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CITIZEN MAMA

PROFESSOR THRASHER

As part of his employment deal, the new FSU president scored a tenured professorship. That won’t sit well with a faculty that didn’t want him anyway

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t was easy-breezy. In a land where small electric fans cause tornadoes of political outrage, the simple contract negotiations between State Sen. John Thrasher and his new employers, the Florida State University Board of Trustees, were refreshingly smooth.

The terms appear to be completely pro forma.

Except for one little detail. The devil is in that detail.

It wasn’t the $2.15 million price tag for President Thrasher’s 5-year contract that bothered me. We know that, at $430,000 per year, Thrasher’s in the middle of the pack among presidential salaries for Florida’s state universities. And it wasn’t the fully staffed university-owned home, either, although that’s an intriguing benefit, given that other university heads get as much as $50,000 per year in housing allowances. The club memberships are to be expected, as is the potential $100,000-peryear bonus.

The detail that had me choking on my coffee related to another presidential perk, passed along by the state’s media in an “oh, by the way” manner.

From the News Service of Florida: “The trustees also intend to grant Thrasher, who received his undergraduate and law degrees from the Tallahassee school, a tenured faculty appointment as professor in the College of Law.” A tenured faculty appointment as law professor?

I’m sure his fellow professors are beside themselves.

And they’re not the only ones.

Rewind to early September, when FSU’s faculty senate passed a resolution that recommended against hiring Thrasher — a non-academician — as president. The faculty didn’t recommend anyone else specifically, just anyone but Thrasher.

At heart, professors are teachers, and their protest was not unrelated to Thrasher’s declared war on public school teachers. It’s a war that’s spanned the terms of three governors: the current governor, Rick Scott (this magazine went to press before the election); the former-but-would-be-again governor, Charlie Crist; and another former governor and would-be-president, Jeb Bush, also known as Gov. Default.

In 2010, Sen. Thrasher leaped tall buildings to pass the controversial “teacher tenure” bill, only to have the landmark legislation nullified by Gov. Crist’s veto pen.

There were numerous reasons for rejecting Senate Bill 6, but this sentence, from Crist’s April 15, 2010, veto letter, conveys the gist: “Some of

these directives are quite overreaching, such as not allowing multi-year teacher contracts, choosing arbitrary percentages for calculating a teacher’s effectiveness, and permanently decertifying an excellent teacher in Florida who simply needed improvement two out of the previous five years on the job.”

Gov. Default was not happy.

Bush, you see, had been (and still is!) busy touring the country talking about education reform.

A big plank in his reform platform is accountability, which, through SB 6, dovetails perfectly with the political right’s hatred of labor unions. Never mind that a teacher’s union status, or tenure status, has never been linked to student performance outcomes.

It didn’t stop Sen. Thrasher from pushing through SB 6’s reincarnation, SB 736, the following year.

Never mind, either, that the test scores we now use to evaluate teachers aren’t reliable indicators of teacher effectiveness over time. Given how many times the state Board of Education has switched the goalposts, tweaked the cutoff scores and cushioned school grades, the test scores may not be a reliable indicator of anything at all.

But Gov. Default can’t be bothered with the details. He’s got a national campaign to run in 2016, and he needs his home state to be on board with his teacher accountability plans. Those plans abolished tenure as we knew it for new public school teachers in Florida.

But not for newly minted Professor Thrasher.

Unlike many professors who teach every day at Florida State University but have not yet attained tenure, the man who’s made a career out of politics can teach as long as he likes.

“Tenure,” in the academic world, means that those who earn it are welcome to stay for the duration of their careers, unless there’s just cause to fire them. With Florida’s public school teachers, the term “tenure” was batted about more colloquially to signify a multi-year contract with similar dueprocess protections. Not anymore. Our public school teachers, with their year-to-year contracts, are just one step above at-will employees.

For President Thrasher to accept a tenured professorship, without earning that position through years of working in the classroom, would be the height of hypocrisy.

Julie Delegal mail@folioweekly.com A version of this column appeared on Context Florida.

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FIGHTIN’ WORDS

Ed Bell Oberle, in his studio at WKTZ/Jones College Radio in 1980, pioneered radio in Jacksonville.

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED Mourning the end of the Jones College Radio era

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riving into work the other day, I was listening (as usual) to Jones College Radio (90.0-FM WKTZ), when a commentary

by Dick McMeekin, longtime producer and commentator, aired. In light of current events with the longtime Jacksonville radio fixture, it seemed especially relevant.

The theme was pending mortality. McMeekin talked of how the best way to appreciate life is to enjoy the simple pleasures: walking barefoot through the park, enjoying the beach at sunset, treating yourself to a double-dip ice cream cone with sprinkles. “These things are the stuff of life,” he said, “the little things that can be taken away.”

He added, tellingly, that as we fade out of this world and into whatever comes next, we won’t regret “the things we did but the things we did not do.”

McMeekin, it would seem, might not harbor many of those regrets — having been everything from an entertainer on The Ed Sullivan Show to a chief of staff in the U.S. Senate. However, it comes time for everything to pass from this realm to the next. Including Jones College Radio.

The station’s sale has been finalized to a religious broadcasting concern called Educational Media Foundation, though no one at Jones College Radio is talking about it to the media outlets that have inquired, including the Times-Union, WJCT and Folio Weekly. (The sale comes despite a pitched pledge drive last year, in which Jones College Radio sought $200,000 to continue operations. My repeated requests for comment went unacknowledged.) It’s expected that the station’s locally sourced easy listening will be phased out this month.

EMF vice president of signal development Joe Miller, in a statement to the T-U, promises to bring “contemporary Christian music” to Jacksonville (because God knows there’s been a dearth of such treacle on the airwaves heretofore), and he offered some advice to Jacksonville listeners who see Jones College Radio as part of their lives, many of whom might not remember a time without Jones College Radio’s smooth sounds being available to them as a refuge from the Clear Channel — excuse me, iHeartMedia — garbage that already rules the dial.

Calling easy listening “a format that 20 or 30 years ago was very highly rated,” but no longer

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relevant to “adults 25 to 54 years old,” Miller advised those who “want to hear the kind of music the station has been playing” to simply “go to the Internet” to get their fix.

Miller misses the point.

Yes, the Jones College Radio experience was, in part, about the easy listening sounds of Mantovani and 101 Strings, of Johnnie Ray and Andy Williams, of muzak versions of hits like “Stayin’ Alive.” But it was also about the locality of the music. The last viable easy listening station in the country was ours. Emanating from Riverton Tower in Arlington, the smooth sounds of Jones College Radio predated consolidation, the end of tolls on I-95, the beginning and end of the Jacksonville Bulls, and everything else that has happened in this city in the last half-century.

Gone are many of the institutions we have recognized as thoroughly, quintessentially Jacksonville over the years — everything from Jimmie’s Buttermilk Chicken to Championship Wrestling from Florida coming to the Coliseum once a week. Those pieces of local color will not be replaced. And neither will Jones College Radio, unless you believe the sanitized, synthesized, resolutely feel-good messaging of today’s Christian radio, piped in from the West Coast, will make up for the loss.

Miller tells Jacksonville residents (especially the older ones who may lack the technical facility to do so) to “go to the Internet” to replace something that is part of their cultural framework, and to pretend like it’s not a real loss because those precious demographic surveys tell him that only old people listen to that stuff.

Here’s a clue: It’s not just old people. Lots of younger people, who still, despite the efforts of corrosive commercial culture, believe that songs should have melodies and depth — they listened to that station as well. They loved the station. It did what nothing else in this market was willing to do.

Jones College sold out. Reports are the college received $3.375 million for its two stations.

The money will be pissed away on something, forgotten soon enough. The same can be said for Jones College itself.

AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com

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The JAG-OFF

THE YEAR OF ROOKIE MISTAKES: WEEK 9, JAGS VS. BENGALS

Will Blake Bortles ever be able to avoid turnovers? Does he have some sort of problem processing the whole play in crunch time? After all, when the pressure mounts, the Jags QB’s decision-making only gets worse. And why does he throw against his body?

These were my questions coming into Sunday’s game. I had started to call him Blaine in conversation. And I had almost stopped, until his endzone interception at the four-minute mark of the fourth quarter.

I probably should stop again.

Harsh? Maybe. Not compared to the CBS announcer who mused aloud about how long the Jags could stay with Bortles this year — as if another round of Chad Henne would fix everything. But whereas the TimesUnion said Bortles “regressed” in Cincinnati, the Jags offense in fact looked better than it ever had before this year.

Denard Robinson’s early run for 38 yards was one of those plays that can open up the whole offense. Toby Gerhart looked solid from the get-go, too. The Jags did play it safe in the first half, as usual, to their detriment: They racked up a mere 34 passing yards.

Down 19-3 in the third, Bortles went deep to Allen Hurns — where was this derring-do earlier? The playbook is buttoned up until garbage time approaches. This mode works with teams that have personnel advantages. The Jags, however, have to create and exploit mismatches to win.

When they go deep, especially to Hurns, good things happen. Hurns was the star of the game, making every catch, fulfilling every bit of the potential he flashed in the first half of the season opener. The Jags were in the game, looking credible, and Allen Hurns was the X-factor.

The turning point: The Jaguars were within three when Bengals backup running back Jeremy Hill took it to the house. Safety Josh Evans was hurt on a play in which no one in the Jags secondary really wanted to tackle Hill, least of all Evans. That should have been it, but Bortles had one more drive in him.

Then came the seemingly inevitable pick in the end zone.

The Jags are improving. They covered. But 1-8 is headed toward Mularkey territory. Neither Tom Coughlin nor JDR were ever that bad, and both dealt with some of the worst roster talent in the league, especially Coughlin at the end.

The Jags take this show to London to face a beatable Cowboys team, whose defense has been exposed since Tony Romo was curb-stomped by a Washington defender two weeks ago. Does this team have what it takes to put a few wins together? The novelty of the pools, the scoreboard and the stud rookie QB has worn off; it’s results time. The Cowboys game is a must win.

AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com

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NEWS

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG The Jacksonville cops clear one of their own

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into the parking space. The answers ranged rom the day it happened, on March 16, the from “slowly” to “about 20 mph.” Study has said Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office has shrouded the Morgan “floored it.” But all four witnesses said incident in a veil of secrecy.

John Study, then 20, was standing in a parking they saw Morgan hit Study. Only Study says he saw the gun; the Fusters’ view was blocked. space in the busy 5 Points Publix parking lot trying to save it for his pregnant fiancée, Natalie The detective also questioned Study’s slightly Fuster, and her parents when another man differing explanations of where Morgan was decided he wanted that space. Following a few (sitting in his car with one leg out, or leaning words between the two, the man backed his into his car while standing) when he pointed gold Toyota Corolla into the spot. Study says the the gun at Study, and the exact angle at which other man’s car struck him in the right knee. The the gun was pointed. Study insists he always man then pointed a black semiautomatic pistol said Morgan was standing outside the car, but at Study and told him to “get the fuck away from leaned in to get the gun, briefly point it at him, my car,” Study has said numerous times. then return it to his backpack.

He’s been seeking medical treatment for his “They aren’t really inconsistent,” Roberts knee injury ever since. “It’s not getting better,” says. “I thought that with the inconsistencies Study says. “I have to ice it a lot, especially after I that they point out, that they believe their man. get off work. It’s gotten worse.”

If there are inconsistencies I would call them minor. I know from my experience that when So, too, it seems, has the public disclosure witnesses tell the story four times, there are surrounding the episode. That’s because the always going to be minor inconsistencies.”

Corolla’s driver, Corinthian Roosevelt Morgan, 46, was an off-duty Jacksonville Sheriff ’s officer, Still, the final report says there’s no evidence something Study only learned after he called of any wrongdoing or even that Morgan struck police to report the incident. When the cops Study, despite medical records. Study is upset arrived, they refused Study’s requests for his with the result, but says he’s glad the JSO at least alleged assailant’s name — even though such an investigated. “The complaint was a real big thing incident usually requires a written to me,” he says. “If I would have report with identification from never gotten T.C. as my attorney, all involved and an exchange of I feel like nothing would have “They believe insurance information. The normal happened. It would have just their man. If rules apparently didn’t apply. gotten swept under the rug.”

The report does offer more of Study, his attorney, T.C. there are Morgan’s version of events than Roberts, and Folio Weekly were inconsistencies, was previously released. given no information about the incident for weeks. Following a Morgan says he thought I would call strongly worded public records Study had moved away when he them minor.” request, three weeks later the JSO backed into the parking spot. finally gave Folio Weekly a report He says Study banged on the naming Morgan (before that, back of his car, so he stopped neither Roberts nor Study had been told the and opened his door, then took his gun, which officer’s name). Since then, getting any additional he first said was on top of the backpack in his information out of JSO has been harder than passenger seat, then later said was on the seat sifting the fat out of butter.

— an inconsistency that didn’t bother the JSO Finally, a couple of weeks ago, the JSO issued investigator — and started to put it into his an internal investigation report, which found all backpack. He says Study saw the Glock and said, of Study’s allegations and those of three other “Oh, you’re a big man with a gun.” witnesses against Morgan “unsustained.” The JSO Morgan, who is black, says Study then took the entire 180 days allowed for an internal called him a “fucking nigger” and began to investigation, then took three weeks to fulfill walk away. Morgan followed him: “I said, Folio Weekly’s request for the final report.

‘What did you say? Say it again, what you said,’” he told the internal affairs investigator. As he The investigation’s findings fly in the face of was walking away from Study, Morgan told statements from Study, Fuster and her parents, him, “Well, call me nigger one more time.” who all said Morgan struck Study with his Morgan denied cursing at him. vehicle. They also contradict Morgan’s own (Study says Morgan misheard him, and says insurance company, which agreed to settle he told him so at the time.)

Study’s claim against Morgan for $25,000 When the police arrived, Morgan came — though, per usual, the company added out of a sushi restaurant within the Publix a statement that the settlement was not an admission of guilt on Morgan’s part — as well as shopping plaza, sans backpack and weapon, and began talking to officers, some of whom medical records that show that Study continues said he was belligerent. He saw a rescue unit to suffer from an injury to his right knee. there with EMTs checking out Study and said The final report discounted all of the to an officer, “So now he’s hurt. Fuck this, man.” allegations against Morgan — criminal aggravated assault, criminal aggravated battery, Morgan’s wife came out and began talking leaving the scene of an accident, rudeness with him. An officer told her she had to move away because they were investigating and unbecoming conduct — based mainly on a complaint. According to the report, this what the investigator considered “inconsistent angered Morgan further. statements” by Study and his family members.

Morgan’s backpack, which contained the (Interestingly, the allegation of unbecoming gun, wound up in his wife’s car. She did not conduct — for using the word “fuck” and have a concealed weapons permit. then arguing with officers at the scene — Because Morgan was cleared of any was initially sustained by the internal affairs wrongdoing, after spending six months on investigator, but later reversed by a director.) administrative duty, he’s now back patrolling A thorough review of the 61-page the city’s Westside. investigative summary shows that JSO officials determined that statements from witnesses Derek Kinner differed primarily on how fast Morgan backed dkinner@folioweekly.com

DAPT I A or PERISH How are area churches reaching out to the most religiously disinterested generation in history?

By Matt Shaw

Photos by Dennis Ho

ABOVE: Two worshippers chat outside The Church of Eleven22. BELOW: One of Eleven22’s house bands rehearses before a recent Sunday service.

t’s Sunday morning, 11:15.

Seven minutes before the service begins. The parking lot outside The Church of Eleven22 — 11:22, get it? — is filled nearly to capacity, nary a space available. It’s a massive lot, outside a massive church housed in a former Walmart. Even Sam Walton’s empire can’t hold a cheap, imported candle to what Eleven22’s pastor and founder, Joby Martin, has created here.

Located next to a Hobby Lobby, the church’s concrete exterior, painted in mellow reds and grays, would resemble a roller rink or teen club if it weren’t for the 30-foot iron cross mounted near the front entrance. As I walk in, I spot a few people in their Sunday best, but most are in more relaxed attire, many in jeans and T-shirts. Near the entrance, there’s a group of male 20somethings in shorts and tank tops downing 16-ounce cans of energy drinks. While the outside seems freshly painted, I notice that the dull, brownish-gray finish on the signage that reads “Eleven22” is distressed — a design feature that will become a noticeable theme inside.

Inside, after I inform volunteers at the help desk that I’m writing a story that includes their church (and one of them telling me it’s God’s will that I do so), I see the countdown clocks on the church’s two projection screens ticking down to zero, beckoning us toward our seats. At what I presume is exactly 11:22 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the house lights go black. The stage is washed in hushed reds and blues. Edgy-looking men in tight jeans and designer leather shoes walk across, settling in behind their musical instruments.

The show is about to begin.

The drums come in first, the mic’d kick drum thumping in a manner that would sound completely at home tucked into the mix of a Bon Jovi ballad. Next, the guitars begin to fill the empty space between the floors, the faux-candle chandeliers and the exposedpipe industrial ceiling.

As the stage lights home in on the male-female vocal duet, behind the singers the cracks and imperfections of the reclaimedwood wall become more pronounced in the yellow beam. Flanking the wall, giant screens project the lyrics, prompting everyone from the student section (stage left, marked with a hand-painted sign) to the back row (50 yards away and filled with senior citizens) to sing along. As parishioners young and old put their hands in the air and turn their gaze to the sky, the male vocalist bellows out the chorus in a gruff yet vulnerable voice: He loves us Whoa, he loves us Whoa, he loves us Whoa, he loves us No procession, no acolytes, no robes. The sound and lighting are as good as at any concert venue in Northeast Florida. And the décor is what you’d expect to find in a Brooklyn coffee shop a half-decade ago — which is to say, kind of hip for Jacksonville.

And that is, of course, exactly the point. While churches across the United States are confounded and perplexed by decreasing membership and attendance numbers, Eleven22’s pews are packed with people in their 20s and early 30s who are attracted to the church’s contemporary presentation of the Christian Gospel. While millennials (those born roughly between 1980 and 2000) are, statistically speaking, the most religiously disinterested generation in American history — with nearly one-third claiming no religious affiliation, according to a recent Pew survey — that’s not the case here.

Like any business, churches need to replenish their ranks to survive. They need young people to replace those who die or leave. They adapt to changing tides, or they perish. And in Northeast Florida, in the heart of the Bible Belt, churches have been reorganizing their structures, reworking their services and rethinking their presentations of the Bible’s message to keep their pews (and collection plates) full.

They’re doing so with varying degrees of success. But are they merely postponing what is ultimately an inevitable decline?

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ere is the central problem American Christendom faces: In 2008, David T. Olson, director of the American Church Research Project (and an evangelical leader), produced a groundbreaking study using data from more than 200,000 U.S. churches that found that only 6 percent were growing (with growth defined as attendance increasing faster than the population growth rate). Since then, other studies have confirmed his findings. Some have even shown that churches have been in decline since as far back as 1900. The decline has spanned the spectrum of denominations — evangelical, Mainline Protestant and Catholic alike — but the most significant rates have been seen in established churches, or those started from 40 to 190 years ago.

Even the mighty First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, one of the largest and most powerful congregations in the country, a church whose main campus consumes nine square blocks of Downtown, has not been immune. A 2013 study by the Southern Baptist Convention warned of not only decreasing attendance on Sundays, but also declining membership and monetary contributions throughout the Southern Baptist family, the largest Protestant body in the United States. Locally, falling revenue led First Baptist to lay off more than 10 percent of its staff in late 2013.

