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#MathewsMayhem

The ‘red bridge’ has drivers seeing red

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irst, let’s all be clear about how to spell the most irritating bridge in Northeast Florida.

It’s one t, not two, in Mathews.

But, heck, even the Florida Department of Transportation got it wrong on its detour signs.

It might be the most misspelled Jacksonville landmark, right up there with Philips (that’s one l, not two) Highway.

The bridge that we’ve all been cursing under our collective breath — and now at the top of our lungs — is named after John E. Mathews Sr., a constitutional lawyer, Florida state legislator and chief justice of the 1955 Florida Supreme Court. That’s Mathews with one t, so blame him if you keep getting it wrong.

Just last April, several Arlington organizations celebrated the bridge’s 60th anniversary with a rededication, a classic car motorcade and a party at Norman Studios.

When construction began on May 17, 1950, some criticized the Mathews as an $11 million “bridge to nowhere.” It opened on April 15, 1953, when Arlington was still quite rural.

Since that time, many neighborhoods have flourished and some have foundered in the area. Today, you’ll hear people whisper “Arlington” in the same tone some use for “cancer,” like it’s a disease they’re scared of catching. It’s become shorthand for troubled neighborhood. Like most enormous geographic areas, Arlington has problems — poverty, troubled schools, crime — mixed with prosperity. But that’s another column.

Those of us who live in Arlington have been dealing with Mathews rage for years.

In April 2007, the DOT finally decided to replace the scary, slippery grating — that caused many nail-digging trips over the Mathews — with concrete, at a cost of about $13 million. At first, they were going to close the bridge in one direction every day. Public pressure caused a change of heart and a change of traffic flow each day during morning and evening rush hours for a few months.

In September 2011, FDOT started a $23 million project to repaint and make structural repairs on the Mathews. The bridge has been closed most evenings and weekends since then, causing many exasperated drivers to realize they had just missed the 7 p.m. cutoff each evening.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve driven by orange barrels blocking the ramp from University Boulevard to the Mathews and seen no work being done — no work vehicles, only a lone police car, lights flashing. But perhaps that work is imperceptible to the naked eye.

In the city of seven bridges, many people can’t even identify them by name, only by color: blue for Main Street, green for Hart and red for Mathews (maroon really, changed from

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silver in 1984, apparently to herald the arrival of the United States Football League team, the Jacksonville Bulls).

About 56,000 drivers a day cross the Mathews — when it’s open — an integral artery connecting neighborhoods from Arlington to Atlantic Beach across the river to Downtown and the Westside. The detour stresses an already-overflowing University and Atlantic intersection, which can’t handle normal rush hour traffic. And one measly lane from Atlantic Boulevard onto the Hart Bridge doesn’t cut it. The circuitous Interstate 295 route north over the Dames Point to Interstate 95 remains blissfully light but is double the distance.

Now the Mathews is closed indefinitely because a cargo ship hit it Sept. 26, causing major damage to a beam at the high point of the bridge. Repairs could take several weeks.

The crews of three tugboats and the federal maritime pilot onboard the USNS 1st Lt. Harry L. Martin, a 754-foot-long container and roll-on/roll-off cargo ship, face a U.S. Coast Guard investigation.

Were drugs or alcohol involved? Was it some sort of mechanical problem? Unusually high water? One thing that seems fairly evident, at least for two men shooting a cellphone video from the riverbank: A boat with its ramp up doesn’t fit under the Mathews.

When we finally learn who they are, the faces of those responsible for this collision will be seared into the memories of every driver stuck in traffic for the foreseeable future. One possible punishment: Make them get out there and direct traffic every day until this is over.

Until then, detoured drivers will have to find ways to pass the time. Like coming up with Mathews Bridge jokes.

What’s easier to fix — the Jaguars or the Mathews Bridge?

It depends. Is Blaine Gabbert chief engineer?

Why did the cargo ship hit the Mathews Bridge?

The pilot thought the mayor took it to “the next level.”

Why is the Mathews Bridge called the “bridge to nowhere”?

It goes directly to EverBank Field.

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City Cars and Pension Ideas

There were two items in the Sept. 18 Folio Weekly that could prove important to taxpayers.

Wes Denham’s Crime City column [“Crazy Cop Cars”] is intended to be facetious; however, it brings up an opportunity to state how we can save the city money. Of course, all of the alternative transportation used by the police department serves a purpose, but 90 percent of uniformed officers do not need Impalas that get 18 miles to the gallon, and neither does the city’s motor pool.

If the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office, the Transportation Services Department, the city government, JTA, JaxPort, JAA and finally JEA all cooperate, the city and the authorities could save a lot of money. According to a chart on Wikipedia, regular gasoline has about 114,000 BTUs per gallon. By simple division, a million BTUs of compressed natural gas (CNG) is the equivalent of 8.77 gallons. A gallon of gasoline is about $3.50, based on observing prices around town; the commodities list in The Florida Times-Union reported the price of a million BTUs of natural gas was $3.69, or about $0.41 for the same energy as contained in a gallon of gasoline.

While this is the wholesale rate, JEA should be paying this.

JEA has five power plants that use natural gas and are tied to gas lines. If the JEA would front the $30 million (based on Business Insider, the cost is $1 million per station; however, these would be fleet-sized stations requiring far more fueling units) to build the five fueling stations, the other three authorities and the city could pay back JEA at $1.5 million each per year for four years.

The Sheriff ’s Office and the city fleet come into the mix, because the 90 percent portion of the police fleet replaced and all the city sedans replaced would be about 1,640 vehicles. In 2009-’10, the last year fuel use was itemized, the city used about 7 million gallons of motor fuel; probably about 70 percent of this fuel was used by these vehicles. The only CNG sedan currently on the market is the Honda Civic.

The equivalent miles per gallon is 28 in the city, and the current police cars on the market are the Chevrolet Caprice at 15 mpg city; the Chevrolet Impala and the Ford Taurus get about 18 mpg each.

Instead of 4.9 million gallons of fuel going to these vehicles, there would be 3.151 million gallons equivalent. This is an instant savings of $5.684 million, but the savings can continue.

At JEA’s wholesale price for natural gas, the cost would be around $1.292 million. The fuel savings would about $14.633 million for the motor pool and police vehicles. The Honda dealerships are always offering 60 months same as cash; if the city negotiated this deal with Honda USA, the savings could start right away

and would include $1.312 million per year in amortized savings. The total savings of $15.945 million would be offset by a purchase price and special equipment price of up to $10.496 million. The savings this year, even after unbudgeted payments for the fleet, would be $4.999 million.

The above does not include savings in converting trucks belonging to the city and other authorities to natural gas.

The article that really is a surprise is that the Civic Council recommends borrowing $1 billion in bonds. This does not resolve the issue. The new figures for the unfunded liabilities are estimated at $1.7 billion. Even that may be low; during the Sheriff ’s workshop on the pension, it was discussed that the Police and Fire Pension is unfunded by $1.2 billion and the other pensions may have a combined liability of $1.3 billion. This is money that grows by a 7.75 percent guarantee each year. If we assume the city’s number du jour is correct, then $1.7 billion in unfunded liability is costing the city an additional $131.75 million in additional liability the first year.

If we issued $1.7 billion in bonds at 5 percent, the cost would be $124.780 million per year in principal and interest (this is very conservative, as 30-year treasuries will actually still pay at about 3.6 to 3.7 percent into the sinking fund). The cost of paying into the fund each year in 30 equal payments while paying off the principal is equal to $146.148 million.

The difference of $21.368 million per year is a substantial savings. The savings between pay-go and bonds is even greater if we determine the liability is $2.5 billion. The rate may now be below 5 percent, as QE3 was extended and treasuries have dropped by 0.3 to 0.4 percent.

Other concessions should be made, such as reversing the city and employee contribution rates to the funds, deferring pensions to age 62 for those employees who are not disabled and moving new hires to a 503(b) plan to move away from pensions (and future problems).

These three changes should take effect on Oct. 1, 2014. With these changes, the first year savings would be $34.583 million. The savings in years 10 through 25 could be $110.426 million each year.

These changes to the Civic Council recommendations would save $55.951 million the first year and as much as $131.794 million in years 10 through 25. The city should do a full audit to determine the total liability and pay it off, using bonds that cost at least $21.368 million less than paying off the city’s unfunded pension liabilities without financing them. If the bonds had been issued earlier this year at 3.5 percent before bond rates increased, the city would be saving $46.868 million per year right now.

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Lawanda Ravoira

When Kids Commit Crimes

Two TEDx Jacksonville speakers tackle juvenile justice topics

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t’s a problem: What is the best course to follow when teenage boys and girls break the law?

Two of the speakers scheduled to make presentations at the Oct. 26 TEDx Jacksonville Connecting Currents believe the present course of locking up wayward juveniles and throwing away the key is all wrong.

Hank Coxe III and Lawanda Ravoira, both experienced in dealing with Florida’s juveniles, will express their views along with nine other speakers covering a wide variety of topics ranging from hunger to government to the interplay of simple human interactions during the second year of TEDx Jacksonville.

TEDx is a local, self-organized event that brings people together, based on the popular TED talks. TED is an acronym for technology, entertainment and design and the x means it is a local event, licensed by TED. The license is free, but organizers have to follow strict TED guidelines.

The number of tickets is limited, and the WJCT sound stage seats only 320 people.

TEDx officials are accepting applications “to build a dynamic and diverse audience with broad interests, expertise and perspectives.”

Event organizers promise a thorough review of each application and will extend invitations to purchase tickets based on the merits of the applications and the special talents audience members can bring to the event. Tickets are $100, which includes meals and snacks.

Coxe was one of a group of local defense attorneys who worked out the deal with prosecutors preventing Cristian Fernandez from spending much of his life in prison.

Coxe will speak on the way youth are imprisoned in Florida. Coxe said he believes it is “fundamentally contrary to a truly civilized society” to imprison so many young offenders.

Lawanda Ravoira, president and CEO of the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center, said North Florida sends too many young girls to youth detention facilities and suggested changes are needed to the system.

Fernandez was 12 when he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 2-year-old half-brother, David Galarriago, who died of head injuries in March 2010 after prosecutors said Fernandez slammed his head into a bookshelf.

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representatives after he had been unable to negotiate a plea deal.

“We started out to salvage a normal life for Cristian Fernandez, and we accomplished what we set out to do,” Coxe said at the time of the boy’s guilty plea to lesser charges.

“It was an injustice to charge him with firstdegree murder as an adult and that injustice is over with.”

Fernandez pleaded guilty in February to charges of manslaughter and aggravated battery and he will remain in the Duval County Detention Center until his 19th birthday in 2018.

When asked about the state’s decision to charge the youth with first-degree murder, Coxe said it was “unconscionable.” If Fernandez had been convicted at trial, he would have faced life in prison without the possibility of parole. Coxe said it’s time for the government and society to start understanding that adolescent brains are not developed enough to understand the consequences of their actions.

Coxe began seriously thinking about the issue of juvenile justice when helping appellate attorney Bryan Gowdy and some other local attorneys with Terrance Jamar Graham v.

Florida, a case based in Jacksonville. The U.S. Supreme Court held in 2010 that juvenile offenders cannot be sentenced to life in prison.

Graham was 16 when he committed armed burglary. Under a plea agreement, the trial court sentenced him to probation and withheld adjudication of guilt. Later, the court ruled that Graham had violated the terms of his probation, adjudicated him guilty of the earlier charges, revoked his probation, and sentenced him to life in prison for the burglary. Because Florida had abolished its parole system, the life sentence left Graham with no possibility of release.

While that case was pending, Fernandez was charged with first-degree murder.

“We felt it was wrong and offered our assistance to the public defender, and I recruited some additional lawyers,” Coxe said.

Other attorneys included Buddy Schultz and Adam Blank of Holland & Knight, Melissa Nelson and Nancy Johnson of McGuire Woods, Gray Thomas of the Offices of Gray Thomas, and Bryan Gowdy of Creed & Gowdy.

It’s time the government got rid of “the draconian approach of holding them to adult standards despite their brain development.” It’s not an issue of right or wrong, he said.

“It’s a brain issue — the inability to

understand consequences of what you are doing,” said Coxe, former president of the Florida Bar and a member of The Florida Innocence Commission and the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission.

Ravoira’s mission at the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center is “to be a voice for girls and young women” and prevent them from entering the juvenile justice and foster care centers.

The center and Ravoira were deeply involved in working with Fernandez’s mother, Biannela Susana. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with credit for two years served, and then was placed on probation after her guilty plea on charges of aggravated manslaughter. She is beginning work as an administrative assistant at the center in November and starts college next spring at Florida State College at Jacksonville.

“The system failed her and her children,” said Ravoira, who met with Susana weekly while she was awaiting sentencing.

The number of girls entering the juvenile justice system is increasing, now representing 30 percent of the juveniles arrested in both Jacksonville and the state.

“A girl’s pathway into the juvenile justice system is distinctly different,” Ravoira said. “For most girls, there is a very low public safety risk and a very high need.”

“As many as 70 to 92 percent of the girls have a history of sexual exploitation, trauma, sexual abuse, and this trauma is driving their behavior,” she said.

In many cases, the only law they violated was running away from home to get away from an abusive situation.

“Our First Coast locks up more girls than any other counties in Florida,” she said, referring to Duval, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.

“We have to look at the punitive approach in our community,” she said. “We need to provide interventions to what is appropriate, what is driving their behavior.”

According to statistics provided by the Policy Center, 4,150 youths from the First Coast were arrested in fiscal year 2011-’12.

Seventy percent were boys, and 30 percent were girls.

Girls are more likely to attempt suicide and to have witnessed or been victims of violence, physical abuse and sexual abuse than are boys, she said.

Many of the girls do not need to be locked up, but instead need mental health services.

“There is a lack of services and judges get frustrated when they see a girl in need. There is a myth if they send them to residential lockup treatment facility, they will be treated,” she said.

“This is not what happens in these facilities.”

Ravoira is a national expert, author, researcher and trainer on issues specific to justice-involved girls. She is leading the Justice for Girls Campaign, a reform effort in Florida for girls and young women in the juvenile justice system.

Ravoira spent 13 years as president and CEO of PACE Center for Girls Inc., a statewide not-for-profit organization that provides gender-responsive, comprehensive educational, therapeutic and transitional support services to 4,500 at-risk girls per year.

“The goal of the center,” she said, “is putting girls on the way to success.”

Ron Word rword@folioweekly.com

Jacksonville 9:15 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 26 WJCT, 100 Festival Park Ave., Downtown Tickets: $100 tedxjacksonville.com Barbara Colaciello, actor, playwright, storyteller, will share ideas on programming for children with learning disabilities.

Hank Coxe, attorney, will talk about problems with the juvenile justice system.

Bruce Ganger, executive director of Second Harvest North Florida, will discuss problems caused by lack of access to healthful and nutritious food.

Robert Inglis, executive director of Energy & Enterprise Initiative, will discuss putting free enterprise to work on climate change.

Aman Mojadidi, an American Southerner born to Afghan parents and a TEDGlobal Fellow, will examine racism, segregation and civil rights.

Chevara Orrin, a black, Jewish mother, daughter, sister, aunt, wife, activist and survivor, will share her beliefs about the power of human interaction.

Lawanda Ravoira, national expert on girls and women, will discuss challenges of putting too many girls in detention centers.

Matt Rutherford, the first person to complete a non-stop, single-handed, voyage around North and South America, will look into problems facing our oceans.

Patricia Siemen, a Dominican sister from Adrian, Mich., will discuss long-term ecological help.

Nancy Soderberg, former UN ambassador, White House adviser and University of North Florida professor, will discuss driving change at local, state and national level.

Ben Warner, president and CEO of Jacksonville Community Council Inc., will discuss civic engagement.

Food provided by Biscottis, Black Sheep Restaurant and Ashley Street Catering.

Entertainment includes The 5 & Dime Theatre Company, Robert White, Charlotte Mabrey, Sam Pacetti and the Jacksonville University Honors String Quartet.

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NewsBuzz City Council Approves Budget The Jacksonville City Council has finally approved a $1 billion budget that restored police, fire and library services cut by Mayor Alvin Brown in his budget proposal, but it also raises taxes. In a marathon session, the Council, by a 16-2 vote, imposed a higher millage rate, which will cost the owner of a $150,000 home, with a $50,000 homestead exemption, an extra $140 a year. The mayor did not veto any items in the budget.

Bullying Hotline Launched Duval County Public Schools has relaunched its anonymous tip hotline for students to report cases of bullying. Students can call 390-CALL (2255) to discuss a case or email or text to 390call@duvalschools.org. The district added the text feature because many students are more comfortable communicating that way. The district has a full-time counselor answering calls 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Monday-Friday. After-hours messages will be answered within 24 hours, said district spokesperson Marsha Oliver.

St. Augustine Considers Carriage Drinking Bowing to requests from both the horse carriage industry and tourists, the St. Augustine City Commission is considering an ordinance that will allow passengers riding in carriages to drink alcohol, the St. Augustine Record reported. Wedding couples and others will be allowed to clink glasses if the driver holds a commercial driver’s license and a passenger approval. After a public hearing and a commission vote, drinking on carriages could be allowed as soon as Oct 24. The proposed ordinance acknowledges “that the horse drawn carriage industry serves an important function relating to promoting the city’s heritage and tourism activities,” and the city is a popular wedding destination.

economic opportunity,” said Brian Taylor, JaxPort’s CEO, in a news release.

Ton of Cocaine Seized Sailors aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel unloaded a ton of cocaine on Sept. 20 at Mayport Naval Station. The cocaine, wrapped in burlap packages, with a street value of $78 million, was seized from a Costa Rican fishing vessel by a Coast Guard law enforcement team aboard a Navy ship, the USS Rentz. It was transferred to the Coast Guard cutter Forward on Aug. 16, then delivered to Mayport.

Two fishermen are in custody in Costa Rica. The Drug Enforcement Agency took possession of the drugs, under heavy Navy guard.

Officers Disciplined in Perrywinkle Case The head of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office homicide unit said he plans to appeal his three-day suspension and transfer following an internal investigation into the abduction and murder of 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.

Lt. Rob Schoonover, a 32-year police veteran, said the penalty was too harsh. Five other officers were disciplined for the delay in notifying the media when the little girl was kidnapped; she was later found murdered.

Nassau Kicks Deficit Down the Road The Nassau County Commission is taking the Scarlett O’Hara view on its budget: It will worry about it next year.

With the next fiscal year approaching, the commission determined it was still $12 million short of the proposed $154 million fiscal year budget. The gap keeps getting wider between revenue and expenses. So, the board decided to take money from its savings to help pay the bills and deal with the budget problems next year, according to the News Leader.

Cabinet Approves $27.5 Million for JaxPort

Kelly Mathis on Trial in Allied Gambling Case

As part of a $150 million package of improvements approved by the Florida Cabinet for Florida ports, JaxPort is receiving $27.5 million in funding. About half of the amount, $14.8 million, will be used for Blount Island improvements, including the development and redevelopment of terminal facilities, wharf rehabilitation and paving, tenant building and rail improvements, drainage upgrades and repairs. “This investment clearly sends the message once again: Florida’s leaders understand the value of building port infrastructure today, and the returns that will come in the forms of jobs and

For the next six to eight weeks, prosecutors and defense attorneys will be laying out their cases in the trial of Jacksonville attorney Kelly Mathis. Mathis is accused of being the mastermind behind the Allied Veterans of the World gambling ring. Prosecutors have argued that Mathis “gamed” the system, while Mathis says he was only representing his clients as their attorney. Still awaiting trial are Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police President Nelson Cuba and Vice President Robbie Freitas, who have waived their right to a speedy trial and are expected to face trial some time next year.

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Should I Upgrade to iOS 7?

Breast Cancer: Are You Aware?

Q: I have an iPhone 4. I like the new iPhones, but I am not in the market for a new phone any time soon. I just bought my iPhone about 3 months ago. However, I really like iOS 7. Can I upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS 7, should I upgrade it to iOS 7, and, of course, how do I upgrade it to iOS 7?

A: Every time Apple releases the latest version of Ios, everyone rushes to download it. In fact, so many people were trying to download it on Sept. 18 that when my wife tried to download it, it told her it would take 51 hours! However, as Mom used to say, just because everyone else is doing something doesn’t mean you should. The reviews have been saying that iOS 7 does not run well on the iPhone 4. Check out our blog at folioweekly.com/deemable for all the whys and why nots. Then, we’ll show you how to upgrade to iOS7 if you still want to.

Do you know eight women (seven, if you’re a woman yourself)? One of them will get breast cancer in her lifetime (ladies, that one could be you). If that news weren’t scary enough, the American Cancer Society estimates 39,620 women in the U.S. will die of the disease this year. Not trying to be the grim reaper or anything, but having lost my mother to breast cancer when she was only 41 makes me an unwitting advocate. All of which leads me to remind everyone that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

There is some good news, though. You can help prevent the disease and possibly find a cure – and you don’t need to be a scientist, physician or researcher to do it. By participating in local fundraising events like Boobsapalooza, Pink Ribbon Golf Classic, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, Passion 4 Pink Party and Breast Cancer Poker Run, you can help raise money to educate Americans about the disease and contribute to lifesaving research. So have a cocktail, play golf, support local music or just wear pink: The boobies you save might be your own. For a comprehensive list of local Breast Cancer Awareness Month events and other suggestions for participating, check out my blog at folioweekly.com/specktator.

ASK DEEMABLE TECH A QUESTION Ray Hollister and Tom Braun answer technology questions on their blog at folioweekly.com/deemable, on their podcast at deemable.com and on WJCT 89.9 FM Thursdays during “Morning Edition.” Have a question for Deemable Tech? Call 1-888-972-9868 or email them at questions@deemable.com.

READ THE SPECKTATOR BLOG Kerry Speckman shares her unique perspective and observations on people, places and events around the First Coast and beyond. She’s the 2012 winner of Jacksonville Dancing with the Stars, so she’s got that going for her.

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Bouquets & Brickbats Bouquets to moustache man Devon Holcombe of Jacksonville, who recently won first place in the Just for Men National Beard and Moustache National Championship in New Orleans. His 24 inches of facial hair, fashioned into a handlebar moustache, could put the city’s most famous moustache, that of Jaguars owner Shad Khan, to shame.

Brickbats to Gov. Rick Scott for bringing more uncertainty into the state education system by playing politics with the upcoming Common Core educational standards scheduled to go into effect next fall. He pulled out of a consortium of state officials working to write standard tests for the curriculum. In a letter to State Board of Education Chairman Gary Chartrand, Scott said he wanted the state to develop a test that “meets the needs of Florida students, parents, teachers, not the needs of the federal government or other states.” He has asked the State Board of Education, which adopted Common Core in 2010, to revisit the standards in a series of public meetings on how they might be strengthened. He noted in the letter to Chartrand that the issue had become politicized by fears of involvement by the federal government.

Bouquets to Clay County Sheriff’s Office Detective Gary Lavaron, who received the state’s Medal of Heroism from Gov. Rick Scott in a ceremony at the state capitol. Lavaron shot and killed a suspect on Feb. 16, 2012, after two other officers conducting a meth lab investigation were shot and severely wounded. He provided medical assistance to Detective Matt Hanlin; the other officer, Detective David White, died from his wounds.

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Crime City Arresting Millionaires

Owners could be held legally accountable for deplorable low-income housing conditions

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he way to stop people from shooting and killing each other in the Section 8 hellholes that infect Jacksonville like hot carbuncles dripping pus and blood is to arrest millionaires.

First, some background. Section 8 is part of the Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and establishes a subsidy that pays most of the rent for low-income tenants in private apartments.

The money is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and administered through a local housing authority. Ours is called something like the Jacksonville Department of Happy Neighborhoods, Contented Families and Cheerful Children. I’ll call it Jax HUD because that’s what the cops call it.

Most of the people on the leases are lowincome women. Most of the actual residents are stone criminals. A Zone 1 cop told me he’s been busting bad guys down in the ’jects on Jesse Street for years and he has never arrested anyone who actually belonged there.

I, as a director of a condominium located on the dividing line between civilization and free fire, have a long and unhappy experience with Section 8 tenants. One was a whore pimped by her mother; another a coke dealer zonked on his own merch. The third was an industrious salesman of Chinese machine guns and armorpiercing ammo. Their charm, hygiene and manners I leave to your imagination.

