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NOVEMBER 19-25, 2014 • VOLUME 28 • NUMBER 34

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EDITOR’S NOTE Justice for Daniel: Late last week, news broke that the Clay County Sheriff ’s Office had reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the family of Daniel Linsinbigler [Cover Story, “The Last Days of Daniel Linsinbigler,” Susan Cooper Eastman, July 1], a mentally ill 19-year-old who died in the Clay County Jail on March 12, 2013, after being pepper-sprayed, hooded and strapped into a restraint chair. He suffocated while a deputy sat 10 feet away, monitoring him.

The sheriff ’s office and the state attorney’s office decided no one did anything wrong.

No one was ever punished or disciplined. The sheriff ’s office shrugged it off as an accident — you know shit happens — and blamed Linsinbigler’s “own actions, omissions or comparative fault” for his death in a court filing.

As is common with these types of settlements, the $2.2 million check came with the disclaimer that it wasn’t an admission of wrongdoing.

The CCSO has changed some policies — no more combining spit hoods and pepper spray, for instance — but the underlying problem, the treatment of the severely mentally ill in our jails and prisons, persists. Daniel, who had been arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge after running naked through an Orange Park motel telling people he was God, who had a self-reported history of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, who told inmates and jail officials he was Jesus and knew he had to die, was given a medication that quite obviously didn’t work and thrown into solitary confinement for 10 days, ostensibly for his own good.

In a better system, he would have been sent to a psychiatric facility where he could have been assessed and treated by trained professionals, not locked in solitary because he suffered from delusions, not doused with pepper spray and strapped to a chair when he acted out. Daniel shouldn’t be dead — and no amount of money can bring him back.

Pension Crunch Time: On Monday, the Jacksonville City Council’s Rules Committee held a lengthy meeting on Mayor Brown’s proposed pension deal, but pushed back a vote on any amendments to it till next week. The entire council is expected to vote toward the end of the month. If the council amends the deal Brown hammered out with the Police and Fire Pension Fund, the fund’s negotiators will have to agree to any changes, and if they don’t — a likely scenario — the deal is off. And that may be the point.

This isn’t a purely cynical calculation by a council that’s had its fill of Brown (though it’s also naïve to not see some political machinations at play). There are those on the council who legitimately believe that the existing 30-year pension agreement, signed in 2001 (under Brown’s proposal, it will end in 2024), is illegal and, more important, ties the city’s hands in restructuring its red-ink-stained pension system. But even if they’re right, the cost of voiding the agreement will be years of expensive legal headaches and bad blood between the city and its public safety workers.

The bottom line: Municipal pension deals are messy, and this one is no exception. Even if the council acquiesces, there’s still the lingering $40 million question, especially given that it’s unclear, as we go to press, whether JEA can shoulder the cost. Brown needs to step up and tell us where the money’s going to come from.

But the council needs to step up, too. We can’t afford to kick this can down the road any longer.

Jeffrey C. Billman twitter/jeffreybillman jbillman@folioweekly.com

MAIL

Where Are the Jobs?

The opinion piece by Bill Bishop rings true [Backpage Editorial, “How to Revitalize Northwest Jacksonville,” Nov. 5]. There was one item previously mentioned in both Folio Weekly and The Florida Times-Union that Bishop is being too polite to mention. There has been $7 million sitting idly in a fund for Northwest Jacksonville for the past three years. Only $400,000 of the fund was spent on a meat processing plant. The rest is still sitting in the fund.

Mayor Alvin Brown hired a person to make certain the funds were distributed back in 2011, and this individual apparently has not sought people to create economic opportunities and to create jobs. If Brown truly cared about Northwest Jacksonville, he would have had this person proactively work to find businesses that needed funding to expand in (or into) this blighted area.

I hope that Bishop’s plans for Northwest Jacksonville and Brown’s lack of action will resonate with the voters. Job creation within an area with an unemployment rate that’s twice the rest of the city’s is a top priority for all citizens of Jacksonville. If jobs are important to you, please support Bill Bishop for mayor.

Bruce A. Fouraker

Nice Work, Dummies

Julie Delegal wrote an excellent column about John Thrasher [Citizen Mama, “Professor Thrasher,” Nov. 5], but she left out a few major points. This self-centered, egotistical man has created a situation which will cost the government more than $300,000 to have a special election to fill his seat when he could have chosen to pull out of the election, knowing that this would be the outcome. I have an idea: Let’s just give the seat to the runner-up and save the money. One good thing is that we are finally free of this man’s influence in politics. Hats off to the stupid people who voted for him and set up this situation.

Eugene, via email

Don’t Know Nothin’

The opening of the second paragraph proves the writer doesn’t know shit about Jags football [The Jag-Off, “In Gus We Bust?” AG Gancarski, Oct. 29].

While I love Folio Weekly, perhaps you should

stay away from the sports beat until a writer comes along who has a clue. Questioning whether Gus is on the hot seat or not? Further proof that football world knowledge is lacking here.

Debbie Johnson, via Facebook

That’s Not What Jesus Looked Like

The hipster picture of Jesus on the cover [Cover Story, “Jesus in the Millennial Age,” Matt Shaw, Nov. 5] is a misleading distortion of Holy Scripture. However, the related article concerning our “religiously disinterested generation” offered a ray of hope for the youth within our deteriorating society.

Historically, good churches have always provided a wholesome environment where boys and girls by chance can meet. This is where authentic family values are taught, nurtured and strengthened for the rough, tough road of life.

As Shaw’s article pointed out, relevancy tends to be a fleeting thing, while authenticity endures from generation to generation. Older folks like me may not care much for a loud drumbeat, but if it draws youth to Jesus, let’s bring it on. Where there’s no pain, there can be no gain, right?

Now, back to the “authenticity” of Jesus and the artist’s (Shan Stumpf) cover conception.

Of course, there were no TV news reporters following Jesus around when he walked along the shores of Galilee. There was no courtroom artist sketching him during his trial before Pilate. There were no snapshots taken of blood streaming down his battered body while hanging on the cross. None were taken at the resurrection garden tomb or on the top of Mount Olivet as he ascended up to heaven, either.

If we find ourselves just a bit curious, we might read Rev. 1:7: “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.” TV stations all over the globe will have their cameras focused on Jesus as he descends with clouds of glory and his face shining as bright as the sun.

However, what’s even more awesome is knowing that he loves us, especially those who believe on him.

William Shuttleworth If you would like to respond to something that appeared in the pages of Folio Weekly, please send an email with your address and phone number (for verification purposes only) to mail@folioweekly.com.

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CITIZEN MAMA

THE RED ILLUSION ‘A

The Republicans rigged the game and reaped the benefits

good night.”

That’s what President Obama called the Republican performance on election night. Thirteen additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives went GOP, seven in the Senate, enough to swing control of that body. Since then, some observers have mistakingly concluded the GOP’s good night means voters are moving to the right. In light of 20th century history, though, and some very close statewide contests, we can’t assume a right turn at all — not among voters, anyway. If Florida progressives are going to win anything leading up to and including the 2016 presidential election, we need to understand what we can win, what we must win, and why.

Huffington Post blogger Jonathan Hobratsch points out that every president who has served two full terms in the postwar era has faced “the second term midterm presidential curse” — Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, Bush 43, and now Obama. So can we really call it a rightward pendulum swing?

Yes, the elections do represent a swing to the right — in governance, if not in citizen beliefs.

And don’t expect it to swing back anytime soon.

By skillfully redrawing election maps since the late 1990s, the Republicans have effectively rigged the game.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Charlie Crist’s 1.1 percent loss to Gov. Rick Scott is far different from the landslide election results in the state’s subdivisions. That’s because state boundaries — which define U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races — were drawn a long time ago.Congressional districts, however, along with state House and Senate districts, get drawn every 10 years by whichever party is in power.

Enter Project REDMAP in 2010. According to Ari Berman, writing for The Nation, REDMAP was bankrolled by “six- and seven-figure donations from the likes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, tobacco companies Altria and Reynolds American, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the Karl Rove-founded American Crossroads and the American Justice Partnership, a conservative legal group that has been a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a state-based conservative advocacy group.”

REDMAP’s precursor came from RNC attorney Ben Ginsberg, who sought to make white Democrats extinct. He called it “Project Ratfuck.” Here’s how Project REDMAP works: When lawmakers carve Democrats into a single minority-heavy district, as in Florida, they’re necessarily carving Dems out of surrounding districts. The process is known as “bleaching,”

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making it easier for white Republicans to win. (“Bleaching” is a race-based term I didn’t coin.)

With bleaching, it becomes mathematically impossible to have truly competitive general elections for the U.S. House and both state-level chambers. The district lines are strategically placed to deliver elections in the primary, when our most ideological voters come out to vote.

Berman quotes prominent civil rights attorney Anita Earls to explain the motives: “What’s uniform across the South is that Republicans are using race as a central basis in drawing districts for partisan advantage. The bigger picture is to ultimately make the Democratic Party in the South be represented only by people of color.”

Thus, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown won with 65 percent of the vote, and since Florida’s Republican lawmakers — with Brown’s blessing — went out of their way to pack Democrats into her district, in eight of the nine U.S. House districts that touch Brown’s, Republicans had supermajorities.

The congressional map explains why a state that helped elect Barack Obama twice has put only 10 Democrats in 27 possible seats.

In Florida this year, the League of Women Voters and other advocacy groups sued. Leon County Judge Terry Lewis ruled that Brown’s district — and, thus, all those contiguous to it — was drawn to give Republicans an unfair advantage, which violates the Fair Districts provision of the state Constitution. The Legislature made minor revisions, to take effect in 2016. Lewis signed off. The League and other plaintiffs are now asking the Florida Supreme Court to invalidate that plan, contending that it doesn’t go far enough. The state’s high court is slated to hear the case on March 4.

There are plenty of reasons Democrats failed to capture the Governor’s Mansion — a ground game that fell far short, especially in Duval, for starters — but here’s the real tragedy: The GOP didn’t draw the boundaries for statewide elections, nor did it draw Duval County, which will hold mayoral elections next year. The governor’s and the mayors’ races are among the few truly competitive, winnable races for Dems in Florida. Statewide, Democrats outnumber Republicans by 455,406 registered voters. They just have to show up.

There’s no rising Red Tide. It’s the maps, y’all.

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

FIGHTIN’ WORDS

LEE HARVEY IS DEAD

Remembering Jacksonville’s most iconoclastic artist.

(God, he hated this place)

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eople don’t choose their legacies. Or their obituaries. Lee Harvey, like no one else from Jacksonville, harbored a very real distaste for this place. It was a constant subject for him, finding its way into his art, his conversations, and seemingly everything else. When I bumped into him in Riverside over the years, especially in recent years, he would always ask me what I was still doing here. I wasn’t the only one of whom he asked that question.

I didn’t know him as well as many, and I never made plans to hang out with him, for the same reason I never made plans to get rained on.

Lee, who died Nov. 10 after a long battle with mesothelioma, was a force of nature. I saw him as a larger-than-life figure, to be experienced randomly. We’d have two-hour conversations in Laundromats and bars, and that was plenty. Like a chemical peel facial, Lee was restorative, and a little went a long way.

As news of his death spread, artists and scenesters of a certain age — that is to say, over 30 — lamented him on Facebook. The leading cultural lights of the city — everyone from Chip Southworth to dubstep/EDM impresario Vlad the Inhaler — were all touched by him and noted it accordingly. The most compelling treatment of Lee was from someone who’d known him for a long time, Stephen Dare of Metro Jacksonville, who owned the Fusion Café in 5 Points in the early 1990s, right around the time that Lee was sharpening that rapier he used as a paintbrush.

Writing about the Lee Harvey Gallery, Dare described its commitment to redefining the staid, boring, decorative boundaries that characterized so much of Jacksonville’s “official” art scene up until then. Lee’s gallery displayed a painting of Adam and Eve that, in the words of one critic, had “exaggerated genitalia.” The ruckus led to Lee facing pornography charges and to his gallery closing. And ultimately, I believe, this and related incidents cauterized his spirit, sharpening his criticism of “Fat City” or, if you want to go back further, “Jesusville,” the city that made Lee and attempted, in vain, to spit him out, along with his contemporaries.

Lee ended up moving to New York City, where he continued to work — and criticize Jacksonville from afar, on both occasional visits to town and, of course, through social media.

He also established a national reputation in the years after 9/11, with stickers and paintings offering a critique of the post-9/11 militarist culture that the Bush/Cheney administration embodied. His critiques did not measurably soften when Obama took office. As an artist, he very much was a social commentator. Whether he was taking to task the federal government or First Baptist Church, he called out poltroons and scoundrels wherever he found them — and he found them pretty much everywhere.

It’s ironic, perhaps, that I’m writing this on Veterans Day, given the sharpness of his critiques. Also ironic: Lee dying in November, the month when JFK was killed by his eponym 51 years ago. Life is full of such ironies.

Knowing Lee as I did for a quarter-century, I know he would have appreciated them.

His paintings and work will survive him, of course, though like so much social commentary, they are creatures of the age. When thinking of Lee’s legacy, I don’t necessarily think of other painters and artists. I think instinctively of Alan Justiss, the local writer who hung with Bukowski and ended up writing like Bukowski, looking like death warmed over for years before he departed this mortal coil.

Justiss had an ambivalent relationship with Jacksonville, finding himself essentially homeless for years. Lee was smarter and had money; he was able to monetize his vision even as he wrestled with cancer for years. Both men, however, were instrumental for many writers and artists locally, including me. They taught all of us to open our eyes, see the bullshit around us, and call it for what it is.

Rest in peace, Lee. You’ve earned it. Though you disowned Jacksonville many times over, you were of this place, and it is here that your legacy shall endure.

AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com

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2 MINUTES WITH … // DENNIS HO

LEE McNULTY / OWNER, ROLLIN’ SOUND Folio Weekly: Tell me a little about what you do.

Lee McNulty: Car audio, lighting, video and window tint. Been at it 22 years.

How did you get into this?

Started at the house taking apart stuff. Twelve years old, toasters, microwaves, blowing up things. And I could put it back together. It progressed, it was a passion, and I just went for it.

If a 22-year-old kid comes in with his first car that’s 10 or 15 years old and asks for a basic sound upgrade, what do you tell him?

Well, it all depends on his budget, what he wants and what he requires. But people know what they want when they come in because their buddies have it, and the Internet is useful [for research].

What can you do with a $200 budget?

A radio with Bluetooth and USB. A car that old wouldn’t come with that technology. You feel like you’re driving a new car ’cause you got new stuff in it.

A $500 budget?

You can get a new radio and new speakers.

A $1,000 budget?

Pretty much the works, if you want to look at it like a carwash thing. New radio, speakers, amp and subwoofer.

What’s the most common sound upgrade you’re asked to do?

Adding bass to it. Not a ridiculous amount, just a little bit to fill in the sound.

What’s the most common subwoofer size you install?

Twelve [inches]. Jacksonville is a 12 city.

You go to Miami and everyone wants 15s, Jacksonville’s 12s, lots of people in Georgia like 10s. It’s just the way it rolls. It’s demographic.

I dunno.

How long have backup video cameras been popular?

I got my first one in store around 2000.

Mercedes and BMW drivers would get them.

Now everybody gets them.

Do you have a slow period? A busy period?

Slow time is usually August. I don’t know why. Never figured it out. But tax time, Christmastime, you stay real busy then.

Graduation, too — kids getting their first cars.

What do you think about today’s stock systems?

It varies [depending] on the manufacturer.

If we’re talking about a base Honda Civic or a BMW 735, a BMW like that sounds great, why touch it?

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Is that to say you can’t make a BMW 735 sound any better?

I can always do something better. Depends on what they want me to do, either make it sound better or do something they want it to do.

How old, on average, are your customers’ cars?

The average, I’d say six years.

Is there a real difference between generic brands and name brands?

Oh, yeah. Reliability, touch, feel. You can just hold a good one and a bad one and tell.

Is there ever a time you recommend the generic brand over the name brand?

I sell very few generic brands of anything. If that’s all they want, if they want to take care of the warranty themselves, then go ahead. But I try to steer them away from it. If they have a longlasting experience and not a 30-day experience, I won’t look like the bad guy even though I already informed them of the risks in the beginning.

What are your most popular brands?

Pioneer and Rockford Fosgate. There are so many, but those are the ones that come straight to mind.

What’s been the biggest change in the business since you started?

Flash drives, Bluetooth, iPods. It was tape decks with Dolby when I started, you know? It was a big thing to have Dolby and auto-reverse.

It was awesome.

Which technology has gone obsolete the fastest?

CD changers, probably. They had a good 10 years, but CDs are on their way out.

How long do you work on each car?

With a big custom job, we’ll keep a car here for a week and a half or two weeks. But on average maybe an hour, hour and a half.

Were you stable during the economic downturn?

We took a dip; we’re still not back where we’d like to be. It hasn’t rebounded, but it’ll never get back to the ’90s anyway. The passion’s not there anymore. If you sat out on Blanding during the ’90s, you’d hear nothing but music all day long.

Fast-forward to now, maybe one or two cars you’d hear music.

What technology is there out there that surprises people the most?

The older crowd is amazed with Bluetooth.

