with a beer, so when it feels like the Alaskan tundra outside, a beer and a gargantuan meal always win.

Over the last couple weeks, I shared recipes for a Cheffed-Up chicken bog along with an insanely satisfying Tuscan ribollita. Now here’s the rub—this sort of cuisine nearly challenges Panera for excessive calories.

But I just can’t help myself! I keep pumping out the delicious, warming, comfort foods such as duck confit and tasso gumbo, Texas-style Black Angus chili, assorted Italian-American baked pastas, goulashes, coq au vin, etc. … meal after glorious meal. I mean, why not? It’ll be warm again soon and I’ll tire of these rich, herculean meals.

To prepare for the long-anticipated comfortable air temps, I’m beginning to lighten my Cheffed-Up cuisine ever so slightly—maybe throw in a green salad or two and back off the butter toast (two parts Kerrygold, one part bread). Maybe even suck it up and go for a run or do a couple/ three pushups.

To start that lighter cuisine perfectly start, I’ve dusted off my trusty ol’ pasta machine. Believe it or not, pasta can be a light meal by simply controlling portion size. I also need to standardize a ravioli and

tortellini filling recipe for a class I’m giving t this weekend.

When making your own stuffed pastas, don’t roll the dough all the way to the thinnest setting on the pasta machine. I stop two settings before that. The dough needs to be slightly thicker for handling ease. I also use a little semolina in my dough to develop sturdier product. After the dough’s rolled out, I dust the table with extra semolina so the dough won’t stick to it while I assemble the raviolis.

Lastly, do not over-stuff the ravioli; this creates a huge shoemaker-style mess.

Other than that, just go for it and have fun.

And remember my New Year’s theme: New Year—More Food.

CHEF BILL’S PROSCIUTTO, SPINACH & RICOTTA FILLING

Ingredients • 4 oz. prosciutto di Parma (not • domestic), small dice • 15 oz. whole milk ricotta cheese • 10 oz. frozen spinach, thawed • 2 tbsp. parsley, chopped • 2 tbsp. basil, chopped • 2 egg yolks • 1/4 cup grated parmesan • Pinch nutmeg • Salt and pepper to taste Directions 1. Squeeze as much water as possible 1. from the spinach.

2. Mix all the ingredients together and 1. refrigerate for 30 minutes before 1. stuffing it in your raviolis.

Until we cook again,

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A COWBOY IS USELESS WITHOUT A HORSE. ON the range, distances are too great and it’s impossible to round up thousands of cattle on an ATV. Aspen was one of those horses who could turn and drive cattle in the right direction. She was reliable and loyal as ever to her cowboy until he was no longer around. I trotted by her side to listen to her story. Come to find out we both love carrots!

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THERE’S SOMETHING RELAXING ABOUT ROAMING freely in the rain, grazing on green grass— and rolling in the mud! Even with all its uncertainties, life is still beautiful.

I was raised on a Texas cattle farm where I helped wrangle cattle. After my family passed on, I was purchased at an estate sale by a kill buyer—and I was destined for doom. For those not familiar, I’ll explain: A kill buyer is the grim term for those who buy horses with the intent to sell them to slaughterhouses.

I’m so grateful my path took a turn for the better when someone saw me on an auction site and placed a winning bid. Soon I was loaded safely in a trailer, headed to Florida.

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candy and wraps me in pink. She says I’m a bit tame, and a whole lot wild, but I’m her princess. I’ll admit, I was a little standoffish at first, and quite stubborn, but with time, our bond deepened and now I’m swooning.

From the beauty in her eyes to the love in her heart, I know she cares; she dotes on me every time she’s at my stall. She taught me to trust again and I taught her to hold on tight and enjoy the ride!

Thousands of horses are auctioned each year, including healthy companion horses, former racehorses, donkeys—even wild horses. Often, these animals are too old to ride or work, or the owners went bankrupt or died. Some simply can’t take care of them, so they’re auctioned not to caring folks, but to slaughterhouses.

If the dissipated equines aren’t bought, slaughter pipeline interests will buy them all and resell them. For many horses, it’s the end of the line. Cracking down on auctions operating this way is the first step toward ending the egregious cruelty. Every horse owner needs to plan for their loyal steed’s whole life, securing a good home for their animal if they can no longer keep him.