How do Section 8 apartments become hoodlum hotels? Sometimes the chicks move in their thug lovers. Sometimes badboys muscle in and inform the women that henceforth the ladies will supply sex and food along with the crib or catch a bullet right here, right now. If the girls get tookey, they get beaten, usually with the business end of a Glock, then tossed out on their keisters.

Housing subsidies and food stamps are the mother’s milk of crime because they make criminal enterprise profitable. Here’s an example. If you’ve got an expensive heroin monkey on your back, you’ve got to turn tricks or burgle houses day and night to stay high. But as long as Uncle Sug pays for the crib, the chow and the juice, every dollar you fornicate or steal buys dope and fun. That’s ’hood-onomics 101.

Now back to the millionaires. They own the buildings; they get the money — hot-wired into their accounts monthly by Amalgamated Governments of the United States. I remember one plutocrat in particular. She was beautiful, had an IQ 20 points above mine, and so tough A CRIME GLOSSARY ’jects: Housing projects Merch: Merchandise Free fire: Zone where bullets fly Tookey: Argumentative Keister: Fanny Uncle Sug(ar): U.S. government Rip: Punishment Zone 1: Police patrol zone encompassing Springfield and Panama Park Juice: Electricity, political influence 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 2-8, 2013

she could chew a nail out of a two-by-four with her flawless incisors.

Known colloquially as “HUD farmers,” these millionaires should get busted not because they’re rich, but because they’re slumlords, who turn a blind eye to crime and let the taxpayers pick up the bodies and clean up the messes.

Under Florida Statute 823.10, the Drug House Law, to willfully maintain a dwelling used for sale or consumption of illegal drugs is a third-degree felony that earns up to five years downstate on the rock. The law applies also to aiders and abettors, which means you can bust local HUD officials who hear no evil and see no evil where Section 8 is concerned.

A Drug House bust can work because there is more dope in Section 8 units than paint. Bust hoodlum dopers, then bust the building owners and their HUD financiers.

Mission accomplished.

Of course, the Florida Drug House law is not used this way for obvious reasons.

Busting millionaires and government officials is awkward. Elected officials dine and cocktail with slumlords, who, naturally, top up campaign coffers early and often. Cops won’t bust HUD types because they never arrest local government officials who are, after all, fellow bureaucrats. They always, in my experience, fob off local government investigations to the FBI, who are buzz-cut out-of-towners.

Alas, the FBI will not enforce the Drug House statute, because it’s state, not federal, law.

Regardless, the nuisance law can work because I’ve used it. As a condo director, I found that the mere threat of a nuisance complaint was enough to make a HUD millionaire sell two condos rather than risk a felony rip and a cutoff of the money.

Hoodlums can run from cops; buildings and their owners can’t. Were the cops to arrest even one or two HUD millionaires, complete with the de rigueur TV perp walk, the slumlords and their co-conspirators at the city of Jacksonville would clean house — fast.

There is a political upside. Millionaires have many dollars, but few votes. The average storefront preacher in Zone 1, who seats the faithful in rusted chairs and covers the windows with bed sheets, can rally more voters any day of the week.

Clapping millionaires in chains is popular.

It might even encourage voters to smile upon State Attorney Angela Corey, forget her losing the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case, and reward her with a job in Tallahassee or Washington.

Hoodlum removal would bring peace to the terrified women in those HUD units. It might even introduce fresh air and sunshine into the fetid precincts Of Crime City.

Wes Denham themail@folioweekly.com

Denham is the author of “Arrested,” “What to Do When Your Loved One’s in Jail” and “ArrestProof Yourself ” by Chicago Review Press. You can reach him at wesdenham.com.

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Allure of the Big Game

Jacksonville throws in for college football national championship games

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emember when Jacksonville hosted the Super Bowl? Seems like it was almost a decade ago — because it was. Paul McCartney was the musical halftime entertainment, and for some, that was the punch line of the joke. For others, it was something far more elemental: the fact that the NFL dared to hold its showcase game—arguably the biggest event in professional sports—in the Bold New City of the South.

The horror, the horror!

National pundits — such as Tony Kornheiser of ESPN and the Washington Post, Bill “The Sports Guy” Simmons and a cavalcade of media stars — made all of the jokes that you would expect. “In Jacksonville, there are more Waffle Houses than reasons to live” type material. It was great fun to have the national media lay into Jacksonville for its shortcomings when it came to hosting an event like the Super Bowl; primary among them was that the city lacked a centralized entertainment district that one would expect in a major city, and that there were not enough hotel rooms for the influx of visitors.

The entertainment issue was more or less solved, though with Super Bowl parties being held at far-flung venues like Plush/The Edge in Arlington, it was hard to find a cab to get to them. The issue of lodging had a similarly ad hoc solution, in the form of lodging on cruise ships in the St. Johns River. Somehow, we got through the event, albeit with damage to our reputation nationally and even internationally.

Or so the narrative goes.

I am reminded of the Super Bowl logistics issues given the recent announcement by Gator Bowl President and CEO Rick Catlett that Jacksonville intends to bid on national championship games in 2016 and 2017.

“We think we’re in a really good position,” Catlett told The Florida Times-Union in September. “We’ve got a heckuva offer. We have 84,000 seats and all the hotels that they’re asking for. Plus, we’ve got premium resorts. … We’ve hosted a Super Bowl [in 2005], so we know how to do it. I’m very confident that in the next five years, we’ll host one of these championship games.”

The money needed for the bid—expected to be just south of $20 million—will come from private sponsorship as he told the Times-Union, which is fine. But which private sponsorship? Catlett did not respond to

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repeated email and phone inquiries.

As a Jacksonville sportswriter, I have a vested interest in a national championship game coming to Jacksonville. I want this to happen — I’d like to cover it, to feel the unique energy that comes when the two best teams in college square off on a neutral field to win it all.

The energy of the fanbases, the electricity in the air, the quality action on the gridiron – bring it on, I say.

As a rational human being, however, who looks at life as a series of cost-benefit analyses, and who understands this city’s perpetual preoccupation with measuring its civic worth not by its library system or its social services or its roads or its mass transit but by its prominence in the corrupt and bloated world of big-time sports, I have to ask – why would people who were not Jacksonville “homers” or paid advocates choose Jacksonville over bigger cities with more amenities?

First of all, as we saw from Super Bowl week years back, our winter weather can be a crapshoot. Cold, wind, rain — we do get them here. Is that something tourists want to deal with as they walk to our limited assortment of local bars on Bay Street and beyond?

Theme parks? Big-time entertainment? Be prepared to drive. Yes, there are golf courses nearby, and that is swell. But golf is not enough to make up for what a fresh market like San Francisco — a world-class city by any estimation — can offer.

I asked Catlett why Jacksonville would be chosen over the competition — what, exactly, our unique value proposition was. What benefit would this event confer on the average citizen?

Some people would make serious money. Some low-level employees might have short-term hourly jobs. But for most of us? Just more people in the traffic jam.

I appreciate why Jacksonville would like to have a national championship game. I just don’t see it happening. And maybe that is the best thing for all concerned. Better to leave the big stage for entities that won’t wither in the spotlight.

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Although there are no remaining visible structures left, artifacts from the settlement were uncovered by a team of University of Florida scientists in 1987.

hey have a dream that one day St. Augustine will be as much a tourist destination known for its rich history as “The Oldest Settlement for Free Africans in the New World” as it is for being “The Oldest City in the New World.”

They dream that the city will be more than a footnote in America’s civil rights saga. That it will be recognized once again as an area where diverse cultures flourish and work side by side, as they did for nearly two centuries after its founding by Pedro Menendez de Aviles in 1565.

They are the organizers, some of them wellestablished futurists, of the African Market at Fort Mose, a family-friendly, three-day exhibition of African-influenced music, drumming, arts, products, culture and food to be held Oct. 12-14 on the grounds of the Fort Mose Historic State Park, just north of the landmark St. Augustine city gates on U.S. Highway 1. The Fort Mose site became part of the Florida Park Service in 1989, was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1994, and was listed the same year on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009, the National Park Service designated it as a potential locale on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, which recognizes the historical role of the Underground Railroad in ending slavery and the evolution of the civil rights movement.

Since the Fort Mose museum opened in March 2011 — admission is just $2 per person — park officials say fewer than 11,000 visitors have found their way to the site, tucked away off a residential road on the east side of the highway on 41.69 acres overlooking estuarine

tidal marsh along the Intracoastal Waterway.

The museum exhibits focus on the little-known history of the free Africans who played a vital role in the founding of St. Augustine in 1565 and life as it was for the residents of Fort Mose, established by the Spanish in 1733 as haven for those escaping the tyranny of slavery in the British colonies.

For Yul Anderson of Micanopy, who with his wife Brenda initiated the idea for the African Market, it is a celebration of a cultural heritage that had been hidden for centuries and a chance to give much overdue attention to Fort Mose as a treasure of African-American history.

African Market organizers are hopeful the Fort Mose site and St. Augustine itself eventually will be elevated to the same historic significance in civil rights history as Selma and Montgomery in Alabama. They see the African Market event as a launching point toward establishing Fort Mose as a premier destination in an emerging and lucrative cultural heritage tourism industry, defined in a 2005 federal government report as “travel directed toward experiencing the arts, heritage and special character of a place.”

The government report noted travelers to cultural and heritage destinations spend considerably more money — nearly 30 percent more — than other travelers.

“The importance of what we are doing in St. Augustine is getting clearer based on the

St. Augustine citizen participation. We are so humbled by what we are doing, and look to be an active member of St. Augustine’s cultural tourism and economic development,” said Anderson, a 52-year-old Alachua County government employee who is also president and founder in 1995 of the African American Future Society.

Among those whose support he enlisted for the Fort Mose event is another futurist, St. Augustine resident and economist Hazel Henderson, a prolific author of books and articles on sustainable development, whose syndicated column appears in more than 200 publications around the world. She is also founder of Ethical Markets Media LLC which, through its Ethical Markets TV division, produced a television series shown around the world, “Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy,” also the name of a book she authored and published in 2007.

African Market organizers envision gondola tours through the Fort Mose estuaries so tourists can get closer to the original site of two Fort Mose locations, the first destroyed in 1740

by British invaders and the second abandoned in 1763, when the British took possession of Florida, forcing the free African residents to relocate to Cuba. The original fort sites are now on an island created after millionaire and railroad magnate Henry Flagler acquired the land and dredged it to fill marshlands for a hotel that is now Flagler College. Though there

are no remaining visible structures of the forts, artifacts from the settlement were uncovered by a team of University of Florida scientists and archeologists who excavated the site in 1987. Many of those items are on display in the Fort Mose museum, providing a sense of the ingenuity and creativity of some 100 occupants when the population was at its largest, according to the official Fort Mose history.

They also envision Fort Mose becoming a permanent destination along the St. Augustine trolley tour routes. The trolleys will make Fort Mose a designated stop for the three-day African Market.

Anderson and Henderson first met more than 20 years ago in Washington, D.C., at a World Futures Society conference. They worked together on the Global Committee to Fund the United Nations, which produced a report in 1995: “The U.N.: Policy and Financing Alternatives,” which Henderson co-edited.

“Fort Mose is such an important part of U.S. history and it needs to be better known. It can be a wonderful addition to the cultural life of St. Augustine and Florida,” said Henderson, author of 10 books. A new book, “Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age,” is scheduled for release this month.

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groups. He received an important commitment for handling the accounting and providing African dance and drumming performers from Ozilly Connection Inc., a not-for-profit 501c3 corporation that promotes the cultural heritage of African Ivory Coast nations. Anderson is also director of marketing for the Ozilly organization, whose mission includes “providing the very best in [African] cultural arts, charity, education and entertainment with community involvement” and improving understanding throughout the United States. Their motto: “Let art bring us together.”

Key to getting the African Market off the ground was the commitment of the outdoor advertising division of Clear Channel to provide an estimated $200,000 in free advertising on 13 digital billboards now seen across Duval County.

Anderson also lined up support with members of the St. Augustine AfricanAmerican community, which, he said, has often felt left out of programs highlighting St. Augustine’s African roots. The landmark St. Mary’s Missionary Baptist Church, founded in 1875 and built in an Italian gothic architectural style in 1920 at its present location, 69 Washington St., committed to a gospel concert at 6 p.m. Oct. 12. The AfricanAmerican church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. held a rally of 500 supporters on June 9, 1964, the day before his historic demonstration at a motel restaurant, according to a University of North Florida repository of historic places.

“A lot of the members of the St. Augustine African-American community didn’t even realize Fort Mose existed or were aware of its importance in history. The local community is now accepting their role in American history,” Anderson said. He is encouraged by many of the previously untold stories from residents now contacting him about their own civil rights struggles.

For an associated African Market dance

party at Limelight Theatre in downtown St. Augustine, held 7 p.m. Oct. 13, Anderson gained commitments from the AfricanAmerican owner of Quiet Storm vodka and the power drink company that makes Grind Hard Endurance to donate products for the $25 a ticket gala.

He also lined up a lecture on business opportunities in African nations, held 6 p.m.

Oct. 12 at the Fort Mose museum, featuring Atlanta and Miami consulate representatives of Ivory Coast nations and The Congo. Anderson describes them as “evaluation specialists” and former government officials who can make sure an investor will get value for dollars invested, especially in West Africa.

The seed money Anderson needed to cover the costs of the market event — about $10,000 — was secured Aug. 1 in a fundraiser held at Henderson’s home. One of the largest contributors was Nena Vreeland, whose late husband, Harold, was an anthropologist and civil rights activist. Vreeland, an active senior citizen like Henderson, met the futurist and author at a gym shortly after moving to St. Augustine in 2002.

It was Vreeland’s $20,000 donation in the memory of her husband that was instrumental in the commission of the $70,000 Foot Soldiers memorial, a bronze sculpture placed in the St. Augustine Plaza in 2011 that commemorates marchers who, in the early 1960s, staged peaceful protests to advance civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the many who marched in the city; his arrest on June 11, 1964, is seen as a defining moment in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Vreeland said she hopes bringing attention to Fort Mose and St. Augustine’s early history as a diverse community will help the healing process for many residents in the area who suffered brutal beatings and other abuses, including loss of jobs and threats to their lives for their civil rights activism in the early 1960s. Folio Weekly recounted those days of bloodshed

and the bitterness in a January 2011 story.

The irony doesn’t escape Vreeland and the other organizers of the African Market that the city tarnished by headlines of race-related brutalities in the 1960s was — for nearly its first 200 years — a city of great diversity, where free Africans mingled, worked and traded freely with native Indians and Spanish settlers.

Vreeland also said she wants their efforts to shed light on Spanish civil rights heritage.

Many Americans are unaware the Spanish and French abolished slavery hundreds of years before the United States did, she said.

Her own appreciation for the value of diversity was established during her childhood years growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and later living in Brazil, a country that

Fort Mose is tucked away off a residential road on the east side of U.S.1 overlooking estaurine tidal marsh along the Intracoastal Waterway.

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celebrates and embraces many cultures. She also mingled with many cultures in 24 nations during her years working for the Agency for International Development. Her involvement in Fort Mose is one of the ways to compensate for the sins of her own family’s forefathers, who were Mississippi slaveholders, she said.

Fort Mose’s Spanish heritage connection is important to another of the African Market supporters — Rosalinda Sanquiche, who is of Puerto Rican descent. She is executive director of Ethical Markets Media, which has an office adjacent to Henderson’s home. Since 2007, the company has tracked an estimated $5.1 trillion of private money invested in green technologies.

“The beauty of Fort Mose is it transcends nationalities. It is easy to forget that,” Sanquiche said.

For Carol Eklund, an accountant who also provided seed money for the African Market, it’s a way to show appreciation for those who lived through some of St. Augustine’s worst days of racism, especially families from the Lincolnville community where one of her coworkers grew up.

Anderson also has a dream that one day he will have time to develop economic indicators of black America, a sector whose future will be brighter as a result of a greater public understanding of the contributions of African descendents in America’s greatness, he said.

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THE AFRICAN MARKET, FORT MOSE A free exhibition of African music, dance, culture and food, plus museum exhibit and film presentation 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 12-14 African drumming, dance and music: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Fort Mose Historic State Park, 1340-A A1A S., St. Augustine Admission: $2 fortmoseafricanmarket.com

AFRICAN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY RECEPTION 6-8:30 p.m. Oct. 12-13 Visitors Center Limited seating, reservations suggested, 404-368-0135, 404-368-0134

CONCERT: THE EVOLUTION OF GOSPEL 6 p.m. Oct. 12 St. Mary’s Missionary Baptist Church, 69 Washington St., St. Augustine Free

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THE WHITE PARTY: A DANCE PARTY AT THE LIMELIGHT THEATRE 7-10:30 p.m. Oct. 13 Tickets: $25 (available at Limelight Theatre box office and most St. Augustine art galleries)

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Born in Jamaica, albino King Yellowman gained prominence after the death of Bob Marley and helped usher in dancehall reggae. After his 40-song anthology “Young, Gifted and Yellow” was released earlier this year, Pitchfork called Yellowman “one of Jamaica’s most important artists.” The “King of the Dancehall” and The Sagittarius Band own the stage with support from I-Vibes, Mystic Dino, Root of All and DJ Raggamuffin, 8 p.m. Oct. 5, The Standard, 200 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $12-$18, 274-2090, thestandardfl.com.

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FLORIDA HIGHWAYMEN ART SHOW

Artists A.J. Brown and Willie Daniels display their work during an art show, sale and benefit for North Florida Land Trust. The Florida Highwaymen artists were granted artist-in-residence retreats on Big Talbot Island earlier this year and the exhibit (including Brown’s pictured piece) is the result.

Reception and short film on The Highwaymen during First Wednesday Art Walk, 5:30-9 p.m.

Oct. 2. Art show and benefit, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 2-6, Juice, A Jen Jones Gallery, in Wells Fargo Center, 1 Independent Drive, Downtown, 285-7020, northfloridalandtrust.org.

MUSIC FEST JACKSONVILLE ORIGINAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

Songwriters Showcases of America celebrates creativity in music and arts, featuring more than 125 acts on 14 downtown stages. The Jacksonville Original Music Festival includes local favorites JacksonVegas (pictured), Yankee Slickers, Askmeificare and Garrett on Acoustic; most of the performers are from Florida.

1 p.m.-2 a.m. Oct. 5, stages around The Jacksonville Landing, Fionn MacCool’s, Mavericks, 1904 Music Hall, Underbelly, Northstar and Jacksonville Sports Tavern (formerly City Hall Pub), VIP all-access passes $10-$15, some venues 21-and-older, 386-308-2694, ssa.cc/jax.html.

PERFORMANCE AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE

The stars from NBC’s hit show sing, dance, joke and work magic: “America’s Got Talent” winner Kenichi Ebina (pictured) displays his gravitydefying moves, The KriStef Brothers show why they’re the “bad boys of hand balancing,” comedian Taylor Williamson amuses the crowd, and country singer Jimmy Rose and rapper Tone Tha Chiefrocca perform. 8 p.m. Oct. 4, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $32-$92; kids 12 and younger $15.50-$23, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

SOUTHERN ROCK THE BLACK CROWES

Returning after a second hiatus for this fall tour, The Black Crowes have endured a lot since “Shake Your Money Maker” first brought them success. Founding members Chris and Rich Robinson had to postpone a Birmingham concert date in September after the death of their father Stan. The Birmingham News gave them a rave review. 8 p.m. Oct. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, $33.50-$45, 209-0367, staugamphitheatre.com. Photo: Ross Halfin

VISUAL ARTS FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK

St. Augustine’s Plum Gallery features Sara Pedigo’s “The Routine” (pictured) as well as pieces by painter Karlene McConnell and glass artist Thomas Long in a reception during First Friday Art Walk. More than 15 galleries in the Oldest City participate, including the St. Augustine Art Association, which opens the 12th annual Tactile Art Show – touchable art that’s engaging for the blind and visually appealing for the sighted. 5-9 p.m. Oct. 4, free, 829-0065, artgalleriesofstaugustine.com.

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AMERICANA EILEN JEWELL

Boise-born and Boston-based, singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell made Tom Hanks’ 2011 “Summer Must List” in Entertainment Weekly and is still winning hearts. In reviewing her ’11 album, “Queen of the Minor Key,” the BBC wrote “It’s clear that she’s no dilettante, and that her understanding of rock’n’roll, gospel, folk, country and rockabilly has a profound depth.” 9:30 p.m. Oct. 4, Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $10, 353-6067. Photo: Erik Jacobs

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Director Richard Kelly offers live commentary with ‘Donnie Darko,’ but don’t expect him to give everything away DONNIE DARKO with RICHARD KELLY Screening without Kelly, 9:15 p.m. Oct. 11 The Talkies Series screening with Kelly, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12 Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Five Points Admission to both: $29.50 359-0047, sunraycinema.com

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hat happens — really — in the movie “Donnie Darko,” and what’s it all supposed to mean? If you must know the answer, you won’t get it in this interview with writer and director Richard Kelly. Frankly — to bring a certain mansized, demonic bunny to mind — a definitive answer would ruin the fun.

The sometimes creepy, sometimes hilarious and sometimes frustrating movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal was something of a failure when it was released in 2001. It bombed at the box office and, as Kelly recalled, caused people to “recoil” at film festivals. So why is he still answering questions about it a dozen years later? Because it has a huge cult following and continues to inspire countless late-night debates on time travel, alternate realities, suburban paranoia, high-school hellishness, mental illness, fate and, yes, even God. On Oct. 12, Kelly visits Sun-Ray Cinema in Five Points as part of the theater’s ongoing series The Talkies, for which filmmakers offer live commentary during screenings. So when Grandma Death whispers in Donnie’s ear, “Every living creature on Earth dies alone,” Kelly’s there in real time to relate how there was a real “Grandma Death” who lived in his neighborhood when he was a kid.

Folio Weekly: You wrote “Donnie Darko” when you were 23. What’s it like looking back on a project of yours, created when you were so young?

Richard Kelly: I guess it’s therapeutic in a lot of ways, because I don’t think anyone who is 23 years old really knows who they are. That’s obviously still a very formative time in anyone’s life. … I’m proud of the resolve that I had at that age. I don’t know that if I were just starting out at the age I am now [38], I don’t know if I would have had that crazy sort of willingness to take so many risks.

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F.W.: What kind of movies and TV did you enjoy growing up, and how much do you think that influenced “Donnie Darko”?

R.K.: I’d say “Twin Peaks” was a big gamechanger for me. It was that show that introduced me to David Lynch, and then led me to discover his fi lms. … It blew my mind — the aesthetics, the music and the vision in the pilot episode of that show really led me to not only discover his work, but to appreciate cinema as an art form on a whole different level.

F.W.: Tell me a little bit about your fascination with time travel.

R.K.: As a science-fiction trope, as a concept, it certainly is a very tantalizing thing. It’s also a huge challenge to tell a good time-travel story, because there are always logic issues that can’t be completely solved. It’s this unsolvable riddle.

F.W.: “The Philosophy of Time Travel” — you actually wrote a book for that element. [In the film, Donnie Darko reads a book with that title.

The text is available on the director’s cut DVD.] Did you write that after the movie was finished or before?

R.K: I wrote it when we were editing… I didn’t feel like I was telling the story honestly unless I wrote that book and understood what [Donnie] was reading. I wanted to know what was in that book, so I went out and wrote it.

F.W.: The director’s cut adds a lot of details that take away some of the ambiguity in the original. Why did you decide to make those details available?

R.K: I felt like there was actually an operating system for the movie, and that there was a science-fiction story at the heart of what the fi lm was trying to say. I wasn’t just trying to be willfully obscure. But I feel like the director’s cut still has many layers of mystery. … I’m a very logic-driven person. I’m not just trying to frustrate and confuse people.

F.W.: What’s your response when people ask you, flat-out, to explain what happens in the movie and tell them the meaning behind it?

R.K: There are a lot of people who are obsessed with clarity and closure, and they want to understand everything. That’s fine. That’s just certain personality types. Other people are more open to embracing mystery and more open to embracing ambiguity and obscurity. … I can only understand so much of the story myself, even as the person who created it. I don’t have the solution to time travel…

F.W.: There are dozens of interpretations out there. Have you heard one that you felt was just plain wrong?

R.K.: I mean, maybe, sure. It’s anyone’s right to interpret my work however they see fit. If anything, I fi nd it amusing if someone has a really wild interpretation. … As long as it’s a healthy interpretation and not a destructive interpretation, I’m cool with it.