They come with their flip phone [insisting they] don’t have it, but once they’re [connected], they’re totally amazed. It’s a pretty cool feeling. dho@folioweekly.com

NEWS

THE 10-SECOND MELEE

Angela Corey decided Zachariah Tipton’s killing was entirely justified. His family isn’t buying it

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n the surface, State Attorney Angela Corey’s findings seem to support her final decision: Iron Order prospect and Army combat medic Kristopher Stone was justified in shooting and killing Zachariah Tipton at Nippers Beach Grille in Jacksonville Beach on June 26 while Tipton and his fellow Black Pistons members were beating the shit out of Stone.

Self-defense, cut and dried, simple as that.

Only maybe it’s not. Tipton, 40, known to his friends as “Nas T,” suffered a broken rib from being kicked, a three-inch bruise from being punched or kicked, and a gunshot wound to the head, all in about 10 seconds, according to the state attorney’s office.

That was the only one of four shots Stone fired that hit its mark, passing behind Tipton’s right ear and exiting out the other side, but it did the trick. Tipton probably died instantly.

When the police arrived, Stone’s gun was in the hands of another Iron Order member, presumably for safekeeping. The ammunition clip had been emptied; Stone told prosecutors he’d emptied the clip while firing because he feared for his life — he was in such fear, in fact, that he pissed his pants.

But in announcing the resolution to a case that has received international attention and has become the main focus of an ongoing feud between the Iron Order (a relatively new motorcycle club heavily populated with retired and active law enforcement and military who are contemptuous of established clubs like the Outlaws and the Hells Angels) and the rest of the motorcycle world, Corey threw in a cheap shot at the Black Pistons that might give some insight into how her office viewed the shooting from the beginning.

“Sadly, his friends left him there, basically to die,” Corey said mournfully during her press

conference Nov. 7, as if fleeing gunfire weren’t a normal human reaction.

Some corners of the local media accepted the official version without question. WJXT Channel 4 reporter Scott Johnson and his station have announced a series looking into motorcycle clubs; the first entry paints the Black Pistons and their parent club, the Outlaws, as villains, while the Iron Order is portrayed as a law-abiding club that would never do anything untoward, because they’re cops and military, the good guys, and these things are black and white.

Johnson is apparently unaware of the Iron Order’s history [Cover Story, “Die to Ride,” Derek Kinner, July 16], and of how, since its founding in 2004, the Order has willfully and pointedly eschewed the unwritten rules that have (more or less) kept the peace between rival motorcycle clubs for decades, things like not wearing another club’s colors and respecting other clubs’ territories.

They brag about doing so on their website, and while the Iron Order claims to be peaceful, this has led to problems with other motorcycle clubs.

As then-Iron Order president Ray Lubesky told Folio Weekly earlier this year, “Let me tell you, it’s been violent. This isn’t one incident for us. It happens all the time. We’re law-abiding.

We just don’t care what they say, what they do.”

Both on Internet forums and in interviews with Folio Weekly, bikers whose sympathies lie with the Black Pistons questioned whether this whole thing had been a setup — whether the Iron Order had shown up at Nippers that

night wearing the Black Pistons’ colors to provoke them.

Corey’s findings didn’t address that aspect.

They do shed light, perhaps, on why Corey refused to meet with Tipton’s family during the five-month investigation, leaving them to hit the streets to protest the lack of information.

Not surprisingly, Tipton’s family isn’t happy about the outcome. “At the beginning, I thought that the state attorney’s office was going to do their job,” Glynda Purdy, Tipton’s mother, told Folio Weekly. “I am not a negative person.

I thought justice was going to be served. I thought there would be equal balance based on the evidence.”

But that, she says, didn’t happen. And now, her family may pursue other legal remedies to obtain what they think is real justice. Purdy dismisses the cops and prosecutors as useless.

Purdy says she has many detailed statements from witnesses that seem to contradict the official story, though she declined to share these with Folio Weekly on the advice of her attorney (whom she also declined to identify). She says the family is concerned that if they announce what information they have, prosecutors will twist the facts to fit their narrative.

“If they know what we’re going to present,” Purdy says, “that will give them a better chance to counter.”

What we learned from the state attorney’s report is that Stone and another Iron Order prospect (essentially members-in-waiting who have to prove their worth), Tim White, were

“At the beginning, I thought the state attorney’s office was going to do their job.

I thought justice was going to be served.”

forced to wait outside Nippers and watch the others’ bikes. They weren’t allowed to drink and, according to the report, the police didn’t test them for alcohol. The only way to get into Nippers’ Bike Night event that evening was to walk past the two men. (In the report’s wording, Stone was sitting “just outside the valet stand.”)

Witnesses have told Folio Weekly that Tipton was offended because Stone was wearing the Black Pistons’ colors. A fight broke out.

At her press conference, Corey said witnesses told investigators that one to three other Black Pistons joined the fight, and kicks and punches “rained down” on Stone. At some point in the next 10 seconds, Stone, in fear for his life, pulled out his gun, for which he had a concealed weapons permit, and fired four times. One bullet struck and killed Tipton. (Stone told the cops he’d emptied the clip, but this was incorrect; he gave the gun to a fellow Iron Order member, who removed the remaining bullets and held onto the weapon until the police arrived.)

According to Corey’s report, Stone’s fellow prospect, White, received no injuries during the melee. Stone, meanwhile, had a broken nose, and “the right side of his face was very red and swollen and he had red marks on the left side of his face. … [H]is hands did not appear to have any marks consistent with being in a fight.” The report described his injuries as “minimally displaced nasal bone fractures associated with tissue swelling, and minimal nasal septal deviation to the left.”

Tipton, the report said, “had one broken left rib. According to [Medical Examiner Dr. Valerie] Rao, it was likely from a kick to his ribs. He also had one bruise to his abdomen, likely from a punch or kick, which is approximately three inches long.”

(While the report talks about Tipton sucker-punching Stone and other Black Pistons getting in on the action, there’s no mention of Iron Order members fighting, so it’s unclear how Tipton sustained those injuries.)

The report presumes that Tipton had a gun on him during the altercation — mainly because Tipton had two clips of hollow-point rounds in his pocket and an empty holster — though no one saw it and he didn’t use it. Corey said a Black Piston walked over and removed something that looked like a vest and perhaps rolled up Tipton’s gun inside it before departing. That person was never located for questioning. Tipton also had brass knuckles, though he didn’t use them during the fight, either. Witnesses said that weapon fell out of his pocket after he was shot.

Stone told prosecutors that, as an Army medic, he was well aware that a kick to the face could be fatal, so he was afraid for his life even though his assailants weren’t using weapons.

“Kristopher Stone did not fire in anticipation of the danger,” the state attorney’s office concluded, “or even when the danger was imminent, like the law allows, he fired only when he had already suffered great bodily harm and when he believed greater harm or death were imminent.”

Purdy, Tipton’s mother, believes that her son was clearly baited. Even the state attorney’s report, she says, notes that while Tipton had a broken rib and a large bruise, Stone suffered only minimal injuries. And he did not have any injuries to his hands — which she believes indicates that he started shooting almost at the first instant that trouble broke out.

“I believe [Iron Order members] were there waiting,” Purdy says. “There were assigned to do this. They were doing what they were told to do. You are talking [about] people who know the ropes.”

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A Clay County private investigator (with a perfect private investigator name) thinks he’s solved the mystery of Michelle O’Connell’s death

Murder, He Wrote

BY SUSAN COOPER EASTMAN

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PHOTOS BY DENNIS HO

LU WRIGHT IS A MAN

of constant motion.

He talks in such a rush of such accelerated commotion, it’s hard to take in all of his words. His hands chop and dice the air like a Ronco Veg-O-Matic. His legs jiggle and bob.

Asked to repeat a sentence, he launches into a variation on the theme. Asked again, he does it again. When I comment on how hyper he is, he tells me he’s slowed down as he’s aged. He used to be hyper, he says. He’s not making a joke.

The 51-year-old, with a silver moustache and goatee and close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair, retired as Clay County Fire Marshal in 2012, but he’s still active. He’s a part-time paramedic for Putnam County. He ran (unsuccessfully) for the Clay County Commission this year as a true Republican conservative who’d do away with development impact fees for schools. And he became a licensed private investigator and launched a company, Clu Wright’s Investigations.

On an early October morning, he offered to make the 54-mile drive from Keystone Heights to Jacksonville to meet with me. He was here in about 20 minutes. He had something very important to communicate. He’d spent five months reviewing the ostensible suicide of 24-year-old St. Augustine woman Michelle O’Connell, and he’d produced a 92-page report about it. He wanted to share it with the world.

O’Connell — as you may know, because this case has generated considerable controversy and media attention — died Sept. 2, 2010, from a single gunshot wound to the head in the master bedroom of the home she shared with her then-23-year-old boyfriend, St. Johns County Sheriff ’s deputy Jeremy Banks. She was packing to leave him. The St. Johns County Sheriff ’s Office, three medical examiners, a state attorney, a special prosecutor and Jeremy Banks himself have all said that O’Connell killed herself with Banks’ gun.

Wright thinks that’s bullshit. Only, as a good, Bible-believing Christian, he wouldn’t use that kind of language.

Here are Wright’s conclusions, in four short sentences: 1) Jeremy Banks murdered Michelle O’Connell. 2) The St. Johns County Sheriff ’s Office knows it. 3) The evidence proves it. 4) No one’s going to do anything about it.

He’s not alone in doubting the official story. A year ago, in November 2013, The New York Times published the results of a nine-month investigation into O’Connell’s death, “Two Gunshots on a Summer Night,” by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Walt Bogdanich and Glenn Silber, which cast serious doubt on the suicide narrative and the SJSO’s willingness and ability to investigate one of its own — and in the process angered Sheriff David Shoar, who continues to stand by his deputy. (The story also upset the St. Augustine Record, which fretted about whether The Ancient City was “a victim of big media parachuting into a small town and just getting the pulse wrong.”)

Wright saw the accompanying PBS Frontline documentary, A Death in St. Augustine, and felt compelled to get involved.

“I knew something wasn’t right, so I pulled everything I could think of to get on it,” he says.

And when he reviewed photographs of the death scene taken by evidence technicians, he saw something he thought was big, something important, something he says the cops had missed, something state crime investigators had missed, something that he believes could crack the case wide open.

He saw a T-shirt.

SPECIFICALLY, WRIGHT SAW A GRAY T-SHIRT,

on the bed just above O’Connell’s lifeless body. Look closely at a tight image of that shirt, Wright says, and you can see a spot of congealed blood, what looks like a bullet hole and perhaps gunpowder residue. All of that leads him to speculate that Banks stuffed the T-shirt in O’Connell’s mouth and fired his SJSO-issued Heckler & Koch into it and then threw it on the bed. “[Banks] had to put it there,” Wright says.

“[O’Connell] couldn’t have put it there. She was paralyzed. She’s dead. My theory is he may have put it in her mouth and shot her so that there’s no blood spatter.”

There’s no dispute that the fatal bullet lodged in O’Connell’s third vertebrae, instantly paralyzing her. Thus, Wright says, she couldn’t have put the shirt on the bed. Someone else had to have done that — at least, if his assessment of what’s on that shirt is correct. There’s no way to know that now. The St. Johns County Sheriff ’s Office, which quickly ruled O’Connell’s death a suicide, discarded the shirt without testing it for blood or gunshot residue.

Still, Wright says, the photographs themselves are evidence worthy of consideration.

Wright also points out that there’s no blood around the shirt. In the photos, most of the blood is pooling on the carpet under O’Connell’s head.

There’s also no blood smeared on the side of the bed, as there would be if she had slid to the floor. Nor are there obvious bloodstains on other articles of clothing or on the bed.

That wasn’t all Wright says he found in the evidence photos, interview transcripts and police reports he reviewed. For instance, he says, he saw a black glove turned inside out on the hood of Banks’ car, which he says seems to match the black gloves in the back of Banks’ police cruiser.

He argues that Banks may have worn gloves when he killed O’Connell, and discarded one of them on his car afterward. Wright also noticed a gun holster on the kitchen counter, which he believes is significant because the holster on the bedroom floor beside O’Connell’s body was locked and very difficult to open. He wonders if Banks’ service pistol fit into the holster on the kitchen counter, and whether the deputy had carried his gun in it that evening, when he was off-duty.

And in his report, Wright notes that Banks — who has always maintained that he heard two gunshots, and kicked open the bedroom door to find O’Connell lying on the floor with his service weapon beside her — in an interview with FDLE agent Rusty Rodgers, appears to agree that the death scene looks staged.

Wright quotes a portion of the interview transcript, taken in April 2011. In that interview, Rodgers tells Banks that the gun would not have fallen to the left of O’Connell’s body. Her body canted to the right, he says, and the gun would have fallen to the right, too.

Rodgers: “Uh, the forensic experts agree that that handgun was placed or staged in the position depicted in the death scene photographs. This isn’t magic, it isn’t voodoo, it just simply could not be the way the pictures say it is because it’s ass-backwards. OK, you agree?”

Banks: “Uh-huh.”

Rodgers: “I mean do you see the logic in that?”

Banks: “Yeah, I … yeah.”

Rodgers: “Do you agree with that, though?”

Banks: [Nods head] “Sure.”

That’s not quite a confession — you could argue that it’s more like a guy going along with an interrogator who’s badgering him — but it’s enough for Wright. “He admitted his guilt,” he says. “That’s the kind of stuff they are not picking up on.”

In February, Wright typed up his conclusions into a sprawling report, which he sent to Shoar, state Attorney General Pam Bondi, Gov. Rick Scott, the FBI, the FDLE, the Office of the Medical Examiner for St. Johns, Putnam and Flagler counties, three state attorneys’ offices, and journalists throughout Northeast Florida.

“Look at the evidence!” Wright exclaims emphatically. “That’s all I want.”

Wright appeared on WJXT-Channel 4 on Sept. 1, the day before O’Connell family members held a press conference on the fourth anniversary of Michelle’s death to ask Scott to reopen the case.

“You probably could have somebody that’s guilty also that’s out there roaming the streets,” he told the TV station, “because if this evidence wasn’t looked at and the whole circumstance wasn’t looked at as far as the evidence that was collected, how can you come to a conclusion and say it was suicide?”

Beyond that, however — and even after a new witness emerged to say that Banks was acting suspiciously after O’Connell’s death, and Gov. Scott acceded to the family’s demands and ordered yet another investigation — Wright’s report hasn’t gained much traction.

NOBODY ASKED CLU WRIGHT TO INVESTIGATE

Michelle O’Connell’s death, to spend his own money and his own time to acquire evidence and documents and pore over them. Nobody paid him

to take this on. He doesn’t know the O’Connells.

Never met them. Never met Jeremy Banks. Sure, it probably wouldn’t hurt his budding private-eye business to bust open one of the highest-profile mysteries in Northeast Florida, but that’s not why he’s doing it, he says.

“I’m looking for evidence,” he says. “It’s not about me. It’s about justice.”

Wright is dressed in goldish-green cargo shorts and a gray FSU T-shirt over a white T-shirt and brown suede Skechers. He dresses like a regular guy because he is a regular guy.

He’s adamant that there’s nothing special or extraordinary about him. When I ask to visit him at his Keystone Heights home to see him in his element, he says there’s nothing to see.

His wife does the decorating, and besides, he doesn’t understand why those sorts of details matter. “We got couches, TVs, the regular stuff everybody else got,” he says.

(And, yes, before you ask, Clu Wright, though it may sound too perfect for a private investigator, is his given name. His dad named him after Clu Gulager, an actor who played Billy the Kid in the NBC series The Tall Man and Deputy Ryker on the 1960s NBC series The Virginian.)

Wright worked for the Clay County fire department for two decades, from 1991 to 2012, when he retired, and he didn’t shy away from trouble. In 2012, for example, he filed a complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics against car dealership owner and County

Commissioner Ronnie Robinson, alleging that Robinson had attempted to interfere in fire inspections to help his business friends. The Commission on Ethics cleared Robinson of any wrongdoing.

Wright, as Clay County Fire Marshal, investigated suspicious fires, and says he was certified as an expert witness in court cases in the county. The first thing he’d do when investigating a case, he says, was rule out criminal intent — just like the first thing a criminal investigator has to do before proceeding is to decide whether or not a death is a homicide. (If someone had died in a fire, he was required by Florida law to call in the state fire marshal to investigate rather than do so himself. Wright says he would assist, however.)

Wright says the skills he honed as a fire investigator serve him well in his current line of

After months of pressure from the O’Connell family and a blogger who tracks how the cops handle allegations of domestic violence involving their own, in January 2011 Shoar asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate O’Connell’s death.

And when the FDLE began its inquiry, Agent Rodgers found some potentially important evidence that the SJSO had apparently overlooked. When he canvassed the neighborhood, Rodgers found two women who said that, on the night O’Connell died, they were in the garage of a nearby home, smoking cigarettes. They said they heard a woman scream for help, a gunshot, another cry and another gunshot.

(Shoar was critical of their statements, at first saying the women admitted to sometimes

work. “You enter a burned-up building and have to piece it back together to figure out where the fire started,” he says. “It’s connecting the dots.”

That’s what he says he’s trying to do with Michelle O’Connell’s death — connecting the dots, piecing it together, doing the basic work he believes St. Johns County Sheriff ’s deputies were unwilling to do that night four years ago.

smoking pot in that garage, then arguing that the women were too far away from Banks’ home to have heard anything.)

The FDLE also tested Banks’ gun and found that it had no traces of his blood or his DNA on it, even though he had carried it earlier that day — raising the possibility that he had cleaned it. The gun did have some of O’Connell’s DNA on it, though.