This decline is now at a tipping point. About 18 percent of Americans actually attended church last Sunday (though roughly 40 percent tell pollsters they go every week). By 2050, that percentage is expected to drop to about 11 — unless, that is, churches can bring millennials into the fold.

That won’t be easy. Millennials tend to be skeptical of evangelistic faiths. Even the ones who identify as Christian have embraced what sociologists call “lay liberalism,” or the idea that, sure, Christianity works for me, but whatever works for you is cool, too — a spiritual pacifism that doesn’t bode well for the church’s future.

As bleak as all that sounds for the faithful, there is one apparent bright spot: Despite young people’s evolving, liberalizing social views and religious outlooks, conservative, nondenominational congregations — like those of Eleven22 and Celebration Church, which has three area campuses — are among the few churches enjoying growth among millennials, according to a 2010 Hartford Institute report. That study highlighted the importance of newness: Newer churches, regardless of denomination, grow faster and appeal to younger people more than their established counterparts; non-denominational congregations figured this out years ago, and have been more aggressive in establishing new churches.

That’s one piece of it. Another is ideological: Conservative and evangelical churches are holding up better than Mainline and liberal denominations, and have been for many years. In 1972, during an extended period of growth for evangelical churches, sociologist and Mainline Protestant Dean Kelley argued that conservative churches’ strict adherence to the “harsher messages” of the Bible was more attractive than liberal Protestantism’s “watereddown version of Christianity.” Almost 40 years later, using a half-century of data, University of

California, Berkeley historian David Hollinger published research arguing that conservative churchgoers simply reproduced more rapidly, hence the larger numbers of conservative kids attracted to conservative churches.

Add it all together, and the picture looks something like this: Among millennials there exist large pools of children of conservative evangelicals, many of whom are themselves conservative, waiting to be brought in by an ever-increasing number of growing nondenominational churches that reach out to them by co-opting trends in interior design and modern music and scheduling youthoriented revivals — in essence, being hipper and more culturally relevant than their staid, suitand-tie forebears.

It’s still old-time religion, just with a rock ’n’ roll sheen.

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n the one hand, I think young people have seen too much Pat Robertson and too much Westboro Baptist Church,” Avery Garner says, referring to the Kansas congregation famous for displaying “God Hates Fags” signs at prominent funerals. “And on the other hand, I think they’ve seen too much Joel-Osteen-self-help preaching.”

These things have conspired, in a sense, to turn off millennials to established churches, Garner says. Even to liberal churches with progressive values like his — St. Luke’s Community Church in Murray Hill, a longtime fixture of Jacksonville’s LGBT community — that stress tolerance and values that would seem a good fit for the millennial ethos.

Garner, who is gay, has been the pastor of St. Luke’s for about 18 months, and while he’s made plans for youth outreach, right now most of his congregants are older.

“Most people just don’t go to church in their 20s,” he says.

Less than a half-hour before the morning’s service, Garner looks every bit the Gen-Xer he is in his faded jeans, plain T-shirt and patchwork facial hair. “My generation invented apathy,” he says with a smile. “The truth is, for the most part, people just aren’t looking for religion to play a role in their lives during their 20s. When you reach your 30s, start a family or just really start to feel a void, that’s where you see a lot more people coming back into the church.”

Garner grew up a Southern Baptist, so he says he can sympathize with young people’s skepticism of traditional or conservative institutions. “When you are young,” he says, “you are trying to redefine yourself, and part of that may be a re-evaluation of what your parents have taught you. And that’s perfectly normal.”

After we talk, Garner puts on his robes and conducts a fairly traditional service for the roughly 20 people in attendance. The numbers don’t bother him; in the Baptist churches in which he was raised and ordained, that was normal. Though his service is traditional, his theology is anything but.

“I’ll be the first to tell you that hell is bullshit,” Garner says, without lowering his voice in the slightest. “What I mean by that is, the focus on hell is really crap theology and it’s not what Christianity is about. Hell exists in this world when you fall from the grace of God. What Christianity needs to be about is love and any talk about hell should be about the nature

“I think young people have seen too much Pat Robertson and too much Westboro Baptist Church.”

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ABOVE: The Church of Eleven22, housed in a former Walmart. BELOW: Eleven22’s Next Gen group has millennials teaching grade-schoolers.

of sin, and how does sin affect your relationship with God? That is to say, how can you be closer to him?”

Garner is passionate about his church’s message of inclusion. He thinks the message of Christ is already a natural fit for millennials, but the church struggles in sharing it.

“To tell you the truth,” he says, “I think the conservative leaders have just been way ahead of us in adapting their presentation to reach young people.”

T

hat is certainly the case at the six-yearold Church of Eleven22 — the time the service begins and the accompanying title was, according to the church’s website, picked at random, so that “people would remember” — a place so large that it has its own communications director. Her name is Lisa Bowden. She was adamant that the church “does not market itself to any demographic or age group. We are authentically true to ourselves and who God called us to be,” she told me. “[Pastor] Joby [Martin] believes strongly that each church should reflect God’s glory in a unique way, because God is eternally unique.”

(The key word there is authentically. I’ll come back to that in a minute.)

I toured the Eleven22 facility, located in the Intracoastal West area, with Bowden as my guide, just a few hours before a September revival event called “Saturated.” As we talked, we were intermittently interrupted by the wail of guitars emanating from the concert hall. Bowden told me about the months the church spent planning the event, about how it was timed to coincide with the start of autumn. “It’s just a way for us to realign ourselves with [Jesus],” she said, “when everything gets going again.”

She then escorted me through the church’s Next Gen wing — a renovation that cost upward of $3 million. This portion of the church is for those aged 5 to 18 years old. It’s filled with classrooms and play areas designed to look like corrugated metal shanties, mud-brick dwellings and other structures found near the church’s many missionary sites.

“Pastor Joby, in his heart, is a youth pastor,” Bowden continued. “What he saw was a broken system” — church members leaving in their 20s, sometimes (and sometimes not) returning in their 30s. “Our goal and vision is to close that gap.”

The lights and music and coffeehouse aesthetic are great, but the main event at Eleven22 — and the reason young people show up in droves, Bowden told me — is simple: Joby Martin speaks to them.

“He’s real and he really believes what he is saying,” Bowden says. (There it is again, in slightly different form — authenticity.)

I was intrigued.

The sermon the day I attend is from Ephesians, about putting on the whole armor of God. In fitted jeans and a short-sleeved patterned shirt, Pastor Joby — bald, goateed, stout, laid-back, part Stone Cold Steve Austin, part all-right-all-right-all-right McConaughey — moves from behind his wooden podium to the front of the stage. He warns us about how the devil — a real being — tries to deceive us. He makes bad jokes about his trouble with feminine metaphors. The audience laughs, and nods, and agrees, and claps — at least, for the first 15 minutes or so. After that, I begin to notice many of the young males’ attention waning. Perhaps this isn’t so unlike a traditional service after all.

Indeed, the presentation is dressed

“I think the conservative leaders have just been way ahead of us in adapting their presentation to reach young people,” says Avery Garner, who heads an LGBT-friendly congregation in Murray Hill.

up differently, but the message is quite conservative. There’s no lay liberalism here.

On Eleven22’s website, the church’s statement of faith says, “There is no other name by which men can be saved.” Also: “Satan, with his hosts and those outside of Christ” will “endure eternal punishment.”

Afterward, I tried to get a feel for how Eleven22 worshippers felt about the sermon.

Most gushed about Pastor Joby’s realness and how good the music was. When I asked about the Satan bit, I was met with almost a sense of acquiescence. One millennial told me, in a manner best described as a verbal shrug, “That’s what the Bible says.”

“W

hat is the defining ideology of the hipster?” Jim McCarthy asks between sips of coffee. He sounds genuinely curious.

A long-winded and handsome 28-year-old, McCarthy grew up in an upper-middle-class home in St. Johns County. He graduated from high school at the top of his class. After studying history and religion in college, he married and began teaching high school social studies.

He then took something of an unusual career turn: He uprooted his life to attend seminary school in South Carolina. With one year left in seminary, he is fulfilling his degree requirements in Jacksonville as a pastoral intern.

“I would say a lack of authenticity,” I reply.

“Although, I think the term ‘hipster’ has become so overused and diluted that it is impossible to generalize about unifying ideals.”

McCarthy laughs at my dodgy answer. He was raised in a religious household, but didn’t always adhere to conservative dogma, especially on things like evolution, though he’s since fallen back in line (“I walked away from it after studying it and realizing it’s not scientific,” he says). He says “the moral implications of an atheistic worldview” played an integral role in encouraging his faith. “If there is no infinite personality, with character,” he says, “there are no eternal norms which shape morality.”

I ask if he thinks the church is partly responsible for millennials’ religious disinterest.

“It’s my experience that we are a generation that has been grossly marketed to,” he says. “And I think we are a generation that’s sick of being sold to in a way that’s disingenuous.”

After completing seminary, McCarthy (“God willing,” he says) plans to establish a church somewhere in the Jacksonville area. As he imagines what his church will look like, and how his services will be presented, he is leery of recent trends.

“You see with the big church-growth movements of the ’80s and ’90s a trend in which churches begin to look at places like Starbucks and other businesses and go, ‘Well, let’s try some of those things,’” he says. “And, ultimately a lot

of them decided, ‘We’re going to make this as not-churchy as possible.’”

That’s not the direction he wants his church to go. “My belief is that you are to worship in the way God wants you to, not in the way that’s the most entertaining for you,” he says.

He’s not worried about attracting millennials.

Churches that “meet people where they are,” he says, don’t offer millennials what they really want from Christianity. “A great line from Ecclesiastes is, ‘There’s nothing new under the sun.’ So this toothless and offense-less version of Christianity, a lot of millennials I’ve talked to are just sick of it.”

R

yan Stone, Eleven22’s youth pastor, just recently turned 30.

Sporting a goatee and shaved head — not unlike Pastor Joby’s — Stone is easygoing and good-natured when he speculates as to why millennials are drawn to his church.

“To me, it’s really the authenticity,” he says.

“Most millennials are sick and tired of BS and institutionalization.”

Of all the things said in regard to millennials, perhaps no singular trait is as important as authenticity. The word is used to describe things that are real, or true, and sometimes is just loosely thrown around as a synonym for cool.

Authenticity is, of course, also an advertising buzzword that directors of huge corporations use to appeal to key demographics.

And now, here it is again, in church.

Stone thinks Eleven22 derives its authenticity (and therefore its appeal) not just from its leaders, but also its people. “I’m 30, and a lot of the people in my life have little babies running around, they are figuring out how to pay mortgages, pay rent. They’re my people,” he says. “When I think about what church I want to go to, I want to go to a church with people in the same life stage as me.”

That authenticity resonates with millennials, and keeps them coming back. But the church does try to stay culturally relevant, too — you see it in the lights, the music, the distressed signage: “The [church] traditions are there for a very healthy reason,” Stone says. “But if you don’t change or adapt to culture, you’ll either become extinct, or you won’t be relevant.”

But in the end, he says, relevance is fleeting.

“We aim at authenticity, not relevancy,” Stone told me later in an email. “If you aim at authenticity, and remain authentic, relevancy doesn’t matter. Relevancy is relevant. You can’t settle into relevancy because it’s always changing. Authenticity is a lifestyle; relevancy is just about trying to fit in.”

They’d rather be authentic than relevant.

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Our Picks Reasons to leave the house this week

COMPETE FOR A CAUSE RUNWELL AT UNF

Worldwide, there are an estimated 15 million-plus people addicted to drugs or alcohol. Since 2005, Runwell: The Linda Quirk Foundation has been addressing these staggering statistics by staging sports competitions to benefit international addiction treatment programs and centers. The University of North Florida holds its inaugural Runwell 4 Life Festival, with a 5K trail run, zipline course challenge, kayaking and canoeing, info booths and a musical performance by Sugarland frontman Kristian Bush.

9 a.m. Nov. 8 at UNF’s ECO-Adventure Center (concert at 7 p.m., Lazzara Hall), Southside, 5K registration is $35; $38 for zipline; Bush tickets are $22.50-$37.50, $50 VIP, registration and tickets at runwell.com.

FALL FUN GREATER JACKSONVILLE AGRICULTURAL FAIR

One of the guiltiest pleasures of fall is checking out the annual fair. And while you may snicker at folks passing by devouring ungodly fried concoctions, you’re eventually humbled gazing into the void of your own funnel-cake-covered reflection staring back from the funhouse mirror.

The Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair features family-friendly action like amusement rides, daily live music, a veritable army of food vendors, agricultural and arts and crafts exhibits – and even racing pigs! Nov. 5-16, 510 Fairgrounds Place, Downtown, admission is $8; $5 for seniors and children 6-12; ride wristbands are $15-$25. For a full schedule, go to jacksonvillefair.com.

TECHNO TITAN BT AT ECLIPSE

Since the late ’80s, musician BT has been a figurehead in pioneering electronic dance music (or as your rave-lovin’ cyber-shaman-life coach calls it, EDM). Born Brian Transeau, the Grammy-nominated techno wizard has left his unique sonic mark on subgenres ranging from trance to ambient and glitch, while working with artists including The Roots, Mike Doughty, Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel and Madonna.

BT has also been in demand for notable Hollywood soundtracks, composing original scores for Go, The Fast and the Furious and Monster. 9 p.m. Nov. 8 (with opening acts Farace and Dave Berg) at Eclipse, Avondale, $25, eclipsejax.com.

ROOTS TRIP PALATKA BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL

Enjoy a day of talented pickin’ and grinnin’ and traditional American music at the seventh annual Palatka Bluegrass Festival. This family-geared event (no booze allowed, dude!) features 15 acts including Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Isaacs (pictured), Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Adkins and Loudermilk, Roni & Donna Stoneman and the Clinton Gregory Bluegrass Band. Noon-10 p.m. daily Nov. 6, 7 and 8 at Rodeheaver Boys’ Ranch, 380 Boys Ranch Road, Palatka, daily tickets are $30 ($15 kids 6-13); three-day pass is $85 ($45 kids 6-13); for schedule and to buy tickets, go to adamsbluegrass.com.

MUSIC SUSAN BOYLE

Perhaps the ultimate rags-to-riches story spawned from the pop cultural hellscape that is reality television, Scottish singer Susan Boyle first came to prominence after appearing on the UK show Britain’s Got Talent. And whether you think she’s a kitschy fad or rock her likeness in a discreet tattoo, her career stats are pretty damn impressive: Her 2009 debut album is the UK’s best-selling debut of all time, she’s sold 22 million albums, had the No. 1 album in 40 countries, been nominated for two Grammys and has garnered 650 million (!)

YouTube hits. Sing on, sister! 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Times-Union Center’s Moran Theater, Downtown, $38.50-$114, jaxevents.com.

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NEIGHBORHOOD ROCK SPRINGFIELD PORCHFEST

Brothers and Sisters, it’s time to Kick Out the Home Jams! Music fills the air in Springfield at Porchfest, a daylong event featuring live music staged at various locations and house porches in the historic neighborhood. More than 20 local musical acts are scheduled, including Tropic of Cancer (pictured), Mama Blue, Canary in the Coalmine, Katie Helow and Zach Lever, El Conjunto Tropical, Joe Shuck and Crazy Daysies. Food trucks abound; bring lawn chairs. Noon-5 p.m. Nov. 8 at various locations in Springfield, jacksonvilleporchfest.org.

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WHAT ARE THESE CRAZY

QUESTIONS

THAT THEY’RE ASKING OF ME? Picking the brain of legendary

singer-songwriter Randy Newman

RANDY NEWMAN

8 p.m. Nov. 9, Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $57-$72, staugamp.sjcvenues.com.

W

hen Randy Newman rolls into St. Augustine this weekend, he’ll bring with him a half-century’s worth of some of the most humorous and poignant songs in the pantheon of contemporary music. Considered by many to be the greatest songwriter of his generation, Newman’s work has been covered by, among others, Ray Charles, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, Nina Simone and Norah Jones.

Unlike his peers of the late ’60s and early ’70s who focused on an overly confessional-style of songwriting, Newman’s songs are driven by a kind of sardonic fiction and blunt realism; sometimes delivered with biting social satire, other times with tender compassion. Bigots, deadbeat dads, wallflowers and other weary outcasts walk through his tunes, carried along by Newman’s singularly melodic approach that runs the gamut from a rolling New Orleans stride to somber balladry.

In recent years, Newman has focused more on composing for film soundtracks. Over the years, his efforts have rightfully garnered him a shelf full of Oscars, Grammys and Emmys.

Newman granted Folio Weekly an exclusive interview, in which he talked about his new songs, an ongoing fear of writing and the worst thing he’s ever said.

Folio Weekly: Off of the top of my head, I know of three friends who seem like examples of devout fans of your work — a baby boomer, a 40something experimental musician and a 20something filmmaker. That’s just one small faction, but you are known for having this diverse and rabid following. Do your fans tell you directly why your music is so affecting to them?

Randy Newman: Yeah, they tell me. It’s for different reasons, and different songs they’re enthusiastic about. I just talked to a reporter who sort of read back these things that affected his daughter, like the Pixar stuff. Sometimes that the songs are about things rather than the common repertoire; it’s not “Do you love me? I don’t love you anymore, why do you love me?” And a lot of times, even with big fans of mine, it’s songs that could be written by someone else, like “Feels Like Home” or “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” — like straight love songs, which really surprised me. It varies, really.

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Your last studio album was released six years ago.

When’s the new album coming out?

Next year. I’m writing for it now. I think I’ve got the songs. They’re a little odd. I think I have one that’s new to play. I never play anything until it’s done, but I may play something that’s close to finished. I’ve got one done about [Vladimir] Putin.

Is that right? Is it a celebration of that mighty leader?

Well, yeah. In a way. [Laughs.] It’s kind of fantastic. It’s got a good line in it that says, “When he takes his shirt off/drives the ladies crazy/when he takes his shirt off/makes me wanna be a lady.”

[Laughs.] Then I have these big guys, like from the Prince record “If I Was Your Girlfriend”: “When you take your shirt off, wanna make us be a lady!” Just nuts. That kind of teenage affectation. The world leader with power. I’ll play it when I get down there.

“I’ll have a really great tune that possibly more than 28 people will like and I’ll make it about death.”

Even though you’ve been composing for decades, you’ve said you really don’t feel that confident when you start to write a song. Why do you think there’s still that kind of doubt lurking about?

I have the wrong attitude. You know, I just don’t have confidence that even though I’ve done it, I can do it again. Even when I do it, I’ll, like, foul on things until I play it for somebody and they say, “Oh, that’s great! That’s great!” I’m better than I was when I was a kid or even 15, 20 years ago.

You know if you’re a writer, you have to go with initial impressions sometimes. You run around and say, “Jesus, I thought this was pretty good,” and sometimes you’re right — but you’ll know. You go up and down on a thing. That’s why the Buddhists and all these gurus say, “Don’t be judgmental.” But how in the hell can you write and not be a little judgmental? I don’t know. Writers famously are drunks and troubled folk. I don’t think you have to be. I don’t think you have to roll around on the floor, live in a garret and that kind of crap. But I’ll tell ya, I never enjoyed doing it particularly; maybe

occasionally. I’m better now than I was […] but maybe I’m not writing as well, I don’t know. I’ve always worried about it. I mean, I can tell myself, “C’mon, you believe in statistics, you believe in numbers, you’ve done it a hundred times. The odds are you’ll do something that’s all right.” It’s goddamned hard.

