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When it comes to kids’ education, “public” or “private” matters less than success or failure. p. 51

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13 MAIL In defense of old people, substitute teachers and excess water consumption. p. 4

MOVIES Reviews of “Rango” and “The Adjustment Bureau.” p. 18

EDITOR’S NOTE p. 6

MUSIC Ben Taylor joins his famous father on stage, Hymn For Her performs at Fly’s Tie. p. 22

NEWS Street smart: Local artists seek ordinary folks to create an oral history of downtown Jacksonville. p. 7 Deputy Dogged: Jacksonville attorney says Clay County targets patrons of country music bars. p. 7 BUZZ, BOUQUETS & BRICKBATS The nexus between Gov. Rick Scott and author Stephen King goes way beyond “Misery.” Plus, do Councilmember Richard Clark’s robocalls cross the line? p. 8 COVER STORY Asking for it: JU professor Scott Kimbrough works to engage the city in philosophic inquiry. p. 13 OUR PICKS Reasons to leave the house this week. p. 17

ARTS Pop Nihil zine authors perform live at Underbelly.

Plus WJCT’s John Maycumber explores an old mystery in a new horror novel. p. 30 NEWS OF THE WEIRD Goulash-flavored water and other delights. p. 46 BACKPAGE When it comes to kids’ education, “public” or “private” matters less than success or failure. p. 51 I ♥ TELEVISION p. 11 HAPPENINGS p. 34 DINING p. 38 I SAW U p. 47 FREEWILL ASTROLOGY p. 48 CLASSIFIEDS p. 49 MARCH 15-21, 2011 | FOLIO WEEKLY | 3

Temporary Insanity

I enjoyed Julie Delegal’s “Bare-Naked Choices” a few weeks ago (Backpage, Feb. 15, bit.ly/ hSDrr4). It’s right on the mark and coincides nicely with the Editor’s Note, “Red State Blues.”

Let’s hope Abraham Lincoln was right … “but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

If you want good material for more insight into how privatizing school choices cheats students, look into privatizing substitute teaching to Kelly Services in Duval County.

Kelly is paid handsomely in this contract but substitutes have not had a raise in three years.

It works out great for Kelly — they have an infinite supply of substitutes in the pipeline — and also ideal for DCPS since they have no direct employee responsibility — the employees are Kelly’s, who acts as a subcontractor.

The DCPS substitute teaching system embraces a separate, unfair and unequal system.

Here’s how it works: A substitute works for Kelly and not the school district. DCPS wants to distance itself from any liability that may occur.

If a situation occurs not to their liking, DCPS invokes a “do not send” rule in the contract. It simply indicates they do not want a substitute to return to that school — ever. There doesn’t even have to be a reason and if one is needed, administrators are expert and adept at CYA. It’s surprising that DCPS doesn’t embrace Charter Schools completely, farming out all responsibility for operating schools. But simply becoming the shell corporation or holding company that contracts for teachers, buses and security is not the same as educating students.

Old News

Frank Aquino Fernandina Beach via email

I would like to respond to Mr. Bottini’s Letter to the Editor “Old and In the Way” (Mail, March 1).

Mr. Bottini claims that the blame for unfortunate election of Rick Scott as governor can be placed squarely on senior citizen self-interest, greed and “stink.” Since I just applied for Medicare, I guess I’m part of the problem as he sees it.

Mr. Bottini needs to avoid one of the major errors we see with the right wing today — stereotyping. I’d like to enlighten my fellow progressive on a few facts. For the past eight or nine years, as I traveled often to D.C. to protest the obscene wars that our country is involved in, or stood on street corners around town to rally the public’s awareness of these despicable foreign quagmires, I’ve noticed that the overwhelming majority of those with me are “seniors.” As I participate with local environmental and conservation groups to fight

I suggest the “current generation” (whoever that is) doesn’t need or deserve handouts from anyone.

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senseless development in priceless wilderness areas or to just spend a weekend on an outing to explore, enjoy and protect the planet, it is obvious that I stand mostly with what Mr. Bottini calls smelly and stinky seniors. I believe it was a gray-haired senior (me) who forced the School Board to end the practice of censuring students who opted not to give their personal contact info to military recruiters. Now, I

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believe it is “greedy” seniors who are leading the battle against the billboard lobby’s attempt to paint our town “digital” with zillions of flashing, neon-bright billboards and signs.

There’s plenty of blame to go around for the inexplicable election of Scott. Mr. Bottini should start by looking at the apathy among voters — including the non-senior generations — then move on to the inability of a lot of voters (including younger ones) to think somewhere beyond the TV ads that Scott bought with the money he ripped off from taxpayers.

If Mr. Bottini wants to change things, I suggest he reach out to the largest pool of progressive thinkers in the Jacksonville area — we “seniors” — instead of ranting at us with stereotyped, uninformed and insulting rhetoric.

Bill Armstrong Jacksonville via email

A Private Matter

Re: “Water Hogs” (Cover Story, March 1, bit. ly/feK0dD). Pardon my skepticism about your self-appointed job as publicity tsars of water usage in this area. Your sanctimonious presumption is typical for Leftists but as an unenlightened libertarian, I question your invasion of what really should be a private matter between those consumers, who pay for the water, and the JEA. So, excuse me for presuming that I am even fit to question your superior ideals but, in fairness, I think it only fit that each and every member of your staff, especially Susan Cooper Eastman, publish their consumptions of such items as water, gasoline, electricity, food and clothing, for starters.

“It isn’t an idle exercise.” Earth is in the balance.

Roderick T. Beaman, D.O. Jacksonville via email

Mr. Bottini’s letter contains some of the worst class envy, liberal/progressive, me generation, talking points I’ve read. Gov. Scott was elected by people who want Florida’s finances under control, not by senior self-interest. If many seniors live well, it is because they worked hard, saved for retirement, paid 7 percent of their salaries into Social Security for 20 or 30 years and now can live well, continue to pay taxes and be charitable to the truly in need. How they live and spend what they earned is none of Mr. Bottini’s business. And isn’t it grand that our governor recognizes the power of the Tea Party when they both support smaller government, balanced budgets and free market

capitalism, not Washington’s recent dance with socialism and creation of unconscionable national and state debt? Mr. Bottini seems to want seniors to give handouts to the “current generation.” I suggest the “current generation” (whoever that is) doesn’t need or deserve handouts from anyone.

They just need to do as the seniors did … work hard, pay their taxes, save for retirement, give to charity and don’t expect a nanny-state to give them “presents.”

M.J. Taranto Palm Valley via email

Politics As Usual

I am Dave Smith, in my second run for District 13 City Council. As you may recall, Art Graham’s ambition for the state Senate seat made necessary a special election for the vacated council seat. After John Meserve beat me for the seat, he was suspended under felony investigation, and Art Graham was reinstalled in District 13. When Graham was appointed to the Public Service Commission, Dick Brown was appointed to the council.

I point all this out because the 2009 election cycle was supposed to be “For Republicans Only,” except for one piece of the puzzle which didn’t fit that plan: me and my whistleblowing ways. I forced the hand of the political machine, which will earn me no official honors in Duval County. Still, I am proud to have been an obstacle to smoothly running corruption.

Who can say how the media would have handled that election if Meserve had been unopposed? Would the wheels of justice have turned even slower for Mr. Meserve? Would there have been any coverage at all of his legal problem?

Recently a reporter asked me, “Have you learned anything from your loss to John Meserve?”

Yes, that I am needed more than ever in city government to check the waste, corruption and political maneuvering.

Dave Smith, candidate Jacksonville City Council District 13

I thought your Jan. 18 article was great (“The Two Million Dollar Man,” http://bit.ly/ eKOrZ1). We need more reporters and news outlets like you and yours to let the general voting population of this city know the truth and what really goes on behind those closed City Hall doors. I’ve heard of other corrupt self-serving city employees and this is another new one. I’m 64, retired, on a fixed income like so many other people in Jacksonville, and the next thing we’ll hear, AGAIN, is that the taxes will have to be increased to cover the shortfalls.

Well, these shortfalls come from things like this pension-padding and other general waste in the government and there’s lots of it.

Again, thank you very much and keep reporting the truth even if you ruffle feathers or piss them off. This helps me greatly in voting for the next mayor.

John True Jacksonville via email

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Swing and a Miss

Was Thrasher’s golf course proposal just a bad idea — or a deliberate distraction?

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t’s pretty easy to slam state Sen. John Thrasher’s now-withdrawn plan to turn state parks into golf courses. It made little sense politically (turning publicly owned and taxpayer-subsidized land into demographically exclusive playgrounds 1), environmentally (transforming natural lands into heavily fertilized lawnscapes), or even economically (what Forbes magazine dubbed the “golf course glut” — outpaced in Florida only by the foreclosure glut — becomes less profitable each year). The proposal galled everyone from land conservationists to penny-pinching Tea Partiers — rare common ground in defense of common sense. And in just a few days, it brought forth a hailstorm of opposition from editorial pages and political blogs.

So why did Thrasher co-sponsor the legislation? It’s a good question, with a fairly simple answer. It was diversion legislation, without a downside. The bill was a hunk of red meat tossed to his red-meat base — folks who tend to regard any non-privatized property as a drain on public resources, and who are accustomed to doing business somewhere between the turn and the 18th green. These folks cheered the proposal with a certain Marie Antoinette-esque delight — who could object to golf courses? Just those suckers too poor to play! — but won’t mind that the measure failed.

Those who objected to the bill, on the other hand, were willing to invest significant energies into seeing it defeated.

And that is the real deal behind Thrasher’s “Masters” plan. With a bill so certain to spark outrage, and drain attention from arguably more consequential issues (like union busting, education defending, corporate tax breaks, environmental rollbacks and massive deregulation), his golf course subsidy was a 1The

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political hole-in-one.

That doesn’t mean it’s was a gimme, obviously. Thrasher may not have cared that the bill made him come off as arrogant, out of touch and indifferent both to the state’s natural beauty and the ownership of its public lands. He’s spent the past 20 years cultivating that reputation. But his golf course deal rested on the prestige of an iconic golfer, Jack Nicklaus, whose reputation is somewhat more prized. Though Nicklaus never did comment publicly on the bill, his lobbyist (former Attorney General and Secretary of State Jim Smith) confirmed that he was centrally involved in coming up with the idea for the Jack Nicklaus Golf Course Trail. Smith told the St. Petersburg Times that the golf course proposal was modeled after a similar trail in Alabama (the only difference being that Alabama didn’t destroy state parks to make way for its project) and that Nicklaus, a longtime resident of Jupiter, Fla., hoped it would bolster his reputation in the state. “[Jack] wanted to do something for Florida,” Smith told the St. Pete Times. “It’s a legacy thing.”

It’s hard to think of a worse legacy, frankly, than being the person who destroyed five state parks. And Nicklaus, who sits on the board of the Everglades Foundation, really should’ve known better. There may have been no downside for Thrasher, but the same cannot be said for Jack Nicklaus, who stood to be a pariah (if the bill passed) or a patsy (if it didn’t).

Whatever spark made the golf course trail seem like a good idea at gestation was fairly well extinguished late last week, when Thrasher agreed to withdraw the bill. Still, it served its purpose, distracting folks as the teacher merit pay measure known as Son of Senate Bill 6 moved through the veto-proof bowels of a Republican legislature. State residents were left with a particularly unappetizing piece of GOP “sausage.” As for The Golden Bear, he got the rough landing he deserved.

Anne Schindler themail@folioweekly.com

It’s hard to think of a worse legacy, frankly, than being the person who destroyed five state parks. And Nicklaus, who sits on the board of the Everglades Foundation, really should’ve known better.

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NewsBuzz Misery Loves Company “The Shining Forehead,” “Press Semetary” — Among the proposals so far for the Twitter trending topic #rickscottstephenkingnoveltitles

With “Friends” Like That …

Florida Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird last week ordered Mark One Financial LLC of Jacksonville to cease using Facebook to hound a woman over old debts.

Melanie Beacham sued the debt collection agency last August, claiming it sent messages to both her and her family via Facebook in an effort to collect a $362 unpaid car loan.

Vote Your Anagram Clean Murkily Unready or Am A Home King Brown Anvil — Tellingly modified names of the four leading Jax mayoral candidates after they’ve been run through an anagram website. (Find your own name anagram at http://bit.ly/gj8y5)

Robo Defense “They are desperate right now. They are doing anything in their power they can to see if something will stick.”

— District 3 City Councilmember Richard Clark on his political opponents, while brushing off concerns about a recent robocall and mailing. Clark drew criticism after he sent a January 2011 newsletter to district residents addressed to “registered voters,” language that might make it fall under the rubric of “electioneering,” which would require it be paid for by his campaign, rather than taxpayers. Clark says the only reason he addressed it to voters is because the Supervisor of Elections office provided the addresses and it’s the only agency that maintains a district-by-district address database. He added that all City Councilmembers use SOE addresses for mass mailings to their constituents in their districts.

As for another contention that a robocall of Clark’s telling voters about early voting sites should have included a formal election disclaimer (saying Clark approved of the message, giving his party affiliation and the office he’s seeking), Clark says no disclaimer was needed, since he wasn’t specifically asking constituents to vote for him. (His campaign did pay for the call, however, because it might be construed as electioneering.)

Halfway Houses 47 percent — Percentage of Jacksonville mortgages that are “underwater” in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to CoreLogic. A home is underwater when it’s worth less than what’s owed on the mortgage. Nationally, 23 percent of homes are underwater.

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acksonville criminal defense attorney Richard Tierney doesn’t go so far as to say that rednecks are being profiled in Clay County. (A hard case to make, frankly; the Sheriff ’s Office has been known to house its share of good ol’ boys.) But Tierney does believe that DUI enforcement efforts have crossed the line into harassment.

Tierney claims one particular deputy has taken to hovering outside the Crazy Horse Saloon in Orange Park, using the flimsiest of excuses to pull over patrons as they leave, on the assumption they’re drunk.

According to Tierney, law enforcement videotapes of stops made by Clay County Sheriff ’s Deputy Robert Russell show him pulling over several drivers in quick succession because their cars’ tag lights are burned out. In at least one of those videos, Tierney says, the videotape clearly shows the tag light is actually working.

Because the reason for the stop was bogus, he says the stop and detention of the driver was a violation of their Fourth Amendment protection from illegal search and seizures. (Tierney does not represent the driver in that case.)

Tierney alleges that the real reason Dep. Russell pulled the six drivers over was to quiz them about their alcohol consumption in an attempt to build DUI cases. “This guy is pulling people over, basically, who are driving out of a bar. It’s a perfect example of how the police can be just totally overzealous. It’s a blatant Fourth Amendment violation,” says Tierney.

Tierney provided Folio Weekly with a DVD of six traffic stops that Russell made on Nov. 4, 2010 between 12:25 and 1:39 a.m.

While country music plays loudly on his police cruiser radio, the dashboard video camera records the deputy pulling over pickup trucks and SUVs, one after another. When he asks the drivers where they’re coming from, most drivers say the Crazy Horse Saloon, part of a complex of four nightclubs in two giant

corrugated metal buildings at 1565 Wells Road.

Tierney defended one woman whom Deputy Russell pulled over that morning. The officer gave her a warning for her tag light (which was out) and cited her for DUI, but two breathalyzer tests she took showed no alcohol in her blood.

The state attorney decided not to prosecute after Clay County Judge Richard Townsend said there “was insufficient evidence to support a reasonable suspicion of DUI.” Tierney obtained the videotape when he was preparing his client’s defense.

“Based on everything I know about it, here you have an officer fresh out of DUI school,” says Tierney. “He wants to either further his career with a promotion or get some sort of accolade for his DUI arrests. … He is going to an area where he knows there are bars … then he is basically creating a reason to pull them over.” (Russell has been a DUI deputy in the Traffic Division for a year.)

Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler strongly disagrees, however. After Folio

law enforcement, is a professional videographer.

“If the tag lights were working,” she wrote, “the video would show circular, glowing areas of light just above the plate where the bulbs are.”

(Judge for yourself: The stop that Tierney challenged, saying the tag light was lit, is available at folioweekly.com/videos.php) A review of traffic stops by Clay County’s two DUI deputies between Nov. 1, 2010 and Jan. 31, 2011 does show that Deputy Russell

While country music plays loudly on his police cruiser radio, the dashboard video camera records the deputy pulling over pickup trucks and SUVs, one after another.

Weekly’s inquiry, he reviewed the videotapes of the six stops, though he has initiated no formal investigation. After the review, Beseler concluded that all of the stops were legal.

Though it may appear that the tag lights are illuminated on some of the vehicles, Clay County Sheriff ’s Office Public Information Coordinator Mary Justino wrote in an email, Beseler says that’s because license plates are made out of reflective material. Justino also said that Beseler, in addition to working 37 years in

frequently makes three to eight serial stops in certain stretches of road, which might indicate he was hovering around particular locations. And Russell cited more drivers with DUIs between Nov. 1, 2010, and Jan. 31, 2011, than the other DUI officer, Deputy Jacob Saunders. Russell wrote 21 DUI citations and Saunders wrote 16 (three related to traffic accidents).

Justino said Beseler does not usually comment about an allegation absent an Internal Affairs investigation. “However, in

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this case, Sheriff Beseler feels so strongly about the inaccuracy of your allegations against his deputy that he is allowing me to forward you these comments,” she wrote. “We feel the premise for your story is inaccurate, as in any negative portrayal of Deputy Russell, a decorated CCSO deputy whose work is saving people’s lives by taking impaired drivers off Clay County streets.”

Tierney disagrees. Though he doesn’t represent the driver with what he believes is a questionable stop, he has made the videotape

available to other DUI attorneys, and says he may still make a formal complaint to the department. He believes the stop was illegal, and says the deputy should be fired.

“He’s pulling people over, essentially, on a hunch,” says Tierney. “He could pull over every black person. Every Mexican. Every Chinese.

All his ex-girlfriends. People he doesn’t like.

What is offensive is that it gives an officer unchecked power to harassment.”

Susan Cooper Eastman sceastman@folioweekly.com

Playing Catch About 30 rain barrels wrapped in graphics designed by local artists or based on photographs of the St. Johns River will be installed at businesses and organizations throughout Jacksonville. The rain barrels are part of the St. Johns Riverkeeper’s new River Friendly campaign, which will include online tips, workshops and educational materials. Take the River Friendly Pledge at stjohnsriverkeeper.org/river-friendly

Cathedral Festival, St. Augustine, February 26

Brickbats to Sen. John Thrasher (R-St. Augustine) for proposing to destroy the integrity of the sate parks system in order to cater to the sport of privilege. Thrasher has co-sponsored legislation that would obligate the state Division of Parks and Recreation to hire golfer Jack Nicklaus to design golf courses in state parks in every region of the state.

Thrasher says the purpose of the bill is to stimulate tourism — seemingly oblivious to the allure of natural Florida, or the reluctance of already-strapped taxpayers to finance a sport that increasingly few can afford.

Bouquets to The Bolles School senior Ashley Irven for her leadership in educating peers, the public and elected officials about epilepsy. The 18-year-old Jacksonville resident has been a vocal advocate of the local chapter of the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida, started an epilepsy support group at her school and raised $400 for the Foundation through a cupcake sale at Bolles. Recently, she was selected by the national Epilepsy Foundation to represent the state in the Epilepsy Foundation’s Kids Speak Up! annual meeting with U.S. Congressmembers in Washington, D.C. Brickbats to Hilliard resident and retired teacher Richard Williams for injecting politics into public education. Williams, a member of a statewide Textbook Action Team, a group with ties to the Tea Party, recently criticized district textbooks, saying they contain “an influx of information about the Muslim religion,” and urged the Nassau County School Board to begin a review of all social study and literature texts for “accuracy.”

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When Jennifer Carroll became lieutenant governor in January, she wanted an office close to her Fleming Island home in Clay County. The former state rep turned to St. Johns River State College President Joe Pickens, who served with Carroll in the state House of Representatives, and who proved very accommodating. He found space on his college’s Orange Park campus by displacing the nursing program administrators. Pickens moved their offices from a spacious location beside the entrance to the school’s new Health Sciences Building into smaller, more cramped offices next to an elevator. Carroll in turn converted the large conference room into her personal office, with a separate office for her assistant. She also took over the building’s sizable reception area for a yet-to-be hired receptionist.

Pickens gave the space to Carroll gratis, and St. Johns River State College public relations representative Susan Kessler emphasizes that no educational space was sacrificed for the lieutenant governor. Kessler said students on the SJRSC Orange Park campus are excited to have an opportunity to interact with a state official. “I’m not sure what you’re digging for,” she responded when asked about the deal. “But we are glad to have her here. We welcome the addition and in no way is this effecting anyone in

Walter Coker

NewsBuzz Big Woman on Campus

any negative way.”

Carroll’s press office in Tallahassee didn’t provide Carroll’s campus office hours since her January swearing-in, and her assistant was away in Italy last week. But the office change is certainly a departure from how the $12 million Health Sciences Building was envisioned when it was unveiled in 2007. The two-story, 52,000-square-foot facility was built for the school’s health education program, and designed to resemble a hospital. The administrative offices are plush, with thick glass doors and framed by cherrystained wood. Today, however, the entire nursing education staff, except for Associate Dean Billie Blake, has been moved. A sign outside the door directs visitors to another office, and empty cardboard boxes are still stacked in the corner of their new space from the move still in progress. In their new offices by the first-floor elevator, two faculty members share one office, an adjunct professor and another full-time professor use the other rooms and the Workforce Florida utilizes a fourth.

Associate Dean Baker says that the change hasn’t hampered their ability to provide services to students, and all of the faculty members have offices. “It’s not as bad as it sounds,” she says.

Susan Cooper Eastman sceastman@folioweekly.com

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History in the making: Narooz Soliman helps an applicant at the Bureau’s cardboard kiosk.

Guided by Voices

Local artists seek to create an Everyman’s guide to Northeast Florida

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While the Bureau’s clinical-sounding name seems like it would be right at home in a George Orwell or Aldous Huxley story, the motives of its founders are decidedly human. Visual artist Juliet Hinely and her collaborator-boyfriend Narooz Soliman have been spotted in what they call The Cardboard Kiosk since November of last year at First Wednesday Art Walk and various parks around downtown Jacksonville.

“My dad is from Jacksonville and I used to live in St. Augustine,” explains the Virginiaborn Hinely. “I moved to Jax last year because the rent is cheap and there is some exciting art stuff starting to happen in the area. While I was getting ready to move, I told myself I was going to do some kind of Jacksonvillethemed project.”

The venture sprang from the 25-yearold artist’s recurring inspiration: history, tourism and tourist attractions. “The basic idea is [capturing] personal histories cited to specific locations in Jacksonville,” she says.

Willing participants can contact the pair (bureauofhistoriccontinuity.tumblr.com) if they have a story, anecdote or recollection tied into a specific location in Northeast Florida.

Hinely believes that in a way it’s “re-enacting Jacksonville” and giving a contemporary sense of the city’s history. Hinely’s own interest in how the past guides our present navigation through life has been her ultimate beacon for this mission based on memory. “It’s kind of an exploration of where personal history and societal history intersect.”

The pair is seeking submissions until the first week of April, at which point they will assemble a booklet and offer downloads that allow people to then create their own tour of the city. So far, they have edited a half-dozen 10-minute segments and are hoping that folks can go online and choose either a shortened audio tour or even go for a lengthier “director’s cut”-type experience. The response has been overwhelmingly positive.

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“We really wanted to achieve that ‘walk up, walk by’ interaction with people. We set up our cardboard kiosk at the Old Library [122 Ocean St.] during Art Walk and started talking to people.”

Those same folks have been quite interested in this innovative take on selfguided tours, an experience usually driven by impersonal, fact-based data. The BHC’s approach is just the opposite, encouraging people’s memories, nostalgia and emotional resonance to add color to their stories. “Most people will say, ‘I know the exact place,’” Hinely explains. “But others may think of three or four [places] and need to narrow it down to a certain one.”

So far, the stories are as diverse as the storytellers themselves. “Yesterday, we had an incredible interview with these two guys who were part of the last class that graduated from Douglas Anderson when it was an allblack K-12 school.” The pair, Gary and David, spent a half-hour excitedly telling Hinely about a time when the school was a sort of community center for African Americans during segregation. They even told her the story of how Douglas Anderson himself would transport kids to the school in his car. “That was really incredible!” says Hinely.

Some stories have been bittersweet. One woman began recounting her first kiss, but ended up revealing that her then-boyfriend had since died from tragic circumstances. “Some people’s places are very uplifting and celebratory and some of them are a bit darker,” Hinely says.

“I think that’s an interesting contrast.”

Curiously, the most optimistic group Hinely has encountered has been downtown’s homeless population. “They want to talk about the church,” she says. “It’s interesting that they want to testify and talk about being healed or being reborn.” The BHC has had a tougher time tracking down those indigent storytellers but are excited about giving their usually ignored voices a platform as well. “There’s one guy we really want to interview because he was so enthusiastic when he came to the box and spoke to us. It will be a great story.”

Dan Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com

The Bureau of Historic Continuity seeks stories that “run the gamut from silly to serious.” Contact them at bureauofhistoriccontinuity.tumblr.com or call 357-0848. The Cardboard Kiosk will be seeking submissions at First Wednesday Art Walk on April 6 in downtown Jacksonville.

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Love Television™ reader Karly from Oregon writes: “Your ‘10 MORE Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus’ [March 2] was so hateful. Are you so poor a writer that you must resort to gross-out ass humour? Sad. And us medical marijuana users couldn’t care less what you think of pot smoking. Again, an awful lot of hate. Over 25 percent of human genes are the same as those of a banana. Get over yourself!”

Dear Karly, thanks for writing! Allow me to respond: (1) I did not know that about bananas!

That’s an interesting — if not exactly surprising — thing for a pothead to say. (2) I never “resort” to “gross-out ass humour.” As regular readers know, “gross-out ass” is my preferred method of “humour” — mixing it up occasionally with “depraved prostate humour,” “sickening vagina humour” and “grody humour.” (3) “Humour” is actually spelled “humor” unless you’re a pothead from 18th-century England.

(4) However! I’ll agree I was a little rough on the potheads in that column. My intention was

Anyway, I know I was a little rough on potheads but … what’s that? You can’t remember what number we’re on? … huh? What’s that? You need a snack? Oh …

OK. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Hmmmm … hmmmm … hmmmm … OH! While Karly’s curing a case of the munchies, let’s recap what I actually said about Miley Cyrus sucking down a bong filled with salvia: “What kind of idiot smokes salvia when tons of high-quality ganoobie doobie just arrived from the jungles of Colombia? (Note: While I hate pot and potheads … I hate fake pot and fake potheads more.)” That joke was OK, but it was quite low on the “gross-out assness” scale and … OH! Karly’s back. Hey, that plate of chocolate chips covered with melted cheese looks yummy!

Anyway, I know I was a little rough on potheads but … what’s that? You can’t remember what number we’re on? We’re on item No. FOUR, Karly. FOUR. I need you to focus, OK? OK. Anyway, I didn’t say I hated “medical marijuana users,” I said I hated “potheads” — there’s a difference. On the other hand! I did say I hate pot, for which there’s a very good reason!

About six years ago, I spent Thanksgiving with a pothead acquaintance I’ll call “Dr. Oregano” who fed me brownies filled with about a pound of primo ganoobie doobie. Long story short, I spent the rest of holiday lying on a couch desperately trying to swat away swarms of catroaches (cockroaches with cats’ heads) trying to climb on me. (THAT’S NOT “GROSS-OUT ASS HUMOUR” — IT’S TRUE!!)

And finally, (5) because it’s hard to — can you stop staring at your fingertips, please?

Thanks! Because it’s hard to pay attention to everything I write (and who would want to?), when I say “hate,” I don’t actually mean “HATE” — ya know? My use of “hate” is usually shorthand for “deeply annoyed” … as in, “I am

deeply annoyed by leukemia.” Or “I am deeply annoyed by people who drown kittens.” That’s why I’m going to apologize for my pointed language and amend what I said: “I, Wm.™ Steven Humphrey, am merely deeply annoyed by potheads and would like to formally apolo …

KARLY! Will you please turn down that Phish CD? I’m trying to apologize here!!