Crime scene reconstruction expert James Findley told FDLE investigators that he didn’t believe O’Connell killed herself. “The totality of the circumstances are not consistent with suicide,” he wrote in a report. “However, they are consistent with homicide.” Rodgers and his supervisor, Dominick Pape, believed that O’Connell’s death was suspicious.

Shoar pushed back, and pushed back hard.

His office prepared a 153-page review of the SJSO’s investigation that reads more like an indictment of the FDLE and the detective work of Rodgers and Pape.

The report charges that Rodgers “had an inappropriate relationship with the O’Connell family.” Rodgers led O’Connell’s brother, Deputy Scott O’Connell, to believe that his sister’s death “was indeed a homicide” and confided in him about the investigation. Shoar also said that Rodgers seized Banks’ cell phone and detained him illegally after interviewing him in the FDLE’s Jacksonville offices. Shoar’s report says Rodgers made an “unlawful arrest and detainment,” and that the agent never read

EVEN SHERIFF SHOAR HAS ADMITTED HIS

deputies didn’t investigate O’Connell’s death as thoroughly as they should have. (The sheriff ’s office declined to comment for this story because the case is once again considered an active investigation.) Deputies left evidence at the scene. They didn’t ask that the evidence they did collect be tested for gunshot residue or DNA. Though Banks admitted to drinking that night, the cops never tested his blood alcohol level. A detective interviewed him in the front seat of her patrol car, rather than at the police station, with Banks’ off-duty sergeant present.

In short — as Shoar has acknowledged — they decided it was suicide, and that influenced how they went about their work. Two days later, the medical examiner confirmed it. As far as the police were concerned, that case was closed.

Except Michelle O’Connell’s family didn’t buy it. They never bought it. O’Connell wouldn’t have abandoned her 4-year-old daughter, they said. She was leaving Banks. She was about to start a new full-time job with health insurance.

She was happy.

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Banks his Miranda warning.

“Because of the unethical conduct of these two individuals,” Shoar concluded, “a young deputy has been stigmatized for life.”

Banks sued both Rodgers and the FDLE. So did Scott O’Connell, who says Rodgers manipulated him. (Worth noting: Scott O’Connell was fired from the SJSO after an outburst when he learned Banks wouldn’t be charged in his sister’s death; he was rehired after he told Shoar he thought Michelle killed herself.)

Near the conclusion of the FDLE investigation, Gov. Scott asked State Attorney Brad King — who represents the Fifth Judicial Circuit, covering Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion and Sumter counties — to investigate.

He ultimately determined there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute Banks, which Shoar took as vindication. The family still didn’t give up.

Following the New York Times/Frontline investigation last year, pressure mounted again.

And on the anniversary of O’Connell’s death this year, her family presented a signed affidavit from former bar owner Danny Harmon, who said that Banks came to his bar the day after Michelle’s death and said that O’Connell wasn’t going to ruin his life, and that all she ever did was put him down. The family asked Gov. Scott to once again reopen the case.

A few weeks later, Scott appointed yet another special prosecutor, Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Jeff Ashton, who represents Orange and Osceola counties. (Ashton’s office declined

to comment for this story.) Shoar released a statement saying he was confident that Ashton would reach the same conclusion as two other state attorneys and three medical examiners — that O’Connell’s death was a suicide.

Because of their differences over Michelle’s death, Scott O’Connell is estranged from his older brother, two remaining sisters and mother.

Earlier this month, the family appeared on Dr. Phil, where the television psychologist implored them to reconcile.

The FDLE, meanwhile, has placed Rodgers on leave while a special prosecutor investigates his conduct. Pape resigned in April 2013.

Banks’ attorney, Robert “Mac” McLeod, did not return phone calls for this story. He has previously told Folio Weekly in an email

that “Mr. Banks is so obviously innocent of any wrongdoing whatsoever in the tragic suicide of Ms. O’Connell, that 3 medical examiners and 2 state attorneys have concluded no evidence implicates him. It may make great copy to claim otherwise, and make loved ones of Michelle feel better, but it makes such allegations no less baseless and fictional.”

DESPITE THE MANY LINGERING QUESTIONS

surrounding the case — and the fact that it is once again being actively investigated — Clu Wright has had difficulty getting anyone in power to listen to him.

In June, for example, Wright met with St. Johns County Chief Medical Examiner Predrag Bulic; on July 11, Bulic and investigator J. Kent Holloway signed a memo stating that unless the bloody T-shirt could be proven to have a bullet hole in it, the medical examiner’s office “sees [no] merit in these so-called pieces of evidence.”

That memo describes the meeting, during which Bulic “examined the photographs while Mr. Wright directed his attention to an obscure piece of clothing resting on a piece of furniture near the decedent’s body.”

Bulic is perhaps most notable for his explanation of how Michelle O’Connell received a wound above her right eye on the night she died. He theorized that she turned the gun upside-down and put it in her mouth. When she pulled the trigger, the gun’s tactical light surged forward and struck her, causing the injury.

The New York Times story characterized that theory as defying the laws of physics. It quoted eminent forensic scientist Peter De Forest, who said, “Dr. Bulic’s theory is fraught with problems and almost laughable.” He described the idea that a gun would recoil forward as “absurd.” De Forest offered a simpler explanation — “that O’Connell was battered before the fatal shot.”

Meeting Wright and looking at his T-shirt evidence didn’t change Bulic’s mind about O’Connell’s death. “Dr. Bulic is as confident in this office’s official diagnosis of the cause and manner of death as when he first made himself familiar with the case,” the post-Wright meeting memo concludes.

After Scott assigned the case to Ashton, Wright says he met with that office’s investigators, too. There, too, he came away disappointed. He says the investigators told him that their review was limited to assessing whether Harmon’s testimony changes anything.

They won’t be going back into the case file, or retesting evidence, or re-interviewing witnesses.

“Their job is not to reopen the whole investigation of the case,” says Wright. “They got all my stuff. I don’t think that they are going to do anything.”

The refusal of the powers-that-be to consider his findings infuriates Wright. “If they would have gotten that shirt that night, this would have been solved. But they just want to let it go. They kind of joke and laugh and don’t do anything about it. They botched it the first time, and then they botched it again.”

Wright isn’t stopping with his criticism of the investigation into Michelle O’Connell’s death. He recently published another report examining a purported suicide in Clay County that he thinks was also murder. He says the victim’s family didn’t have the money to hire a private investigator, and he wishes there were a nonprofit to fund investigations like these.

If he could, he says, he says, he’d like nothing more than to conduct investigations into cases for people who don’t have the resources to launch their own.

“I’d do it all day long,” he says. seastman@folioweekly.com

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pending an hour talking with the three ladies from the group Tomboi — Alex E on beats and robots, guitarist Paige McMullen and drummer Summer Wood — is an eye-opening experience.

Wise beyond their ages (McMullen is 24, Wood is 26, and Alex E is 28) they are intellectuals with well-formed opinions on gender neutrality, dealing with sexism and the advancement of tolerance in our city.

They are equally witty and fun-loving, cracking jokes while finishing each other’s sentences. They can be Morrissey and Patti Smith and The Monkees at the same time. Their music is a mixture of electro pop and Alex E’s Grace-Slick-like warbled vocals (à la Bis or even Jacksonville’s own Black Kids).

Along with being heavily involved in the Girls Rock Jax campaign, Tomboi are achieving things most bands don’t get to until their second or third year, if ever. They’ve played SXSW and rocked New Orleans.

They’ve crisscrossed our state and, though they’re young, they have goals and they’re determined to achieve them.

Although we got into some serious discussions about sexism, hate crimes and gender issues, the question that gave them the hardest time was the first one I asked.

Folio Weekly: What is the most tomboy thing about you?

Alex E: When I wear a dress, I feel like a man in a dress.

Paige McMullen: Sports!

Summer Wood: Can I think about it … ?

A.E.: I think, though, when you talk about what Tomboi means, it is a statement about being gender-neutral. To say that I feel like a man in a dress is saying essentially how ridiculous it is to ever feel any one specific gender because of characteristic traits or feelings you may be feeling. If I want to fix my car, somehow I am masculine. Why is that less feminine? Why do we condition ourselves this way? I have always felt very gender neutral. I have always been called a tomboy. I just put the “I” on the end to make it our own. Tomboi isn’t about being female or male or straight or queer; anybody is a tomboi.

F.W.: Can I be one?

P.M.: You always were one.

A.E.: I feel like it is a way of saying that everyone is sensitive, everyone is strong, everyone has dominant and submissive traits, and it doesn’t make you more hetero or queer.

F.W.: How has it been growing up in your age bracket with this philosophy in Jacksonville? And has that found its way into your music? Is that why you started this band?

A.E.: It isn’t why we started the band. We are open about our sexuality and we are not ashamed of it. But I don’t think any of us started playing music or joined this band because we needed an outlet or a voice. I have always sung about loving girls, but I’ve never focused on why. And with regards to obstacles in Jacksonville, I hope that our generation is the last generation that has to deal with a lot of the hate crimes and rude moments. I didn’t really realize it until I was in a relationship and how specific and disgusting people can be about it. I don’t kiss my girlfriend for your excitement or enjoyment; I’m kissing her because I love her. This isn’t a sideshow. When you’re in these queer moments, there is not dialogue that exists about how to deal with these inappropriate things.

S.W.: With experience and age, things we have experienced, we get better at dealing with them.

F.W.: Who makes up your audiences and fans?

A.E.: It’s varied. We provide a safe space for everybody. You don’t have to be any one way. How many movies, TV shows, songs a week come out that are about heterosexual romance, as opposed to any other options? We are constantly bombarded by this archetype of what you are supposed to be, so I hope our shows provide the audience a space to talk about a different type of dialogue.

S.W.: And the music makes you dance. It makes your booty shake.

F.W.: “Lobos,” your newest single, is full of energy and bumping and grinding. Is it about Los Lobos?

A.E.: “Lobos” is about being aware that there are all the entities in the world that are out to get you. You are always the deer and there is always a wolf, so never let your guard down. The wolves always lurk at the edge of the woods.

F.W.: But it’s such a happy song.

A.E.: Exactly, ’cause it’s a serious message and serious messages are always taken much better when you can also grind against someone you like.

P.M.: And that is the secret to songs.

F.W.: What started this whole Tomboi thing?

P.M.: We started because Alex was invited to perform at South

by Southwest as a solo performer. I said I would drive because I had just bought a car, and she suggested I should play guitar. And then we needed a drummer. We created the band to play South by Southwest, and that was our second show. We try to go out every couple of months and do regional work.

F.W.: You talked earlier about creating a safe space for your audiences. Does Jacksonville have enough of these venues?

P.M.: Mostly in the Downtown/Riverside places are there queerfriendly places.

S.W.: But we are fine playing outside of our comfort zone. We want to play for all sorts of crowds, and we want to play the beach and other parts of town.

P.M.: It isn’t really that places are or aren’t queer-friendly, it is more of the collateral traffic. I am from the beaches, and I’ve never personally dealt with anything, but I’ve known tons of people who’ve been physically abused and had tons of other things happen. But, with our shows, there are so many different people that come watch us that are so friendly to us.

F.W.: Would it be rude or condescending to call your music “fun feminism”?

A.E.: I guess I’d call it colorful queer heart-throbbing romantic music.

P.M.: Behind the lyrics there are so many emotions that drive Alex to bring say what she says, but really it’s just dancey love songs about girls written by girls that are supposed to make you dance.

S.W.: I can answer the first question now. I am not sure whether I want to be John Travolta from Grease, or be with him.

Danny Kelly mail@folioweekly.com

TOMBOI, PROM DATE, HEAVY DREAMS and DREAM EAGLE 8 p.m. Nov. 19, 1904 Music Hall, Downtown, $5

TOMBOI, BOYFRIEND, THE MADD WIKKID, HEAVY FLOW and MF GOON 9 p.m. Nov. 20, Shanghai Nobby’s, St. Augustine, $5

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A&E // MUSIC

SIMPLE KIND OF MAN Bluesman Eric Lindell plays it straight up and laid back

ERIC LINDELL

10 p.m. Nov. 20, Mojo Kitchen, Jax Beach, $15

E

ric Lindell enjoys the view from his back porch — and he should, he’s earned it.

Recently returned from a West Coast jaunt, Lindell is resting comfortably on his porch in Louisiana, watching the trees sway and listening to the crawfish click. He has spent more than 20 years on the road, bringing his laid-back blend of country, blues and soul to audiences who have taken very nicely to his brand.

His music isn’t overly complicated. It’s actually fairly simple stuff, and he’s fine with that. Some of the best songs ever written have three chords, and anyway, the best parts of soul

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and blues don’t lie in analyzing song structure.

The parts that are important, Lindell gets.

His most recent studio album, Indian Summer, brings Lindell’s soul and blues influences together with whatever debauchery Louisiana adds to music, and it brings three niche crowds together as well, giving Lindell ample time to drive around the country, and less time on his back porch. But he doesn’t mind, because the work is also the reward.

Like any soul and/or blues artist, for Lindell and bandmates — bass player Myles Weeks and drummer Will McMains — it’s all about

pouring heart and soul into the live performance.

As a young surf punk, though, he learned this commitment to the craft from a different sort of artist.“When I was young, one of my favorite bands was Fishbone,” Lindell says. “They crossed all genres and boundaries, they didn’t really do just one thing. I liked that they were all over the place with their music.”

Lindell’s love for soul and blues has always been prevalent, and so has his songwriting strategy: Pick a few nice chords and write about what you know. “I really just write basic life stuff everyone can relate to. I translate it into songs. If you can do that, I think you are hitting on something. I’m not trying to sound too crafty, I just write about three chords and a message, like blues, country songs,” he says.

“That old Jimmy Reed stuff with the exact same progression, same chord, but the songs are still great. I admire that stuff.”

This straightforward approach shines through effortlessly on Indian Summer, which, while light and laid-back, also has a little snarl tucked in under the back beat. “We started Indian Summer as an acoustic record, and so we used an acoustic bass and acoustic piano,” says Lindell. “Other than that, we had an acoustic resonator guitar, and there was a little electric guitar from Anson Funderburgh. It sort of grew once we added a few other things, but it ended up with some of the same ingredients as the other stuff, but with a different sonic dynamic.”

Anyone familiar with Lindell’s travels

would know he spent a good portion of his early years in the California club scene.

Anyone not familiar with that can pick it out of his music (think Jack Johnson or the Laurel Canyon scene). What might be a little more difficult to pick out is what Louisiana has added to the music. It isn’t all zydeco and beads, but it’s in there.

“Louisiana is home base, but I’ve been all over,” he says. “I’ve always had the same sort of writing style and the same message, so the spot doesn’t change it. My music is just my life experiences over the last 15 years. Playing a million shows does that to you. I miss the coast, I do like to surf and I miss landscape stuff from California. But I love where I live now; it’s similar to the area I grew up in.

Rolling hills and oak trees, a rural setting, horses and cattle. My wife grew up here in the same setting I did, just in a different section of the country. I love both places — they’re a big part of my heart.”

Regardless of his setting, Eric Lindell cares about his product, his music. And he cares about the quality he puts out when he isn’t at home, relaxing on his back porch. “Most people, I hope, walk away thinking it’s real and honest — ‘I can’t believe it’s been so long since I have heard that music.’ No pedals, no distortion, just good sound. People seem to like the good, simple songs.”

Danny Kelly mail@folioweekly.com

A&E // MUSIC JAMES TAYLOR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND, featuring a lineup of fellow musician heavyweights, perform at Veterans Memorial Arena on Nov. 19.

CONCERTS THIS WEEK

SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Nov. 19 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247.

TOMBOI, PROM DATE, HEAVY DREAMS, DREAM EAGLE 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $5.

BURNING ITCH, TIGHT GENES 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188, $5.

JAMES TAYLOR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND: LOU MARINI, WALT FOWLER, LARRY GOLDINGS, LUIS CONTE, STEVE GADD, ANDREA ZONN, KATE MARKOWITZ, ARNOLD McCULLER, DAVID LASLEY, JIMMY JOHNSON, MICHAEL LANDAU 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $65-$85.

THE WORD ALIVE, COLOR MORALE, OUR LAST NIGHT, THE DEAD RABBITS, MISS FORTUNE 6 p.m. Nov. 20 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 699-8186, advance tickets are $20; $35 day of show.

DARREN RONAN, SHANE MYERS, JOEY KERR, LOUIE LeCLAIRE, WALT MINGLEDORF 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008.

BE EASY 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555.

MIGGS, RIES BROTHERS 8 p.m. Nov. 20 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8.

LES RACQUET, CIVIL BRUTE 8 p.m. Nov. 20, 1904 Music Hall, $5.

RED BEARD & STINKY E 9 p.m. Nov. 20 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680.

TOMBOI, BOYFRIEND, HEAVY FLOW, MF GOON 9 p.m. Nov. 20, Shanghai Nobby’s.

ERIC LINDELL 10 p.m. Nov. 20 at Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-6646, $15.

NATALIE STOVALL & THE DRIVE 6 p.m. Nov. 21 at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, 356-1110, $5-$10.

THIRD DAY 7 p.m. Nov. 21 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, $24, 633-6110.

DRIVER FRIENDLY, LIGHT YEARS, ON GUARD, DETACHED, BRICKS, GRENADE, FRESHMAN YEAR 7 p.m. Nov. 21 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, 353-6067, $10.