But you’ve been writing for so long. During that time have you discovered these kinds of recurring elements that seem to produce a better song?

No. I really haven’t learned any formula at all.

I’ve learned I can go faster if I’m pretending to write something for someone else. For me to write a straight song like “Feels Like Home” or “Losing You,” I’d be writing it for someone else. Writing myself a straight love song, one that’s a straight ahead profession of love — it just doesn’t interest me. I’ll change it in some way. I’ll have a really great tune that possibly more than 28 people will like and I’ll make it about death.

Are there any political topics that you won’t touch?

No. The racial stuff targeted the redneck. The word in it is more difficult to say in public than it was 30 years ago. I don’t think I’d do “Christmas in Cape Town” now. There are cultural references you can’t make now and expect everyone to understand them the way they once did. I know that.

Florida is always mired in weirdness. I mean, right now we’ve got Rick Scott, for God’s sake. Like your tunes “Miami” or “Gainesville,” would you ever consider writing about the Sunshine State once again?

Oh, I’d consider it. The only time in my life I ever had an expense account, I did a commercial for Colgate or something and went to Naples. Man, it was fantastic! I was at this resort and had never had an expense account; I’d known a bunch of people who’d had them. It was a great feeling. “I’ll take those kinds of eggs. Skydiving, why sure! It’s not my money.” I felt like a real American.

You once said that you “might win a beauty contest of my fans.” On some level, do you feel responsible for that?

Did I say that? [Laughs.]

Hell yeah you did.

Holy shit. That’s the worst thing I’ve ever said.

That’s not very nice. I mean — that’s awful.

Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com

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BLEAK HOUSE Memphis quintet Ex-Cult delivers a dark, discombobulated update on classic garage and punk rock

M

odern garage rock may be spiraling toward oversaturation, but a band like Ex-Cult easily separates itself from the pack. This Memphis five-piece combines the nervy jangle Wire with the frenetic desolation of Black Flag, the psychedelic leanings of ‘60s classic rock, and the DIY propulsion of latter-day garage saints Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees.

But it’s the snarling lyricism of lead singer Chris Shaw and the prickly dual-guitar fireworks of J.B. Horrell and Alec McIntyre that help Ex-Cult punch above its Memphis-born weight. Two LPs on hometown label Goner Records have shown a band willing and able to progress at breakneck speed, jumping from jittery and muddle on the 2012 self-titled debut to more expansive and sonically textured on 2014’s Midnight Passenger. “Every time we go in the studio, we take a big step up from what we did before,” Shaw tells Folio Weekly.

“We have a new EP coming out in February called Cigarette Machine, where we focus a lot more on the mixing process. The production is probably the best we’ve ever had. But it still sounds like Ex-Cult.”

That sound is unmistakably bleak, riddled with guitar-spiked anxiety, and seemingly hopeless as Shaw’s self-described “voice from the sewer” shouts about shootings, suicides, “the future of nothing,” the delusions of modern society and how “you can’t keep pretending all your scars are mine.” But Shaw says he’s been surprised by how many critics have focused on Ex-Cult’s outlook.

“What punk band doesn’t have dark, negative lyrics?” he asks. “I don’t know too many that are singing about how great the world is, so our lyrics and the subject matter we cover are not very out of the ordinary. That’s the kind of music I grew up on, and that’s the type of music we’re trying to create — as a lyricist, those scenarios have always been easiest for me to draw on.”

If you want to see Shaw, Horrell, McIntyre, Frank McLallen and Michael Peery draw on them with the combined force of a sweaty, swaggering wild animal, an Ex-Cult concert is the ideal place to do it. Midnight Passenger didn’t fully take shape until the band had on the road non-stop for 18 months “in countless dive bars, disgusting motel rooms and on dozens of dirty floors,” Shaw says.

“When we started the band, we were hell-bent on making our live performances as intense as possible. That only picked up the more we toured;

the first time you go somewhere, people might just sit around saying, ‘What the fuck is going on?’ But by the second or third time, you play and the whole room is moving. The more you hit a spot, the better of a response you get, the crazier the shows are.”

Ex-Cult’s November tour through the Southeast was on track to include its first visit to Florida — until September, that is, when organizers from the Don’t Stop St. Petersburg Music Festival reached out and convinced the band to play a one-off there on Oct. 18th. “It’s funny that it took us four years to make it to Florida,” Shaw says, “and now we’re playing there twice in a really short period of time. We’re also excited because we’ll be touring with home state heroes Golden Pelicans, an awesome rock ‘n’ roll band from Orlando that just put out its first LP.” With those kinds of tight relationships formed thanks to non-stop touring, a heightened national profile, and the aforementioned Cigarette Machine EP coming out next year on San Francisco label Castle Face, the future looks bright for Ex-Cult.

And that refutes this writer’s claim that garage and punk rock are reaching a point of critical mass.

“Working with a label like Castle Face is awesome because they put out reputable bands that then bring attention to their smaller bands, too,” Shaw says. “That’s good for the overall underground music community since it helps the bands we’ve been friends with for years get some recognition from outside of the small scene they belong to.”

Asked about Ex-Cult’s roots in its own storied Memphis scene, which has given rise to still-active pioneers like The Oblivians and Reigning Sound, along with fallen heroes like Jay Reatard, Shaw demurs. “The ideal situation as a band is to push it, so we knew that the bigger we got, the more we would be gone from Memphis. And that was a consequence we were all fine with us. We’ve all lived in the city for a long time, and we like being up on what’s going on when we’re home. But I think all of us would rather be out of town and on the road.”

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

EX-CULT

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CONCERTS THIS WEEK

JERRY SALLEY, CLINTON GREGORY BLUEGRASS BAND, THE FARM HANDS, THE GARY WALDREP BAND, THE ISSACS, WHETHERMAN 6 p.m. Nov. 5, Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER Nov. 6, 7 & 8, Rodeheaver Downtown, 699-8186.

Boys’ Ranch, 380 Boys Ranch Rd., Palatka, 386-328-1281, HOLD YOUR OWN, EDENFIELD, FADE INTO DEMISE 8 p.m.

3-day advance tickets $75, $85 at the gate; one-day advance Nov. 5, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496, $8. $30, $35 at the gate; adamsbluegrass.com.

LARRY MANGUM, CHARLEY SIMMONS, CARLEY BAK 8 p.m.

CASTING CROWNS, SIDEWALK PROPHETS 7 p.m. Nov. 6, Nov. 5, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008.

Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Downtown, CHARLIE & the FOXTROTS, GOV CLUB, CHIEFORIA, THE LAST 630-3900, $25-$80.

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TONY LUCCA, MATT HIRES, JENNI REID 8 p.m. Nov. 6, Jack Nov. 11. Brett Eldredge 8 p.m. Nov. 12, Greater Jacksonville Rabbits, $12.

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THE BLACK LILLIES, NORA JANE STRUTHERS & the PARTY LINE 7 p.m. Nov. 7, Colonial Quarter, 33 St. George St., St. Augustine, 209-0367, $18.

THE LAST SONS, SONS NOT BEGGARS, HAPPY FACED MISTAKES 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $8.

THE FRITZ, HERD OF WATTS 8 p.m. Nov. 7, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, advance $12; $15 day of show.

SANCTUS REAL, JOSH WILSON, JON BAUER 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Westside, 3887807, $15-$25.

CORBITT BROTHERS, PARKER URBAN BAND, SENTROPOLIS, DIRTY GRASS SOUL 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Underbelly.

BRETT FOSTER 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247.

START MAKING SENSE, GOV CLUB, LAKE DISNEY 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Jack Rabbits, $12.

GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH, POOKIE & the POODLEZ, WET NURSES, THE GUN HOES 8 p.m. Nov. 7, Shanghai Nobby’s, $5.

BOOGIE FREAKS 8:30 p.m. Nov. 7 & 8, Latitude 360.

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OLD TIME JAM, PRELUDE CHAMBER QUARTET, REDNECK HUMMUS, DOUG VANDERLAAN & HEATHER PERRY, DOUGLAS ANDERSON GUITAR ENSEMBLE, JOE SHUCK, CANARY IN THE COALMINE, BAY STREET, DIRT FLOOR KRACKERS, KATIE HELOW & ZACH LEVER, CRAZY DAYSIES, LAUREN FINCHAM & MIKE PEARSON, GOLIATH FLORES, TROPIC OF CANCER, JESSE MONTOYA Noon-5 p.m. Nov. 8, locations in Springfield, jacksonvilleporchfest.org.

MOYAMOYA ALBUM RELEASE 4 and 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Deep Search Records, 822 Lomax St., Riverside, 423-0969.

KRISTIAN BUSH 7 p.m. Nov. 8, UNF’s Lazzara Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-1000, $22.50-$37.50; $50 VIP, runwell.com.

HEART 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367.

TAMAR BRAXTON, NEPHEW TOMMY, RICKY SMILEY, SPECIAL K, LYFE JENNINGS 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Veterans Memorial Arena, $39.50-$99.

THE WILDTONES, LAUREL LEE & the ESCAPEES 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Shanghai Nobby’s.

DANKA, PRIME TREES, PRIDELESS, SWEET HAYAH, FAZE WAVE 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Freebird Live, $8.

SPEAKING CURSIVE CD Release: WEEKEND ATLAS, WINTER WAVE 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits, advance $5; $10 at the door.

BT, FARACE, DAVE BERG 9 p.m. Nov. 8, Eclipse, 4219 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 535-6971, $25.

PHILLIP PHILLIPS, SAINTS OF VICTORY 7 p.m. Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $26.50-$46.50.

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, TIFT MERRITT 7 p.m. Nov. 9, Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-5661, $35-$70.

RANDY NEWMAN 8 p.m. Nov. 9, Flagler College, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, 209-0367, $57-$72, staugamp.sjcvenues.com.

GRINGO STAR 8 p.m. Nov. 9, Underbelly, advance $8; $10 day of.

THE LONE BELLOW, KRISTIN DIABLE, FOREIGN FIELDS 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 209-0367, $22-$25.

VIGIL & THIEVES, SUNSPOTS, POETRY & MOTION 8 p.m. Nov. 10, Jack Rabbits, $8.

BILLY PONTIUS, TEXAS PLANT, MENTAL BOY, VERY NERVOUS 8 p.m. Nov. 10, Shanghai Nobby’s.

REVEREND HORTON HEAT, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE 7 p.m. Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits, $20.

SEVENDUST 7 p.m. Nov. 12, Underbelly, $20.

MATISYAHU 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12, Florida Theatre, $35-$45.

TAB BENOIT, DEVON ALLMAN BAND 8 p.m. Nov. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $24.50-$34.50.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival: DUMPSTAPHUNK, UMPHREY’S McGEE, ST. PAUL & the BROKEN BONES, OTEIL BURBRIDGE, ZACH DEPUTY, MINGO FISHTRAP, THE FRITZ, CATFISH ALLIANCE Nov. 13-16, Suwannee Music Park ROD PICOTT, TRACY GRAMMER Nov. 13, Mudville Music Room TRIBAL SEEDS, BALLYHOO, GONZO, BEYOND I-SIGHT Nov. 13, Freebird Live LECRAE Nov. 13, Florida Theatre SAINTSENECA, SWARMING BRANCH, COUGAR BARREL Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits NONPOINT, GEMINI SYNDROME, ISLANDER, 3 YEARS HOLLOW Nov. 13, 1904 Music Hall BRET MICHAELS Nov. 13, Mavericks O.A.R., ANDY GRAMMER Nov. 14, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE DRUIDS Nov. 14, West Inn Cantina LOCAL HONEY ARTIST SHOWCASE Nov. 14, Colonial Quarters, St. Augustine CRYING WOLF, MUDTOWN, MICKEEL Nov. 14, Jack Rabbits DIRTY HEADS, ROME Nov. 14, Mavericks THE CURT TOWNE BAND, FIREROAD, JAKE CALHOUN & the CHASERS Nov. 14, Freebird Live CLARENCE CARTER Nov. 14, Ritz Theatre HOUSE CATS Nov. 14, Tempo GYPSY STAR, REBECCA ZAPEN Nov. 14, Mudville Music Room EX CULT, GOLDEN PELICANS, BROWN PALACE, THE MOLD Nov. 14, Shanghai Nobby’s JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, CORY BRANAN Nov. 15, Colonial Quarters, St. Augustine Katie D’Elia Memorial Show (Hubbard House benefit): FJORD EXPLORER, KLN, ELECTRIC WATER & SUPER FUNKY FUNK,

HEY MANDIBLE, MOON CHEESE BABIES Nov. 15, Burro Bar SICK OF IT ALL, NEGATIVE APPROACH, RHYTHM OF FEAR Nov. 15, Jack Rabbits THE DELUSIONAIRES, LAUREL LEE & the ESCAPEES, KENSLEY STEWART Nov. 15, Shanghai Nobby’s SUNSPOTS, WHAT HEART, RANDY LANE Nov. 15, Freebird Live PAUL RODGERS Nov. 15, Veterans Memorial Arena CALVIN NEWBORN QUARTET Nov. 17, Beaches Museum FINE ART of JAZZ Tribute to Count Basie Nov. 18, Ritz Theatre COURAGE MY LOVE, BUTTONS, EVERSAY Nov. 18, Jack Rabbits WHITECHAPEL, GLASS CLOUD, OF TRIBE & TRUTH Nov. 18, Freebird Live TOMBOI, PROM DATE, HEAVY DREAMS, DREAM EAGLE Nov. 19, 1904 Music Hall JAMES TAYLOR & his ALL-STAR BAND Nov. 19, Veterans Memorial Arena BURNING ITCH, TIGHT GENES Nov. 19, Shanghai Nobby’s HOT SARDINES Nov. 20, Church of the Good Shepherd ERIC LINDELL Nov. 20, Mojo Kitchen THE WORD ALIVE, COLOR MORALE, OUR LAST NIGHT, THE DEAD RABBITS, MISS FORTUNE Nov. 20, Underbelly MELISSA ETHERIDGE, ALEXANDER CARDINALE Nov. 21, Florida Theatre DRIVER FRIENDLY, LIGHT YEARS Nov. 21, Burro Bar THIRD DAY Nov. 21, Times-Union Center NATALIE STOVALL & the DRIVE Nov. 21, Mavericks THE EMBRACED, THE STRANGE, URSULA Nov. 21, Jack Rabbits SEVEN NATIONS Nov. 22, Lynch’s Irish Pub FLOGGING MOLLY Nov. 22, Seawalk Pavilion OTIS CLAY Nov. 22, Ritz Theatre FLATBUSH ZOMBIES, UNDERACHIEVERS Nov. 22, Underbelly 10TH AVENUE NORTH, ROYAL TAILOR Nov. 22, Murray Hill Theatre AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK, RINGS OF SATURN, UPON THIS DAWNING, THE CONVALESCENCE Nov. 22, 1904 Music Hall EVERYMEN, SPEAK EASY, WEIGHTED HANDS Nov. 23, Nobby’s RELIENT K, BLONDFIRE, FROM INDIAN LAKES Nov. 24, Freebird AARON CARTER, BILLY WINFIELD Nov. 25, Jack Rabbits THE WEIGHTED HANDS, COUGAR BARREL, JOEST & JEREMY ROGERS Nov. 26, Jack Rabbits PASSAFIRE, THE HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 28, Freebird Live SLAVES, GET SCARED, FAVORITE WEAPON Nov. 28, 1904 Music COSBY SWEATER Nov. 29, 1904 Music Hall RONNIE DOZIER, JASMINE RHEY Nov. 29, Ritz Theatre I-WAYNE, BLACK AM I Nov. 29, Freebird Live PRIMER 55, RAZORZ EDGE Nov. 30, Jack Rabbits 69 BOYZ, 95 SOUTH, QUAD CITY FAMILY Nov. 30, Eclipse TEACH ME EQUALS Dec. 3, Shanghai Nobby’s The Big Ticket: FALL OUT BOY, WEEZER, ALT-J, YOUNG THE GIANT, SLEEPER AGENT, KNOX HAMILTON, UNLIKELY CANDIDATES, CHEVELLE, NEW POLITICS, J RODDY, BIG DATA, BEAR HANDS, YOUNG RISING SONS, ISLANDER Dec. 5, Metropolitan Park HUNTER HAYES Dec. 5, Veterans Memorial Arena WHO RESCUED WHO Dec. 5, Lynch’s Irish Pub FOZZY, TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION, SHAMAN’S HARVEST Dec. 6, Aqua Club & Lounge JUBILEE RIOTS Dec. 6, Café Eleven DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES Dec. 6, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE DRUIDS Dec. 6, Your Place Bar & Grill TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, BILLY NERSHI Dec. 6, Freebird Live JAMISON WILLIAMS Dec. 7, Sun-Ray Cinema SARAH MAC BAND Dec. 10, Mudville Music Room TRAMPLED BY TURTLES, NIKKI LANE Dec. 12, P.V. Concert Hall Society for the Prevention of Suicide Benefit with JULIE DURDEN Dec. 12, Mudville Music Room FIREHOUSE Dec. 12, Mavericks ALLEN TOUSSAINT Dec. 13, Ritz Theatre DIERKS BENTLEY Dec. 13, Glynn County Football Stadium ZULU WAVE, WRAY, GLORIES, STRANGE LORDS, WEIGHTED HANDS, DREDGER, GHOST TROPIC Dec. 13, Nobby’s WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE Dec. 14, Florida Theatre ARS PHOENIX, SEVERED+SAID, IRONING, SUPER FAMICOM, DJ VAS TOY, COLD WASTE, RAIN SYMBOLS Dec. 14, Nobby’s FULL BODY TONES Dec. 14, Jack Rabbits FINE ART of JAZZ Mary Lou Williams Tribute Dec. 16, Ritz Theatre

JOE BONAMASSA Dec. 17, Florida Theatre BOWSER & the STINGRAYS, HERMAN’S HERMITS, PETER NOONE, GARY PUCKETT & UNION GAP Dec. 18, Florida Theatre ASTRONAUTALIS, YONI WOLF, BLUEBIRD Dec. 18, Jack Rabbits TRACE ADKINS Dec. 19, Florida Theatre BOBBY LEE RODGERS Dec. 20, Freebird Live DJ ICEY, BABY ANNE Dec. 25, Eclipse Nightclub INSPECTION 12 Dec. 27, Freebird Live THE CORBITT BROTHERS Dec. 31, Freebird Live DARYL HANCE, BRENT BYRD, SUITCASE GYPSIES Jan. 3, Underbelly DON WILLIAMS Jan. 7, Florida Theatre THE SPINNERS, THE STYLISTICS, THE MAIN INGREDIENT Jan. 8, The Florida Theatre FRED EAGLESMITH Jan. 9, Café Eleven WINTER JAM: SKILLET, JEREMY CAMP, BUILDING 429, FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI, FOR KING & COUNTRY, NEWSONG, FAMILY FORCE 5, TONY NOLAN, BLANCA, ABOUT A MILE, VERIDIA Jan. 9, Veterans Memorial Arena MISERY HEAD, CRASHMIR, THE EMBRACED Jan. 10, Freebird LUCINDA WILLIAMS Jan. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TIM EASTON, HEATHER PIERSON Jan. 14, Mudville Music Room TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Jan. 16, Florida Theatre THE BOTH (AIMEE MANN, TED LEO) Jan. 16, P.V. Concert Hall MONROE CROSSING Jan. 16, Mudville Music Room DIANE SCHUUR Jan. 17, Ritz Theatre OF MONTREAL, NEDELLE TORRISI Jan. 19, Freebird Live SHOVELS & ROPE, CAROLINE ROSE Jan. 20, P.V. Concert Hall GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Jan. 21, Freebird Live KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 22, Florida Theatre IRIS DEMENT Jan. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ARLO GUTHRIE Jan. 29, Florida Theatre GALACTIC Jan. 29, Freebird Live URSAMINOR, SURVIVING SEPTEMBER, THE HEALING PROCESS, NOCTURNAL STATE OF MIND Jan. 31, Freebird Live JACKSONVEGAS, MASTER RADICAL Jan. 31, Underbelly GLEN HANSARD Feb. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TRAVIS TRITT Feb. 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE PIANO GUYS Feb. 6, Florida Theatre VINCE GILL & TIME JUMPERS Feb. 7, Florida Theatre JOHN HAMMOND Feb. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DENNIS DeYOUNG & Music of Styx Feb. 21, Florida Theatre THE MIDTOWN MEN Feb. 26, Florida Theatre THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, MARSHALL TUCKER BAND Feb. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Aura Music & Arts Festival: MOE, THE DISCO BISCUITS, PAPADOSIO, SNARKY PUPPY, THE MAIN SQUEEZE, PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG, McLOVINS, GHOST OWL March 6-8, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park

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THREE DOG NIGHT March 10, Florida Theatre JOHN MELLENCAMP March 15, Times-Union Center CYRUS CHESTNUT March 20; MAVIS STAPLES March 21, Ritz JANIS IAN, TOM PAXTON April 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE WHO HITS 50! TOUR April 19, Veterans Memorial Arena RAIN April 24, Florida Theatre ZZ TOP, JEFF BECK May 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Florida Country Superfest: ZAC BROWN BAND, COLT FORD, KENNY CHESNEY, KEITH URBAN, BRANTLEY GILBERT, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, DAVID NAIL, DANIELLE BRADBERY, THE SWON BROTHERS June 13 & 14, EverBank Field

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer every Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing 6 p.m. Fri. & Sat. HAMMERHEADS 2045 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-7783 DJ Refresh 9 p.m. every Sun.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores 9 p.m. every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE 4219 St. Johns Ave. BT, Farace, Dave Berg 9 p.m.