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 8:00 CW AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL

The models get a wee bit nervous upon learning they’ll be set on fire.

THURSDAY, MARCH 17 9:00 BRAVO KATHY GRIFFIN: 50 AND NOT PREGNANT

Kathy delivers her stand-up act while simultaneously decimating every celeb in Hollywood.

9:30 NBC PARKS AND RECREATION

The fate of the parks department rests on the Harvest Festival — which has just been cursed by a local tribal leader!

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Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Lewis Black and more tribute/roast the late comic Greg Giraldo.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 19 10:00 HBO THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW ON BROADWAY

Cowboy Curtis, Miss Yvonne, Jambi and more are reunited with Pee-Wee in this Broadway production — which might be a bit creepy.

SUNDAY, MARCH 20 9:00 HBO BIG LOVE

Series finale! In the last episode, Bill must face losing Home Plus, getting arrested … oh! And the collapse of his polygamous marriage.

10:00 ANI TAKING ON TYSON

Mike challenges three of the best pigeon-racing teams to the ultimate pigeon-off!

MONDAY, MARCH 21 8:00 ABC DANCING WITH THE STARS

Season premiere! Featuring clumsy celebrity hoofers like Ralph Macchio, WWE star Chris Jericho and Kirstie Alley!

9:00 OXY BAD GIRLS CLUB

Nikki and Wilmarie stage a coup against the house leaders just like the one in Egypt — except with hair extension pulling.

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JU beatdown raises questions about the real meaning of “campus security”

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here’s an old joke among the grizzled vets of the sports press corps, the riddle: How do you know when you’ve got a college football program?

The punchline: You know when your players start making the crime blotter.

Congratulations, JU Dolphins — you’ve arrived. What your footballers Brad Burns and Jordan Dewhirst allegedly perpetrated in the wee hours of Feb. 10 at various points on University Boulevard was shadier than the collected correspondence of Alan Greenspan, but at least now they’re talking about you, amirite? And as any Kardashian, Sheen, Lohan, or Loughner can tell you, all press is good press.

For those who haven’t seen the all-toobrief daily media accounts of it, a refresher.

A few weeks back, at around 3 a.m., Daniel Meyer bumped into Dewhirst — at least, that’s what he told the cops — outside Club Rain in the scenic and wholesome Arlington area. Oopsie daisy — words were exchanged, tensions flared and, as Meyer recollects, he fled the scene as Dewhirst and some other Dolphins came at him.

After arriving back at school, Meyer told security he was in danger — and his premonition proved uncannily accurate.

Once back in the dorm, he was thrown to the ground and beaten like a slaughterhouse 2011 cow, with broken bones throughout his face.

Some say there were eight assailants. Some say there was blood splattered throughout the residence hall.

JU’s public response to this drama was weak, ineffective and entirely perfunctory, which I have to applaud here, as this kind of half-assed response is the hallmark of any big-time sports program, and therefore proof positive that big things are happening over there. This from Al Verlander, JU’s athletic director: “We hold all of our student-athletes to high standards of conduct and we are disappointed that this incident occurred. Both players have been suspended indefinitely from our football program as the investigation and judicial process occurs.”

Disappointed! Well, yes, I suppose it is something of a bummer, now that you mention it, that your football players allegedly are allegedly massing in a pack and beating some poor sap up like they are Cobra Kai in “Karate Kid.” It’s also disappointing that campus security, which Meyer claims to have alerted, didn’t do anything to protect him.

Perhaps Meyer has a liability suit in the making. Did campus security fail to act because his claims weren’t credible? Or were they just passing the time and not doing their jobs? It’s not as if the bar for campus security is especially high; it’s often a career choice for the retired, the hobbling and the morbidly obese. But it sounds as if these guys weren’t doing their jobs.

In a conversation with WJXT, Burns’ dad claims his son is relatively innocent: “It was another football player. It wasn’t

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my son who did it. He’s been wrongly charged,” said Daryl Burns, who said his son was there, but he just was chillaxin and watchin.

“The victim could not identify Bradley,” Daryl Burns said. “I’m saying he is innocent. ... The whole fight was between another player and the victim, and he just was there, so he is guilty by being there.”

Just watching a beatdown. Nothing wrong

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JU’s public response to this drama was weak, ineffective and entirely perfunctory, which I have to applaud here, as this kind of half-assed response is the hallmark of any big-time sports program, and therefore proof positive that big things are happening over there. with that, Daryl. Of course, he wouldn’t be in a position then to intervene on the part of the victim. That would be wrong.

A teachable moment. Meanwhile, those students are still in school, even if they aren’t on the team at the moment (as if that matters in March). And Rain, the locals assure me, is still going off.

Compared to some of the things that have gone on in Gainesville in the last decade, or Miami in the ’80s, this is a blip on the radar.

And quite possibly, the players had their reasons. Alcohol may have contributed, even though Rain is famed for its Shirley Temples, so they could’ve been stone sober. To quote Debbie Gibson, “Anything is possible”.

But this ugly incident raises questions about JU’s campus hierarchy, and if players live by a different set of rules than the rest of the students. I am troubled by the victim’s assertion that he asked for help and did not get it. How is he able to feel safe on that campus? In this city? Whatever he did to draw the players’ attention, he’ll have a hard time feeling safe again anytime soon.

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tudents at Jacksonville University are required to take Introduction to Philosophy. How quaint. If they get it with Scott Kimbrough, who chairs the division of humanities, the first thing they learn is bullshit. No, really — the opening lecture is on the subject of bullshit, as in baloney. There are bullshit artists, and there are bullshit experts; fortunately for JU undergrads, Dr. Kimbrough is one of the latter.

Kimbrough didn’t write the book “On Bullshit” — that volume, slim enough to be kept in one’s pocket and consulted throughout the day, is by Harry Frankfurt, the unimprovably named American philosopher.

Kimbrough has published an acclaimed critique of the book1, however, in which he expands the definition of the term to include unintentional bullshit, contending that a person can bullshit without meaning to, and warns of “the particular danger of believing your own bullshit.”

1 “On Letting It Slide,” Chapter 1 of the collection

“Bullshit and Philosophy,” Open Court Press, 2006.

Of course, Kimbrough’s Intro students are thrilled just to hear their professor say “bullshit.” Repeatedly. (The current crop, judging by their snickering at the mere mention of homosexuality in a class two weeks ago, must have been in hysterics.) Come final exam, it’s the topic they’ve retained best. Meta-ethics may or may not sink in, but bullshit sticks.

Traditionally and prohibitively academic, the field of philosophy could use a little repackaging, and in the case of Kimbrough’s lecturing underclassmen on bullshit, how better to do so than profanely. “I want to bring the idea of philosophy down to earth, instead of it being, ‘Here are our hallowed philosophers before whom you should bow down,’” the professor says in his campus office, which is filled with books, sunlight, and artwork by Tonia, his wife of 21 years. Photos of their two kids are all over the place.

Kimbrough’s aim of making philosophy accessible extends beyond the classroom, however, and into that other, less-hallowed hub of critical thinking, the barroom. With two like-minded JU colleagues, Kimbrough hosts a popular, long-running series of —

hang ang on — philosophy slams. ams. Held monthly in unassuming nassuming bars in the urban core, ore, the event offers students and everyone veryone else a chance to engage scholars cholars on topics ranging from “Is That Art?” and “Is Plastic Surgery Fake?” to Kimbrough’s own — spread the word — “The Structure and Function Bullshit.” No hallowed-philosophers of Bullshit.” bowing-down here.

For Kimbrough, engaging in philosophical exercise — and inviting people to crawl in off the streets to help with the job — is a matter of social progress. It’s not only how he’s helping make philosophy more accessible, but also why he wants to in the first place. “We filter between things that are serious and things that are bullshit because we have only so much time and attention,” he says. “So it actually matters how one distinguishes bullshit from serious discussion.”

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ask yourself, ‘Am I being sincere?’ We don’t get at truth just by being sincere.”

Tell it to Shamu. Kimbrough saw the SeaWorld production on a family trip a couple years ago and recognized a popular theme: Believe in yourself and you’ll achieve your wildest dreams; go ahead and jump in the pool with the predatory beast. It’s the kind of pervasive, well, bullshit that philosophy empowers people to sniff out, he says. In the case of swimming with Shamu, it doesn’t matter how sure you are of yourself — all possible outcomes must be considered. For instance, he observes, “The orca might eat you.”

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that way, and — part of this is coming from West Texas — I kept thinking if I could catch up to what these people are doing, then I’ll figure out what the answers are,” he recalls.

“What I learned, and what partly informs how I go about philosophy now, is that people build these complicated systems, and they can be good for this or that, but what philosophy is really about is seeing the limits of systems. I think that’s where its real value is, because in politics and other parts of life, people tend to have their one little framework they can look at things through. They need to have the skills to see the limits of that framework. [Philosophy] enables you to have a firm footing but still see it from this way, from that way, and I think the world would be a much better place if people were better able to do that.”

To that end, Kimbrough, Bold City brew in hand, introduces the slam’s guest speaker, FSCJ’s Carl Colavito, calling him “a Socratic kind of guy.” He is also bald, bearded and exudes a level of serenity otherwise seen only in Operating Thetans. He takes the stage and begins the discussion by leading the audience in singing the ’90s dance-club refrain, “What is love? / Baby, don’t hurt me / don’t hurt me no more.” Socratic, all right.

We’re not just talking about love tonight, Colavito insists — we’re out to define the term once and for all. Again with the defining. Over the next hour-anda-half, slammers take turns saying

what they think love is, or isn’t. Colavito engages each contributor; the philosophical ping-pong is no more or less aggressive than the actual game being played on a table across the room. The dialogue is perfectly sensible — perhaps a little too so when a middle-aged woman, whose bottle of wine is empty, shouts from her table, “You tell people you love them so they’ll have sex with you.” In a spirit of moderation, Kimbrough steps in to share William Ian Miller’s heartwarming definition of love, “the suspension of disgust.” Later, a student quotes Jane Austen’s “There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time,” which complicates our goal of settling on a single definition for the ages. A cook yells “order up” from the kitchen. A Galaga machine bloops.

Regrettably, the evening’s most serviceable definition of love is kept private — Kimbrough turns to me with a highly accessible Magnetic Fields reference: “If you don’t cry, it isn’t love.” When’s the next slam?

an a “philosophy slam” possibly be sufferable? If the guy at the City Council meeting — or, hell, calling into “First Coast Connect” — can’t be trusted to keep his comments succinct and pertinent, how about when the subject is philosophy? “There are people who say nutty stuff,” Kimbrough confides, “but that’s part of the fun of the event — someone’s going to say something a little loopy, and then the speaker does what they can with it.”

And so on a recent Tuesday at Jackson’s Grill in Riverside, several dozen people crowd around a small corner stage, on which a drum kit, evidently belonging to “Oyster Knife,” is set up for later. In time for Valentine’s Day, the theme of tonight’s slam is “What Is Love?” Beats me. Some participants hit the bar for philosophical lubrication; others remain dangerously sober. Only one person is wearing a turtleneck.

Kimbrough, who is 43, has a nice if slight build and dark, closely cropped hair with inoffensive sideburns. His brown Kimbrough has in the past performed philosophically inclined stand-up comedy at Springfield’s Three Layers Café but refused to eyes always appear — give Folio Weekly the tapes. no metaphor too easy — wide open. Tonight he keeps an arm around Tonia, who writes and edits copy for marketing publications and, when it comes to her husband’s philosophical musings, offers a vital layperson’s perspective. When talking philosophy, Kimbrough is puckish, liable to burst into laughter at any moment. I’ve heard him call a passage of Hume “hilarious.”

A native of Abilene, Texas, which has been rated the second-most progressive — sorry — conservative city in America, Kimbrough honed early philosophical skills as a tyke on the playground: “You gotta understand where other people are coming from when you’re the little guy, you know?” (I know.) Then, seeking extra credit in a high-school world-lit class, he stumbled upon “Being and Nothingness,” a Sartre tome that makes “Nausea” look like “Goodnight Moon.”

Perversely, the existentialist jargon Carl Colavito (top left) leads a Socratic probe of the topic of love. Kimbrough (right) says engaging in philosophical discusexcited him. “It kind of hooked me in sion is a matter of social progress.

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Davon Phillips (right), president of JU’s philosophy club, recently led a forum on gun rights. “Philosophy isn’t just for philosophers,” he says.

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iewing Nazis as evil feels like a fair thing to do. Not so fast, says Kimbrough. As part of the traveling exhibit “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” which was recently featured at Jacksonville’s Main Library and included lectures at local campuses, JU’s philosophy department explored “Complicity and Resistance in a Controlled Society” — how and why people either go along with or find the strength to resist an established order.

Kimbrough, who somehow isn’t an alcoholic, spoke on “The Capacity for Evil,” a topic often probed from the victim’s viewpoint, but rarely from the side of the evildoer. Taking this tack stems from having “had it pretty easy” in his own life, he explains. “I’m more interested in the perpetrators than the victims, but on the level of understanding where that kind of thing comes from,” he says, referring to otherwise-decent people’s enabling the Holocaust. “When you see how many people do things like that, you have to start to ask about yourself. It comes back around to understanding yourself. Obviously I’ve been lucky in not ever having to face a situation like that on either end, but you kind of wonder, what would you do? What if something like that comes up?”

Deeming an opposing group inherently evil, no matter how heinous their crimes, is precisely what allows the original party to fulfill its capacity for evil, Kimbrough argues.

The solution is to be “very wary of our own psychological tendencies” — to resist the temptation to caricature those with opposing views, and realize “we’re at our worst when we’re most convinced of the evil and inhumanity of our opponents,” even Nazi eugenicists.

“Once you paint the other as ‘evil,’ then they deserve whatever is coming to them,” he says, pointing to the vitriol of current political discourse. “[But] maybe you’re not living up to the best standards yourself.”

Such questions of moral psychology have weighed foremost on Kimbrough’s mind — he’s teaching an upper-level class on the subject. On a Tuesday morning in February, a small group of students parsed the raging battle between virtue ethicists, who believe a person makes moral decisions based on his or

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So are his kids, apparently. On their days off from school, Kimbrough recruits Emi, 11, and Cal, 8, to help instruct university students in the ways of philosophy. The duo’s lecture topics have included Descartes’s Theory of Actions and Passions, “semantics of the quantifiers in formal predicate logic” and, adorably, Darwinian evolution, slideshow and all. (Asked if this draws pushback from the creationist camp, Kimbrough says, “For the most part, the people who are super closed-minded about it will just be quiet because they’ve already conceptualized me as the March 19, 2011 heir of Satan.”) If his students grasp the concepts, 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. great, and if they don’t, even better. As he tells a recent Intro class — which, at the roosterJoin other volunteers to collect litter and debris crowing hour of 10:30 a.m., seems on balance from multiple sites around the city. half-awake — “Everyone is confused? Good, that means you’re making progress.” Throw the There will be site staff on hand to register volunteers and book across the room, expand your mind. provide trash bags, gloves and tickets.

Kimbrough isn’t the only local academic pushing the limits of his discipline, of course, but he still seems anomalous in Northeast Advanced registration is not required. Volunteers 18 and Florida. In fact, how he identifies himself younger must be accompanied by an adult. professionally depends on with whom he’s speaking. “If I’m feeling mischievous, I After the cleanup, volunteers will gather at Riverside Arts introduce myself as a philosopher. Otherwise, Market from noon to 2 p.m. where tickets can be redeemed I say ‘philosophy professor.’ Or just ‘professor,’ for refreshments and T-shirts (while supplies last). and then they say, ‘In what?’, and I tell them, and that usually stops them short.”

To learn more, visit www.coj.net, keywords “St. Johns River He may want to also introduce himself as a Celebration” or call Keep Jacksonville Beautiful at 630-3420 terrible person, at least in Platonic terms, which dictate that a good person is one whose reason controls his appetite. If the measure is coffee Keep Jacksonville Beautiful... consumption, Kimbrough admits he doesn’t ...it belongs to you! make the cut. “I judge it would be rationally best to have less, but I like the feel of my cup, so I keep going,” he tells me in his office, where he keeps an overworked four-cup pot. I ask what kind of coffee we’re drinking and, after he tells me, mention playfully that I thought I’d detected that blend’s earthy notes. “I like earthiness,” he responds. Earthiness — the opposite of bullshit.

Either that, or its direct descendant.

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Reasons to leave the house this week MAT FINISH WRESTLING

Rumble roll call! The bone-crushing scholars and erudite bruisers of the professional wrestling onslaught from TNA Wrestling Live! charge into town on Friday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. at (oddly enough) the TimesUnion Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville.

Crowd-pleasing head-lockers like Mr. Anderson, Jeff Jarrett, “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles (pictured), “The Monster” Abyss and Mickie James pin, slam and throw down for a thrilling night of full-force rasslin’. Tickets range from $20-$50. 630-3900.

CREATIVE PARTY ART AFTER DARK

The 15th annual Art After Dark, a Friends of The Florida Theatre fundraiser, features a silent auction, music and works by local visual artists Heather Blanton, Holly Blanton, Overstreet Ducasse (“Floreada Targets” pictured), Jennifer Woodall Graham, Thomas Hager, Christie Holechek, Judella Lacle, MacTruque, Lynn Matyi, Kirk Reber, Ryan Rowe, Melissa Russell, Laura Lin Williams and Barry Wilson as well as eight student artists. Art After Dark is held on Friday, March 18 from 6-10 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $15. 355-2787.

BABY BOOMER TROUBADOUR JAMES TAYLOR

While songs such as “Fire and Rain,” “Carolina In My Mind” and “Sweet Baby James,” penned and sung by James Taylor, have left an indelible mark on the world’s musical memory, his life and career have been as storied and hard to pin down as one of the sometimes-troubled characters in his songs.

The Beatles were early supporters, and he boosted nuclear war protests with the concert film “No Nukes.” James Taylor starred in Monte Hellman’s ’71 cult classic “Two-Lane Blacktop.” Taylor found the strength to kick a longtime heroin addiction, and his celebrated and tabloid-rich marriage to Carly Simon produced some great music and talented progeny. He performs with son Ben on Tuesday, March 22 at 8 p.m. at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $65 and $85. 630-3900.

DIRTY BIKERS MOTOCROSS

Monster Energy Motocross offers an evening of crazy thrills, tire squeals and possibly (but hopefully not) skin peels as professional motorcycle maestros like James Stewart (pictured), Chad Reed and Ryan Dungey battle it out and hold court on the dirt to see who will be crowned 2011 AMA Supercross champ! The whole thang roars into action on Saturday, March 19 at 7 p.m. at EverBank Field, 1 EverBank Field Drive, Jacksonville. Tickets are $20 and $45. 633-6100.

RHYTHM METHOD SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

Since 2004, the San Fran Bay Area-bred jazz supergroup SFJAZZ Collective has tackled the heady works of musicians from Ornette Coleman to McCoy Tyner. The band features crucial contemporary jazz players Mark Turner, Avishai Cohen, Stefon Harris, Miguel Zenón, Robin Eubanks, Edward Simon, Matt Penman and Eric Harland, who this year aim their jam-based genuflection toward the mighty Stevie Wonder. The Beaches Fine Arts Series presents SFJAZZ Collective on Sunday, March 20 at 4 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville. 270-1771.

BONERAMA

What’s in a name? The New Orleans brass-driven funk assault known as Bonerama was formed in the late-’90s by a pair of sidemen from the band led by fellow Big Easy crooner Harry Connick Jr. Since then, the sassy septet has wowed audiences and critics alike with its ability to shift gears from trad jazz to meatier fare like Led Zeppelin’s “The Ocean.” Bonerama appears on Friday, March 18 at 10 p.m. at Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach. Tickets are $15. 247-6636.

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stranger shambles along the dusty main street of a down-on-its-luck town and bursts through the swinging doors of the saloon, causing a sensation. It’s not an ordinary town, even by the standards of the Old West — or the standards of the movies about the Old West — and he’s no ordinary stranger: He’s a daydreamy chameleon in a loud Hawaiian shirt. That’s right: A little lizard who fancies himself a dramatic hero, at least in the one-man shows he staged in the cozy terrarium that had been his home. But his days as a pampered pet are over, thanks to a nasty automobile accident out yonder on the highway. Now, he’s got to make his own way in the world … and that fun bit of improv he performed off the cuff for the champion-hungry folk of Dirt might just turn into a full-time hero job.

Oh, yeah, and the folk of Dirt: They’re not your ordinary Western-movie denizens, either. They’re ornery critters, surly in a way no Western has shown before — they’re “visually” ornery, beautifully ugly CGI creations with a downright grandeur to their unattractiveness, toads and rats and hares and other scurrying animals, barely anthropomorphized, 2011desert retaining the last little bits of their nonhuman idiosyncrasies. Every reptilian scale, scabby wart and bristly hair has been lovingly rendered in photorealistic cartoon glory, and you’ll look upon them with shivers of hardbitten delight. Beatrix Potter this ain’t.

And thank the movie gods for that.

The creative death of Hollywood has been postponed once again, the patient lingering on life support a little longer thanks to perhaps its last practitioners of cinematic originality, the makers of animated films. “Rango” isn’t just a great feature-length cartoon. It’s effortlessly the best movie of 2011 so far, and it’s the best Western in ages. How can it be that a kiddie movie is wiser and funnier and more relevant than the Coen Brothers’ “True Grit”?

“Rango” is, in fact, what a Brothers Coen

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animated flick might look like and sound like, if they got an assist from Terry Gilliam. This is a deeply weird and deeply demented movie, and thrillingly so. Rango (the voice of Johnny Depp, having a ball) experiences a bizarre nightmare during his first thirsty, lonely night in the desert, a surrealistic dream sequence the likes of which many films supposedly for grownups wouldn’t dare. Director Gore Verbinski doesn’t hesitate to import some of the creepier visual concepts from his “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy. Screenwriter John Logan (“Sweeny Todd,” “The Aviator”) isn’t afraid to touch on tricky matters of death wishes — one bit is a powerfully disturbing attempt by a despondent Rango to commit suicide by roadkill — and a spirituality that goes beyond pat clichés. (The demigod-like Spirit of the West makes an appearance, and hoo boy, who knew Timothy Olyphant could sound so much like Clint Eastwood?) The plot that needs a hero to make it right revolves around the economy of the town of Dirt, which exists on the water that’s running out for reasons that appear nefarious at first, then become even more so as the mystery begins to unravel.

When we learn that the bank is unable to make loans and hear the turtle Mayor (the voice of Ned Beatty) intone solemnly about how “sacrifices will have to be made” on the part of the citizens (and not by those who caused the water to dry up), well, danged if it doesn’t begin to become clear that this here kiddie cartoon is a metaphor for the ongoing economic crisis.

“Rango” isn’t pretty and it is not in 3D. It gleefully courts doom and gloom with its mariachi band of owls, serving as a Greek chorus, that keeps reassuring us in song, very convincingly so, that Rango is going to die, he is most certainly doomed, there’s nothing that can save him. It’s jam-packed with animals drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco! It’s full of innuendo that’s actually clever and sly, which will go so far over the kiddies’ heads, they won’t even think to ask what the nice chameleon meant when he said “that.” It features an honest-to-god cameo by an animated Hunter S. Thompson.

What is Hollywood coming to with “Rango” … and how can we ensure that it stays there?

Mary Ann Johanson themail@folioweekly.com

Chance Encounters of the Third Kind

“The Adjustment Bureau” is another winning adaptation of literary maverick Philip K. Dick’s work The Adjustment Bureau ***G Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, 5 Points Theatre, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach

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o date, there have been 10 films made from books or stories by Philip K. Dick, one of science fiction’s most influential and eccentric writers. Among the earlier screen adaptations are Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” and Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall,” though the best is still Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,” based on Dick’s novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

“The Adjustment Bureau” is a worthy addition to Dick’s onscreen legacy and at the same time, along with Richard Linklater’s “A Scanner Darkly,” one of the more atypical.

Though usually classified as a science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick was a genre-bender, far more so than the films from his books may indicate. “Adjustment Team,” for instance, the short story on which the new movie is based, is way too edgy and weird for most. Adjusted by writer-director George Nolfi for the big screen, Dick’s basic concepts are still discernible, but more palatable. In fact, this time the movie might actually improve on the story.

Matt Damon plays David Norris, a rising star on the political scene who, on the verge of winning a Senate bid, is done in by the disclosure of a youthful indiscretion. Licking his wounds and preparing his concession speech in the men’s room of his hotel headquarters, he has a chance encounter — unlikely at best — with a young woman named Elise (Emily Blunt) who inspires him to abandon the prepared script and be himself in front of the cameras. Next election cycle, a few years on, he is again poised to win.

David then has another chance encounter with Elise, and their attraction for each other is rekindled. But he soon discovers that their second meeting was the only unplanned move in his existence. Indeed, his life — like everyone else’s, it’s assumed — is actually governed and determined by a secret organization, in accordance with a book written from on high. The script is set, and not to be changed. On those rare

occasions when the storyline is threatened, the Adjustment Bureau is there to set matters right.

Informing David that there’s no future for him and Elise, the Bureau enforcers — all of whom look like corporate drones in suits and hats — demonstrate their power to affect and determine his and her destinies. He has no choice, they insist, but David refuses to submit, to give up Elise. And the chase is on.

Reminiscent at times of Alex Proyas’s science-fiction masterpiece “Dark City,” which Robert Ebert called the best film of 1998, “The Adjustment Bureau” shares some real similarities with (oddly enough) TV’s “Touched by an Angel,” if just barely. It’s all about free will vs. destiny, the power of love as opposed to the force of fate. These are major as well as eternal concerns, to say the least, and Nolfi aligns himself with some major power hitters in tackling these thorniest of issues.

Sophocles would have understood the conflicts, though he was much harder on poor old Oedipus than Nolfi is on David and Elise.

Rather than a tragedy, “The Adjustment Bureau” is basically an old-fashioned love story with science fiction/quasi-religious and philosophical trappings, and first-time director Nolfi manages to pull it off. His earlier screenwriting efforts included “Timeline,” based on Michael Crichton’s time-travel adventure, as well as “Ocean’s Twelve” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.” The range of those very different subjects is indicative of the ambitious concepts Nolfi brings to his new film, and mostly succeeds in conveying. While the last act may yield a bit to convention and special effects, most of “The Adjustment Bureau” is just fine.

Better than fine are Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, both of whom are simply stunning in roles that stress the ordinary and familiar rather than the unusual and dramatic. It is their singular accomplishment, as well as Nolfi’s, that they come across as so believable and likeable despite the farfetched plot. In the end, “The Adjustment Bureau” is more fun than provocative, and what’s wrong with that?

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“Are you sure ya don’t recognize me from ‘Mad Men’?” John Slattery tries to wow Matt Damon with a little star power in “The Adjustment Bureau.”

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***G Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, 5 Points Theatre, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Reviewed in this issue.

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES **@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach A platoon led by a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) must defend L.A. from a UFO attack in this sci-fi thriller that costars Michelle Rodriguez, Ne-Yo and Michael Peña.

Latest narcolepsy-inducing exercise in action-flick mediocrity from Nicolas “Hire Me” Cage that answers the ancient koan, “What is the sound of one star’s career crashing?”

THE EAGLE ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Regency Square This historical action flick, starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot!), is about Roman soldiers investigating the disappearance of a military legion in 200 A.D. Great Britain.

GNOMEO & JULIET ***@ Rated G • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach This cute animated retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” set in a land of garden gnomes, is an inventive and lighthearted way to hip the kids to one of the Bard’s beloved works.

THE GRACE CARD **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Regency Square, Epic Theatre St. Augustine Michael Joiner stars in this faith-based story of an embittered police officer who attempts to find peace after a personal tragedy.

BEASTLY **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Alex Pettyfer, Mary-Kate Olsen and Neil Patrick Harris star in this retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” set in modernday Brooklyn.

HALL PASS **@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Owen Wilson stars in the latest comedy from the Farrelly Brothers about a man whose wife gives him a chance to have an extramarital affair. The only problem? She plans on honoring the same freebie and get some newbie strange.

BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues Martin Lawrence as an FBI agent who dresses up like an overweight, meddling granny. Damn!

I AM NUMBER FOUR *G@@ Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Silly teenybopper sci-fi flick about an alien on the lam who hides out in an American high school. Gnarly, dude!