PUJOL, SCAVUZZOS 8 p.m. Nov. 21, Shanghai Nobby’s.

DIRT FLOOR KRACKERS, EMMA MOSELEY BAND, NASSAU COUNTY RAMBLERS, RANDY LANE 8 p.m. Nov. 21 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $8.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE, ALEXANDER CARDINALE 8 p.m. Nov. 21 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-5661, $59.55-$99.55.

THE JACKSONVILLE OLD TIME JAM 8 p.m. Nov. 21, Underbelly.

THE EMBRACED, THE STRANGE, URSULA, BURNT HAIR 8 p.m. Nov. 21, Jack Rabbits, $8.

TRAE PIERCE & T-STONE 8:30 p.m. Nov. 21 & 22, Latitude 360.

DIRTY GRINGOS 10 p.m. Nov. 21 & 22 at Flying Iguana.

THE DELTA SAINTS 9 p.m. Nov. 21 at Mojo Kitchen, $10.

Lannadoo Jacksonville Celtic Fest: FLOGGING MOLLY, ALBANNACH, RATHKELTAIR, THE WILLIS CLAN, THE STREET CHOIR, THE GOTHARD SISTERS, BAGPIPE

TROUPES, SPADE McQUADE & THE ALL-STARS, IRISH ECHOES, JIG TO A MILESTONE Nov. 22-23, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach, $25; $35 two-day pass; for schedule and tickets, go to lannadoo.com.

AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK, RINGS OF SATURN, UPON THIS DAWNING, THE CONVALESCENCE 5 p.m. Nov. 22, 1904 Music Hall, advance tickets are $12; $15 day of show.

TENTH AVENUE NORTH, KB, ROYAL TAILOR 7 p.m. Nov. 22 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., Westside, 388-7807, $20-$35.

KEKE, WYATT, DJ DR. DOOM 8 p.m. Nov. 22, Hyatt Regency Riverfront, 225 E. Coastline Dr., Downtown, $35; jaxoldschoolparty.com.

OTIS CLAY 8 p.m. Nov. 22 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $36.35.

FLATBUSH ZOMBIES, THE UNDERACHIEVERS 8 p.m. Nov. 22, Underbelly, $25-$40.

I-VIBES, JAHMEN 8 p.m. Nov. 22, Freebird Live, $8.

SEVEN NATIONS 10 p.m. Nov. 22 at Lynch’s Irish Pub, 514 First St. N., Jax Beach, 249-5181.

TWISTED INSANE, ASKMEIFICARE, DRAZAH & JOHN LEGIT 8 p.m. Nov. 23, Jack Rabbits, advance tickets are $8; $10 day of show.

EVERYMEN, SPEAK EASY, THE WEIGHTED HANDS 8 p.m.

Nov. 23, Shanghai Nobby’s.

RELIENT K, BLONDFIRE, FROM INDIAN LAKES 6 p.m. Nov. 24, Freebird Live, $20.

AARON CARTER, THE CRAZY CARLS, AUSTIN PORTER, BILLY WINFIELD & RAQUEL CABRERA 8 p.m. Nov. 25, Jack Rabbits, $15; $65 VIP. SIT KITTY SIT, LOVE NECTAR 9 p.m. Nov. 25, Burro Bar. THE WEIGHTED HANDS, COUGAR BARREL, JOEST & JEREMY ROGERS 8 p.m. Nov. 26, Jack Rabbits, $5.

BEEB$ & HER MONEY MAKER$, NO DIGGITY (NO DOUBT TRIBUTE), TJ HOOKER, MILKA 8 p.m. Nov. 26, Freebird Live, advance tickets are $10; $15 at the door.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

WVRM Fest: BURNT BOOKS, SAFETY WORD, RITES, BLUNT GUTZ, HOLLOW LEG, GALACTOID, GAUL, MEANSTREAK, BURN THEM AT THE STAKES, COASTLINES Nov. 28 & 29, Burro Bar PASSAFIRE, THE HIP ABDUCTION, KOTA MUNDI Nov. 28, Freebird Live FAZE WAVE Nov. 28, Jack Rabbits SANTOROS, PSYCHOMAGIC Nov. 28, Shanghai Nobby’s SLAVES, GET SCARED, FAVORITE WEAPON Nov. 28, 1904 Music Hall BLACK CAT BONES Nov. 28 & 29, Flying Iguana COSBY SWEATER Nov. 29, 1904 Music Hall RONNIE DOZIER, JASMINE RHEY Nov. 29 at Ritz Theatre I-WAYNE, BLACK AM I Nov. 29, Freebird Live MATTHEW ELLIS Nov. 29, Burro Bar PRIMER 55, RAZORZ EDGE Nov. 30, Jack Rabbits 69 BOYZ, 95 SOUTH, QUAD CITY FAMILY Nov. 30, Eclipse EVERYTIME I DIE, THE GHOST INSIDE, ARCHITECTS, HUNDREDTH, BACKTRACK Dec. 1, Underbelly TEACH ME EQUALS Dec. 3, Shanghai Nobby’s RICER Dec. 3, Burro Bar

The Big Ticket: FALL OUT BOY, WEEZER, ALT-J, YOUNG THE GIANT, CHEVELLE, NEW POLITICS, J RODDY, BIG DATA, BEAR HANDS, YOUNG RISING SONS, KNOX HAMILTON, SLEEPER AGENT, ISLANDER Dec. 5, Metropolitan Park HUNTER HAYES Dec. 5, Veterans Memorial Arena WHO RESCUED WHO Dec. 5, Lynch’s Irish Pub KOFFIN KATS Dec. 5, Burro Bar URBAN JAZZ COALITION Dec. 6, Ritz Theatre 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 THE MISFITS Dec. 6, Underbelly THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, BILLY NERSHI Dec. 6, Freebird Live BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR, WHITNEY PEYTON Dec. 6, 1904 Music Hall St. Augustine Distillery Sugar Cane Harvest: J.J. GREY Dec. 6, KYV Farm, St. Augustine BURRO BAGS Seventh Anniversary Party Dec. 6, Burro Bar MODERN BASEBALL, KNUCKLE PUCK, SOMOS Dec. 7, Underbelly JAMISON WILLIAMS’ WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR: Disney Songbooks Interpretations Dec. 7, Sun-Ray Cinema CORY BRANAN Dec. 7, rain dogs.

HARRY O’DONOGHUE, CARROLL BROWN, MICHAEL MURRAY Dec. 9, Culhane’s Irish Pub QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT, WHITE MYSTERY, BURNT HAIR, THE MOLD Dec. 9, Sun-Ray Cinema SARAH MAC BAND Dec. 10, Mudville Music Room MOTOPONY Dec. 10, Jack Rabbits PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 11, Mudville Music Room MANHATTAN TRANSFER CHRISTMAS TOUR Dec. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TRAMPLED BY TURTLES, NIKKI LANE Dec. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Suicide Prevention Benefit: JULIE DURDEN Dec. 12, Mudville Music Room FIREHOUSE Dec. 12, Mavericks WE THE KINGS Dec. 12, Jack Rabbits SHFB BURLESQUE SHOW Dec. 12, Shanghai Nobby’s J-LIVE Dec. 12, rain dogs.

100 WATT VIPERS, SUNPILOTS, HIGHER GROUND Dec. 12, Freebird Live ALLEN TOUSSAINT Dec. 13, Ritz Theatre JACK MENTZEL Dec. 13, Mudville Music Room BRIAN POSEHN Dec. 13, Underbelly WHOLE WHEAT BREAD Dec. 13, Burro Bar DIERKS BENTLEY Dec. 13, Glynn County Football Stadium ZULU WAVE, WRAY, GLORIES, STRANGE LORDS, TAMBOR, BURL, THE WEIGHTED HANDS, DREDGER, GHOST TROPIC Dec. 13, Shanghai Nobby’s WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE Dec. 14, The Florida Theatre ARS PHOENIX, SEVERED+SAID, IRONING, SUPER FAMICOM, DJ VAS TOY, COLD WASTE, VERANEAR, RAIN SYMBOLS Dec. 14, Shanghai Nobby’s FULL BODY TONES Dec. 14, Jack Rabbits FINE ART OF JAZZ TRIBUTE TO MARY LOU WILLIAMS Dec. 16, Ritz Theatre

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A&E // MUSIC A PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS: RICK BRAUN and MINDI ABAIR Dec. 16, The Florida Theatre BAD SANTA, GRANT PEEPLES Dec. 17, Mudville Music Room JOE BONAMASSA Dec. 17, The Florida Theatre GUNTHER DOG, CONCORD AMERICA Dec. 17, Nobby’s 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, The Florida Theatre WOLF FACE Dec. 19, Shanghai Nobby’s STRANGLED DARLINGS Dec. 20, Burro Bar BOBBY LEE RODGERS Dec. 20, Freebird Live A Swamp Radio Christmas: FOUR FAMILIES, SAM PACETTI, LEELYNN OSBORN Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre A Swamp Radio Christmas: SAM PACETTI, TARRA CONNER JONES Dec. 23, Flagler College DJ ICEY, BABY ANNE Dec. 25, Eclipse Nightclub INSPECTION 12 Dec. 27, Freebird Live

FORSAKEN PROFITS, ROTTEN STITCHES Dec. 30, Burro Bar THE CORBITT BROTHERS BAND, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Dec. 31, Freebird Live DARYL HANCE, BRENT BYRD & THE SUITCASE GYPSIES Jan. 3, Underbelly DON WILLIAMS Jan. 7, The Florida Theatre ’70s Soul Jam: THE SPINNERS, THE STYLISTICS, THE MAIN INGREDIENT Jan. 8, The Florida Theatre FRED EAGLESMITH Jan. 9, Café Eleven Winter Jam: SKILLET, JEREMY CAMP, FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI, BUILDING 429, 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 Live ASKMEIFICARE Jan. 10, Jack Rabbits LUCINDA WILLIAMS & HER BANDJan. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PENNYWISE, ANTI-FLAG, A WILHELM SCREAM Jan. 13, Freebird Live MIRANDA SINGS Jan. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TIM EASTON, HEATHER PIERSON Jan. 14, Mudville Music J.W. TELLER Jan. 16, Burro Bar MARTYPARTY Jan. 16, Freebird Live TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Jan. 16, The Florida Theatre THE BOTH (AIMEE MANN, TED LEO) Jan. 16, P.V. Concert Hall CASE Jan. 16, Ritz Theatre SANDY HACKETT’S RAT PACK SHOW Jan. 16, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater MONROE CROSSING Jan. 16, Mudville Music Room DIANE SCHUUR Jan. 17, Ritz Theatre HARDIN & BURNS Jan. 17, Mudville Music Room THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA Jan. 18, FSCJ Wilson Center OF MONTREAL, NEDELLE TORRISI Jan. 19, Freebird Live SHOVELS & ROPE, CAROLINE ROSE Jan. 20, P.V. Concert Hall KRIS ALLEN Jan. 21, Jack Rabbits GAELIC STORM Jan 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GREENSKY BLUEGRASS Jan. 21, Freebird Live KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 22, The Florida Theatre IRIS DEMENT Jan. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NOTHIN’ FANCY Jan. 24, Mudville Music Room LINCOLN DURHAM Jan. 24, Jack Rabbits MERLE HAGGARD Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre EARPHUNK Jan. 27, Freebird Live CRUEL HAND, FRAMEWORKS Jan. 27, Burro Bar

ARLO GUTHRIE Jan. 29, The Florida Theatre GALACTIC Jan. 29, Freebird Live DAVID WILCOX Jan. 29, Café Eleven 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, The Florida Theatre VINCE GILL & TIME JUMPERS Feb. 7, The Florida Theatre JOE CROOKSTON Feb. 7, Mudville Music Room JON SHAIN, RUPERT WATES Feb. 12, Mudville Music Room ANA POPOVIC Feb. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES Salute the Music of The Rat Pack Feb. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOJA, THE GREEN Feb. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOHN HAMMOND Feb. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO Feb. 20, The Florida Theatre DENNIS DeYOUNG & The Music of Styx Feb. 21, Florida Theatre R.L. GRIME Feb. 22, Freebird Live JACKSON BROWNE Feb. 23, The Florida Theatre THE MIDTOWN MEN Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, MARSHALL TUCKER BAND Feb. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre STRINGFEVER March 5, Café Eleven 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 THREE DOG NIGHT March 10, The Florida Theatre FULLSET March 12, Mudville Music Room JOHN MELLENCAMP: PLAIN SPOKEN TOUR March 15, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts CYRUS CHESTNUT March 20, Ritz Theatre MAVIS STAPLES March 21, Ritz Theatre JACKIE EVANCHE March 22, The Florida Theatre AGNOSTIC FRONT, COLDSIDE March 22, Burro Bar SARAH McLACHLAN March 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NICKELBACK March 25, Veterans Memorial Arena BRONX WANDERERS March 29, The Florida Theatre JANIS IAN, TOM PAXTON April 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE ORCHESTRA (Former ELO & ELO II members) April 11, The Florida Theatre DIANA KRALL April 13, T-U Center for the Performing Arts THE WHO HITS 50! TOUR April 19, Veterans Memorial Arena RAIN April 24, The Florida Theatre WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE April 25 & 26, venue TBD CHRIS BOTTI April 30, The Florida Theatre ZZ TOP, JEFF BECK May 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ED KOWALCSZYK May 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Florida Country Superfest: ZAC BROWN BAND, KENNY CHESNEY, KEITH URBAN, BRANTLEY GILBERT, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, DAVID NAIL, COLT FORD, 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. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith every Thur. Yancy Clegg every Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue. HAMMERHEAD, 2045 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-7783 DJ Refresh 9 p.m. every Sun. THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-8999 The Macys at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20. Black Jack Band at 6 p.m. on Nov. 21. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

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.

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A&E // MUSIC ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance 9 p.m. every Fri. Live music every Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Ryan Crary on Nov. 20 & 26. Crusoe on Nov. 21. El Dub on Nov. 22.

Live music every Thur.-Sat. WEST INN CANTINA, 3622 St. Johns Ave., 389-1131 Parker Urban Band at 9 p.m. on Nov. 21

BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Derek Maines at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20. Jetty Cats at 6 p.m. on Nov. 21.

Reggae SWAT Team at 3 p.m. on Nov. 23. Open mic every Wed. BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Ste. 35, Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff at 8 p.m. on Nov. 19. Open mic Wed. CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Irish music 6:30 p.m. every Sun. DJ Hal every Sat. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 The Dirty Gringos at 10 p.m. on Nov. 21 & 22. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Red Beard & Stinky E 10 p.m. every Thur. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. every Sun. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Dirt Floor Krackers, Emma Moseley Band, Nassau County Ramblers, Randy Lane at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21. I-Vibes, Jahmen at 8 p.m. on Nov. 22. Relient K, Blondfire, From Indian Lakes at 6 p.m. on Nov. 24. Beebs & Her Moneymakers, No Diggity, TJ Hooker, Milka at 8 p.m. Nov. 26. Passafire, The Hip Abduction at 8 p.m. on Nov. 28. Live music every weekend.

GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 N. Third St., 201-9283 Steve McNulty at 9 p.m. on Nov. 22 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. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Whetherman on Nov. 21. Cocktail Jazz on Nov. 22.

Live music every Fri. & Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Sidereal at 9 p.m. on Nov. 21. Seven Nations at 10 p.m. on Nov. 22. Dirty Pete every Wed. Split Tone every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Who Rescued Who every Sun. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 3 the Band on Nov. 19. Ivey West Band on Nov. 20. Wes Cobb on Nov. 21 MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer 6 p.m. Thur.

MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Eric Lindell at 10 p.m. on Nov. 20. The Delta Saints at 9 p.m. on Nov. 21 NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Brent Byrd at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 19. King Eddie & Pili Pili at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20. Monkey Wrench at 6 p.m. on Nov. 22. Eric Alabiso, Catfish Rodeo on Nov. 23. Cloud 9 on Nov. 26 NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Larry & the Backtracks at 7 p.m. on Nov. 20. Gary Lee Wingard at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Taylor Roberts on Nov. 20. Live music every Thur., Fri. & Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Nov. 19. Live music Thur.-Sun. WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508 Live music every Thur. and Fri.

Year at 7 p.m. on Nov. 21. Sit Kitty Sit, Love Nectar at 9 p.m. on Nov. 25 FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6-9 p.m. Nov. 19 & 26. Jig to a Milestone at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21. Live music every Fri. & Sat. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 A DJ spins for Food Truck Block Party at 4 p.m. Nov. 22 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis every Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ 007 every Fri. Bay Street every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Natalie Stovall & The Drive at 6 p.m. on Nov. 21. Joe Buck, Big Tasty every Thur.-Sat. SHANTYTOWN, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Kill Matilda at 8 p.m. on Nov. 24 UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Cruel Hand, Have Mercy at 6 p.m. on Nov. 19. The Word Alive, Color Morale, Our Last Night, The Dead Rabbits, Miss Fortune at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20. The Jacksonville Old Time Jam at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21.

Flatbush Zombies, The Underachievers at 8 p.m. on Nov. 22

Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Dismal Creek at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21. DJ Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Circle of Influence at 10 p.m. on Nov. 21 & 22. DJ Corey B every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Lance Neely at 6 p.m. on Nov. 19. Richard Smith at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20. Mark O’Quinn at 7 p.m. on Nov. 22. Live music every Wed.-Sun. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Deron Baker at 6 p.m. on Nov. 19. Gary Starling Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20. Robert Brown & the Conflict at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 21 28.