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Nov. 8. KJ Free 9 p.m. every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m.

Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance 9 p.m. every Fri. Music every Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Brothers Duo Nov. 6. Whetherman Nov. 7. Herd of Watts, Paul Miller Nov. 8. Live music every Thur.-Sat. night.

BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 Red Beard & Stinky E 9 p.m. Nov. 6. Bread & Butter 9 p.m. Nov. 7.

Dirty Pete Nov. 8. Red Beard & Stinky E 10 p.m. Thur.

FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 The Last Sons, Sons Not Beggars, Happy Faced Mistakes, Askmeificare Nov. 7.

Danka, Prime Trees, Prideless, Sweet Hayah, Faze Wave Nov. 8 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade 6 p.m. every Sun. Back From the Brink 9 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Blue Muse Nov. 5. Uncle Buffalo Nov. 6. Wes Cobb Nov. 7 MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Neil Dixon Tue. Gypsies Ginger Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer Thur.

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THE KNIFE

NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Brent Byrd 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5. Pili Pili 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6. Brent Byrd & Suitcase 6 p.m. Nov. 7. Mr. Natural 6 p.m. Nov. 8. Eric Alabasio 11:30 a.m., Fat Cactus 3:30 p.m. Nov. 9 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Kurt Lanham Nov. 5. The Splinters Nov. 6. Bush Doctors Nov. 7 & 8

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. The Fritz, Herd of Watts 8 p.m. Nov. 7. Open mic jam every Mon. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 353-4686 Charlie & the Foxtrots, Gov Club, Chieforia, The Last Songs 8 p.m. Nov. 5.

Destroyer of Light, Loudon 7 p.m. Nov. 6 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ 007 Fri. Bay Street every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Jacob Powell 6 p.m. Nov. 7. Joe Buck, Big Tasty Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Whetherman 6 p.m.

Nov. 5. Corbitt Brothers, Parker Urban Band, Sentropolis, Dirty Grass Soul Nov. 7. Professor Whiskey Nov. 8. Gringo Star Nov. 9

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Cameron 9 p.m. Nov. 6. Seven Street Band 9 p.m. Nov. 7 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 The Ride 9:30 p.m. Nov. 7 & 8. Open mic 9 p.m. Thur. Deck music 5 p.m.

Fri. & Sat., 4:30 p.m. Sun.

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Open mic: Synergy Wed. World’s Most Talented Waitstaff Fri.

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 DJ Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Comfort Zone 10 p.m. Nov. 7 & 8. DJ Corey B Wed. Live music Fri. & Sat.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Live music Wed.-Sun. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Deron Baker Nov. 5. Gary Starling Nov. 6. DiCarlo Thompson Nov. 7. Paxton & Mike Nov. 8

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Sanctus Real, Josh Wilson, Jon Bauer 8 p.m. Nov. 7 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Jesse Montoya, Robert Lester Folsom, LaVilla Chorus Nov. 8

ST. AUGUSTINE

CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Cheryl Wheeler 8 p.m. Nov. 6 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 The Murderburgers, Rational Anthem, Eric Ayotte, The Resonants Nov. 6. Guantanamo Baywatch, Pookie & the Poodlez, Wet Nurses, The Gun Hoes Nov. 7. The Wildtones, Laurel Lee & the Escapees Nov. 8. Billy Pontius, Mental Boy, Very Nervous Nov. 10 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 342-0286 Steve Sylvia Nov. 8

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013 Dance Radio Underground, Sugar & Cream, Black Hoodie, Bass Therapy Sessions 10 p.m. Allan GIz-Roc Oteyza, Scott Perry aka TrapNasty and Cry Havoc rotate, mid.-3 a.m. Fever Saturdays JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Hold Your Own, Edenfield, Fade Into Demise Nov. 5. Tony Lucca, Matt Hires, Jenni Reid Nov. 6. Start Making Sense, Gov Club, Lake Disney Nov. 7. Vigil & Thieves, Sunspots, Poetry & Motion Nov. 10 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Larry Mangum, Charley Simmons, Carley Bak Nov. 5. Malcolm Holcombe Nov. 6. Sam Pacetti Nov. 7

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Be Easy Nov. 6.

Boogie Freaks 8:30 p.m. Nov. 7 & 8 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 997-1955 Charlie Walker Nov. 6. Crusoe Nov. 7. Jameyal Nov. 8 MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, 9550 Baymeadows, 737-5299 Aaron Sheeks Nov. 5. Dirty Pete Nov. 6. The Druids Nov. 7. Carl & the Black Lungs Nov. 8. Chuck Nash Nov. 11 WILD WING CAFÉ, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Chris Brinkley Nov. 5. Love Monkey Nov. 7

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WHY DOWNLOAD CULTURE IS DANGEROUS

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wo weeks ago, I spent a gorgeous October weekend tooling around western North Carolina with family friends, the patriarch of which is an avid vinyl collector. While shopping at an independent Asheville record store, my friend recounted a disturbing anecdote during which he was spinning an album for the son of a client. As the record played, the 12-yearold asked, “How do you change tracks?” My friend manually lifted the needle and moved it to another location on the disc. The preteen’s monosyllabic response: “Gross.”

Aside from exhibiting an embarrassing lack of understanding of the meaning of the word “gross,” the child seems to have been abandoned by his parents, left to twist in the harsh winds of the digital hinterlands, where switching tracks means clicking the next title on the screen of an iWhatever. It got me thinking about my childhood, and the role technology played in my developing engagement with music.

When I was 5 years old, in 1972, I placed the first of what would be thousands of records on the platter of my parents’ Panasonic turntable.

It was Band of Gypsys Live at the Fillmore East, pulled from a vast collection of wonderful albums my folks had amassed over the years. This is an experience many of today’s kids will never enjoy, and in my estimation, that is a horrible thing.

Now this is not the rant of a bitter curmudgeon, and I am not going to take the position of a classist audiophile bemoaning the loss of frequency depth and warmth oft-employed in the analog-versus-digital debate. Herein, I will simply make the argument that download culture has taken us out of the process of choosing, interacting with and, ultimately, enjoying music.

That process was important. Buying an album meant getting off your ass and entering a building where the physical objects were kept. It meant flipping through piles of records to find what you were looking for or, if you had time to browse, taking your time and getting lost in the stacks, maybe finding something amazing or quirky in the search. It was a social event, during which you might talk to the owner or a fellow music fan. It meant driving home with the artifact, removing it carefully from its packaging and placing it on the turntable. It meant returning to the turntable when Side 1 had concluded to flip the disc and continue the experience. It meant storing the product and being mindful of its condition.

If all of this sounds like more effort than you might be willing to put forth, then this is

a problem. The effort makes us conscious of music’s presence in our lives. It puts you, the consumer, the listener, at the center of the exercise.

Placing a needle on a rotating vinyl disc should be viewed as a sacred act, a ritual of significance, not some unenviable burden. To be disengaged from the action is to shirk your responsibility to the art, which is indeed a living thing. Being aware of the process is almost as important as the listening.

Downloading music removes us from the process. Purchasing music online is a sedentary act, one that keeps us in our homes, ear buds in, receiving a virtual package of zeroes and ones only to store them in the ether with little or no awareness of their presence. There’s no care involved, no maintenance short of replacing the disposable devices they are played on. There’s no album art to enjoy, no liner notes to read. We can remain blissfully uninformed, unresponsible and unchallenged.

It’s not surprising that this is how we procure and imbibe music. It’s a laziness that pervades our society, a universal ennui that fuels isolation, and we are paying for it in reduced attention spans and fragmented communities. Friends don’t make mix tapes for each other anymore; they send Spotify playlists. What a labor of love, creating the mixtape, a 90-minute collection of your favorite, most meaningful songs. It meant hours upon hours of sorting your vinyl, placing each record on the turntable to record one or two songs, removing it and putting it away only to repeat the process two dozen or more times.

Nowadays, you click and drag a highlighted bank of titles, click “burn,” and you’re done. Or worse, you Facebook a link to your virtual playlist.

Done. No work, no involvement, no love.

It’s sad, to me, that a huge percentage of America’s youth will never know the anticipation of a midnight album release at the local record store. They’ll never experience the elation of breaking the shrink wrap on a new record album, hearing the crackle of the gatefold as they open it to reveal Technicolor artwork, or maybe a lyric book or a page of rub-on tattoos. They’ll never grow to understand the time and effort it takes to maintain a record collection, and the deeper appreciation for music it affords. They’ll never get the pleasure of the needle drop.

My kid and I listen to vinyl together. We don’t do it enough, and we should do it more, but we do it. Together. And that’s important.

John E. Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com

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OUT OF THIS WORLD

Director Christopher Nolan’s latest is a testament to the power of cinematic sci-fi

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humanity’s salvation: a new planet to call home his is big. It’s huge. We don’t make movies on the other side. It doesn’t take much for the like this anymore — we hardly ever did.

Brands to convince Coop that a trip through I’m not talking about big in the sense of the wormhole to scout for a habitable planet budget or even big like epic. We do that plenty: would satisfy both his thirst for adventure spend the GDP of a small nation to make men and his desire to save his children from the in capes fly or monsters stomp or toys sing. I’m oncoming doom. talking big when it comes to ideas. Big when That is but the quickest outline of the it comes to optimism. What passes for science beginning of a story for which the word epic fiction on screens big and small these days is barely suffices. Director Christopher Nolan — dreary and depressing. Post-apocalyptic and writing once again with his brother, Jonathan apprehensive. We stopped looking out and started looking down, and back, and in. We lost — could easily have expanded this to a 10-hour miniseries, there’s so much that could have wonder and replaced it with worry. been lingered over. Yet Interstellar, at nearly Which is why Interstellar is so thrilling. three hours, certainly isn’t rushed, either. Nolan It is full of stirring notions of what humanity takes plenty of time for a sort of deep-space might be capable of, and follows through with grandeur that was surely inspired by Kubrick’s the breathtaking adventure that necessarily 2001: A Space Odyssey: The image of the tiny follows. Or, well, the adventure that necessarily ship Coop and his small crew leave Earth in, follows if we chase those possibilities instead of as it passes in front of the immensity of Saturn, ignoring them. It’s full of enormous risk-taking brought tears to my eyes with its juxtaposition in the quest for something bigger and better of the might of nature and the for all of us. It’s full of hope audacity of humanity. It isn’t for humanity. And that is a at all unfair to see shades of wonderfully refreshing thing INTERSTELLAR 2001 in Interstellar, not when right now. **** it concerns itself with both Interstellar does have Rated PG-13 the most intimate of human looming apocalypse, yes, but emotions and desires — love that’s merely the impetus and survival, loneliness and despair — and the for the adventure. In the near future, nature biggest of ideas: the boldness of humans as a is slowly collapsing and human structures are species and the future to which we might aspire. stagnating. But even here, a little bit of wonder (However, this is no art film: the other movie and excitement can be rustled up by someone I would bet money inspired Interstellar, at least with the inclination for it. Our introduction partly, is the 1979 Disney space adventure The to Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) comes Black Hole. That movie blew my mind as a kid, through a chase he leads his kids on to capture and I bet it did Nolan’s, too.) a feral surveillance drone — its solar panels This is a film as bold and audacious as and other technological goodies are invaluable the ideas and the adventure it embraces as salvage — that’s free for the taking since any humanity’s destiny, never dumbing down its semblance of mission control collapsed a science and never pretending that the clash decade back. between reason and emotion isn’t something Coop is a lonely would-be adventurer in that even brilliant scientists battle in themselves. a world that, like ours, has lost its taste for The most humanist thing about what might be space exploration. But a few people in a NASA the most humanist sci-fi film in ages is this: It that has been driven underground, literally knows that our future is in the hands of all of us and figuratively, are maintaining the dream, deeply flawed and deeply conflicted humans, but including mathematician Brand (Michael Caine) and his scientist daughter, Amelia (Anne that there’s still plenty of reason to hope anyway.

Hathaway). And there’s real urgency to their But we do actually have to try. work, because they’ve discovered a wormhole MaryAnn Johanson mail@folioweekly.com out near Saturn that could hold the key to

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MAGIC LANTERNS

POST-APOCALYPSE NOW

Prior to 1950 and the Atomic Age, only four apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic films were produced.

The most famous was the 1936 British film Things to Come, scripted by H.G. Wells. After 1950, though, the floodgates were open, and films dealing with the end of life on Earth, or at least of civilization as we know it, became almost too numerous to count.

Whatever the cause of Doomsday — the Bomb, overpopulation, rogue comets, technology, even zombies — the movies have made lots of popcorn money off the grim phenomenon.

Now making its premiere on home video, Snowpiercer, the latest entry in the genre, didn’t fare well at the box office (due primarily to distribution wrangling and a limited release) but nonetheless scored a whopping approval rating from audiences and (surprisingly!) critics.

A really curious hybrid, the movie is based on a French graphic novel and directed by South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, whose 2007 giant creature movie The Host blew both of the more recent Godzillas out of the ballpark in terms of quality and originality. Heading the cast of the new film are Chris Evans (Captain America), two Oscar winners (Tilda Swinton and Octavia Spencer), two multiple Oscar nominees (John Hurt and Ed Harris), and two Korean regulars of Bong Joon-ho films. That’s a lot of firepower, and by no means all of it.

Set in the not-too-distant future — after the Earth has entered a new ice age (thanks to a bonehead plan to correct global warming) — humanity’s sole survivors are all packed into an enormously long train hurtling across the frozen world. The rich and the fortunate live in the lap of luxury in the front of the train, while the luckless majority struggle for existence near the rear. In essence, the situation mirrors the same conflict as in The Time Machine and so many other movies like it, a class struggle between the Haves and Have-Nots.

It is Evans (the Avenger is almost unrecognizable in a black beard and buzz-cut), as Curtis, who leads the revolt this time, as the hapless Unwashed decide to assert their rights and take over the train, despite the protestations of the Company mouthpiece Mason (Swinton, also nearly unrecognizable).

There’s a lot of fighting and bloodletting as our selfless heroes surge forward, hemorrhaging numbers at an alarming rate, until the ultimate final confrontation and all kinds of plot spoilers.

The film has been likened to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and 12 Monkeys, an interpretation bolstered by the fact that John Hurt’s character, a mentor of sorts to Curtis, is named Gilliam. Snowpiercer develops an almost surreal quality as we enter the world of the privileged on the train, and Gilliam’s films thrive on surrealism and satire. Unfortunately, Bong Joon-ho’s film, though visually arresting, comes nowhere close to the intelligence and thematic complexities of a Terry Gilliam film.

I wish I could be more enthusiastic about Snowpiercer, but it was hard to get past all the clichés and plot-hole idiocies, particularly as the film moves toward its conclusion. Rather than Brazil or 12 Monkeys, I was thinking of John Boorman’s Zardoz (1974) with Sean Connery in a ponytail and loincloth wreaking havoc among the besotted hierarchy of the future. For all its loopy extravagance and excess, Zardoz was imaginative, provocative and original.

Snowpiercer, on the other hand, is merely more of the same old stuff.

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

Didn’t the American Family Association warn us about this? Harry Potter (aka Daniel Radcliffe) is all grown up and sprouting horns in, well, HORNS.

FILM RATINGS

**** LESLIE WEST **@@ DOTTIE WEST

***@ SANDY WEST *@@@ KANYE WEST

SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN

SUN-RAY CINEMA John Ratzenberger (Toy Story) holds a Q&A at a screening of American Made Movie at 7 p.m. on Nov. 11. The Tale of Princess Kaguya opens Nov. 7. Listen Up Philip, Interstellar and St. Vincent are showing at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

LATITUDE 360 MOVIES Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Maleficent, at Latitude 360’s CineGrille Theater, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, latitude360.com/jacksonville-fl.

WGHF IMAX THEATER Interstellar: The IMAX Experience, Under the Sea, Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West, Island of Lemurs Madagascar 3D, Journey to the South Pacific: An IMAX 3D Experience, Jerusalem, and We The People are currently screening at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ The Great Dictator screens at 7 p.m. on Nov. 5 and 6. The Two Faces of January screens at 8 p.m. Nov. 5-13, and at 3 p.m. on Nov. 8 and 9 at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

CARMEN Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Bizet’s opera opus is screened at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 5 at Regal Avenues and Cinemark Tinseltown, fathomevents.com.

OF MICE AND MEN (NT LIVE) James Franco and Chris O’Dowd star in the Broadway production of John Steinbeck’s classic, filmed by National Theatre Live, screened at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Regal Avenues and Cinemark Tinseltown, fathomevents.com.

GADABOUT FILM FESTIVAL Eric Ayotte presents DIY-geared music and short films at 7 p.m. on Nov. 7 at Tehila’s, 1250 S. McDuff Ave., Avondale, 568-0372, $10, eventbrite.com.