CEDAR RAPIDS ***G Rated R • AMC Orange Park, Cinemark Tinseltown, Regal Beach Ed Helms (Andy on “The Office”) plays Tim, a sweet, sincere insurance agent, kind of a shmo we like despite his cluelessness. But it’s just that same naïveté that takes this comedy from mediocre to something quite endearing. Tim is off to the metropolis of Cedar Rapids, hoping to nab a sales award. With John c. Reilly and Sigourney Weaver.

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DRIVE ANGRY 3D **@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues

JUST GO WITH IT **G@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach This rom-com, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, is about a plastic surgeon who gets his office manager to pose as his disgruntled, soon-to-be-ex-wife in a bid to pick up sympathetic women. Co-starring Kevin Nealon, Rachel Dratch, Dave Matthews, Minka Kelly and Nicole Kidman.

Waitaminute … Dave Matthews?

JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER **@@ Rated G • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach OMG!! A surprisingly fun film about commerce and celebrity in the age of information overload.

Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach, San Marco Theatre Liam Neeson stars in this unoriginal yet watchable film about a man who wakes up from an accident only to realize that his former life no longer exists – and someone wants him dead! Yikes!

THE KING’S SPEECH **** Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Pot Belly’s, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush deliver Oscar-worthy performances in this uplifting based-on-real-life tale.

THE WAY BACK **** Rated PG-13 • Epic Theatre St. Augustine Peter Weir’s superb contemporary epic stars Ed Harris, Colin Firth and Jim Sturgess as Soviet Gulag escapees who travel thousands of miles, on foot, to gain real freedom.

MARS NEEDS MOMS **@@ Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Family-geared animated 3-D fare about young Milo (voiced

by Seth Green) and his intergalactic adventure to save his mom, Lissa (voiced by Joan Cusack) from the fiendish clutches of Martians.

RANGO **** Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach, San Marco Theatre Reviewed in this issue.

RED RIDING HOOD **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Leonardo DiCaprio produced this horror film, a retelling of the kids’ tale “Little Red Riding Hood,” starring Amanda Seyfreid, Shiloh Fernandez and Gary Oldman.

THE RITE ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Regency Square Anthony Hopkins stars in this supernatural thriller, a story about exorcism in contemporary times.

THE ROOMMATE **G@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Regal Avenues College gal Sara (Minka Kelly) discovers she has the roommate from hell in the form of the psycho Rebecca (Leighton Meester).

TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT **@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach This retro-’80s coming-of-age comedy stars Topher Grace, Anna Faris and Dan Fogler.

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Genetically prone to introspection: Ben Taylor performs with dad James Taylor at the Moran Theater.

BEN TAYLOR with JAMES TAYLOR Tuesday, March 22 at 8 p.m.

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en Taylor is either the luckiest person in American musical history or the unluckiest.

Lucky: His parents are none other than singersongwriter royalty James Taylor and Carly Simon.

Unlucky: He’ll probably always be compared to the man who wrote songs like “Fire And Rain” and “Carolina In My Mind.” For the first time, dad James is allowing his second-born to ride those famous acoustic coattails on a collaborative tour that brings the duo to the Times-Union Center. At 34, Ben is looking forward to a funfilled 2011, with a new album coming out and an upcoming gig at SXSW. Folio Weekly met up with the young Taylor to chat about his childhood, touring with his dad and the chance of a Carly Simon and James Taylor reunion tour (hint: they divorced almost 30 years ago):

Folio Weekly: How old were you when you realized that your parents weren’t the average mom and dad?

Ben Taylor: I realized at some point that everybody’s parents didn’t go out and play music — I think that was around kindergarten.

You know, I just thought it was commonplace.

The exotic thing to me seemed like the kids in school whose old men were plumbers and doctors and such.

F.W.: Was there any normalcy in your childhood?

B.T.: I have no basis for comparison, but I can’t imagine that it was normal.

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F.W.: Who were you named after?

B.T.: I think Benjamin Franklin as much as anybody else. He was sort of a hero of my maternal grandmother’s when she was still alive and I think that that had a tremendous influence. Also, I think the clock tower [Big Ben] in London.

F.W.: This is the first time touring with your dad. Why now?

B.T.: First of all, I’ve only really been doing music professionally for like five or six years, although it’s something I’ve kind of been doing my whole life. And he and I thought that if it [playing together] was ever going to

“A lot of performers get very, very good at projecting and emoting and speaking, but they don’t listen very well.” happen, it would have to happen organically — neither of us were going to rush it. For me, he’s such an incredible professional. He’s such a vet and all of his band members are such vets that I wasn’t going to go ill-prepared to this type of situation.

F.W.: What’s the format of the show?

B.T.: The entire set is completely integrated.

We’re both on stage the entire night. I’m playing on all of his songs. He’s playing on all of mine. It’s shaping up to be a really cool set

of music. I’m inspired and excited by the past couple days of rehearsal.

F.W.: You have a new album coming out this summer called “Listening.” What’s the story with that?

B.T.: Generally speaking, I let a couple of years go by between album cycles, because I do everything independently and it takes me a while to raise the funds and release and distribute the album in different markets between Europe and America and whatnot. So I think musically, the transition from album to album is pretty significan. On top of that, “Listening” is something I came up with because I realized that while I’ve always been a studious and sensitive performer, I’ve always been a miserable audience member.

F.W.: What do you mean?

B.T.: I think that a lot of performers get very, very good at projecting and emoting and speaking, but they don’t listen very well. I came to the realization that I was nodding out a lot when I’d go see [live music], so I’m really making a conscious prayer to be a better listener. Now I go to live shows with a more open mind and I’m more likely to give a second listen to something one of my friends gives me. Musicians are a hard audience.

F.W.: What’s the chance of you doing a tour with your dad and your mom?

B.T.: If I was a betting man, I’d say zero. [Laughs.]

It’s hard to get married when you’re young and go through it and then come to the end of it and keep a positive note about it. It’s sensitive.

One parent or the other is sensitive about it.

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F.W.: Do you have a home base?

L.T.: We’re from Philadelphia, but we are never really there. We are constantly touring.

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F.W.: Why an Airstream?

L.T.: We bought it because I loved them as a kid. It’s great. We travel in it; we play in it, too.

ho loves a family road trip? Not most of us. The very thought conjures visions of long drives in cramped, smelly cars with the people we love dearly, but given time, begin to despise venomously. Philadelphia, Pa.’s dynamic bluegrass/jug band/country and Devo-like duo Hymn For Her have mastered the art for longhaul livin’. Multi-instrumentalists Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing travel across the country in their 1961 Airstream with their 3-year-old daughter Diver and black lab in tow, playing gigs from

“Wayne says when his hands smell like gasoline after filling up, it’s bad. Other than that, we have fun.”

West Coast to East. (The Airstream doubled as their recording studio for their latest release, “Lucy & Wayne and The Amairican Stream.”)

Tight recently took time out from carrying the band’s musical message across the nation to talk about her family’s funky ride, her cigar-box guitar and what fans can expect when the pair rolls into town.

Folio Weekly: Does it ever feel like you’re living a bad family vacation?

Lucy Tight: No, we are all together. We love it.

There are always so many things going on, and we have the music to focus on as well. We try to make things as easy as we can. Wayne says when his hands smell like gasoline after filling up, it’s bad. Other than that, we have fun.

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L.T.: We started to play in our downtime, practicing, and it sounded good. This thing has amazing acoustics. So we recorded our new album in it, completely. Any time we had some downtime, we set up and recorded.

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F.W.: What’s the deal with your guitar? It’s made from a cigar-box?

L.T.: It was a gift from a friend. It sat in the closet for a long time. I pulled it out one day and started fiddling around with it, and it had this great big sound. It’s just three strings and two pickups, but it has a real “Zeppelinish” sound.

F.W.: The band’s sound is full, for only two people playing. Is it hard to make all that noise with only so many hands?

L.T.: We hear people tell us that our live show sounds a lot like our CD. We have been doing this a long time. We also have a slide projector going with vacation photos from Wayne’s dad from the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s.

F.W.: What do the people of Jacksonville need to know about Hymn For Her before they come see you live?

L.T.: Hmmm … good question. How about, “They sound exactly like their album” or “They rock really hard but sing beautiful songs”?

Wayne says, “They have created a new sound called ‘Henry’.”

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KOFFIN KATS, BENEDICT ARNOLD, WASTEDIST These punks perform promptly at 8 p.m. on March 15 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $8. 398-7496.

WAYNE JOHNSTON BLUES BAND This blues bunch appears at 8 p.m. on March 15 at European Street CafĂŠ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $10. 399-1740.

JOE NICHOLS The hot country artist performs at 7 p.m. on March 16 at Whisky River, 4850 Big Island Drive, Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $15; $20 at the door. 645-5571.

THE DUBLIN CITY RAMBLERS This legendary Irish group appears at 7 p.m. on March 16 at Culhane’s Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. Tickets are $20. 249-9595.

SPADE McQUADE The Celtic rocker plays at 8 p.m. on March 16 at Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach. 277-8010.

Dancing for Diabetes with FULLSTOP and THE GREAT WORKING These local indie acts perform at 9 p.m. on March 16 at The Ivy Ultra Bar, 113 E. Bay St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $10. A prize raffle is featured; proceeds benefit The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. 356-9200.

Brewster’s Pit 5-Year Anniversary ST. PATTY’S BASH with DAYS OF THE NEW, TRAIN, BLEEDING IN STEREO, HOLIDAZED, NORTHE, PHILLER Grunge rockers Days of the New perform at 7 p.m. on March 17 at Brewster’s Pit, 14003 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $12. 223-9850.

ONE NIGHT STAND These local rockers play at 8 p.m. on March 17 at Cliff’s Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Road, Ste. 2, Jacksonville. 645-5162.

THE SLACKERS, KONAMI CODE Punk rock is the password at 8 p.m. on March 17 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $12. 398-7496.

KARL W. DAVIS Beach. Tickets are $15. 247-6636.

The singer-songwriter performs at 8 p.m. on March 17 at Dog RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Shelby Brooks performs at 10:30 Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach. 277-8010. a.m., Patrick Evan and Bert Mingea play at 11:45 a.m. and LYONS Linda Grenville plays at 2:30 p.m. on March 19 at Riverside Arts These local hard rockers perform at 8 p.m. on March 17 at Market, under the Fuller Warren Bridge at Riverside Avenue, Taps Bar and Grill, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, Julington Creek.

Jacksonville. 554-6865.

819-1554.

YULEE OPRY with LARRY MANGUM BAND, POLARITY ACOUSTIC EIDOLON This singer-songwriter showcase starts at 2:30 p.m. on March This Celtic group performs at 8:30 p.m. on March 17 at 19 at Peck Center Auditorium, 516 S. 10th St., Fernandina European Street CafĂŠ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville.

Beach. 629-1817.

Advance tickets are $10. 399-1740.

Music on the Marsh with HOFFMANN’S VOODOO JOSHUA DYER This local jam band plays at 6 p.m. on March 19 at Kayak Singer-songwriter Dyer performs at 7 p.m. on March 18 at Amelia located in Big Talbot Island State Park, 13030 Heckscher Three Layers Cafe, 1602 Walnut St., Jacksonville. 355-9791.

Drive, Jacksonville. Low country boil dinner is included; BYOB. ABK, AMB, KUNG FU VAMPIRE, CID VOORHEEZ, Admission is $15. 251-0016.

VANNACUTT, RIZZIN, MIZTER E, JESTA RED, BO DIGGZ & JOHN MARK McMILLAN, ALL THE BRIGHT LIGHTS SIN BIZZ The rockers name-check Jesus in da house at 7 p.m. on March These Spellcheck-defiant rap acts play at 7 p.m. on March 18 19 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Jacksonville.

Advance tickets are $10; $13 at the door. 388-3179. at Brewster’s Pit, 14003 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are ALAINA COLDING $10. 223-9850.

This singer-songwriter performs at 7 p.m. on March 19 at Three SALTWATER GRASS, ART OFFICIAL Layers Cafe, 1602 Walnut St., Jacksonville. 355-9791.

These jam bands hit the stage at 10 p.m. on March 18 at PAT TRAVERS, KYMYSTRY, QUASI MOJO, Landshark CafĂŠ, 1728 Third St. N., Jax Beach. 246-6024.

THE SHELL GAME, ROSCO CAINE, YOUR GUESS DISCIPLE, WRITE THIS DOWN, SECOND THIEF Pat Travers is “snortin’ whiskey and drinkin’ cocaine� at 7 p.m.

These faith-based rockers perform at 7 p.m. on March 18 on March 19 at Brewster’s Pit, 14003 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Jacksonville.

Tickets are $10. 223-9850.

Advance tickets are $12; $15 at the door. 388-3179.

SPEAKING CURSIVE, HILL VALLEY HONEY BLUE These indie rockers play at 8 p.m. on March 19 at Jack Rabbits, These rockers hit it at 8 p.m. on March 18 at Dog Star Tavern, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $5.

10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach. 277-8010.

398-7496.

FLYIN’ SOUTH FREEZEPOP, ASTARI NITE, SYMBOLS The local country-rock band plays at 8 p.m. on March 18 Electro poppers Freezepop play at 8 p.m. on March 19 at and 19 at Cliff’s Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Road, Ste. 2, CafÊ 331, 331 W. Forsyth St., Jacksonville. Admission is $10.

Jacksonville. 645-5162.

354-1999.

WASTED TALENT, TWO MINUTE WISH, ANYBODY’S GUESS BLUE SONICS These punk acts play at 8 p.m. on March 18 at Jack Rabbits, The rockers perform at 8 p.m. on March 19 at Dog Star Tavern, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $8.

10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach. 277-8010.

398-7496.

BADFISH, SCOTTY DON’T, SIDEREAL GLASS CAMELS’ 24th Anniversary Show with THE MIKE OF BENEFIT SUPPORT ASK FOR19ACTION Ska is in the air at 8 p.m. on March at Freebird Live, Produced 200 N. BERNOS PROMISE BAND First St., Jax Beach. Advance tickets are $15. 246-2473.

Glass Camels have a “near Dead� experience at 8 p.m. on MARK WILLIAMS, LINDA MINKE, VICTOR HULS March 18 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach. Advance These singer-songwriters play at 8 p.m. on March 19 at tickets are $8. 246-2473.

European Street CafĂŠ, 5500 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Advance BONERAMA These horny New Orleans funksters play at 10 tickets are $10. 399-1740. p.m. on March 18 at Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax

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VEEFINGER, COWBOYS & INDIANS FROM THE FUTURE These local rockers play at 9 p.m. on March 19 at Landshark CafĂŠ, 1728 Third St. N., Jax Beach. 246-6024.

KEITH HARKIN The Celtic Thunder lead singer performs at 9 p.m. on March 19 at Culhane’s Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. Tickets are $25. 249-9595.

GOLIATH FLORES Multi-instrumentalist Flores performs at 1 p.m. on March 20 at Three Layers Cafe, 1602 Walnut St., Jacksonville. 355-9791.

BURN SEASON Acoustic Show, WHYTE PYTHON, LENORE, BLOW IT UP Local rockers Burn Season perform an unplugged set at 8 p.m. on March 20 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $10. 398-7496.

WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE RUMBLE with FINISH IT OFF The bands duke it out onstage (musically, that is) at 8 p.m. on March 21 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville.

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A ROCKET TO THE MOON, VALENCIA, ANARBOR, RUNNER RUNNER, GO RADIO The punk and indie acts blast off at 8 p.m. on March 22 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $13. 398-7496.

ANTARCTIC, THE BRONZED CHORUS, MANRAY, CARETAKERS These indie rockers perform at 9 p.m. on March 21 at Two Hundred Lounge, 200 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. Admission is $8; $5 21 and up. 342-0378. The bands also play at 9:30 p.m. on March 22 at Lomax Lodge, 822 Lomax St., Jacksonville.

Admission is $5. 634-8813.

JAMES TAYLOR, BEN TAYLOR The legendary singer-songwriter and son appear at 8 p.m. on March 22 at the Times-Union Center’s Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $65 and $85. 633-6110.

HAYSHAKER March 25, Dog Star Tavern UNWRITTEN LAW, AUTHORITY ZERO April 27, Freebird Live RIVERNECKS, CAVE SINGERS March 25, CafÊ Eleven P. DIDDY & DIDDY DIRTY MONEY April 28, Plush ERIC CULBERSON March 25, Mojo Kitchen SOULIVE May 1, Freebird Live BOOM CHICK March 25, Underbelly ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN May 3, The Florida Theatre JEFF BECK, IMELDA MAY BAND May 4, The Florida Theatre INDORPHINE March 26, Brewster’s Pit CHANGES IN LATITUDE (Jimmy Buffett Tribute) May 5, EARTH BOMBS MARS March 26, Dog Star Tavern Freebird Live MARK HUMMEL’S BLUES HARMONICA BLOW OUT March HEAVY CREAM, THE COUGS May 11, CafÊ Eleven 26, Mojo Kitchen PLAIN WHITE T’S May 12, Freebird Live CITIZEN COPE March 27, The Florida Theatre KENNY CHESNEY May 12, Veterans Memorial Arena RODNEY ATKINS March 31, UNF Arena MAC MILLER May 13, Freebird Live CROSSFADE, THE EMBRACED, DOWN FROM UP March 31, JEFFERSON STARSHIP May 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Freebird Live KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, JOHN PRINE May 14, Florida Theatre PUNCH BROTHERS, CHRIS THILE April 1, The Florida Theatre THE DEFTONES, DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN May 20, Plush Springing The Blues: ANDERS OSBORNE, THE LEE BOYS, DAVE MATTHEWS TRIBUTE BAND May 21, Freebird Live MICHAEL BURKS, DANA FUCHS April 1-3, Seawalk Plaza MINUS THE BEAR May 22, Freebird Live THE VAMPIRATES, KONAMI CODE, POOR RICHARDS April 2, TAPROOT May 27, Brewster’s Pit The Lomax Lodge MUSHROOMHEAD, HED PE May 27, Plush JANIS IAN April 2, UNF’s Robinson Theater KEITH URBAN June 17, Veterans Memorial Arena EOTO, ZEBLER April 5, Freebird Live JOHN CLAYTON, JEFF CLAYTON, JEFF HAMILTON April 6, UNF Robinson Theater Voice of the Wetlands Allstars TAB BENOIT, CYRIL NEVILLE, BIG CHIEF MONK BOUDREAUX April 7, Mojo Kitchen AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH DIET COKEHEADS, BROKEN WATER April 7, Budget Records BEECH STREET GRILL, 801 Beech St., 277-3662 John EASY DUB ALLSTARS, THE GREEN, CAS HALEY April 7, Springer every Fri. & Sat., every other Thur. Barry Randolph Freebird Live every Sun. GENE LOVES JEZEBEL April 8, Brewster’s Pit DOG STAR TAVERN, 10 N. Second St., 277-8010 Spade JOAN RED April 9, Freebird Live McQuade on March 16. Karl W. Davis on March 17. Honey Blue DR. DOG April 13, Freebird Live on March 18. Blue Sonics on March 19 Wanee Festival with THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND, GENNARO’S ITALIANO SOUTH, 5472 First Coast Hwy., ROBERT PLANT & BAND OF JOY, WEEN April 14-16, Spirit of 491-1999 Live jazz from 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. the Suwannee Music Park GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS, BREATHE CAROLINA April 14, Dan Voll from 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Live music every weekend Freebird Live INDIGO ALLEY, 316 Centre St., 261-7222 Dan Voll & the Alley DROWNING POOL, TRUST COMPANY April 14, Brewster’s Pit Cats at 8 p.m. every Sat. Frankie’s Jazz Jam at 7:30 p.m. every YANNI April 14, T-U Center Tue. Open mic at 7 p.m. every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. MIRANDA LAMBERT, JUSTIN MOORE & JOSH KELLY April O’KANE’S IRISH PUB, 318 Centre St., 261-1000 Dan Voll 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Producedfrom by7:30-11:30 ab Checked

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AJ’S BAR & GRILLE, 10244 Atlantic Blvd., 805-9060 DJ Sheryl every Thur., Fri. & Sat. DJ Mike every Tue. & Wed. Karaoke every Thur.

MEEHAN’S TAVERN, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 5, 551-7076 Improvisation Station and Paul Lundgren Band on March 17.

Karaoke every Wed. Live music every Fri. Improvisation Station every Sat. MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE, 12777 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1090 Live music at 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. PLUSH, RAIN, LEOPARD LOUNGE, 845 University Blvd. N., 745-1845 DJ Massive spins top 40 in Rain every Wed., DJs spin Latin every Fri.; house & techno in Z-Bar every Fri. TONINO’S TRATTORIA & MARTINI BAR, 7001 Merrill Rd., Ste. 45, 743-3848 Harry & Sally from 6:30-9 p.m. every Wed. Alaina Colding every Thur. W. Harvey Williams at 6 p.m. every Fri. Signature String Quartet every Sat.

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BRICK RESTAURANT, 3585 St. Johns Ave., 387-0606 Duet every Wed. Goliath Flores and Sam Rodriguez every Thur. Bush Doctors every 1st Fri. & Sat. Live jazz every Fri. & Sat. THE CASBAH CAFE, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. 3rd Bass every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave., 387-3582 DJ Keith spins for Karaoke every Tue. DJ Free spins vintage every Fri. DJ Dave Berg spins every Sat. DJ Alex Pagan spins every Sun. ELEVATED AVONDALE, 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700 Karaoke with Dave Thrash every Wed. DJ 151 spins hip hop, R&B, funk, soul & old-school every Thur. Live music every

every Wed. DJ Wes Reed spins every Thur. DJ Jade spins old music every Fri. & Sat. King Eddie reggae every Sun. wave & ’80s retro, SilverStar spins hip hop every Fri. DJ Wes FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Glass Camels Reed spins ’80s, old school, remixes & mashups, Capone spins 24th Anniversary Show with Mike Bernos Band on March 18. top 40 & dance faves every Sat. Badfish, Sidereal and Scotty Don’t on March 19. Peter Murphy BEACHSIDE SEAFOOD, 120 S. Third St., 444-8862 Kurt and Livan on March 24 Lanham sings classical island music every Fri.-Sun. ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 108 First St., Neptune Beach, BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Mr. 372-0943 Live music at 9:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. Sunshine at 5:50 p.m. on March 17 & 24. 4Play at 6 p.m. on LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024 Saltwater March 18. Rusty Bladen at 6 p.m. on March 19. Incognito at Grass and Art Official on March 18. Veefinger and Cowboys & noon, Grandpa’s Cough Medicine at 4:30 p.m. on March 20 Indians From the Future on March 19 THE BRASSERIE, 1312 Beach Blvd., 249-5800 Live music LILLIE’S COFFEE SHOPPE, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, every Wed. & Thur.

249-2922 Kelly Green Trio on March 19 BRIX TAPHOUSE, 300 N. Second St., 241-4668 DJ LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Fran Doyle, Anonymous every Mon., Tue. & Thur. Live music every Wed. DJ Grandpa’s Cough Medicine, Rathkeltair and Split Tone on March IBay every Fri. & Sat. Charlie Walker every Sun. 17. Rathkeltair on March 18 & 19. Split Tone at 10:30 p.m.

CARIBBEE KEY, 100 N. First St., Neptune Beach, 270-8940 every Tue. Nate Holley Band every Wed. Ryan Campbell every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Video DJ and Karaoke every Mark O’Quinn on March 16. Alex Seier on March 17. Peter Sun. Little Green Men every Mon. Dearing Band on March 18 & 19. Live music on March 20 MAYPORT TAVERN, 2775 Old Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, CASA MARINA, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 Derryck Lawrence 270-0801 Kurt Lanham at 2 p.m. every Sun. DJ Jason hosts Project on March 16. Johnston Duo on March 23 Karaoke at 9 p.m. every Wed., Fri. & Sat. COPPER TOP, 1712 Beach Blvd., 249-4776 Karaoke with Billy MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., Ste. 2, 246-1500 McMahan on March 15. Woody & the Peckers on March 17. “Begorrah, ya dirty rocker!� Brewster’s Pit kLoB on March 16. Witz End on March 17. Lovechunk on March Yankee Slickers on March 18. Monica da Silva on March 19. five-year anniversary St. Patty’s Bash features 18. Ivey Brothers on March 19. Bread & Butter on March 23 Dan Coady on March 20. Karaoke from 7-10 p.m. every Tue. Days of the New (pictured: Travis Meeks), Train, MEZZA LUNA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 UNF CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, Bleeding In Stereo, Holidazed, Northe and Philler Jazz at 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford and Rick Johnson 249-9595 Indigo Blue Jazz Band at 7 p.m. on March 15. at 7 p.m. on March 17 at 14003 Beach Blvd., at 6 p.m. every Thur.

Dublin City Ramblers on March 16. Irish Harp & Guitar Deborah Jacksonville. Tickets are $12. 223-9850.

MIMI’S SPORTS GRILLE, 1021 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Pintaure & Roger Ezell at 1 p.m., JK Wayne at 5 p.m., Jax Pipes Beach, 270-1030 DJ Dennis Hubbell spins & hosts Karaoke at & Drum at 6 p.m., Philip Pan at 8:30 p.m. and Rusty O’Bladen 8 p.m. every Thur. & Fri. at 9 p.m. on March 17. Rusty O’Bladen at 8:30 p.m. on March MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Bonerama on 18. Johnston Duo at 6:30 p.m., Keith Harkin (Celtic Thunder) at OASIS GRILL & CHILL, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., 748-9636 March 18. Honey Island Swamp Band on March 19. Galen Kipar 11:30 p.m. on March 19. Not Unheard Band at 3 p.m., Michael DJs Stan and Mike Bend spin every Feel Good Fri. Project on March 23 Funge at 6:30 p.m. on March 20. Just Jazz Quintet Band at 7 TERA NOVA, 8206 Philips Hwy., 733-8085 DJ Jose de SUPPORT la TAVERN, 1850 St., 246-1070 p.m. on March 22 ASK FOR ACTION ProducedMONKEY’S by jdw UNCLE Checked

by S. Third Sales Rep rm PROMISE OF BENEFIT Soul spins salsa & freestyle every Latin Thur. DJs spin hip hop Peter Dearing at 10 p.m. every Tue. DJ Papa Sugar spins dance DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 311 Third St. N., 853-5004 Live every Fri. DJs Leland & Marc-E-Marc spin top 40 & house every music at 9 p.m. every Mon., Thur. & Fri. DJ Austin Williams spins music every Fri. & Sat. Sat. DJ Leland McWilliams spins for South Beach Friday every dance & for Karaoke every Wed., Sat. & Sun. ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY, 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 2nd Fri. Reggae Fanatic is held every 3rd Fri. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic 217, 249-2337 Live music every Thur.

TONY D’S NEW YORK PIZZA & RESTAURANT, 8358 Point Beach, 372-4105 Live music every Thur.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001 Acoustic Meadows Dr., 322-7051 Live music from 6-9 p.m. every Fri. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Live open mic with John Longbottom from 6-9 p.m. every Tue. music on March 18 & 19 FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB, 333 First St. N., 242-9499 PACO’S MEXICAN GRILL, 333 N. First St., 208-5097 Live Dublin Train Wreck, Spade McQuade & the Allstars, Jimmy Solari BEACHES music at 9 p.m. every Thur. and Alex Seier Band on March 17. Live music every Tue.-Sun. (In Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) PHILLY’S FINEST, 1527 N. Third St., 241-7188 Ian & Steve FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, THE ATLANTIC, 333 N. First St., 249-3338 The Infader spins (Hello Danger) every Fri. 246-4293 Nate Holley every Mon. Wes Cobb every Thur. Live

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Live music every weekend RITZ LOUNGE, 139 Third Ave. N., 246-2255 DJ Jenn Azana every Wed.-Sat. DJ Ibay every Sun. RUSH STREET, 320 N. First St., 270-8565 A DJ spins at 10 p.m. every Wed., Fri. & Sat. STICKY FINGERS, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7427 Live music 3-7 p.m. every Sun. SUN DOG, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 241-8221 Buck Smith on March 16. Mr. Natural on March 17. The Dune Dogs on March 18 & 19. Skip Towne on March 20. Billy Bowers on March 21. Sam & Trey on March 23. Live music every Wed.-Sun. THE WINE BAR, 320 N. First St., 372-0211 Steve Gogan on March 19. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

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Experience & C-Lo spin every Rush Hour Wed. DJ E.L. spins top 40, South Beach & dance classics every Pure Sat. MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Massive spins top 40 & dance every Velvet Fri. DJ Shotgun spins top 40 & dance every BayStreet Sat. MAVERICKS ROCK N’HONKY TONK, The Jacksonville Landing, 356-1110 ShamRockin’ Honky Tonk on March 17.