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2 GUNS **G@ Rated R Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington), working for the government to infiltrate a dangerous drug cartel, are forced to team up when their mission goes awry.

20 FEET FROM STARDOM **** Rated PG-13 You know their voices, but not their names. Director Morgan Neville puts the spotlight on the backup singers of some of the most well-known performers in this documentary that examines their sacrifices and hard work. Co-starring Darlene Love, Merry Clayton and Lisa Fischer.

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BAGGAGE CLAIM *G@@ Rated PG-13 Flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton), a successful career woman, is feeling the pressure: Her little sister’s getting married, and she’s still single. She’s got 30 days to get hitched, so she starts culling through the dregs of past loves. Never a good plan. They’re exes for a reason, Montana.

BATTLE OF THE YEAR G@@@ Rated PG-13 The battle referred to is for dancing, as gutsy and talented Americans dance against the best dancers in the world. This is almost as pointless as that yacht-racing thing everybody salivates about every winter.

BLUE JASMINE ***@ Rated PG-13 Director Woody Allen elicits a stellar performance from Cate Blanchett in his drama showcasing characters bent on self-destruction. Co-starring Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins and Andrew Dice Clay, who’s gotten some positive reviews for his turn in this much-ballyhooed film.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 **G@ Rated PG This sequel is merely a rehash of the first one: same problems, different version. Kids will love the food creatures, though. Co-starring the voices of Bill Hader, James Caan, Anna Faris, Terry Crews, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt and the delightful yet ubiquitous Neal Patrick Harris.

DESPICABLE ME 2 **G@ Rated PG Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is a heinous villain who becomes a spy, from bad guy to dad to raise three adopted daughters.

The Minions (voiced by co-director Pierre Coffin) steal the whole thing.

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DON JON ***@ Rated R The much-acclaimed film, written, directed and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt offers brutally honest truths that will strike a chord in us all. Jon (Gordon-Levitt) and buddies Bobby (Rob Brown) and Danny (Jeremy Luke) are single young men who play the field – none more successfully than the blasé Jon. Then he meets babe Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), and everything changes. Co-starring a surprisingly adept Tony Danza, Julianne Moore, Glenne Headly and Brie Larson. Whose parents named her after a smelly cheese.

ELYSIUM ***@ Rated R It’s 2154, and Earth, where the 99 percenters live, is a mess.

The air’s polluted, garbage is everywhere. The aristocrats live on Elysium, a circular spaceship oasis just outside Earth’s atmosphere. It’s an idyllic structure, made to look like the paradises of yesteryear. Max (Matt Damon) is planning to take down Elysium and bring equality to Earth in the dystopian sci-fi from director Neill Blomkamp (“District 9”).

ENOUGH SAID ***G Rated PG-13 • Opens Oct. 4 at Sun-Ray Cinema The late James Gandolfini leaves us with a marvelous turn as Albert, a sweet, single man fast approaching the empty-nest stage. Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Eva, a masseuse in the same boat – her daughter is going away to college. They meet, begin dating and really click. Then Eva’s new friend Marianne (Catherine Keener) starts pissing and moaning about her ex-husband’s many faults, making Eva doubt her feelings for Albert.

THE FAMILY **G@ Rated R Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer play Fred and Maggie, a Mafia couple in the witness protection program. They’re living in France with their two kids, Belle (Dianna Agron) and Warren (John D’Leo), trying to fit in. This dark comedy, directed by Luc Besson, has its moments, and De Niro is clearly in his element.

GENERATION IRON ***G Rated PG-13 This documentary, produced by the same folks who made “Pumping Iron” way back in 1977, covers much of the same territory, following really big men as they train for the Mr. Olympia competition. Bodybuilders of old (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno) and new (Phil Heath, Kai Greene) are featured.

GRACE UNPLUGGED **G@ Rated PG • Opens Oct. 3 The inspirational drama stars AJ Michalka as Gracie, a young singer who hopes her faith is strong enough to take her to the top.

GRAVITY **** Rated PG-13 • Opens Oct. 4 Reviewed in this issue.

GROWN UPS 2 G@@@ Rated PG-13 Lenny (Adam Sandler) learns crazy follows everywhere when he moves his family back to his hometown to be with friends Marcus (David Spade), Kurt (Chris Rock) and Eric (Kevin

James). The four adults relive the last day of school through their kids’ experiences.

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 **G@ Rated PG-13 A possessed Josh (Patrick Wilson) has just killed psychic Elise (Lin Shaye) and Josh’s wife Renai (Rose Byrne) is in shock. Demons have followed Josh and Renai’s son Dalton (Ty Simkins) back from the Further (a purgatory-type place where demons latch onto humans and rejoin the living), and a move to Grandma Lorraine’s (Barbara Hershey) house doesn’t help.

INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED **@@ Rated PG-13 A Mexican ladies’ man finds the product of a fling on his doorstep and the child changes his carefree life. Settled in LA working as a stunt man, Valentín (Eugenio Derbez) and daughter Maggie (Loreto Peralta) have their family threatened when the child’s mother shows up.

LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER **@@ Rated PG-13 Forest Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines, a character based on the White House butler who served U.S. presidents over three decades, witnessing many of the 20th century’s biggest moments. The all-star cast runs deep with James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Minka Kelly as Jackie Kennedy, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan, John Cusack as Richard Nixon and Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower.

Also starring Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, Vanessa Redgrave, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Liev Schreiber.

METALLICA: THROUGH THE NEVER ***G Rated R Not your average behind-the-scenes music doc. Dane DeHaan plays Trip, a roadie for Metallica who’s tasked with a do-or-die assignment during a concert. Easy, right? Wrong. After a dry spell, the metal masters got their shit together; here they bare their souls a bit. And the special effects are said to be awesome. With original band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo.

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES **@@ Rated PG-13 This fantasy-adventure film co-stars Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jemima West and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US G@@@ Rated PG OMG! Niall, Zayn, Liam, Louis and that scamp Harry sing to a massive crowd on the edge of hysteria at the O2 Arena in London. We see their incredible leap from unknowns into the white-hot spotlight as the lads succeed beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.

PARKLAND **G@ Rated PG-13 • Opens Oct. 4 Opening as the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, the film examines the chaotic events on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Told from multiple perspectives, the historical drama looks at the alleged gunman’s escape from the FBI, the doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, Lyndon B. Johnson’s ascendancy to president, and an amateur’s filming of the tragedy. Directed by Peter Landesman, it co-stars Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, Jeremy Strong and Marcia Gay Harden.

PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS **@@ Rated PG The sequel opens with Percy (Logan Lerman), Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario) and Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) at Camp Half-Blood, the only place where demigods can live in peace. Or so they think. They’re forced to recover the Golden Fleece, which is located in – you guessed it – the Sea of Monsters (aka the Bermuda Triangle).

PHATA POSTER NIKLA HERO **@@ Not Rated The Bollywood film, co-starring Shahid Kapoor and Ileana, is in Hindi.

PLANES **@@ Rated PG Watching this Disney movie, you realize you liked it better the first and second times you saw it when it was called “Cars,” then “Cars 2.” The film, only moderately and occasionally funny, does offer a nice message of believing you can do more than what you think you’re capable of, but “Planes” sputters when it needs to soar.

PRISONERS ***G Rated R This crime thriller stars Hugh Jackman as a father desperate

AREA THEATERS AMELIA ISLAND Carmike 7, 1132 S. 14th St., Fernandina Beach, 261-9867 ARLINGTON & REGENCY AMC Regency 24, 9451 Regency Square Blvd., 264-3888 BAYMEADOWS & MANDARIN Regal Avenues 20, 9525 Philips Highway, 538-3889 BEACHES Regal Beach Blvd. 18, 14051 Beach Blvd., 992-4398 FIVE POINTS Sun-Ray Cinema@5Points, 1028 Park St., 359-0047 GREEN COVE SPRINGS Clay Theatre, 326 Walnut St., 284-9012

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to find his daughter and her friend, missing under mysterious and potentially terrifying circumstances. Co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis and Maria Bello.

RIDDICK **G@ Rated R Escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) is left for dead – you know how that usually goes – and faces an alien race of predators and bounty hunters who want him dead in the franchise that started with 2000’s “Pitch Black.” Co-starring Karl Urban and Jordi Molla. Directed by David Twohy.

RUNNER RUNNER **@@ Rated R • Opens Oct. 4 Richie Furst’s (Justin Timberlake) success at online poker pays for grad school at Princeton – for a while. When he loses, he goes to Costa Rica to meet offshore businessman Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Ivan recruits Richie (not knowing Richie thinks Ivan cheated him) to work for his gambling empire, but the stakes get higher when the feds want Richie to help bust Ivan. Directed by Brad Furman, the drama costars Gemma Arterton and Anthony Mackie.

RUSH ***G Rated R The story of Formula One racing archrivals in 1976, director Ron Howard’s latest film is a fascinating character study of polar opposites with one thing in common: winning.

Adrenaline junkie James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) is reckless and self-centered, living the high life on and off the track.

Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) is grounded and super-serious; he comes from money, and uses it, along with his vast knowledge of racing, to build the fastest car possible.

SHORT TERM 12 ***G Rated R • Sun-Ray Cinema At a foster-care facility, Grace (Brie Larson) helps troubled kids; she and her boyfriend, who also works there, counsel and guide kids who have nowhere else to go. Co-starring John Gallagher Jr., Frantz Turner and Kaitlyn Deaver.

STILL MINE ***G Rated PG-13 Based on a true story, this is about Craig Morrison (James Cromwell’s first lead role) who plans to build a suitable house for his ill wife Irene (Geneviève Bujold). Building codes, officials and jail deter him, as he takes a stand in this drama directed by Michael McGowan.

WE’RE THE MILLERS ***@ Rated R Small-time drug dealer David (Jason Sudeikis) uses the “perfect family” façade when he’s offered $100,000 to bring back “a little bit” of weed from Mexico. The family includes stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston), latchkey teenager Kenny (Will Poulter) and homeless teen Casey (Emma Roberts).

Sudeikis has great one-liners, Aniston unfurls a edgy/sexy/ funny performance like her role in “Horrible Bosses.”

THE WIZARD OF OZ ***G Rated PG The classic 1939 black-and-white – and fabulous Technicolor, once we get to Oz – fantasy gets the IMAX treatment. Starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West, it’s based on L. Frank Baum’s stories of a young farm girl who travels to a faraway land only to learn there’s no place like home. Click your heels and repeat after me …

THE WOLVERINE ***@ Rated PG-13 Logan (Hugh Jackman) learns being a warrior without a cause isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Called to Japan, he begins a journey to face his own mortality.

THE WORLD’S END **@@ Rated R In this British comedy, one man fondly recalls a pub crawl his mates hold in considerably less esteem. Twenty years ago, Gary (Simon Pegg), Ollie (Martin Freeman), Pete (Eddie Marsan), Steve (Paddy Considine) and Andy (Nick Frost) tried to down a pint of ale at 12 pubs in a one-mile stretch of town. They didn’t finish the run and now Gary wants to make it right. The problem? Alien robots have taken over the bodies of the townspeople.

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DEF LEPPARD VIVA! HYSTERIA CONCERT The enduring hair band kills it over nine concerts at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Café last spring. Screening one night only at Cinemark Tinseltown and Regal Avenues, 8 p.m. Oct. 2.

C.O.G. Humorist and diarist David Sedaris is damn funny – we’ve laughed aloud reading his many books and short stories from his crazy real life. Writer and director Kyle Patrick Alvarez has made this comedy-drama based on one of Sedaris’ stories, about David (Jonathan Groff), a self-impressed young man who’s signed on to work at an Oregon apple farm with his best friend Jennifer (Troian Bellisario). She bails, he goes alone … with an attitude that he’s an intellectual among cretins. Not a good place to come from when you’re out in the elements among people with fierce pruning shears. 7:15 p.m. Oct. 3 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Five Points, 359-0047, sunraycinema.com.

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME IMAX THEATRE “The Wizard of Oz,” “Great White Shark 3D” and “Tornado Alley 3D” are screened along with “The Last Reef 3D” and “Flight of the Butterflies 3D” at World Golf Hall of Fame Village IMAX Theatre, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, 940-IMAX, worldgolfimax.com.

DONNIE DARKO WITH RICHARD KELLY As part of The Talkies series, director Richard Kelly provides live commentary during a screening of his 2001 film “Donnie Darko,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Sun-Ray Cinema. See it without commentary the night before, 9:15 p.m. Oct. 11; tickets $29.50 for admission to both screenings; 359-0047, sunraycinema.com.

Ivan Block (Ben Affleck, left) convinces Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) to stay in Costa Rica and assume a leadership role in Block’s online gambling empire in “Runner Runner,” directed by Brad Furman. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox

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Attaching ‘humor to the darkest moments,’ Scottish band focuses songs on inner turmoil and topics of loneliness FRIGHTENED RABBIT with AUGUSTINES 8 p.m. Oct. 10 Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jacksonville Beach Tickets: $15 246-2473, freebirdlive.com

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hen it comes to songs about the most crippling of human emotions, the Scottish rock band Frightened Rabbit has never run away. Since forming about 10 years ago, they have continued to tackle topics such as loneliness, uncertainty and inner turmoil with an admirable determination and subtle courage.

On second thought, perhaps “tackle” isn’t the right word. It’s more as if they look weariness in its eyes, give it a nice, strong handshake and welcome it in for a pint of heavy ale. For every moment of skittishness that may plague them, it seems they shake it off and keep moving.

“Late March, Death March” — the new EP released in the U.S. on Sept. 10 — is another step forward for Frightened Rabbit.

Earlier this year, they released the full-length album “Pedestrian Verse,” their first since transitioning to a major label, Atlantic Records, to favorable reviews. Featuring an alternative version of “Late March, Death March” from that album, as well as three new songs and a live recording, the EP is a solid follow-up.

Lead singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist Scott Hutchison spoke with Folio Weekly by phone last month in a conversation he joked was “almost like a therapy session.”

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Folio Weekly: It’s fairly well-known the band’s name came from your mom, a nickname she had for you because you were very shy as a child. Tell me about that. What were you like?

Scott Hutchison: I think I was just, you know, not socially adjusted, and I’m still, in spite of my job and everything now, I still struggle with that. For instance, this was my nightmare as a kid: When your parents’ friends are having a party and you have to go and socialize with their kids. … I would just

completely submit and also clam up. Nothing would come out. … Part of me wishes I was able to be a social magician. I just don’t have it in me, and I can’t really function when I’m in a room with a bunch of people I don’t know. I just don’t know how to navigate that.

F.W.: To a certain extent, you must have overcome that nature in order to pursue what you’re doing now. You’re in the spotlight and often being asked questions by strangers like me.

S.H.: … There’s the idea that it’s a performance and you’re kind of flipping a switch. The same thing occurs when, you know, when I am required to be social for my work. … But when you’re off the clock and you have to just be normally sociable, that can be difficult. So, it’s strange. It is like flipping a switch and you’re in performance mode again. That I find easy.

It’s slightly tiring, but I find it easier.

F.W.: Aside from the band’s name, how does that part of your personality find its way into the music?

S.H.: I think that the music exists maybe solely because I have that nature. I think a lot. I get quite contemplative and introverted. In that sense, when you think about things so much — I also don’t express them very well in the normal way, which is through conversation.

I think that when I do come to need to say something, it comes out in the lyrics.

F.W.: There’s a definite grim side to your songs, a melancholy that seems to creep in. Where does that element come from?

S.H.: I’ve always found it a nice release to focus on those aspects, you know, things that trouble me, reasons why I’m sad. … I tend to attach humor to the darkest moments. I think that’s a Scottish trait. … The melancholy just comes naturally to me, but I really enjoy putting it in a setting that’s far from that.

F.W.: You mention that it’s a Scottish trait.

[In a lot of Scottish folk music,] there’s this

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pervasive, mournful tone. If someone isn’t dying in every other verse, then someone’s heart is being crushed.

S.H.: Absolutely.

F.W.: How much is that Scottish culture relevant to your music, and how much does it affect what you write?

S.H.: My mom and dad, when I was growing up, they used to play together in folk clubs … so there was always that type of music around in the house. … I think there’s this tradition of telling a story and also talking about hardship within Scottish folk music that you can’t help but be influenced by.

When your content is real — in Scottish folk music, it’s a process of telling stories of normal people who have struggled or fought.

I think that is absolutely relevant to what we do. Although I’m mostly the protagonist in our songs, I think it’s still important to have that storytelling aspect where you have a start, middle and an end, and there’s a narrative. That’s what people connect to. It’s what I’ve always connected to.

F.W.: How would you describe your live performances? What can people expect here next week?

S.H.: … We’ve been talking about the melancholy aspect to the music. There isn’t that when we play live. It can be a really joyful, uplift ing experience for everyone.

The majority of that feeling doesn’t even come from us. It comes from the audience, and there is this release that happens. I think that we respond to that in kind, and that the show has maybe a lot more energy than people are expecting. We sweat a lot.

It’s just a very, hopefully, visceral experience for everyone.

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GREENSKY BLUEGRASS, FRUITION Five-piece bluegrass band from Michigan, 8 p.m. Oct. 2 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $15, 246-2473.

THE MANTRAS Progressive rock jam band plays 6 p.m. Oct. 2 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, free, 1904musichall.com.

REHAB Band blends Southern rock and hip hop, 10 p.m. Oct. 2 at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $12, 460-9311.

SAVES THE DAY, INTO IT. OVER IT. Jersey power-pop rock band plays 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at Brewster’s Roc Bar, 845 University Blvd., Arlington, $15, 223-9850.

QUEEN BEEF, DJ DOTS, TRAILER PARK PRINCESS St. Augustine punk rock, 9 p.m. Oct. 2 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $5, 547-2188.

BRIAN WILSON, JEFF BECK, AL JARDINE, DAVID MARKS Beach Boys musical genius and co-founder Wilson and Yardbirds master guitarist Beck join forces 7 p.m. Oct. 3 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, $40-$80, 209-0367.

BASTARD SONS Atlanta band fuses genres 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

END OF SUMMER BEACH BASH: PARKER URBAN BAND Local jam band takes the stage Oct. 3 at Hampton Inn Oceanfront, 1515 First St. N., Jax Beach, 241-2311.

WILLY PORTER Folk-rock guitarist arrives 9 p.m. Oct. 3 at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $12, 460-9311.

REBECCA DAY & JEN THOMPSON Local singer-songwriters jam, 6 p.m. Oct. 3 at Pusser’s Bar & Grille, 816 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-7766.

YOUNGBLOOD BRASS BAND Oregon jazz band has strong hip hop component, 9 p.m.

Oct. 3 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $10, 1904musichall.com.

JULIE DURDEN Acoustic singer-songwriter takes you on a spiritual journey, 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008.

EILEN JEWELL Indie folk artist strolls in 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $10, 353-6067.

TOOTS LORRAINE & THE TRAFFIC Swinging blues band performs, 12 p.m. Oct. 4 at Mojo No. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 381-6670.

Live Music

Indie folk rockers Have Gun, Will Travel are loaded and ready to leave town, but first they take the stage Oct. 4 at Burro Bar in Downtown Jacksonville.

CHARLIE WALKER Soulful Jax Beach singer-songwriter grooves, 10:30 p.m.

Oct. 4 at The Pier, 412 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-6454.

HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL Bradenton indie-folk rock group performs 9 p.m. Oct. 4 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $5, 677-2977.

CITY & COLOUR Singer-songwriter Dallas Green performs 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, $35, 209-0399.

CRAIG CAMPBELL Country artist is a “family man,” 6 p.m. Oct. 4 at Mavericks at the Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, $15, 356-1110.

SIMPLE NATURAL, MR2THEP, KENYON, DRAZZAH HAZZERD, YOUNG LION & YOUNG PRINCE Hip hop artists and DJs bring the beats, 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $8, 246-2473.

CLAY BENJAMIN BAND Inspirational pop singer sets the mood, 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

SOUNDS ON CENTRE: Ben Prestage The one-man band is on 6 p.m. Oct. 4 at Centre Street, Fernandina Beach, free.

UP UNTIL NOW, S.P.O.R.E. Funky bands be jammin’, 9 p.m.

Oct. 4 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $10, 1904musichall.com.

LAUREN FINCHAM DUO Local indie folksingers perform 7 p.m. Oct. 4 at 200 First Street Courtyard, Neptune Beach, free.

YELLOWMAN, SAGITTARIUS BAND Jamaica’s King of Reggae headlines Reggae Festival, 8 p.m.

Oct. 5 at The Standard, 200 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $12-$18, 274-2090.

THE BLACK CROWES American Southern rockers have a remedy, 8 p.m. Oct. 5 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, $33.50-$41, 209-0367.

ALOHA RADIO Orange County band plays surf rock 9 p.m. Oct. 5 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $5, 677-2977.

THE LEE BOYS, PARKER URBAN BAND, SPRED THE DUB Soulful jam band headlines, Oct. 5 at Buccaneer Field at Central Park, 20 S. 11th St., Fernandina Beach, $15, 277-8010.

CONNOR BLACKLEY, BLUE MUSE JAZZ, TEDDY WASHINGTON, TAMBOR, UNF JAZZ ENSEMBLE III Jazz artists perform for jazz week, Oct. 5 at Riverside Arts Market River Stage, 715 Riverside Ave., free.

TAPROOT, RIGHTEOUS VENDETTA Four-piece rock group sings a “Poem,” 8 p.m. Oct. 5 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $15, 398-7496.

KIM WATERS Contemporary jazz artist performs, 10 p.m. Oct. 5 at Ritz Theatre, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $24, 632-5555.

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Night Eye

ILL NINO New Jersey’s Latin heavy metal band, Oct. 5 at Brewster’s Roc Bar, 845 University Blvd., Arlington, $10-$30, 223-9850.

PARKER URBAN BAND Local faves jam 9:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach, $5, 277-8010.

JACKSONVILLE ORIGINAL MUSIC FESTIVAL More than 125 acts on 13 downtown stages featuring rock, country, hip hop, electronic, metal bands and more, 1 p.m.

Oct. 5 at The Landing, 1904 Music Hall and Underbelly, Downtown, VIP tickets $15.

SPLIT TONE Jax Beach reggae group is jammin’, 8 p.m. Oct. 6 at The Pier, 412 N. First St., Jax Beach, free, 246-6454.

JAAP BLONK, JEB BISHOP The Experimental Arts Union of Florida presents electronic artist and trombone player 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 366-6911.

WOLVES AT THE GATE Hard rock worship band performs 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at Brewster’s Roc Bar, 845 University Blvd., Arlington, $13-$30, 223-9850.

DAVID RUSSELL, JOHN PEYTON, ERIC BOWDEN Folk/Americana singer-songwriters, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, $10, 352-7008.