NOW SHOWING

ADDICTED Rated R Amazon smut artist (and federal tax cheat) Zane adapts her novel about a married black woman who develops a dangerous compulsion to sleep with other men. Sexual sistershaming: It isn’t just for white people anymore! Costars Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe and John Newberg. — Steve Schneider ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Rated PG **G@ I don’t know how to break it to you, kid, but Judy Moody just had herself a kickass summer. Costars Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Megan Mullally and Jennifer Coolidge. Dick Van Dyke has a cameo. — S.S. ANNABELLE Rated R One of the highlights of my movie-going career was going to a midnight screening of Bride of Chucky that was attended by a splendid array of thrill-seeking reprobates. My favorites were the family of four at the very head of the line, who enthusiastically informed the ticket-taker they’d spent the night before re-watching all the previous Chucky movies, “to catch up.” (To CATCH UP.) Maybe someday, some equally dedicated clan will undertake a similar marathon to reacquaint themselves with the adventures of Annabelle, the possessed children’s doll now being spun off from the sleeper horror hit The Conjuring into her very own prequel vehicle. — S.S. BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP Rated R S.J. Watson’s source novel was a phenom, thrilling readers with its story of a woman who wakes every day with no memory. This film adaptation – which stars Nicole Kidman – is being castigated on IMDB as a rip-off of 50 First Dates.

Christ, it’s enough to make you want to watch Shutter Island again. (But only if you forget it immediately, of course.) — S.S. THE BEST OF ME Rated PG-13 If Hollywood has taught me anything, it’s that the funeral of a friend is a great opportunity to get laid. Seen The Big Chill lately? I mean, once Costner’s uncredited body was in the box, it was no holds barred. Nicholas Sparks continues the proud tradition, with the story of two ex-lovers (James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan) who seize on their buddy’s death to rekindle a long-dormant attraction. — S.S.

BIG HERO 6 Rated PG In a notable show of compassion for “rival” DC/ Warner, Disney isn’t even playing up the fact that its latest animated juggernaut is based on a Marvel comic. That way, nobody has to feel deliberately taunted by the reality that the Mouse House has turned two obscure Marvel titles into major releases in the space of three months, while the competition ... um ... well, there were lots of Wonder Woman outfits at a doggie costume contest I attended last weekend. So that market’s still competitive, at least. — S.S. THE BOOK OF LIFE Rated PG ***G First-time writer-director Jorge R. Gutierrez knocks one out of the park with this animated telling of the story of the Hispanic holiday Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. When the mayor’s daughter María (voiced by Zoë Saldana) is courted by two childhood friends seeking her hand in marriage, the rulers of the underworld (voiced by Kate del Castillo and Ron Perlman) place a bet on who will win her hand. Driven by an original plot and played out on the screen with dazzling animation, The Book of Life ramps up the game on fantasy filmmaking. — Daniel A. Brown THE BOXTROLLS Rated PG **** Loosely adapted from Alan Snow’s 2005 book Here Be Monsters, this animated feature features the titular creatures, reclusive scavengers who live beneath the surface world in the heart of Cheesebridge’s pointy mountain. Yet they’re believed to steal babies and eat humans – a story given some credence by the disappearance of one infant 10 years earlier. The “Boxtroll exterminator,” Archibald Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley), is trying to maximize that fear to move up the Cheesebridge hierarchy into the world of the “white hats,” even as the now-10-year-old Boxtroll-raised human boy, Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Wright), begins to wonder if he belongs to a different world. The town’s self-absorbed, cheese-nibbling, white-hat-wearing oligarchy – led by Lord Portley-Rind (Jared Harris), whose daughter Winnie (Elle Fanning) befriends Eggs – is the perfect launching pad for Snatcher’s disgruntled sense of entitlement. — Scott Renshaw CURRENT THEEGA Not Rated This Tollywood romantic-comedy is directed by G. Nageswara Reddy and stars Manchu Manoj, Jagapati Babu and Rakul Preet Singh. In Telugu.

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Rated R This smart, witty and thought-provoking comedy from first-time director Justin Simien chronicles the lives of four African-American students and their experiences studying at the predominately white Winchester College. After activist Samantha White is elected as head of a black residency hall, a cultural war breaks out on campus that culminates in a riotous Halloween party. Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris), Tessa Thompson (Veronica Mars) and Dennis Haysbert (24) star in this surefire contender for the best college movie of its generation. — D.B. DRACULA UNTOLD Rated PG-13 Desperate to create a “shared universe” for its classic horror characters, Universal has reboots of Dracula, Frankenstein and a whole cemetery plot’s worth of their pals.

In the driver’s seat? The guys who brought you Transformers.

And before you say that idea’s the pits, consider: Dracula Untold is an unrelated, low-priority quickie the studio had to get out of the way first. The breath, it truly does catch. Costars Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper and Sarah Gadon. — S.S. THE EQUALIZER Rated R Back in the late ’80s, I had a buddy who was heavily into the CBS revenge series The Equalizer ; when his metal band released its first single, he cited the show as “inspiration” in the liner notes. Now it’s 2014, Edward Woodward has become Denzel Washington, and I don’t wanna THINK about what kind of indie music this pseudoremake might spark. A plot seemingly lifted wholesale from Washington’s Man on Fire (not to mention The Professional, and The November Man) indicates director Antoine Fuqua isn’t counting on diehards like my old pal for anything more than a few bucks’ worth of first-weekend insurance. — S.S. FURY Rated R ***G Ask any product of America’s school

system to name something that happened in the last few months of World War II, and the likely answer is “Captain America got frozen in a block of ice.” (Hell, it’s all I could name off the top of my head. Sorry, Bono!) Apparently, Brad Pitt also got in a spot of trouble, risking his life to command a tank crew on a dangerous mission into the heart of the collapsing Nazi empire. But really, how tough was Germany by April 1945? (Now let me tell you what the Discovery Channel has taught me about haunted houses.) — S.S. GONE GIRL Rated R **@@ This is a horror movie about Nick and Amy Dunne, and what happens on their fifth wedding anniversary, when Amy disappears and the cops think Nick (Ben Affleck) killed her. Amy (Rosamund Pike) is famous; she was the inspiration for children’s books her mother wrote, so her disappearance is major news. — MaryAnn Johanson HORNS Rated R Based on the novel by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s boy!), this dark fantasy-thriller stars Daniel Radcliffe, who, after a rollicking night of drunkenness, wakes up with two horns sprouting out of his head and the power to make people reveal their deepest secrets – or as Folio Weekly staffers call it each week: “The Wednesday After Tequila Tuesday.” — D.B. INTERSTELLAR Rated PG-13 **** Reviewed in this issue.

JOHN WICK Rated R Viva la violence! Apparently the movie gods decided a week couldn’t go by without a hit man emerging from retirement for our carnage-witnessing pleasure. The pissed-off pro in question is played by Keanu Reeves, because IT COULD HAPPEN. Directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch are former stuntmen making their debut as filmmakers, so expect lots of emphasis on Meisner technique and emotional truth. — S.S. THE JUDGE Rated R **G@ Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin casts Robert Downey Jr. as a hotshot lawyer who has to defend his own father (Robert Duvall) on a murder charge.

“What a perfect idea for a John Grisham property,” said nobody you ever loved or trusted. — S.S. KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON Rated R Director Al Hick’s documentary is the story of 93-year-old legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, who mentored Miles Davis and played in Duke Ellington’s and Count Basie’s bands. Chronicling Terry’s accomplishments, the film focuses on his friendship with a 23-year-old blind piano prodigy and how they face two challenges together. — D.B. LEFT BEHIND Rated PG-13 For a while, it was fun to cluck about the terrible movies Nic Cage had to make because he’d lost all his money.

(Andy Samberg got good mileage out of it.) But no amount of destitution could justify Cage’s decision to take the lead role in a mainstream, big-studio adaptation of the odious Left Behind series of fundie wish-fulfillment novels. Somehow, a huge swath of secular America has convinced itself that the books are just fun apocalyptic sci-fi, when they’re really sneeringly superior whack-job theology that wishes death and damnation on everyone standing to the left of Pat Robertson. — S.S. LISTEN UP PHILIP Not Rated Jason Schwartzman stars as Philip Lewis Friedman, an angry, self-obsessed novelist waiting on the publication of his second book. Distracted by city life, and troubled by the state of his relationship with girlfriend Ashley (Elizabeth Ross), Philip readily accepts his hero Ike Zimmerman’s (Jonathan Pryce) offer to stay at a summer getaway, to get his head together and brood in peace and quiet. — D.B. NIGHTCRAWLER Rated R ***G Making his directorial debut after penning Real Steel and that Bourne movie nobody gave an especial dookie about, Dan Gilroy takes us into the world of LA “crime journalism,” where chasing every squad car you see might land you footage of the latest hot murder or hostage situation. It’s like being a paparazzo to crimes slightly more heinous than North West’s modeling career. — S.S. OUIJA Rated PG-13 A recent The New Yorker cartoon pointed out that Ouija boards are like texting for the dead. Here in Florida, we know they’re intimately connected: Text during a movie, and you soon may be dead. Text during this movie and who knows what’ll happen; it’s about malevolent forces unleashed when one messes around with the supernatural world’s answer to the board game Sorry! Filmmaker Stiles White has never directed a picture, though he did write such genre entries as The Possession and Boogeyman. Spectacular credentials! — S.S. SAW 10th ANNIVERSARY Rated R If Ouija left you wondering what happened to the good old days when we were guaranteed a new outing with Jigsaw and/or his progeny every single flippin’ Halloween, you’ll have to make do with this one-week-only re-release of the indie experiment in torture porn that started it all. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when the promo materials for a Saw flick could actually carry the tagline “Straight from Sundance!” — S.S. ST. VINCENT Rated PG-13 **G@ Bill Murray hams it up in this buddy-picture-surrogate-father-dysfunctional-role-model comedy (have we just forged a new film genre?!) about Vincent, an alcoholic vet who looks after a neighborhood kid while his mom is at work. While Murray doesn’t break any new ground with his “I’m a drunken crank” onscreen persona, diehards will dig him. Costars Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts and Chris O’Dowd make notable appearances as the voices of morality and/or sobriety. — D.B.

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A&E // ARTS Hurley Winkler

T.F. Straight

Tim Gilmore

Teri Youmans Grimm

LETTERS FROM HOME Local wordsmiths celebrate our city in Jax by Jax literary fest

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ear Jacksonville, city of Dublin suddenly disappeared it could For many years, your name has been be reconstructed with my book.’ That kind of synonymous with a cultural vacuum. concept has always blown me away.”

Outsiders and citizens alike have bemoaned your Jax by Jax is a love letter to the city by its own seemingly apathetic attitude toward the many writers, but sometimes writing about this city things artistic happening in our fine city. We means dealing with its historic themes, including don’t think that’s fair. We know your feelings are its troubled past of crime and racial issues. hurt, Jacksonville. We see you sulking around, Hurst’s book It Was Never About a Hotdog not returning our calls. But we have someone and a Coke! chronicles the infamous Ax Handle we’d like you to meet who can change all of that.

Saturday events, taking a hard look at the Yourself. community during the Civil Rights Movement.

Jacksonville, meet Jacksonville.

Other writers, such as Teri Youmans Grimm, On Nov. 8, the Park and King streets district will present work that highlights other aspects of Riverside hosts Jax by Jax, the first literary of Jacksonville history. Her book of poems, event of its kind in the city. The tagline is Becoming Lyla Dore, is told through the eyes of a “Jacksonville Writers silent film starlet in the Writing Jacksonville,” heyday of Jacksonville’s JAX BY JAX with nine area businesses moviemaking era.

Nov. 8, 3-6 p.m. at various acting as featured venues While hobnobbing locations at Park and King streets, Riverside for 15 local writers to with the local literary For schedule details, go to jaxbyjax.com present their work. The elite, visitors will have lineup includes Mark Ari, the chance to pick Jennifer Chase, longtime Folio Weekly scribe up several homegrown magazines. A C PAPA Susan Cooper Eastman, Sohrab Homi Fracis, (Ancient City Poets, Authors, Photographers and Wayne Francis, Tim Gilmore, Teri Youmans Artists) throws its launch party at Carmine’s Pie Grimm, Rodney L. Hurst, Matt Lany, Tiffany House. Copies of lit mags Perversion Magazine Melanson, Heather Peters, Raleigh Rand, T.F. and Bridge Eight are also up for grabs.

Straight and Hurley Winkler.

Events like Jax by Jax shrug off the stigma This isn’t your typical writing workshop. The that writing is a solitary practice performed focus is more on performance, not lecturing. by troubled souls tethered to whiskey bottles and typewriters. Instead, a strong community It will go something like this: every halfof area writers will stand in the spotlight to hour, readings will happen in 20-minute directly share their works with one another and increments. In between each set, visitors can an audience eager to hear how this community grab a drink, hang out, head to the other venues is a source of ongoing inspiration. and hopefully fall in love with Jacksonville’s “We hope to get people to think differently blossoming literary scene. about what’s happening in Jacksonville,” says Jax by Jax is the brain child of Gilmore, Gilmore, “and about writing about Jacksonville.” an English professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville and the author of In Search of At the very least, grab a cold beer and enjoy Eartha White, Storehouse for the People and a day of engaging readings and stimulating Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic. conversations.

So, Jacksonville, now is a good time to “Jacksonville has always had a reputation of finally meet, celebrate and even be surprised not knowing itself,” says Gilmore. “The goal is to by yourself. show Jacksonville what Jacksonville is doing.”

For Gilmore, the city is a deep well from Yours Truly, which to draw inspiration. “One thing I’ve Folio Weekly been fascinated with is the representation of Carley Robinson place,” he says. “James Joyce said that ‘if the mail@folioweekly.com

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A&E // ARTS Portugal

Paris

HYBRID

MOMENTS

The latest exhibit at CEAM explores collaboration through the realm of myth Berlin

Istanbul

Top: (left to right) Portugal, Paris, performance/photography mounted on acrylic, 16˝x12˝, 2014.

Bottom: (left to right) Berlin, Istanbul, performance/photography mounted on acrylic, 16˝x12˝, 2014.

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n some ways, much of art is about relationships: a relationship with the chosen medium or form, with oneself, the possible rapport with the audience or viewer, even the ongoing relationships with other artists. Since 2005, poet Terri Witek and visual artist Cyriaco Lopes have been deepening their creative connection with a series of ongoing collaborations utilizing video, performance, photography, drawing and artists’ books. Lopes compares his collaboration with Witek as “a bit like having a band.”

“We are friends. We do things together that we would not do in our own solo works,” says Lopes. “There is a moment in which the duo has another head — a third mind — that is not the sum of who we are per se, but its own will.”

The result of Lopes and Witek’s recent joint endeavors is featured at their Currents/ Correntes installation at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM) at Flagler College. During the opening reception, both artists will be present for a performative talk.

Currents/Correntes is an interdisciplinary collaboration combining an immersive environment with sound, video and photographs. Essentially, the exhibit is a collection of Lopes’ photographs of water mounted on acrylic and printed on fabric, which are presented with a soundscape of Witek’s conceptual, experimental poems.

“I have been aware of Cyriaco and Terri’s work ever since I started my tenure at the museum in 2010,” says Julie Dickover, director of CEAM. “At that time, they did a sound and video installation in the Markland House, titled A Shelter on King’s Road. I was very drawn to their aesthetic, and I thought CEAM a perfect place to give them free rein.”

The pair met about a decade ago at Stetson University, where they would meet weekly to talk about art and poetry. Witek still lives in DeLand and directs the Sullivan Creative Writing Program at Stetson University. Lopes has since moved to New York City, where he is a professor at John Jay College at City University of New York.

“We are both from water cities. He’s from

Rio de Janeiro, and I grew up on Lake Erie,” says Witek. “I think growing up in a city where you look out over water invokes a certain dreaminess. Poetry and art walk together — often in an ancient city like St. Augustine by a still more ancient sea.”

The origin of Currents/Correntes lies in Witek’s book Exit Island (2012), where in order to embody the mythical meeting of Ariadne and Dionysus in Naxos, one of the events alluded to in the book, Lopes printed an image of the sea of Rio de Janeiro on a large piece of fabric and imagined it as being part of the delirious dance of the god with the princess.

“I remember this past summer when we sat for an improvised lunch in Crete. We sat outside under an immense tree that the locals say is thousands of years old,” says Lopes.

“We had a long view as we were at the top of a mountain and behind us there was a deep valley covered in olive trees. It led quite naturally to the formulation of a new series of works. It was so spontaneous that it was as if we were eating the idea for lunch, as it came almost completely ready for us. It is the third mind, the one that processes the world in the background of our minds.

“St. Augustine is such a rich place,” Lopes continues. “It is great to have an opportunity to return and to install our labyrinth of waters there. Those are images of many waters from our trips abroad and in the United States. It is only fitting that they will be shown for the first time on those shores where people arrived first to what would be the United States one day.”

Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com

CYRIACO LOPES and TERI WITEK: CURRENTS/CORRENTES

Opening reception 5-9 p.m. Nov. 7, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 825-8530 flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum The exhibit is on display through Dec. 5 NOVEMBER 5-11, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 21

A&E // ARTS & EVENTS PERFORMANCE

SPANK! THE FIFTY SHADES PARODY This musical-comedy, which pokes fun at the bestselling erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey, is staged at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. on Nov. 7 and at 4:30 and 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Terry Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, $50, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

CLYBOURNE PARK Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer and Tony-winning dramedy, addressing race and housing in Chicago, is staged at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 6, 7 and 8 and 11 and at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $10-$25, 8251164. The play is staged through Nov. 30. limelight-theatre. org.

LOVE GOES TO PRESS This wise-cracking romantic comedy, set in a press camp on the Italian front in 1944, is staged at 8 p.m. on Nov. 7 and 8 and at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $20-$25, 396-4425. The play is staged through Nov. 22. theatrejax.com.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) The Bard’s plays are parodied in this three-person play at 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 7 and 8 and at 3 p.m. on Nov. 8 and 9 at Orange Park Community Theatre, 2900 Moody Ave., 276-2599, $10; $5 on Nov. 7, opct.org.

LOVE AND BETRAYAL The Ritz Theatre & Museum stages the faith-based production about the world of romance at 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 at 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, advance tickets $20; $25 day of show, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com.

THE RED LINE Players By the Sea presents the world premiere of Joshua Kreis McTiernan’s play about a paranoid man who believes his girlfriend is cheating on him and his plan to publicly shame her; staged at 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 7 and 8 at Players By the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $23; $20 for seniors, military and students, playersbythesea.org.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents this celebration of British comedy, featuring satire, songs, slapstick and one-liners, at 8 p.m. on Nov. 7 and 8 and 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, $20, abettheatre.com.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE The play-within-a-play, staged in a 1928 Broadway theater, uses every theatrical cliché from musicals of the bygone era.

It’s accompanied by a themed menu created by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy and runs through Nov. 23. Dinner at 6 p.m., curtain up at 8 p.m. Tue.-Thur., $49.95 plus tax; Fri. and Sat., $55 plus tax; brunch 11 a.m., show 1:15 p.m.

Sat. and brunch at noon, show 2 p.m. Sun., $47 plus tax; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW This cult classic musical comedy, about a young naïve couple who wind up in the castle of a transsexual scientist, is staged at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 5, 6, 7 and 8 at 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 20; $15 for students, 277-3455, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.

COMEDY

WENDY LIEBMAN Known for her comedy specials on HBO, Comedy Central and Showtime, Liebman performs at 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 7 and 8 and at 10 p.m. on Nov. 8 at the Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $15-$18, 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

DAVE ROSS COMEDY TOUR This alternative comedian performs at 8 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 699-8186.

JB BALL Known for MTV appearances, comedian Ball is on at 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 at Bonkerz Comedy Club, bestbet, 455 Park Ave., Orange Park, $10 and $35, 646-0001, bestbetjax.com.