Bobby Laredo spins every Thur. & Sat. Saddle Up every Sat. NORTHSTAR SUBSTATION, 119 E. Bay St., 860-5451 Karaoke every Fri. THE PEARL, 1101 N. Main St., 791-4499 DJs Tom P. & Ian S. spin ’80s & indie dance every Fri. DJ Ricky spins indie rock, hip hop & electro every Sat. POPPY LOVE SMOKE, 112 E. Adams St., 354-1988 Lil John Lumpkin, Stefano Di Bella & Lawrence Buckner every Wed. & Fri. Open mic every 2nd & 4th Sun. ZODIAC GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283 Eric Carter and DJ Al Pete every Fri.

Sat. A DJ spins every Mon. BRUCCI’S PIZZA, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36, 223-6913 Mike Shackelford at 6:30 p.m. every Sat. Brucci’s Live open mic with Mike Shackelford at 6:30 p.m. every Mon. CLIFF’S BAR & GRILLE, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 One Night Stand on March 17. Flyin’ South on March 18 & 19.

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A1A ALE WORKS, 1 King St., 829-2977 Neil Freestone on March 17. Spandex SuperHeroes on March 18 AMICI ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 1915 A1A S., 461-0102 Gary Wingard every Thur.

ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Open mic with Smokin Joe from 7-10 p.m. on March 15.

Irish By Marriage at 5 p.m. on March 16 & 19. Dublin Train Wreck at 5 p.m., Strumstick at 8:30 p.m. on New Orleans-style soul-and-blues rockers Mike Bernos Band (pictured: Bernos) March 17. Peggy Dolan at 8:30 p.m. perform with the Glass Camels (24th anniversary show) on March 18 at 8 p.m. at on March 19. Karaoke on March 20 Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach. Advance tickets are $8. 246-2473.

THE BRITISH PUB, 213 Anastasia Blvd., 810-5111 Roll Out The Guns on March 17. Karaoke at 9 p.m. on Gum at the piano bar from 7-10 p.m. every Fri. March 18 & 19. Jukebox nite on March 20. Open mic night with Christi Harris at 8:30 p.m. on March 21 CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-9311 Murs, Tabi ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG Bonney, Whole Wheat Bread and Ab-Soul & DJ Foundation at 8 CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 1580 Wells Rd., 269-4855 Karaoke p.m. on March 19 at 9:30 p.m. every Wed. & Sat. CELLAR UPSTAIRS, San Sebastian Winery, 157 King St., CRACKERS LOUNGE, 1282 Blanding Blvd., 272-4620 826-1594 Ain’t Too Proud 2 Beg at 7 p.m. on March 18. Will Karaoke every Fri. & Sat. Montgomery at 2 p.m., Ain’t Too Proud 2 Beg at 7 p.m. on THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every March 19. Vinny Jacobs at 2 p.m. on March 20 Wed.-Sat. CHICAGO PIZZA & BAKERY, 107 Natures Walk Pkwy., Ste. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Blistur on 101, 230-9700 Greg Flowers hosts open-mic and jazz piano March 17. Ghost Rider on March 18 & 19. Buck Smith Project from 7-10 p.m. every Tue. Live music every Fri. every Mon. DJ Waldo every Tue. DJ Papa Sugar every Wed. CONCH HOUSE LOUNGE, 57 Comares Ave., 829-8646 SENOR WINGS, 700 Blanding Blvd., 375-0746 DJ Andy Scholars Word from 3-7 p.m. on March 20. Brad Newman every spins for Karaoke every Wed. DJ Tammy spins for Karaoke every Thur. Live music at 3 p.m. every Sat. Fri. Live music every Sat. DJ spins for every Mon. S.I. nite CREEKSIDE DINERY, 160 Nix Boatyard Rd., 829-6113 Live music on deck Wed.-Sun. CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993 Live music PALATKA every Fri. & Sat. Chelsea Saddler every Sun. DOWNTOWN BLUES BAR & GRILLE, 714 St. Johns Ave., FLORIDA CRACKER CAFE, 81 St. George St., 829-0397 (386) 325-5454 Wayne Johnson at 6 p.m. on March 16. Lee Lonesome Bert & the Skinny Lizard at 5:30 p.m. every Wed. Kelly on March 17. Franc Robert Boxcar Blues Band at 8:30 THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655 Live music every p.m. on March 19. Live music at 6 p.m. every Wed. Karaoke at Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m. every Fri. Blues jams at 2 p.m. every Sun. HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILLE, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Stu Weaver every Mon. HURRICANE PATTY’S, 69 Lewis Blvd., 827-1822 Those Guys PONTE VEDRA every Tue. Karaoke at 8 p.m. every Wed. Billy Buchanan every AQUA GRILL, 950 Sawgrass Village Dr., 285-3017 Brian Thur. Dewey Via every Sun. Green Duo at 3 p.m. every Sun. on the deck JACK’S BARBECUE, 691 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-8100 Jim KARMA, 822 A1A N., 834-3942 Ace Winn on March 18.

Essery at 4 p.m. every Sat. Live music every Thur.-Sat. Stefeyna’s Infocus Duo on March 19 JOHNNY’S, 3009 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 829-8333 NINETEEN AT SAWGRASS, 110 Championship Way, Montage features electro, dance & indie every Mon. 273-3235 Time2Swing at 6 p.m. every Jazz Thur. Strings of Fire KING’S HEAD BRITISH PUB, 6460 U.S. 1, 823-9787 Mike from 6-9 p.m. every Sat. Sweet from 6-8 p.m. every Thur.

PUSSER’S CARIBBEAN GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, KOZMIC BLUZ PIZZA CAFE & ALE, 48 Spanish St., 280-7766 Braxton on March 18. Kurt Lanham on March 19. Pili 825-4805 Live music every Fri., Sat. & Sun. Pili on March 20.

LOCAL HEROES CAFE, 11 Spanish St., 825-0060 Glam punk URBAN FLATS, 330 A1A N., 280-5515 High Tides of Jazz at rock dance party Radio Hot Elf with DJ Dylan Nirvana from 9 7:30 p.m. on March 17. Coalition on March 18. Darren Corlew p.m.-2 a.m. every Fri. Band on March 19. Darren Corlew every Tue. Soulo & Deron MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 540-2824 Battle of the Baker every Wed. DJs with Josh Frazetta & Mardi Gras Mike every last Sun. MEEHAN’S IRISH PUB, 20 Avenida Menendez, 810-1923 Live music every Fri. & Sat. RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE MI CASA CAFE, 69 St. George St., 824-9317 Chelsea Saddler FATKATS NIGHT CLUB, 1187 S. Edgewood Ave., 994-5201 noon-4 p.m. every Mon., Tue. & Thur. Amy Hendrickson every Waylay plays every Thur. Live music & DJ Lavo spinning hip hop, Sun. & Wed. rock, reggae, punk; Caden spins house, techno, breaks, drum & MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19 1/2 St. George bass at 9 p.m. every Flashback Fri. St., 829-2329 Pat Crawford Duo at 9 p.m. on March 18 & 19.

HJ’S BAR & GRILL, 8540 Argyle Forest Blvd., 317-2783 John Winters at 1 p.m. on March 20. Will Pearsall at 9 p.m. on Karaoke with DJ Ron at 8:30 p.m. every Tue. & DJ Richie at March 21. Vinny Jacobs every Tue. Todd & Molly Jones at 9 p.m. every Fri. Live music every Sat. Open mic at 8 p.m. every Wed. every Wed. Colton McKenna at 9 p.m. every Thur.

KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Dave Massey every Tue. THE OASIS, 4000 A1A & Ocean Trace, 471-3424 Those Guys Ray & Taylor every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. every Thur. Chris C4Mann every Mon. THE LOFT, 925 King St., 476-7283 DJs Wes Reed & Josh K THE REEF, 4100 Coastal Hwy., Vilano Beach, 824-8008 every Thur.

Richard Kuncicky from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. every Sun. LOMAX LODGE, 822 Lomax St., 634-8813 Antarctic, The RHETT’S PIANO BAR & BRASSERIE, 66 Hypolita St., Bronzed Chorus, Manray and Caretakers on March 22. DJ Dots 825-0502 Live jazz at 7 p.m. every night every Tue. Milan da Tin Man every Wed. DJ Christian every Sat. SANGRIAS PIANO BAR, 35 Hypolita St., 827-1947 Soul DJ Spencer every Sun. DJ Luminous every Mon. Searchers every Wed. Jim Asalta every Thur. Jazz every Fri. The METRO, 2929 Plum St., 388-8719 DJ Chadpole every Fri. & Housecats every Sat. Sunny & the Flashbacks every Sun. Sat. Karaoke with KJ Rob every Sun., Mon. & Tue. SCARLETT O’HARA’S, 70 Hypolita St., 824-6535 DJ Echo MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BBQ, 4838 Highway Ave., hosts Karaoke every Mon. Amy Hendrickson every Thur.

389-5551 Bluegrass Nite every Fri. THE TASTING ROOM, 25 Cuna St., 810-2400 Live music MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434; nightly. Bossa nova with Monica da Silva & Chad Alger from 5-8 O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300 p.m. every Sun. Chroma at 6 & 10 p.m., Grandpa’s Cough Medicine at 8 p.m. on TINI MARTINI BAR, 24 Avenida Menendez, 829-0928 Jason March 17. Proceeds benefit Catholic Charities Anderson on March 18. Bob Fraioli and Stan Piper on March 19.

THE MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave., Bob Fraioli every Thur.

388-7807 Gungor, Jonathan Scott Band and EC Band on March TWO HUNDRED LOUNGE, 200 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0378 15. Disciple, Write This Down and Second Thief at 7 p.m. on Antarctic, The Bronzed Chorus, Manray, Caretakers on March March 18. John Mark McMillan and All the Bright Lights on 21. Live music every Thur. & Fri. DJs spin every Sat. & Sun. March 19 ZHANRAS, 108 Anastasia Blvd., 823-3367 Billy Buchanan on March 16. Wild Wess on March 17. Live music on March 18 & WALKERS, 2692 Post St., 894-7465 Jax Arts Collaborative

19. Deron Baker & Soulo every Tue. DJ Cep spins ’80s & disco every Sun. Vinny Jacobs open mic every Mon.

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AROMAS CIGARS & WINE BAR, 4372 Southside Blvd., Ste. 201, 928-0515 W. Harvey Williams every Tue. DJ Royal every Wed. & Thur. Latin music & DJ Benz every Fri. DJ T-Rav every Sat. THE BRASS MONKEY, 9734 Deerlake Ct., 996-8277 Alex Seier & Ron Rodriguez rotate every acoustic Tue. Live music every Wed. DJ Fuller spins every Thur. A DJ spins every Jazz Fri. THE GRAPE, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-7111 Live music every Fri. & Sat. John Earle every Mon. DJ Mikeology spins lounge from 5-9 p.m. every Thur.

ISLAND GIRL Wine & Cigar Bar, 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115, 854-6060 Jazz every Wed. Live music every Thur., Fri. & Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 997-1955 Charlie Walker on March 17. Ron Rodriguez on March 19. John Earle on March 20. Open mic nite every Tue. SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY, 9735 Gate Parkway N., 997-1999 Chuck Nash every Thur. Live music at 10 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. SUITE, 4880 Big Island Dr., 493-9305 Danny Lazara at 7:30 p.m. on March 15. Little Green Men on March 16. Frontline at 7:30 p.m. on March 17. C’Nergy on March 18 & 19 URBAN FLATS, 9726 Touchton Rd., 642-1488 Live music every Fri. & Sat. WHISKY RIVER, 4850 Big Island Drive, 645-5571 Joe Nichols at 7 p.m. on March 16. Down Theory every Mon. Live music every Thur. A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Peter Dearing Band every Wed. DJ Chad spins dance every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

ENDO EXO, 1224 Kings Ave., 396-7733 Paten Locke spins classic boombox, hip hop & tru school every Thur. DJ J-Money spins jazz, soul, R&B, house every Fri. DJ Manus spins top 40 & dance every Sat. Reggae every Sun. Open mic with King Ron & T-Roy every Mon. EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 399-1740 Wayne Johnston Blues Band at 8 p.m. on March 15.

Acoustic Eidolon at 8:30 p.m. on March 17. Jazz every 2nd Tue. HAVANA-JAX CUBA LIBRE BAR LOUNGE, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609 MVP Band from 6-9 p.m., DJs No Fame & Dr. Doom every Wed. Jazz every Thur. DJ Omar spins dance every Fri. DJs Harry, Rico & Nestor spin salsa every Sat. JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Koffin Kats, Benedict Arnold and The Wastedist on March 15. The Slackers and Konami Code on March 17. Wasted Talent, Two Minute Wish and Anybody’s Guess on March 18. Speaking Cursive and Hillvalley on March 19. Burn Season (acoustic), Whyte Python, Lenore and Blow It Up on March 20. Welcome To Rockville Rumble and Finish It Off on March 21. A Rocket To The Moon, Valencia, Anarbor, Runner Runner and Go Radio on March 22 MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922 Bossa nova with Monica da Silva & Chad Alger at 7 p.m. every Thur.

RIVER CITY BREWING CO., 835 Museum Cir., 398-2299 Open mic with TJ Ward every Tue. DJ G-Man at 8 p.m. every Sat. SQUARE ONE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 306-9004 Class Act Band from 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. on March 19. Soul on the Square & Band of Destiny at 8 p.m. every Mon. John Earle Band every Tue. DJs Wes Reed & Matt Caulder spin indie dance & electro every Wed. Split Tone & DJ Comic every Thur.

SOUTHSIDE

CORNER BISTRO & Wine Bar, 9823 Tapestry Park Cir., Ste. 1, 619-1931 Matt “Pianoman” Hall at 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717 Mark Williams, Linda Minke and Victor Huls at 8 p.m. on March 19. JB Scott’s Swingin’ Allstars at 8 p.m. every 1st Mon. LATITUDE 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Live music every Thur., Fri. & Sat.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

BOOTS-N-BOTTLES, 12405 N. Main St., Ste. 7, Oceanway, 647-7798 Open mic jam every Wed. Karaoke at 8 p.m. every Thur. A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat. Live music every weekend DAMES POINT MARINA, 4518 Irving Rd., 751-3043 Ghost Radio from 3-7 p.m. on March 19 FLIGHT 747 LOUNGE, 1500 Airport Rd., 741-4073 Big Engine every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. ’70s every Tue. SHARKY’S WINGS & GRILL, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., Oceanway, 714-0995 Karaoke at 7 p.m. every Wed. & Thur. DJ Slim Wicked at 9 p.m. every Fri. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SKYLINE SPORTSBAR & LOUNGE, 5611 Norwood Ave., 517-6973 Bigga Rankin & Cool Running DJs every Tue. & 1st Sun. The Fusion Band & DJ every Thur. DJ Scar spins every Sun. THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Joshua Dyer at 7 p.m. on March 18. Alaina Colding at 7 p.m. on March 19. Goliath Flores at 1 p.m. on March 20. Karaoke every Tue. Open mic with Al Poindexter at 7 p.m. every Thur.

3 LIONS SPORTS PUB & GRILL, 2467 Faye Road, 647-8625 Open mic at 8 p.m. every Thur. Woodie & Wyatt C. every Fri. Live music at 8 p.m. every Sat.

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Drawn to meaning: Some of Jason Brown’s illustrations featured in previous editions of locally produced zine Popnihil.

The Fresh Prints

Not for nothing, local publication Popnihil pushes pop sensibilities POPNIHIL ISSUE NUMBER FOUR EVENT Featuring the authors of Popnihil Issue Number Three reading their work and live performances by BEACH PARTY and DJ ERZULIE Thursday, March 31 at 8:30 p.m.

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f you’ve ever been to the downtown library, you’ve probably noticed a rack of zines prominently displayed before the media section. It’s hard to ignore. Underground titles like Duplex Planet, Razor Cake and Tail Spins grab your attention and lure you into worlds a tad more askew and alternative than the ones depicted in James Patterson’s or Danielle Steele’s novels. Much of this is courtesy of Matthew Moyer, writer and editor of the zine Popnihil. Moyer came to Jacksonville in 2003 after getting a degree in library studies at FSU. He has been covering music since 1997 and has contributed to zines such as local favorite Movement Magazine, The Library Journal, Ink 19 and Ghetto Blaster, among others. In 2010, the 35-year-old reference librarian decided he wanted to start his own zine, though he strongly insists that his position at the library has nothing to do with the creation of Popnihil.

What’s striking right off the bat is that labeling Popnihil a “zine” isn’t quite accurate — nor does it do the title justice. Moyer considers Popnihil a “pop art experiment,” with each issue having a different format.

He credits the idea for the revolving door of formats to Factory Records and Heartworm Press, specifically albums and/or events by groups The Happy Mondays and Joy Division,

which included assigning catalog numbers to not only their respective albums, but to Christmas parties, limited-edition buttons and even a cat.

For assistance with his “experiment,” Moyer partnered with local artist Jason Brown, the zine’s illustrator. “I wanted original drawings instead of stock photos,”

“We’re doing this just to do it. In a small town like this, you have to make your own fun.”

Moyer says. Brown describes himself as selftaught and works at Willow Branch Library.

He met Moyer at a city library mingle and the two hit it off.

Issue No. 1 of Popnihil debuted in the summer of 2010, as a fold-out poster featuring some of Moyer’s music writing. It was an eclectic collection of pieces on Dolly Parton, Leonard Cohen and death-metal band Dark Castle from St. Augustine. Issue No. 2 was a tribute to late Maximum Rock N’ Roll columnist Bruce Roehr and No. 2.27 was an online interview with James Kochalka, creator of the online comic strip “American Elf.” An inaugural Christmas issue soon followed.

Popnihil No. 3 features a collection of local writers contributing stories about their youth. Writers include such local talent as Keith Hayes, Sheila Scoville and Duncan B. Barlow. The stories range from the humorous (a bar-hopping tale “Another Night Out” by

Folio Weekly contributor Keith Marks) to the more introspective (“17 Stories Tall” by the recently deceased Alan Justiss).

In keeping with the concept of the zine being more of a “pop” project rather than a “publication,” Issue No. 4 is a reading of Issue No. 3 to be held at Underbelly, the chic lair in the back of clothing store Anomaly in Historic Five Points. Aside from the available authors reading their stories from the zine, the event also features performances by the local band Beach Party and DJ Erzulie. “It would be tough to charge for a reading,” Moyer says of the free event. “And that’s not the point.” The zine will be sold for $2 a pop (no pun intended), but Moyer’s not concerned with making a profit. “It would be great if we sell a lot of zines, but we’re doing this just to do it. In a small town like this, you have to make your own fun.” It’s important to Moyer that people have something they can hold in their hands. “I like the fact that with digital being so omnipresent, I can stick it in my back pocket and I can put out stuff by people I like.”

Going forward, Moyer and Brown want to continue to push the format envelope. “I’d like to ramp it up,” Moyer says. “Our next issue is going to be the cassette issue. We’ll maybe do a sticker issue or a graphic story of a band. It’s important that each one be completely different.”

As for the zine’s enigmatic title? “I like the connotations,” Moyer explains. “‘Nihil’ is Latin for ‘nothing.’ So, ya know, ‘Pop Nothing,’ because pop culture is really pointless and ephemeral, but a very comforting sort of ephemeral.”

Damian K. Lahey themail@folioweekly.com

Slip Inside This House

Local author John Maycumber’s latest novel is a highly readable horror tale

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n 1953, the young starlet Anna Holberg had the world on a string. Gifted with a fouroctave vocal range, the precocious 15-yearold was a star of stage and radio and had even appeared in a few full-length fi lms. She lived with her loving parents in a modestly luxurious home in Connecticut, purchased with funds from her successful career.

In May of that year, however, Anna vanished, seemingly swallowed up whole by that very house. While her parents were considered suspects in the case, no evidence ever linked them to their daughter’s disappearance. The case was closed and the abandoned house soon fell in disrepair.

The fictional missing persons story is the root of John Maycumber’s novel, “Anna’s House,” (cafebeatpub.com), which picks up 50 years later. In a story that borrows heavily from the contemporary horror genre, 15-year-old Eddie Penchant aims to solve the Anna Holberg mystery, at great personal peril. Maycumber, a 44-year-old Jacksonville native best known as the host of WJCT’s “The String Theory” (Fridays at 11 p.m. on 89.9 FM), has been writing fiction since he was a kid. By the time he was 17, he’d finished his first novel, a ghost story called “The Ice Angel.” Work on “Anna’s House” began as “The Interloper” in 1991, when Maycumber admits he was reading as much Poe, Shelley and Stoker as Stephen King. His latest book benefits from the use of pop cultural references, a technique that has helped King sell more than 350 million books.

“Stephen King is the Bloomingdale’s of horror,” concedes Maycumber. “I am content to be the Walmart.” Maycumber explained “Anna’s” origins to Folio Weekly in several emails. “When I started writing [the novel] in early 1991, I had planned to write a totally different story not in the horror genre.” He shifted gears after recalling a childhood memory of building a sandcastle and imagining that its inhabitants had abandoned

the home. “I imagined a house as a virtual time capsule of life as it had been eight or nine years earlier. I had an idea about a little boy breaking in and getting trapped. And the story evolved from there.”

Maycumber says he decided to make the main characters adolescents, to work through some of his own issues from his youth (though he’s quick to point out that unlike the guardians of hapless Eddie, the

“Stephen King is the Bloomingdale’s of horror,” concedes Maycumber. “I am content to be the Walmart.” author’s parents were not abusive drunks).

The author has also lived in what he believes was a haunted house. “Most of it was harmless things: unexplainable crashes, things vanishing and then reappearing in the damnedest places.” Maycumber even went as far as hiring a team of ghosthunters, who confirmed there was some weirdness in the air.

The new book has already received praise in newspapers as well as Amazon, a development that Maycumber admits has “floored” him. The author has now set his sights on an ancient and familiar malevolent force. “I’m currently working on an allegorical tale of America’s collective ‘dumbing down’ and willful ignorance. It’s not necessarily supernatural, but does explore some dark places and the depths of darkness to which some humans will stoop to get and maintain power.” As far as any suggestions for local fledgling writers, Maycumber sticks to the tried and true: “Be persistent and write like you give a damn!”

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Candlemass: Local author John Maycumber discovers the horror of not paying the electric bill.

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PERFORMANCE

CHARLES THE SECOND Fernandina Little Theatre presents this raucous romp about Charles II at 7:30 p.m. on March 15, 16 and 19 and at 2:30 p.m. on March 20 at 1014 Beech St., Fernandina Beach. Tickets range from $9-$14. 277-2202.

THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE ABET presents Charles Busch’s comedy about the wife of a philanthropic allergist at 8 p.m. on March 18 and 19 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach. Tickets are $15; $12 for seniors, military, students. 249-7177.

FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF Stage Aurora Theatrical Company stages Ntozke Shange’s 1977 innovative “choreopoem” at 7 p.m. on March 18, at 6 p.m. on March 19 and 3 p.m. on March 20 at 5188 Norwood Ave., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $15; $20 at the door; $10 for seniors and students. 765-7372.

INHERIT THE WIND This drama, inspired by a teacher’s efforts to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Tennessee classroom, is staged at 7:30 p.m. on March 17, at 8 p.m. on March 18 and 19 and 2 p.m. on March 20 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $25; $20 matinee for seniors, military and students. 396-4425.

MERCHANT OF VENICE Shakespeare’s classic tragedy with comedic undertones is staged at 8 p.m. on March 17, 18 and 19 and at 2 p.m. on March 20 at Players by the Sea, 106 Enjoy a Wonderfully Prepared Sixth St. N., Jax Beach. Admission is $21; $18 for seniors, military and students. 249-0289.

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RELATIONSHIPS & REPUTATION The Inner Action holds this panel workshop and webinar from 6-9 p.m. on March 17 at Wyndham Jacksonville Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Drive.

Admission is $20; $10 with a donation of a used cell phone.

Proceeds benefit local charities. (678) 824-5492.

B.R.A.S.S. RING MUSIC COMPETITION Beaches Residents Actively Supporting the Symphony seeks young musicians in grades 6-12 for a daylong competition held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on March 19 at Ponte Vedra Beach Public Library, 101 Library Blvd., Ponte Vedra. To apply, go to BRASSonline.org. 273-6907.

ASOSA ACTORS STUDIO CLASSES Cindy Hogan teaches classes for ages 7-11 every Mon. from 4-5:30 p.m., and ages 12-15 every Wed. from 4-5:30 p.m., March 21-May 21. Each semester is $320. 814-3726.

LANDSCAPE PAINTING DEMONSTRATION Artist Anthony Whiting holds an acrylic painting landscape workshop at 7 p.m. on March 18 at Amelia Island Plantation Artists’ Guild & Gallery, 94 Village Circle, Fernandina Beach. 432-1750.

24-HOUR PLAYWRITING COMPETITION Theatre Jacksonville seeks up to 40 applicants for its inaugural daylong playwriting event held April 1 and 2 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville.

First-place prize is $300 and a public reading of the winning script. Download a registration form at theatrejax.com JAX IDOL AUDITIONS This locally produced singing competition holds auditions from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on April 2 and 9 at Lillian’s, 5393 Roosevelt Blvd., Jacksonville, for ages 14 and older; register prior to performing. Grand prize is $1,000. 388-4220.

PHOTOGRAPHERS SOUGHT The Gallery in One Ocean Resort seeks photographers to display their work. Submit entries to One Ocean Resort Hotel, One Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach FL 32233, attn: Jennifer Airingdale. Deadline is March 31.

CHURCH OF CRAFT The Jacksonville Church of Craft seeks local crafty types to gather and create from 5-9 p.m. on March 16 at Chamblin’s Uptown, 215 Laura St., Jacksonville. 674-0868.

JAX ART UNLEASHED First Coast No More Homeless Pets accepts works in a variety of media for its June 23 Jax Art Unleashed fundraiser and juried art show. Deadline is May 30. Artwork may be dropped off or mailed to 6817 Norwood Ave., Jacksonville FL 32208. 520-7900. jaxartunleashed.com YOUTH TALENT COMPETITION The Generation Next youth talent competition offers ages 7-21 to compete for a chance to perform at Jacksonville Jazz Festival. Auditions are held from 2-5 p.m. on April 16 at Keyboard Connection Pianos & Organs, 9912 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville. 880-0002.

AFRICAN HAND DRUM CLASS Midnight Sun offers hand drum classes at 7 p.m. every Tue. at 1055 Park St., Jacksonville. Class fee is $10. 358-3869.

SPRING ACTING CLASSES Players By The Sea offers various 10-week acting classes for ages K-adult through April 22 at 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach. Class fees vary. 249-0289.

FINE ART FEST SEEKS ARTISTS The inaugural Jacksonville Fine Arts Festival seeks artists for a juried event on April 9 and 10 in Avondale’s Boone Park. Entry fees start at $25.

Register at zapplication.org. 388-1188.

CALL TO ARTISTS The second annual Art & About Festival offers space for artists working in various media. It’s held on April 30 at Town Hall Park, 2042 Park Ave., Orange Park.

Entry deadline is April 9. artguildoforangepark.com LIFE DRAWING SKETCH GROUP This non-instructional drawing group, featuring a live model, meets from 7-10 p.m. every Mon. at St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St. Artists bring their own supplies. The fee is $10. 824-2310. staaa.org ADULT ART CLASSES Beginning and advanced acrylics, watercolors, photoshop, drawing, oil painting and portrait painting classes are held Mon.-Sat. at The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra, 50 Executive Way, Ponte Vedra. Fees vary.