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BFRIGHTENED RABBIT, AUGUSTINES Oct. 10, Freebird Live TWITCHING TONGUES, TURNSTILE, DOWNPRESSER Oct. 10, Atticus Bar LAUREN MANN & the FAIRLY ODD FOLK Oct. 10, Jack Rabbits JOSHUA BOWLUS TRIO Oct. 10, Mudville Music Room A LOSS FOR WORDS, HANDGUNS Oct. 10, Brewster’s MAYDAY PARADE, MAN OVERBOARD, THE CARTEL, STAGES AND STEREOS Oct. 11, Freebird Live BRETT ELDREDGE Oct. 11, Mavericks at the Landing JONNY CRAIG, SECRETS, KYLE LUCAS, HEARTS & HANDS, BLEACH BLONDE Oct. 11, Jack Rabbits BONNIE BLUE Oct. 11, Dog Star Tavern MARK WILLIAMS Oct. 11, 200 First Street Courtyard MOUNT KIMBIE Oct. 12, Jack Rabbits BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND, RUSTY SHINE, DARYL HANCE Oct. 12, Freebird Live RUSKO, TONN PIPER, RONI SIZE, DYNAMITE MC Oct. 12, Brewster’s Megaplex REBECCA DAY Oct. 12, The Surf GASLIGHT STREET Oct. 12, Dog Star Tavern SUGAR BEAR Oct. 12, Blue Fish/Elevated Avondale GOLIATH FLORES Oct. 12, Riverside Arts Market River Stage MONARCH MOUNTAIN BAND Oct. 12, Rain Dogs THE SUPERVILLAINS, THE MOVEMENT Oct. 12, Brewster’s BATHS Oct. 13, The Original Café Eleven THE BROWNING, THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE, HONOUR CREST, TEAR OUT THE HEART, MYKA RELOCATE Oct. 13, Jack Rabbits AARON CARTER, THE RED HOOKS, BRIE GOLDSOBEL, BETHANY & THE TROUBADOURS Oct. 14, Jack Rabbits GIVING UP Oct. 14, Burro Bar BARRY GREENE, TAYLOR ROBERTS, JAMES HOGAN Oct. 16, Mudville Music Room LAKE STREET DIVE Oct. 16, Underbelly MUSHROOMHEAD, RAZORZ EDGE, ONE-EYED DOLL Oct. 17, Brewster’s Roc Bar INDIA.ARIE Oct. 17, The Florida Theatre BETH WOOD Oct. 17, Mudville Music Room MAGNOLIA FEST: Willie Nelson & Family, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Stephen “Ragga” Marley, Mavis Staples, Railroad Earth, Drive-By Truckers, Donna the Buffalo, Dawes, Keller Williams & The Travelin’ McCourys, The Duhks, Jim Lauderdale, Col. Bruce Hampton & Friends, Jeff Mosier, Rev. Peyton’s Old Time Gospel Hour: Jimbo Mathus & Alvin Youngblood Hart, Grayson Capps, Tornado Rider, Seth Walker, The Heavy Pets, Nikki Talley, Honey Island Swamp Band, The Stacks, Beebs & Her Money Makers, Jon Stickley Trio: Lyndsay Pruett, Billy Iuso & Restless Natives, Grandpa’s Cough Medicine, Sloppy Joe, Quartermoon, Big Cosmo, Habanero Honeys, Back from the Brink, kLoB, Corbitt Brothers, Stephen Kellogg, Flagship Romance, S.P.O.R.E, Canary in the Coalmine, Tropic of Cancer, Bonnie Blue, JacksonVegas, Sentropolis, Jason Lamar, Alien Carnival Oct. 17-20, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park DIZZY WRIGHT, EMILIO ROJAS, MARCUS MOODY Oct. 18, Jack Rabbits THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, MOON HOOCH Oct. 18, Freebird Live TOWER OF POWER Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre HINDER, CANDLEBOX, DEVOUR THE DAY, OPEN AIR STEREO Oct. 18, Mavericks at the Landing JOSH MILLER’S BLUES REVUE Oct. 18, Dog Star Tavern CHILLAKAYA CHILLA REGGAE Oct. 18, Blue Fish DON MINIARD Oct. 18, 200 First Street Courtyard THE LUMINEERS, DR. DOG, NATHANIEL RATELIFF Oct. 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre LARRY MANGUM, CHARLEY SIMMONS, JACK MENTZEL Oct. 18, Mudville Music Room SIR CHARLES 0ct. 18, 1904 Music Hall ADAM SAMS, MOONRISE COLLECTIVE Oct. 18, Murray Hill Theatre ORANGE AIR, SUPER EXCITABLES, OPIATE EYES Oct. 18, Underbelly YANKEE SLICKERS Oct. 19, Dog Star Tavern SMILE EMPTY SOUL Oct. 19, Brewster’s Roc Bar PARKRIDGE, MYTH OF MYSELF Oct. 19, Freebird Live DALTON CYR, MARK WILLIAMS & BLUE HORSE Oct. 19, Riverside Arts Market River Stage

PRIMITIVE HARD DRIVE Oct. 19, Jack Rabbits LITTLE COMETS Oct. 20, Jack Rabbits ACRASSICAUDA Oct. 21, Jack Rabbits GARY STARLING JAZZ GROUP Oct. 22, Mudville Music Room BILL KIRCHEN Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits THE DEER TRACKS Oct. 23, 1904 Music Hall REVERAND HORTON HEAT, WAYNE “THE TRAINâ€? HANCOCK Oct. 24, Jack Rabbits SWITCHFOOT Oct. 24, The Florida Theatre ALYCAT Oct. 24, 1904 Music Hall WE CAME AS ROMANS, CHUNK? NO! CAPTAIN CHUNK!, THE COLOR MORALE, DANGERKIDS Oct. 24, Brewster’s Roc Bar THE MAIN SQUEEZE Oct. 25, 1904 Music Hall NEKO CASE Oct. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PEACH KELLI POP, COLLEEN GREEN, THE MEMORIES, WHITE FANG, GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH, QUEEN BEEF, THE MOLD, THE PREMADONNASAURS Oct. 25, Shanghai Nobby’s BUILT TO SPILL, SLAM DUNK, GENDERS Oct. 25, Freebird Live SOUL GRAVY Oct. 25, Dog Star Tavern UNDERHILL ROSE, JOHN SHAIN Oct. 25, Mudville Music Room LINDA GRENVILLE & THE FOOT SERVANTS Oct. 25, 200 First Street Courtyard MIKE STUD Oct. 26, 1904 Music Hall JOHN FOGERTY Oct. 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ROBERT RANDOLPH & the FAMILY BAND Oct. 26, Freebird Live LINDA GRENVILLE & THE FOOT SERVANTS, MIKE KING Oct. 26, Riverside Arts Market River Stage CROCODILES Oct. 26, Jack Rabbits FREEDY JOHNSTON Oct. 26, Underbelly TENT CITY Oct. 26, Dog Star Tavern SALIVA Oct. 26, Brewster’s Roc Bar MICHAEL RAY Oct. 26, Mavericks at the Landing OTEP, NEW YEAR’S DAY, STOLEN BABIES Oct. 27, Brewster’s WEEK OF WONDERS, ASCETIC, GLITTERPISS Oct. 27, Burro Bar MELISSA FERRICK Oct. 27, The Original CafĂŠ Eleven THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE, DAYLIGHT Oct. 28, Burro Bar LARRY AND HIS FLASK, ONWARD Oct. 28, Jack Rabbits MICHAEL BUBLE Oct. 29, Veterans Memorial Arena ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Oct. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ALICE COOPER Oct. 29, The Florida Theatre THE JOINT CHIEFS OF MATH, 1994! Oct. 30, Burro Bar DANNY AVILA Oct. 30, Pure SLEIGH BELLS, DOLDRUMS Oct. 30, Freebird Live STEPDAD, MVSCLES, NORTHE Oct. 30, 1904 Music Hall LIONIZE Oct. 30, Jack Rabbits KURT VILE & the VIOLATORS, BEACH FOSSILS Oct. 31, Jack Rabbits GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD Oct. 31, CafĂŠ Eleven SENSES FAIL Oct. 31, Brewster’s Roc Bar THOMAS RHETT Oct. 31, Mavericks at the Landing STRONG CITY Oct. 31, Burro Bar SPACE CAPONE, HERD OF WATTS Oct. 31, 1904 Music Hall DE FUNK Oct. 31, Dog Star Tavern

MIKE AND RUTHY Oct. 31, Mudville Music Room SUWANEE HULAWEEN: The String Cheese Incident, Emancipator, Conspirator, Steve Kimock & Friends, Suwannee Bluegrass Surprise, Future Rock, Brock Butler, Jennifer Hartswick, Van Ghost, Moon Taxi, Applebutter Express Oct. 31-Nov. 1, Suwannee Music Park AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR, THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS, MYLETS Nov. 1, Jack Rabbits PARKER URBAN BAND Nov. 1, Dog Star Tavern ANNE McCUE BAND Nov. 1, Mudville Music Room I ANTHEM, A CALL FOR KYLIE, THEZSPEAKER Nov. 1, Murray Hill Theatre DARK SIDE OF THE DEAD Nov. 1, Freebird Live MAYSA Nov. 2, Ritz Theatre BARENAKED LADIES Nov. 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre EIGHT STORIES HIGH Nov. 2, Dog Star Tavern HUGH LAURIE & THE COPPER BOTTOM BAND Nov. 2, The Florida Theatre THE GREEN, SHWAYZE, KIMIE Nov. 2, Freebird Live JAKE MILLER, ACTION ITEM, AIR DUBAI Nov. 3, Murray Hill Theatre REEL BIG FISH, BEAUTIFUL BODIES, BEEBS & HER MONEY MAKERS Nov. 3, Freebird Live CAUGHT A GHOST Nov. 3, Underbelly PAINT FUMES Nov. 4, Burro Bar THE OARSMEN Nov. 5, Burro Bar NIKKI TALLEY Nov. 5, Mudville Music Room IN THIS MOMENT, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE Nov. 5, Brewster’s WIDESPREAD PANIC Nov. 6, Times-Union Center CURSE Nov. 6, Burro Bar EOTO Nov. 6, Freebird Live THE DIGITAL AGE, BELLARIVE Nov. 6, Murray Hill Theatre LEA BERTUCCI Nov. 6, Karpeles Manuscript Museum FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits COPE, THE APPLEBUTTER EXPRESS Nov. 6, 1904 Music Hall ANDY WARD KING Nov. 6, Mudville Music Room TATSUYA NAKATANI, EUGENE CHADBOURNE Nov. 7, Sun-Ray Cinema MICHAEL FRANTI, SPEARHEAD Nov. 7, Freebird Live JB SCOTT’S SWINGIN’ ALLSTARS Nov. 7, Mudville Music Room THE PIANO GUYS Nov. 7, The Florida Theatre CHRIS KNIGHT Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits CARAVAN OF THIEVES Nov. 8, The Original CafÊ Eleven GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Nov. 8, Dog Star Tavern THREE DOG NIGHT Nov. 8, The Florida Theatre VANNA, ALPHA & OMEGA, THE GREENERY Nov. 8, Brewster’s PASSION PIT, THE TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, THE JOY FORMIDABLE, ST. LUCIA Nov. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre PASSAFIRE, BALLYHOO, SIDEREAL Nov. 8, Freebird Live NORTH FLORIDA ACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL Nov. 8-9, Flaming Lake RV Resort MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER, MARTINA McBRIDE Nov. 9, Veterans Memorial Arena BUFFALO RODEO Nov. 9, Burro Bar

PETER ROWAN’S BLUEGRASS BAND, BACK FROM THE BRINK Nov. 9, 1904 Music Hall THE CULT REVOLUTION Nov. 9, Freebird Live OLD CITY MUSIC FEST: Kansas, Uncle Kracker, John Anderson, Morgan Frazier, Bush Hawg Nov. 10, St. Augustine Flea Market BADFISH Nov. 10, Freebird Live ATHEL, ALL THINGS DONE Nov. 10, Jack Rabbits ATILLA, UPON A BURNING BODY, THE PLOT IN YOU Nov. 10, Brewster’s Roc Bar KEVIN DEVINE & THE GODDAMN BAND, NOW NOW, HARRISON HUDSON Nov. 11, Jack Rabbits JOHN VANDERSLICE Nov. 11, The Original CafĂŠ Eleven GUNGOR Nov. 12, Murray Hill Theatre GOITSE BAND Nov. 12, Culhane’s Irish Pub BEAR CREEK MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL: Break Science, Cope, Jans Ingber, Space Capone, Lettuce, The Werks, Pee Wee Ellis, Natalie Cressman Nov. 13, Suwannee Music Park THE CHARIOT, GLASSCLOUD, BIRDS IN A ROW, TO THE WIND, REBUKER Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits AMERICAN AQUARIUM, HILLVALLEY, BEAU CRUM, BARSTOOL WISDOM Nov. 14, Jack Rabbits GREG TROOPER Nov. 14, Mudville Music Room CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours Nov. 15, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts SPYRO GYRA Nov. 15, The Florida Theatre PETE DONNELLY, JUSTON STENS Nov. 15, Underbelly THE STORY SO FAR, STICK TO YOUR GUNS, SUCH GOLD, ROTTING OUT Nov. 15, Brewster’s Roc Bar LIS & LON WILLIAMSON, JAMIE DEFRATES, SUSAN BROWN Nov. 15, Mudville Music Room THE AVETT BROTHERS Nov. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ADVENTURE CLUB, DVBBS, DALLAS K, HUNTER SIEGEL Nov. 16, Aqua Nightclub O.A.R. Nov. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BAAUER, ARAABMUZIK Nov. 17, Freebird Live TOBYMAC Nov. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena BAAUER Nov. 17, Freebird Live JOHN DENVER: A Rocky Mountain High Concert Nov. 19, The Florida Theatre TWENTY ONE PILOTS, ROBERT DELONG, SIRAH Nov. 19, Freebird Live STRAIGHT NO CHASER Nov. 20, The Florida Theatre JULIE DURDEN, LAURIE McCLAIN, KAREN MAL Nov. 21, Mudville Music Room RING OF FIRE: Music of Johnny Cash Nov. 22, Florida Theatre CONNOR CHRISTIAN & SOUTHERN GOTHIC Nov. 22, Jack Rabbits SHEBA “THE MISSISSIPPI QUEEN,â€? LITTLE MIKE & THE TORNADOES Nov. 22, Mudville Music Room HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL Nov. 22, Underbelly DEVILDRIVER, TRIVIUM, AFTER THE BURIAL, THY WILL BE DONE Nov. 22, Freebird Live HONKY SUCKLE Nov. 22-23, Dog Star Tavern

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MAN ON EARTH Nov. 23, Jack Rabbits JOHNNY MARR Nov. 24, Freebird Live LISA KELLY Nov. 26, Mudville Music Room SOUL GRAVY Nov. 27, Dog Star Tavern BONNIE RAITT Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre OF FORTUME & FAME, THE TRADITIONAL Nov. 30, Burro Bar PEYTON MANGUM BAND Nov. 30, Mudville Music Room ELISHA PARRIS Nov. 30, The Parlour THE IRISH TENORS: Finbar Wright, Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre ANTHONY GREEN, DAVE DAVISON, PSYCHIC BABBLE Dec. 1, Jack Rabbits JB SCOTT’S SWINGING ALLSTARS Dec. 3, Mudville Music Room ZOOGMA, GHOST OWL, S.P.O.R.E., TRILLUCINATION, VLAD THE INHALER Dec. 3, 1904 Music Hall NATE WOOLEY, CHRIS CORSANO Dec. 4, Karpeles Manuscript Museum AUGUST BURNS RED, BLESS THE FALL, DEFEATER, BEARTOOTH Dec. 5, Brewster’s Roc Bar JULIE DURDEN Dec. 5, Mudville Music Room CHEAP TRICK Dec. 6, The Florida Theatre BELLARIVE Dec. 6, Murray Hill Theatre STEREOFIDELICS Dec. 7, Dog Star Tavern ALABAMA SHAKES Dec. 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BRIAN DAVIS Dec. 7, Jack Rabbits SHEMEKIA COPELAND Dec. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE BIG TICKET: Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington, Thirty Seconds to Mars, A Day to Remember, Jimmy Eat World, Dirty Heads, Pepper, Manchester Orchestra, Twenty One Pilots, Sleeping With Sirens, Frank Turner, The 1975, Saints of Valory, Breaking Through Dec. 8, Metropolitan Park JOHN MAYER Dec. 10, Veterans Memorial Arena PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 12, Mudville Music Room MERCY GIRL Dec. 14, Murray Hill Theatre NEW DAY, THE SENSES, JUG OR NOT, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP Dec. 14, Jack Rabbits PAPADISIO Dec. 14, Freebird Live JEFF MOSIER, MICHAEL JOHNATHON Dec. 14, Mudville Music Room JOHN McCUTCHEON Dec. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MISFITS Dec. 15, Brewster’s Roc Bar MICHAEL McDONALD: This Christmas Dec. 17, Florida Theatre PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS with RICK BRAUN, MINDI ABAIR Dec. 18, The Florida Theatre JOHN THOMAS GROUP Dec. 19, Mudville Music Room ANDREW ALTMAN CHRISTMAS JAM Dec. 21, Dog Star Tavern GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, CORBITT BROTHERS BAND Dec. 31, Freebird Live PARKER URBAN BAND Dec. 31, Dog Star Tavern GREGG ALLMAN, JJ GREY & MOFRO Dec. 31, The Florida Theatre

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GRANT PEEPLES, REBECCA ZAPEN Jan. 2, Mudville Music Room JACK WILLIAMS Jan. 4, Mudville Music Room CLUTCH, THE SWORD, CROBOTS Jan. 5, Jack Rabbits JOHN WESLEY HARDING, JOE PERNICE Jan. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MALCOLM HOLCOMBE Jan. 9, Mudville Music Room NATALIE MERCHANT Jan. 11, The Florida Theatre ABBA THE CONCERT Jan. 16, The Florida Theatre JOSHUA BOWLUS TRIO Jan. 16, Mudville Music Room TAB BENOIT Jan. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GURF MORLIX Jan. 18, Mudville Music Room MARCIA BALL & HER BAND Jan. 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall RICHARD SMITH, JULIE ADAMS Jan. 20, Mudville Music Room ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre RONNY COX Jan. 23, Mudville Music Room SHAWN COLVIN Jan. 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall REBECCA LOEBE, ROBBY HECHT Jan. 30, Mudville Music Room MERLE HAGGARD Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre PAT MATHENY Feb. 5, The Florida Theatre TIM GRIMM Feb. 6, Mudville Music Room LADY ANTEBELLUM, DARIUS RUCKER, THOMSPON SQUARE, KIP MOORE, KACEY MUSGRAVES Feb. 8, Veterans Memorial Arena LARRY MANGUM, BARRY DRAKE, MICKEY CLARK Feb. 8, Mudville Music Room DARLENE LOVE Feb. 13, The Florida Theatre KENNY LOGGINS Feb. 14, The Florida Theatre THE IRISH ROVERS Feb. 15, The Florida Theatre TIM DAISY, MIKOAJ TRZASKA Feb. 17, Karpeles Manuscript Museum THE TEMPTATIONS, THE FOUR TOPS Feb. 20, Florida Theatre THE KENNEDYS March 6, Mudville Music Room MICHAEL BOLTON March 14, The Florida Theatre MICHAEL RENO HARRELL March 15, Mudville Music Room THE BAND PERRY March 21, St. Augustine Amphitheatre LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO March 22, Florida Theatre MOORS & McCUMBER March 22, Mudville Music Room GET THE LED OUT March 27, The Florida Theatre THE BRONX WANDERERS March 28, Thrasher-Horne Center STILL ON THE HILL March 29, Mudville Music Room CHER May 14, Veterans Memorial Arena

CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

CAFE KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269 Live music in the courtyard 6 p.m. every Fri.-Sat., 5 p.m. every Sun. DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer every Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing every Fri.-Sat.

DOG STAR TAVERN, 10 N. Second St., 277-8010 Spade McQuade 9 p.m. Oct. 3. Ben Prestage 9:30 p.m. Oct. 4. Parker Urban Band 9:30 p.m. Oct. 5. Working Class Stiff with real vinyl 8 p.m. every Tue. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Dan Voll 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Live music every weekend HAMMERHEAD TAVERN, 2045 S. Fletcher Rd., 491-7783 Buck Smith, Jim Barcaro every Thur. A DJ every Sun. MERMAID BAR, Florida House Inn, 22 S. Third St., 491-3322 Open mic, 7:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur.

O’KANE’S IRISH PUB, 318 Centre St., 261-1000 Dan Voll 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Turner London Band every Thur.-Sat. THE PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre St., 491-3332 Wes Cobb 9:30 p.m. Oct. 2. Lance Neely 9:30 p.m. Oct. 3. Chuck & Ken 9:30 p.m. Oct. 4. Paul Ivey 3:30 p.m., Grandpa’s Cough Medicine 9:30 p.m. Oct. 5. Schnockered 9:30 p.m. Oct. 6.

Josh McGowan 9:30 p.m. Oct. 7. Buck Smith Project Band every Tue. PLAE, 80 Amelia Circle, Amelia Island Plantation, 277-2132 Gary Ross 7-11 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Live music 5-9 p.m. daily; 1-5 p.m. & 6-10 p.m. every weekend

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

BREWSTER’S MEGAPLEX/PIT/ROC BAR/THE EDGE, 845 University Blvd. N., 223-9850 Saves The Day, Into It. Over It. 7 p.m. Oct. 2. Ill Nino, Agree to Hate 7 p.m. Oct. 5. Jacuzzi Boyz Oct. 8. Wolves at the Gate 6 p.m. Oct. 9. A Loss for Words, Handguns Oct. 10 MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE, 12777 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1090 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

BLUE FISH, 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700 Paul Haftel 8 p.m. every other Fri. upstairs in Elevated Avondale BRICK RESTAURANT, 3585 St. Johns Ave., 387-0606 Bush Doctors every first Fri. & Sat. Jazz every Fri. & Sat. CASBAH CAFE, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave., 387-3582 DJ Keith Karaoke every Tue. DJ Free every Fri. DJ SuZi-Rok every Mon. MOJO NO. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670 Toots Lorraine & the Traffic 10 p.m. Oct. 4. Firewater Tent Revival 10 p.m. Oct. 5 TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 Live music every Fri. Karaoke every Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

COFFEE GRINDER, 9834 Old Baymeadows Rd., 642-7600 DJ Albert Adkins spins every Fri. DJs Adrian Sky, Alberto Diaz & Chris Zachrich every Tue. DJ Michael Stumbaugh every Sat.

BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) 200 FIRST STREET, Courtyard, Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Lauren Fincham Duo 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4. John Shaffer Band 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 BILLY’S BOATHOUSE GRILL, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 4Play 6 p.m. Oct. 4 BRIX TAPHOUSE, 300 N. Second St., 241-4668 Live music, DJs every weekend.

CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 John Thomas Jazz Group Oct. 6. DJ Vito every Thur.

Karaoke with Hal 8 p.m. Sat. Irish music every Sun. ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY, 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337 Live music 7 p.m. Oct. 3 FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 Songwriters every Tue. Ryan Campbell every Wed. Wes Cobb every Thur. Charlie Walker 10:30 p.m. every Mon. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Greensky Bluegrass, Fruition 8 p.m. Oct. 2. SimpleNatural EP release with Mr2theP, Kenyon, Drazzah Hazzerd, Young Lion & Young Prince 8 p.m. Oct. 4. King Kayous, Wheelhouse, Rude Boy DJs 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Frightened Rabbit, Augustines 8 p.m. Oct. 10 ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 108 First St., Neptune Beach, 372-0943 Evan Michael Oct. 4. Paxton Stark Oct. 5. Live music every Thur.-Sat. KC CRAVE, 1161 Beach Blvd., 595-5660 DiCarlo Thompson 8 p.m. Oct. 4 LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024 Open mic every Wed. Matt Still every Thur.

LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Live music Fri. & Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 What Luck?

Oct. 4-5. Dirty Pete Oct. 6. Uncommon Legends every Wed. Wits End every Sun. Little Green Men every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Mark O’Quinn Oct. 2. Barrett Jockers Oct. 3. Wes Cobb Oct. 4.

Redneck Hummus Oct. 9 MEZZA LUNA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Rick Johnson 6 p.m. every Thur.

MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 DieDra & the Ruff Pro Band 10 p.m. Oct. 10 MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070 Wes Cobb 10 p.m. every Tue. DJ Austin Williams Karaoke 9 p.m.

Wed., Sat. & Sun. DJ Papa Sugar every Mon., Thur. & Fri. NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Live music every Fri.-Sat. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Chelsea Saddler 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4. Live music every Thur.-Sat. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Javier Perez every Thur.

PIER CANTINA, 412 N. First St., 246-6454 Charlie Walker 10:30 p.m. Oct. 4. Charlie Walker 3 p.m., Split Tone 8 p.m.

Oct. 6 POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach,

241-7637 Be Easy every Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Oct. 2. Lyons Oct. 3. Monkey Wrench Oct. 4-5. Live music Thur.-Sun. THE TAVERN ON 1ST, 401 N. First St., 435-4124 Live music 10 p.m. every Thur.

THE WINE BAR, 320 N. First St., 372-0211 Live music every Sat.-Sun. WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1585 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508 Live music every Thur.-Sat.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N., 1904jax.com The Mantras 6 p.m. Oct. 2. Youngblood Brass Band 9 p.m. Oct. 3.

Up Until Now, S.P.O.R.E. 9 p.m. Oct. 4. Original Music Fest Oct. 5. Open mic every Tue. ATTICUS BAR, 325 W. Forsyth St., 634-8813 Queef Huffer, Rottenness 8 p.m. Oct. 3. Twitching Tongues, Turnstile, Downpresser 8 p.m. Oct. 10 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 677-2977 Have Gun, Will Travel 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Aloha Radio, The Crowkeepers 9 p.m. Oct. 5. Fresh daily, Bitches is Crazy, Willie Evans Jr. Oct. 6 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth, 354-0666 DJ Synsonic spins Tue. & Fri. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall Karaoke Mon. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Ste. 176, 374-1247 Braxton Adamson 5-8 p.m. and live band 9 p.m. Oct. 4 THE JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Edward Waters Marching Band 5 p.m. Oct. 4. Jasmine Rhey 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Palm Trees & Power Lines, Yankee Slickers, Original Music Fest Oct. 5.

MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis spins 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Wed. DJ Vinn spins Top 40 every Thur. DJ 007 spins every Fri. DJ Shotgun every Sat. MAVERICKS, The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Craig Campbell 6 p.m. Oct. 4. Lauren Elise 2 p.m., The Matt Sams Band 5:15 p.m., Savanna Leigh Bassett 7 p.m. Oct. 5. Brett Eldredge Oct. 11. Joe Buck, Big Tasty spin every Thur.-Sat. NORTHSTAR THE PIZZA BAR, 119 E. Bay St., 860-5451 Open mic night every Wed. DJ SwitchGear every Thur.

UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 353-6067 Big Daddy Love, So So Glos Oct. 2. Eilen Jewell 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Original Music Fest Oct. 5. Fjord Explorer & Screamin’ Eagle every Thur. Old Time Jam every Tue.

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Blues Lightning 10 p.m. Oct. 3. 7 Street Band 10 p.m. Oct. 4.

Wes Cobb 10 p.m. Oct. 5Live music Wed.-Sat. MERCURY MOON, 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999 DJ Ty every Thur.

Buck Smith every Mon. Blistur every Wed. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Open mic 9 p.m. Oct. 3. Lisa & the Madhatters 9:30 p.m. Oct. 4. Molly Hatchet, Jamie Davis xx p.m. Oct. 5. Deck music 5 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 4:30 p.m. every Sun.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

BRUCCI’S PIZZA, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36, 223-6913 Mike Shackelford 6:30 p.m. every Sat. & Mon. CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Skytrain 9 p.m. Oct. 5. Live music every Wed. Karaoke every Thur. & Sun. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22, 220-6766 Karaoke Dude every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SALSA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 46, 992-8402 Live guitar music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. & Sat.

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Jazz 7 pm., Karaoke 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Mon.-Thur.

Dennis Klee & the World’s Most Talented Waitstaff Fri. & Sat. JOHNNY ANGELS, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 997-9850 Karaoke 7 p.m. every Sat. RACK EM UP, 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., Ste. 205, 262-4030 DJ Randall Karaoke Sun., Wed. Live music every Sat.

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 Live music every Wed., Fri.-Sat. Karaoke with Ms. T 9:30 p.m. every Thur.

THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Live music every Thur.-Sat.

PALATKA

DOWNTOWN BLUES BAR & GRILLE, 714 St. Johns Ave., 386-325-5454 Little Mike & the Tornadoes, Queen Sheba, Tony O, 9 p.m. Oct. 5

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

ALICE & PETE’S PUB, 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., 285-7777 Live music 5 p.m. every Wed., 8 p.m. every Sat. ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 820 A1A N., Ste. E-18, 834-2492 John Austill Oct. 4. Lance Neely Oct. 5. Live music Fri.-Sat. PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Aaron Koerner 6-8 p.m. Oct. 2. Rebecca Day, Jen Thompson 6-10 p.m. Oct. 3.

Mark O’Quinn 8 p.m.-mid. Oct. 4. Steve Carey 7-11 p.m. Oct. 5, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 9. Live music Fri.-Sat. SoundStage Sun. SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13, Ste. 113, 287-7226 Live music Thur.-Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Paxton Stark 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2. Gary Starling Group 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3. Willow Wacks 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4. Brady 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5. Deron Baker 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Ray & Taylor 8:30 p.m. every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. METRO/RAINBOW ROOM, 859 Willowbranch Ave., 388-8719 Karaoke Rob spins 10 p.m. Sun.-Wed. DJ Zeke Smith spins Fri. DJ Michael Murphy spins 10 p.m. Sat. MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 The First Week of August 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Seven J, Trevaris Tutt, Ill Day, Chalwel, Neek Smif 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 554-6865 Connor Blackley, Blue Muse Jazz, Teddy Washington, Tambor, UNF Jazz Ensemble III Oct. 5

ST. AUGUSTINE

A1A ALE WORKS, 1 King St., 829-2977 Billy Bowers 8 p.m.

Oct. 3. Live music every Thur.-Sat. ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Yancy Clegg 8:30 p.m. Oct. 4. Katie & Frankie Oct. 5. Smokin’ Joe open mic 7 p.m. Tue. CELLAR UPSTAIRS, San Sebastian Winery, 826-1594 The Committee 7-11 p.m. Oct. 4-5. Vinny Jacobs 2-5 p.m.

Oct. 6 CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993 Live music every Fri. & Sat. Chelsea Saddler every Sun. DOS COFFEE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Taylor Roberts & Co. every Fri. The Residents spin every Sat. HARRY’S, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Billy Bowers 6 p.m. Oct. 9. Live music every Fri. MI CASA CAFE, 69 St. George St., 824-9317 Chelsea Saddler every Mon., Tue. & Thur. Elizabeth Roth 11 a.m. every Sun. MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19 1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Live music 9 p.m. Oct. 4-5, 1 p.m. Oct. 6. Todd & Molly Jones every Wed. Aaron Esposito every Thur. Donny Brazile Tue. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264 Dewey Via, Chris McVie 10 p.m. Oct. 4. Oh No! 10 p.m. Oct. 5 THE ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-9311 Rehab 10 p.m. Oct. 2. Willy Porter 9 p.m. Oct. 3.

Baths 9 p.m. Oct. 13 PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM, 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100 Dennis Fermin Spanish Guitar 3-6 p.m. every Mon. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 825-4959 Queen Beef, DJ Dots, Trailer Park Princess 9 p.m. Oct. 2 THE STANDARD, 200 Anastasia Blvd., 342-2187 Yellowman, Sagittarius Band 8 p.m. Oct. 5 THE TASTING ROOM, 25 Cuna St., 810-2400 Dennis Fermin Spanish Guitar Band every Sat. TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Hooch 9 p.m.

Oct. 4-5. Matanzas Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth every Sat.

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

BAHAMA BREEZE, 10205 River Coast Dr., 646-1031 Live music every Tue.-Sun. BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Dr., 345-3466 Live music 5 p.m. every Wed., 9 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. WHISKY RIVER, 4850 Big Island Dr., 645-5571 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

HURRICANE GRILL & WINGS, 1615 Hendricks Ave., 393-7933 Open mic with Job Meiller 8-11 p.m. every Tue. JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Bastard Sons 8 p.m. Oct. 3. Clay Benjamin Band 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Taproot, Righteous Vendetta 8 p.m. Oct. 5 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Julie Durden 8 p.m. Oct. 3. David Russell, John Peyton, Eric Bowden 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9. Joshua Bowlus Trio 8 p.m. Oct. 10.

RIVER CITY BREWING CO., 835 Museum Cir., 398-2299 DJs spin every Thur. Live music every Fri.

SOUTHSIDE

AROMAS CIGARS & WINE BAR, 4372 Southside Blvd., Ste. 101, 928-0515 Will Hurley every Fri. Bill Rice every Sat. CORNER BISTRO, 9823 Tapestry Park Circle, 619-1931 Matt Hall every Tue. & Sat. Bill Rice & Dave every Wed. ISLAND GIRL, 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115, 854-6060 Ledbedder Oct. 4. The Druids Oct. 5. Live music Fri.-Sat. LATITUDE 30, 10370 Philips Highway, 365-5555 VJ Didactic 9 p.m. Oct. 3. Live music 9 p.m. Oct. 4-5 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 997-1955 Charlie Walker Oct. 3. Jameyal Oct. 4 & 10. Paul Haftel Oct. 5 PURE NIGHTCLUB, 8206 Philips Highway, 800-694-1253 Live music Fri.-Sat. SEVEN BRIDGES, 9735 Gate Pkwy. N., 997-1999 Pop Muzik 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Chuck Nash every Thur. Live music 10 p.m. every Fri. TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Dave Luthra, The Gootch Oct. 4. Live music every Fri.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

DAMES POINT MARINA, 4542 Irving Rd., 751-3043 Mile Train Oct. 6 THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Live music every Fri.-Sat. TUCKERS HIGHWAY 17 TAVERN, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Cupid’s Alley 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Methuselah Bone 5 p.m.

Oct. 6. Live music every Fri. & Sat. To get your musical group listed: send band name, time, date, venue, address, city, admission price, and a contact number to print, to events@folioweekly.com. Deadline is 4 p.m. Tue., eight days before publication.

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Kai Campos (left) and Dom Maker are Mount Kimbie. Photo: Chris Rhodes

Miniature Masterpieces

U.K. duo constructs epic electronic jams that defy dance-music roots MOUNT KIMBIE with JONWAYNE, D33Z and VLAD THE INHALER 8 p.m. Oct. 12 Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco Tickets: $13 398-7496, jaxlive.com

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hough Kai Campos and Dom Maker of U.K. duo Mount Kimbie are best classified as electronic artists, their meticulously crafted tunes treat that categorization as a mere jumping-off point for more adventurous sonic exploration. Undeniably rooted in dubstep, Mount Kimbie’s early work, including the 2010 debut album “Crooks & Lovers,” still felt like a more chilled-out version of that 140-beats-perminute, bass-drop party music.

But Mount Kimbie’s 2013 sophomore record, “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth,” feels markedly more natural, replacing early field recordings with gently manipulated live instrumentation, a dance-all-night vibe with an ominous chill, straight-up instrumentals with stunning lyrical turns from Campos and guest star King Krule, and scrupulous perfection with a warm analog attitude. Folio Weekly chatted with Campos about sound, songwriting and space just before he and Maker jumped the pond for an extended U.S. tour.

Folio Weekly: Listening to the intricate soundscapes of “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth,” it seems like they’d be hard to recreate live. Is that true?

Kai Campos: When we’re making a record, we try not to think about how we’re going to perform it live. In fact, the first record was quite a challenge to translate into the live setting.

And we’re still working on stuff from the new album, which we haven’t really decided how we want to present. We’re kind of making it up as we go along on this one, which is quite fun and hopefully adds a slight element of rawness to what we’re doing. It’s good that the record has enough life in it to keep changing.

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F.W.: Reviews of “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth” commented on its raw, more organic feeling. Was that a conscious effort on your and Dom’s part?

K.C.: We never said it in words, but we both knew that we wanted to do something less clinical — less focused on the finicky details.

That came from the amount that we were playing live and the energy we were getting from that, which led us away from the micro-editing we’d done before. Also, we had a deeper interest in using analog equipment, which you can’t always be in total control of. So yeah, I think it is a more natural record in that sense.

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F.W.: How does the writing process work for Mount Kimbie?

K.C.: What interests me quite heavily is sound; that’s what gets me excited about going into the studio in the first place. I enjoy the craft of songwriting, but sound sets the tone or the mood, and then we try and fit the songwriting around that. I guess that’s why our stuff seems miniature in a sense — based around quiet noises. “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth” was also the first record with material that we had the opportunity to play live before it was recorded, which helped with the writing process.

F.W.: Are you and Dom able to write new music while touring?

K.C.: We’ve always struggled with that. But on our upcoming U.S. run, we’re driving in a big bus with more bunks than we know what to do with, which should give us a bit more space and a lot more time to work.

F.W.: You’ve utilized field recordings a lot. What’s the allure of those?

K.C.: With our earlier work, those kinds of found sounds were quite the catalyst. Without many resources in terms of equipment, it was a way for us to inject an analog element into a digital process — turning something with a certain unpredictability that wasn’t necessarily musical into a natural human groove that was rhythmic or tonal.

F.W.: Do you think that kind of unconventional outlook is what allowed Mount Kimbie to shift the electronic music paradigm? Lots of young bands cite your work as inspiration.

K.C.: Firstly, it’s very flattering and positive when somebody says that what you’ve done has been the catalyst for doing work. I didn’t really think that would ever happen. But at the same time, we’re not trying to fit in with a particular scene. Our first EP was wildly different than what [our record label] at the time was putting out — it was definitely influenced by dance music but also quite personal and one of the weirdest things we put out. It’s important to trust that weirder side of your creative output.

Nearly every time I’ve felt embarrassed to show somebody a piece of work, it’s ended up being one of our better songs. It’s so important for people to plow their own path.

Nick McGregor themail@folioweekly.com

Not Your Average Dorks

St. Augustine show marks the return of an impressive collective of contemporary artists ART DORKS RISE Reception 5-11 p.m. Oct. 4; exhibits through Nov. 30 Space:Eight Gallery, 228 W. King St., St. Augustine Gallery hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday (after hours by appointment) Admission: Free 829-2838, spaceeight.com, rise.artdorks.com

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young girl with sparking green eyes and a brunette ponytail is kneeling in front of an urn. Instead of planting flowers, she’s attempting to grow a childlike penguin sitting atop a pink bunny atop a giraffe atop a blue sheep atop a kangaroo.

The image, “Ascent of Animals” by painter Matt Pasquarello, is just one of the 30 original works to be presented at the “Art Dorks Rise” exhibit, which opens Friday, Oct. 4. The group show at Space:Eight Gallery in downtown St. Augustine features 30 international artists from the Art Dorks Collective. It’s also one of the largest contemporary art shows to arrive in Northeast Florida.

So just what is the Art Dorks Collective and why is it such a big deal? Back in 2004, Atlantabased artist Brendan Danielsson started an online art blog called “Art Dorks.” The site attracted a slew of like-minded lowbrow and surrealist artists who eventually banded together to organize group shows in several galleries across America. The term lowbrow art — also known as pop surrealism — is credited to Juztapoz magazine founder Robert Williams, who used the term to describe styles that were directly opposite of “highbrow” art, including art from hot-rod culture, punk rock, and graffiti and poster designs.

The blog shut down in 2006, but the group stayed together until its last show in 2008. The new “Art Dorks Rise” event in St. Augustine will be the first time the collective has shown together in more than five years. It features some of the original Art Dorks members as well as some newcomers.

Rob DePiazza, owner of Space:Eight Gallery, has been a fan of Danielsson’s work since 2007, when he saw it featured in HiFructose Magazine.

“I immediately knew I wanted to do a show with him, and we started communicating,” DePiazza said. “Due to his schedule and us closing the gallery for a couple years due to construction, it wasn’t until 2011, when I reopened the space, that we reconnected.”

Over the past year, Danielsson and DePiazza tossed around ideas for a Northeast Florida-based event. “What began as a solo show turned into a small Atlanta-based group show which then morphed into the ‘Art Dorks Rise’ show, once Brendan decided to resurrect the collective,” DePiazza said.

Most artists from the second generation of Art Dorks are considered lowbrow, but DePiazza says the 30 original pieces to be exhibited are in

Matt Pasquarello’s “Ascent of Animals,” Kim Scott’s “Funny Bone” and Christian Rex van Minnen’s “Romans Ate the Fetal Rabbits Zulu” are among the featured pieces in “Art Dorks Rise.” Photos: Courtesy Art Dorks Collective

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a “plethora of styles, mediums and formats.”

Danielsson, the creator of Art Dorks, produces work that mirrors a cast of carnivallike characters on very bad acid trips. There’s “Randy,” a blue-haired, silver-chain-wearing, gap-toothed guy who looks like he’s drugged out on crystal meth. Then there’s “Green,” a melancholy woman in shades of emerald and jade whose face is unjustly sagging.

Other work featured in the show includes Aeron Alfrey’s macabre imagery and Charles Glaubitz’s illustrations influenced by myth, mysticism and quantum physics, as well as those of award-winning illustrator Kristian Olson, who creates both digital and traditional media that reflect an other-worldly sense of mystery and fear.

“I believe this to be the biggest collection of major new contemporary artists to ever display in Northeast Florida,” DePiazza said. “I have to give credit to Brendan Danielsson for entrusting Space:Eight to host this exhibition, and I’m extremely humbled at the opportunity.”

According to DePiazza, quite a few of the artists featured will be in attendance for the exhibition’s Oct. 4 opening. There will also be music by DJ Damian Lee, and Bold City

Brewery is on hand with some cold libations.

The show, for which admission is free, runs through Nov. 30.

DePiazza is so excited about the show, he took out a full-page ad to promote it in Hi-Fructose Magazine, one of lowbrow art’s premier publications.

“All of these artists are of big-name magnitude. They all are known internationally and have the accolades to back it up,” he said.

“I hope all of Northeast Florida art lovers take advantage of this chance to see the work of these amazing artists in person, as well as meet a number of the Dorks at the opening.”

ART DORKS COLLECTIVE Artists from the collective for the exhibit “Art Dorks Rise” include Aeron Alfrey, Dan Barry, John Casey, David Chung, Brendan Danielsson, Justin DeGarmo, Mark Elliott, Jad Fair, Joseph Daniel Fiedler, Charles Glaubitz, Robert Hardgrave, Gregory Hergert, Gregory Jacobsen, Jonnie Jacquet, Colin Johnson, Jason Limon, Jon MacNair, Dan May, Christian Rex van Minnen, Chris Mostyn, Heiko Müller, Jason Murphy, Katie Ridley Murphy, Kristian Olson, Matthew Pasquarello, Anthony Pontius, Meagan Ridley, Kim Scott, Scot Sothern and Scott D. Wilson.

Kara Pound themail@folioweekly.com

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MORE ARTS Find more events and submit your own at folioweekly.com/calendar.

PERFORMANCE

SHOW & TELL The three-year anniversary show includes art, music and performance, spoken word, poetry and comedy with Braided Light Dance Project, JacksonVegas, Squeedlepuss, Cringe, Matt Nunn & Friends, Jimmy Locksmith, DJ Dr. Vernon during and after First Wednesday Art Walk, 5 p.m.-midnight Oct. 2 at Club TSI Discotheque, 333 E. Bay St., Downtown, facebook.com/showandtelljax.

SPOKEN WORD Local poets and wordsmiths sound off 7 p.m. Oct. 2 and every first Thur. of the month at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com.

WEEKEND COMEDY Cindy Williams (“Laverne & Shirley”) stars in this show about two couples accidentally booked in the same room for a weekend, through Oct. 20 (doors 6 p.m.

Tue.-Sun.; 11 a.m. Sat.; noon and 6 p.m. Sun.) at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, dinner and a show $43-$49, reservations required, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

FIRST COAST CLASSIC DANCESPORT CHAMPIONSHIP Ballroom and Latin dancers compete in the 23rd annual event; day sessions are 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 3-5; doors open for evening shows 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3-5 at Renaissance World Golf Village, 500 S. Legacy Trail, St. Augustine. Tickets: $25 for day sessions, $40-$55 for night shows, $95-$205 for dinner/show/VIP packages, 338-9219, firstcoastclassic.com.

THE LOVE LIST The comedy about love and the ideal mate is staged Oct. 3-19 (8 p.m. Thur.-Sat., 2 p.m. Oct. 13), with adult content, at Amelia Community Theatre, 207 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, $10-$20, 261-6749, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.

SPAMALOT The three-time Tony-winning musical by Eric Idle (“lovingly ripped off from” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”) continues through Oct. 13 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $10-$25, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN A musical performance of Mel Brooks’ classic film continues on the main stage through Oct. 12 (8 p.m. Thur.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun.) at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, $16-$28, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org.

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE Artist Series presents this touring stage show, featuring Season 8 stars from NBC’s No. 1 TV show, 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at the T-U Center, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $32-$92; children 12 and younger $15.50-$23, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

HOTBED HOTEL A couple schemes to sell their struggling Florida Keys hotel. Michael Parker’s farce is staged 8 p.m.

Oct. 4-5 and 3 p.m. Oct. 6 at Orange Park Community Theatre, 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, $15, 276-2599, opct.org.

FLORIDA BLACK EXPO GOSPEL BEST SHOWCASE The 12th annual expo, showcasing choirs, groups, youth musicians and dancers, is hosted by BET’s Bobby Jones, Oct. 5 at Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St., Downtown, 727-7451.

CHECK, PLEASE A play set in a restaurant within a restaurant, written by Jacksonville native Jonathan Rand, is staged Oct. 6, 13, 20 and 27, Nov. 3, 10 and 17 – dinner at 6 p.m., show at 7 p.m. – at Raintree Restaurant Dinner Theater, 102 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, $39.95, 824-7211, raintreerestaurant.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

CALL FOR TACTILE ART The St. Augustine Art Association accepts touchable art that’s visually appealing and engaging for the blind for its 12th annual Tactile Art Show, noon-4 p.m.

Oct. 2 at 22 Marine St., St. Augustine. The show opens Oct. 4, 824-2310, staaa.org.

OPEN MIC POETRY JAM Jacksonville Public Library hosts the Poetry Jam, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 2 during First Wednesday Art Walk – with short story contest winners announced 6:30 p.m.

– at Main Library Café, 303 Laura St. N., Downtown, free.

NASSAU COMMUNITY BAND The Nassau Community Band seeks new members for its 11th season as a multigenerational ensemble; rehearsals 6 p.m. Oct. 3 and every Thur. in Yulee Middle School band room, 85439 Miner Road, 277-1257, contactinfo@nassaucommunityband.com, nassaucommunityband.com.

POETRY READING AND DISCUSSION Poet Joseph Millar discusses writing poetry, teaching creative writing and working as a telephone repairman, 5 p.m. Oct. 3 at Flagler College’s Gamache-Koger Theater, Ringhaver Student Center, 50 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, free, 819-6339, flagler.edu/our-community/events/writers-in-residence for more information.

WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS Jennie Szaltis offers workshops for novices in a weekend series, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 4, 10 a.m.

Oct. 5 and 1 p.m. Oct. 6 at 1 Fleet Landing Blvd., Atlantic Beach; $155 (plus $15 optional supply rental), 525-3959.

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ATTACK DANCE TEAM AUDITIONS The Jacksonville Sharks hold final auditions, 2 p.m. Oct. 5 at Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Highway, Southside; audition fee $60, attack@ jaxsharks.com, jaxsharks.com/danceteam/auditions.

AUDITIONS FOR INDIE FILM Cultivate Films auditions for lead, supporting and background roles in an indie film, Oct. 5-6, to begin shooting here in December or January.

For more information, send headshots and résumés to christmasweddingbaby@gmail.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE COMMUNITY CHORUS REHEARSALS “A Celtic Christmas Celebration” rehearsals are held 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Memorial Presbyterian Church’s Fellowship Hall, 36 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 808-1904, staugustinecommunitychorus.org.

THE WHITE PARTY The African dance party and gala is held 7-10:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $25, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org.

SONGWRITER RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS The Jacksonville Songwriter Residency, a Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville grant project, accepts applications for residency opportunities in the Spark District through Oct. 15. As many as 12 residencies are available for 2013-’14 with durations of 1-4 weeks and performance opportunities at Downtown Jacksonville venues. Applications can be completed online at jacksonvillesongwriter.org.

MICHAEL GOLDBERG IN CONTEXT New York-based independent curator and art critic Karen Wilkin, a contributor to MOCA Jacksonville’s “Abstraction Over Time: The Paintings of Michael Goldberg,” discusses the artist, 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com.

ROWITA AWARD NOMINATIONS The St. Johns Cultural Council is accepting nominations for Recognizing Outstanding Women in the Arts Awards through Dec. 1. For information on application criteria, call 808-7330 or go to stjohnsculture.com.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

NAVY BAND SOUTHEAST TGIF The Navy Band Southeast’s TGIF performs a concert 7 p.m.

Oct. 2 at Main Library Promenade Gallery, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 630-2665, jplmusic.blogspot.com.

SATURDAY EVENING JAZZ The jazz series is 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Sat. with performances by the John Shaffer Band Oct. 5, Just Jazz Oct. 12, Jarell Harris & Sweet Inspiration Oct. 19 and The Session Oct. 26 at 200 First Street, Neptune Beach, free, 249-2922, 200firststreet.com.

GERSHWIN & TCHAIKOVSKY The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-’14 season-opener includes an American classic by Gershwin, a piano concerto by Ravel featuring soloist Teddy Abrams, conducting from the piano, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 and 8 p.m.

Oct. 4-5 at the T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $25-$72, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org.

TONY STEVE Percussion Professor Steve plays with a percussion trio, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd., Arlington, free, 256-7677, ju.edu.