Every horse deserves a second chance to be saddled up and ridden off into the sunset.

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LIKE YOUR COLLEGE BOYFRIEND ZANE, DOGS BREATHE heavily when they get hot. But if your cat’s breathing heavily, it’s not because they’ve spent an hour chasing the laser-pointer (little brothers are jerks); it may be a sign of a serious health issue. PetMD warns that cats may pant for various reasons; common causes are fluid in the chest or an enlarged heart. If your cat has labored breathing, seems lethargic, hides, loses appetite, coughs and/or crouches elbows out, get them to the vet ASAP. On the way, don’t constrain their lungs and minimize stress as much as possible.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many American women didn’t have the right to vote until Aug. 18, 1920. That day, the Tennessee General Assembly became the 36th state legislature to approve the 19th Amendment, sealing the legal requirements to change the U.S. Constitution and ensure women’s suffrage. The ballot in Tennessee was close. At the last minute, 24-year-old legislator Harry T. Burns changed his mind from no to yes, thanks to a letter from his mother, who asked him to “be a good boy” and vote in favor. In the weeks ahead, you’re in a pivotal position like Burns’. Your decision could affect more folks than you know. Be a good boy or good girl.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Every relationship is unique. The way you connect with another person—whether it’s through friendship, romance, family or collaborative projects— should be free to find the distinctive identity that best suits its special chemistry. It’s wrong to compare any alliances to some supposedly perfect ideal. Luckily, you’re in an astrological period and have extra savvy about cultivating unique models of togetherness.

Devote the weeks ahead to deepening and refining your most important bonds.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Recently, your main tasks have centered around themes often associated with strain and struggle: repair, workaround, reassessment, jury-rigging, adjustment, compromise. Amazingly, you’ve kept suffering to a minimum while you’ve smartly done the hard work.

In some cases, you’ve even thrived. Congratulations for being so industrious and steadfast! Soon, you’ll glide into your cycle’s smoother stage. Be alert for inviting signs. Don’t assume you must keep grunting and grinding.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created four versions of his iconic artwork The Scream.

Each shows a person who seems terribly upset, holding his head in his hands, his mouth wide open as if unleashing a loud shriek. In 2012, one of these images of despair sold for almost $120 million. The money went to the son of a man who’d been Munch’s friend and patron. Can you think of a way you and yours might be able to extract value or get benefits from a negative emotion or a difficult experience? The weeks ahead are a good time for that.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I think I like my brain best in a bar fight with my heart,” says poet Clementine von Radics. I appreciate that perspective, but I advise you to do the opposite in the weeks ahead. This is a phase of your astrological

cycle when you should definitely support heart over brain in bar fights, wrestling matches, shadow-boxing contests, tugs of war, battles of wits and messy arguments. The most important reason? Your brain may be inclined to keep the conflict going until one party or the other suffers ignominious defeat, whereas your heart is more likely to work for a win-win finale.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When he was 24 years old, Scorpio-born Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-’98) was a novice monk with little money who’d just learned to read and write. He’d spent years as a wandering beggar. By the time he was 40, he was Emperor of China and founder of the Ming Dynasty, which ruled for 276 years. What happened between 24 and 40? It’s a long story. Zhu’s adventurousness was a key asset, as was his skill as an audacious, crafty tactician. His masterful devotion to detailed practical matters was indispensable. If you’re ever going to begin an ascent even remotely comparable to Zhu’s, it’ll be in the next 10 months. Being brave and enterprising isn’t enough—be disciplined and dogged.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1892, the influential Atlantic Monthly magazine criticized Sagittarian poet Emily Dickinson, saying she “possessed an extremely unconventional and grotesque fancy.” It dismissed her poetry as incoherent, and said an “eccentric, dreamy, halfeducated recluse” like her “cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravitation and grammar.”

