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New WJCT President David McGowan comes home to public interest journalism.

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BY CLAIRE GOFORTH Blackface photo post arouses the rage of the mob

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FROM THE EDITOR When the mob turns on the messenger

THE BEST OF INTENTIONS

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AT ISLE OF EIGHT FLAGS SHRIMP FESTIVAL ON Sunday, I saw something that I’d only ever seen in the flesh once: a person in blackface.

(The first time was at a Halloween party. The girl dressed as Left Eye was asked to leave.)

The man and several others were dressed as characters from Forrest Gump; he was Bubba.

Appalled and surprised, when the group posed for a pic, I ran over and snapped a few and posted one on Folio Weekly’s Instagram.

Not feeling particularly witty or verbose on a Sunday evening after helping out a friend in the heat all day—also, it was Sunday evening—I just listed the characters’ names with asterisks around “Bubba,” and suggested people “discuss.”

I thought people would be angry with the man. I figured they’d have a lot to say.

I also assumed that anyone familiar with Folio Weekly would know without question that blackface is absolutely not in line with our values.

On these counts, I was right, right and wrong—way, way wrong. Boy, was I ever wrong.

They came for Folio Weekly first, dragging us in the comments. The vehemence of the outrage directed at the publication, rather than the man, was stunning.

Then they came for me—even though they couldn’t have known I took the picture.

Strangers, colleagues, even people I considered friends sharpened knives and weaponized keyboards. It’s breathtaking how much more deeply it cuts when someone you thought was your friend wields the blade.

When the outrage did not die down, not even after A&E editor Madeleine Peck Wagner wrote a comment explaining that our intention was not to glorify blackface, I decided to delete it. Even though I believe it is important for people to know that such things happen in our community. Even though I believe there is value in the truth, no matter how ugly and offensive. Even though I feel that deleting the post does a favor to the actual wrongdoer (that’s the guy in blackface).

I never intended to give anyone the impression that blackface is acceptable, and I apologize to anyone who was hurt or offended by the caption’s tone or content. Maybe I wasn’t strident enough—or shrill, as a well-respected

male member of Jacksonville’s elite called my writing to my face last week in the middle of a cordial conversation about civil discourse.

Maybe I should’ve made it even clearer that blackface is wrong. (Blackface is wrong.)

Maybe I should’ve interviewed the guy and blown his life up in ways far more lasting than an Instagram post and Brickbat (see page 5).

Maybe I shouldn’t have bothered taking the photo, just left it alone and continued enjoying a lovely Sunday evening in Fernandina, the Star’s Hollow of Northeast Florida.

Instead, I took a picture, posted it and was subsequently humiliated. A whole lot of people called me racist. Many seemed to revel in my blunder. I found myself fighting back tears in my office because people I respect and thought respected me were trashing me on social media, an excruciating reminder of how quickly people will turn on you in this town.

It was one of the worst days I’ve ever had at this job—and all because I, perhaps clumsily, called out a guy for doing a bad thing.

It’s really hard to know how to feel when you try to do something that’s right and get vilified for doing it in a way that people perceive as wrong.

Then Madeleine said two things that had the clear ring of truth. First, she said, “All the people who are calling you a racist right now have wanted to call you something else for a long time.” And, “What happened was a man wore blackface and a woman got dragged for pointing it out.”

Maybe the post was too “glib” as one person said. Maybe I didn’t go out of my way to potentially libel a stranger. If I had to do it over again knowing what I know now, perhaps I would write it differently, or at least add an angry face emoji or WTF to make it clearer that blackface is wrong. (Blackface is wrong.)

But Madeleine was right. I’m not the one who wore blackface. I’m just the woman who took a picture and wrote a lame sentence. I’m also the woman—a flesh and blood human being—who day in and day out gets insulted, harassed, accused and mocked, often publicly, for doing my job to the best of my abilities.

Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com @clairenjax

THE MAIL DEEGAN JOINS DEADLY DEMOCRATS RE.: “Goodbye Switzerland,” by Donna Deegan, April 18 BIG WUP, DONNA’S A DEMOCRAT. NOT EXACTLY surprising for the thrice-married, shower myself with attention headline-seeker. Predictably, she’s latched onto the standard liberal canards of gun control, climate change, universal healthcare and that the GOP comprises meanies because they are exclusionists.

Can you say broken record? So she’s backing Andrew Gillum for governor. And will vote for whatever Democrat wins the primary should her guy not do so.

Wow, what party loyalty your first time out. Is there no room for critically evaluating other individuals based on their abilities to govern?

Not likely, because Democrats are collectivists.

They loathe individualism. The welfare of the group eclipses the individual. Morality, when inconvenient, doesn’t exist in their world. Baby-killing and euthanasia are all OK because such actions benefit the stated goals of the group. They hate anything that competes with the state or values aspects of the individual—God, morality and religion.

Great foray into politics. You’ve just joined the purveyors of abortion and sodomy, of the destruction of the family, and the very ones who keep Planned Parenthood and its evils legal and financed.

Steve Holder via email

JOIN HANDS TO PROTECT THE SEA ON MAY 19, FLORIDIANS WILL ONCE AGAIN JOIN hands to express opposition to dirty fuels, and support for clean energy. Hands Across the Sand/Land is a movement made up of people from all walks of life.

We are parents, friends, neighbors, small-business owners and sportsmen. We span political lines, geographic boundaries and socioeconomic groups.

We are united by the desire to protect our coastal economies, oceans, wildlife, fisheries, our environment and our way of life.

Offshore drilling is dirty, dangerous and unsustainable. With 781 spills reported by the U.S. Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement from 1995-2013, it’s only a matter of time before the next catastrophic spill. Recreational saltwater fishing in Florida provides more than 98,000 jobs and has an economic sales impact of $10.5 billion. That’s just a drop in the bucket compared to Florida’s $57 billion tourism industry. Our coastal

resources are simply too great to risk another Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Hands Across the Sand is about embracing energy sources that will sustain our planet. A clean energy policy is the path to job growth, a vibrant economic future, improved international relations and long-term energy independence. New clean energy, in combination with reduced consumption, will help us break our addiction to fossil fuels.

Across the state, across the nation, and around the world, we join hands for future generations. We join hands so they will know the beauty of our shores, catching the perfect wave, or reeling in the big one.

We join hands on May 19 to protect what we love.

Please join us at noon on May 19, on the sand just south of the Pier at 503 First St. N., Jax Beach. Checkin starts at 11 a.m. Join hands to say no to filthy fossil fuels, and yes to a safe, healthy and sustainable future with clean energy. See handsacrossthesand.org for more information.

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Candice Rue via email

NEVER TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING RE.: “Hope Notes,” by Karen Demuth, April 25 THIS FINE STORY IS JUST PART OF NEPTUNE BEACH Elementary’s creative approach to enrich its students.

It is both wonderful and sad. Parents understand the value of such a therapeutic program and yet have to pay for such it above their taxes. Schools should not have to run fundraisers to pay for themselves.

Principal Elizabeth Kavanagh has fostered an atmosphere of enthusiastic learning for many years.

For five years, I have been allowed to enrich each fifth-grade class with several hands-on “Science Friday” programs. Each class meets with me for 45 minutes and becomes engaged in programs that enhance the science curriculum with samples and demos to pique and encourage an interest in “local” and general science.

I have offered these programs to schools for free for several years, but only Neptune Beach Elementary has accepted them on a regular basis.

The teachers understand that bringing in outside resources does not take away from the required curriculum, it enhances it and helps place it into a real world context.

Bill Longenecker via email

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO ASHLEY SMITH JUAREZ The Duval County School Board member recently cast the lone vote against putting armed “safety guards” in our schools. All leaders should have such courage to stick to their principles in the face of adversity.

BRICKBATS TO BLACKFACE BUBBA One costume spotted at the Shrimp Fest attracted a lot of attention for the worst reason: Dude was dressed as Bubba from Forrest Gump, in blackface. In 2018. In Florida.