Wes Cobb at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 22. Live music Thur.-Sun.

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Kurt at 9 p.m. on Nov. 20 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Band on the Run at 9 p.m. on Nov. 21 & 22. DJ Throwback 8 p.m. every Thur. Deck music 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 4:30 p.m. every Sun.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Live music every Fri. & Sat. DJ Big Rob every Thur., Sun. & Tue. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Live music every Fri. & Sat. YOUR PLACE, 13245 Atlantic Blvd., 221-9994 Roger That!

10 p.m. Nov. 21. Carl & the Black Lungs 10 p.m. Nov. 22

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Open mic: Synergy 8 p.m. every Wed. World’s Most Talented Waitstaff at 9 p.m. every Fri.

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells, 272-5959 John Michael every

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Tomboi, Prom Date, Heavy Dreams, Dream Eagle at 8 p.m. on Nov. 19. Les Racquet, Civil Brute at 8 p.m. on Nov. 20. As Blood Runs Black, Rings of Saturn, Upon This Dawning, The Convalescence at 5 p.m. on Nov. 22. Open mic jam every Mon. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 353-4686 Driver Friendly, Light Years, On Guard, Detached, Bricks, Grenade, Freshman

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A&E // MUSIC Scott Elley at 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 & 26. Root of All at 9 p.m. on Nov. 22. Backwater Bible Salesman at 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 24 MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Silent Planet, Me & the Trinity, Searching Serenity, Reach for the Sky, Convalesce at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19. The Icarus Account, Worth Road, Paradime, Leah Sykes, Ryan Shelley at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21.

Tenth Avenue North, KB, Royal Tailor at 7 p.m. on Nov. 22 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 A Nice Pair, Navy Band Southeast Brass Band, Ciaran Sontag & the Safari Band starting at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 22 TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 4syTe, Chelle Wilson at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 21

ST. AUGUSTINE

ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Open mic with Smokey Joe at 7:30 p.m. every Tue. THE CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Mid-Life Crisis at 7 p.m. on Nov. 21. Gary Campbell 2 p.m., Ain’t Too Proud To Beg 7 p.m. Nov. 22. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. on Nov. 23 MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19-1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Decoy at 9 p.m. on Nov. 21 & 22. Katherine Archer at 1 p.m. on Nov. 23 THE OASIS, 4000 A1A S., 471-3424 Vinny Kellerman on Nov. 19. Those Guys on Nov. 21 & 22 PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM, 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100 Billy Bowers at 3 p.m. on Nov. 25. Michael Howard 3 p.m. every Mon.-Fri. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Burning Itch, Tight Genes at 8 p.m. on Nov. 19. Tomboi, Boyfriend, Heavy Flow, MF Goon at 9 p.m. on Nov. 20. Pujol, Scavuzzos at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21. Everymen, Speak Easy, The Weighted Hands at 8 p.m. on Nov. 23 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 342-0286 Dennis Fermin at 6 p.m. on Nov. 22 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky at 9 p.m. on Nov. 21 & 22. Matanzas every Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth 1 p.m. every Sat.

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. every Fever Saturday JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Terry McDermott, Miggs, Ries Brothers at 8 p.m. on Nov. 20. The

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Embraced, The Strange, Ursula, Burnt Hair at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21. Twisted Insane, Askmeificare, Drazah & John Legit at 8 p.m. on Nov. 23. Aaron Carter, Billy Winfield, Austin Porter, Raquel Cabrera at 8 p.m. on Nov. 23. The Weighted Hands, Cougar Barrel, Joest & Jeremy Rogers at 8 p.m. on Nov. 26 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Darren Ronan, Shane Myers, Joey Kerr, Louie LeClaire, Walt Mingledorf at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20. Catch the Groove at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 21

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

COMEDY CLUB, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 8, 646-4277 Fascinating Rhythm Orchestra 7 p.m. every 1st & 3rd Wed. COPPER TAP HOUSE, 13500 Beach Blvd., 647-6595 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DANCIN DRAGON 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat. LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 VJ Tos at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19. Be Easy at 7:30 p.m., VJ Fellin at 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 20. Trae Pierce & T-Stone at 8:30 p.m., VJ Fellin at 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 21 & 22. Jesse Cruce Duo at 7 p.m. on Nov. 22. Split Tone at 7:30 p.m., VJ Fellin at 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 23 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 9971955 Charlie Walker on Nov. 20. Ouija Brothers Band on Nov. 22. Live music every Thur.-Sat. MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, 9550 Baymeadows, 737-5299 Aaron Sheeks on Nov. 19. Dirty Pete on Nov. 20. Don’t Call Me Shirley on Nov. 21. Herd of Watts on Nov. 22. Live music every night WILD WING CAFÉ, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Chris Brinkley at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 19. The Gootch on Nov. 21 WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 Mitch Kuhman Band at 8 p.m. on Nov. 20. Bread & Butter at 9 p.m. on Nov. 21. Tape Deck at 9 p.m. on Nov. 22. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

FAST FREDDIE’S BAR & GRILL, 12905 N. Main St., 683-8441 Chrome Heart on Nov. 22 HIGHWAY 17 ROADHOUSE, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Live music most weekends THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE, 1602 Walnut St., 3559791 MauFeSha Production at 8 p.m. on Nov. 24. Open mic every Thur.

THE KNIFE

BLOOD LOSS A

few disclaimers before we launch into this week’s soul-crushing record review: 1) I hate the name Bleeding in Stereo, which coincidentally happens to be the name of this band. Any band that has “bleeding” in its name — Romeo Bleeding, Bleeding Through and yes, Bleeding in Stereo — should immediately switch to a name without the word “bleeding.”

2) I know the bass player, Tommy Gunn.

He’s a nice guy, despite his replacing his real last name with the double-N Gunn. He’s committed to becoming a better musician and songwriter. We’ve worked together. I like him.

3) This band takes itself too seriously, as the name might indicate (more on this later). But somehow, I ended up enjoying their new album, Waiting to Crash. If you want to know more, keep reading. If not, just go to bleedinginstereo.com and have a listen.

Though Waiting to Crash is riddled with heavy-rock clichés, it opens with a fantastic vignette called “Fast Asleep.” Chief songwriter Keith Allen has a great voice, and considering the venue in which he has placed it, he does wonders. At 1:23, “Fast Asleep” should be longer, as it is a dreamy slice of k.d. langesque songwriting. But alas, we shoot headlong into “Say It,” and the clichés begin.

Thick, distorted, over-produced guitars and super-compressed vocals give the songs a very modern feel, and that’s to be expected if you want to “make it” these days. But to me, that shit lacks balls, which is the exact opposite of the intent, to be sure. The rawness is gone, replaced by sanitized instrumentation and hack lyricism resulting in a sort of testosterone-fueled fakery akin to the steroid-fueled muscle-heads you meet at the local gym. They appear big, powerful and tough, but that veneer is easy to see through.

Maybe I should reframe this criticism.

Most of today’s modern rock is trash, and most of today’s young bands are trying hard to fit a broken mold. It’s really not their fault.

They don’t know that they are listening to and playing crap. It’s the environment in which they are raised, and it’s what’s expected of them.

So they do it with the hope of achieving some measure of creative and financial success. (The same could probably be said for the music I listened to in my formative years, except the bands I spent my early life emulating were The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Sly & the Family Stone, and late-’70s Van Halen. You know, good bands.)

A song-by-song analysis of Waiting to Crash would slip quickly into redundancy, but I’ll hit a few key points here. Let’s deal with

the positives first. The talent Allen displays as a lead vocalist cannot be overstated. The guy has range, control and depth, and a knack for creating interesting harmonies, despite the limitations of his chosen genre. Track four, “The Agitator,” is a perfect example of this. Set over a heavy odd-time shuffle, the vocals dip into Alice in Chains territory then swing into Virgos Merlot mode. Wonderful sweeping lines fill these tunes. One hopes that as Allen matures, he will move into a more songwriter-friendly arena. This is not to say that heavy rock isn’t songwriter-friendly, but Allen deserves a more interesting canvas.

With work, he’ll get there.

More good things: Drummer Eddie Leo Floyd exhibits an impressive command of his instrument. Credited with co-writing a few tunes on Waiting to Crash, he’s a smart drummer, showing restraint when necessary, and going total apeshit when appropriate. He and Tommy Gunn are tight, especially in the solo portion of “Break the Negative,” a staccato unison section that, if performed live in the studio, is all the more imposing. Ditto for the intro of “I’m Telling You.” Great, creative stuff. Too bad there isn’t more of it here.

Now for not-so-goods: These guys take themselves way too seriously. Emphasis on “way.” Again, this is symptomatic of most young bands. They have a point to prove — we’re hard, we’re put upon, and we want to sell records. Look for plenty of emo-chording interlaced with Pantera-like false-harmonicladen riffage. Don’t look for humor or fun on Waiting to Crash. It ain’t there. This is post-angsty angst written by relatively young, relatively comfortable guys with nice equipment and a budget. From the website: “You will find that the lyrics are a lot deeper than face value … nothing fake here, just pure honest and venerable emotions that life has produced all on it’s [sic] own.”

It’s that kind of overt seriousness that kills my interest. Relax, guys. It’s only rockand-roll.

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VICTORY IS OURS

Jennifer Lawrence delivers a winning performance in the latest Hunger Games installment

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inspiration, but the leaders of District 13, on’t tell Hollywood I said this, but chopping including President Alma Coin (Julianne the final novel of the Hunger Games trilogy Moore) and former Gamesmaker Plutarch into two films might be the best thing to Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour happen to the franchise. I mean, it didn’t work Hoffman), who has defected. Katniss — for Harry Potter — the first Deathly Hallows and we — may agree with their aims of film was terrible — and Peter Jackson is already overthrowing the Capitol, but it is startling and two-thirds of the way (the final third is almost a little bit horrifying to see how very moving upon us) toward demonstrating that turning the propaganda can be. brief Hobbit book into three long films was not A terrific sequence early in the film artistically warranted. And it’s not like the so-far enthralling Hunger Games films needed any help. illustrates this, and shows off Lawrence as It’s that it may be the best possible beginning an entirely remarkable actor. We saw in the previous films how Katniss was pretty good of the end this particular story could’ve gotten. at pretending to be something she was not The Games are done here. No more playing.

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), reluctant (such as “hopelessly in love with Peeta,” her Hunger Games teammate). Yet here we see heroine of District 12, has been snatched how absolutely awful she is at trying to force from the arena where impoverished teenagers herself to show emotion that she intellectually play out a to-the-death blood sport for the agrees with but isn’t feeling at the moment. amusement of their overlords of the decadent Capitol. In that arena, she accidentally inspired She’s completely unconvincing shouting lines a nation of downtrodden serfs in the future scripted for her by Heavensbee, about freedom North American nation of Panem to begin to and rebellion in a studio setting … but once tentatively rise up. Now, she is another Capitol defector, among her rescuers, the people director Cressida (Natalie THE HUNGER GAMES: of the lone outright rebellious Dormer), gets her out in the MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 District 13, the leaders of which field to tour another district **** hope to use her as a symbol to devastated by Capitol bombing Rated PG-13 ignite all-out civil war. and to visit with the wounded, The series has been, from Katniss’ ire is genuinely the beginning, about the power of propaganda raised. There’s a lot of complicated and even and the persuasive capabilities of media to tell a intriguingly contradictory stuff going on: The story that will sway hearts and minds. And with triumph of a young woman who cannot be Mockingjay — Part 1, the films continue on managed yet soars when she gets to be herself their astonishing track of being, if not actually raised a huge lump in my throat, yet at the same better than, at least more complementary to time, I was fully aware her powerful rage was the novels than perhaps any movies-based-onbeing turned into a product. books have ever been, because the books are Cutting Mockingjay the book into two films told from Katniss’ first-person, present-tense means we’re left with a sort of Empire Strikes perspective, which has its own intimate weight Back feel to this one — that’s a good thing — but fails to offer us a larger view on Katniss’ complete with a devastating cliffhanger that world. Here, though, in the films, we’re shown doesn’t leave room for much hope. Except, from outside her head how Katniss is used by that is, the not-at-all unjustified hope that, others to further their own agendas — and the next year, The Hunger Games will deliver a cultural impact of that in her world. satisfying wrap-up to what so far has been one of the smartest, most enthralling scienceThe extraordinary thing about Mockingjay fiction films series ever.

— Part 1 is that now, it’s not the rapacious Capitol and evil President Snow (Donald MaryAnn Johanson Sutherland) who offer Katniss as a public mail@folioweekly.com

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SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE

An Edward Snowden documentary takes us through the cyber looking glass

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truly believe that meaningful personal liberty is impossible without guaranteed personal privacy. Which is why Citizenfour — Laura Poitras’ new documentary about Edward Snowden’s decision to expose the U.S. government’s massive, secret and mostly illegal foreign and domestic surveillance programs — is the most frightening movie I’ve seen in years. Watching Citizenfour is like slowly ingesting a long draught of liquid hopelessness; the enormity of the dull, aching fear it produces is akin to being reminded repeatedly about both your political impotence and your cosmic insignificance.

Interestingly, Snowden — whose long interview in a Hong Kong hotel room with Poitras and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill makes up nearly half the film — reached out to the filmmaker through email while she was living in Berlin and working on a documentary about the contemporary surveillance state. Snowden’s earliest correspondence appears onscreen as a nonsensical jumble of letters and numbers that suggest the Zodiac killer’s initial letters to Bay Area press. We quickly realize that these are copies of the heavily encrypted messages Snowden originally sent.

Poitras reads excerpts from these emails throughout the film, and at first they sound like dispatches from the outer provinces of a conspiracy-mad no-man’s-land. For example, when it comes to password protection, Poitras is told to “assume your adversary is capable of 1 trillion guesses per second.” As the film goes on, and as the government’s capacity and willingness to spy on its own citizens grows clearer, they start to sound like the grim facts of online life.

Poitras and her collaborators make the mountains of information Snowden presents

to them fairly easy to see and understand.

She doesn’t deal explicitly with many of the documents Snowden leaked, but over time, the sinister implications of buzzwords like “metadata” and “linkability” become apparent. It is sobering to know that, if you have a debit card and a phone, the government can essentially track your whereabouts at all times. (It’s also sobering to know that someone somewhere has recorded every instance where I searched for more information about “GCHQ” or “Wikileaks” or “Jacob Appelbaum” while writing this review.)

Snowden himself is capable of a grim sense of humor about his endeavors, but mostly he exudes the divine gravitas of a tech-savvy monk who’s doused himself in gasoline and is about to light a match. He keeps his identity secret for as long as he can, but when he speaks, his words feel aimed at future generations. He’s onscreen a lot in this movie, and one of the film’s biggest shocks is that this harmless-looking dweeb, with his patchy facial hair and strong prescription lenses, is the one who spoke out.

The end of the film, which features Snowden and Greenwald in matching blue shirts exchanging slips of paper and knowing glances like a pair of overgrown private-school kids, is silent about next steps. But what is to be done?

And if not now, when?

Snowden is capable of a grim sense of humor about his endeavors, but mostly he exudes the divine gravitas of a tech-savvy monk who’s doused himself in gasoline and is about to light a match.

Addison Engelking mail@folioweekly.com

CITIZENFOUR ****

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A&E // MOVIES SPACE IS THE PLACE

I’ve always loved science fiction. Among the earliest novels I remember reading were Andre Norton’s Star Man’s Son (reprinted as Daybreak 2250 A.D.) and The Stars Are Ours! Published in the early 1950s, the first book dealt with a postnuclear world, the second with an interstellar voyage to a new home away from an Earth gone wrong. I was hooked on imagination and wonder.

A short while later I discovered Adventures in Time and Space, the groundbreaking 1946 anthology that Frederick Pohl, himself an SF Grandmaster, called “A Colossal achievement … the book that started the science-fiction publishing wonder!” And then there were all those great movies of the 1950s, like The Day the Earth Stood Still, which, coincidentally, was based on a story from that same anthology.

For me, time and space are still the limitless parameters that define the wonder and appeal of science fiction on the screen as well as on the page. So it’s no surprise I loved Interstellar, whose plot explores the boundless reaches of both realities, evoking sheer wonder in the process.

Looking for cinematic comparisons to the new film brings us to 2001: A Space Odyssey, still the masterpiece of the genre. All time and space are Kubrick’s very themes, beginning with The Dawn of Man and the concluding Beyond the Infinite with the birth of the Star Child, man becomes (for all intents and purposes) a god at the end of one evolutionary voyage (and maybe the beginning of another).

Men Like Gods was the title of H.G. Wells’ 1926 “scientific fantasy” about a utopian society in a parallel universe.

Time and space A pupil of T.H. Huxley’s evolutionary are limitless theories, Wells was a parameters that co-founder of science define the wonder fiction, ultimately even more influential and appeal of than Mary Shelley science fiction. or Jules Verne. In a period of about 10 to 12 years, beginning with The Time Machine in 1895, he produced the templates for just about every major plot device in the genre.

Over the years, Wells’ novels and stories have provided the basis for many science-fiction films, from great to awful, but one of the most interesting (particularly in light of Interstellar) was a 1936 effort called Things to Come, with a script by Wells himself. Recently released on Bluray and DVD by the Criterion Collection, the film has been rescued and restored from the hell of public domain and now looks better than ever.