The dire diss was way off. Dickinson is regarded as one of the most original American poets. In the months ahead, you’ll reinvent yourself. You’ll research new approaches to living life. In the course of these experiments, others may see you as being in the grip of unconventional or grotesque fantasy. They may think you dreamy and eccentric. Don’t allow their misunderstandings to interfere with your work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Bubble gum is more elastic and less sticky than regular chewing gum. That’s why you can blow bubbles with it. Capricorn accountant Walter Diemer invented it in 1928, working at Fleer Chewing Gum Company. When he finally perfected the recipe, the only food dye he had on hand was pink. His early batches were all that color, and a tradition was born. That’s why even today, most bubble gum is pink. A similar theme may unfold soon for you. Conditions present at the start of a new project may deeply imprint its evolution. So make sure they’re conditions you like!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “When one door closes, another opens,” said inventor Alexander Graham Bell. “But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened.” Heed this adage. Take the time you need to mourn a lost opportunity, but don’t take MORE than what you need. The replacement or alternative to what’s gone shows up sooner than imagined.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gilbert Stuart painted the most famous portrait of America’s first president, George Washington. It’s the image on the U.S. one-dollar bill. Yet Stuart never finished the masterpiece. Begun in 1796, it was still a work-in-progress when Stuart died in 1828. Leonardo da Vinci had a similar success path. His incomplete painting The Virgin and Child with St. Anne hangs in the Louvre in Paris, and his unfinished The Adoration of the Magi has been in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery since 1671. Let Stuart and da Vinci be your role models in the next few weeks. Maybe it’s OK if a project of yours is unfinished; maybe that’s actually how it should be.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD ROSEMARY’S BABY HITS THE COURTS Tennis instructor Osmailer Torres, 30, of Miami, was arrested in July 2016 after hitting a 5-year-old with the child’s pint-sized tennis racket, bruising the boy’s arm and raising a lump on his eyebrow, reports the Miami Herald. Torres says he has a grand-slam defense: Florida’s Stand Your Ground selfdefense law. Defense lawyer Eduardo Pereira told the Herald the child was the “initial aggressor” who’d participated in “various violent altercations” against other kids, and Torres had acted “reasonably in trying to prevent harm” to others. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Oscar Rodriguez-Fonts will consider the claim in an upcoming hearing.

WILLOW SMITH DIGS IT Mazen Dayem, 36, of Staten Island, New York, got a restraining order against his father-in-law, Yunes Doleh, 62, in September after Doleh repeatedly tormented him by waving his hairpiece, provoking Dayem’s greatest phobia—the Tasmanian Devil of Looney Tunes fame. Not easily deterred, Doleh was arrested Nov. 5 for violating the order after he “removed his wig [and] made hand gestures” at a funeral the two attended, Dayem explained to the New York Post.

“It’s just a very large fear of mine, his damn wig. ... I have nightmares.” Court papers say Doleh “proceeded to grimace, snarl, gurn and gesticulate.” He was charged with criminal mischief in Staten Island County court. He then sued his son-in-law for defamation when arrest photos posted on social media.

MIGHT’VE TAKEN THE SWAP AT FIVE Colorado’s Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell listed his SUV for sale on Craigslist in November. He was a tad perplexed when he got a response from Shawn Langley, 39, of Vail, offering to trade the SUV for four pounds of marijuana. Langley even posted photos of his black market booty and boasted about its quality, reported The Colorado Springs Gazette. “I saw that text, and I started giggling,” Mikesell said. Detectives set up a meeting and arrested both Langley and Jane

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Cravens, 41, after finding the promised four pounds of marijuana in their car. Sheriff Mikesell has taken his SUV off Craigslist.

SHOULDA HID IN THE CLOSET On Nov. 27, 27-year-old Corey Hughes, due for release from prison in February after serving most of a weapons charge, walked away from a San Joaquin County sheriff ’s work crew in Stockton, California, according to the Fresno Bee. It took cops almost a month to track him to a home in Stockton. They surrounded the place and apprehended him without incident—no big deal, right? Except Corey has a distinctive, whole-face tattoo which makes his face look like a human skull.

He was booked into San Joaquin County Jail.

LEAVE DRUNK CHICKS ALONE Malcolm Whitfield of Rochester, New York, was only trying to help when he ordered a Lyft car to take a drunk woman home from a bar in November. When the woman vomited in the car, Whitfield was hit with a $150 fine to cover the damage. “For a second, I was like, ‘Never do anything nice again!’” Whitfield told 13WHAM. Lyft’s terms and conditions include damage fees, which most people don’t see in the fine print. Update: Lyft later refunded Whitfield’s fine and added $100 to his Lyft account for future rides. “Mr. Whitfield absolutely did the right thing by helping someone get home safely,” said Scott Coriell, a Lyft spokesperson.