GEMINI Gemini, a veteran of Las Vegas who combines stage illusion with comedy, performs at 8:04 p.m. on Nov. 6, 7 and 8 and at 4 and 10:10 p.m. on Nov. 8 at the Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., $6-$15, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

TERRY T. HARRIS Harris, who’s appeared on Comic View, performs at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6 and 7 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, latitude360.com.

MAD COWFORD IMPROV Weekly PG-13-rated improv shows, based on audience suggestion, are held at 8:15 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 2332359, madcowford.com.

HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR Local comics appear at 9 p.m. every Mon. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.

OPEN DOOR SUNDAYS Open mic night is held at 9 p.m. every Sun. at Tapa That, 820 Lomax St., 5 Points, free, 376-9911, tapathat.com.

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The opening reception for Los Angeles-based multimedia artist GEOFF MITCHELL’s exhibit Water Appears and Disappears is held from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Florida Mining Gallery on the Southside.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND WRITERS The Heart and Sole Project (The Red Shoe Show) seeks artists, poets and writers to produce work featuring red shoes and hearts. $25 entry fee for up to three pieces. For an application, email rediartlaw@gmail.com.

JIM DRAPER WORKSHOP Acclaimed artist and environmentalist Draper leads a two-day workshop that explores various techniques and perspectives on how to craft an image through direct observation, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Nov. 8 and 9 at St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., 824-2310. The $295 fee includes lunch both days. Early registration is recommended.

PORTRAIT AND FIGURE PAINTING WORKSHOP Romel de la Torre teaches the workshop, Taking Your Portrait & Figure Painting to the Next Level, from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, 9 and 10 at The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, 50 Executive Way, $400 for members, $435 for nonmembers, 280-0614, ccpvb.org.

ORANGE PARK THEATRE AUDITIONS Orange Park Community Theatre holds auditions for The Toby Show at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 5. Available roles are for four women and three men, ages 20s-50s; cold reading from script. 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, 276-2599, opct.org.

WRITING CONTEST FOR STUDENTS Friends of the Library hold a writing contest for students, with the topic “Why must you learn to read well?” Typed submissions should be original prose only with these word counts: grades 4-5: 150-200; grades 6-8: 250-300 words; grades 9-12: 500-750. Deadline is Dec. 15. Mail submissions to Ponte Vedra Beach Library, P.O. Box 744, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32204 or submit in person at the library, 101 Library Blvd. friendspvlibrary.org.

GARDENING AS ART LECTURES AT CUMMER Award-winning garden designer Jon Carloftis is featured in a lecture and luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and a lecture and whiskey sampling from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Nov. 5 at The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave. Both events are $135; $125 for members; separate tickets are $75; $65 for members, 356-6857, cummer.org.

SUNDAY PAINT DAY Free art classes are offered to children at 5 p.m. every Sun. at LIYF Clothing & Accessories, 2870 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, vegan and vegetarian snacks; free, 865-630-0358.

VERBAL ESSENCE Open mic poetry and musical performances are held at 7 p.m. every Mon. at the Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, free, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com.

FIGURE DRAWING Live model figure drawing is offered at 7 p.m. every Tue. at The Art Center II, $5 for members, $10 for non-members; artists bring supplies.

ACTEEN STAGE LAB Children in grades 6-12 learn street style and ambush theater 6:30 p.m. every Wed. at Limelight Theatre, $80 per session, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org.

AMATEUR NIGHT Musicians, singers, comedians and poets perform in an audience-judged competition at 7:30 p.m. every first Fri. at the Ritz Theatre & Museum, $6.

ACTING & DANCE CLASSES The Performers Academy offers a variety of weekly acting and dance classes for children and adults at 3674 Beach

Blvd., Southside, 322-7672, theperformersacademy.com.

FLAMENCO LESSONS The Spanish Cultural Society of Northeast Florida offers weekly flamenco dancing classes. For more info, call 278-0173.

CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ

SUSAN BOYLE Scottish vocalist Boyle, whose 2009 debut album I Dreamed a Dream became the UK’s best-selling debut of all time, performs classics and originals at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, $38.50-$114, 633-6110, ticketmaster.com.

FACULTY CHAMBER TRIO Violinist Marguerite Richardson, cellist Shannon Lockwood, and pianist Scott Watkins perform trio works by Mason Bates, Mozart and Shostakovich at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.

SALUTE TO AMERICA Michael Krajewski conducts the United States Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club in a concert of patriotic favorites and folk songs at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Nov. 7 and 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, $27.50$61.50, 633-6110, jaxsymphony.org.

RECONNECT CONCERT Audience members are encouraged to bring their smart phones for this night of social media and music, featuring performances by the Osprey Chorus and Percussion Ensembles, at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Hall, Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu.

JAZZ IN THE BLACK BOX The JU student jazz combos perform at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 at Jacksonville University’s Black Box Theater, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.

EMMA CONCERT SERIES Russian-American soprano Svetlana Strezeva, known as “The Russian Nightingale,” performs with her daughter, pianist Milan Strezeva, along with clarinetist A. Gorokholinksy, at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $30, 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com.

VIVACE TRIO Flautists Gia Sastre and Carolyn Snyder-Menke and pianist Denise Wright perform at 3 p.m. on Nov. 9 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, jplmusic.blogspot.com.

CLASSICAL ORGANIST Organist Todd Wilson performs a concert including works

by Dupre, Bach and Ives at 4 p.m. on Nov. 9 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, 270-1771, beachesfinearts.org.

JSYO FALL CONCERT Scott C. Gregg directs the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra at 5 p.m. on Nov. 9 at Jacoby Symphony Hall, Downtown, $5-$10, 633-6110, jaxsymphony.org.

CLASSICAL IN SAN MARCO Flutist Daniel Velasco and pianist Michael Mastronicolca perform works by Bach, Reinecke, Poulnec and Liszt at 6 p.m. on Nov. 9 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 4171 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 737-8488.

A SALUTE TO OUR VETERANS The Navy Band Southeast performs at 6 p.m. on Nov. 10 at

A&E // ARTS & EVENTS

University of North Florida presents the concert MUSIC OF THE MARX BROTHERS at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 at the college’s Recital Hall.

Memorial Park, 1620 Riverside Ave., Riverside. Attendees are encouraged to bring folding chairs, blankets and picnic. Water, beer and wine available for purchase. memparkjax.org.

VOCALIST AT FLAGLER Soprano Kimberly Beasley performs at 7 p.m. on Nov. 11 at Flagler College’s Flagler Room, 74 King St., St. Augustine, $6, 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com.

MUSIC OF THE MARX BROTHERS Dr. Marc Dickman coordinates this concert featuring the music of Groucho and his siblings at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 at UNF’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu.

JAZZ IN PONTE VEDRA The Gary Starling Group (Carol Sheehan, Billy Thornton, Peter Miles) performs 7:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur. at Table 1, 330 A1A N., 280-5515.

JAZZ IN RIVERSIDE Trumpeter Ray Callendar and guitarist Taylor Roberts are featured at 9:30 p.m. every Thur. at Kickbacks Gastropub, 910 King St., 388-9551.

JAZZ IN MANDARIN Boril Ivanov Trio plays at 7 p.m. every Thur. and pianist David Gum plays at 7 p.m. every Fri. at Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 262-0006.

JAZZ IN NEPTUNE BEACH Live jazz is featured 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Sat. at Lillie’s Coffee Bar, 200 First St., 249-2922.

JAZZ IN ATLANTIC BEACH Guitarist Taylor Roberts is on 7 p.m. every Wed. and Thur. at Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com.

JAZZ IN AVONDALE The Von Barlow Trio and Third Bass perform at 9 p.m. every Sun. at Casbah Café, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966.

JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE Live jazz is featured nightly at Rhett’s Piano Bar & Brasserie, 66 Hypolita St., 825-0502.

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

COMMUNITY FARMERS & ARTS MARKET Homemade baked goods, preserves, local honey, crafts, sauces, yard art, hand-crafted jewelry and more are featured 4-7 p.m. every Wed. at 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside/ Avondale, 607-9935.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, local music and entertainment – featuring Jesse Montoya, Robert Lester Folsom and LaVilla School Chamber Chorus on Nov. 8 – food artists and a farmers market are featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, arts.ju.edu. Engaging Form, Work by John Oles and Mika Fowler, is on display through Nov. 5.

AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM American Beach Community Center, 1600 Julia St., Fernandina Beach, 277-7960, nassaucountyfl.com/facilities.

The Sands of Time: An American Beach Story, an exhibit celebrating the beach as well as the life and activism of MaVynee Betsch, “The Beach Lady” is currently on display.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum. org. The exhibit Remembering Hurricane Dora: The 50th Anniversary runs through Nov. 23. Admission is free for

members, $5 for nonmembers.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. Award-winning garden designer Jon Carloftis is featured in a lecture and luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and a lecture and whiskey sampling from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Nov. 5. The fashion-themed exhibit Icons of Style: Fashion Makers, Models, and Images is on display through Jan. 4.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/ jaxfrm.html. The permanent collection includes many rare manuscripts.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org.

Curator-led monthly tours are featured at 10 a.m. every first Wed. Photographer Theresa Segal’s exhibit Undisclosed: Photographs from the Lightner is on display through Jan. 2.

MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Rd., 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net.

The exhibit The Maple Leaf, which features artifacts and information from the Civil War era, runs through December.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville. com. The exhibits Get Real: New American Painting and Jason John Studio Experience are on display through Jan. 4. Express Your #Selfie shows off the works of Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital patients, through Nov. 30.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org.

The exhibit Odyssey’s SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure is on display through March. Skies Over Jacksonville, a detailed live star show, is screened daily in the Planetarium at 2 p.m.

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, worldgolfhalloffame. org. Honoring the Legacy: A Tribute to African-Americans in Golf – an exhibit featuring photographs, audio, video and memorabilia from the late 1800s to the present – is featured in the WGHOF permanent collection.

GALLERIES

AMIRO ART & FOUND 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460. The opening reception for the exhibit Recent Work on Canvas and Metal, featuring works by Eleanor Hughes and Curtis Bowman, is held from 5-9 p.m. on Nov. 7.

THE ART CENTER PREMIER GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org. Print Matters: Making an Impression featuring works of various printmaking techniques is on display through Nov. 6.

CoRK ARTS DISTRICT 2689 Rosselle St., Jacksonville, corkartsdistrict.tumblr. com. The opening reception for the exhibit Through the Fire: Glass, Clay & Metal is held from 6-9 p.m. on Nov. 8.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. The opening reception for Cyriaco Lopes and Terri Witek’s exhibit Currents/Correntes is held from 5-9 p.m. on Nov. 7. The exhibit is on display through Dec. 5.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccvb.org. The exhibits Jacksonville Watercolor Society 2014 Fall Show and Artist of the Year Exhibition are on display through Nov. 25. The exhibit Fusion, featuring collaborative works by photographer Ann Kemp and glass artist Denise Murphy, is on display through Nov. 7.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928,

firststreetgalleryart.com. An exhibit of new watercolor works by Robert Leedy is on display through Jan. 7.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Road, Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com.

The opening reception for the exhibit Water Appears and Disappears, featuring works by multidisciplinary artist Geoff Mitchell, is held from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 6. The exhibit is on display through December.

FSCJ KENT CAMPUS 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Jacksonville, 646-2300, fscj.edu/ campus-life/art-galleries. Nida Bangash’s exhibit I Am a Tree is on display through Nov. 18.

HASKELL GALLERY Jax International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Road, 741-3546.

Works by Amy Labonte are on display through Dec. 26.

J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200, jjohnsongallery. com. The exhibit Modulism, featuring works by Dolf James and Andrew Zimmerman, is on display through Nov. 7. The opening reception for the exhibit Winter Selections, featuring works by Gray Malin, Chris Roberts-Antieau, Slomotion, Craig Kaths, Ryan McGinness, Mark Messersmith, Carlos Betancourt, Joy Laville and Julie York, is held from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 14. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 9.

RITZ THEATRE AND MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville. com. The photography exhibit The Fine Art of Jazz, showcasing the impact of Kansas City jazz musicians, is on display through Jan. 7.

SIMPLE GESTURES GALLERY 4 White St. E., St. Augustine, 827-9997. This artist-run boutique and gallery features a variety of funky, locally made arts, crafts and jewelry pieces.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 438-4358, southlight gallery.com. Works by Sebastian Pierre are featured in the One Show Gallery through Jan. 2.

STELLERS GALLERY AT SAN MARCO 1409 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville, 396-9492. The opening reception for an exhibit of new paintings by Megan Cosby is held from 6-9 p.m. on Nov. 8.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA GALLERY 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, 620-2534. The exhibit Beyond the Degree, featuring works by UNF alumni including Ashley Maxwell, Devin Balara, Bobby Davidson, Corey Kolb, Staci BuShea, Zach Fitchner and David Nackashi, is on display through Dec. 12.

EVENTS

JAX BY JAX This literary festival features 15 local writers reading works relating to Jacksonville at nine venues from 3-6 p.m. on Nov. 8 at various locations at Park and King streets, Riverside. For details, go to jaxbyjax.com.

CARL BERNSTEIN AT UNF Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein discusses “The System Can Work: A Legendary Journalist Looks at America’s Government and Media from Watergate to the 21st Century” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6 at University of North Florida’s Herbert University Center, Grand Banquet Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Southside, 620-2117. Admission is free; e-tickets at unf.edu/lectures.

PUERTO RICAN CARNIVAL The Puerto Rican Hispanic Chamber of Commerce presents this festival featuring ethnic food, live music and kids’ activities at 2 p.m. on Nov. 8 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188.

RUNWELL 4 LIFE FESTIVAL University of North Florida hosts this family-friendly event of athletic competition including a 5K trail run, a zipline course challenge, kayaking and canoeing and information booths starting at 9 a.m. on Nov. 8 at the campus’ ECO-Adventure Center, 1 UNF Drive, Southside, 5K registration is $35; $38 for zipline, 620-1000. Proceeds support worldwide addiction treatment and recovery centers. Register at runwell.com.

ARBORETUM ANNIVERSARY The Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens holds its sixth anniversary celebration from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Nov. 8 at 1445 Millcoe Road, Arlington, 630-5500. Live music, storytelling, food, children’s crafts and guided nature walks are featured; jacksonvillearboretum.org.

MARY MATALIN & JAMES CARVILLE The Florida Forum presents the political power couple in a talk that covers the post-midterm analysis and a behind-thescenes look at Washington, D.C. politics, at 7 p.m. on Nov. 12 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, 300 W. Water St., Downtown; tickets start at $150, 202-2886, floridaforum.com.

SLAVE RESISTANCE & PROTEST LECTURE Dr. Larry Rivers discusses “Rebels and Runaways: AfricanAmericans in St. Augustine during the Civil War,” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 12 at Flagler College’s Flagler Room, 74 King St., St. Augustine, 304-4208, flagler.edu.

JACKSONVILLE AGRICULTURAL FAIR The 59th annual Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair is held from Nov. 5-16 at 510 Fairgrounds Place, Downtown, 353-0535. Amusement rides, food, live music, cooking contests, a fire fighter show, clown circus, alligator show and a car and truck show are featured. General admission is $8; seniors and children 6-12 is $5. For details and to buy tickets, go to jacksonvillefair.com.

D’ART FOR ART! The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach’s fundraiser features cocktails, a gourmet menu by Chef Craig, a silent auction and the 10-second “D’Art Dash” from 6-10 p.m. on Nov. 8 at The Plantation Clubhouse, 101 Plantation Dr., Ponte Vedra; $200 for two for members, $225 for nonmembers, 280-0614, ccpvb.org.

WRITERS CONFERENCE AT FLAGLER Flagler College’s Writers-in-Residence program presents “Other Words,” on Nov. 6, 7 and 8, featuring Suzannah Gilman, Susan Lilley, Katherine Riegel, Lisa Lanser Rose, Gianna Russo, Tiffany Razzano, Leslie Salas, Terri Witek, Cyriaco Lopes, Allison Joseph, Craig Blais and Jim Ray Daniels, at 74 King St., St. Augustine, 304-4208, flagler.edu/writers.

GREAT WHITE SHARK TALK OCEARCH expedition leader and founding chairman Chris Fischer discusses “Tracking Great White Sharks: How Lessons from the Dinner Table Led to Global Exploration” at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6 at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Drive, Southside, 620-2830. Admission is free; e-tickets at unf.edu/lectures.

INCREDIBLE EDIBLES Arts and crafts, homemade baked goods, raffles and a French café are featured at the annual fundraiser bazaar held from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on Nov. 22 at St. Paul’s by-theSea Episcopal Church, Stormes Hall, 465 11th Ave. N., Jax Beach, 249-4091, stpaulbythesea.net.

NAO VICTORIA Tour a replica of the first Spanish tall ship to successfully circumnavigate the world, commanded by Ferdinand Magellan in the 16th century, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Mon.Fri., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat. and Sun. through December at St. Augustine Marina, 111 Avenida Menendez, 824-1606, elgaleon.org.

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

DINING DIRECTORY KEY

$ = Less than $8 $$ = $8- $14 $$$ = $15- $22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting.

To join, go to fwbiteclub.com.

2014 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot Average Entrée Cost

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE

29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. Serving Southwestern fare; made-to-order burritos, tacos, nachos, quesadillas, handcrafted salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660.

F Southern hospitality in an upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged bee f. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo. com. F In a historic building, the family-owned spot offers worldly fare: veggie burgers, fresh seafood, madefrom-scratch desserts. Dine in or out on oak-shaded patio.

Karibrew Pub offers beer brewed onsite. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CIAO ITALIAN BISTRO, 302 Centre St., 206-4311, ciao bistro-luca.com. Owners Luka and Kim Misciasci offer fine dining: veal piccata, rigatoni Bolognese, antipasto.

Specialties: chicken Ciao, homemade meat lasagna. $ L Fri., Sat.; D Nightly DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb served in an elegant, chic spot. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469.

450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Award-winning B&B has seaside dining, indoors or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianescafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/ vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S AT THOMPSON HOUSE, 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Creative lunch: po’boys, salads, little plates. Dinner: fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MARCHÉ BURETTE, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 491-4834, omnihotels.com. Old-fashioned gourmet food market/ deli, in Spa & Shops, Omni A melia Island Plantation.

Continental breakfast; lunch features flatbreads. $$$ BW K TO L D Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza.net. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Snail of Approval.

Casual organic eatery and juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, coffee, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. The bakery near the historic district has sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Omni Plantation Spa & Shops. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish and duck breast. Outdoor dining. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. ICW sunset view; 2nd-story outdoor bar.

Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, original broiled cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront place serves award-winning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd fl oor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily TASTY’S FRESH BURGERS & FRIES, 710 Centre St., 321-0409, tastysamelia.com. In historic district. Fresh fast-food alternative, combining the freshest meats, handcut fries, homemade sauces, hand-spun shakes. $ BW K L D Daily

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Brittany Tanner, general manager of Azucena Deli on Forsyth Street in Downtown, presents a chicken gyro with tzatziki sauce. The corner eatery is the first in Northeast Florida with a self-serve beer wall. Photo: Dennis Ho T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. 8th St., 261-6310. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. This spot in an old gas station offers blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE VERANDAH, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 321-5050, omnihotels.com. Extensive menu of fresh local seafood and steaks; signature entrée is Fernandina shrimp. Many herbs and spices are from onsite garden . $$$ FB K D Nightly

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. LA NOPALERA, 8818 Atlantic Blvd., 720-0106. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802.