A landmark in British filmmaking at the time, Things to Come was a massive undertaking in terms of budget and design. Covering nearly a century from roughly 1940 to 2036, the movie postulates a future war that casts the world into another Dark Age from which mankind emerges, thanks to a group of noble scientists, into Wells’ view of a utopian society governed, of course, by the very rational scientists.

But complacency ever threatens the mind, and the film’s conclusion shows an effort by the masses to stop a rocket to the stars. Echoing the themes of 2001 and Interstellar, the spirit of exploration propels man upward and onward. In the final words of the film’s protagonist, “For Man, no rest and no ending … All the universe or nothingness … Which shall it be?”

Manifest Destiny on a cosmic scale! You gotta love science fiction.

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Jim Carrey survives a four-month-and-20-day “Smoke on the Water 420: A Sea Cruise with The String Cheese Incident” tour in DUMB AND DUMBER TO.

FILM RATINGS **** MEMO FROM TURNER ***@ LETTER FROM HERMIONE **@@ MESSAGE TO LOVE *@@@ POST-IT FROM SCABBY

SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR MONEY! Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze star in the fi nancial advice documentary The Legacy Journey at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19 at Cinemark Tinseltown, 4535 Southside Blvd., 998-2122.

HUNGER GAMES MARATHON All three films are being shown in one afternoon at several area theaters, starting at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 20. Check local listings to get your Katniss fix.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Interstellar, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Citizenfour are showing at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 3590049, sunraycinema.com. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 starts Nov. 21.

LATITUDE 360 MOVIES The Expendables 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy are currently screening at Latitude 360’s CineGrille Theater, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, latitude360.com/ jacksonville-fl.

THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ The Zero Theorem (rated R), a sci-fi drama-fantasy costarring Christoph Waltz, Lucas Hedges, Mélanie Thierry, Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton, screens through Nov. 20. Bad Turn Worse (not rated), a crime thriller drama costarring Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis and William Devane, screens through Nov. 27. Low Down (rated R), about jazz pianist Joe Albany, runs Nov. 21-Dec. 4, at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

WGHF IMAX THEATER Interstellar: The IMAX Experience, D-Day Normandy 1944, 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.

NOW SHOWING ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY **G@ Rated PG 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. — Steve Schneider 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. Then again, maybe I shouldn’t get my hopes up: Doesn’t the Bible say that man will only receive one Chucky per generation? — 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 Katy bar the door! 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. BEYOND THE LIGHTS Rated PG-13 It’s time to add two new entries to my running list of Things White Folks Can’t Do: 1) vote for decent candidates; 2) distinguish this movie’s trailer from promos for that Lifetime Aaliyah biopic. Either way, we’re gonna see a lot of bling and bubbly as an idealistic up-and-comer gets an education in the shadier aspects of urban-music economy.

NOTE: “Urban” is what you call a product when you’re counting on selling it to black folks but would really prefer not to have to stop there. So dig in, Scandal Nation! And tell all your friends on the crew team! — S.S. BIG HERO 6 Rated PG ***@ The premise is familiar: In the near future, a teenager must overcome tremendous personal loss to defeat the villain who wants to destroy society. This is Disney Animation’s (Frozen) take on the highly profitable young adult, comic book and action genres merged into one, and the result is superb. Hiro (Ryan Potter), a malcontent 14-year-old in San Fransokyo (as the name implies, it’s a combination of San Francisco and Tokyo), is an engineering prodigy.

His mother’s dead and Aunt Cass (Maya Rudolph) is doing her best to raise him. Hiro’s older brother (Daniel Henney) takes him to his college robotics lab, where he meets an assortment of characters: spunky, speedy Gogo (Jamie Chung), chemistry wiz and pretty girl Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez), school mascot Fred (T.J. Miller) and martial arts master Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.). Then there’s Baymax (Scott Adsit), an inflatable robotic nurse that “looks like a walking marshmallow,” Hiro says. For an upcoming student showcase in which the fi rst place winner earns enrollment,

Hiro invents microbots – shape-shifting magnets that create whatever the mind desires – and wins. An explosion forces him and his newfound friends to find new ways to combat evil. As is often the case with anything with the name “Disney” attached to it, this one’s a winner. — Dan Hudak BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) Rated R **** Designed to aesthetically challenge, frustrate, inspire, amuse and amaze, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new movie stars Michael Keaton, as Riggan, an aging has-been of an actor clinging to a belief that he’s still important years after his iconic Birdman movie character was put out to pasture.

In an effort to recapture his artistic integrity, he brings to the Broadway stage an ambitious adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. He wants to prove to ex-wife Sylvia (Amy Ryan), his lover Laura (Andrea Riseborough) and daughter Sam (Emma Stone) he’s still relevant. Starring along with Riggan in the Broadway production are Mike (Edward Norton) and Lesley (Naomi Watts). Holding it all together is Riggan’s friend and manager Jake (the superb Zach Galifianakis). Despite the gifted cast, this film’s is all about Keaton, and in a meta-theatrical, even deconstructionist way, he embraces the role, which is not surprising considering the similarities between his career and Riggan’s. Thanks to Iñárritu, Keaton’s gotten another shot at life, and cinema is a slightly more wonderful place because of it. — Cameron Meier THE BLUE ROOM Rated R A middle-aged salesman (Mathieu Amalric) is having an affair with a married woman (Léa Drucker). They go from steamy sex to murder in this crime thriller directed by Amalric. In French.

THE BOOK OF LIFE ***G Rated PG 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 CITIZENFOUR **** Rated R Screens at Sun-Ray Cinema on Nov. 19 & 20 Reviewed in this issue.

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

A&E // MOVIES Transformers. And before you say that idea is the pits, think: Dracula Untold is an unrelated, low-priority quickie the studio had to get out of the way first. The breath, it truly does catch. — S.S. DUMB AND DUMBER TO Rated PG-13 In which Hollywood learns the belated but vital lesson that making a Dumb and Dumber movie without Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels or the Farrelly Brothers is like … well, like making a sequel to The Mask without Jim Carrey. And what kind of dope would have attempted that? This time, the misadventures of the triumphantly idiotic Harry and Lloyd are again presented by their true and rightful interpreters, with the ousted Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen free to breathlessly anticipate their appearance as a Jeopardy! question 15 years from now. We’ll only have to worry that the Farrellys are running out of steam if they announce Dumb, Dumber, Dumbassed, featuring Ted McGinley as retarded Cousin Oliver. — 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 pseudo-remake might spark.

A plot seemingly lifted wholesale from Denzel Washington’s Man on Fire 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. ERRA BUS Not Rated The Tollywood film by director Dasari Narayana Rao costars Vishnu Manchu and Catherine Tresa. In Telugu.

FURY ***G Rated R Ask any product of America’s school system to name something that happened in the last months of World War II, and the likely answer will be “Captain America got frozen in a block of ice.” (Hell, it’s all I could name off the top of my head.

Sorry!) Apparently, Brad Pitt also got in a bit 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? As I recall from my studies, that Twilight Zone guy who wished to be made the ruler of a great nation was already in his bunker, realizing he was Hitler and getting ready to eat a bullet. Not very tough competition, amirite? (Now I’ll tell you what Discovery Channel 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 fi fth wedding anniversary, when Amy (Rosamund Pike) disappears and the cops think Nick (Ben Affleck) killed her. — MaryAnn Johanson THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 **** Rated PG-13 Reviewed in this issue.

INTERSTELLAR **** Rated PG-13 Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine star in Christopher Nolan’s epic about a spaceship that travels into a galactic wormhole in hopes of finding a new home for mankind. Nolan tackles some heavyweight issues while never succumbing to special FX-madness, creating a cerebral and highly entertaining edition to the sci-fi genre. — D.B. 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-watching 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 filmmaking debuts, so expect lots of emphasis on Meisner technique and emotional truth. — S.S. THE JUDGE **G@ Rated R 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. KIRK CAMERON’S SAVING CHRISTMAS Rated PG From the title, you’d assume this was another Bill O’Reillyesque screed against the alleged “war on Christmas” (i.e., the crippling indignity of having to admit that Jews and Muslims do not cease to exist at midnight on Dec. 24).

But it’s actually some sort of homespun narrative in which former-kid-star- turned-professional-God-botherer Kirk Cameron teaches his own family the true meaning of the season. Wait – shouldn’t they know it already? — S.S. THE MAZE RUNNER Rated PG-13 Teen himbos with no memory struggle to escape a mysterious prison. The arrival of an actual girl changes

everything. A sequel has already been ordered, because you and I don’t get to decide anything. — S.S. NIGHTCRAWLER ***G Rated R 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 cartoon in The New Yorker 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. ROSEWATER Rated R Jon Stewart directed and wrote this documentary about journalist Maziar Bahari, who was kept a prisoner by Iranian forces who thought he was a spy. It’s a gripping story.

ST. VINCENT **G@ Rated PG-13 Bill Murray hams it up in this buddy-picture-surrogatefather-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. Costars Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts and Chris O’Dowd are the voices of morality and/or sobriety. — D.B. THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA Rated PG Acclaimed director-animator Isao Takahata tells Japan’s most famous folktale about a mysterious princess and her inevitable fate. Rendered in stunning, hand drawn animation, Kaguya features the voices of James Caan, Mary Steenburgen and Chloe Grace Moretz. — D.B. WHIPLASH Rated R This gripping tale about a young drummer who will do just about anything to succeed at his craft costars Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist.

Nate Parker, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and canine cinematic upstart Zeke Von Cambridge III star in the new drama BEYOND THE LIGHTS.

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KNOWING ALL THE ANGLES Barbara Colaciello’s one-woman show is an intimate and inventive look at a truly creative life

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lot has changed in Barbara Colaciello’s life since she first performed her one-woman play Life on the Diagonal in 2005. She left her longstanding post as education and outreach director for Players by the Sea. She also separated from her husband and has been dealing with empty nest syndrome since her two 20something sons moved out.

So it makes sense that a play based on Colaciello’s life would need to undergo some edits. The latest version will be unveiled with two showings this week at The 5 & Dime Warehouse.

“I like to say that we grow accustomed to wearing these coats, and the coats can become a burden,” Colaciello says. “I’m a woman. I’m Catholic. I’m Italian. I’m a liberal. I think these coats hinder our humanity. It’s all an illusion. If you lose your favorite coat, you feel exposed.

We’re so bound by these roles, and the play’s about that.”

Colaciello’s been working on Life on the Diagonal — in one form or another — for nearly 15 years. It started back in 1999 when Colaciello and her then-husband would host “soirées” at their house and invite fellow local creative types.

“I would get up and tell stories and snippets of my life that interested me and then ask for a response,” she says. “Stories need to be universal, and I found that mine were.”

Diagonal is a somewhat-chronological trip through Colaciello’s life. Starting with her Italian Catholic upbringing in Long Island (including years spent working with Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine), the play evolves through her time as a wife, mother and artist in Northeast Florida to this present-day “transitional period.”

Currently clocking in at 80 minutes sans intermission, it weaves monologues, original music (arranged by her ex, Mark Williams) and poetry, and is directed by Colaciello’s good friend Robert Arleigh White, who directed the 2008 version of Life on the Diagonal at its New York

City debut at The Alchemical Theatre Laboratory.

Over the years, Colaciello has worked with many diverse personalities in the arts and theater world, including Tony-winning choreographer and film director Patricia Birch (Grease, Sleeping with the Enemy), with whom she went over the play line-by-line one weekend in the Hamptons.

“It was an amazing experience,” she says.

The play’s title comes from a spoken-word poem of the same name. In it, Colaciello writes: You are the Verrazano bridge And I’m on your causeway Taking the journey to the top of that hill You’ll come down from your mountain dropping hats And I’m watching from behind a pane of glass You say goodbye to the one you know And connect to me with a tube that you inject in my ribs Colaciello’s a kind of Renaissance Woman.

Her résumé is long and multifaceted: public speaker, educator, storyteller, musician, performance artist, director, acting coach, playwright — the list goes on and on.

“I look at the small moments you later see were big moments,” Colaciello says. “This play is all about how I remember those moments.”

From working as Warhol’s advertising director at Interview Magazine to hobnobbing with theater royalty like Birch, Colaciello’s life has plenty of colorful stories to choose from.

Hence, the ever-changing transformation of Life on the Diagonal.

Colaciello is currently working on another one-woman play that she hopes to unveil in the fall of 2015. To Pop or Not to Pop is an exploration of the relationship we have with our own bodies and how we take care of ourselves — told, in typical Warholian fashion, in a bona fide pop-art style.

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LIFE ON THE DIAGONAL 8 p.m. Nov. 20 & 21, The 5 & Dime Warehouse, Downtown, $18 Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/life-on-the-diagonal-written-performed-by-barbara-colaciello-tickets-13692714277 32 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | NOVEMBER 19-25, 2014

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ELECTRICAL METERS

Pulitzer Prize-winning experimental poet Rae Armantrout brings distinctive energies to current verse

RAE ARMANTROUT gives a reading at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at University of North Florida’s Gallery of Art, Southside, unf.edu/gallery.

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here’s no denying Rae Armantrout has a way with words. For four decades, the celebrated poet has been featured in 10 collections of her verse and various major anthologies, and earned impressive accolades, including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Armantrout grew up in San Diego and earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (where she studied with poet Denise Levertov), eventually earning an M.A. from San Francisco State University. Her first major was anthropology, but she acknowledges the resonant effect of certain works that surely helped redirect her compass.

“When I was in high school, I discovered an anthology which contained Emily Dickinson’s poem that begins, ‘A narrow fellow in the grass,’ and William Carlos Williams’ ‘Young Sycamore.’

Those got to me,” says Armantrout from UC San Diego, where she’s taught for two decades. Along with being intrigued by Robert Creeley’s poems “For Love” and “The Language,” Armantrout acknowledges another work that created a nearly universal seismic shift in the realm of poetry. “In college, like so many others, I was blown away by ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg. I loved its rhythms, for one thing.”

In the early ’70s, the poet was a founding member of the Language Poets, a group of avant-garde poets who confronted the very ideas of postmodern expression and form, while challenging readers to find their place in the text.

“In Language poetry, language is selfconscious,” she says. “That’s one way to put it.

The language writer doesn’t see language as a neutral medium we use to depict the world, but as an integral part of the world we hope to depict.” It was a de facto reaction to what she describes as the “post-confessional” style that dominated the poetry scene back then, with works being written as first-person narratives that usually ended with some form of realization.

“That felt too predictable and closed to us — and to other groups of poets at the time. The world wasn’t like that. It never is.”

Armantrout’s work leans toward short-form verse, not unlike Williams’ and Dickinson’s works, toggling with the familiar, issuing a fractalized view of the conceptual and commonplace.

“A poem usually begins, for me, when I’m puzzled by something I see or hear or read. Or maybe I’m puzzled by what I feel about what I’ve seen,” she says. “I pursue the fleeting feeling

by writing, trying to see it more clearly, if not understand it.”

Much of her poetry seems to pivot on a sense of the interrogative, with questions tethered into the stanzas. “The poems really begin, often, with a kind of question, one I’m not even able to formulate,” she says. “You might say that I write to clarify my question.”

Her 2011 poem “Accounts,” which appears to explore light, lasers, atoms and a God who is “balancing his checkbook,” opens with invitational action that accelerates into inquiry: “Light was on its way from nothing to nowhere.

Light was all business/Light was full speed when it got interrupted. Interrupted by what?”

Another aspect of her work is the presence of what occurs between lines and stanzas, a sense of stillness embedded in the whiteness of the page. In her essay “Poetic Silence,” Armantrout explains how she is drawn to a sensibility of being mindful of these pauses and empty spaces, noting that silence can indicate everything from humility to “the presence of the ineffable.” It is a device that also allows the reader to experience poetry in greater fullness, indicated by suddenly broken lines, stanzas and sections that Armantrout believes “leave the reader hanging for a second.”

“I think silence, as part of an art work like a poem or a piece of music, creates a pause that gives you time to think. It almost demands that you think, and in that way, it makes you an active participant,” she says. This silence can be viewed as a soft reprieve from the cacophony of everyday life.

Armantrout is considered among the most engaging contemporary poets, recognized for both the breadth of her work and the advancements she’s made within the form.

Yet poetry is still often viewed as a type of hermetically sealed realm, an intellectual ghetto guarded from the curious. Armantrout’s life spent as a creator, devotee and observer of poetics gives her a direct understanding of some readers’ possible apprehensions.

“I think people are afraid of ambiguity, and poetry is full of ambiguities,” she says. “Too often, people expect to be told how to feel. I think interesting artworks allow you to figure that out for yourself. People are afraid they’ll be asked to paraphrase a poem, as if for a test.

They would do better to just encounter and experience it.”

“The poems really begin with a kind of question, one I’m not even able to formulate.”

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Learn about the history of the popular hooch and how to make your own spirits at The Grape & Grain Exchange’s WHISKEY WORKSHOP at the Museum of Science & History on Nov. 20.

PERFORMANCE

LIFE ON THE DIAGONAL Written and performed by Barbara Colaciello, and directed

by Robert Arleigh White, this one-woman show at 8 p.m. on Nov. 20 and 21 at The 5 & Dime, 648-B E. Union St., Downtown, $18 eventbrite.com.