ICKY PAYBACK A mom in Hillsboro, Oregon, came up with an ideal retaliation for a porch pirate who nabbed her baby son’s Christmas pajamas package from the front porch. Angie Boliek told KATU she wanted to get “passive-aggressive revenge,” so she taped up a box loaded with 10 to 15 dirty diapers with a note reading “Enjoy this you thief!” Boliek left the box on her porch on Dec. 3, and by the evening of Dec. 4, it was gone.

Boliek alerted Hillsboro police, but there are no leads in the investigation. “It was fun to come home and see that it was gone,” Boliek said.

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Two: Describe the person, like, “You: Trolling from The BookMark to Pete’s and over to Rags, looking for the ideal spot to cast your line.”

Three: Describe yourself, like, “Me: Chillin’ on First, parked my Vdub at the bank, oblivious to your bait, but willing, apparently, to bite it, hook, line and sinker.”

Four: Describe the moment, like, “You deftly cast out into the waters of Town Center and I eagerly leapt, only to end up one of many in your creel.”

Five: Meet, fall in love, get a new net and gaff. No names, emails, websites, etc.

And HEY, it’s 40 words or fewer. Get a love life with Folio Weekly ISUs! MISSED YOUR LAST MESSAGES Waxed non-poetic on Sponge Bob, versions of ‘What a Fool Believes’. Easy, sweet conversation; missed messages before you ditched app (saw notifications; didn’t open). Silly to think you left number for me; feel you did. When: Dec. 28.

Where: Tinder in the Duval. #1688-0117 PHOTOBOMB LIONS FOUNTAIN SAN MARCO The photographer turned into my path; I was a jerk, raised my hands. I got closer, you turned and faced me. I sat, put my arm around you; she took our picture. Lunch? Dinner? Drinks? When: Jan. 2.

Where: San Marco Square. #1687-0110 HOGWARTS EXPRESS You: Stunning smile, blonde highlights, left hand tattoo. Me: Long hair, glasses, buying brother Hedwig mug. Talked about your Universal experience. I’d be honored to wait in butter beer line with you. When: Dec. 24. Where: Ponte Vedra (Jax Beach) Books-A-Million. #1686-0103 HANDSOME ELEVATOR DUDE Rode in elevator with you, leaving. I remember your blue eyes.

We were with friends. I liked you. Let’s have a drink together. Me: tall(er)?, long hair, floral dress, combat boots. Think you wore a suit. When: Dec. 15. Where: River & Post. #1685-1227 BEAUTIFUL DRESS, STOCKINGS You: In cute dress, with bow pattern, black cute-patterned stockings. I sat two tables from you and noticed you walk by me to sit down. We briefly noticed each other as I walked out. When: Dec. 7. Where: JTB Chicken Salad Chick. #1683-1213 AIRPORT CUTIE You: Dark hair, slim, black shirt, gray pants, Nixon backpack. Me: Curvy, curly short hair, leggings, leather backpack. Went to Cali same day; back same day. Wanted convo; didn’t see you.

Captivating aura. Who/where are you? Don’t go!

When: Nov. 15. Where: Jax Intl. Airport. #1682-1206 IN PURGATORY WITHOUT YOU You: Working D&B’s counter; took time to find me a cool card. Me: Wearing Purgatory Co. shirt; agreed Purgatory’s a strange name for beautiful place.

I’d love to get lost in your eyes once more. When: Nov. 19. Where: Dave & Buster’s. #1681-1222 HAGAR CONCERT ENCOUNTER We met at Sammy Hagar, talked; you and bro came over. Looked for you again, didn’t find. Tried to find at Jags game; couldn’t. Meet sometime? I’d like that. My name

starts with M; yours with T. When: Nov. 11. Where: St. Augustine Amphitheatre. #1680-1122 I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW Me: Playing guitar, singing at Super Food. You: Entered alone, said you’d stay for one song, asked for my card, last name. I played “I Think We’re Alone Now.” I’m on Facebook. Should’ve asked your number. When: Nov. 1. Where: Super Food & Brew, Downtown. #1679-1108 MAN IN UNIFORM AT TARGET You: In Navy uniform, buying bleach at self-checkout. Me: Laughing at orange makeup with elderly mom.