280-0614. ccpvb.org CORSE GALLERY WORKSHOPS Beginning and advanced acrylics, watercolors, oil painting and portrait painting classes are held Mon.-Sat. at Corse Gallery & Atelier, 4144 Herschel St., Jacksonville. Fees vary. 388-8205. corsegalleryatelier.com WEST AFRICAN DRUM & DANCE A drumming class is held at 5:30 p.m., an African dance class is held at 6:45 p.m. every Fri. at St. Johns Cultural Arts Center, 370 A1A Beach Blvd. Each class is $10. 315-1862.

ARTIST PALETTE CLASSES Beginning and advanced acrylics, watercolors, drawing, oil painting and portrait painting classes are held Tue.-Sat. at Artist Palette, 3821 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Fees vary. 200-8937.

THEATRICAL ARTS Classes in theatrical performance, including song and dance, are held Mon.-Fri. at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Fees vary. 322-7672. theperformersacademy.com

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CLASSICAL & JAZZ

NOEL FREIDLINE QUINTET Pianist Freidline leads his band at 7 p.m. on March 18 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville. 356-6857.

JAX SYMPHONY POPS CONCERT EMMA Concert Series presents the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Matthew Kraemer performing “Song and Dance,” including works by Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini, at 8 p.m. on March 19 at Flagler College Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine. Tickets are $30; $5 for students. 797-2800.

DIANNE REEVES This legendary jazz vocalist performs at 8 p.m. on March 19 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $40. 632-5555.

BRAHMS AND JOPLIN The Ronan School of Music presents pianist Tom Benett performing an eclectic repertoire at 2 p.m. on March 20 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church’s Leatherbury Hall, 4129 Oxford Ave., Jacksonville. 514-2222.

JAX SYMPHONY PLAY BALL! The Jacksonville Symphony presents a kid-geared concert of sports-themed music and a recitation of “Casey at the Bat” by Jacksonville Suns owner Peter Bragan at 3 p.m. on March 20 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $6-$16. 354-5547.

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE The Beaches Fine Arts Series presents this innovative combo performing the music of Stevie Wonder at 4 p.m. on March 20 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville. 270-1771.

JAZZ VESPERS St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church holds candlelight jazz vespers at 5:30 p.m. on the third Sun. of each month, including March 20, at 37 Lovett St., St. Augustine. 829-8828.

SHOSTAKOVICH AND WAGNER The Chamber Music Society of Good Shepherd performs works by Shostakovich and Wagner at 6 p.m. on March 20 at 1100 Stockton St., Jacksonville. 387-5691.

JAZZ AT THE BRASSERIE Vocalist Victoria Ward, pianist Ezekiel Haynes and saxophonist Tracy Morris — The Tori-V Experience — perform R&B and jazz standards at 7 p.m. every Tue. Live jazz is featured at 7 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at The Brasserie, 1312 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach. 249-5800.

JAZZ AT TREE STEAKHOUSE Boril Ivanov Trio performs at 7 p.m. every Thur. and pianist David Gum performs at 7 p.m. every Fri. at The Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville. 262-0006.

JAZZ AT GENNARO’S Gennaro’s Ristorante Italiano features live jazz at 7:30 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at 5472 First Coast Highway, Fernandina Beach. 491-1999.

JAZZ AT INDIGO ALLEY Amelia Arts Academy Jazz Ensemble jams at 6:30 p.m.; Frankie’s Jazz Jam is on at 7:30 p.m. on March 15. Guitarist Dan Voll plays from 8-11 p.m. on March 19 at 316 Centre St., Fernandina Beach. 261-7222.

JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE Rhett’s Piano Bar & Brasserie features live jazz nightly at 7 p.m. at 66 Hypolita St., St. Augustine. 825-0502.

ART WALKS & FESTIVALS

ART AFTER DARK The 15th annual fundraiser for Friends of The Florida Theatre is held from 6-10 p.m. on March 18 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Jacksonville. A silent auction, music, heavy hors d’oeuvres and works by local visual artists Heather Blanton, Holly Blanton, Overstreet Ducasse, Jennifer Woodall Graham, Thomas Hager, Christie Holechek, Judella Lacle, MacTruque, Lynn Matyi, Kirk Reber, Ryan Rowe, Melissa Russell, Laura Lin Williams and Barry Wilson as well as eight student artists are featured. Tickets are $15. 355-2787.

PONTE VEDRA ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL This event, held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on March 19 and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on March 20, at Ponte Vedra Shopping Center, 880 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, features fine arts, crafts and foods. (352) 344-0657.

NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open late, from 5-9 p.m., on the third Thur. of each month at various venues from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center. For a list of participating galleries, call 249-2222.

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

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET The Arts Market is held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. beneath the Fuller Warren Bridge on Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville and features local and regional artists, strolling performers, bands and a farmers market. Shelby Brooks, Patrick Evan & Bert Mingea and Linda Grenville perform on March 19. Admission is free 554-6865, 389-2449. riversideartsmarket.com

MUSEUMS

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378. A display of paintings by The Highwaymen runs through March. The museum’s permanent collection includes artifacts from Nassau County’s Spanish Mission period.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY CENTER 413 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657. The juried exhibit “Magical History Tour Act I and Act II” is on display through April 30. Painter Ellen Jones’ “The Roaring 20s: Transportation Beaches Style” runs through April 2.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. Francis Ayls’ video exhibit, “Something and Nothing,” is on display through April 8.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, 356-6857. “Over the Top and Down to Earth with Beverly Church” features a workshop and discussion with designer and author Church at 9:30 a.m. on March 16.

Cost is $45; $40 for members. “Fashion in Bloom with Linda Cunningham” is held at 11 a.m. on March 17, featuring Cunningham’s spring couture collection. Admission is $70; $65 for members. The Noel Freidline Quintet performs a garden concert at 7 p.m. on March 18. The annual Garden

Four-time Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves performs on March 19 at 8 p.m. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $40. 632-5555.

Week celebration is held through March 19. Museum Family Day is held from noon-4 p.m. on March 19, featuring live music and a scavenger hunt. Evie Pankok offers the workshop “Vermiculture: The Art of Making Compost Tea” at 10 a.m. on March 19. Supplies included; cost is $5.

Ellen Diamond teaches “Garden Painting” from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on March 19. Lunch is included. Cost is $95; $80 for members. “The Cummer Legacy” runs through May 22. The Livingston Elementary School Exhibition features student artwork through May 9. The photo exhibit, “A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era,” runs through April 24. “Art Adventures: My Digital Garden” is held from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on March 19; kids ages 6-12 learn how to frame shots with digital cameras. The fee is $15; $10 for members.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Jacksonville, 366-6911. The exhibit “Wind Weaver & the Whirling Wheel: A Tale of Wolfbat Romance” runs through March 20. The juried exhibit “Edge of Your Seat: Design Challenge” is on display through March 27. “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design” runs through April 3. Family Fun Free Day is held from noon-4 p.m. every Sun. Open Tue.-Sun. mocajacksonville.org RITZ THEATRE & LAVILLA MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville, 632-5555. Amateur Night semi-finals are held at 7:30 p.m. on March 18. Admission is $7.50. Legendary jazz vocalist Diane Reeves performs at 8 p.m. on March 19. Tickets are $40. The exhibit “Through Our Eyes” runs through May 21. “Lift Ev’ry Voice in LaVilla,” an exhibit of African-American history in Jacksonville, is on permanent display. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children, students and seniors. Open Tue.-Sun.

GALLERIES ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828. The reception for an exhibit of Anthony Whiting’s naturalist paintings is held from 6-8 p.m. on March 17 during North Beaches Art Walk. The show runs through March 29.

ARTISTS’ GUILD & GALLERY 94 Village Circle, Amelia Island Plantation, Fernandina Beach, 432-1750. Anthony Whiting’s “Mediterranean Vistas” is on display through March 31.

ANCHOR BOUTIQUE 210 St. George Street, C2, St. Augustine, 808-7078. Joel Scille’s high-performance wood electronics are featured through March.

ARCHWAY GALLERY & FRAMING 363 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 2, Atlantic Beach, 249-2222. Ian Forrester is the featured artist from 5-9 p.m. on March 17 for North Beaches Art Walk.

THE ART CENTER COOPERATIVE GALLERY 31 W. Adams St., Jacksonville, 355-1757. Elaine Bidell is the featured artist for March.

AT&T TOWER LOBBY 301 W. Bay St., Jacksonville. The Art & Soul Gallery and the Women’s Center of Jacksonville present works celebrating Women’s History Month, through March.

AVONDALE ARTWORKS 3568 St. Johns Ave., Jacksonville, 384-8797. A reception for an exhibit of Barbara HolmesFryefield’s “Graphite Portraits” is held from 5-8 p.m. on March 18.

BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY/BUTTERFIELD GARAGE TOO 137/137-C King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, 829-0078. Painter Hillary Goss’ exhibit “Botanicals” is on display through March.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-0614. Photographer Ryan Ketterman’s and ceramicist Stephen Haywood’s exhibit, “Structures in Reality: Art & Life Contained,” runs through April 8.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. Roy Peak and Tamara Grimsley perform from 5-9 p.m. on March 17 for North Beaches Art Walk. The exhibit “Salt Air Visions” runs through April 4 and features works by the collective First Coast Pastel Society.

SIMPLE GESTURES GALLERY 4 E. White St., St. Augustine, 827-9997. The fundraiser “It’s for the Birds Part Deux,” featuring birdhouses and live music by Lonesome Bert & the Skinny Lizard, is held from 1-4 p.m. on March 19.

SOUTH GALLERY FSCJ’s South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, 646-2023. The Duval High School Exhibit and D.A.T.A. show runs through March 24.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 100 N. Laura St., Jacksonville, 553-6361. Photographer Jane Shirek is the featured artist for March.

STELLERS GALLERY AT PONTE VEDRA 240 A1A N., Ste. 13, Ponte Vedra Beach, 273-6065. The opening reception for Steve Williams’ and Enrique Mora’s exhibit “Forces: Mora and Williams” is held from 5-8 p.m. on March 25. The exhibit runs through April 25.

WILLIAMS-CORNELIUS GALLERY Daryl Bunn Studios, 643 Edison Ave., Jacksonville. 525-3368. Sean Meharg’s exhibit, “Seeing Little More,” runs through April 5.

For a complete list of galleries, log on to folioweekly.com. To list your event, send time, date, location (street address, city), admission price and contact number to print to Dan Brown, 9456 Philips Hwy., Ste. 11, Jacksonville FL 32256 or email dbrown@folioweekly.com. JPEGs must be at least 3’x5’, 300 dpi to be considered for publication.

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EVENTS

ANNUAL LIGHTHOUSE CELEBRATION The 19th annual Lighthouse Festival is held from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on March 19 at St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum, 81 Lighthouse Ave., St. Augustine. The annual wooden boat show, games and maritime crafts and pony rides are featured. Kids must be 44 inches tall to climb; kids younger than 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Live music by Showtime, Billy Buchanan and Free Avenue is also presented. A Facebook photo booth is onsite. The Junior Service League 5K Run/ Walk starts at 4 p.m.; the Fun Run shortly after. Admission to the tower, museum and grounds is free. 829-0745. staugustinelighthouse.org SEAFOOD FESTIVAL The 22nd annual Great Atlantic Music & Seafood Festival is held from noon-10 p.m. on March 19 at SeaWalk Pavilion, on First Street at the ocean in Jax Beach. Live music features Grandpa’s Cough Medicine, Rocco Blu, Chroma, Simplified, Honey Island Swamp Band and kLoB. Games, food and seafood of every variety are featured. A surfing contest is held on March 19 and 20. greatatlanticmusicfe st.com ORCHID SHOW & SALE The annual orchid show and sale is held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on March 19 and 20 at The Garden Club, 1005 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville. Admission is free. 772-7404.

VINTAGE GUITAR COLLECTORS SHOW The International Vintage Guitar Collectors Association present some bitchin’ gitboxes — could be Les Paul, Fender, Martin, Gibson (Flying V’s!), Gretsch, Hagstrom — from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on March 15-18, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on March 19 at Morocco Shrine Auditorium, 3800 St. Johns Bluff Road S., Jacksonville. Bring your axes, amps, dobros and basses and see what they’re worth. (217) 726-7590.

PRAYER BREAKFAST The seventh annual Greater Jacksonville Prayer Breakfast is held from 7-9 a.m. on March 22 at Potter’s House Christian Fellowship, 5732 Normandy Blvd., Jacksonville. Graham Power, founder of Global Prayer Day, is the featured speaker. potters-house.org TNA WRESTLING LIVE! This interactive entertainment event is held at 7:30 p.m. on March 18 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. TNA stars include Mr. Anderson, AJ Styles, Jeff Jarrett, Abyss and Mickie James. Tickets range from $20-$50. 630-3900.

MONSTER ENERGY SUPERCROSS This megaloud event is held from 7-10 p.m. on March 19 at EverBank Field, 1 EverBank Field Drive, downtown. Tickets start at $10. (800) 745-3000.

COSMIC CONCERTS Laser Mania at 5 p.m., Led Zeppelin at 6 p.m., Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon at 7 p.m., and Pink Floyd: Best of The Wall at 8 p.m. on March 18 at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville. Each concert is $5. 3966674 ext. 240. moshplanetarium.org DANCING FOR DIABETES This fundraiser is held from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. on March 16 at The Ivy Ultra Bar, 113 E. Bay St., downtown Jacksonville.

FullStop and The Great Working perform. A raffle is featured.

Tickets are $10. Proceeds benefit The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. 356-9200.

POLITICS & ACTIVISM

LEGAL AID FUNDRAISER Canan Law presents its fourth annual St. Patrick’s Day fundraiser from 5-7:30 p.m. on March 17 at The Corner Bar, Gypsy Cab Co., 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. Live Irish music, food and beverage are featured. Write a limerick about a judge. It’s suggested your donation should be equal to one hour of legal fees. 824-9402.

DIRTY MARTINIS FOR CLEAN WATER II The Rotary Club of San Marco presents this fundraiser from 5-7 p.m. on March 18 at WJCT Studios, 100 Festival Park Ave., Jacksonville. Cocktails, music, tastings and a silent auction are featured. Tickets are $35. Proceeds benefit Rotary International’s focus to provide clean drinking water for all. sanmarcorotary.com MAYORAL DEBATE The third televised debate featuring all six candidates (presuming they all show this time) is held March 17, and broadcast live at 8 p.m. on WJCT Public Television and 89.9 FM. The town hall-style meeting focuses on the role of government in public health and safety.

PUBLIC SERVICE GRANT COUNCIL The council meets at 4 p.m. on March 15 in Eighth Floor Conference Room, Ball Building, 214 N. Hogan St., Jacksonville. 630-1273.

JACKSONVILLE JOURNEY The oversight committee of this crime-fighting initiative meets at 4 p.m. on March 24 in Eighth Floor Conference Room 851, Ball Building, 214 N. Hogan St., Jacksonville. 630-1273.

COMMUNITY INTEREST

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DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Scott McCurdy discusses resident readiness from 11:30

a.m.-1 p.m. on March 17 at Coastal Reconstruction Group, 5570 Florida Mining Blvd. S., Ste. 304, Jacksonville.

Admission is free for members, $25 for nonmembers. (877) 708-5501.

TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER The annual wine tasting gala benefit is held from 6-9 p.m. on March 18 at The Modis Building, 1 Independent Drive, Jacksonville. Live music is featured. Tickets are $100.

543-2599.

ECO-SAFARI BENEFIT For North Florida Land’s Sake is held at 7 p.m. on March 19 at J. Johnson Gallery, 177 Fourth Ave N., Jax Beach. A silent and live auction, gift bags, full bar and live music are featured. Tickets are $100. Proceeds benefit North Florida Land Trust. 285-7020.

ADULT MEDICINE COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR The third annual health fair is held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on March 19 at Town Hall, 2042 Park Ave., Orange Park. Info booths, door prizes, health screenings and kids’ activities are featured. 219-0691.

HOLLIS FOUNDATION BENEFIT A Tiphne Darshay Hollis Foundation benefit dinner is held at 6 p.m. on March 19 at Wyndham Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville. Chubb Rock emcees. Tickets are $65 in advance. Proceeds benefit the crime-prevention foundation.

(888) 420-5551. ext. 1.

SEED SWAP & GARDEN EXPO A seed swap and community garden expo is held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on March 19 at 2554 Philips Highway, Jacksonville.

Master gardeners and beekeepers are on hand. 434-4027.

PURIM CELEBRATION The annual celebration starts with a Havdalla service at 8:15 p.m., the traditional reading of the Megilla scroll of Esther at 8:30 p.m., followed by food and goodies on March 19 at Chabad at the Beaches, 521 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach.

Admission is free. 543-9301.

BOOST FOR THE TROOPS This ceremony to honor America’s servicepeople is held from 2-5 p.m. on March 19 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, downtown. Navy Band Southeast performs. jacksonvillelanding.com HERB FESTIVAL The Jacksonville Herb Society holds its 18th annual festival from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on March 19 at Glynlea Grace United Methodist Church, 6429 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville. Herbs, soaps, lotions, food and arts & crafts are featured. Admission is free. 891-5521.

RETIREMENT INCOME LECTURE Certified financial planner Mark Dennis discusses “Savvy Social Security Planning: What Everyone Needs to Know to Maximize Retirement Income” from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on March 15 at AIFBY Chamber of Commerce, 961687 Gateway Blvd., Ste. 101G, Amelia Island. Tickets are $5 and include a box lunch. For reservations, call 352-1343 ext. 1. SSworkshop@ A1Awealthmanagement.com WELLNESS WEEK Experts in health, beauty and mental well-being are on hand from 5-7 p.m. on March 22 at Spa Laterra, 955 Registry Blvd., St. Augustine. To register, call 940-7800.

BEACHES GREEN MARKET Local produce, all-natural beef, organic eggs and coffees and crafts are offered from 2-5 p.m. every Sat. in Jarboe Park, corner of Florida Boulevard and Third Street, Neptune Beach. beacheslocalfoodnetwork.web MIDWEEK MARKET This market is held from 4-7 p.m. every Wed. at Bull Park, at Ocean Boulevard and East Coast Drive at Seventh Street, Atlantic Beach. Fresh locally grown produce, nuts, honey, eggs, plants, and baked goods are offered, along with live music. Bring a grocery bag, basket or cart. 247-5828. coab.us

KIDS

CHILDREN’S CHAPTER This free event is held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on March 19 at Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Jacksonville. Authors meetand-greets, readings and kids’ activities are featured.

FAMILY CIRCUS This CTeen event, for all Jewish teens ages 13-15, is held at 5 p.m. on March 16 at Chabad at the Beaches, 521 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach. 543-9301.

LIBRARY EVENTS Family story time is held at 11 a.m. every Tue. at Ponte Vedra branch, 101 Library Blvd., Ponte Vedra. 827-6950. sjcpls.org

BOOKS & WRITING

THE BOOKMARK The Jacksonville area chapter of National Organization for Women presents “Rona Recommends” at 6:30 p.m. on March 15, featuring BookMark owner Rona Brinlee, at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach. 241-9026.

DR. FRED CZARRA Author Czarra discusses his book, “Spices — A Global History,” at 4 p.m. on March 17 at Anastasia Island Branch Library, 124 Sea Grove Main Street, St. Augustine.

209-3735.

The 19th annual Lighthouse Festival is held from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on March 19 at St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum, 81 Lighthouse Ave., St. Augustine, featuring a wooden boat show, maritime crafts and pony rides. Kids must be 44 inches tall to climb; kids younger than 12 must be accompanied by an adult. A 5K Run/Walk starts at 4 p.m.; the Fun Run shortly after. Admission to the tower, museum and grounds is free. 829-0745. staugustinelighthouse.org

COMEDY

COMEDY ZONE All Stars on March 15 and 16. Emo Phillips appears at 8 p.m. on March 17 and 18, and 8 and 10 p.m. on March 19 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Road, in the Ramada Inn, Jacksonville. Tickets are $8-$14. 292-4242.

JACKIE KNIGHT’S COMEDY CLUB Forrest Shaw and Lisa Corrao on March 18 and 19 at Jackie Knight’s Comedy Club, 3009 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., St. Augustine (U.S. 1 & S.R. 16). Tickets are $12. Comedy open mic night is held at 8 p.m. every Thur.; tickets are $5. 461-8843.

UPCOMING

DISNEY ON ICE April 7, Veterans Memorial Arena FOLIO WEEKLY’S MARGARITA FEST April 15, Morocco Shrine Auditorium SHRIMP FESTIVAL April 28-May 1, Fernandina Beach

NATURE & OUTDOORS

JETTY-2-JETTY ULTRAMARATHON The 11th annual Performance Jetty-2-Jetty Ultramarathon and Team Relay — the world’s longest — starts at 8:30 a.m. on March 19 on the beach at the east end of Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, and ends at Vilano Beach. 285-1552.

FLORIDA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY The Sea Oats Chapter of the FNPS gets together at 7 p.m. on March 15 at City Hall, 2200 A1A S., St. Augustine Beach.

Elizabeth Flynn, habitat steward with the National Wildlife Federation, discusses backyard habitat programs. Admission is free. 692-3927. fnps.org FLORIDA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY The Jacksonville Chapter of the FNPS, Ixia, gets together at 6:30 p.m. on March 16 at Regency Square Library, 9900 Regency Square Blvd., Jacksonville. Prem Subrahmanyam discusses orchids. 655-2550.

TALBOT CRITTERS A park ranger discusses the common species that inhabit the natural communities of the undeveloped barrier islands of Northeast Florida at 2 p.m. on March 19 at Pavilion 1 on Little Talbot Island, 12157 Heckscher Dr., Jacksonville. No reservations are necessary and the program is free with regular park admission. 251-2320. floridastateparks.org/ littletalbotisland BEACH WALK GTM Research Reserve leads a walk from 9-11 a.m. on March 19 at Guana South Beach lot location, north of 505 Guana River Road, Ponte Vedra Beach. Reserve volunteers Rick and Roz Edwards offer an informative walk and discuss the sand, the importance of dunes and animals there. Reservations are required; call 823-4500. Regular parking fees apply, $3 per vehicle, annual GTM pass holders FREE. 823-4500.

BUSINESS

SOUTHSIDE BUSINESS MEN’S CLUB This group gathers at noon on March 16 at San Jose Country Club, 7529 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville. Admission is $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers. 396-5559. annie.sbmc@ yahoo.com

CLASSES & GROUPS

WOMEN’S WORKSHOP A free personal growth workshop, “The Assertive Woman,” is held at 6 p.m. and a self-esteem workshop is at 7 p.m. on

March 22 at FSCJ’s Deerwood Center, Room G-1708, 9911 Old Baymeadows Road, Jacksonville. 256-6985.

WOMEN’S MUSIC JAM Women gather to play music from 4-6 p.m. on March 20 at Ocean Yoga Center, 51 Pine St., Atlantic Beach. Bring a musical instrument and sheet music. 334-5290.

THE LEARNING COMMUNITY A marketing class is held at 6 p.m. on March 15 at 626 S. Eighth St., Fernandina Beach. Class fee is $49. For additional classes and details, call 430-0120. tlcnf.com SCRABBLE CLUB The Scrabble Club of Jacksonville gathers at 1 p.m. every Wed. at Golden Corral, 11470 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville and every Thur. at Barnes & Noble, 11112 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville; for times, email curtlee59@aol.com. All levels PROMISE OF BENEFIT are welcome. 733-1565.

JAX JUGGLERS Future jugglers gather from 6-7 p.m. every second Tue. and every fourth Mon. at San Marco Library’s Balis Center, 1514 LaSalle St., Jacksonville. Admission is free. jaxjugglers.org NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Do you have a drug problem? Maybe they can help. 3586262, 723-5683. serenitycoastna.org, firstcoastna.org NAR-A-NON This group meets at 8 p.m. every Tue. and Thur. at 4172 Shirley Ave., Avondale. 945-7168.

SALSA & TAEBO CLASSES Free classes are held at 6 p.m. every Fri. at Builders of Balance Health & Wellness, 7540 103rd St., Ste. 216, Jacksonville. 485-3112.

BELLY DANCE CLASS Free classes are held at 4 p.m. every Sun. at Anais Belly Dance Studio, 10300 Southside Blvd., Avenues Mall. 680-0106.

JACKSONVILLE CHESS This group gathers from 1-5 p.m. every Sun. in the Sears area Food Court at Avenues Mall, 10300 Southside Blvd., Jacksonville. Admission is free. You may bring a chess set, board and clock. All levels. 731-8496 ext. 210. jaxchess.com ASSOCIATION OF ASTROLOGY OF NORTH FLORIDA The AANF gets together at 7 p.m. on the fourth Tue. of each month at C.C.O.T., 1637 Hamilton St., Jacksonville. 641-4121 or 620-0031.

MS SUPPORT GROUP This group gathers at 1:30 p.m. every first Fri. at Neptune Beach Library, 600 Third St., Neptune Beach. 246-8841.

FINANCIAL PEACE The program is held at 1 p.m. every Sun. at Christ Church of Jacksonville, 6310 Blanding Blvd., Jacksonville. Call 771-6723 for details. daveramsey.com BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING SERVICES Community Hospice offers support for those who are grieving a death at Neviaser Educational Institute at Community Hospice, 4266 Sunbeam Road, Jacksonville. To schedule an appointment, call 407-4802.

BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP This St. Augustine group gathers at 7 p.m. on the first Tue. of every month at Flagler Hospital, 400 Health Park Blvd., Ste. 1010, St. Augustine. 501-7100.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY The recovery program meets every Fri. at Beaches Chapel Church and School, 610 Florida Blvd., Neptune Beach.

Dinner is held at 6 p.m. (suggested donation $5), a group meeting is held at 7 p.m. and small gender-specific meetings are held at 8 p.m., followed by fellowship, coffee and dessert. 241-4211 ext. 448.

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AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE (In Fernandina Beach unless otherwise noted.)

THE BEECH STREET GRILL Fine dining is offered in a casual atmosphere. The menu includes fresh local seafood, steaks and pasta dishes created with a variety of ethnic influences.

Award-winning wine list. FB. L, Wed.-Fri.; D, nightly; Sun. brunch. 801 Beech St. 277-3662. $$$ BEEF O’BRADY’S FAMILY SPORTS PUB F Signature wings, burgers and sandwiches. BW. TO. L & D, daily. 1916 S. 14th St. 261-0555. (For more locations, visit beefobradys.com) $$ BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ F At the foot of Centre Street, the upscale restaurant overlooks the Harbor Marina. The menu includes daily specials, fresh Florida seafood and an extensive wine list. FB. L & D, daily. 1 S. Front St. 261-2660. $$$ BRIGHT MORNINGS F The small café offers freshly baked goods. B & L daily. 105 S. Third St. 491-1771. $$ CAFÉ 4750 An Italian kitchen and wine bar. Chef de Cuisine Garrett Gooch offers roasted sea bass, frutti di mare soup, clam linguini, panatela bruschetta and fresh gelatos. Dine indoors or on the terrace. FB. B, L & D, daily.

4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island.

277-1100. $$$ CAFÉ KARIBO F Eclectic cuisine, served under the oaks in historic Fernandina, features sandwiches and chef’s specials.

Alfresco dining. FB. L & D, Tue.-Sat.; L, Sun. & Mon. 27 N. Third St. 277-5269. $$ CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY F European-style breads, pastries, croissants, muffins and pies baked daily. 1014 Atlantic Ave. 491-4663. $ EIGHT Contemporary sports lounge offers burgers, sandwiches, wings and nachos. FB. D, Mon.-Fri.; L & D, Fri. & Sat. The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Amelia Island. 277-1100. $$ ESPAÑA RESTAURANT & TAPAS Traditional Spanish and Portuguese dishes, tapas and paella are served in a cozy atmosphere. BW, CM. D nightly. 22 S. Fourth St. 261-7700. $$$ FERNANDELI F Classics with a Southern touch, like a one-third-pound devil dog, Reubens and pulled pork.