WHITE CHRISTMAS This musical production of the beloved, family-friendly holiday classic features Irving Berlin’s original score with a libretto by David Ives and Paul Blake. It’s accompanied by a themed menu created by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy and runs through Dec. 24. 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. Wed. and 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.

VIOLET Douglas Anderson School of the Arts stages the musical about a young girl traveling cross country in search of a minister to heal her scarred face, at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20, 21 and 22 at 2445 San Diego Road, Southside, $15, 346-5620, da-arts.org.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE? The touring production of the 11-time Emmy winning show is staged at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, $50.19-$150, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

LETTERS HOME This performance, featuring readings of actual letters written by soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts, is staged at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Drive, Orange Park, $15-$38, 276-6815, thcenter.org.

COLLECTED STORIES Amelia Community Theatre stages Donald Margulies’ story of two writers who collide, with unintended consequences, at 8 p.m. on Nov 20, 21 and 22 at 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, $15, 261-6749, ameliacommunitytheatre. org.

I AM MY OWN WIFE Actor Frank O’Donnell performs the roles of 30 diverse characters of different genders and personalities in this play

by Doug Wright, about pioneering LGBT figure Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, at 7:30 p.m. on 20, 21 and 22 and at Fernandina Little Theatre, 1014 Beech St., Fernandina Beach, $16.50, 277-2202, ameliaflt.org.

CLYBOURNE PARK Bruce Norris’ dramedy won a Pulitzer and a Tony, addressing race and housing in Chicago. It’s staged at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20, 21 and 22 and at 2 p.m. on Nov. 23 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $10-$25, 825-1164. The play runs through Nov. 30. limelight-theatre.org.

LOVE GOES TO PRESS The wise-cracking romantic comedy, set in a press camp on the Italian front in 1944, is staged at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 and 8 p.m. on Nov. 21 and 22 at Theatre Jacksonville,

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2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $20-$25, 396-4425. theatrejax.com.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE The play-within-a-play, staged in a 1928 Broadway theater, uses theatrical clichés 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.

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.

COMEDY

DAVID ALAN GRIER The three-time Tony and Grammy nominee and star of In Living Color performs at 8 and 10 p.m. on Nov. 21 and 22 at the Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $25-$30, 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

ALI FLORES Flores, who’s appeared on NBA All-Star Jam and Ripley’s Believe it or Not, performs at 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 21 at Bonkerz Comedy Club, bestbet, 455 Park Ave., Orange Park, $10 and $35, 646-0001, bestbetjax.com.

ERIN FOLEY Known for her appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Foley performs at 8:04 p.m. on Nov. 20, 21 and 22 and at 10:10 p.m. on Nov. 21 and 22 at Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., $6-$15, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

MICHAEL WINSLOW Known for creating more than 1,000 special sounds with his voice alone, Winslow starred in Police Academy films and Spaceballs. He performs at 7:30 and 10 p.m. on Nov. 21 and 7 and 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, latitude360.com.

MIKE BIRBIGLIA The comedian, film actor and best-selling author, known for his one-man shows, performs at 8 p.m. on Nov. 22 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $32.50, 3555661, floridatheatre.com.

MAD COWFORD IMPROV Weekly PG-13-rated shows, based on audience suggestion, are 8:15 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 233-2359, 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.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

CALL FOR ARTISTS & 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 for up to three pieces. For an application, email rediartlaw@gmail.com.

WHISKEY WORKSHOP AT MOSH The Grape & Grain Exchange presents a history and “how to” of the popular spirit at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, $20; $16 for members, 396-6674, themosh.org; must be 21 and older.

WRITING CONTEST FOR STUDENTS Friends of the Library holds a writing contest for students, with the topic “Why must you learn to read well?” Typed submissions should be original prose only; 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.

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, 865-6300358.

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 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, 278-0173.

CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ

BRAHMS SONIC SPLENDOR The Ritz Chamber Players perform works by Brahms at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, Downtown, 630-2665, jplmusic.blogspot.com.

UNF ORCHESTRA CONCERT Dr. Simon Shiao conducts the UNF Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, $10; free for students, 620-2878, unf.edu.

THE HOT SARDINES The NYC ensemble that specializes in playing “100-Year-Old Jazz for a 21st-Century Audience” performs at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1100 Stockton St., Riverside, $30, 389-6222, riversidefinearts.org.

CLASSICAL HOLIDAY The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs this holidaythemed concert including Pachelbel’s Canon, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto and The Nutcracker Suite at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, $35-$65, 633-6110, jaxsymphony.org.

MUSICAL STORYBOOKS The Jacksonville Symphony Ensemble performs this free concert for pre-K children, which features a story combined with music by a string quartet, at 11 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the Times-Union Center, Downtown, 633-6110, jaxsymphony. org.

ST. ANDREW’S EVENSONG The traditional evensong, featuring music by Byrd, Moore and Sumsion performed by Timothy Tuller, Canon for Music, The Cathedral Choir and Jacksonville Pipes & Drums, is held at 5 p.m. on Nov. 23 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, free, 356-5507.

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 7 p.m. every Thur., pianist David Gum 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 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.

NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open 5-9 p.m. Nov. 20 and every third Thur. from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw.org.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, local music and entertainment – featuring A Nice Pair, Navy Band Southeast Brass Band and Ciaran Sontag & the Safari Band on Nov. 22 – 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

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. The fashionthemed exhibit Icons of Style: Fashion Makers, Models, and Images is on display through Jan. 4.

HANDS ON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 8580 Beach Blvd., Southside, 642-2780, handsonchildrensmuseumjax.startlogic.com. This kidfriendly museum features interactive exhibits and activities.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/ jaxfrm.html. Winter Wonderlust, an exhibit of paintings by macTruque, is on display through Dec. 30. The exhibit

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A&E // ARTS & EVENTS The Presidents of the Continental Congress is on display through December. An artists reception is held at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 12. 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. Project Atrium: Angela Strassheim, featuring Strassheim’s photographs that address the ephemeral nature of childhood and adolescence, is on display Nov. 22-March 1. A lecture featuring Strassheim and MOCA curator Ben Thompson is held at 7:15 p.m. on Nov. 21. 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 Grape & Grain Exchange presents a history and instructional workshop about whiskey at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 20; $20; $16 for members; must be 21 and older. Mary W. Atwood and William Weeks launch their book Historic Homes of Florida’s First Coast at 2 p.m. on Nov. 22; live music by John Spreier and light refreshments are featured. 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

ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER Local artist/muralist Ginifer Brinkley is artist of the month for November. A reception is held at 5 p.m. on Nov. 20; her works are exhibited 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. at the center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828, coab.us.

AMIRO ART & FOUND 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460. The exhibit Recent Work on Canvas and Metal, featuring works by Eleanor Hughes and Curtis Bowman, is on display through November.

THE ART CENTER PREMIER GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 3551757, tacjacksonville.org. The exhibit Shadows and Light is on display through November.

CoRK ARTS DISTRICT 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside. CoRK holds its Open Studios event, a self-guided tour of six buildings of artists’ studios open to the general public, from noon-8 p.m. on Nov. 22.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. Cyriaco Lopes and Terri Witek’s exhibit Currents/Correntes runs 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.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. An exhibit of new watercolors by Robert Leedy is on display through Jan. 7.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Road, Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery. com. The exhibit Water Appears and Disappears, featuring works by multidisciplinary artist Geoff Mitchell, is on display through December.

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 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 on display through Jan. 9.

RITZ THEATRE & 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.

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An exhibit of works by AMY LABONTE is on display at the Haskell Gallery, located in the Jacksonville International Airport, through Dec. 26.

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

ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER 10 W. Castillo Drive, 825-1000, staugustine-450.com. The exhibit The First Coast Through the Eyes of Masters features St. Augustine-themed works by 19th and early 20th century painters.

STELLERS GALLERY AT PONTE VEDRA 240 A1A N., Ste. 13, Ponte Vedra Beach, 273-6065, stellersgallery.com. The exhibit Fall Exhibition is on display through November.

THRASHER-HORNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6815, thcenter.org. The photographic tribute The American Solider: From the Civil War to the War in Iraq is on display through Feb. 14.

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

EVENTS

EDITING TO SELL Florida Writers Association presents author and editor Nancy Quatrano, who discusses the editing process, at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 22 at Ponte Vedra Library, 101 Library Blvd., floridawriters.net.

AMELIA ISLAND COOKIE TOUR The Amelia Island Bed & Breakfast Association presents its annual Holiday Cookie Tour noon-5 p.m. on Nov. 22 at seven participating inns. Sample a signature cookie at each location and view seasonal decorations. Horse-drawn carriages and trolley service are available, $25; $150 VIP includes a midweek stay at an inn and a cookbook. Proceeds benefit Micah’s Place, which provides prevention and intervention services to victims of domestic violence, 2772328, ameliaislandinns.com/cookie-tour.

LANNADOO JACKSONVILLE CELTIC FEST This Irish heritage festival features live music, a 5K kilt run, highland games, a kids zone and traditional foods on Nov. 22 and 23 at SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach, $25; $35 for a twoday pass. For a full schedule of events and to score tickets, go to lannadoo.com.

JAX OLD SCHOOL PARTY Keke, Wyatt and DJ Dr. Doom perform music from the ’70s-’90s at 8 p.m. on Nov. 22 at Hyatt Regency Riverfront, 225 East Coastline Drive, Downtown, $35; jaxoldschoolparty. com.

DIGITAL BOOK MOBILE A 74-foot high-tech update of the traditional bookmobile, featuring interactive learning centers to promote digital literacy and instructions on using digital library materials, is

parked from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Nov. 24 outside Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Nov. 25 at Bartram Trail Library, 60 Davis Pond Blvd., St. Johns, jpl. coj.net, sjcfl.us.

McKENZIE’S RUN This family-friendly event features a 1-Mile Fun Run at 9:30 a.m. and a 5K race at 10 a.m., Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley, team mascot Jaxson DeVille, ROAR cheerleaders, live music, obstacle courses, face-painting and refreshments on Nov. 22 at EverBank Field, 1 EverBank Field Dr., Downtown. 5K run registration is $35; $20 per person for team of three or more people; $10 for fun run.

Proceeds benefit programs to help young people recognize full potential. Register at mckenziesrun.rog.

COLONIAL AUTUMN IN SPANISH FLORIDA Re-enactors demonstrate life in 18th-century Florida with a farmers’ market of vegetables, herbs and fruits from colonial Florida still grown locally, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Nov. 22 at Fort Mose Historic State Park, 15 Fort Mose Trail, St. Augustine, floridalivinghistory.org.

RIPLEY’S NIGHTS OF LIGHTS The annual holiday tours start at 6 p.m. on Nov. 23, featuring holiday carols and free events every Fri. and Sat. The tours run through Jan. 4 at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum, 19 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 824-1606, ripleys.com/ staugustine.

MILITARY BOOK SIGNING Adm. James Stavridis, USN (RET) signs copies of his book The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO at 7 p.m. on Nov. 21 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com.

INCREDIBLE EDIBLES Arts and crafts, homemade baked goods and frozen entrées, casseroles, gift basket raffles and a French café are featured at the 19th annual fundraiser bazaar held from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on Nov. 22 at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Stormes Hall, 465 11th Ave. N., Jax Beach, 249-4091, stpaulbythesea.net.

DODGEBRAWL Teams compete at this dodgeball tourney to win funds for their chosen charity at 11 a.m. on Nov. 22 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, $120 per team, 630-3900, register at smgjaxdodgebrawl. com.

NIGHT TIME SURFING COMPETITION Six top-rated East Coast surfers compete under the full moon from 8-10 p.m. on Nov. 21 at Jax Beach Pier, Fourth Avenue North.

FOOD TRUCK FEST AT THE LANDING The Jax Truckies Fall Fest food truck festival features more than a dozen food trucks, a DJ and craft beer, from 4-9 p.m. on Nov. 22 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, 353-1188, jacksonvillelanding.com.

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.

THANKSGIVING EVENTS

ONEJAX THANKSGIVING EVENT The OneJax Institute holds its 97th annual Thanksgiving Gratitude Service, a celebration of gratitude through various faith traditions, at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, 620-1529. Register at webapps.unf.edu/eticket/Gratitude.

NATIONAL HUNGER & HOMELESS AWARENESS WEEK Support Emergency Services Homeless Coalition and National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week by buying a ticket for an Awareness event, The Box, written by and starring Lee Weaver, about a homeless veteran suffering from PTSD, at 6 p.m. Nov. 20 at Corazon Cinema, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine. Tickets are $15, 824-6623, homelesscoalitionstjohns.com.

BLUE DAHLIA THANKSGIVING GALA FUNDRAISER Hors d’oeuvres and live entertainment are featured at this fundraiser for Children of the Fallen Patriots Foundation benefit, held from 7:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. on Nov. 21 at Sheraton Jacksonville, 10605 Deerwood Park Blvd., Southside, $75 advance, $110 at the door, eventbrite.com/e/ blue-dahlia-thanksgiving-charity-gala-tickets-12997191951.

THANKSGIVING MEAL New Life City Rescue Mission needs volunteers to help serve the meal, 10 a.m. on Nov. 26 at 234 W. State St., Downtown, 421-5161, crmjax.org.

TURKEY TROT 5K The 10th annual Turkey Trot 5K and 1-mile youth run are held at 8 a.m. on Nov. 27 at Osprey Village Wellness Center, 48 Osprey Village Dr., Amelia Island; entry fee is $25, proceeds benefit Nassau County Barnabas Food Pantry, 415-1429, active.com.

THANKSGIVING DAY FEAST A traditional holiday dinner is served to elders unable to join family or friends at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 27 at O.C. White’s Restaurant, 118 Avenida Menendez, St. Augustine. The event is coordinated through St. Johns County Council on Aging and prior registration is required; call 209-3686. Volunteer drivers are needed. coasjc.com PETE’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARTY Pete’s Bar holds its annual street-party-slash-homecoming from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Nov. 27 at 117 First St., Neptune Beach. No pets or bicycles. 249-9158.

ADVENT PROCESSION WITH CAROLS The Cathedral Choir and Timothy Tuller, Canon for Music, present music by Hallock, Palestrina, Manz and Howells at 5 p.m. Nov. 30 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, free, 356-5507.

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 beef. $$$ 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, made-fromscratch 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., 4328394, 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 and deli, in the Spa & Shops, Omni Amelia 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. Intracoastal Waterway sunset view; secondstory outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, original broiled cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront place serves award-winning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ 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

Barney Barnhart, Kristi Malone, Brittany Dinneen, Candy Cake, Victoria Beuther and Libby Bach of Taps Bar & Grill, on C.R. 210 in St. Johns, present bangin’ shrimp, Baja tacos, buffalo chicken salad, homemade potato leek soup and ahi poke plate. A second Taps is on Fleming Island. 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. Fresh-squeezed 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 Florida-centric 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 Ave., 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

Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ 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 Rd., 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. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 8133 Point Meadows Dr., 519-0509. 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. TEQUILAS MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365. All the salsa, guacamole, chips, beans, rice and meat dishes are made fresh daily. Authentic Mexican lunch and dinner combos. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. ZESTY INDIA, 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676, zestyindia.com. Asian methods meld with European 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 FW 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, flyingiguana.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, flatbreads, 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, mezzarestaurantandbar. 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 handcut steaks, fresh local seafood, tapas menu. Happy hour. $$$ FB K R Sun.; L D Daily OCEAN 60 RESTAURANT, WINE BAR & MARTINI ROOM, 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

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NAME: Ian Northcutt RESTAURANT: Olio, 301 E. Bay St., Downtown BIRTHPLACE: Tampa FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine) : Restaurant Medure, Ponte Vedra BEST CUISINE STYLE: A toss-up between Asian and Italian.

GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Bacon, butter and ginger IDEAL MEAL: Ribeye with any style potatoes and grilled asparagus. I love grilled asparagus.

WILL NOT CROSS MY LIPS: Oysters INSIDER’S SECRET: Be prepared. When in doubt, prepare more.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING: Adam Richman, Jaguars players CULINARY TREAT: Foie gras and toast with beef marrow and salt 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-fresh-daily guacamole. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Fri.

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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, 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

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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

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.

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

JULINGTON CREEK

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 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. $$ TO B L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10391 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-7087. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300, jaxramada.com. In Ramada. Prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri. & Sat., blue-jean brunch Sun., daily breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ 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 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

ORANGE PARK, GREEN COVE SPRINGS

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007, aronspizza. com. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes,

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.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY, NW ST. JOHNS

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.

AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F SEE BEACHES.

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 Smallbatch, 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, gluten-free and vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily.

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 5972 San Juan Ave., 693-9258.

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 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., 5080342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2014 Best of Jax Winner.