STEVE STRAWLEY The jazz trumpeter performs a tribute to Miles Davis 8 p.m. Oct. 5 at Jazzland Café, 1324 University Blvd. N., Arlington, $10, 240-1009, jazzlandcafe.com.

ALEXANDER KOBRIN The Van Cliburn gold-medal-winning pianist appears 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $30, 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com.

KIM WATERS The Jazz Jamm is held 7 and 10 p.m. Oct. 5 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $25, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com.

AMELIA ISLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL Mindi Abair, featured saxophonist on “American Idol” in ’11 and ’12, joins the Royal Crown Revue and the Dynamic Les DeMerle Band with Bonnie Eisele as featured performers. More than 15 concerts feature the Spare Rib Six, DieDra & the Ruff Pro Band, El Nino & the Latin Jazz Knights, Jesse Jones Jr., Bobby Pickwood and Mike Levine, Oct. 6-13 at venues in Fernandina Beach (Omni Amelia Island Plantation Racquet Park, Amelia Park, Sandy Bottoms Beach Bar & Grill); $15-$100 for individual tickets (one free concert), $250 for all-jazz pass, 504-4772, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.

JACKSONVILLE CAMERATA Oboist Claudia Minch, violinists Timothy Edwards and Swantje Biernacki, violist Jorge Pena and cellist Brittany Maroney perform with countertenor Hector Gonzalez and organist Michael Mastronicola, 6 p.m.

Oct. 6 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 4171 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, free, 737-8488.

DR. GARY SMART PIANO RECITAL The program features music by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Bldg. 45, Southside, free, 620-2878, unf.edu.

A CELTIC CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION REHEARSALS St. Augustine Community Chorus rehearses singers for “A Celtic Christmas Celebration” and Handel’s “Messiah” 6:50-9 p.m. every Tue., beginning Oct. 8, at Memorial Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 36 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, membership is $25, 808-1904, staugustinecommunitychorus.org.

WORLD MUSIC DAYS CONCERT UNF Orchestra joins the

Guest conductor Teddy Abrams leads the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and plays piano in Gershwin & Tchaikovsky as the symphony opens its 2013-’14 season Oct. 3-5 at the Times-Union Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall in Downtown Jacksonville. Photo: Courtesy Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Daniel Pearl Harmony for Humanity Worldwide Concerts Celebration, 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at UNF’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Drive, Southside, free, 620-2878, unf.edu.

THE EVOLUTION OF GOSPEL The concert is 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at St. Mary’s Missionary Baptist Church, 69 Washington St., St. Augustine, free, 824-1314.

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK An art walk, featuring 30-40 galleries, museums and businesses and spanning 15 blocks, is held 5-9 p.m. Oct. 2 and every first Wed. in Downtown Jacksonville. For an events map, go to downtownjacksonville. org/marketing; iloveartwalk.com.

MID-WEEK MARKET Arts and crafts, local produce and live music are featured 3-6 p.m. Oct. 2 and every Wed. at Bull Memorial Park, corner of East Coast Drive and Seventh Street, Atlantic Beach, 247-5800.

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK The tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is held Oct. 4 and every first Fri., with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065.

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts and local produce are offered 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 4 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, 353-1188.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional artists, strolling performers, bands and a farmers market are featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 5 and every Sat. at 715 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 554-6865, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

COMMUNITY FIRST SATURDAY The event, held the first Sat. of each month, features Art in the Park, free art classes in the Hogan Street Gazebo, presented by Wine & Canvas, other arts and family activities, food trucks on Pearl Street, and a music stage as part of the Jacksonville Original Music Fest, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 5 on Northbank Riverwalk in Downtown Jacksonville, free, communityfirstsaturdays.com.

JAX BEACH ART WALK More than 30 local artists display their works, 5-9 p.m. Oct. 8 and every second Tue., along First Street between Beach Boulevard and Fifth Avenue North, Jax Beach. For a list of artists and businesses, go to betterjaxbeach.com/jax-beach-art-walk.html.

MUSEUMS

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. “A Painter and a Potter: Mary Ann Bryan and Charlie Brown,” featuring artists from Mayport Village, is on display through Dec. 1.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/crispellert. “Clockwise” – an exhibit by multimedia artist Liz Rodda, who examines fate, personal control and the future through sculpture and video – continues through Oct. 18.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org. “La Florida,” presenting native and Spanish colonial artifacts celebrating 500 years of

Florida art, runs through Oct. 6.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jaxfrm.html.

“Better Left Unsaid,” an exhibit of sculpture and steampunk art by Jim Smith and black-and-white photography by Mary Atwood, is on display through Nov. 1. “Russia,” a history of Russia from Peter the Great to the first conquest of space, is on display through Dec. 28. The permanent collection includes other rare manuscripts.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. The permanent collection features relics from America’s Gilded Age, exhibited on three floors.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com.

“Kept Time: Photographs by Joseph D. Jachna” is on display through Oct. 20. “Crush,” an exhibit of works by Heather Cox, explores the distillation of the human figure; it continues through Oct. 27 as part of Project Atrium.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. “Great Balls of Fire: Comets, Asteroids and Meteors,” developed by The Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive Learning, examines risk related to an asteroid hitting Earth and what scientists can learn from the objects. The exhibit is displayed through Dec. 31.

RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com. The exhibit “Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner, Connecting Communities Through Language” continues through Dec. 31. Modeled after Harlem’s “Amateur Night at the Apollo,” host searches are held 7:30-10:30 p.m. every first Fri. of the month, $5.50.

GALLERIES

AMIRO ART & FOUND GALLERY 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460, amiroartandfound.com. Works by Ginny Bullard, Estella Fransbergen, Deane Kellogg, Wendy Mandel McDaniel, Jan Tomlinson Master and Marcia Myrick Siany are featured.

THE ART CENTER II 229 N. Hogan St., Downtown, 355-1757.

A children’s art exhibit is on display Oct. 2-31.

THE ART CENTER MAIN GALLERY 31 W. Adams St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org/main.html. Laura Davis Henningsen is the featured artist for October.

THE ART CENTER PREMIERE GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org/premier.html. The juried exhibit “Creatures” opens Oct. 3 and is on display through Nov. 12.

AVONDALE ARTWORKS 3562 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 384-8797, avondaleartworks.com. British artist and philanthropist Mackenzie Thorpe exhibits his work.

Reservations are required for meet-the-artist receptions, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 4-5; the exhibit runs through Oct. 31.

CYPRESS VILLAGE ART LEAGUE 4600 Middleton Park Circle, Southside, 223-6100. “Coastal Atlantic,” an exhibit of Gordon Russell’s landscape paintings, is on display through Oct. 17.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. Atlantic Beach artist Melinda Bradshaw’s work is

Arts on display through Oct. 15.

GALLERY725 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 5, Atlantic Beach, 345-9320, gallery725.com. “The Elements: Metal” – a multimedia exhibit featuring works by Ken Daga, “Flew” (Frank Lewis), Kelly Meagher, Linda Olsen, Shayna Raymond, Matthew Winghart and Tonsenia Yonn – continues through Nov. 10.

HASKELL GALLERY & DISPLAY CASES Jacksonville International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Road, Northside, 741-3546. Work by Diane Fraser and Mary Atwood (Haskell Gallery), Jim Smith (Connector Bridge Art display case before security) and Chris Moore (Concourse A and C display cases after security) are on display through Dec. 31.

HIGHWAY GALLERY floridamininggallery.com/exhibitions/ the-highway-gallery. Nine artists – Nathaniel Artkart Price, Ken Daga, Ashley C. Waldvogel, Brianna Angelakis, Christina Foard, Linda Olsen, Sara Pedigo, Zach Fitchner and Russell Maycumber – will be featured on digital billboards throughout the city in collaboration with Clear Channel of Jacksonville through July 2014.

ISLAND ART ASSOCIATION18 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7020. Paula M. Porterfield-Izzo’s “Seascape Portraits” are featured for October. An artist’s reception is held 5-8 p.m. Oct. 12.

ISLAND LIFE GRILL 2245 Plantation Center Drive, Fleming Island, 215-4522, artguildoforangepark.com. “Art on Wheels,” the Art Guild of Orange Park’s car and motorcycle show, is held 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 27.

THE JACKSONVILLE LANDING 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, cavendishprojects.com. “Hot-N-Fresh,” an original street exhibit organized by Michael and Michele Cavendish that includes stencil and spray paint art, is on display through Dec. 15 in the upstairs food court.

J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200. “Paint Techtonics,” an exhibit of works by painter Leslie Wayne (who uses oils in a sculptural manner to build 3-D compositions), continues through Nov. 1.

JUICE, A JEN JONES GALLERY 1 Independent Drive, Wells Fargo Center, Downtown, jenjonesart.com. The Florida Highwaymen art show, sale and benefit for North Florida Land Trust, featuring artists James Gibson and A.J. Brown, is held 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 2-6, including a reception for First Wednesday Art Walk, 5:30-9 p.m. Oct. 2, featuring a short film on the Highwaymen.

KENT GALLERY FSCJ Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Northside, 381-3674. “UKIYO – Floating World,” an exhibit by paper cut artist Hiromi Moneyhun, continues through Oct. 22.

An exhibit of Troy Ettriem’s works opens with a reception 6-8 p.m. Oct. 29 and continues through Nov. 19.

METACUSP GALLERY 2650 Rosselle St., Riverside, 813-223-6190, metacusp.com. “Still Lifes,” paintings of objects on color fields by Jeff Whipple, is on display through Oct. 5.

Arts

PALENCIA GALLERY 701 Market St., Ste. 107A, St. Augustine, 819-1584, palenciafineartsacademy.com. “Passport: Cambodia,” an exhibit of Gina Torkos’ oil paintings created from her experiences traveling in Cambodia, opens with a reception 6-8 p.m. Nov. 9 and continues through Dec. 20.

PLUM GALLERY 9 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069. The works of painter Karlene McConnell, glass artist Thomas Long and painter Sara Pedigo are featured in an exhibit, 5-9 p.m. Oct. 4.

REMBRANDTZ GALLERY 131 King St., St. Augustine, 829-0065, rembrandtz.com. “A New Light,” an exhibit of paintings and mosaics, opens for First Friday Art Walk, 5-8 p.m. Oct. 4, and continues through October. The gallery features work by more than 50 artists.

ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Administration Building, 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 808-7330, stjohnsculture.com. Roger Bansemer’s “La Florida,” an exhibit featuring vanishing Florida landscapes, continues through Oct. 24.

SEVENTH STREET GALLERY 14 S. Seventh St., Fernandina Beach, 432-8330. “Inclinations of the Moment,” an exhibit of works by sculptor and painter Arthur Herman, opens with a reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 12. The exhibit is on display Oct. 19 and 26.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. The gallery, featuring works by more than 30 local artists, including MacTruque, Tayloe McDonald, Pablo Rivera, Jane Shirek and Grant Ward, celebrates its new location during First Wednesday Art Walk, 5-9 p.m. Oct. 2.

SPACE:EIGHT 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 829-2838, spaceeight.com. “Art Dorks Rise,” an exhibit by the Art Dorks Collective, opens with a reception 5-11 p.m. Oct. 4, and continues through Nov. 30.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310, staaa.org. The 12th annual Tactile Art Show, featuring touchable art that’s visually appealing and engaging for the blind, opens with a reception during First Friday Art Walk, 5-9 p.m. Oct. 4 and runs through Oct. 27.

STELLERS GALLERY AT PONTE VEDRA 240 A1A N., Ste. 13, Ponte Vedra Beach, 273-6065, stellersgallery.com.

“Synergy,” an exhibit featuring works by painters Jennifer J.L. Jones, Laura Lacambra Shubert, Enrique Mora and Henry Von Genk III, opens with a reception held 5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 18.

For a complete list of galleries, log on to folioweekly.com. To list your event, send info – time, date, location (street address, city), admission price and contact number to print – to David Johnson, 9456 Philips Hwy., Ste. 11, Jacksonville FL 32256 or email events@folioweekly.com. The deadline is 4 p.m. Monday, nine days before publication.

Linda Olsen’s “Trojan Horse” (pictured) is among the pieces in “The Elements: Metal” – a multimedia exhibit that also features works by Ken Daga, Flew (Frank Lewis), Kelly Meagher, Shayna Raymond, Matthew Winghart and Tonsenia Yonn – through Nov. 10 at Gallery725 in Atlantic Beach.

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Pattaya Thai Grille hosts its annual benefit with live music, a large buffet, beer and wine, for the Baangerda AIDS orphanage in Thailand (pictured). Flagship Romance (Shawn Fisher, Jordyn Jackson), Jasmine Rhey, Eric Charlton, Skye Bailey and Ron Rodriguez perform at the benefit at 5-10 p.m. Oct. 5 at Pattaya Thai on the Southside.

EVENTS

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS The Silent Witness exhibit, to honor survivors of domestic violence and the women, men and children who were murdered in St. Johns County in acts of domestic violence, is made of red, life-sized silhouettes, each representing a person who once lived, worked, had neighbors, friends and family here. Betty Griffin House holds a candlelight vigil honoring domestic violence victims and survivors 7 p.m. Oct. 3 at Plaza de la Constitución, Downtown St. Augustine, free, 808-9984, bettygriffinhouse.org.

JAMES COBB Flagler College’s Ideas and Images Program presents University of Georgia professor Cobb, who discusses racial identity in the American South, 7 p.m. Oct. 3 in the college's Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine; free, 819-6282, flagler.edu.

WINE GALA The fall wine gala, with a silent auction, is held 8-10 p.m.

Oct. 3 at Fresh Market, 12795 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin.

Seafood, cheeses and of course wine are featured. Tickets are $35. Proceeds benefit the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society. mandarinwinegala.eventbrite.com.

RIVERKEEPER LOW COUNTRY BOIL To raise awareness and funds for the protection of Silver Springs and the St. Johns River, St. Johns Riverkeeper holds this boil 6 p.m. Oct. 3 at Sadler Point Marina, 4669 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside. Fresh local sausage, corn and potatoes from Black Hog Farms and local shrimp from Fisherman’s Dock in Mandarin are featured. Intuition Ale Works provides local craft beer. Live music, kids' activities and an Ortega River sunset boat cruise are featured. Tickets are $25; kids younger than 12 admitted free; stjohnsriverkeeper.org.

ASALH CONVENTION The 98th annual convention of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is held Oct. 2-6 at various venues in Downtown Jacksonville. Featured speakers include Dr. Sonia Sanchez, Medgar Evers' daughter Rena Evers; Lisa McNair, sister of Denise McNair; Ciara Taylor; Bernard Kinsey; Rodney Hurst; Charlie Cobb; Bernice Johnson Reagon and Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. An open mic poetry slam, black history tours of Jacksonville, a boat ride, a youth day, and a history teacher’s workshop. For a complete schedule and admission fees, go to asalh.org.

FLORIDA BLACK EXPO The 12th annual expo is held Oct. 3-5 at Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St., Downtown. Events include a business opportunity summit, Taste of Jacksonville benefit, seminars, book signings, gospel showcases, political forums and artists Chubb Rock and Kurtis Blow performing. For dates, times and fees, call 727-7451 or go to blackpagessouth.com.

OKTOBERFEST BENEFIT Intuition Ale Works' third annual fest is held 1-8 p.m. Oct. 6 at Memorial Park, 1620 Riverside Ave., Riverside. Tapping of Oktoberfest brews, beer stein races, a pretzel toss, food trucks and beer stein holding contests are featured. The Swinging Bavarians play oompah music. Wear authentic

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attire and get a free pint. General admission is $20; VIP $50.

Proceeds benefit Memorial Park Association programs.

683-7720, intuitionaleworks.com.

UNION GARRISON AT FORT CLINCH STATE PARK An interpretive program of a soldier’s life in 1864 is presented 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 5 and 9 a.m.-noon Oct. 6 at Fort Clinch State Park, 2601 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach.

Ladies promenade in Civil War-era dresses, sutlers display wares and drummer boys … well, drum. Park entrance fee $6/vehicle plus $2 per person fort admission, 277-7274, floridastateparks.org.

BAANGERDA AIDS ORPHANAGE BENEFIT Pattaya Thai Grille hosts its annual benefit, the proceeds from which benefit the Baangerda AIDS orphanage in Thailand.

Flagship Romance (Shawn Fisher, Jordyn Jackson), Jasmine Rhey, Eric Charlton, Skye Bailey and Ron Rodriguez perform, 5-10 p.m. Oct. 5 at Pattaya Thai Grille, 9551 Baymeadows Road, Southside; $35 donation includes buffet, free beer and wine, 646-9506, baangerda.org.

COSMIC CONCERTS Laser shows are Fright Light 7 p.m., Wish You Were Here 8 p.m., Dark Side of the Moon 9 p.m., The Wall 10 p.m. Oct. 4; online tickets $5, Bryan Gooding Planetarium, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-7062, moshplanetarium.org.

BUTTS & BRISKET COMPETITION Rabid barbecuers compete for bragging rights, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 5 at Central Park, 1218 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach. Live music, face painting, live college football, yard games, arts and crafts, a kids' zone and concessions are featured. Plates of all the teams’ recipes are available at noon for $10. Then it's the Goin' Coastal Music Series featuring The Lee Boys, The Parker Urban Band and Spred the Dub 5-10 p.m. at Buccaneer Field; $10 in advance, $15 at the gate; 277-7350 ext. 2013, jrobertson@fbfl.org, fbeachbbq.com.

DATIL PEPPER COOK-OFF Top chefs from areas restaurants compete in the sixth annual Datil Pepper Cook-Off Festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Agricultural Center, 3125 Agricultural Center Drive, St. Augustine. You be a judge: Vote in People’s Choice Award, voting tickets are $1 a pop. A home & garden show and a hot sauce contest are also featured. Admission and parking are free. For details, call 209-0430 or go to datilpepperfestival.com.

JCA BIRTHDAY The Jewish Community Alliance celebrates its 25th birthday, 3 p.m. Oct. 6 at 8505 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin. Composing a Heart, a multimedia concert dedicated to the children of immigrants, features spoken word, taped recordings, original music and photographs. Advance reservations can be made by calling the JCA registrar at 730-2100 ext. 228.

PONCE DE LEON LECTURE

Happenings St. Augustine Archaeological Association and Florida Public Archaeology Network present Dr. William Marquardt, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 at Flagler College's Flagler Room, 74 King St., St. Augustine. Marquardt discusses “Juan Ponce de Leon and the Calusa Indians: 500 Years Ago in Southwest Florida.” saaa.shutterfly.com.

WILD AMELIA “White Oak and the World of Conservation,” regarding native species of this area, is discussed 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at Peck Center Auditorium, 516 S. 10th St., Fernandina Beach; free, wildamelia.com.

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE The new exhibit, “Great Balls of Fire: Comets, Asteroids and Meteors,” runs through Dec. at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org.

AMELIA FARMERS MARKET Fernandina Beach farmers market offers local produce, gourmet-prepared foods and landscape plants, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Oct. 5 and every Sat. at the Shops of Omni Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, 491-4872, ameliafarmersmarket.com.

BOOKS & WRITING

TRACY AND ROSS ALLOWAY The Alloways discuss and sign copies of their new book, “The Working Memory: Train Your Brain to Function Stronger, Smarter, Faster,” 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026.

JOSEPH MILLAR The Flagler College Writers in Residence lecture series continues with poet Millar ("Telephone Repairman," "Blue Rust") 5 p.m. Oct. 3 in the college’s Gamache-Koger Theater, Ringhaver Student Center, 50 Sevilla St., St. Augustine; admission is free; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis; 819-6339, flagler.edu.

COZY MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Mysteries discussed are "Bootlegger's Daughter" by Margaret Maron and "Someone to Watch Over Me" by Jill Churchill, 6 p.m. Oct. 3 at Orange Park Library, 2054 Plainfield Ave., 278-4750, ccpl.lib.fl.us.

PV LIBRARY ANNIVERSARY Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library celebrates its 20th anniversary 2-5 p.m. Oct. 5 at the library, 101 Library Blvd., Ponte Vedra. Bingo, balloon sculptures, face painting, a puppet show, a scavenger hunt and live jazz are featured.

827-6950, sjcpls.org.

SISTERS IN CRIME The Florida Sisters in Crime gather 10:30 a.m. Oct. 5 at Southeast Regional Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd., Jacksonville. Linda Wilson ("The Therapist Goes to Jail Often") is the featured speaker; floridasistersincrime.com.

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOKSTORE Hard-back, soft-cover, audio, large-print and children’s books and much more are available 9 a.m.-noon Tue., Thur. and Sat at University Park Branch Library, 3435 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 630-2304, fjpl.org.

COMEDY

ROB LITTLE The third annual Florida's Funniest Comedian is 8:04 p.m.

Oct. 2. The adorable, silly Little appears 8:04 p.m. Oct. 3, 8:34 p.m. Oct. 4 and 8:04 and 10:10 p.m. Oct. 5 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 8, Southside, $6-$25; 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

CARL RIMI The comic is on 8 p.m. Oct. 4-5 at Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, $10, 365-5555, latthirty.com.

MICHAEL WINSLOW Winslow, who can make noises like nobody else, appears 8 p.m. Oct. 3, and 8 and 10 p.m. Oct. 4-5 at The Comedy Zone, Ramada Inn, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin; $18-$23; 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

MIND, BODY & SOUL

PERSONAL BRANDING Discover why a Personal Branding Statement could change your life, 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at Peaceful Living Center, 1250 McDuff Ave. S., Avondale, peacefulproductions.org.

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE This group meets 6 p.m. every Tue. at Baptist Medical Center, 800 Prudential Drive, Pavilion Building, Southbank; free; 322-4040 or 294-5720.

PRACTICE WORLD PEACE Brenda Star Walker leads a group 11 a.m.-noon every first Sun. at Memorial Park, 1620 Riverside Ave., Riverside. Bring a ground cover. Practice suitable for all ages and abilities.

NATURE, SPORTS & OUTDOORS

BOWLING TOURNAMENT To raise money for its annual charity drive benefiting the United Way of Northeast Florida and Community Health Charities of Florida, JaxPort holds a bowling tournament

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 5 at Bowl America Southside Bowling Center, 11141 Beach Blvd., Southside. Tournament winners get a trophy; $5 red pin prizes. Registration is $125 per team (5-person team); $25 single player; $15 kids bumper bowl (12 and younger); register at jaxportcharitybowling2013. eventbrite.com.

AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD TRIP This group treks Cecil Recreation Trail and Taye Brown Regional Park, 8 a.m. Oct. 6 at 13611 Normandy Blvd., Jacksonville, 699-8453.

SIERRA CLUB The Northeast Florida Sierra Club celebrates the 49th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, featuring speakers Andy Miller and Warren Anderson of the Public Trust Environmental Legal Institute of Florida, 6 p.m. Oct. 7 at Ponte Vedra Library, 101 Library Blvd., Ponte Vedra, 537-6047.

NEW ORLEANS PELICANS VS ORLANDO MAGIC Preseason NBA basketball is played 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 301 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown. A salute to the military and veterans community is featured.

Seats start at $15; courtside $250; 630-3697, jaxevents.com.

TALBOT ISLANDS A ranger discusses Secrets of the Salt Marsh 2 p.m. Oct. 5 at Ribault Club, Fort George Island Cultural State Park, 11241 Fort George Road; free; 251-2320, floridastateparks.org.

POLITICS, ACTIVISM & BUSINESS

AIFBY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Yulee Area Council gathers 8:30 a.m. Oct. 8 at Chick-fil-A, 464004 S.R. 200, Yulee. Ron Heymann of Davis Capital Management is the featured speaker. Admission is free for members; $25 for nonmembers; 261-3248 ext. 107, islandchamber.com.

JACKSONVILLE JOURNEY The oversight committee of this crime-fighting initiative meets 4 p.m. Oct. 17, Eighth Floor Conference Room 851, Ball Building, 214 N. Hogan St., Downtown, 630-7306, coj.net.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY The group needs volunteers for its programs in St. Johns County, 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. Wed.-Sat., building or improving area homes. To register and get details, go to habitatstjohns.org.

CREATIVE BUSINESS PLANNING The class “Business Planning for Creatives: Artists, Writers, Healers, Coaches, & Independent Practitioners” is held 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Oct. 4 and 18, Nov. 1 and 15 and Dec. 6 in Atlantic Beach. To reserve a spot and get details, email yvette@narratives4change.com or call 800-913-8611 ext. 1.