ISU in parking lot, new black Ram. Severely regret not saying hello. This is worth trying.

When: Oct. 31. Where: Target, Beach & Hodges. #1678-1108 SEEKING MY “WOOD” ISU bum a smoke after Florida-Georgia. Noticed your sad eyes, New Balances, tube socks. We talked. You: Frat boy, pleated shorts; name ends in “wood.” Me: blonde, dirty martini, looking for love in all the wrong places. When: Oct. 29. Where: Mellow Mushroom Avondale. #1677-1108 NURSE ME TO HEALTH You: Misplaced duck living in the inky waters of gator land. Me: Furry, educated, feral. Told me how you left your true love back home. I’d let you hold the leash if we go on walks. When: Oct. 10. Where: Aardwolf Brewery. #1676-1108 HEY WHOOPING COUGH You: Ryan Gosling has nothing on you, esp when it comes to good advice. You said try Robitussin–I’d rather try you.

Me: Getting over a cold, hope I didn’t ruin your movie. Meet for “coughee” sometime? When: Oct. 6. Where: “Blade Runner,” Sun-Ray. #1675-1011 I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU You: Walk your dog near my bush most nights. Thick guy, short legs I’d love to gnaw. Me: Watching you for months.

Tried popping out to say hi last week, but I scared you. Happens sometimes. When: Oct. 3. Where: Ortega. #1673-1011 THINGS I’D LIKE TO DO With you. Take you into the woods. No sleeping bag, no tent. Want to lie under the stars and watch a meteor shower while we talk about nothing and everything.

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M.D. M.J.

An evening with ANONYMOUS

STRONG, BUT

SMOOTH “CAN I HIT THAT?” ASKED THE WOMAN IN the Guy Fawkes mask, as she pointed to the vape pen in my hand. “Of course you can,” I replied. “It’s yours.” One hit was plenty; a second, superfluous, and there was still work to be done that day. It was a crisp but chilly Saturday afternoon when I met an old friend to watch her group’s protest action, and when she mentioned having her medical marijuana card, it seemed a nice opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, if you will.

That’s actually a terrible metaphor in this case, as she was protesting on behalf of Anonymous for the Voiceless, an adjunct of the legendary activist crew tasked with applying their own unique brand of inyour-face activism to a cause that held special meaning for her: animal rights. She went vegan only on Dec. 14, but has since advocated with real vegangelical verve, which eventually brought her into league with AV, whose style and methods can be intense, to say the least.

She produced a massive syringe loaded with 12mL of pure (legally) imported THC oil, from which she squeezed out .5mL into the glass chamber of her vape pen. The CBD oils for sale in Florida have very low THC content, but this was quite strong.

Scoliosis started her along a path that led to four herniated disks and eventually arthritis, all before the age of 30, and it didn’t help that she made her living on her feet, waiting tables at restaurants around the state.

We were first to arrive at Mellow Mushroom in Avondale; she set up her camera and

OVERSET scoped the scene as the others trickled in, eventually numbering 10 of the cadre. Four of them stood at attention, back-to-back in a cube formation, each holding laptops playing some of the most visceral vivisection and animal abuse videos available.

A couple hundred people saw them in the course of two hours. The vast majority just walked by; a few heckled them, but dozens stopped to look more closely, and some inquired further. The best results were with kids: One preteen in a Ronald Reagan T-shirt lingered in silence for nearly 20 minutes while his friends narrated the action. An African-American father brought four kids under 10 with him to dialogue intensely with the organizers. As they left, one kid summed it all up with pithy precision: “So that’s what happens to animals. I don’t [want] to eat them anymore.”

Temperatures had dipped into the mid40s by dark, but activist fires still burned, and they refused to leave. The fact that 10 people were willing to catch cold for the possibility of converting just one to their cause was deeply impressive, I thought as I watched football at Monty’s, to which I’d retreated from the cold halfway through.

“The main reason I smoke now is to deal with the nightmares I get from slaughterhouse recordings,” she said over plates of vegan pizzas at the place where they’d just protested. It was better than I’d expected.

Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com

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