F SEE ORANGE PARK. THE SHEIK DELI, 9720 Atlantic Blvd., 721-2660. Familyowned-and-operated, Sheik delis have served our area for 40+ years, with a full breakfast (pitas to country plates) and a lunch menu. $ TO B L D Mon.-Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

BAGEL LOVE, 4114 Herschel St., Ste. 121, 634-7253, bagellovejax.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Locallyowned-and-operated. Northern style bagels, cream cheeses, sandwiches, wraps, bakery items. Freshsqueezed orange juice and lemonade, coffee, tea. $ K TO B L Daily THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966, thecasbahcafe.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Middle Eastern/Mediterranean fare. Patio, hookah lounge, bellydancers. $$ BW L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 3543 St. Johns Ave., 829-5790.

F In Green Man Gourmet. Wines, spices, fresh fruit ice pops and Belgian chocolates. SEE PONTE VEDRA. $$ TO FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386.

Premium ice cream, fresh waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in Floridacentric décor. Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily THE FOX RESTAURANT, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. F Owners Ian & Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes, desserts.

Breakfast all day. Local landmark for 50+ years. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20+ years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 4530 St. Johns, 388-8828. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200.

F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE BEACHES.

PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 Pine Grove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. 40+ years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef.

Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat.

PULP, 3645 St. Johns Ave., pulpaddiction.com. SEE SAN MARCO.

RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

French/Southern bistro, with an emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of A pproval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 7825 Baymeadows Way, 733-4040. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F SEE BEACHES.

BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA, Ste. 3, 10920 Baymeadows Rd. E., 519-8000, broadwayfl.com.

F Family-owned-and-operated Italian pizzeria serves calzones, wings, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows, Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LA NOPALERA, 8206 Philips Hwy., 732-9433. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PIZZA PALACE RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 527-8649, pizzapalacejax.com.

F Casual, family-owned; homestyle cuisine. Local faves: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Outside dining; HD TVs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 8133 Point Meadows Dr., 519-0509. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. ZESTY INDIA, 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676, zestyindia.com. Asian methods meld with Europea n template to create tandoori lamb chops, rosemary tikka.

Vegetarian items cooked separately in vegetable oil. $ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun.

BEACHES

(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F Al’s is often a repeat winner in F W readers’ poll. New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Angie’s has served subs made with the freshest ingredients for more than 25 years. One word: Peruvian.

Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BUDDHA THAI BISTRO, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444,

buddhathaibistro.com. The proprietors are from Thailand; every dish is made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily BURRITO GALLERY EXPRESS, 1333 Third St. N., 242-8226. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE DOWNTOWN. CANTINA MAYA SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 1021 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-3227. Popular spot serves great margaritas, great Latin food, burgers. Sports on TVs. $$ FB K L D Tue.-Sun. CASA MARIA, 2429 S. Third St., 372-9000, casamariajax.com. F Family-owned-and-operated place offers authentic Mexican fare: fajitas and seafood dishes, hot sauces made in-house. The specialty is tacos de asada. $ FB K L D Daily CULHANE’S IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595, culhanesirishpub.com.

Bite Club. Upscale pub/restaurant owned and run by sisters from County Limerick, Ireland. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef; gastropub fare. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L Fri.-Sun.; D Tue.-Sun. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 853-5680, fl yingiguana.com. F Latin American fusion, Southwestern-influenced: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100+ tequilas. $ FB L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815, harmoniousmonks.net. F SEE MANDARIN. LA NOPALERA, 1222 Third St. S., 372-4495. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 N. Third St., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar. com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, fl atbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine indoors or out, patio and courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers.

Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-5573, mezzarest aurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean eatery, 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside or on the patio. Valet parking. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, all the sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-2599, mshackburgers.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes, familiar fare, moderate prices. Dine inside or outside. $$ BW L D Daily NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105, nbbistro.com. Bite Club.

Neighborhood gem with a chef-driven kitchen serves hand-cut steaks, fresh local seafood, tapas menu. Happy hour. $$$ FB K R Sun.; L D Daily OCEAN 60 RESTAURANT, WINE BAR & MARTINI ROOM,

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Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. F Casual, family-friendly eatery serves steaks, seafood, chicken grill specials. Five topping selections. Salads, sandwiches, pizza. Gluten-free friendly. $ FB K L D Daily STEAMIN, 9703 San Jose Blvd., 493-2020, eatsteamin. com. Classic diner serves steam burgers, fat dogs and chili, 50+ craft beers. $ FB TO B Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily

NAME: Chef Todd Ruiz RESTAURANT: Verandah Seafood Restaurant, Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort, 39 Beach Lagoon Road BIRTHPLACE: Reynosa, Mexico

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FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Underbelly, Downtown Jacksonville BEST CUISINE STYLE: Interpretive American cuisine

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GO-TO INGREDIENT: Pork, rhubarb, chocolate, sea urchin IDEAL MEAL: My fiancée’s stuffed shells are amazing.

WILL NOT CROSS MY LIPS: Balut (duck egg embryo) INSIDER’S SECRET: Salt CELEBRITY SIGHTING: Emmitt Smith … still looks great.

CULINARY TREAT: Peanut butter – someday I’ll O.D. 60 Ocean Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Continental cuisine, fresh seafood, dinner specials and a seasonal menu in a formal dining room or casual Martini Room. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30+ years, the iconic seafood place has scored many awards in our BOJ readers poll.

Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefoodshack.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in a modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE & OYSTER BAR, 218 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. More than 20 beers on tap, TV screens, cheerleaders serving the food. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA, 1712 Beach Blvd., 249-8226, tacolu.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Fresh, Baja-style fare with a focus on fish tacos, tequila (more than 135 kinds) and mezcal. Bangin’ shrimp, carne asada, carnitas, daily fresh fish selections. Made-freshdaily guacamole. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Fri.

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made fare: subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. BURRITO GALLERY & BAR, 21 E. Adams St., 598-2922, burritogallery.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Southwestern burritos, ginger teriyaki tofu, beef barbacoa, wraps, tacos. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. CASA MARIA, 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411.

F SEE BEACHES. CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F Eats at moderate prices – most less than $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi and barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Thur.-Sat. FIONN MacCOOL’s IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, The Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining with an uptown Irish atmosphere, serving fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew and black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket. com. From-scratch soups, sandwiches. They cure their own bacon, pickle their pickles. Home to duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE.

LA NOPALERA, 1571 C.R. 220, 215-2223. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, traditional fare, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, motorcycle or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly YOUR PIE, 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771, yourpie. com. Owner Mike Sims’ concept: Choose from 3 doughs,

9 sauces, 7 cheeses, 40+ toppings. 5 minutes in a brick oven and ta-da: It’s your pie. Subs, sandwiches, gelato. $$ BW K TO L D Daily

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007, aronspizza. com. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizzas. $$ BW K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Road, 272-5959, hilltop-club. com. Southern-style fine dining. Specialties: New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LA NOPALERA, 9734 Crosshill Blvd., 908-4250. 2024 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE MANDARIN.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F SEE BEACHES.

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115.

F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 39, 992-1666. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. Some La Nops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-ownedand-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-night menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370.

1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F For 30+ years, all over town, they pile ’em high and serve ’em fast. Hot/cold subs, soups, salads. $ K TO B L D Daily POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA, 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116. Family-owned-and-operated, offering pizzas and wings made in coal-fired ovens. Espresso, cappuccino. $ BW TO L D Daily THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. F For 35-plus years, Roadhouse has been offering wings, sandwiches, burgers, quesadillas; 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily THE SHEIK, 1994 Kingsley Ave., 276-2677. SEE ARLINGTON.

SEE BAYMEADOWS.

MANDARIN

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES.

ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA, 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 288-9211. 13820 St. Augustine Rd., 880-0020.

Brooklyn Special. Calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ BW TO L D Daily THE COFFEE BARD, 9735 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 13, 260-0810, thecoffeebard.com. New world coffeehouse has coffees, breakfast, drinks. $$ TO B L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300, jaxramada.com. In Ramada. Prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri. & Sat., blue-jean brunch Sun., daily breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ FB B R L D Daily GILMON’S BAKERY, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 13, 288-8128, gilmonsbakery.com. Custom cakes, cupcakes, gingerbread men, pies, cookies, coffee, tea. $$ B L Tue.-Sat. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040, harmoniousmonks.net. F American-style steakhouse: Angus steaks, gourmet burgers, ribs, wraps. $$ FB K L D Mon.-Sat. KAZU JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 9965 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 35, 683-9903, kazujapaneserestaurant.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Wide variety of soups, dumplings, appetizers, salads, bento boxes, sushi, entrées, maki handrolls, sashimi. $$ BW TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos.

Some La Nops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE PARK. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. Natural, organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods, juices and smoothies. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL, 10131 San Jose

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DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 101, 825-4540. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. PIZZA PALACE, 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F

Fresh food. Aged steaks.

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F SEE BEACHES. CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 145 Hilden Rd., Ste. 122, 829-5790, claudeschocolate.com. Hand-crafted premium Belgian chocolate, fruits, nuts, spices. Cookies, popsicles. $$ TO DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. NASCAR-themed; 365 kinds of wings, halfpound burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK. PUSSER’S BAR & GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766, pussersusa.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Bite Club. Innovative Caribbean cuisine features regional faves: Jamaican grilled pork ribs, Trinidad smoked duck, lobster macaroni & cheese dinner. Tropical drinks. $$ FB K TO L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797, restaurantmedure.us. Chef David Medure offers global flavors. Small plates, creative drinks, happy hour. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies. com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Intimate bistro serves authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes, specializing in tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S DELI, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN .

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BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. New American fare has a Southern twist, made with locally sourced ingredients.

Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. F Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412. Made-fromscratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, glutenfree and vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily.

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2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. EDGEWOOD BAKERY, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. 66+ years, full-service bakery. Fresh breakfast, from-scratch pastries, petit fours, pies, cakes. Espresso, sandwiches, smoothies, soups. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999, europeanstreet.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. 130+ imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style classic Reuben and

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pie, homemade soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200.

F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815. F SEE BAYMEADOWS.

PULP, 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222, pulpaddiction. com. The juice bar offers fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees, 30 kinds of smoothies. $ TO B L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. Authentic Italian ingredients, seasonal local produce and meats on Chef Sam Efron’s menus. Regional craft beers, handcrafted cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE

Owner Courtney Thompson of Horizons on Amelia Island shows off a seared tuna tower with braised cabbage, creamed spinach and heirloom tomato. Photo: Dennis Ho other overstuffed sandwiches; salads, soups. Outside seating is available at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. F The juice bar uses certified organic fruits and vegetables. 500+ craft/import beers, 250 wines, organic produce, humanely raised meats, plus a deli, as well as raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Based on fare of Asian street vendors, peddling authentic dishes from mobile stalls. Chefs here serve the best hawker recipes under one roof. $ BW TO L D Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S. New from Bold Bean Coffee Roasters’ owners. Locally-owned, family-run bake shop specializes in made-fromscratch pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, seasonal soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794.

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8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., Ortega, 999-4600. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com.

Monroe’s smoked meats include wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey and ribs. Homestyle sides include green beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442.

F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire.com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas.

Happy hour Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips.

Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily THE SHEIK, 7361 103rd St., 778-4805. 5172 Normandy Blvd., 786-7641. SEE ARLINGTON. SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0049. F Beer (Bold City, Intuition), wine, pizza, hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. Sushi variety: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll.

Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F SEE BEACHES. AVILES RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-2277, hiltonhistoricstaugustine.net. F Hilton Bayfront. Progressive European-flavored menu; madeto-order pasta night, wine dinners, chophouse nights, breakfast buffet. Sun. champagne brunch bottomless mimosas. $$$ FB K B L D Daily CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. F NY-style gourmet brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats, cheeses, garlic herb wings. Outdoor dining, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 6 Granada St., 829-5790. In The Market. Wine and chocolate pairings, soft-serve ice cream, a coffee bar, fresh fruit ice pops, cookies. $$ TO THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridianst aug.com. Updated Southern fare: fresh ingredients from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon.

GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F A mainstay for 25+ years, Gypsy’s menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily THE ICE PLANT BAR, 110 Riberia St., 829-6553, iceplantbar.com. Vintage-inspired (an old ice plant) in historic area. Farm-to-table menu uses locally sourced ingredients; hand-crafted drinks, house-made bitters, syrups. $$$ FB TO D Nightly MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040.

F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova, 342-5264. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO, 159 Palencia Village Dr., Ste. 111, 808-1818, pacificasianbistro.com. F Chef Mas Lui creates 30+ sushi rolls; fresh sea scallops, Hawaiian-style poke tuna salad. Sake. $$-$$$ BW L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. Best of Jax winner. SEE BEACHES. TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 547-0240. Latin American fusion wine bar and restaurant offers traditional American fare with a Latin flair; sandwiches, too. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sun.

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BENTO CAFE ASIAN KITCHEN & SUSHI, 4860 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1, 564-9494, bentocafesushi.com. Pan-Asian fare; Asian-inspired dishes: wok stir-fry to fire-grilled, authentic spices, fresh ingredients. Full sushi bar. $$ K FB TO L D Daily MOXIE KITCHEN + COCKTAILS, 4972 Big Island Dr., 998-9744, moxiefl.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

Chef Tom Gray’s place features innovative contemporary American cuisine – seafood, steaks, pork, burgers, salads, sides and desserts – using locally sourced ingredients when possible. $$$ FB K L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000, mshack burgers.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

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BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic dishes: Pad Thai, curries, sashimi, fresh sushi, daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily THE GROTTO WINE & Tapas Bar, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S BAR & GRILLE, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. Popular chain serves wings, sammies, nachos, wraps, entrées, specialty cocktails and … wait for it … burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1631 Hendricks, 399-1768. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE MANDARIN.

MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922, matthewsrestaurant.com. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship. Fine dining, artfully presented cuisine, small plates, martini/wine lists. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. Reservations. $$$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Original upscale diner in ’30s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot

360° GRILLE, Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555, latitude360.com. F Seafood, steaks, burgers, chicken, sandwiches, pizza. Patio, movie theater. $$ FB TO L D Daily AKEL’S, 7077 Bonneval Rd., 332-8700. F SEE DOWNTOWN.

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. Longest-running dinner theater in America. Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus.

Reservations recommended. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. BENTO CAFE ASIAN KITCHEN & SUSHI, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 11, 503-3238. SEE ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER. CASA MARIA, 14965 Old St. Augustine, 619-8186. SEE BEACHES.

DANCIN DRAGON, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888. This new spot features a BOGO lunch. Asian fusion menu. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717.

2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. HZ CAFE, 6426 Bowden Rd., Ste. 206, 527-1078.

Healthy concept cafe serves juices, smoothies, traditional vegan and vegetarian meals and vegan and gluten-free meals and desserts. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955.

F Bite Club. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. PAPI CHULO’S, 9726 Touchton Rd., Ste. 105, 329-1763, ilovepapichulos.com. The brand new Tinseltown place offers fresh, simple, authentic Mexican street food, topshelf tequilas, specialty drinks. Kids eat free. $$ K FB L D Daily SEVEN BRIDGES Grille & Brewery, 9735 Gate Pkwy., 997-1999, 7bridgesgrille.com. F Local seafood, steaks, pizzas. Brewer Aaron Nesbit handcrafts ales, lagers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999, tbopizza.com. NY-style thin crust, brick-oven-baked pizzas (gluten-free), calzones, sandwiches fresh to order. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pickup. $$ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 551-5929, worldofbeer.com. F Burgers, tavern fare, sliders,flatbreads, German pretzels, hummus, pickle chips.

Craft German, Cali, Florida, Irish drafts. Wines. $$ BW L D Daily

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SAVANNAH BISTRO, 14670 Duval Rd., 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, taste of Mediterranean and French. Crowne Plaza Airport. Crab cakes, NY strip, she crab soup, mahi mahi. $$$ FB K B L D Daily THE SHEIK, 2708 N. Main St., 353-8181. SEE ARLINGTON. UPTOWN MARKET, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptownmarketjax.com. Bite Club. In the 1300 Building.

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ASTROLOGY

SHAPE-SHIFTING, PREGREENING & CARESSING YOURSELF ARIES (March 21-April 19): Shape-shifting is a common fairy tale theme, says cultural historian Marina Warner in her book From the Beast to the Blonde. “A rusty lamp turns into an all-powerful talisman,” for example. “A humble pestle and mortar become the winged vehicle of the fairy enchantress,” or a slovenly beggar in a dirty donkeyskin transforms into a radiant princess. I foresee metaphorically similar events in your life soon. Maybe they’re already underway. Don’t underestimate the magic that is possible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The scientific term for what happens when you get a headache from eating too much ice cream too fast is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. Be on guard against such an occurrence in the coming week. Watch out for other phenomena that fit the description of being toomuch-and-too-fast-of-a-good-thing. On the other hand, you shouldn’t worry at all about slowly getting just the right amount of a good thing. Enjoy your pleasures with grace and moderation; you’ll be fine.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Pregreening” is a term for what impatient drivers do as they are waiting at a red light. They partly take their foot off the brake, allowing their car to creep forward, to establish some momentum before the light changes to green. I advise you to avoid this type of behavior in the coming week – both literally and metaphorically.

Pregreening might make sense by, say, Nov. 15 or 16. But for now, relax and abide.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was one of the greats.

He was a prodigious composer, producing more than 350 works. One of the secrets to his high level of energy seems to have been his relationship with coffee. It was an indispensable part of his diet. He was fastidious in its preparation, counting out exactly 60 coffee beans for each cup. I recommend you summon a similar attention to detail in the coming days. It will be an excellent time to marshal your creative energy and cultivate your lust for life. You will get the best results if you are precise and consistent and focused in your approach.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): By the time we’ve become young adults, most of us don’t remember much about our lives from before the age of 5. As we grow into middle age, more and more childhood memories drop away. A few special moments keep burning brightly, but the early events that shaped us are mostly gone. Having said that, I want to alert you to the fact that you are in a phase when you could recover whole swaths of lost memories, both from your formative years and later. Take advantage of this rare window of opportunity to reconnect with your past.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Photographer Joel Leindecker can kick himself in the head 127 times in one minute. Guinness World Records affirms his achievement is unmatched. I’m begging you: Don’t try to top his mark any time soon. Don’t commit any act of mayhem, chaos or unkindness against yourself – even if it it’s done for entertainment purposes. It’s crucial to concentrate on caressing yourself, treating yourself nicely and caring for yourself in the weeks ahead.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Letter-writing is becoming a lost art. Few people have a longenough attention span to compose a relaxed, thoughtful report on what they have been doing and thinking. Meanwhile, the number of vigorous, far-reaching conversations is waning, too. Instead, many of us tend to emit and absorb short bursts of information at frequent intervals. But I invite you to rebel against this trend in

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the coming weeks. Judging from the astrological omens, I believe you would stir up some quietly revolutionary developments by slowing down and deepening the way you communicate with those you care about. You may be amazed by how much richer your experience of intimacy will become.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Near the end of the 19th century, an American named Annie Londonderry became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world. It was a brave and brazen act for an era when women still couldn’t vote and paved roads were rare. Her 15-month journey took her through countries that would be risky for a single woman on a bike to travel through today, like Egypt and Yemen. What made her adventure even more remarkable was that she didn’t know how to ride a bike until two days before she departed. I’d love to see you plan a daring exploit like that – even if you do not yet have a certain skill you will need to succeed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author P.G. Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books, several plays, musical comedies and film scripts. When he died at age 93, he was working on another novel. He didn’t suffer from writer’s block, yet his process was far from effortless. He rarely churned out perfection on his first attempt. “I have never written a novel,” he testified, “without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again.” The way I see your immediate future? You’ll be creating your version of those 40,000 wrong words. That’s OK. You can’t get to the really good stuff without a practice run.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a favorable time to meditate intensely on friendship.