UPCOMING EVENTS

BILL O'REILLY & DENNIS MILLER Oct. 12, T-U Center SOUTHERN WOMEN’S SHOW Oct. 17-20, Prime Osborn Convention Center FOLIO WEEKLY’S OKTOBERFEST Oct. 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MARK RUSSELL Oct. 25, The Florida Theatre DAVID SEDARIS Oct. 28, T-U Center CRAIG FERGUSON Nov. 17, The Florida Theatre ST. JOHNS RIVERKEEPER OYSTER ROAST Nov. 22, Garden Club of Jacksonville WILLIAM SHATNER Jan. 18, The Florida Theatre LILY TOMLIN Feb. 6, The Florida Theatre HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS Feb. 28, Veterans Memorial Arena BRIAN REGAN March 23, The Florida Theatre

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Bite

Sized

The trademark St. Louis-style pizza is perfectly crisp and thin, and served cut into small squares instead of large slices. Photos: Caron Streibich

Straight Out of St. Louis

Hometown favorites star on a diverse menu in Mandarin PICASSO’S 10503 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 207, Mandarin 880-0811, jaxpicassos.com

T

ired of yearning for some of their favorite foods from their hometown of St. Louis, Chris Evans and Don Brindley created Picasso’s to offer specialties from the Gateway to the West, like warm, toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake and square-cut, thin-crust St. Louis-style pizza.

Chef Evans grew up in St. Louis and brings his favorite hard-to-find items to Jacksonville while his pastry-chef mother whips up the post-meal treats. (Don’t miss the orange crunch cake available Tuesdays and Thursdays or the sinfully good gooey butter cake.)

To start, I ordered the hearts of palm frites and the meat-filled St. Louis toasted ravioli with homemade marinara. The fry-shaped hearts of palm were served with a thick roasted garlic aioli and sprinkle of parsley — yum! The pile of warm ravioli was perfectly toasted and seasoned, then covered in freshly grated parmesan cheese. The accompanying marinara was pleasantly simple and fresh-tasting.

Although St. Louis and New York style pizzas are on the menu, the St. Louis, with cracker-thin crust and crisp edges, is a must.

After devouring my first few bites topped with pancetta bacon and pepperoni discs, I put Picasso’s pie on my coveted “best pizzas in town” list.

While the menu is expansive, I’d heard that the ramen noodle bowls are legit. I know what you’re thinking: ramen — at a pizza

The korubuta pork belly ramen bowl was bursting color, texture and flavor. And the portion was generous.

WORKS OF ART See more of Picasso’s menu items at folioweekly.com/bite-sized.

place? Trust me; Picasso’s has much more than pizza. The korubuta pork belly ramen bowl overflowed with color, flavor and texture: tangled noodles, savory broth, flavorful cooked mushrooms and broccoli, soft-boiled egg and crisp pickled cabbage in one bowl.

Stuffed but not stopping, I managed a few forkfuls (breakfast tomorrow?) of orange crunch cake. Again, points for uniqueness: Layers of moist, rich cake met thick swirls of orange icing and thin layers of crushed, crunchy wafers for a winning dessert experience.

The interior is open and clear, with replicas of bright Pablo Picasso paintings on the walls.

In its current location since 2008, Picasso’s is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.

It fills up quickly — the word’s out on the great fare.

Caron Streibich Folio Weekly Bite Club host biteclub@folioweekly.com

Save room for orange crunch cake, available on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It has layers of orangey goodness with an unexpected but welcomed crunch factor.

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Dining Directory Dining Directory

To have your restaurant included, contact your account manager or Sam Taylor, 904.260.9770 ext. 111, staylor@folioweekly.com DINING DIRECTORY KEY

Average Entrée Cost: $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up = Beer, Wine = Full Bar C = Children’s Menu = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner *Bite Club Certified! = Hosted a free Folio Weekly Bite Club tasting. Join at fwbiteclub.com.

2012 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE

BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240. F Specializing in Southwestern made-to-order fresh favorites: burritos, tacos, quesadillas, nachos, salads. Salsa’s handcrafted with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, onions, peppers. $$ C L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660.

F On the water at historic Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ C L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269. F In a historic building, family-owned spot has eclectic cuisine: homemade veggie burgers, fresh seafood, salads, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine inside or on oak-shaded patio. Karibrew Pub has beer brewed onsite. $$ C L D Tue.-Sat.; L Daily HALFTIME SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 320 S. Eighth St., 321-0303. Sports bar fare: onion rings, spring rolls, burgers, wraps, wings. $ L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun home. Favorites: jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan and vegetarian selections. Dine inside or out on the porch. $$ C B L D Daily LULU’S AT THE THOMPSON HOUSE, 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394. F Innovative lunch menu: po’boys, salads and seafood little plates served in a historic house. Dinner features fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp. Reservations recommended. $$$ C R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400. F See Riverside. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE, 833 TJ Courson Road, 277-3141. Awarded Slow Food First Coast’s Snail of Approval, the casual organic eatery and juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods, offers all-natural, organic items, smoothies, juices, coffees, herbal teas. $$ B L Mon.-Sat. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132. Bite Club certified. In Omni Amelia Island Plantation’s Spa & Shops, the bistro-style venue has an innovative menu: whole fried fish and duck breast. Outdoor dining. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811. F Killer sunset view over the ICW from secondstory outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys and the original broiled cheese oysters. $$ C L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652.

F Oceanfront restaurant serves award-winning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air second floor and balcony. $$ C L D Daily THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711. F Oceanview dining, inside or on the deck. Steaks, fresh fish, nightly specials, Sun. lobster special. $$ B Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily TIMOTI’S FRY SHAK, 21 N. Third St., 310-6550. F Casual seafood spot has fresh, local wild-caught shrimp, fish, oysters, blackboard specials, seafood baskets. $ C L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310.

F 2012 BOJ winner. This spot in an old gas station is known for its blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ B L Mon.-Sat.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 8818 Atlantic Blvd., 720-0106. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily RACK ’EM UP BILLIARDS, 1825 University Blvd. N., 745-0335. F Cigar and hookah lounge has billiards tables, a full kitchen, a variety of subs for late-nighters. 200-plus imported, domestic beers. $ R Sat.-Sun.; D Nightly

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966.

F 2012 BOJ winner. Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine on the patio or in a hookah lounge. Wi-Fi, belly dancers, hookah pipes. $$ L D Daily ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE, 4000 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 40, 388-4884. F Celebrating five years, this

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churrascaria has gauchos who carve the meat onto your plate from their serving tables. $$$ D Tue.-Sun. FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386.

Premium ice cream, fresh waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in Florida-centric décor.

Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ C L Mon.-Sat. THE FOX RESTAURANT, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669.

F Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare and homemade desserts. Breakfast all day. Signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. A Jacksonville landmark for more than 50 years. $$ C L D Daily GREEN MAN GOURMET, 3543 St. Johns Ave., 384-0002.

F This market features organic and natural products, spices, teas and salts. $ Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 4530 St. Johns Ave., 388-8828. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily LET THEM EAT CAKE! 3604 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 2, 389-2122. Artisan bakery serves coffee, croissants, muffins, cupcakes (The Fat Elvis!), pastries, individual desserts. Whole cakes made-to-order. $ Tue.-Sat. MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2012 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish, hummus, shrimp and grits, specialty cocktails. $$ C B L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #5 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 3620 St. Johns Ave., 388-5688. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., Ortega, 387-1000.

F Down-home cooking from scratch like Grandma’s: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, fried chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings. BYOB. $$ C L D Mon.-Sat. TERRA, 4260 Herschel St., 388-9124. Owner Michael Thomas’ comfy spot serves local, sustainable and world cuisine in a simple, creative style. Small plates: chorizo stuffed mushrooms, pork belly skewers; entrées: lamb chops, seared tuna, ribeye. Lunch features sandwiches. Craft beers.

Onsite organic garden. $$ D Mon.-Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Highway, 731-4300. F See Beaches. $ C L D Daily BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA, 10920 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3, 519-8000. F Family-owned-and-operated Italian pizzeria serves calzones, strombolis, wings, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs, desserts. Delivery. $$ C L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777. F 2012 BOJ winner. Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curry and vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 8206 Philips Highway, 732-9433. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740.

8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F 2012 BOJ winner.

With locations all over Northeast Florida, Larry’s piles subs high and serves ’em fast. Natural meats and cheeses are hormone-, antibiotic- and gluten-free; the sub rolls are gluten-free, too. $ C B L D Daily MANDALOUN MEDITERRANEAN LEBANESE CUISINE, 9862 Old Baymeadows Rd., 646-1881. F Bite Club certified.

Owner Pierre Barakat offers authentic Lebanese cuisine, charcoal-grilled lamb kebab. Belly dancing Fri.-Sat. Monthly dinner parties. Outdoor seating. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506. F The area’s original authentic Thai restaurant has an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian and new-Thai, including curries, seafood, noodles, soups. In business since 1990, family-owned place has low-sodium and gluten-free dishes, too. $$$ L D Tue.-Sun. PIZZA PALACE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 527-8649. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily STICKY FINGERS, 8129 Point Meadows Way, 493-7427.

F Memphis-style rib house slow-smokes meats over aged hickory wood. Award-winning ribs, barbecue, rotisseriesmoked chicken, five signature sauces. Dine indoors or on screened patio. $$ C L D Daily

BEACHES

(Locations are Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 249-0002. F Celebrating more than 20 years and seven locations, Al’s offers a selection of New Yorkstyle and gourmet pizzas. $ C L D Daily BUDDHA THAI BISTRO, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444. F The proprietors here are from Thailand, and every dish is made with fresh ingredients from tried-and-true recipes, beautifully presented. $$ L D Daily CAMPECHE BAY CANTINA, 127 First Ave. N., 249-3322. F 2012 BOJ winner. Chili rellenos, tamales, fajitas, enchiladas, fish tacos, fried ice cream, margaritas. $$ C D Nightly CASA MARIA, 2429 S. Third St., 372-9000. F See Springfield. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily CULHANE’S IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595. Bite Club certified. Upscale Irish pub owned and managed by four sisters from County Limerick. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef; gastro pub menu soars to culinary heights. $$ C R Sat. & Sun.; D Tue.-Sun.

Barista Nolan Maddox presents cranberry chicken pesto tostada with a bottle of Crane Lake sauvignon blanc.

Lillie’s Coffee Bar in Neptune Beach began serving hor d’oeuvres and wine on Oct. 1. Photo: Dennis Ho ENGINE 15 BREWING CO., 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337. F Gastropub fare: soups, salads, flatbreads, specialty sandwiches, including BarBe-Cuban and beer dip.

Craft beers. $ C L D Daily GREGORY PAUL’S, 215 Fourth Ave. S., 372-4367. Greg Rider offers freshly prepared meals and experienced catering services. $$ Mon.-Fri. LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024. F Locally owned and operated. Fresh, right-off-the-boat local seafood, fish tacos, houseground burgers, wings, handcut fries, tater tots; daily specials. $$ C L D Daily; R Sun. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1222 Third St. S., 372-4495. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 N. Third St., 247-9620. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-2922. F Beaches landmark. Locally roasted coffee, eggs and bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, salads and desserts. Dine indoors or out; patio and courtyard seating. $$ B L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-2599. F David and Matthew Medure are flippin’ burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes and familiar fare at moderate prices. Dine indoors or out. $$ L D Daily MARLIN MOON GRILLE, 1183 Beach Blvd., 372-4438.

F This sportfishing-themed casual place features fresh crab cakes – owner Gary Beach’s from Maryland’s Eastern Shore – and burgers, daily specials, craft beers, Orange Crushes, fresh-cut fries. $$ C R Sun.; D Wed.-Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600. F Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. The psychedelic spot serves gourmet pizzas, hoagies, salads. Pies range from Mighty Meaty to vegetarian like Kosmic Karma. $ C L D Daily MEZZA LUNA PIZZERIA RISTORANTE, 110 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-5573.

F Near-the-ocean eatery serves casual bistro fare (for 20+ years) like gourmet wood-fired pizzas, herb-crusted mahi mahi. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$$ C D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. F 2012 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chickenfried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. F Named for the poet, American gastropub offers gourmet hamburgers, ground in-house and cooked to order, hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, entree-size salads, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ C L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 F For 30 years, the popular seafood place has nabbed lots of awards in our Best of Jax readers poll. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. $$ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA, 592 Marsh Landing Parkway, 273-3113.

F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456.

F 2012 BOJ winner. Specialty items, signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in a contemporary open-air space. $$ C L D Daily SHIM SHAM ROOM, 333 First St. N., Ste. 150, 3720781. F New joint offers a seasonal menu of “cheap eats”: bar bites, chicken & waffles, badass fries, tacos. $$ D Nightly WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1585 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508. F Casual, beachy sports place serves burgers, wings, fish tacos in a chill atmosphere. $ C L D Daily

DOWNTOWN

CAFÉ NOLA AT MOCAJAX, 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911. On the first floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Café. Shrimp and grits, gourmet sandwiches, fresh fish tacos, homemade desserts. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Thur. & ArtWalk CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Owner/chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare 35-plus years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $$ C L D Mon.-Sat. CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F This spot has eats at moderate prices – most under $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi, barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Fri. & Sat. DE REAL TING CAFÉ, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738.

F Caribbean spot features jerk or curried chicken, conch fritters, curried goat, oxtail. $ L Tue.-Fri.; D Fri.-Sat. FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, Ste. 176, Jacksonville Landing, 374-1547. F BOJ winner. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere. Fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ C L D Daily ZODIAC GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283. F Mediterranean cuisine and American favorites in a casual atmosphere. Panini, vegetarian dishes, daily lunch buffet.

Espressos, hookahs. $ L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

BRICK OVEN PIZZERIA & GASTROPUB, 1811 Town Center Blvd., 278-1770. F Family-owned-and-operated; offers freshly made brick-oven pizzas, specialty burgers, melts, wraps, craft beers. Gluten-free items. $$ C L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100, 215-2223. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified.

2012 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F 2012 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198.

F Authentic fish camp serves gator tail, fresh-water river catfish, traditional meals, daily specials on the banks of Swimming Pen Creek. Outdoor Tiki bar. Come by boat, motorcycle or car. $ C L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly YOUR PIE, 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771. F Owner Mike Sims has a fast, casual pizza concept: Choose from three doughs, nine sauces, seven cheeses and 40-plus toppings and create your own pizza pie. Subs, sandwiches, gelato. $$ C L D Daily

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F See Beaches. $ C L D Daily CASTILLO DE MEXICO, 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 19, 998-7006. F This spot, in business for 15-plus years, has an extensive menu served in authentic Mexican décor.

Weekday lunch buffet. $$ L D Daily EPIK BURGER, 12740 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 105, 374-7326.

F More than 34 burgers made from grass-fed beef, ahi tuna, all-natural chicken; vegan items from innovative recipes; gluten-free options. $ L D Mon.-Sat. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN, 14333 Beach Blvd., 992-1666.

F See San Marco. BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily

Dining Directory LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 642-6980.

F See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily MAHARLIKA HALL & SPORTS GRILL, 14255 Beach Blvd., Ste. E, 699-0759. Filipino-American restaurant and market features pancit bami, lumpia, turon strudle, halo halo with ice cream. $-$$ C R L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT, 13546 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1A, 821-9880. See St. Johns Town Center. $ Daily TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999. F Locally-owned-and-operated grill serves hand-tossed pizzas, wings, specialty wraps in a clean, sporty atmosphere. Late-night menu. $$ L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly

JULINGTON CREEK

PIZZA PALACE, 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F See San Marco. $$ C L D Daily SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13 N., Ste. 113, 287-8226. F The menu is light Mexican with American influences – and there are 40 beers on draft. $$ C B, Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily

MANDARIN

AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F See Beaches. $ C L D Daily ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199.

Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), all the favorites. Greek beers. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BRAZILIAN JAX CAFE, 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 20, 880-3313. F Authentic dishes: steaks, sausages, chicken, fish, burgers, hot sandwiches made with fresh ingredients.

Traditional feijoada – black beans and pork stew with rice, collards, orange salad, toasted yucca flour with bacon – every Sat. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA, 11406 San Jose Blvd., 288-9211.

13820 St. Augustine Rd., Bartram Park, 880-0020. F The Brooklyn Special Pizza is a customer favorite. Also calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ L D Daily GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd. (Ramada Inn), 694-4300. F Prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri.-Sat., bluejean brunch Sun., daily breakfast buffet and lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ B R L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S, 11365 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily RACK ’EM UP BILLIARDS, 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., 262-4030. See Arlington. $ R Sat.-Sun.; D Nightly RENNA’S PIZZA, 11111 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 292-2300.

F Casual New York-style pizzeria serves calzones, antipasto, parmigiana, homemade breads. Buy by the slice – they’re humongous – or full pie. Delivery. $$ C L D Daily

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizza. $$ C L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959. Specialties at this upscale restaurant include New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup. Homemade desserts. $$$ D Tue.-Sat. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1930 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 700 Blanding, Ste. 15, 272-3553.

1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 1330 Blanding, 276-7370. 1404 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL, 2620 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 17, Middleburg, 282-1564. F What a neighborhood sportsbar should be: Familiar fare, all the spirits you’d want. $$ C L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA, 6001 Argyle Forest Blvd., Ste. 16, 771-7677. F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily TED’S MONTANA GRILL, 8635 Blanding Blvd., 771-1964.

See St. Johns Town Center. $$$ C L D Daily THAI GARDEN, 10 Blanding Blvd., Ste. B, 272-8434.

Traditional Thai: pad kraw powh with roasted duck, kaeng kari (yellow curry, potatoes, choice of meat). Fine wines, imported, domestic beers. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly

PONTE VEDRA, NW ST. JOHNS

ALICE & PETE’S PUB, 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., Sawgrass Marriott, 285-7777. Inspired by TPC Sawgrass course designers Alice and Pete Dye, the new pub serves Northeast Florida flavors along with Alice & Pete’s favorites: Dominican black bean soup, Pete’s Designer club sandwich. Outside dining. $$$ L D Daily AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F See Beaches. $ C L D Daily JJ’S LIBERTY BISTRO, 330 A1A N., Ste. 209, 273-7980.

Traditional French cuisine: escargot, brie, paté, steak frites, crêpes. Daily specials, specialty pastries; French wines. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily

RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797. Chef David Medure creates dishes with international flavors. The lounge offers small plates, creative drinks. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515. Upscale, casual restaurant offers appetizers, salads, sandwiches, flatbreads, burgers, entrées. Extensive wine list. $$$ L D Daily

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE

AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F See Beaches. $ C L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes.

1-2, 855-1181. F 2012 BOJ winner. Bold Bean brings a small-batch, artisanal approach to roasting coffee. Organic and fair trade coffees. $ B L Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET 2007 Park St., 384-4474.

F Juice bar uses certified organic fruits and vegetables. The store has three dozen artisanal cheeses, 300-plus craft and imported beers, 50 organic wines, organic produce, meats, vitamins, herbs. Organic wraps, sides, sandwiches, salads to go; raw, vegan items. $ B L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7859 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 8102 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 1, 779-1933. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 389-4442. F 2012 BOJ winner. Northern-style pizzas, more than 20 toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ L D Mon.-Sat. THE MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., Riverside, 355-4434. Southwestern menu with ahi tuna tacos, goat cheese enchiladas, gouda quesadillas, chicken enchiladas.

Indoor or patio dining. $$ C L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300.

F Traditional Irish fare: shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Outdoor patio dining. $$ C L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #1 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 824 Lomax St., 301-1188. F Traditional Japanese cuisine, fresh sushi, sashimi, kiatsu, teriyaki, hibachi in an authentic atmosphere.

Sake. A bonafide tatami room, with outside seating. $$ L D Daily SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0049. F Beer (Bold City, Intuition Ale Works), wine, pizza, hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888.

F Sushi: popular Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll, Rock-nRoll and Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$ L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F See Beaches. $ C L D Daily BACK 40 URBAN CAFÉ, 40 S. Dixie Highway, 824-0227.

F Owner Brian Harmon serves Caribbean-flavored items – wraps, upside-down chicken potpie, fresh, local seafood – in an 1896 building. Wi-Fi. $ C L Sun.; L D Mon.-Sat. CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA, 146 King St., 494-6658. F 2012 BOJ winner. New York-style brickoven-baked pizza, freshly baked sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, stromboli, garlic herb wings. Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ L D Daily THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655. Updated Southern fare, with fresh, local ingredients from area farms.

Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature items: fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish, cornbread stack, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ C L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., Anastasia Island, 824-8244. F 2012 BOJ winner. A mainstay for 25 years; menu changes daily. Signature dish is Gypsy chicken.

Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ R Sun.; L D Daily THE HYPPO, 15 Hypolita St., 217-7853 (popsicles only).

1765 Tree Blvd., Ste. 5, 342-7816. F Popsicles of unique flavors, of premium ingredients. Coffee pour-overs, cold-brew coffees. Handcrafted sandwiches, salads. $ Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified.

2012 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F 2012 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily THE ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311. F Coffee drinks, vegetarian meals, meaty Southern comfort dishes. $ B L D Daily

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Drive, 345-3466. Classic American fare: beef, seafood, pasta, flatbread sandwiches. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$$ C R L D Daily BRIO TUSCAN GRILLE, 4910 Big Island Drive, 807-9960.

Upscale Northern Italian restaurant offers wood-grilled, ovenroasted steaks, chops, seafood. Dine indoors or al fresco on the terrace. $$$ C R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily

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W., Lakewood, 739-6966. Upscale steakhouse features steaks, burgers, seafood and wings. $$ L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, 636-8688. F New upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ C L D Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., San Jose, 732-7200. F 2012 BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen offers pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish. $$ C B L D Daily URBAN ORGANICS, 5325 Fairmont St., Spring Park, 398-8012. Weekly coop every Monday that offers local, fresh fruits and vegetables in bags of 10, 20 or 30 pounds.

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THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. 2012 BOJ winner. Varied tapas menu of artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschettas, homestyle cheesecake. More than 60 wines by the glass. $$$ Tue.-Sun. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1631 Hendricks Ave., 399-1768. F 2012 BOJ winner. Tamales, fajitas and pork tacos are customer favorites. Some La Nops offer a full © bar.

2013 $$ C L D Daily MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship restaurant offers fine dining in a refined, European-style atmosphere. Artfully presented cuisine, small plates, extensive martini and wine lists.

Reservations recommended. $$$$ D Mon.-Sat. PIZZA PALACE GM Hala Demetree 1959 San Marco Blvd., 3998815. F Relaxed, family-owned place serves homestyle cuisine: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones. Ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Outside dining. $$ C L D Daily PULP, 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222. Juice bar offers fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees made one cup at a time. 3 0 kinds of smoothies, some blended with fl avored soy milks, organic frozen yogurts, granola. $ B L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #2 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR, 1478 Riverplace Blvd., 306-2188. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily

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360° GRILLE, 10370 Philips Highway, 365-5555. F In Latitude 30. Familiar sportsbar favorites: seafood, steaks, sandwiches, burgers, chicken, pasta, pizza. Dine inside or

on the patio. $$ L D Daily ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212. America’s longest continuously running dinner theater features Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s menus coordinated with stage productions. Reservations suggested. $$ D Tue.-Sun. BUCA DI BEPPO, 10334 Southside Blvd., 363-9090.

Popular chain restaurant has fresh Italian cooking: lasagna, garlic mashed potatoes; three portion sizes (half-pound meatballs!) served family-style. $$$ C L D Daily CASA MARIA, 14965 Old St. Augustine Rd., 619-8186.

F See Springfi eld. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily FARAH’S PITA STOP CAFÉ, 3980 Southside Blvd., Ste. 201, 928-4322. Middle Eastern cuisine: fresh sandwiches, soups, entrées, desserts, pastries and mazas (appetizers). $ C B L D Mon.-Sat. THE FLAME BROILER THE RICE BOWL KING, 9822 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 103, 619-2786. 7159 Philips Highway, Ste. 104, 337-0007. F West Coast fave has healthy, inexpensive fast food with no transfats, MSG, frying, or skin on meat. Fresh veggies, steamed brown or white rice, grilled beef, chicken, Korean short ribs. $ C L D Mon.-Sat. JJ’S BISTRO DE PARIS, 7643 Gate Parkway, Ste. 105, 996-7557. Authentic French cuisine served in a comfortable, charming setting. The scratch kitchen has fresh soups, stocks, sauces, pastries. $$ C L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Parkway, 425-4060.