Sandwiches and wraps built to order from fresh cold cuts, tuna, egg and turkey salads. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 17B S. Eighth St. 261-0008. $ GENERAL STORE F This new store has a little bit of everything. Breakfast includes hot rope sausage, lunch features the Redneck Reuben. Deli meats, cheeses, chicken, fish, pizzas and pasta, too. BW. B, L & D, daily. 520 Centre St. 310-6080. $ GENNARO’S RISTORANTE ITALIANO F Southern Italian cuisine: pasta, gourmet ravioli, hand-tossed pizzas. Specialties are margharita pizza and shrimp feast. Bread is baked on-site.

CM, BW. L & D, daily. 5 S. Second St., 261-9400. 5472 First Coast Highway, Amelia Island, 491-1999. $$ HAPPY TOMATO COURTYARD CAFE & BBQ F Pulled pork sandwich, chicken salad and walnut chocolate chunk cookie, served in a laid-back atmosphere. BW. CM. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 7 S. Third St. 321-0707. $$ JACK & DIANE’S F Casual cafe offers steak & eggs, pancakes, Cajun scampi, etouffée, curry pizza, vegan black bean cakes, shrimp & grits, hand-carved steaks. FB. B, L & D, daily. 708 Centre St. 321-1444. $$ JOE’S 2ND STREET BISTRO Elegant island atmosphere. NY strip steak with sauces, Maine crab cakes, seafood fricassee and roast chicken penne pasta. BW. CM. D, nightly. 14 S. Second St. 321-2558. $$$ KABUKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR F Teppanyaki masters create your meal; plus a 37-item sushi bar. BW. D, Tue.-Sun. Amelia Plaza. 277-8782. $$ KELLEY’S COURTYARD CAFE F She crab soup, salads, fried green tomatoes, sandwiches and wraps are served indoors or out on the patio. Vegetarian dishes are also offered. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 19 S. Third St. 432-8213. $ MONTEGO BAY COFFEE CAFE F Locally owned and operated, serving specialty coffees and fruit smoothies. Dine in or hit the drive-thru. B & L, Mon.-Sat. 463363 S.R. 200, Yulee. 225-3600. $ MOON RIVER PIZZA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Northernstyle pizza by the pie or the slice. Choose from more than 20 toppings. Owner-selected wines and a large beer selection.

BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 925 S. 14th St. 321-3400. $ THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE Organic eatery and juice bar.

Extensive, eclectic menu featuring vegetarian and vegan items. Daily specials: local seafood, free-range chicken and fresh organic produce. Wraps, sandwiches, soups. CM. B & L,

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Mon.-Sat. 833 T.J. Courson Rd. 277-3141. $$ O’KANE’S IRISH PUB F Rustic, genuine Irish pub up front, eatery in back, featuring daily specials, fish-n-chips, and soups served in a sourdough bread bowl. FB. L & D, Mon.Sun. 318 Centre St. 261-1000. $$ PEPPER’S MEXICAN GRILL & CANTINA F The family restaurant offers authentic Mexican cuisine. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 2128 Sadler Rd. 272-2011. $$ PLAE In Spa & Shops at Omni Amelia Island Plantation, the cozy venue offers an innovative and PLAEful dining experience. D, nightly. 277-2132. $$$ SALT, THE GRILL Best of Jax 2010 winner. Elegant dining featuring local seafood and produce, served in a contemporary coastal setting. FB. D, Tue.-Sat. 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. 491-6746. $$$$ SANDOLLAR RESTAURANT & MARINA F Dine inside or on the deck. Snow crab legs, fresh fish, shellfish dishes.

FB. L & D, daily. 9716 Heckscher Dr., Ft. George Island.

251-2449. $$ SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL F Oceanfront dining; local seafood, shrimp, crab cakes, outdoor beachfront tiki & raw bar, covered deck and kids’ playground. CM, FB. L & D, daily.

1998 S. Fletcher Ave. 277-6652. $$ THE SURF F Dine inside or on large oceanview deck. Steaks, fresh fish, shrimp and nightly specials. Late-night menu. FB. L & D, daily. 3199 S. Fletcher Ave. 261-5711. $$ T-RAY’S BURGER STATION F A favorite local spot; Best of Jax 2010 winner. Grilled or blackened fish sandwiches, homemade burgers. BW, TO. B & L, Mon.-Sat. 202 S. Eighth St. 261-6310. $ 29 SOUTH EATS F Part of historic Fernandina Beach’s downtown scene. Award-winning Chef Scotty serves traditional world cuisine with a modern twist. L, Tue.-Sat.; D, Mon.-Sat.; Sun. brunch. 29 S. Third St. 277-7919. $$

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

EAST COAST BUFFET F A 160+ item Chinese, Japanese, American and Italian buffet. Dine in, take out. FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat.; Sun. brunch. 9569 Regency Sq. Blvd. N. 726-9888. $$ GENE’S SEAFOOD F Serving fresh Mayport shrimp, fish, oysters, scallops, gator tail, steaks and combos. L & D, daily.

6132 Merrill Rd. 744-2333. $$ LA NOPALERA Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Intracoastal.

8818 Atlantic Blvd. 720-0106.

ORANGE TREE HOT DOGS F Orange Tree serves hot dogs with slaw, chili cheese or sauerkraut, as well as personal size pizzas. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 9501 Arlington Expwy., Regency Square. 721-3595. (For locations, visit orangetreehotdogs.com) $ PITA EXPRESS Philly, chicken fajita, falafel, chicken Caesar salad and eggplant parmigiana pitas, plus omelets and pancakes. CM. B, L & D, daily. 2754 Trollie Lane. 674-2637. $ REGENCY ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR F Generous portions and friendly service in a nautical atmosphere. Fresh fish, specialty pastas, fresh oysters and clams. BW. L & D, daily. 9541 Regency Square Blvd. S. 720-0551. $$ TREY’S DELI & GRILL F Fresh food served in a relaxed atmosphere. Burgers, Trey’s Reuben, deli sandwiches, pork, steaks, seafood, pies. Prime rib specials every Fri. night. CM, BW. L & D, Mon.-Fri. 2044 Rogero Rd. 744-3690. $$

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

BEETHOVEN’S BAGEL BISTRO All-day breakfast menu with French toast and bagels. Lunch is deli fare, wraps, Reubens, paninis; dinner offers paella, chicken & dumplings. CM, BYOB. B, L & D, Wed.-Sat.; B & L, Sun. & Sat. 5917 Roosevelt Blvd. 771-6606. $$ BISCOTTIS F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Mozzarella bruschetta, Avondale pizza, sandwiches, espresso, cappuccino. Revolving daily specials. B, Tue.-Sun.; L & D, daily. 3556 St. Johns Ave. 387-2060. $$$ THE BLUE FISH RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR Fresh seafood, steaks and more are served in a casual atmosphere. Halfportions are available. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 3551 St. Johns Ave., Shoppes of Avondale. 387-0700. $$$ BRICK RESTAURANT F Creative all-American fare like tuna tartare, seaweed salad and Kobe burger. Outside dining. FB. L & D, daily. 3585 St. Johns Ave. 387-0606. $$$ THE CASBAH F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Middle Eastern cuisine is served in a friendly atmosphere. BW. L & D, daily.

3628 St. Johns Ave. 981-9966. $$ ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE F Gauchos carve the meat onto your plate from serving tables. FB. D, Tue.-Sun., closed Mon. 4000 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 40.

388-4884. $$$ THE FOX RESTAURANT F Best of Jax 2010 winner. The Fox has been a Jacksonville landmark for 50-plus years.

Ian and Mary Chase serve classic diner-style fare, featuring homemade desserts. B & L daily. 3580 St. Johns Ave. 387-2669. $ ORSAY Best of Jax 2010 winner. The French/American bistro

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India’s Restaurant has been serving authentic Northern Indian fare, including tandoori specials and the popular lunch buffet, on Baymeadows Road since 1997. focuses on craftsmanship and service. FB. D, Tues.-Sat. 3630 Park St. 381-0909. $$$ RUAN THAI The elegant Avondale restaurant offers authentic Thai cuisine, including curries and pad dishes. CM, FB. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 3951 St. Johns Ave. 384-6665. $$$ TOM & BETTY’S F A Jacksonville tradition for more than 30 years, Tom & Betty’s serves hefty sandwiches with classic car themes, along with homemade-style dishes. CM, FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4409 Roosevelt Blvd. 387-3311. $$ ’town Owner Meghan Purcell and Executive Chef Scott Ostrander bring the farm-to-table concept to Northeast Florida with their new Avondale restaurant, offering American fare with an emphasis on sustainability. FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 3611 St. Johns Ave. 345-2596. $$

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Beaches. 8060 Philips Hwy. 731-4300. $ BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA F Family-ownedand-operated New York-style pizzeria serves hand-tossed, brick-oven-baked pizza, and traditional Italian dinners, wings, subs. Dine-in or delivered. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 10920 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3. 519-8000. $$ BOWL OF PHO This restaurant offers traditional Vietnamese noodle soup and authentic favorites like spring rolls, shrimp wraps and egg rolls. Big portions and a laid-back atmosphere.

9902 Old Baymeadows Rd. 646-4455. $$ CHA-CHA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT Owner Celso Alvarado offers authentic Mexican fare with 26 combo dinners and specialty dishes including chalupas, enchiladas and burritos.

FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 9551 Baymeadows Rd. 737-9903. $$ CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILLE F Chicago-style deepdish pizzas, hot dogs, Italian beef dishes from the Comastro family, serving authentic Windy City favorites for 25+ years.

CM, FB. L & D, daily. 8206 Philips Hwy. 731-9797. $$$ DEERWOOD DELI & DINER F The ’50s-style diner serves malts, shakes, Reubens, Cubans, burgers, and traditional breakfast items. CM. B & L, daily. 9934 Old Baymeadows Rd. 641-4877. $$ THE FIFTH ELEMENT F The first four elements are earth, water, air and fire — but here they prepare authentic Indian, South Indian and Indochinese dishes with artistic flair. Lunch buffet includes lamb, goat, chicken, tandoori and biryani items. CM. L & D, daily. 9485 Baymeadows Rd. 448-8265. $$ GATOR’S DOCKSIDE F See Orange Park. 8650 Baymeadows Rd. 448-0500. $$ INDIA RESTAURANT F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Extensive menu of entrées, clay-oven grilled Tandoori specialties and chicken tandoor, fish, seafood and korma. L, Mon.-Sat., D, daily. 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8. 620-0777. $$ LARRY’S GIANT SUBS F With locations all over Northeast Florida, Larry’s piles subs up with fresh fixins and serves ’em fast. Some Larry’s Subs offer B & W and/or serve breakfast.

CM. L & D, daily. 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9 (Goodby’s Creek), 737-7740; 8616 Baymeadows Rd. 739-2498. larryssubs.com $ LEMONGRASS F Upscale Thai cuisine in a metropolitan

atmosphere. Chef Aphayasane’s innovative creations include roast duckling and fried snapper. BW. R. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, Mon.Sat. 9846 Old Baymeadows Rd. 645-9911. $$ MANDALOUN MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE F This Lebanese restaurant offers authentic Mediterranean cuisine: lahm meshwe, kafta khoshkhas and baked filet of red snapper. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 9862 Old Baymeadows Rd. 646-1881. $$ MAYURI INDIAN CUISINE F Traditional Indian items include tandoori specials, South Indian, Indo-Chinese, vegetarian, biryani and thali style dishes. BW. L & D. 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 10. 448-5999. $$ NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET F Best of Jax 2010 winner. The organic supermarket offers a full deli and a hot bar with fresh soups, quesadillas, rotisserie chicken and vegan sushi, as well as a fresh juice and smoothie bar. 11030 Baymeadows Rd. 260-2791. $ OMAHA STEAKHOUSE Center-cut beef, fresh seafood and sandwiches served in an English tavern atmosphere. The signature dish is a 16-ounce bone-in ribeye. Desserts include crème brûlée. FB. L & D, daily. 9300 Baymeadows Rd., Embassy Suites Hotel. 739-6633. $$ PATTAYA THAI GRILLE F Serving traditional Thai and vegetarian items and a 40-plus item vegetarian menu in a contemporary atmosphere. B/W. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1. 646-9506. $$ PIZZA PALACE F See San Marco. 3928 Baymeadows Rd. 527-8649. $$ STICKY FINGERS F See Beaches. 8129 Point Meadows Way. 493-7427. $$

BEACHES

(In Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

A LA CARTE Authentic New England fare like Maine lobster rolls, fried Ipswich clams, crab or clam cake sandwich, fried shrimp basket, haddock sandwich, clam chowdah, birch beer and blueberry soda. Dine inside or on the deck. TO. L, Fri.-Tue. 331 First Ave. N. 241-2005. $$ AL’S PIZZA F Serving hand-tossed gourmet pizzas, calzones and Italian entrees for more than 21 years. Voted Best Pizza by Folio Weekly readers from 1996-2010. BW. L & D, daily. 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 249-0002. $ ANGIE’S SUBS F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Subs are madeto-order fresh. Serious casual. Wicked good iced tea. 1436 Beach Blvd. 246-2519. $ ATOMIC FLYING FISH SEAFOOD TACO GRILL F Beachcasual with Cali-style fish, steak, blackened gator tacos and sides. L & D, daily. 309 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach.

372-0882. $$ BEACH BUDS CHICKEN F This cozy, family-owned place serves marinated fried or baked chicken: family meals (kids like Peruvian nuggets), giant tenders, in box lunches and as Mini-Me sandwiches, along with gizzards, livers, 15 sides and fried or blackened shrimp, fish, conch fritters, deviled crabs.

TO. L & D, daily. 1289 Penman Road. 247-2828. $ BEACHSIDE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & MARKET F The full fresh seafood market serves seafood baskets, fish tacos, oyster baskets and Philly cheesesteaks. Dine indoors or outside. Beach delivery. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 120 S. Third St.

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444-8862. $$ BONGIORNO’S PHILLY STEAK SHOP F South Philly’s Bongiorno family imports Amoroso rolls for Real Deal cheese-steak, Original Gobbler, clubs, wraps, burgers and dogs. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 2294 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach. 246-3278. $$ BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q F Baby back ribs, fried corn, sweet potatoes. BW. L & D, daily. 1307 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach.

270-2666. 1266 S. Third St. 249-8704. bonosbarbq.com $ THE BRASSERIE & BAR French/European-style bistro and bar offers coq au vin, French onion soup, fritto misto, Moroccan-style lamb shank. FB. D, Tue.-Sun. 1312 Beach Blvd. 249-5800. $$$ BUDDHA’S BELLY Authentic Thai dishes made with fresh ingredients using tried-and-true recipes. FB, TO. L & D, daily.

301 10th Ave. N. 712-4444. $$ BURRITO CANTINA This hole-in-the-wall serves big burritos and big beers. TO. L & D, daily. 22 Seminole Rd., Atlantic Beach. 246-2000. $ CAMPECHE BAY CANTINA F Homemade-style Mexican items are fajitas, enchiladas and fried ice cream, plus margaritas. FB. D, nightly. 127 First Ave. N. 249-3322. $$ CARIBBEE KEY F Best of Jax 2010 winner. AmerCaribbean cuisine includes seafood, steaks and sandwiches. Open-air deck bar upstairs; outdoor dining downstairs. FB. L & D, daily.

100 N. First St., Neptune Beach. 270-8940. $$ CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILLE F See Baymeadows.

320 N. First St. 270-8565. $$ COPPER TOP SOUTHERN AMERICAN CUISINE F The menu features favorites from The Homestead, like fried chicken, homemade-style biscuits and cornbread, served in a family atmosphere inside a cozy log cabin. CM, FB. Sun. brunch; D, daily. 1712 Beach Blvd. 249-4776. $$ CRUISERS GRILL F Best of Jax 2010 winner, serving burgers, sandwiches, nachos, tacos, quesadillas and cheese fries. 319 23rd Ave. S. 270-0356. $ CULHANE’S IRISH PUB F Four Culhane sisters own and operate the authentic Irish pub, featuring Guy Fieri’s (“Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives”) fave items — Guinness stew, lamb sliders and fish pie. L, Fri.-Sun.; D, Tue.-Sun.; weekend brunch. FB, CM. 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 249-9595. $$ DWIGHT’S The Mediterranean-style bistro features fresh local seafood, filet mignon, mixed grill and an extensive wine list. D, Tue.-Sat. 1527 Penman Rd. 241-4496. $$$$ ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY F This new Jax Beach restaurant serves gastropub fare like soups, salads, flatbreads and specialty sandwiches, including BarBe-Cuban and beer dip. Daily specials, too. CM, BW. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217. 249-2337. $ EUROPEAN STREET See San Marco. 992 Beach Blvd.

249-3001. $ FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Casual dining with uptown Irish flair, including fish and chips, Guinness beef stew and black-and-tan brownies. FB, CM. L & D, daily. 333 N. First St. 242-9499. $$ THE FISH COMPANY F Fresh, local seafood is served, including Mayport shrimp, fish baskets, grilled tuna and an oyster bar. L & D, daily. CM, FB. 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, Atlantic Beach. 246-0123. $$ HALA SANDWICH SHOP & BAKERY Authentic Middle Eastern favorites include gyros, shwarma, pita bread, made fresh daily. BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 1451 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach. 249-2212. $$ HOT DOG HUT F Best of Jax 2010 winner. All-beef hot dogs, sausages, hamburgers, crab cakes, beer-battered onion rings and French fries. B. L, daily. 1439 Third St. S. 247-8886. $

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ICHIBAN F Three dining areas: teppan or hibachi tables (watch a chef prepare your food), a sushi bar and Westernstyle seating offering tempura and teriyaki. FB, Japanese plum wine. L & D, daily. 675 N. Third St. 247-4688. $$ LYNCH’S IRISH PUB F Best of Jax 2010 winner. The full-service restaurant offers corned beef and cabbage, Shepherd’s pie and fish-n-chips. 30+ beers on tap. FB. L, Sat. & Sun., D, daily. 514 N. First St. 249-5181. $$ MEZZA LUNA RISTORANTE F A Beaches tradition for 20+ years. Favorites are Szechuan ahi tuna, lasagna Bolognese and wood-fired pizza. Inside or patio. Extensive wine list. CM, FB. D, Mon.-Sat. 110 First St., Neptune Beach. 249-5573. $$$ MIMI’S SPORTS GRILLE East meets West: Every dish is infused with Asian style and ingredients, including lumpia, yaki tori and several kinds of sushi. FB. L & D daily. 1021 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 270-1030. $$ MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Traditional slow-cooked Southern barbecue served in a blues bar atmosphere. Favorites are pulled pork, Texas brisket and slow-cooked ribs. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 1500 Beach Blvd. 247-6636. $$ MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN F For 25 years, Monkey’s has served pub grub, burgers, sandwiches, seafood and wings.

Dine inside or out on the patio. FB. L & D, daily. 1850 S. Third St. 246-1070. $ NORTH BEACH BISTRO F Casual dining with an elegant touch, like slow-cooked veal osso buco with truffled mushroom risotto; calypso crusted mahi mahi with spiced plantain chips. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach. 372-4105. $$$ OCEAN 60 Best of Jax 2010 winner. A prix fixe menu is offered. Continental cuisine, with fresh seafood, nightly specials and a changing seasonal menu. Dine in a formal dining room or casual Martini Room. D, Mon.-Sat. 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 247-0060. $$$ PACO’S MEXICAN GRILL Serving Baja-style Mexican cuisine, featuring carne asada, tacos, burritos, fish tacos and shrimp burritos. CM, FB. B, L & D, daily. 333 First St. N. 208-5097. $ PARSONS SEAFOOD RESTAURANT F The family-style restaurant has an outdoor patio and an extensive menu, including the mariner’s platter and the Original Dreamboat.

CM, FB. L & D, daily. 904 Sixth Ave. S. 249-0608. $$ PHILLY’S FINEST Authentic Philly-style cheesesteaks are made with imported Amorosa rolls. Hoagies, wings and pizza ... cold beer, too. FB. L & D, daily. 1527 N. Third St. 241-7188. $$ RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD GRILL F The Beaches landmark serves grilled seafood with a Cajun/Creole accent.

Hand-crafted cold beer. FB. L & D, daily. 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 241-7877. $$ SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK F An array of specialty menu items, including signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos and local fried shrimp, in a casual, trendy open-air space. FB, TO, CM. L & D, daily. 1018 Third St. N. 372-4456. $$ SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE F Best of Jax 2010 winner.

111 Beach Blvd. 482-1000. $$ STICKY FINGERS F Memphis-style rib house specializes in barbecue ribs served several ways. FB. L & D, daily. 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 241-RIBS. $$ SUN DOG STEAK & SEAFOOD F Eclectic American fare, art deco décor with an authentic diner feel. FB. L & D, daily; Sun. brunch. 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach. 241-8221. $$ TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA F Best of Jax 2010 winner.

Fresh, Baja-style Mexican fare, with a focus on fish tacos and NAME: Eric Weisman RESTAURANT: Coppertop 1712 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach BIRTHPLACE: Jacksonville YEARS IN THE BUSINESS: 16 FAVORITE RESTAURANT (Other than my own): Caps On The Water FAVORITE INGREDIENTS: Any local ingredients I can get.

IDEAL MEAL: Three-piece fried chicken dinner and white chocolate bread pudding.

WOULDN’T EAT IF YOU PAID ME: Lima beans MOST MEMORABLE RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE: xx INSIDER’S SECRET: I found the original recipe for fried chicken from the original Homestead restaurant.

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tequila, as well as fried che ese, bangin’ shrimp and verde chicken tacos. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 1183 Beach Blvd. 249-TACO (8226). $$ THAI ROOM RESTAURANT F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Dine in an intimate setting as Chef Thepsouvanh prepares Thai cuisine like crispy duck or pan-seared Chilean sea bass. BW. L, Mon.-Fri. D, Mon.-Sat. 1286 S. Third St. 249-8444. $$$ THE WINE BAR The casual neighborhood place has a tapas-style menu, fire-baked flatbreads and a wine selection.

Tue.-Sun. 320 N. First St. 372-0211. $$

DOWNTOWN

(The Jacksonville Landing venues are at 2 Independent Drive)

ADAMS STREET DELI & GRILL F The lunch spot serves wraps, including grilled chicken, and salads, including Greek salad. L, Mon.-Fri. 126 W. Adams St. 475-1400. $$ BURRITO GALLERY & BAR F Best of Jax 2010 winner.

Southwest cuisine, traditional American salads. Burritos and more burritos. Onsite art gallery. FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 21 E. Adams St. 598-2922. $ CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILLE F See Baymeadows.

The Jacksonville Landing. 354-7747. $$$ CITY HALL PUB On the Trolley route. A sports bar vibe: 16 big-screen HDTVs. Angus burgers, dogs, sandwiches & sides, AYCE wings buffet, soup-n-salad. FB. Free downtown area lunch delivery. L & D, daily. 234 Randolph Blvd. 356-6750. $$ DE REAL TING CAFE F The popular restaurant offers a Caribbean lunch buffet Tue.-Fri. FB. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 128 W. Adams St. 633-9738. $ INDOCHINE Serving Thai and Southeast Asian cuisine in the core of downtown. Signature dishes include favorites like chicken Satay, soft shell crab, and mango and sticky rice for dessert. BW, FB, TO. L, Mon.-Fri., D, Tue.-Sat. 21 E. Adams St. 598-5303. $$ JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE Family-owned-and-operated.

Jenkins offers beef, pork, chicken, homemade desserts. L & D, daily. 830 N. Pearl St. 353-6388. $ JULIETTE’S & J-BAR Serving dinner before (or dessert after) a show. Breakfast buffet. J-Bar serves bistro-inspired small plates. FB. Daily. Omni Hotel, 245 W. Water St. 355-6664. $$$ KOJA SUSHI F Sushi, Japanese, Asian and Korean cuisine.

Indoor and outdoor dining and bar. FB. L & D, daily. The Jacksonville Landing. 350-9911. $$ THE SKYLINE DINING & CONFERENCE CENTER Weekday lunch includes salad bar, hot meals and a carving station.

L, Mon.-Fri.; L, Sun. upon request. FB. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 3550. 791-9797. $$ ZODIAC GRILL F Serving Mediterranean cuisine and American favorites, with a popular lunch buffet. BW. B & L, daily. 120 W. Adams St. 354-8283. $

FLEMING ISLAND

CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILLE F See Baymeadows.

406 Old Hard Road, Ste. 106. 213-7779. $$$ GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET F See Riverside. B, L & D, Mon.-Sat.; L, Sun. 1915 East West Pkwy., 541-0009. $ HONEY B’S CAFE Breakfast includes omelets, pancakes, French toast. Lunch offers entrée salads, quiches and buildyour-own burgers. Peanut butter pie is a customer favorite.

Tea parties are held every Sat. B & L, daily. 3535 U.S. 17, Ste. 8. 264-7325. $$ LA NOPALERA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Intracoastal.

1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100. 215-2223. $ MERCURY MOON F Appetizers, sandwiches, desserts. Daily specials. TO, FB. L & D, daily. 2015 C.R. 220. 215-8999. $$ MOJO SMOKEHOUSE F Best of Jax 2010 winner. FB. L & D, daily. 1810 Town Ctr. Blvd. 264-0636. $$ ROCKIN RODZ BAR & GRILLE This place offers fresh fare, like Stratocaster shrimp, Hot Rod gumbo and handmade gourmet Angus burgers, served in a rockin’, upscale casual atmosphere. Dine indoors or out. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 2574 C.R. 220, Stes. 4-7. 276-2000. $$ WHITEY’S FISH CAMP F This renowned seafood place, family-owned since 1963, specializes in AYCE freshwater catfish. Also steaks, pastas. Outdoor waterfront dining. Come by car, boat or bike. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 2032 C.R. 220.

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AL’S PIZZA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Beaches. 14286 Beach Blvd. (at San Pablo Rd.) 223-0991. $ BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS F Brucci’s offers authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas and desserts in a family atmosphere. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36. 223-6913. $ CLIFF’S ROCKIN’ BAR-N-GRILL F Cliff’s features 8-ounce burgers, wings, steak, seafood, homemade pizza and daily specials. FB. L & D, daily. Smoking permitted. 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, Cobblestone Plaza. 645-5162. $$

ISTANBUL MEDITERRANEAN & ITALIAN CUISINE The varied menu offers European cuisine including lamb, beef and chicken dishes, as well as pizza and wraps. BW. L & D, daily.

13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 26. 220-9192. $$ JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE & STEAKHOUSE F The menu includes wings, hamburgers, Ahi tuna and handcut steaks.

CM, FB. Daily. 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22. 220-6766. $ LA NOPALERA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. The familyowned-and-operated restaurant serves authentic Mexican cuisine, like tamales, fajitas and pork tacos, in a casual family atmosphere. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 14333 Beach Blvd.

992-1666. $ MILANO’S RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA Homemade Italian cuisine, including breads, pizzas, calzones and specialty dishes. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 4.

646-9119. $$ TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL F Wings, gourmet pizza, fresh seafood and specialty wraps. FB. D, Mon.-Fri.; L & D, Sat. & Sun. 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5. 223-6999. $$ TKO’S THAI HUT F The menu offers Thai fusion, curry dishes, chef’s specials, steaks and healthy options. Sushi, too. Hookahs are also available. Dine inside or on the covered patio. FB. L & D, daily. 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 46. 647-7546. $$ ZAITOON MEDITERRANEAN GRILL Traditional Mediterranean family recipes are blended to create Spanish, French, Italian and Middle Eastern inspired dishes. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, Harbour Village. 221-7066. $$

JULINGTON, NW ST. JOHNS

BLACKSTONE GRILLE The menu blends flavors from a variety of cultures and influences for modern American fusion cuisine, served in a bistro-style setting. FB. L & D, Mon.-Fri., D, Sat.; Sun. brunch. 112 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 102. 2870766. $$$ BRUCCI’S PIZZA F See Intracoastal. 540 S.R. 13, Ste. 10, Fruit Cove. 287-8317. $$ CHICAGO PIZZA BAKERY & PUB F Transforms from family restaurant to pub serving Chicago-style deep dish pizza. CM, FB. D, Tue.-Fri., L & D, Sat. & Sun. 107 Nature Walk Pkwy., Ste. 101, 230-9700. $$ HAPPY OURS SPORTS GRILLE F Features wings, big salads, burgers, wraps and sandwiches. Sports events on HDTVs. CM, FB. 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101. 683-1964. $ PIZZA PALACE F See San Marco. 116 Bartram Oaks Walk.