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Whiteway Delicatessen, a Jacksonville Pita not your thing? Instead choose wheat, institution since 1927. Sam Salem, his wife and his sister are always behind the counter, wearing white or rye bread or a sub roll. There are also more traditional sandwiches, like the club, both warm smiles and jovial demeanors. egg salad, bologna and a Reuben, if you’re not Whiteway is popular among local feeling up to tabouli or an businesspeople and avocado spread. politicians. You may A homemade-style be dining next to a WHITEWAY DELICATESSEN side, bag of chips and congressperson or rubbing 1237 King St., Riverside, 398-0355 drink are available for an shoulders with the next City additional charge. And Council president. brownies topped with Walk in, grab a cup cheesecake? A yummy double-decker dessert and pour your drink of choice from the soda that’s worth the cost. fountain, peruse several sheets of printer paper There has to be a downside, right? Here — the menu — each typed with a different offering, order, then take a seat. When it’s ready, you go: Whiteway isn’t open for dinner or on they’ll bring your breakfast or lunch out to you. weekends — only weekdays from 7 a.m. until 3 (You pay as you’re leaving.) After my first lunch p.m., so hit it for breakfast and lunch. visit, I was hooked. I still have a crazy love Caron Streibich affair with the Late Bloomer ($7.25): turkey, biteclub@folioweekly.com provolone, housemade tabouli, crisp bacon, facebook.com/folioweeklybitesized tangy banana peppers, creamy avocado spread, all stuffed into a pita, grilled and warmed, then cut into two messy halves. I drizzle mine with NIBBLES the goodness from a bottle of Louisiana hot GARDEN TRUCK EATERY has opened in sauce, and it’s perfection! Pair it with a side of Oceanway off Alta Road at 2467 Faye kale salad or pasta salad and you’re set.

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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, familyrun bake shop specializes in made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, seasonal soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794.

7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 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; made-toorder 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. $$ TO THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. Updated Southern fare: fresh ingredients from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ 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.

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

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.

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Silvia Rivera, owner and manager of Argentinian-themed steak house Visconde’s, newly opened in the Intracoastal area, offers chicken, ham-and-cheese and beef empanadas, a platter of grilled short ribs, sirloin, sweetbreads and a variety of homemade sausages. Photo: Dennis Ho 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.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

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. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S BAR & GRILLE, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. Popular burger chain serves wings, sammies, nachos, wraps, entrées, specialty cocktails and … wait for it … burgers. $$ 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, matthews restaurant.com. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship. Fine dining, artfully presented cuisine, small plates, martini/ wine lists. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. Reservations. $$$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner.com. F 2014 Best of Jax Winner. Original upscale diner in ’30s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, homemade soups. $$ 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, TINSELTOWN

360° GRILLE, Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555, latitude360.com. F Seafood, steaks, burgers, chicken, sandwiches, pizza. Patio, movie theater. $$ FB TO L D Daily AKEL’S, 7077 Bonneval Rd., 332-8700. F SEE DOWNTOWN. ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. Longest-running dinner theater in America, featuring Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations recommended. $$ 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 Rd., 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 Rd. 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, 3291763, ilovepapichulos.com. This brand new Tinseltown restaurant offers fresh, simple, authentic Mexican street food, top-shelf 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. $$ FB K L D Daily TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999, tbopizza.com. New York-style thin crust, brick-oven-baked pizzas (gluten-free), calzones, sandwiches fresh to order. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pickup. $$ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE VISCONDE’S ARGENTINIAN GRILL, 11925 Beach Blvd., Ste. 201, 379-3925. This new place is the area’s only Argentinian restaurant, offering traditional steaks, several varieties of sausages, pasta, sandwiches, empañadas and wines. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 551-5929, worldofbeer.com. F Burgers, tavern fare, sliders,flatbreads, German pretzels, hummus, pickle chips. Craft German, Cali, Florida, Irish drafts. Wines. $$ BW L D Daily

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner, 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.

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.

The market features fresh quality fare, innovative breakfast, lunch and dinner; farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily

ASTROLOGY

MICHAEL CAINE, COAL, CAPT. JAMES T. KIRK & CEMENT ARIES (March 21-April 19): Someone on Reddit.com asked, “What have you always been curious to try?” Many replied that they wanted to experiment with exotic varieties of sex and drugs they’d never tried. Other favorites: eating chocolate-covered bacon, piloting a plane, shoplifting, doing a stand-up comedy routine, hang-gliding and deep-sea diving, exploring the Darknet and the Deep Web, spontaneously taking a trip to a foreign country, turning away from modern society and joining a Buddhist monastery. What would your answer be? The next few weeks are an excellent time to explore what you’ve always been curious to try. The risks are lower than usual, the results more likely to be interesting.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Contrary to popular opinion, crime fiction author Arthur Conan Doyle never had his character Sherlock Holmes say, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” For that matter, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam” in the film Casablanca. Star Trek’s Captain Kirk never used the exact phrase “Beam me up, Scotty.” Furthermore, I, Rob Brezsny, have never issued this prophecy: “Deep sexy darkness and deep sexy brilliance are conspiring to bring Tauruses intriguing pleasures to educate the naïve part of your soul” – until now. At this juncture in the ever-twisting plot of your life story, I am most definitely saying just that.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Thoughts from Gemini author Fernando Pessoa: “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd – the longing for impossible things; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else.” Can you relate? Have you felt those feelings? The good news: In the weeks ahead, you’ll be more free of them than you’ve been in a long time. What will dominate are yearnings for very possible things and contentment with what’s really available. (Pessoa’s words are from The Book of Disquiet, translated by Alfred Mac Adam.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The most important thing you can do in the weeks ahead is learn how to take care of yourself better.

What’s that you say? You’re too busy? You have too many appointments and obligations? I disagree. In my astrological opinion, one task that must trump all others: Get smarter about how you eat, sleep, exercise, relax, heal yourself and connect with folks. There’s a lot you don’t know about what you really need and the best ways to get it. You’re ripe to be wiser in this subtle, demanding and glorious art.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Naturalist Greg Munson says many dragonfl ies are great acrobats. They are the “Cirque du Soleil” performers of the animal kingdom. They can eat and have sex in mid-air. While flying, two dragonflies can hook up and bend into a roughly circular formation to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their reproductive organs, forming a “mating pinwheel.” I don’t expect you to achieve that level in your amorous escapades, but if you’re adventurous, you may enjoy experiences that resemble having sex while flying.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Born under the sign of Virgo, Russian animator Yuriy Norshteyn has won several awards. His Tale of Tales was voted the greatest animated fi lm of all time, but he hasn’t finished any new films for a while. In fact, he’s been working on the same project since 1981, indulging his perfectionism to the max. In 33 years, he’s finished only 25 minutes’ worth of The Overcoat, based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. I predict he’ll complete this labor of love in

the next eight months – just as you finally wrap up tasks you’ve been working on a long time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Every saint has a bee in his halo,” said philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Similarly, some Libras have a passiveaggressive streak hidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving persona. Do you? If so, express your darker feelings more forthrightly. You don’t have to be mean and insensitive; it’s best if you use tact and diplomacy. Make sure you reveal the fact that there’s indeed a bee in your halo. You’ll be pleased with consequences stirred up through acts of courageous honesty.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many people use the terms “cement” and “concrete” interchangeably, but they’re not the same.

Cement is powdery stuff composed of limestone, gypsum, clay with alumino-silicate, and other ingredients. It’s just one of the raw materials used to make concrete – usually no more than 15 percent of the total mass. The rest is sand, crushed stone and water. It’s a good metaphor to keep in mind. If you want to create a durable thing to last as long as concrete, don’t get overly preoccupied with the “cement” at the expense of the other 85 percent of the stuff you need.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice,” writes Louise Glück in her poem The Wild Iris.

That’s a key theme in the weeks ahead. There’s part of you returning from oblivion – making its way home from the abyss – and it’ll be hungry to express itself when it arrives back in your regularly scheduled life. This dazed part may not yet know what it wants to say, but it’s fertile with unruly wisdom gathered while wandering. Sooner rather than later, it’ll discover how to articulate raw truths.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness,” said American humorist Josh Billings. Make that your motto in the next few weeks. It’s a great time to liberate yourself from memories that still cause pain, to garner major healing from past anguish and upheaval. One of the best ways to do that? Let go of as much blame, rage and hatred as you can. Forgiveness can be your magic spell.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Denmark has been a pioneer in developing technology to supply its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to generate half its electricity from wind turbines. Recently, the Danish climate minister announced his nation’s intention to phase out the use of coal as an energy source within 10 years. I’d love to see you apply this kind of enlightened longterm thinking to your destiny. Now’s a good time to brainstorm about the life you want to be living in 2020 and 2025. It’s time to outline a master plan for the next 10 years, and commit to it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career. He’s won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times over five decades. For his role in Jaws: The Revenge, he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed his work in that film wasn’t his best, and yet he was happy with the money he made for it. “I have never seen the film,” he said, “but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” In accordance with astrological omens, you may engage in a comparable trade-off during the months ahead.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BRIGHT IDEAS

Neighbors in the Mandarin area of Jacksonville complained to the city recently about a resident who scattered hundreds of mothballs — more than 400 now, at least — around her front yard, even driving over them in her car to crush them open and extend their noxious odor. The National Pesticide Information Center warned the mothballs were hazards to plants, wildlife, water and air, but the woman resident (unnamed in a report by First Coast News) said she was forced into the tactic to keep neighborhood dogs from defecating in her yard.

THE OTHER WORLD SERIES

In October, another premier world sports event reached its climax, with one team left standing, rewarded for months of grueling practices, to the cheers of adoring, frenzied fans. The “world series” of professional team computer games was settled on a stage in a packed, 40,000-seat Seoul stadium before three gigantic TV screens and an Internet audience of millions. The powerhouse Samsung White team out-moused and out-keyboarded the Chinese champions at “League of Legends” (which 27 million gamers worldwide play every day), using its fantasy characters to destroy opponents’ bases. The winning team took home $1 million of corporate money, but future earnings should escalate when idolized world-class players unionize and swing merchandising endorsement deals.

CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE

At one point, Carnell Alexander owed about $60,000 in child support for a kid he didn’t father (according to a DNA test) and knew nothing about, but despite “successfully” challenging the claim 20 years ago, he still owes about $30,000. The mother, who accused him long ago, admitted lying (in that naming a “father” was necessary to get welfare benefits), and while a judge thus wiped out Alexander’s debt to her, the state of Michigan nonetheless still demands he repay benefits it had paid her.

BRITS BEHAVING BRITISHLY BAD

Literature professor Thomas Docherty was back at work in October following a nine-month suspension from the University of Warwick for “inappropriate sighing” during meetings with a senior colleague, along with “making ironic comments” and “negative body language.”

In October, Andrew Davies, 51, was ordered by magistrates in High Wycombe, England, not to lie down in public places anymore (unless genuinely stricken by emergency). He had a habit of making bogus “999” (911) calls to get attention, and when police confiscated his phone, he compensated by lying in roads until compassionate passersby called ambulances.

NEW MATH

More than 6 million students have downloaded the new iPhone app PhotoMath to solve Algebra I and Algebra II problems by pointing the phone’s camera at a printed equation. The answer, and the explanation, quickly appear on a screen, as a teaching tool — or for students to show “their” work if they use PhotoMath on exam questions. In October, the Croatia-based developer told the Quartz website it’s working on upgrades for higher-level math equations. A debate over whether PhotoMath is a dynamic technological advance in education or a cheating-enabler is on.

CELEBRITY MUSICALS

In September in Hamburg, Germany, Charles Manson: Summer of Hate — The Musical, opened at Thalia Theater, covering the influences and failed musical career of the man convicted in the notorious 1969 Sharon Tate murders.

I Am Stephon Marbury, a musical featuring the former NBA star, ran for 11 nights in September in Beijing, where the popular baller has led the Beijing Ducks to national basketball championships the last two seasons. Marbury has a role onstage in what is described as a parable about pursuing one’s dreams.

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CUTIE ON A SUZUKI You: Stylish, curly-haired cutie on Suzuki cafe racer. Me: Raven-haired lass, gray VW Jetta. Sipped coffee at light, turning on Riverside. Looked left, noticed Suzuki. Liked your shoes, style, dirty-blonde locks under helmet. Meet for drink? #1423-1119

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

BEARDED HOTTIE, SILVER FORD You: Behind me on 95N from Baymeadows to I-10 interchange on 11/4 at 3 p.m.; Nassau tag, dark beard, ball cap, amazing smile. Me: Brown SUV. Can’t get you out of my mind. Can we meet? When: Nov. 4, 3 p.m. Where: Baymeadows & I-95. #1422-1112

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

I SAW U Connection Made!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BACKPAGE EDITORIAL

ACT NOW TO AVOID HIGHER UTILITY RATES

Will the coming climate change regulations drive up your power bill?

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he new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan to reduce carbon emissions could cause a major negative impact on your JEA bill. While JEA has plans to purchase energy that could reduce carbon releases over 50 percent by 2030, the EPA rules may not recognize all of these reductions.

The requirements are based on statewide reductions, but this article will concentrate on the possible impacts on JEA itself.

The EPA is requiring a 30 percent reduction in carbon from 2005 levels as a national goal. Different states were assigned different goals, and Florida’s goal is a 38 percent reduction, which would take Florida to 740 pounds per megawatt hour (MWh). The EPA is currently applying only existing nuclear and nuclear-under-construction to meeting the goal. All nuclear planned and designed now and in the future needs to be included as the plants go online.

Also, power-by-wire needs to be included in the calculation for the utility purchasing the carbon-free power under a longterm contract or through the partial ownership of an out-ofstate power plant. Under the current writing of the regulation, Georgia and South Carolina would get credit for JEA’s share of the energy at Plant Vogtle and Plant Lee. Unfortunately for the utility’s finances, JEA’s sales have decreased for each of the last three years, from just under 13.6 million MWh in 2010 to fewer than 12 million MWh in 2013. The sales number is expected to increase to just under 12.4 million MWh by 2018. If we extrapolate out to 2030, the sales number should increase to 13.1 million MWh. This lower number may help JEA meet the carbon requirements.

If JEA is able to use the nuclear-by-wire as well as an expanded natural gas-combined-cycle (NGCC) component, then the actual carbon produced in 2030 under the formula the EPA uses will be 444.2 pounds per MWh, which is well within compliance. If JEA depends on only the NGCC to lower emissions, the carbon produced would be 971.5 pounds per MWh, and the utility would be out of compliance.

Here is how the JEA’s plans will actually reduce carbon emissions.

JEA will purchase electricity from the Municipal Electric

Authority of Georgia’s (MEAG) share of the additions to Plant Vogtle under a long-term contract, which will provide about 12.4 percent of the power to be sold by JEA in 2030. A contract to purchase one-fifth of the Lee Nuclear Plant would provide about 26.5 percent of the electricity sold. Together these two actions would make about 38.9 percent of JEA’s sales carbonfree. The remaining power will have to come from natural gas (the solar unit on the Westside currently produces less than 1 percent of JEA’s sales and costs $163 per MWh, making its expansion a last resort).

JEA currently has 1,251 megawatts (MW) of natural gas service, all of which, including an NGCC unit, is a relatively low carbon method of power generation. NGCC adds a steam recovery unit to the existing gas turbines to add capacity through the use of waste heat; this uses no additional fuel and creates no additional carbon. As JEA’s existing debt service retires, it is likely to add NGCC units, meaning another 280 MW of capacity that produces no carbon and uses no additional fuel. Even with new debt service added, the net cost savings on the NGCC units should still be $10 million per year.

The new NGCC units will produce about 15.6 percent of JEA’s power without producing additional carbon. With this addition, the total sales of carbon-free power sometime in the mid-’20s becomes 54.5 percent. This is only new carbonfree power; the 11.2 percent in carbon-free sales from Brandy Branch Power Plant does not count as a decrease because it was online in 2005.

Based on the cost of Plant Vogtle and plans by Westinghouse to go with a standard design, JEA’s buy-in of 440 MW at Lee should be around $2.8 billion. The debt service for JEA would be $169 million per year on this plant. This is less than $48 per MWh produced. Adding in the other expenses of running a nuclear plant, the cost at the point of transmission should be about $60 to $65 per MWh. This is one-half to one-third the cost of electricity from solar.

Unfortunately, solar and wind power are not situated to be a large part of Florida’s mix if we want to have dependable and inexpensive electricity. JEA, and the state of Florida, need to

be able to use all of the nuclear power sources available and specifically bring in nuclear-by-wire in order to meet the 2030 Clean Air Act carbon standards.

In order to ensure that Jacksonville is a city with reasonable energy costs, we should provide our comments to the EPA no later than Nov. 30, 2014. The website you can go to to make EPA comments is epa.gov/cleanpowerplan.

Some suggested comments for the EPA are: 1) Power-by-wire under long-term contract should be factored in as the carbon usage by the utility purchasing the power and the state where the power is used by the purchasing utility.

2) If a portion of a power plant is owned by a utility in another state, then the power should be factored in as the carbon usage by the utility owning the percentage in the state where the power is used by the purchasing utility.

3) All nuclear power should be counted toward the goal or in the original mix as zero carbon is produced. This includes existing nuclear plants, extended-life nuclear plants and newly operating GEN III+ and GEN IV nuclear plants.

4) This item is JEA-specific: Since the Northside Generating Station’s Circulating Fluidized Bed Boilers at Northside Units 1 and 2 were built under encouragement from the DOE and were praised at the time by the EPA, these plants should be exempted from the carbon requirements for the JEA and the state of Florida through 2032.

These four suggestions are the key to making certain JEA meets its standards and therefore helps the state of Florida meet its standards.

JEA’s plans will create a major reduction in carbon over the next 16 years. The real question is whether the EPA properly credits JEA’s reduction and therefore uses the correct numbers to count toward Florida’s decreased carbon usage. If not, the ratepayers of Florida will be unfairly singled out by the EPA for compliance issues on paper that do not necessarily exist at the power generation level.

Bruce A. Fouraker mail@folioweekly.com

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