Questions to ask yourself: How good of a friend are you to those you want as friends? What capacities do you cultivate in your effort to build and maintain vigorous alliances? Do you have a clear sense of what qualities you seek? Are you discerning in the way you choose compatriots, or do you end up in associations with folks you don’t truly enjoy and don’t have much in common with? If you find any laziness or ignorance in your approach to the art of friendship, make necessary fixes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Before the invention of the printing press, books in Europe were handmade. Medieval monks spent long hours copying texts, often adding illustrations in the margins. There’s an odd scene that often appears in these illuminated manuscripts: knights fighting snails.

Scholars don’t agree on what this means. One theory: The snail symbolizes the “slow-moving tedium of daily life,” which can be destructive to hopes and dreams – similar to the way that literal snails may devour garden plants.

In accordance with the cosmic omens, I am bestowing a knighthood on you, so you will be inspired to rise up and defeat your own metaphorical version of the snail.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To be in righteous alignment with cosmic forces, keep the Halloween spirit alive for another week. You have a license to play with your image and experiment with your identity. Interesting changes will unfold as you expand your notion of who you are and rebel cheerfully against your own status quo. To get started, try this exercise. Imagine that your gangsta name is Butt-Jugglin Smuggla. Your pirate name is Scallywagger Hornslasher.

Your sex-worker name is Saucy Loaf. Your Mexican wrestler name is Ojo Último (Ultimate Eye). Your rock starfrom-the-future name is Cashmere Hammer. Or make up your own variations.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

HELLO, YOUNG LOVERS (aka ISU writers): The limit for ISU notices is 40 words ONLY. No messages with more than 40 words will be accepted. Please keep your message short & sweet. Thanks!

PULLING FOR ORIOLES You: Cranberry shirt, said to me, “I was pulling for them” referring to my Orioles T-shirt. Me: Orioles T-shirt, I said “Yeah” and kept walking. Wish I would have started a conversation. Let’s talk! When: Oct. 26. Where: Publix on Hodges. #1421-1105 RUNNING SHIRTLESS You: It was around 6:20, you were running through Memorial Park. Caught me checking you out. Me: Wearing the blue shirt. We smiled, I watched you run off – quite a sight. We need to run together. When: Oct. 22. Where: Memorial Park. #1420-1029 DARK CHOCOLATE POM I came in for a few things. You had one in your bathroom.

Something rang up wrong. Offered you chocolate, you told me I was sweet. You seemed earthy. Wonder if you’d like to grab coffee/tea sometime. When: Oct. 21. Where: Your Work, Ponte Vedra Beach. #1419-1029 LOOKING FOR ME? You: Taco Tuesday, brunette, blue top, shorts, black flats. Saw you in line looking back. Caught each other’s gaze too long.

Me: Blue button up, gray slacks. You met with guy, didn’t seem into him. Wanna see if I’m more interesting? When: Oct. 14. Where: Tijuana Flats, Baymeadows. #1418-1022 INSTANT CONNECTION You: Tall, Purple hair, BRS shamrock on the back of your neck, wearing Capris, flip flops. Me: Short, dark curly hair, also wearing Capris, flip flops. You gave me a cigarette, I gave you my life story. When: Sept. 1, 2012. Where: Kristin’s House. #1417-1015 HUSKY SEMINOLES HUNK You: FSU shirt, name starts with S. Sloppy drunk & jolly. Me: Thick woman, Cornhuskers shirt. You loved my curly hair; let me rub your belly :) Bono’s unlimited BBQ rib night on Gate Parkway 7 p.m.? When: Oct. 4. Where: Kickbacks, Riverside. #1416-1008 SHORT-HAIRED BRUNETTE You: Short brown hair, sitting next to an older lady. You were with a party sitting by the door. I ended up talking to your friend but not you. Me: Black dress with dark hair at the bar.

When: Sept. 27. Where: Hamburger Mary’s. #1415-1008 SO SWEET, BOUGHT TEA You: Tanned, green sunglasses, white SUV, motorcycle, OTW to pick up daughter. Me: Crazy spinner girl, parched, much appreciative of tea you bought. See you almost daily. Got your name, should’ve gotten number. A drink sometime? When: Sept. 27. Where: Monument/McCormick McD’s. #1414-1001 ROGUE MEN You helped me with ring toss. Stood really close. Had to run, had friends waiting. Wish I’d gotten your name and number!

When: Sept. 7. Where: Dive Bar. #1413-1001 BEARD MAGIC You: Jet-black hair, green eyes, sexy red Fiat 500. You said my beard had magical powers. Me: Colorful tats, magical beard, Donkey Bong shirt. I gave you my toast and you promised a date. When and where? When: Sept. 15. Where: Brew 5 Points. #1412-1001 BARISTA WITH DEVILED EGGS You: Starbucks Barista. Handed me a deviled egg, drew a heart on my vanilla milk. Never knew what I loved about this old coffee shop. Close your tally with a herringbone? Love to read more newspapers – as your girlfriend. When: Aug. 14.

Where: Southside/Baymeadows Starbucks. #1411-0924

SAUSAGE CUTIE You: Fast-talking Penguin shirt guy, recently out of jail; said three months in jail builds character. Me: Tall, jet-black hair, way-too-short dress. I asked if you knew I wasn’t wearing panties; you joked about sausage size on pizza. Pizza soon?

When: Sept. 17. Where: Avondale Mellow Mushroom. #1410-0924 BLACK GUY, ORANGE SHIRT, BOOTS You: Handsome, dark skin, orange shirt, behind me in Walmart money center line, 2 p.m. Me: Tall, curvy, tattooed blonde talking to couple ahead of you. Too shy to stay, thought I saw you looking. Meet? When: Sept. 12. Where: Kingsland Walmart. #1409-0917 COFFEE HOTTIE You: Hottest girl at Bold Bean, skintight Lululemons, bedhead and full-sleeve Molly Hatchet tattoo. You caught my glance waiting for latte. Me: Still drunk from last night, looking fine in Jesus Is The Shit shirt. We MUST meet. When: Sept. 10.

Where: Bold Bean. #1408-0917 HOT BLONDE @ UPS STORE You: Girl at Claire Lane/San Jose Boulevard UPS store. Me: Handsome Latino courier who comes in twice a month to pick up a customer’s mail. You know who I am. If single, wanna chat? When: Sept. 8. Where: UPS Store. #1407-0917 FLIRTING WHILE DRIVING? You: Dark Dodge pickup, Gator plate. Me: Old red Jeep Cherokee. Passed each other – intentionally – on bridge; smiles, waves. You’re cute! I was late, or would’ve followed. Wanna slow down and say hi?

When: Sept. 3. Where: Buckman Bridge. #1406-0917 DESPERATELY SEEKING PIXIE You: Steampunk girl on red couch. You asked if I’d ever be done. Me: In black, too workfocused to speak to you properly. I’m done; ready. Need to find each other. Let’s meet, talk, try to forgive. RAM 10 a.m. find me. I’ll go until I see you. When: Aug. 23. Where: Royal. #1405-0917 HOT COP AT LOGAN’S ROADHOUSE ISU at Logan’s. You: slightly seasoned gentleman; ordered a juicy steak, but I wish I could have ordered yours. Oh, and Momma has a coupon for you! When: Aug. 29. Where: Logan’s Roadhouse. #1404-0910 BMW RIDER ISU 18 years ago. Your cute dimples, warm smile and sexy moustache won my heart. Interested in a lifetime of fun? If so, let’s par-tay! Happy anniversary, Love, Your Nag. When: May 1994. Where: Famous Amos. #1403-0910 STUNNING BLONDE NURSE Talked; bought you a drink upstairs. We seemed to connect. You showed me your driver’s license because I didn’t believe your age. Wish I’d written your name down; really want to talk. When: Aug. 22. Where: Salt Life St. Augustine. #1402-0827 PURPLE SCRUBS SAN MARCO You took my blood pressure, started asking me some questions, then a young doctor walked in. We started laughing at the tag-team questionnaire.

I commented on your long hair. When: Aug. 19. Where: Academic Dermatology. #1401-0827 MR. CHEVY EQUINOX ISU wearing scrubs, driving an Equinox.

I wore shorts, tank top; driving a black Chevy Tahoe, heading out of town for work. You asked about the Tahoe, what I did for a living. Love to chat more! When: Aug. 19. Where: Town Center Shell. #1400-0827 MEET FOR BEER You: Handsome guy, Yankee Coffin Co. T-shirt, jeans, behind me at register; eyes met. Me: Curly blonde, jeans.

Said hello as you left on motorcycle with I assume your son.

If not single, no reply; you looked nice. When: Aug. 17. Where: European Street Jax Beach. #1398-0827

NEWS OF THE WEIRD THE REVOLUTION WILL BE COMMODITIZED

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher of state secrets who remains holed up in the embassy of Ecuador in London, has signed on with an Icelandic licensing agent to sell Assange-branded high-end clothing, shoes and various household goods in India and much of Europe, and is negotiating to put his logo on apparel in Japan and the U.S. The agent told The New York Times in October that “WikiLeaks� and “Assange� “can be as big as Coca-Cola.� A 46-page book sets out licensing standards (e.g., no tacky slogans, such as “We Steal Secrets�) and includes the one approved Assange portrait (an “idealized line drawing� of him “gazing soulfully into what is presumably a better future,� wrote the Times).

SEE, KIDS, THAT TRIG CLASS WAS USEFUL

When a stampede killed pigs and induced sows’ abortions on a farm near York, England, two years ago, the operator of a noisy hot-air balloon denied responsibility, referring to a court order keeping balloons 500 meters away. Using GPS coordinates and the location of dead pigs, a York University mathematics professor, using trigonometry, he said, proved the balloon could not have been more than 300 meters away. After the professor “showed his work� on the problem, the balloon’s insurer upped the settlement to almost four times its initial offer.

ALLERGIC TO PEOPLE

Lucky Dog Retreat Rescue in Indianapolis reported in October that, even after many heroic saves, they had never heard of a dog like Adam, who is apparently allergic to humans. Following a blood test to determine why he remained so sickly despite therapies, a doctor reported that Adam is allergic to human dander, and researchers told WRTV that a special serum was being prepared.

PLUGGING THE HOLE

Britain’s The Guardian reported in October that repairing “fashion� holes in earlobes is one of the fastest-growing cosmetic procedures in the U.K.,

as millennial generation radicals tire of their half- to 3/4-inch see-through lobes. Doctors charge up to $3,000 to remove the entire area around the hole (originally created by stretching the tissue) and connect the healthy parts back so they fuse together. (A Hawaiian man, not currently a patient, supposedly has the largest ear hole, nearly 4 inches in diameter.)

PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATIONS

George Byrd IV was charged in September in Middletown, Pennsylvania, with shooting a gun into an occupied structure when he fired a round that accidentally broke a neighbor’s window.

Byrd told police he fired because it was the only way he knew to “unload� the gun. Police in Bayonne, France, were contemplating charges in October against Kappa Clinic anesthetist Helga Wauters, 45, after a patient died from an improperly placed breathing tube. Wauters, appearing inebriated, said she requires vodka so that she doesn’t “shake� when she works.

Lisa Roche, 41, was arrested in Jackson County, Mississippi, in October for allegedly burglarizing students’ cars at East Central High School. She told police she was only searching out “members of ISIS.�

TOO DUMB FOR WORDS

When U.K. newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks was arrested in 2011 in the notorious News of the World phone-hacking case, so was her husband. Charles Brooks was ultimately acquitted after convincing a jury that he is “too stupid� to have been part of such a complicated case. However, in October 2014, after Charles petitioned under British acquittal rules to have his legal fees reimbursed, Judge John Saunders turned him down — citing Charles’ admitted stupidity in causing prosecutors to suspect him in the first place. (As Rebekah was being arrested, Charles aroused suspicion by clumsily trying to hide his pornography collection in a parking garage.)

Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

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BACKPAGE EDITORIAL

HOW TO REVITALIZE

NORTHWEST JACKSONVILLE

Despite the many broken promises made over the years, Jacksonville City Council member Bill Bishop writes that there is a pathway to a prosperous future for the troubled area

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f you drive along Myrtle Avenue in Northwest Jacksonville, it doesn’t take long to see the economic neglect of the businesses that still exist there — businesses that were once thriving. In its heyday, the neighborhood was a bustling source of economic, residential and cultural activity.

Generations of families were proud to live, work and play in Northwest Jacksonville in close-knit neighborhoods filled with laughter and life.

Those days have long gone, but they have not been forgotten. Many of our city’s champions believe there is an opportunity to provide a pathway to the future for this struggling area.

Northwest Jacksonville is not forgotten by me and some city leaders.

Many promises were made to Northwest Jacksonville from before consolidation up to and including right before the last election that have never been fulfilled. These include neighborhood enhancements, drainage and infrastructure improvements, as well as an emphasis on economic development. It is quite clear that Jacksonville is currently a divided city, with both prosperous and long-neglected areas.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, “A house divided upon itself cannot stand.” Jacksonville cannot truly prosper as a city until all parts of our city have an equal opportunity to prosper.

In order for Northwest Jacksonville’s residential neighborhoods and surrounding businesses to not just survive, but to thrive, three key drivers must be included in a vision for success. This is my vision: • Neighborhood Revitalization and Development • Family, Education, Job Creation • Business Improvement Opportunities

NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT Jacksonville has several examples of neighborhoods once on the decline that transformed themselves back into highly desirable areas. Riverside/Avondale and San Marco have succeeded. Springfield and Murray Hill are well underway. All of these neighborhoods were suffering from blight, increases in conversions of single-family houses into low-end rental property, degradation of commercial areas, and intrusion of commercial uses into residential areas. Each of these areas was successful in correcting these problems and reversing their decline. They accomplished this through active community involvement and neighborhood associations.

The combined effort of residents and businesses used city government to correct problems and encourage quality redevelopment. Many of the neighborhoods in Northwest Jacksonville do not have active neighborhood associations, but they all have residents who take pride in their

neighborhoods and desperately want to see neighborhood improvement. The city’s Housing and Community Development Division has the resources and expertise to assist communities in establishing neighborhood associations, recruit active participants, and educate people on how the city government functions. This way people learn how to advocate for positive changes or oppose actions that will be detrimental, who to contact to report property safety code violations, and how to follow up to make sure issues are addressed.

There are many neighborhood commercial areas throughout Northwest Jacksonville that have historically provided for many of the day-to-day needs of the surrounding communities. As the surrounding communities have declined, so have these retail corridors. Commercial revitalization is an integral part of any neighborhood revitalization effort. One only has to go to King Street, St. Johns Avenue and San Marco Square to see the transformative results of such efforts.

In conjunction with establishing active neighborhood associations, a storefront improvement program similar to that proposed for Downtown by the Downtown Investment Authority consisting of low-interest loans and grants funded by the Northwest Jacksonville Economic Development Fund can be a very effective tool for putting a new face on these older commercial areas. This can be a relatively inexpensive program that will pay great dividends through increased business activity.

There is no substitute for taking pride in and having ownership of your neighborhoods.

most people don’t know that many of these jobs actually have salary structures on par or higher than many “professional” career paths.

Northwest Jacksonville is home to a number of underperforming or failing schools that do not adequately prepare young people for life after high school.

Non-college post-secondary education is essentially left to private sector technical and trade schools, industry or trade union-sponsored apprenticeship programs, and to some extent Florida State College at Jacksonville’s vocational programs. With the exception of FSCJ’s Downtown campus, none of the other options is located close to Northwest Jacksonville, making attendance difficult for students without cars. Also, the cost of tuition can be prohibitively expensive, and without adequate career counseling, prospective students are not prepared to work through possible financial assistance options.

Communitybased job training programs can be created in partnership with the Housing and Community Development Division, FSCJ, Duval County Public Schools and business providers, and funded through the NWJEDF. Prospective students can, through proper counseling, take advantage of a multitude of financial aid opportunities. Many of these programs can be located in satellite facilities in or near neighborhoods. Location options include public schools (nights and weekends) and vacant commercial properties/storefronts.

Benefits include close proximity and easy access for students, vacant properties that would have activity and income, and education partners that would have access to more students.

While it is not the job of the city to guarantee the success of private businesses, the city can and should take measures within its ability to foster and encourage prosperous local business in all of its areas.

FAMILY, EDUCATION, JOB CREATION From the youth to the out-of-work father of four to the single mother, creating educational opportunities close to home that will allow families to create a pathway to success is one of the most important strategies.

For many years our education system has focused on college as the end game. This educational tactic branded those without degrees as failures. This does a grave disservice to a multitude of students that do not thrive in an academic environment and robs young people of the knowledge about high-paying career opportunities in crafts and trades, resulting in a shortage of people in many manufacturing, technical and construction jobs. Unfortunately

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES While it is not the job of the city to guarantee the success of private businesses, the city can and should take measures within its ability to foster and encourage prosperous local business in all of its areas. This was the intent of former Mayor Jake Godbold’s creation of the Northwest Jacksonville Economic Development Fund. Jobs provided by a prosperous local business community provide opportunities for all our citizens to realize a better quality of life, as well as resources for neighborhood improvement and increased local

tax revenue to better provide needed city services.

There are several ways this can be accomplished. Through the Office of Economic Development and the Department of Public Works, we can institute a program in which local businesses that have not done business with the city before are taught how to do business with the city. This can be modeled after a very successful program operated by the federal government in which businesses are trained in the federal procurement process. Government procurement can be cumbersome and time consuming for those without such experience. We should also standardize the procurement process of the city and the five independent authorities. There is no reason for the city, JEA, JPA, JAA and JTA to each have a separate way to do what amounts to essentially the same function. This will encourage greater participation from the business community, potentially resulting in better pricing and the more effective use of tax dollars.

Other programs to support young, small startup businesses include eliminating the bonding requirement for projects under $200,000 like the state of Florida does. Small, new contractors have a difficult time obtaining bonding primarily because they don’t have a track record. Such a program provides a good opportunity for young contractors to establish themselves and represents a very small financial risk to the city as well as a savings to the taxpayers, as bonds are not free.

CONCLUSION Northwest Jacksonville is not the only area that suffers from years of neglect, but it is certainly the largest and has suffered the longest. In fact, many wonder if the area would have been better off if consolidation had never occurred. The residents would probably say yes. I believe that consolidation has generally been good for our city, but now is the time to use the resources of our consolidated government to solve the longstanding problems that are keeping us from becoming one city for everyone. This is my outline for the revitalization of the Northwest. Success will require competent, effective leadership, which has been sorely lacking, together with a vision developed from within the community that expresses the goals and desires of area residents and businesses. My plan will transform a neglected community. It has been done before, and it must be done now. We can revitalize, transform and improve the quality of life in Northwest Jacksonville. This will finally move us to become a city for everyone.

Bill Bishop mail@folioweekly.com The author is a member of the Jacksonville City Council and a candidate for mayor.

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