230-2171. $ RUSSO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT F Traditional Italian cuisine includes veal, eggplant, seafood, steak. CM. D, Tue.-Sun. 2750 Race Track Rd., Ste. 106, Plantation Plaza. 287-4111. $$

MANDARIN

AL’S PIZZA Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Beaches. 11190 San Jose Blvd. 260-4115. $ AW SHUCKS F This seafood place features an oyster bar, steaks, seafood, chicken wings and pasta. Favorites include ahi tuna, shrimp & grits, oysters Rockefeller, pitas and kabobs.

Sweet potato puffs are the signature side item. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd. 240-0368. $$ THE BLUE CRAB CRABHOUSE F Maryland-style crabhouse featuring fresh blue crabs, garlic crabs, King, Snow and Dungeness crab legs. FB, CM. D, Tue.-Sat.; L & D, Sun. 3057 Julington Creek Rd. 260-2722. $$ BROOKLYN PIZZA F The traditional pizzeria serves New York-style pizza, specialty pies, and subs, strombolis and calzones. BW. L & D, daily. 11406 San Jose Blvd. 288-9211.

13820 St. Augustine Rd. 880-0020. $ CASA MARIA F See Springfield. L & D, daily. 14965 Old St. Augustine Rd. 619-8186. $$ CLARK’S FISH CAMP F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Clark’s has steak, ribs, AYCE catfish dinners, 3-pound prime rib. Dine in, out or in a creek-view glass-enclosed room. FB. D, Mon.-Fri.; L & D, Sat. & Sun. 12903 Hood Landing Rd. 268-3474. $$ DON JUAN’S RESTAURANT F Authentic Mexican dishes prepared daily from scratch, served in a casual atmosphere.

FB, CM. L & D, daily. 12373 San Jose Blvd. 268-8722. $$ GIGI’S RESTAURANT Breakfast buffet served daily, lunch buffet weekdays. The Comedy Zone (Best of Jax 2010 winner) has an appetizer menu. FB. B, L & D, daily. I-295 & San Jose Blvd. (Ramada Inn). 268-8080. $$ (Fri. & Sat. buffet, $$$) HALA CAFE & BAKERY F See Southside. 9735 Old St. Augustine Rd. 288-8890. $$ KOBE JAPANESE RESTAURANT The fusion-style sushi restaurant offers oyster shooters, kobe beef shabu-shabu, Chilean sea bass and filet mignon. BW & sake. L & D, daily.

11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 8. 288-7999. $$ LET’S NOSH F The authentic Jewish deli offers a full breakfast, lunch, brunch and full-service deli counter. Real New York water bagels, bread baked on site and desserts.

CM. B & L, daily. 9850 San Jose Blvd. 683-8346. $ MAMA FU’S ASIAN HOUSE MSG-free pan-Asian cuisine prepared to order in woks using fresh ingredients. Authentic Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Thai dishes. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 11105 San Jose Blvd. 260-1727. $$

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MANDARIN ALE HOUSE A laid-back atmosphere with 30-plus beers on tap. FB. L & D, daily. 11112 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 19.

292-0003. $$ NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Organic supermarket with full deli and salad bar serving wraps, quesadillas, chopped salads, vegetarian dishes. Fresh juice and smoothie bar. Indoor and outdoor seating. Mon.-Sat. 10000 San Jose Blvd. 260-6950. $ WHOLE FOODS MARKET F 100+ prepared items at a fullservice and self-service hot bar, soup bar, dessert bar. Madeto-order Italian specialties from a brick oven pizza hearth. L & D, daily. 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 22. 288-1100. $$

ORANGE PARK

GATOR’S DOCKSIDE F For 18-plus years, the sports-themed family restaurant has served wings, ribs, entrees, sandwiches.

FB. L & D, daily. 9680 Argyle Forest Blvd. 425-6466. $$ THE HILLTOP CLUB She-crab soup, scallops, prime beef, wagyu beef, chicken Florentine, stuffed grouper. Chef Nick’s salmon is a favorite. FB. D, Tue.-Sat. 2030 Wells Rd. 2725959. $$ JOEY MOZARELLAS This Italian restaurant’s specialty is the 24-slice pizza: 18”x26” of fresh ingredients and sauces made daily. CM, TO. L & D, daily. 930 Blanding Blvd. 579-4748. $$ POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA F Pizzas are baked in coal-fired ovens. Popular pizzas include Health Choice and Mozzarella. Coal-fired sandwiches and wings, too. BW. L & D, daily. 2134 Park Ave. 264-6116. $$ THE ROADHOUSE F Burgers, wings, deli sandwiches, popular lunches. FB. L & D, daily. 231 Blanding Blvd. 2640611. $ THAI GARDEN F Traditional Thai cuisine made with fresh ingredients, served in a relaxed atmosphere. Curry dishes and specialty selections with authentic Thai flavors. BW. L, Mon.Fri.; D, nightly. 10 Blanding Blvd., Ste. A. 272-8434. $$

PONTE VEDRA, NE ST. JOHNS

AL’S PIZZA F Homemade breads, pizza, white pizza, calzones and Italian entrees. Voted Best Pizza in Jax by Folio Weekly readers from 1996-2010. BW. L & D, daily. 635 A1A. 543-1494. $ AQUA GRILL Upscale cuisine offers fresh seafood, Angus steaks, Maine lobster and vegetarian dishes. Outdoor patio seating. FB. L, Mon.-Sat.; D, nightly. 950 Sawgrass Village Dr. 285-3017. $$$ BRUCCI’S PIZZA F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas, paninis, desserts. Family atmosphere. CM. L & D, daily.

880 A1A, Ste. 8. 280-7677. $$ CAFFE ANDIAMO Traditional Italian cuisine features fresh seafood, veal, homemade pastas and wood-fired pizza prepared in a copper clad oven. An extensive wine list is offered in a cosmopolitan atmosphere. Dine indoors or Out on the terrace. L & D, daily. 500 Sawgrass Village.

280-2299. $$$ KARMA This homey place offers favorites from here and abroad, including burgers, wings, pastas, salads and apps, prepared with fresh, local ingredients.

Outdoor dining is available. Brunch menu on Sat. & Sun. CM, FB. L, Sat. & Sun.; D, daily. 822 A1A N., Ste. 105.

834-3942. $$ LULU’S WATERFRONT GRILLE F On the Intracoastal Waterway, LuLu’s can be reached by car or by boat. Seafood, steaks and pasta dishes with a sophisticated flair. FB. L & D, daily; Sun. brunch. 301 N. Roscoe Blvd. 285-0139. $$ NINETEEN AT TPC SAWGRASS In Sawgrass’ Tournament Players Club, Nineteen features more than 230 wines and freshly prepared American and Continental cuisine, including local seafood, served inside or al fresco on the verandah. L & D, daily. 110 Championship Way. 273-3235. $$$ PUSSER’S BAR & GRILLE F Freshly prepared Caribbean cuisine, including red snapper Ponte Vedra Jamaican grilled pork ribs and barbecued salmon tower. Tropical rum drinks feature Pusser’s Painkiller. FB. L & D, daily. 816 A1A N., Ste. 100. 280-7766. L, $$; D, $$ RESTAURANT MEDURE Chef Matthew Medure offers his eclectic cuisine featuring local and imported seafood with Southern and Asian influences. F/B. D, Mon.-Sat. 818 A1A N. 543-3797. $$$ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE Best of Jax 2010 winner. See San Marco. 8141 A1A. 285-0014. $$$$ SIMPLE FAIRE F Simple Faire offers breakfast and lunch favorites, featuring Boar’s Head meats and cheeses served on fresh bread. Daily specials. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 3020 Hartley Rd., Ste. 110. 683-2542. $$ 619 OCEAN VIEW Dining with a Mediterranean touch, featuring fresh seafood, steaks and nightly specials. FB, CM. D, Wed.-Sun. 619 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Cabana Beach Club.

285-6198. $$$ URBAN FLATS Ancient world-style flatbread is paired with fresh regional and seasonal ingredients in wraps, flatwiches and entrées, served in a casual, urban atmosphere. An international wine list is offered. FB. L & D, daily. 330 A1A N. 280-5515. $$

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Wine, live music, tapas, draft beers and cigars are on tap in the relaxed atmosphere of The Wine Bar, on North First Street in Jacksonville Beach.

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE AJ’S ON PARK STREET AJ’s is a casual barbecue spot serving smoked St. Louis-style ribs, pulled pork, smoked brisket, seafood and dishes made with a Latin touch. L & D, Mon.-Fri. 630 Park St. 598-0188. $$ AL’S PIZZA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Beaches. 1620 Margaret St. 388-8384. $ BAKERY MODERNE F The neighborhood bakery offers classic pastries, artisanal breads, seasonal favorites, all made from scratch, including the popular petit fours and custom cakes. B & L, daily. 869 Stockton St., Ste. 6, Riverside. 389-7117. $ COOL MOOSE F Classic sandwiches, eclectic wraps and desserts. An extensive gourmet coffee menu with Green Mountain coffees and frozen coffee drinks. B & L, daily.

Brunch, Sun. 2708 Park St. 381-4242. $ CROSS CREEK F See Springfield. 850 S. Lane Ave. 783-9579. $$ EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ F See San Marco. 2753 Park St. 384-9999. $ GATOR’S DOCKSIDE F See Orange Park. 6677 103rd St., Westside, 777-6135. $$ GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET F A deli, organic and natural grocery, and juice & smoothie bar offers teas, coffees, gourmet cheeses; natural, organic and raw items.

Grab-and-go sandwiches, salads and sides. Craft beers, organic wines. B, L & D, Mon.-Sat.; L, Sun. 2007 Park St. 384-4474. $ HJ’S BAR & GRILL F This grill serves traditional American fare: burgers, sandwiches, wraps and platters of ribs, shrimp and fish. CM, FB. L & D, Sat. & Sun., D, Mon.-Fri. 8540 Argyle Forest Blvd., Ste. 1. 317-2783. $$ HOVAN MEDITERRANEAN GOURMET F Dine inside or on the patio. Mediterranean entrées include lamb, and beef gyros. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 2005-1 Park St. 381-9394. $ JACKSONS GRILL Locally owned spot has an original menu of fried pickle chips, Rockin’ Ranch burgers, gumbo, sandwiches. BW, TO. B, L & D, daily. 1522 King St. 384-8984. $$ JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILL F A Riverside tradition, serving 60+ fresh deli and grill items, including hot sandwiches. L, Mon.-Fri. 474 Riverside Ave. 356-8055. $ MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Smoked meats include wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey and ribs. Homemade-style sides include green beans, baked beans, red cole slaw, collards. BW, CM. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4838 Highway Ave., 3895551. $$ MOON RIVER PIZZA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Amelia Island. 1176 Edgewood Ave. S. 389-4442. $ MOSSFIRE GRILL F Southwestern menu with ahi tuna tacos, goat cheese enchiladas and gouda quesadillas. Dine inside or on the patio. FB. L & D, daily. 1537 Margaret St. 355-4434. $$ O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB F Innovative Irish fare and traditional faves are offered, like lambburger with Stilton crust, Guinness mac & cheese, Shepherd’s pie and fish-n-chips — plus 18 beers on tap. L, daily except Mon.; D, daily. CM, FB. 1521 Margaret St. 854-9300. $$ PERARD’S PIZZA & ITALIAN CUISINE F Traditional Italian fare is prepared with fresh sauces and dough made from scratch daily, along with a large selection of gourmet pizza toppings. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 11043 Crystal Springs Rd., Ste. 2. 378-8131. $ PERFECT RACK BILLIARDS F Upscale billiards hall has burgers, steak, deli sandwiches, wings. Family-friendly, non-smoking. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 1186 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill. 738-7645. $ PIZZA PALACE ON THE PARK F See San Marco. Outdoor seating. 920 Margaret St., 5 Points. 598-1212. $$ SAKE HOUSE F Japanese grill and sushi bar features sushi,

sashimi, katsu, tempura, hibachi and specialty rolls. CM, BW, sake. L & D, daily. 824 Lomax St. 301-1188. $$ SUMO SUSHI Authentic Japanese fare, traditional to entrees and sushi rolls, spicy sashimi salad, gyoza (pork dumpling), tobiko (flying fish roe), Rainbow roll (tuna, salmon, yellowtail, Calif. roll). BW, CM. L & D, daily. 2726 Park St. 388-8838. $$ SUSHI CAFÉ F Authentic Japanese cuisine with a variety of sushi plus entrees like king salmon, katsu and teriyaki. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 2025 Riverside Ave. 384-2888. $$ TWO DOORS DOWN F Former Tad’s owner offers traditional faves: hotcakes, omelets, burgers, pork chops, liver & onions, fried chicken, sides and desserts. CM, TO. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 436 Park St. 598-0032. $ WALKERS This nightspot has a tapas menu plus a wide variety of wines, served in a rustic, intimate atmosphere. BW. Tue.-Sat. 2692 Post St. 894-7465. $ WASABI JAPANESE BUFFET F AYCE buffet. Sushi bar, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, tempura, steak, seafood. BW. L & D, daily. 1014 Margaret St., Ste. 1, 5 Points.

301-1199. $$

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A1A ALE WORKS F The city’s only brew pub taps seven hand-crafted ales and lagers. A1A specializes in innovative New World cuisine. FB. L & D, daily. 1 King St. 829-2977. $$ AMICI ITALIAN RESTAURANT F A family-owned-andoperated Italian restaurant offers traditional pasta, veal, steak and seafood dishes. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 1915B A1A S., St. Augustine Beach. 461-0102. $$ ANN O’MALLEY’S F Fresh handmade sandwiches, soups, salads and perfectly poured Guinness. Favorites include Reubens and chicken salad. CM, BW, Irish beers on tap. L & D, daily. 23 Orange St. 825-4040. $$ BEACH STREET PIZZA New York and Chicago style pizzas, calzones and homemade pasta dishes, all made from fresh ingredients., served in a beach-theme atmosphere. CM. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 4171 A1A S. 461-0910. $$ BORRILLO’S PIZZA & SUBS F Specialty pizzas are Borrillo’s Supreme (extra cheese, pepperoni, sausage), white and vegetarian pizzas. Subs and pasta dinners. L & D, daily. 88 San Marco Ave. 829-1133. $ CAFÉ ELEVEN F Eclectic cuisine like feta spinach egg croissant, apple turkey sandwich, pear-berry salad. Daily chef creations. BW. B, L & D, daily. 501 A1A Beach Blvd. 460-9311.

B, $; L & D, $$ CARMELO’S PIZZERIA F Authentic New York style brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh baked sub rolls, Boars Head meats and cheeses, fresh salads, calzones, strombolis and sliced pizza specials. BW. L & D, daily. 146 King St. 494-6658. $$ THE FLORIDIAN The downtown restaurant serves innovative Southern fare, made with local farmers’ local food. Signature items: fried green tomato bruschetta, ’N’grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. L & D, Wed.-Mon. 39 Cordova St. 829-0655. $$ GYPSY CAB COMPANY F Best of Jax 2010 winner.

International menu features large portions, reasonable prices.

FB. L & D, daily. 828 Anastasia Blvd. 824-8244. $$ HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILLE F In a historic, two-story house, the New Orleans-style eatery has fresh seafood, steaks, jambalaya, etouffée and shrimp. FB. L & D, daily. 46 Avenida Menendez. 824-7765. $$ HURRICANE PATTY’S F Casual waterfront seafood place features lunch specials, nightly dinners. Dine inside or on the deck. L & D, daily. 69 Lewis Blvd. 827-1822. $$ KINGS HEAD BRITISH PUB F Authentic Brit pub serves fish & chips, Cornish pastie and steak & kidney pie. Tap beers are Guinness, Newcastle and Bass. BW. L & D, Wed.-Sun. 6460 U.S. 1 (4 miles N. of St. Augustine Airport.)

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THE MANATEE CAFÉ F Serving healthful cuisine using organically grown fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes.

B & L, daily. 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 106, Westgate Plaza.

826-0210. $ MANGO MANGO’S BEACHSIDE BAR & GRILL Caribbean kitchen has comfort food with a tropical twist: coconut shrimp and fried plantains. BW, CM. Outdoor dining. 700 A1A Beach Blvd., (A Street access) St. Augustine Beach.

461-1077. $$ MILL TOP TAVERN F A St. Auggie institution housed in an 1884 building, serving nachos, soups, sandwiches and daily specials. Dine inside or on open-air decks. At the big mill wheel. FB. L & D, daily. 19 1/2 St. George St. 829-2329. $$ OASIS RESTAURANT & DECK F Just 1 block from the ocean, with a tropical atmosphere and open-air deck.

Steamed oysters, crab legs, burgers. CM, FB. B, L & D, daily. 4000 A1A & Ocean Trace Rd., St. Augustine Beach.

471-3424. $ PURPLE OLIVE INTERNATIONAL BISTRO F Familyowned-and-operated, offering specials, fresh artisan breads. Soups, salad dressings and desserts made from scratch. BW. D, Tue.-Sat. 4255 A1A S., Ste. 6, St. Augustine Beach. 461-1250. $$ RAINTREE The restaurant, in a Victorian home, offers a menu with contemporary and traditional international influences.

Extensive wine list. FB. D, daily. 102 San Marco Ave. 824-7211. $$$ SCARLETT O’HARA’S Best of Jax 2010 winner. Serving Southern fare, barbecue and seafood. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 70 Hypolita St. 824-6535. $$ SUNSET GRILLE Casual Key West style and a seafood-heavy menu — it’s a consistent Great Chowder Debate winner.

Specialties include baby back ribs, lobster ravioli, coconut shrimp and datil pepper wings with bleu cheese dressing. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 421 A1A Beach Blvd. 471-5555. $$$ ZHANRAS F Art-themed tapas-style place has small plate items in a casual, contemporary space. Entrée portions available. CM, FB. D, daily; Sun. brunch. 108 Anastasia Blvd.

823-3367. $$

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER, TINSELTOWN BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE With four dining rooms, BlackFinn offers classic American fare: beef, seafood, pasta, chicken and flatbread sandwiches. Dine indoors or on the patio. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 4840 Big Island Dr. 345-3466. $$ FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Best of Jax 2010 winner.

13249 City Square Dr. 751-9711. 9039 Southside Blvd., 538-9100. 4413 Town Center Pkwy., Ste. 401. 996-6900. fiveguys.com $ THE GRAPE BISTRO & WINE BAR F More than 145 wines, along with a tapas menu of gourmet fare to pair with the wine list. A wide selection of beer is also served. L & D, daily. 10281 Midtown Parkway, Ste. 119. 642-7111. $$ ISLAND GIRL WINE & CIGAR BAR F Upscale tropical vibe.

Walk-in humidor, pairing apps and desserts with 25 wines, ports by the glass. 220+ wines by the bottle; draft, bottled beer. L & D, daily. 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115. 854-6060. $$ JOHNNY ANGELS F The menu reflects its ’50s-style décor, including Blueberry Hill pancakes, Fats Domino omelet, Elvis special combo platter. Shakes, malts. B, L & D, daily. 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 120. 997-9850. $ LIBRETTO’S PIZZERIA & ITALIAN KITCHEN F Authentic NYC pizzeria brings Big Apple crust, cheese and sauce to Jax. Libretto’s serves third-generation family-style Italian classics, fresh-from-the-oven calzones, and desserts in a casual, comfy setting. L & D, daily. 4880 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1. 402-8888. $$ LIME LEAF F Authentic Thai cuisine: fresh papaya salad, pad Thai, mango sweet rice. BW. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, Mon.-Sat. 9822 Tapestry Park Cir., Stes. 108 & 109. 645-8568. $$ MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Tossed spring water dough, lean meats, veggies and vegetarian choices make up specialty pizzas, hoagies and calzones. FB. L & D, daily. 9734 Deer Lake Court (at Tinseltown). 997-1955. $ mellowmushroom.com MITCHELL’S FISH MARKET F Featuring seafood, an ever-changing menu of more than 180 items includes cedarroasted Atlantic salmon and seared salt-and-pepper tuna.

FB, CM. L & D, daily. 5205 Big Island Dr., St. Johns Town Ctr. 645-3474. $$$ THE ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE The recipes, unique to the Pancake House, call for only the freshest ingredients. CM. B, L & D, daily. 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr. 997-6088. $$ OTAKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE F Family-owned steakhouse has an open sushi bar, hibachi grill tables and an open kitchen. Dine indoor or out. FB, CM, TO. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, nightly. 7860 Gate Parkway, Stes. 119-122. 854-0485. $$$ POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA F See Orange Park. 7860 Gate Parkway. 253-3314. $$ RENNA’S PIZZA F Renna’s serves up New York-style pizza, calzones, subs and lasagna made from authentic Italian

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recipes. Delivery, CM, BW. 4624 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 125, St. Johns Town Center. 565-1299. rennaspizza.com $$ SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY F Innovative menu of fresh local grilled seafood, sesame tuna, grouper Oscar, chicken, steak and pizza. Microbrewed ales and lagers. FB. L & D, daily. 9735 Gate Pkwy. N. 997-1999. $$ SOUTHSIDE ALE HOUSE F Steaks, fresh seafood, sandwiches and desserts. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 9711 Deer Lake Court. 565-2882. $$ SUITE This new premium lounge and restaurant at St. Johns Town Center offers chef-driven small plates and an extensive list of specialty cocktails, served in a sophisticated atmosphere. FB. D & late-nite, nightly. 4880 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1. 493-9305. $$ URBAN FLATS See Ponte Vedra. CM. FB. L & D, daily. 9726 Touchton Road. 642-1488. $$ WASABI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Authentic Japanese cuisine, teppanyaki shows and a full sushi menu. CM. L & D, daily. 10206 River Coast Dr. 997-6528. $$ WHISKY RIVER Best of Jax 2010 winner. At St. Johns Town Center’s Plaza, Whisky River features wings, pizza, wraps, sandwiches and burgers served in a lively car racing-themed atmosphere (Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s the owner). FB. CM. L & D, daily. 4850 Big Island Drive.

645-5571. $$ WILD WING CAFÉ F Serving up 33 flavors of wings, as well as soups, sandwiches, wraps, ribs, platters and burgers. FB. 4555 Southside Blvd. 998-WING (9464). $$ YUMMY SUSHI F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Teriyaki, tempura, hibachi-style dinners, sushi & sashimi. Sushi lunch roll special. BW, sake. L & D, daily. 4372 Southside Blvd. 998-8806. $$

SAN JOSE

ATHENS CAFÉ F Serving authentic Greek cuisine: lamb, seafood, veal and pasta dishes. BW. L & D, daily. 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7. 733-1199. $$ CRUISERS GRILL F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Burgers, sandwiches, nachos, quesadillas and cheese fries. 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1. 737-BURG. $ DICK’S WINGS F Best of Jax 2010 winner. This NASCARthemed family style sports place serves wings, buffalo tenders, burgers and chicken sandwiches. CM. BW. L & D, daily. 1610 University Blvd. W. 448-2110. dickswingsandgrill.com $ MOJO BAR-B-QUE F Best of Jax 2010 winner. The Southern Blues kitchen serves pulled pork, brisket and North Carolina-style barbecue. TO, BW. L & D, daily. 1607 University Blvd. W. 732-7200. $$

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

b.b.’s F A bistro menu is served in an upscale atmosphere, featuring almond-crusted calamari, tuna tartare and wild mushroom pizza. FB. L & D, Mon.-Fri.; brunch & D, Sat. 1019 Hendricks Ave. 306-0100. $$$ BISTRO AIX F Best of Jax 2010 winner. French, Mediterranean-inspired fare, award-winning wines, woodfired pizzas, house-made pastas, steaks, seafood. Indoor, outdoor dining. FB. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, nightly. 1440 San Marco Blvd. 398-1949. $$$ BISTRO 41 F Omelets, sandwiches, burgers, wraps, Metro Creations and Bistro Bites. Low carb dishes. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 3563 Philips Hwy., Ste. 104. 446-9738. $$ CHECKER BBQ & SEAFOOD F Chef Art Jennette serves barbecue, seafood and comfort food, including pulled-pork, fried white shrimp and fried green tomatoes. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 3566 St. Augustine Rd. 398-9206. $ EUROPEAN STREET F Big sandwiches, soups, desserts and more than 100 bottled and on-tap beers. BW. L & D, daily.

1704 San Marco Blvd. 398-9500. $ THE GROTTO F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Wine by the glass. Tapas-style menu offers a cheese plate, empanadas bruschetta, chocolate fondue. BW. 2012 San Marco Blvd.

398-0726. $$ HAVANA-JAX CAFÉ/CUBA LIBRE BAR LOUNGE F Authentic Latin American fine dining: picadillo, ropa vieja, churrasco tenderloin steak, Cuban sandwiches. L & D, Mon.-Sat. CM, FB. 2578 Atlantic Blvd. 399-0609. $ KIRIN SUSHI F On San Marco Square. All-new sushi menu.

Dine under neon in a cool atmosphere. CM, BW. L & D, daily.

1950 San Marco Blvd., Ste. 1. 399-3305. $$.

LAYLA’S OF SAN MARCO Fine dining in the heart of San Marco. Traditional Middle Eastern cuisine, served inside or outside on the hookah and cigar patio. BW. L & D, Mon.Sat.; D, Sun. 2016 Hendricks Ave. 398-4610. $$ MATTHEW’S Chef’s tasting menu or seasonal à la carte menu featuring an eclectic mix of Mediterranean ingredients. Dress is business casual, jackets optional. FB. D, Mon.-Sat. 2107 Hendricks Ave. 396-9922. $$$$ METRO DINER F Best of Jax 2010 winner. Historic 1930s diner offers award-winning breakfast and lunch. Fresh

seafood and Southern cooking. Bring your own wine. B & L, daily. 3302 Hendricks Ave. 398-3701. $$ PIZZA PALACE F It’s all homemade from Mama’s awardwinning recipes: spinach pizza and chicken-spinach calzones.

BW. L & D, daily. 1959 San Marco Blvd. 399-8815. $$ PULP F The juice bar offers fresh juices, froyo (frozen yogurt), teas, coffees made one cup at a time, along with 30 kinds of smoothies. B, L & D, daily. 1962 San Marco Blvd. 396-9222. $ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE A Best of Jax 2010 winner.

Midwestern prime beef, fresh seafood in an upscale atmosphere. FB. D, daily. 1201 Riverplace Blvd.

396-6200. $$$$ SAKE HOUSE See Riverside. 1478 Riverplace Blvd. 306-2188. $$ SAN MARCO DELI F The independently owned & operated classic diner serves grilled fish, turkey burgers and lunch meats roasted daily in-house. Vegetarian options, including tempeh, too. Mon.-Sat. 1965 San Marco Blvd. 399-1306. $ TAVERNA Tapas, small-plate items, Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas and entrées served in a rustic yet upscale interior. BW, TO. L & D, Tue.-Sat. 1986 San Marco Blvd. 398-3005. $$$

SOUTHSIDE

BISTRO 41° F Casual dining features fresh, homemade breakfast and lunch dishes in a relaxing atmosphere. TO. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 3563 Philips Hwy., Ste. 104. 446-9738. $ BLUE BAMBOO Contemporary Asian-inspired cuisine includes rice-flour calamari, seared Ahi tuna, pad Thai. Street eats: barbecue duck, wonton crisps. BW. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, Mon.-Sat. 3820 Southside Blvd. 646-1478. $$ BUCO DI BEPPO Italian dishes served family-style in an eclectic, vintage setting. Half-pound meatballs are a specialty. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 10334 Southside Blvd.

363-9090. $$$ THE CORNER BISTRO & WINE BAR F Casual fine dining.

The menu blends modern American favorites served with international flair. The Fresh Bar offers fine wine, cocktails, martinis. FB. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 9823 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 1. 619-1931. $$$ EL POTRO F Family-friendly, casual, El Potro cooks it fresh, made-to-order — fast, hot, simple. Daily specials and buffet at most locations. BW. L & D, daily. 5871 University Blvd. W., 733-0844. 11380 Beach Blvd., 564-9977. elpotrorestaurant.com $ EUROPEAN STREET F See San Marco. 5500 Beach Blvd.