F See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, Tinseltown, 997-1955. F See Beaches.

Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C L D Daily OISHII, 4375 Southside Blvd., Ste. 4, 928-3223.

Manhattan-style Japanese fusion cuisine: fresh, high-grade sushi, a variety of lunch specials, hibachi items. $$ C L D Daily SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY, 9735 Gate Parkway N., Tinseltown, 997-1999. F Grill and brewery features local seafood, steaks, pizzas, award-winning freshly brewed ales and lagers. Dine indoors or outdoors. $$ L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426.

Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. Greek restaurant serves char-broiled kabobs, seafood, traditional Greek wines and desserts. Nightly belly dancing. $$ C L D Daily TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999. F New York-style thin crust, brickoven-cooked pizzas – gluten-free – as well as calzones, salads, sandwiches made fresh to order, using Thumann’s no-MSG meats, Grande cheeses. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pick-up. $$ L D Mon.-Sat.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

CASA MARIA, 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411.

F 2012 BOJ winner. Family-owned-and-operated restaurant offers authentic Mexican food: fajitas, seafood dishes, a variety of hot sauces made in-house. Specialty is tacos de asada. $ C L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999.

F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ C B L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA, 840 Nautica Drive, Ste. 117, River City Marketplace, 714-9210. F See Mandarin. $$ C L D Daily SAVANNAH BISTRO, 14670 Duval Rd., 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, with a twist of Mediterranean and French, in a relaxing atmosphere at Crowne Plaza Airport. Crab cakes, New York strip, she crab soup, mahi mahi. Rainforest Lounge. $$$ C B L D Daily STICKY FINGERS, 13150 City Station Drive, River City Marketplace, 309-7427. F See Baymeadows. $$ C L D Daily

FOOD TRUCKS

DRIFTWOOD BBQ, 412-4559, driftwoodbbq.com, facebook.com/DriftwoodBBQ Southern soul barbecue, sandwiches, subs at Pitmaster Patrick O’Grady’s truck.

Pudding, pulled pork, sides, sliders, chicken. $ L D

NewsNews of theof the Weird Weird Home Sweet Home for Sex Offenders

“With its neatly cut lawns and luscious tropical vegetation,” wrote a BBC News reporter in July, Miracle Village, Fla., is an “idyllic rural community” of 200 residents — about half of whom are registered sex offenders, attracted to the settlement near Lake Okeechobee because laws and ordinances elsewhere in Florida harshly restrict where they can live (e.g., not within a half-mile of a school or park). Incumbent residents might have been apprehensive in 2009 when a pastor started the local rehabilitation ministry (one even called it a “nightmare on Elm Street”), but since then, no one could recall a single impropriety involving an offender, and lately, 10 to 20 more applications arrive each week (screened to keep out diagnosed pedophiles and those with a history of drugs or violence).

Principal’s Royal Treatment

Dana Carter’s debut as principal of Calimesa Elementary School in California’s San Bernardino County was quite inauspicious, as parents quickly objected to his policy of requiring kids to drop to one knee when addressing him. One parent said her daughter was forced to kneel while awaiting his attention and then to rise only when he lifted his arms.

Carter said he would discontinue the policy and insisted he had instituted it for “safety” and not because he imagined himself as royalty.

Chinese Chicken Exports Exempt from Inspections

Many consumers already distrust food imports from China, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture nonetheless announced recently (and “quietly,” according to NPR) that it would exempt four Chinese companies altogether from USDA inspections of their processed chicken exports. The changes are part of the department’s money-saving streamlining that also cuts back domestic regulation — proposals that have already drawn criticism from the Government Accountability Office because they would replace many onsite USDA inspectors with employees of the foodprocessing plants themselves.

Multiple Mayonnaise Enemas

It was a tough sell for performance artists Doug Melnyk and Ian Mozdzen to defend their controversial show at July’s Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Wrote one reviewer: “What I saw [on the stage] were not one, not two, but three mayonnaise enemas. [I] do not need to see any more mayonnaise enemas for the rest of my lifetime.” Explained Melnyk, to a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reporter in July, if all you’re trying to do is “figure out what people want and you make it for them, that’s not art. … [Y]ou’re just a shoemaker.”

Swanky Camping Equipment

In August, the Mother Nature Network website showcased an array of camping gear seemingly designed for the daintiest of those ostensibly “roughing” it. The Blofield outdoor couch inflates in minutes to produce a facsimile of a Las Vegas lounge sofa. The Rolla Roaster’s 42-inch-long steel fork assures elegance (and evenness) in marshmallow-roasting. For fashion-conscious backwoodswomen, Teva makes high-heeled hiking sandals ($330). The mother of all Swiss army knives, by Wenga, has so many gadgets, it suggests a parody of a Swiss

army knife. To be a camper is to sleep in a tent, though, and why not the trailer-mounted Opera tent, including hardwood floors and a wine cooler?

Braille Message Fell Flat

A July direct-mail campaign by Canada’s Conservative Party, intended to show concern for the disabled population, might have fallen short, according to a Toronto Star report. The first wave of brochures, “Supporting Jobs for All Canadians” (meaning the disabled as well), featured the well-known wheelchair symbol and a message in a series of Braille dots. However, the brochure was useless to blind recipients, who could neither see the dots nor read them, as the dots were printed on a flat surface.

Good Luck with Law School

By her own admission, Joan Hoyt, 61, of St. Louis, has difficulty writing, is easily distracted, needs frequent breaks and “reads about two-and-a-half times slower than her peers” — yet wants to be a lawyer. She filed a lawsuit recently against the Law School Admission Council for special accommodations to take the standardized admissions test after the council offered to grant her “only” 156 extra minutes for the exam. She also demanded a room by herself with a “white noise” machine and the ability to bring a computer, food and drinks to the exam.

(States have made similar accommodations for bar exams — but those applicants have already successfully endured the intellectual rigors of law school.)

Kosher Lubricant OK’d

Is oral sex permitted in Orthodox Judaism? If so, must any lubricant used be kosher (or is kosher required only for substances ingested into the body)? These questions were not answered by California’s Trigg Laboratories, which decided recently to vie for a kosher label for eight lines of Ecstasy lubricant under its Wet label — and, following an inspection by the Rabbinical Council of California, was granted it. Many authorities believe that nonkosher products can be used if, like lipstick, they are “applied” but not ingested.

App Discards Doggie Bags

Two onetime University of Michigan roommates announced in August that they’ve developed a smartphone app to accommodate the questionable number of people who seek an easy way to share leftover food on restaurant plates (to save it from wasteful discarding).

Using smartphones’ location service, one diner could offer to clean another’s plate or have a stranger rush to his own table for scraps. “We’re not gonna make millions,” one of the developers told NPR in July.

Their Last Joy Ride

A 40-year-old woman was killed in a near-headon collision in August in Spring Lake, Fla., while joy-riding on a back road at night on her dirt bike. She was accidentally hit by her husband, who was also joy-riding, in his all-terrain vehicle, and who also died.

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Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you good at haggling? Do you enjoy the challenge of negotiating a better price, angling a fairer deal?

Next week is a favorable time to make extensive use of this skill. According to my astrological omen-analysis, you thrive on having friendly arguments with just about everyone, from buddies to significant others to your mommy to God Herself. Everywhere you go, engage in lively discussions as you hammer out compromises. Be cheerful, adaptable and forceful.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In David Markson’s experimental novel “Wittgenstein’s Mistress,” the protagonist fantasizes about the winter she lived at Paris’ Louvre Museum. She says that to keep warm, she made big fires and burned some of the museum’s precious artifacts. Don’t do anything like that next week. I know you may be going through a cold spell – you’re longing for more heat and light. I beg you not to sacrifice enduring beauty to ameliorate temporary discomfort. This, too, shall pass.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Don’t say you want love,” writes San Francisco author Stephen Sparks. “Say you want the morning light through a paint-flecked window; say you want a gust of wind scraping leaves along the pavement and hills rolling toward the sea; say you want to notice, in a tree you walk past every day, the ruins of a nest exposed as the leaves fall away; a slow afternoon of conversation in a shadowy bar; the smell of bread baking.” That’s exactly the oracle I want to give you. You can’t afford to be generic or blank in your love requests. Be specific.

Ask for exact feelings and experiences to boost the intensity of your lust for life. (Sparks’ Tumblr page: invisiblestories.tumblr.com.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger in the broken places,” wrote Cancerian Ernest Hemingway. By my estimation, my fellow Crabs, we’re now entering an astrological cycle phase when we can make dramatic progress in healing broken places. Even better than that: As we deal dynamically with touchy issues that caused our wounds, we become stronger than we were.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you given deep thought to understanding who you are at this moment? Have you developed a clear vision of the person you’d like to be in, say, three years? How do you feel about the gap between the current you and the future you? Does it oppress you? Does it motivate?

Maybe a little of both? Here’s how actress Tracee Ellis Ross feels: “I am learning every day,” she told Uptown Magazine, “to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do the words “purity” and “purify” have any useful purpose?

Or have they been so twisted by religious fundamentalists and mocked by decadent cynics that they’re mostly farcical? Take them seriously next week. Give them your spin. Like, you could decide to purify yourself of petty attitudes and trivial desires not aligned with your highest values. Purify yourself of self-deceptions that have gotten you into trouble; of resentments that have blocked creative energy. At least, cleanse your body with extra-healthful food, good sleep, massage, exercise and sacred sex.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I often hike alone in serene hills north of San Francisco and perform a set of my songs for birds, insects, squirrels and

trees. Recently I heard British comedian Milton Jones tried a similar experiment. He did his stand-up act for a herd of cows on a Hertfordshire farm. I can’t speak for Jones’ motivations, but one reason I do nature shows is because they bring out my wild, innocent, generous spirit. Now’s a good time to do a similar thing. What can you undertake to fully activate your wild, innocent, generous spirit?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you anxious and agitated? Are you afraid you’re careening out of control? Is there a flustered voice in your aching head moaning, “Stop the insanity!”? Oh, relax.

I promise that you will no longer have to worry about going cray-cray. Why? Because you’ve already gone cray-cray, my looney friend. That’s correct. You slipped over the threshold a few days ago, and been living in Bonkersville ever since. Since you’re obviously still alive and functioning, it’s obvious the danger’s passed.

The new truth: If you surrender to the uproar, if you let it teach you all it has to teach, you’ll find a lively, intriguing kind of peace.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To give you the oracle that best matches your current astrological omens, I’ve borrowed from “Sweetness,” a poem by Stephen Dunn. Memorize it or write it on a piece of paper to carry everywhere you go. Say Dunn’s words as if they were yours: “Often a sweetness comes / as if on loan, stays just long enough // to make sense of what it means to be alive, / then returns to its dark / source. As for me, I don’t care // where it’s been, or what bitter road / it’s traveled / to come so far, to taste so good.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her book “Teaching a Stone to Talk,” Annie Dillard apologizes to God, Santa Claus and nice, eccentric older woman Miss White, whom she knew as a child. “I am sorry I ran from you,” she writes to them.

“I am still running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain.” Judging from your current astrological omens, now’s a good time to do something similar: Take inventory of the beauty, love and power you’ve sought to escape and may still be trying to avoid. You’re finally ready to stop running; embrace some of that good stuff.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The Dragon Lives Again” is a 1977 film about martial arts legend Bruce Lee fighting bad guys in the underworld. Among the villains he defeats are Dracula, James Bond, the Godfather, Clint Eastwood and the Exorcist. Use this as inspiration. Create an imaginary movie in your mind’s eye. You’re the hero; give yourself a few superpowers and assemble a cast of scoundrels from your past – anyone who’s done you wrong. Watch the epic tale unfold as you do with them what Bruce Lee did to Dracula et al. Yes, it’s pretend, but you may be surprised how much this helps you put the past behind you. Think of it as a purgative meditation to free you to move toward the best possible future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): After studying myths and stories of many cultures throughout history, Joseph Campbell arrived at some conclusions about the nature of the human quest. Here’s one apropos now: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” He came up with variations on this, including: “The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.” Make this your operative hypothesis for a few weeks.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

READING JUXTAPOSE Me: Long brown curly hair, freckles and tight black pants.

You: Denim & tattoos. We made eye contact several times. Maybe I’m lucky enough for you to read this!

When: Sept. 26. Where: Barnes & Noble @ Town Center. #1299-1002 STAY As brief as it was, it was still worth it. That one moment when you and I shared eye contact was all it took. My heart fluttered and my words stuttered. I couldn’t get “Hello” out. But as long as you and I exist, you will be in my prayers. When: My birthday. Where: Library. #1298-1002 PUB OUTLAW You: Beautiful, long dark-haired; in that black OUTLAW dress. Must say NEVER seen a dress worn so well. Me: Just hanging out playing pool. Would love to see you come through that door and suck the oxygen out of that place ONCE again. You’re plain AMAZING. When: Sept. 20.

Where: The Pub. #1297-1002 PLAYING WITH SARAN WRAP You: Half-Asian? Beauty in your green apron, wrapping containers filled with coffee goodies. Me: Wearing a Boston hat, joking about the I Saw U’s. Hey girl. There’s a first and a half for everything.

When: Sept. 18. Where: Starbucks @ Baymeadows. #1296-0925 BLONDE WITH A FEDORA I walked up to the sub line not knowing that a tall, beautiful blonde would be finishing her order before me. We briefly made eye contact; you walked away. I ordered my sub without toppings, hoping I’d run into you at checkout. Maybe next time. When: Sept. 1. Where: Publix Subs @ Atlantic Blvd. #1295-0918 WILD CHILD You: Brown-eyed brunette wearing black at the Wild Child show. Me: Checkered shirt and jeans, with a PBR, trying to pay attention to the music and failing. The songs were good, but your dancing was better. Maybe next time I can join? When: Sept. 15. Where: Jack Rabbits. #1294-0918 BLEND MY SMOOTHIE CENTURY EMT You: Big thing in a small package. Wearing an EMT shirt, getting into a sexy beige Chevy. Me: Cute brunette hottie behind the counter at Smoothie King. Let’s get together and blend our juices.

When: Sept. 11. Where: Smoothie King @ Fleming Island. #1293-0918 CUTE GUY ALONE AT CPK You: Blonde guy, reddish button-down, jeans, eating alone at CPK. Me: Brunette girl, black top, jeans, picking up to-go order. Waitresses surrounded you; I couldn’t say hi or give you my number.

But my sister dared me to; you must reply. Every ’80s baby knows a dare’s a dare! When: Sept. 14. Where: California Pizza Kitchen, Town Center. #1292-0918 BEAUTIFUL BLONDE ON FOOTBALL FIELD Me: Tall guy jogging around a football field who stopped dead in his tracks. You: Beautiful woman leaving football practice with a Miami bag and a maroon SU. I have to see you again; would love to buy you lunch, dinner or anything you want! When: Aug. 10. Where: Police Athletic League. #1291-0918 ASKED ABOUT MY VISOR You asked me if my visor had broken yet. I replied I was just thinking about that

same thing the day before … you lald, me red pixie. I’d just left volunteer work; was a bit flustered. Should have gotten better instructions on fixing it. Might need your help! When: Sept. 7. Where: Corner Store off Lakeshore Boulevard. #1290-0918 MELLOW MUSHROOM BAR I saw you at the bar and you spoke to me, asking if I was having a party. Your male friend walked away and we had a little conversation.

We told each other where we lived, generally. Need to see that smile again. When: Aug. 19. Where: Mellow Mushroom St. Augustine. #1289-0918 CHECK YOU OUT With all that attitude, elegance and the ability to read, I’ve got to say Freckles … you’re perfect.

Keep turning pages and heads. When: Sept. 4. Where: Main Street Library. #1288-0911 HANSEN LOOK-A-LIKE You: Long-haired beautiful man-child sitting alone at Poe’s complaining about life.

You ordered 3 shots of Fireball and chili cheese fries. We started talking about UFOs and government conspiracy.

Let’s meet again. This time it’ll be out of this world.

I’ll show you my Area 51. When: Sept. 4. Where: Poe’s Tavern. #1287-0911 ATLANTA AIRPORT 10:40 TO JAX You: Looked great in your orange Adidas hat. Me: Rambling on in green plaid shirt. Let’s share a pleasant moment. When: Sept. 2.

Where: Atlanta Airport. #1286-0911 SENDING UP SMOKE SIGNALS Put out my fire! You commented on my nails, then had to rush out. But YAY you came back. You: Tall and beyond handsome. Me: Can’t make small talk. Us: Surrounded by prying ears and eyes. I know what you are and where to find you; do I dare? When: Aug. 29. Where: Cotten’s BBQ. #1285-0911 CHILDREN OKAY I lost your phone number! Have you been on vacation? I miss seeing you! Hope you are OK … You are my air! I miss you and those brown corduroy Levis that make your butt look fantastic! When: Regularly.

Where: Arlington. #1284-0911 SEXY SMOOTHIE MAGICIAN You: Long curly blonde hair, pulled back, tucked in work hat. Me: Short in height and of time to get your name; in awe of your charm, good looks. You made a smoothie; I needed to cool down from the sight of you. Smoothie personally delivered to my place? (; Let’s make a date, cutie! When: Aug. 23. Where: Tropical Smoothie, San Marco. #1282-0911 DRUNKEN BEE STING Me: Cute tiny brunette. You: Gorgeous bearded man. A bee stung your lip as you drank Coors Light trying to look suave, leading to drunken skinny-dipping night. You broke my hand after I dropped it like it was hot. Love at first sight. At O’Bros every night waiting for you. When: Aug. 21, 2011. Where: Villas on St. Johns. #1278-0828 BLONDE BEETHOVEN BEAUTY! You: Beautiful blonde shimmering in sunlight reading a book. Me: Picnicking with my daughter, teaching her how to ride a bike. I was impressed; you were reading Beethoven autobiography.

We had great conversation. I regret not telling you how I really feel. Oh the music we could make together ...

When: July 2013. Where: Memorial Park Riverside. #1277-0828

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Race to the Bottom of the Channel

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

The competition to dig deeper has pitted East Coast ports against each other – to the benefit of retailers, shippers and carriers – at the public’s expense

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he Army Corps of Engineers has completed its study of the St. Johns River deepening project and has approved the “local preferred plan” of dredging from the current depth of 40 feet to the 47 feet requested by JaxPort. At an estimated total cost of $750 million, a local taxpayer share of $380 million, and a long illustrious record of such public works projects promising far more than they ever deliver, it is important for citizens of Jacksonville and Northeast Florida to be informed on the meaning of the report, the costs/benefits on which it is and is not based, and to approach the project with a critical eye.

The first point to emphasize: Citizens should not confuse the Army Corps’ report, and its recommendations and approval of the deepening project, with a true and complete cost-benefit analysis. The sole and singular benefit that is calculated by the Corps is based exclusively and narrowly on savings in transportation costs as a consequence of larger vessels having access to the port terminals. These benefits accrue primarily to retailers, shippers and carriers — many foreign, rather than domestic. While these are the primary beneficiaries of the project, it is the public that is being asked to bear the financial and environmental cost.

Further, there is no necessary or automatic relationship between transportation cost reductions and broader economic benefits for the local and regional economy.

One thing we do know: Reducing transportation costs will ensure the continuing profitability of offshore, rather than domestic, production. In short, U.S. taxpayers are being asked to financially support maritime infrastructure projects that, perversely, subsidize and reinforce a global trade system that contributes to the continuation of large trade deficits with Asian producers, as well as the further loss of manufacturing jobs to lower-wage countries. As long as these transportation costs can be kept low, the advantage of shifting production offshore will be retained,

and there will be no economic incentive to produce these goods domestically.

On the cost side of the Corps’ analysis, the sole and singular cost factored into the analysis is the dollar cost of the project — now estimated to be around $750 million.

This does not include the significant environmental costs to the water, wildlife and air; the inevitably large costs of upgrading the terminal infrastructure — bigger wharfs, more and larger cranes, wider turning basins to accommodate the larger vessels; the local transportation infrastructure to accommodate the trucks moving containers on and off the terminals; or the ongoing costs of maintaining channel depth. If these uncalculated costs are added to the total, it is likely to be a $1 billionplus project.

In short, most all public interest considerations are entirely ignored in the cost-benefit equation used by the Army Corps.

Supporters of the deepening project consistently claim that it will create many jobs for the local and regional economy. This is often regarded as the only needed justification for any economic development project, no matter the cost, and it is designed to disarm any critics of the project who, in raising critical questions, can conveniently be labeled “job killers.”

But, again, there is nothing in the report that addresses the jobs claims. In fact, of the 338-page report, there is only one paragraph devoted to “Regional Economic Benefits” with a single reference to jobs. There are no figures, only that the deepening is expected to “create new private sector port jobs in Jacksonville, while supporting operations in trucking, distribution and related services that could generate direct and indirect local jobs throughout the region.”

The only actual job numbers that have been produced in defense of the project are provided

by Martin Associates, a port consulting firm hired by JaxPort. Because this firm works on behalf of JaxPort, and is largely a public relations firm for the port industry, the job

numbers and projections cannot be accepted at face value and the assumptions built into their models have not been subjected to independent peer review for this project. More generally, job numbers and projections for public works and associated infrastructure projects are notoriously inaccurate and unreliable, and invariably err on the inflated side.

Ideally, given the large costs and the high environmental stakes, the most responsible action would be for local officials and development authorities to commission an independent and comprehensive cost-benefit analysis that includes not only the quantity but also the quality of jobs generated by the project.

But instead, our public officials, as has become the custom, are incapable of questioning, let alone opposing, any project supported by the corporate business community and their chamber of commerce boosters.

The “dredge it and they will come” scenario offered by advocates of the deepening might have some credibility if Jacksonville were the only port on the East Coast. But in addition to JaxPort, we have Miami, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk and New York/New Jersey. Each of these ports is also investing hundreds of millions of dollars to be the top port on the East Coast, and vying for the same position and the same cargo, in what can only be described as a frenzy of destructive competition. Each of these other ports is already receiving more cargo than Jacksonville, two (Norfolk and New York/New Jersey) already have channel depths of 50 feet, and the port in closest proximity (Savannah, less than 150 miles away) is far ahead of Jacksonville in progress toward channel deepening to 47 feet.

Yet port consultants like Martin Associates advise JaxPort, as they do all their clients, to keep digging deeper channels (at the public’s expense). When asked whether there is any guarantee that such a mammoth investment in coastal infrastructure and environmental degradation will produce the desired outcome, Martin Associates answers “no” and can only suggest that JaxPort pursue an aggressive marketing campaign to capture

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cargo from other, better-established ports.

So, after competing for and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to deepen channels and build infrastructure, the East Coast ports are then advised to compete with each other for a finite amount of cargo. And who will benefit from this further port competition? Again, the retailers, shippers and carriers, who will now have their bargaining position further strengthened by the existence of multiple deepwater ports financed at the public’s expense.

The fact is, there is very little chance that JaxPort will emerge, after spending up to a billion dollars of scarce federal and local public funds, as the coveted “first in/last out” port receiving the largest container vessels. Even 47 feet will not be deep enough for the largest fully loaded new Panamax vessels, which will desire access under all load conditions and under all tidal conditions 24/7, 365 days a year. These vessels will also require an air draft that may not be met due to the inadequate height of the Dames Point bridge.

Is there a more rational solution to this competitive madness? Yes. And it happens to come from the same Army Corps. In a widely neglected report on East Coast ports produced by the central headquarters in 2012, the Corps suggests a sensible distinction between “postPanamax ready” ports (those with 50-foot channels) and “cascade-ready” ports (those with 40- to 45-foot channels). They emphasize that not all ports need to be post-Panamax ready. Rather, some can be cascade-ready ports that will continue to serve an important and vital function in international trade and logistics, but serving smaller ships and feeder vessels. Jacksonville is a prime candidate for “cascade-ready” status.

This might save about $1 billion and, not incidentally, prevent the St. Johns River from experiencing any further environmental destruction.

David Jaffee

Jaffee is a professor in the sociology and anthropology department at the University of North Florida.

Folio Weekly welcomes Backpage Editorial submissions. Essays should be at least 1,200 words and on a topic of local interest or concern. Email your Backpage to themail@folioweekly.com or snail mail it to Denise M. Reagan, Editor, Folio Weekly, 9456 Philips Highway, Ste. 11, Jacksonville FL 32256. Opinions expressed on the Backpage are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors or management of Folio Weekly.

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