398-1717. $ HALA CAFE & BAKERY F A local institution since 1975 serves house-baked pita bread, kabobs, falafel and daily lunch buffet. Best of Jax 2010 winner. TO, BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4323 University Blvd. S. 733-5141. $$ LA NOPALERA F Best of Jax 2010 winner. See Intracoastal.

8206 Philips Hwy. 732-9433. $ LA STRADA ITALIA Nestled in a quiet corner of Bowden Road, La Strada Italia offers a pleasant ambience, a full menu of traditional Italian dishes, and affordability. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 6426 Bowden Rd., Ste. 202. 524-8219.$$ SPECKLED HEN TAVERN & GRILLE Stylish yet simple gastropub features Southern-style cuisine made with

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a modern twist: Dishes are paired with international wines and beers, including a large selection of craft and IPA brews. FB. L & D, daily. 9475 Philips Hwy., Ste. 16.

538-0811. $$ SUNSET 30 TAVERN & GRILL Located inside the new entertainment complex Latitude 30, Sunset 30 serves familiar sportsbar fare, including burgers, chicken, pasta and pizza.

FB. L & D, daily. 10370 Philips Hwy. 365-5555. $$ TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA F Premium New York-style pizza from a brick-oven — the area’s original gluten-free pizzeria. Plus calzones, soups and salads; Thumann’s no-MSG meats, Grande cheeses, Boylan soda. BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2. 565-1999. $$ WASABI JAPANESE BUFFET F Best of Jax 2010 winner.

AYCE sushi and two teppanyaki grill items are included in buffet price. FB. L & D, daily. 9041 So uthside Blvd., Ste. 138C. 363-9888. $$

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BOSTON’S RESTAURANT & SPORTSBAR F A full menu of sportsbar faves; pizzas till 2 a.m. Dine inside or on the patio. FB, TO. L & D, daily. 13070 City Station Dr., River City Marketplace. 751-7499. $$ CASA MARIA F The family-owned restaurant serves authentic Mexican fare, including fajitas and seafood. The specialty is tacos de azada. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104. 757-6411. $$ JAX RIVER CITY CAFÉ Traditional breakfast fare includes omelets, sandwiches. Lunch features subs, burgers, sandwiches, grilled paninis, daily hot specials.

Dine-in, carryout. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 4807 N. Main St. 355-9111. $ JOSEPH’S PIZZA & ITALIAN RESTAURANT F Gourmet pizzas, pastas. Authentic Italian entrees like eggplant parmigiana, shrimp scampi. BW. L & D, daily. 7316 N. Main St. 765-0335. $$ MILLHOUSE STEAKHOUSE F A locally-owned-and-operated steakhouse with choice steaks from the signature broiler, and seafood, pasta, Millhouse gorgonzola, homemade desserts.

CM, FB. D, nightly. 1341 Airport Rd. 741-8722. $$ SALSARITA’S FRESH CANTINA F Southwest cuisine made from scratch, served in a family atmosphere. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 840 Nautica Dr., Ste. 131, River City Marketplace.

696-4001. $ SHARKY’S WINGS & GRILL A family-friendly restaurant with apps, burgers, subs & shrimp, plus 16 flavors of wings — get ’em in orders of 6-100. L & D, daily. 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., Oceanway. 714-0995. $$ THREE LAYERS CAFE F Lunch, bagels, desserts, and the adjacent Cellar serves fine wines. Inside and courtyard dining. BW. B, L & D, daily. 1602 Walnut St., Springfield.

355-9791. $ 3 LIONS SPORTS PUB & GRILL F This modern restaurant’s menu features popular favorites: salads, sandwiches and pizza, as well as fine European cuisine. Nightly specials. 2467 Faye Rd., Northside. 647-8625. $$ UPTOWN MARKET F In the 1300 Building at the corner of Third & Main. Fresh fare made with the same élan that rules Burrito Gallery. Innovative breakfast, lunch and deli selections.

BW, TO. 1303 Main St. N. 355-0734. $$

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WINE LISTINGS ANJO LIQUORS 5-8 p.m. every Thur.

9928 Old Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-2656 AROMAS CIGAR & WINE BAR Best of Jax 2010 winner.

Call for schedule. 4372 Southside Blvd., 928-0515 BLUE BAMBOO 5:30-7:30 p.m., every first Thur.

3820 Southside Blvd., 646-1478 CIRCLE JAPAN “Sake 101” 5-8 p.m. every Fri. 12192 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, Southside, 710-5193 THE GIFTED CORK Tastings daily. 64 Hypolita St., St. Augustine, 810-1083 THE GRAPE 5-7:30 p.m. every Wed.; 1-4 p.m. every Sat. 10281 Midtown Pkwy., Ste. 119, SJTC, 642-7111 THE GROTTO 6-8 p.m. every Thur.

2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726 MONKEY’S UNCLE LIQUORS 5-8 p.m. every Fri. 1850 S. Third St., Jax Beach, 246-1070 NORTH BEACH BISTRO 6-8 p.m. every Tue. 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 OCEAN 60 6-8 p.m every Mon. 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 PUSSERS CARIBBEAN GRILL 6 p.m., every second Fri. 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-7766

RIVERSIDE LIQUORS 5-8 p.m. every Fri. 1035 Park St., Five Points, 356-4517 THE TASTING ROOM 6-8 p.m. every first Tue. 25 Cuna St., St. Augustine, 810-2400 TASTE OF WINE Daily. 363 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 9, Atlantic Beach, 246-5080 TOTAL WINE & MORE Noon-6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. 4413 Town Center Pkwy., Ste. 300, 998-1740 URBAN FLATS 5-8 p.m. every Wed. 330 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-5515 WHOLE FOODS MARKET 6 p.m. every Thur.

10601 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 288-1100 THE WINE BAR 6-8 p.m. every Thur.

320 First St. N., Jax Beach, 372-0211 WINE WAREHOUSE 4-7 p.m. every Fri. 665 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 246-6450 4434 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 448-6782 1188 Edgewood Ave. S., Riverside, 389-9997 4085 A1A S., St. Augustine Beach, 471-9900 ZAITOON MEDITERRANEAN GRILL 6-8 p.m., every first & third Wed. 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, Intracoastal W., 221-7066

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New York University arts professor Wafaa Bilal had his camera surgically removed in February — the one implanted in November in the back of his skull to record, at 60-second intervals, the places he’d left behind (beamed to and archived by a museum in Qatar). The camera had been mounted under his skin, braced by three titanium posts, but his body painfully rejected one post. His temporary solution? To merely tie the camera to the back of his neck (even though that work-around is unsatisfactory to him, as it represents a less-personal “commitment” to the art). In the future, he said, communication devices like his will routinely be part of our bodies.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Till Krautkraemer’s New York City beverage company MeatWater creates dozens of flavors of water for the upscale market of hearty gourmets who’d like their daily salads, shellfish or goulash from a bottle instead of a plate. Among new flavors introduced in January, according to an AOL News report, were poached salmon salad water and a Caribbean shrimp salad water that doubles as a vodka mixer. Old favs include Peking duck water, tandoori chicken water, bangers ‘n’ mash water and Krautkraemer’s favorite, German sauerbraten water.

Sell What You Know: In December, a company in eastern Ukraine (a country known for hard drinking) announced a “drinking buddy” service in which, for about $18, it supplies a barroom companion for a night, “qualified” to discuss politics, sports, women, etc., and even to offer psychological counseling if appropriate.

Not Your Father’s Scotch: Panamanian company Scottish Spirits recently introduced a straight Scotch whisky in 12-ounce cans, for those mobile drinkers who prefer not to invest in a whole bottle. The international Scotch whisky trade association expressed alarm.

At Clive’s, in Victoria, British Columbia, Glenfiddich Scotch whisky is only one ingredient in the signature cocktail “Cold Night In,” which, according to a January New York Times review, combines “molecular mixology” and comfort food. A buttery grilled-cheese sandwich is soaked overnight in the Scotch, along with Mt. Gay rum and Lillet Blanc wine. Following a brief freeze to congeal any remaining fat, and double-straining, it’s ready to serve — with a celery stick and other garnishes.

Science on the Cutting Edge

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“You’re not going to like this,” warned NPR’s Robert Krulwich, about to deliver a February story about visionary robotics developers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, who created a carnivorous clock, supposedly able to power itself for 12 days merely on the carcasses of 12 dead houseflies (which the clock traps with flypaper, then mechanically razors in half).

The pair also showed a prototype of a coffee table that catches mice by luring them with cheese, up table legs into a hole in the center, where they’re guillotined. Auger and Loizeau said their creations are just extensions of TV nature programs showing animals hunting in the wild, but Krulwich fretted about dangers inherent in “giving robots a taste for meat.”

Scientists have long observed male capuchin monkeys urinating on their hands,

then rubbing their bodies, but researchers weren’t sure why (whether for identification, threat-prevention or mating) until a recent issue of the American Journal of Primatology.

Dr. Kimberly Phillips and colleagues found the practice helps clarify mating priorities, in that, first, males rub down right after being solicited by females in heat, and second, based on MRI scans of capuchins’ brains, female mating activity is triggered only by adults’ urine.

The Continuing Crisis

In May 2008, classroom disrupter Alex Barton, 5, was finally made by his teacher at Morningside Elementary kindergarten in St. Lucie County, Fla., to sit down and listen to the accumulated complaints of his classmates, who then were asked to vote on asking Alex to leave the class. (He lost, 142.) Shortly after, Alex was diagnosed with a form of autism, and his mother filed a federal disability discrimination lawsuit, citing Alex’s “humiliation” by the voting incident.

A settlement was reached in February 2011 when the school district agreed to pay Alex $350,000, which included legal expenses. Said Ms. Barton, “Money can’t take care of what the school district did to my family.”

Fine Points of the Law

Lawyer Terry Watkins admitted to a judge in Faribault, Minn., in February that his client William Melchert-Dinkel did things that were “abhorrent,” “sick” and “creepy,” but that doesn’t make him a criminal. MelchertDinkel was charged with two felonies for counseling depressed people online, on the techniques and virtues of suicide (for example, recommending positioning for a noose to a Briton who hanged himself three days later). A judge’s decision was pending at press time.

People With Issues

Mental health practitioners, writing in January’s Substance Abuse journal, described two patients who’d recently gone to a clinic in Ranchi, India, after letting themselves be bitten by cobras, for recreational highs.

Both men had decades-long substance-abuse issues, especially involving opiates, and decided to try what they’d heard about on the street. One, age 44, bitten on the foot, experienced “a blackout associated with a sense of well-being, lethargy and sleepiness.”

The other, 52, reported “dizziness and blurred vision followed by a heightened arousal and a sense of well-being,” and apparently was so impressed, he returned to the snake charmer two weeks later for another bite.

Least Competent Criminals

Recurring Theme: Another “negative cashflow” robbery occurred in February, in Kansas City, Mo., when an unidentified man tried to distract a gun store clerk by laying $40 on the counter to buy a box of bullets, then pulling a gun and demanding all the store’s money. The clerk thwarted the robbery by pulling his own gun (not surprisingly, since it was a gun store) and scaring the robber off — while the $40 stayed on the counter.

Chuck Shepherd WeirdNews@earthlink.net

BLUE-EYES KISSIMMEE CUTIE You ate truffles until your tummy bothered you; then managed to balance jackand-coke in one hand, an iPhone in the other, and your unfashionable-yet-environmentally-conscious shoes on the 7th floor balcony railing; and followed that by getting a brutal headache from drinking too fast a too-frozen foo-foo drink concoction on the bow of a boat. What’s not to love? When: March 4, 2011. Where: Kissimmee/Jacksonville. #1086-0315 SEXY BLUE-EYED MAN I’m always so happy to see you. You know how I feel, give it a chance, you might be surprised.

When: Regularly. Where: Beaches. #1085-0315 JEWELRY GIRL AT ARTWALK Saw you running a small jewelry booth at March Artwalk. You: Short, cute black-frame glasses, brunette, holding a small dog. Me: Green short-billed ball cap, plaid shirt, backpack. See you next Art Walk? When: March 2, 2011. Where: March Art Walk. #1084-0315 CARD SHARK SEEKS QUEEN I see you almost every day as of late, at the single sailor center on base. Although I don’t play pool, we should definitely play spades or dominoes. You: cutest laugh, like to go running with that Army guy. Me: balding on top, cliché Naval mustache, usually go to bowling alley for chili dogs for lunch. When: Feb. 23, 2011. Where: Single Sailor Center. #1083-0308 I LIKE YOUR JACKET Saw you swagger on Adams Street with your big burly jacket and those masculine legs of yours beneath those tattered Abercrombie designed shorts. Your brunette silky hair was blowing in the wind and gave me a smile. Not sure which team you’re batting for. Let’s catch downtown wine together. When: Feb. 2, 2011. Where: Downtown. #1082-0308

because I accidentally jumped-kicked a guy into your car, but to be fair, you did slap me so hard I’m still feeling it today.

Listen, I got your car fixed and I just can’t stop thinking about you. Meet me at Coggin Collision. When: Feb. 1, 2011. Where: Top of parking garage downtown. #1073-0215 RED HAIRED FEMEEFETALE Watched you as you walk into your hotel, been catching secret glimpses of you while working we work our shifts. You-beautiful long red hair, slender tight body with a booty, amazing smile. Wish you would appear on my hospital floor to say hi. you can have my heart, your so amazing. Me-dorky hospital care worker. in the Transplant unit. Mayo Clinic. Big white pickup truck. When: Jan. 26, 2011. Where: Marriot Courtyard @ Mayo Clinic. #1072-0208 TALL SVELTE BLONDE RIVERSIDE SNOW HUNNY 3,300 feet high on a mountain in a Patagonia snowsuit with two layers of North Face gloves and you still looked hot. I thought cabin fever was a bad thing until seeing you bathe in the kitchen. You were perfect; but I’m sorry for the frozen lock, rustic staircase, chick coffee, and the TSA confiscating your moonshine. Let me make it up to you by taking you from the top of the mountains to the depths of the sea. When: Jan. 19, 2011. Where: Riverside/Gatlinburg. #1071-0208 PIGEON-TOED QUEEN You had on a black dress with black heels. You were at Square One with your girl who has the same first name as you. We danced, we kissed. It felt like the best night of my life. You mentioned that you are pigeon-toed … we laughed. I lost your number. When: Jan. 24, 2011. Where: Square One. #1070-0208

BLUE HEELS ON BROADWAY Saw u at Broadway Deli across from St. Lukes. YOU: brunette, white striped shirt, blue skirt, striking blue heels. ME: white shirt, gray slacks. Couldn’t take my eyes off you. Saw you grab a Folio Weekly, thought I’d take a chance. When: Lunchtime, Feb. 1, 2011. Where: Broadway Deli. #1069-0208 SEXY SAXIST SATURDAY NIGHT YOU: Your sultry lips creating magical notes and when you played the Jeopardy theme song, I knew it was meant to be. ME: Corner table, salt-and-pepper hair, smiling the entire time. I spend a lot of time at Kosmics, when will I see you again? When: Jan. 22, 2011. Where: Kosmic Bluz. #1068-0201 HEY YOU, IN WALGREEN’S Saturday Night, you in tight blue jeans and very hot. I in my Adidas training gear, and looking very virile. You kept looking and I knew we should have spoken. When: Jan. 22, 2011. Where: Walgreens. #1067-0201 SEXY SAILOR THAT STOLE MY HEART You: tall, dark and handsome Greek god. Me: short, awkward red head. Smiled at me as you left the bar chasing after your drunk girlfriend.

Call me, I’m into that scene. When: Jan. 21, 2011. Where: Marks. #1066-0201 THE ONE WHO GOT AWAY You-Man, Me-Woman. You were lost looking for your balls. You weren’t sure where you misplaced them. I gave you an idea on where to look but you were unable to reach. Maybe you should try an alternate route? :-) Not sure if you bat for my team or the other one but thought I’d take a chance ;). When: Jan. 2011. Where: Jacksonville. #1065-0201

YOU GOT A KING PENGUIN TATTOO You were on the stage at the Hyatt Hotel during a tattoo festival being judged on the new king penguin tattoo you had done on your side, such a different yet sweet idea. Me: Emo chick, blue hair, huge donkey, I saw you looking! I was your biggest cheerleader in the crowd hoping you would win so I could have an excuse to come talk to you and of course get a closer look. You should know that penguins have the same mate their whole lives, hit me up so I can add a couple eggs around those webbed feet!

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Where: Starbucks Riverside. #1080-0308 ORTEGA RIVER RUN RACE PACKET While walking toward St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School, you asked me where to pick up your Ortega River Run packet. I showed you, and when you had it you found me and thanked me. Me: Black shorts, ’10 Gate River Run shirt, talking with friend. You: Long brown hair, black shorts. I wish you hadn’t run away so quickly — would love to train with you sometime. When: Feb. 26, 2011. Where: Ortega River Run. #1079-0308

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FreeWill Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): Like Bob Dylan in his 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” you’ve done a lot of rough-and-tumble living lately. You’ve “stumbled on the side of 12 misty mountains.” You’ve “stepped in the middle of seven sad forests.” You’ve “been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.” Maybe most wrenching of all, you’ve “seen a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.” The good news is that the hard rain will end soon. In these last days of the downpour, trigger a catharsis for yourself. Consider doing something like Dylan did: “I’ll think it and speak it and breathe it / And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Mythologist Michael Meade says the essential nature of every human soul is gifted, noble and wounded. I agree. Cynics who exaggerate how messed-up we are, ignoring our beauty, are just as unrealistic as naïve optimists, but because they have a disproportionately potent influence on the zeitgeist, they make it harder to evaluate problems with a wise, balanced perspective. Many feel cursed by the apparent incurability of our wounds, while others, rebelling against the curse, underestimate how wounded they are. Mead says: “Those who think they are not wounded in ways that need conscious attention and careful healing are usually the most wounded of all.” Your task in the next few weeks: Make a realistic appraisal of your wounds.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield brashly bragged to Revolver magazine that he was proud his music was used to torture prisoners at the U.S. military’s detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. Make a more careful and measured assessment of the influences you put out in the world. It’s time to find out how closely your intentions match your actual impact — and to correct any discrepancies. How are people affected by vibes you exude, products you offer, words you utter and actions you undertake?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “In the absence of clearlydefined goals,” said Cancerian writer Robert Heinlein, “we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” If this description is even a partial match for the life you’re living, now’s an excellent time to address that. You have far more power than usual to identify and define worthy goals — shortterm and long-term. If you take advantage of this, you’ll find a better use for the energy currently locked up in your enslavement to daily trivia.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As I was mulling over your astrological omens, I found a short poem that aptly embodies the meaning of this moment for you. It’s by Richard Wright: “Coming from the woods / A bull has a lilac sprig / Dangling from a horn.” Here’s one way to interpret this symbolic scene: Primal power is emerging into a clearing from out of the deep darkness. It’s bringing with it a touch of lithe and blithe beauty — a happy accident.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You have one potential enemy in the weeks ahead: a manic longing for perfection. It’s OK to feel that longing as a mild ache. But if you allow it to grow into a burning obsession, you may undo yourself at every turn, even sabotage some of the good work you’ve done. My recommendation? Give yourself the luxury of welcoming partial success, limited results and useful mistakes. Paradoxically, cultivating that approach gives you the best chance at getting lots of things done. Here’s your motto for the week, courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When I was nine years old, one of my favorite jokes went like this: “What’s worse than 48 | FOLIO WEEKLY | MARCH 15-21, 2011

biting into an apple and finding a worm? Give up? Biting into an apple and finding half a worm!” According to my omen-reading, that’s a good piece of information to keep in mind now. If and when a serpent offers you an apple, I hope you’ll sink your teeth into it with cautious nibbles.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t bite, just proceed warily.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Usually we think of a garbage dump as a spot where we get rid of trash and outworn stuff we no longer need. It emits a stench that wafts a great distance, and it’s a not a place where you wear your finery. But there’s a dump in northern Idaho that diverges a bit from that description. It has the usual acres of rubbish, but features a bonus area the locals call “The Mall.” It’s where people dispose of junk that may not actually be junk. It’s of no use to them, but they realize others may find value in it. My friend Peter found a perfectly good chainsaw there that had a minor glitch he easily fixed. I suspect life may be like that dump for you in the week ahead: a wasteland with perks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, time “is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” I believe he meant that statement is true for us all. Luckily for you, though, you’ll soon get a temporary exemption. For a while, you’ll be more like the tiger than the one the tiger devours; you’ll have more in common with the fire than with the one consumed by the fire. In other words, you’ll have more power than usual to outwit the tyrannies of time. Are you ready to take advantage? You’re primed to claim more slack, wiggle room and permission.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): San Francisco band Smash-Up Derby approaches their music-making with a spirit that may be useful for you to emulate in the week ahead. Each of their songs is a blend of two famous tunes. Typically, the instrumentalists play a rock song while the singers do a pop hit with a similar chord progression. Imagine hearing the guitars, bass and drums play Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” while the lead vocalist croons Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.” The crucial part of the ongoing experiment is that it works.

Their sound isn’t a confusing assault. You could pull off a challenge like that: combining disparate elements with raucous grace.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Last August I wrote you a horoscope that spoke of opportunities you’d have to upgrade close relationships. I said you’d be tested in ways that would push you to get more ingenious and tenacious about collaborating with people you cared about. Hoping to inspire, I cited two people I know who have successfully re-imagined and reinvented their marriage for years. One reader complained. “Yuck!” his email began. “I thought I was getting a horoscope but instead I got a sentimental self-help blurb in the style of Reader’s Digest.” I took his words to heart. As you enter a new phase when you could do a lot to build intimacy skills, I’ll try something more poetic: Succulent discipline and luminous persistence equals incandescent kismet.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If I had to come up with a name for your next astrological cycle, it’d be “Gathering Up.” I think you should focus on collecting resources missing from your reserves. Hone skills still too weak to get you where you want to go, and attract the committed support of allies who can help you carry out dreams and schemes. Don’t be shy about assembling the necessities.

Experiment with being slightly voracious.

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he line between public and private used to be clear for education romantics like me, but somewhere between my daughter’s magnet school and my president’s charter obsession, I lost interest. Public education today is properly focused on finding the right option for each child, which changes our social contract with the underprivileged. For liberals like me, equal educational opportunity now includes the moral obligation to provide as many learning options as possible.

This shift is seismic in my world. Public education is, after all, the cornerstone of our democracy. The schoolhouse represents educational hope and, for those of us who rode buses across town when federal courts found that racial separation produced inequality, it also conjures social justice. That’s one reason we continue to fight attempts to turn it into a commodity, where schools are treated like marketplaces, and why we resist the notion that private is somehow inherently superior to public.

The new educational landscape, though, is reshaping those familiar contours. In Florida, we now have 315,000 students who choose any school in their district that has room and another 332,000 who choose, like both my daughters, to attend magnet programs or fundamental schools or career academies.

We have 100,000 students taking courses online, 130,000 attending publicly funded pre-kindergarten in privately operated centers, 21,000 with learning disabilities who receive scholarships to attend private schools. As for our Democratic president’s priority, Florida now has 155,000 students in charter schools.

These are schools that are privately operated, staffed by private-sector employees and typically housed in private buildings. But they are tuitionfree because they receive tax money through contracts with school districts. Are they public or private? Does it really matter?

Pres. Obama has challenged his party’s orthodoxy on a variety of education reforms.

“Instead of rewarding failure, we only reward success,” he said just last year. “Instead of funding the status quo, we only invest in reform. … And in this country, the success of our children cannot depend more on where they live than on their potential.”

The nation’s first African-American president, though, is only one of a growing chorus of black and Hispanic leaders demanding new answers. In New York, Geoffrey Canada has attracted national acclaim for his Harlem Children’s Zone, and his assessment is blunt: “We must radically transform the centerpiece of these boys’ educational lives: the public school system ...

Their failure is literally destroying innocent lives.” In Pennsylvania, prominent AfricanAmerican Democratic Senator Anthony Williams has led an effort to introduce a voucher program for poor children.

In New Jersey, Newark’s black Democratic Mayor Cory Booker is teaming up with white Republican Gov. Chris Christie to

push lawmakers this year to pass a tax credit scholarship program for low-income students.

In Florida, the political equation is already changing, and the tax credit scholarship for low-income students is one of most visible barometers. Nine years after a lone Democrat voted to create the program, the legislature expanded it in 2010 by a combined 122-34 margin that included nearly half the Democrats, a majority of the Black Caucus and all but two of the Hispanic Caucus. The bill was co-sponsored in the Senate by Al Lawson, an African-American Democrat from Tallahassee and 28-year legislative veteran.

“When you have a lot of poor kids in your area that need help, and you have people saying, ‘We’re willing to work with these kids,’ it’s hard to say no,” Lawson says. “… I am the strongest possible supporter of public education. But I know that not every school works for every child.”

Lawson speaks for me. The kindly image of my daughters’ kindergarten teacher at Rio Vista Elementary School in St. Petersburg, Dale Koch, still makes me tear up two decades later. The years of school advisory council

I’m not politically naïve. I know the issue gets caught up in partisan politics. meetings made me feel connected, as did the successful campaign to pass a voter referendum that brought extra property tax revenue to Pinellas County public schools. But I left a journalism career that included more than two decades of writing education editorials for the St. Petersburg Times, the state’s leading liberal newspaper voice, to find a home at a stateapproved scholarship funding organization led by fellow Democrat and former teachers’ union president, Doug Tuthill.

Step Up For Students, with its application headquarters in Jacksonville, now provides tax-credited scholarships to 33,000 lowincome students in roughly 1,100 private schools across the state. The students are poor, living on average on an income that’s only 17 percent above the poverty line. A state researcher says these students were having serious academic issues before choosing the scholarship, concluding that “scholarship participants tend to be considerably more disadvantaged and lower-performing upon entering the program than their nonparticipating counterparts.” At the same time, these students are measuring up against national competition, achieving the same test score gains in reading and math in 2008-’09 as students at all income levels.

The participating schools run the gamut. Most are faith-based and small, with an average enrollment of less than 200 students. Many are mission-driven, like

Joshua Christian Academy or Potter’s House Christian Academy, two Jacksonville schools determined to turn around the academic lives of African-American students. Contrary to most people’s perceptions, these schools thrive from the private marketplace, not from their publicly subsidized students. On average, the scholarship students make up only 17 percent of the total enrollment.

This scholarship, fueled by dollar-for-dollar tax credits to corporations that contribute, is no magic solution. The schools and teachers are not necessarily better than those in public schools. The point is that they are different, and that alone adds value. Some children thrive in these environments and others don’t. So the program is, in the judgment of the people with whom I work, another one of those arrows we keep putting in the public educational quiver. It adds a learning option for a group of students who typically suffer the greatest educational odds and enjoy the fewest alternatives.

To me, this is the kind of opportunity that strengthens public education, but I’m not politically naïve. I know that it gets caught up in partisan politics, which causes some of my liberal friends to try to deflect it as a Republican plot against public education. In Florida, the scholarship is consistently attributed to former Gov. Jeb Bush, even though it actually was the inspiration and work of Tampa investor and philanthropist John Kirtley. The scholarship has been branded as a tool to subvert the state Supreme Court decision on a separate voucher program, even though the tax credit law was passed in 2001 and the court’s opinion was issued in 2006. The scholarships also have been called the camel’s nose in the tent, even though the eligibility criteria — free or reduced price lunch — is the same today as it was in 2001.

These conspiracy theories conveniently avoid the respected Democrats who continue to embrace learning options for poor and struggling students. In Jacksonville, the keynote speaker at the last rally here for tax credit scholarships was former Jacksonville Sheriff Nathaniel Glover. In Tallahassee, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Policy Council last year, lifelong public school educator Bill Heller, co-sponsored scholarship legislation. Nationally, the reason the critical education documentary, “Waiting for Superman,” has created such a stir is because its producer and most of the film’s protagonists are Democrats.

So disagree with me if you wish. Demand better academic accountability. Insist these options prove their educational value. But please don’t dismiss tax credit scholarships and charter schools and the like as some anti-public school conservative plot. The political reality is much more complex.

Jon East

East is policy and public affairs director for Step Up For Students, a state school scholarship program funded by corporate tax credits.

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