BOUQUETS TO RIVER WRITERS The Florida Times-Union’s Nate Monroe and Christopher Hong spent months researching the effects of man’s alterations of the St. Johns River for the last century-plus. The result is insightful, in-depth, well-reasoned reporting about one of our community’s most valuable and cherished assets.

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

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THEY ALL FALL DOWN

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BOWLING FOR CRC FOUNDATION

We all could use a few more life skills, amirite? Thus, three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Calais Campbell hosts a bowling night in support of the CRC Foundation which teaches those skills through sports, arts, financial training and quality health and nutrition. The Big Cat is joined by several teammates, like Blake Bortles, Leonard Fournette, Myles Jack, Malik Jackson and Marcell Dareus.

7 p.m. May 15 at Main Event, 10370 Philips Hwy., $150, crc.clear-give.com.

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REASONS TO LEAVE THE HOUSE THIS WEEK

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PETER MAX & ROMERO BRITTO

Max used to wander NYC’s Village collecting cookie jars with Andy Warhol … he was also one of the first millionaire artists. Britto transformed himself from a painter too poor to paint on canvas (he used newspaper) into an artist who makes “images to inspire people,” and whose work is all over South Florida. The works are on view May 10-20 at Gallery 725, Atlantic Beach, 345-9320, gallery725.com. A reception with Britto is 6-8 p.m. May 19; 1-3 p.m. May 20, RSVP suggested.

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TEACHING THROUGH IT ALL

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WYNONNA & THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY

Sometimes music takes your heart and breaks it wide open, letting hurt out and healing in. Wynonna, “the greatest female country singer since Patsy Cline,” (according to Rolling Stone) turns it all into beauty. She performs with the symphony 8 p.m. May 12 at the T-U Center, Downtown, $29-$89, jaxsymphony.com.

pictured: a mix media piece by Romero Britto.

SACRED AND REMEMBERED

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NOT ONE SPARROW IS FORGOTTEN

In ancient Greek lore, the sparrow was sacred to Aphrodite, symbolizing a spiritual connection. According to tales from ancient Egypt, sparrows catch the souls of the newly dead and take them to the afterlife. In the Bible, a sparrow sighting means the deity cares for even the smallest of us. Under the direction of Mike Sanflippo, the St. Augustine Community Chorus performs “Not One Sparrow Is Forgotten,” and premiers “Mass” by Loren C. Fortna.

3-4:30 p.m. May 13 at Ancient City Baptist Church, St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

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LOVE THY PLANET

HANDS ACROSS THE SAND There are few things more precious than the SUN

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actual physical spaces we inhabit; if we want to leave these spaces in the future, a part of the plan should be to embrace clean energy (hello, we are the Sunshine State).

At 11 a.m. May 19, join hands with other hopeful humans and reject the fossil fuels of the past in favor of a sustainable tomorrow. At Jax Beach, on the sand, just south of the Pier, 503 First St. N., handsacrossthesand.com.

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS Give the people what they want

RUN, ANNA, RUN

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LAST WEEK, WE REVIEWED THE PROSPECTS OF Connell Crooms, a mayoral candidate who’s bound to change the way this city talks about social justice issues.

In that column, I made an error. I posited that Jacksonville City Council President Anna Lopez Brosche wouldn’t be interested in running in 2019.

Not for the first time, or the last, I was wrong.

As if wanting to give the lie to my column, Brosche went on First Coast Connect as papers were being dropped off hither and yon (though mostly hither) and all but said she was exploring a run.

Though “focused” on her “responsibilities as council president and some important initiatives launched recently,” Brosche will have “the opportunity to get clarity on next steps” when her term ends in June.

I’m not a consultant yet—still a few more stages of Hell to get through from here to there. However, here’s some free advice for Brosche.

Run the dadgum race. Time is running short.

Ask Bill Bishop. Or Audrey Moran. Or Rick Mullaney. Or Alvin Brown.

People in this city are fickle. Frontrunners.

They love you one minute, then turn on you.

Or forget you.

You are, as of right now, In The Conversation.

You are the Center of the Conversation.

And for a solid year, you’ve been brutalized by the mayor and his staff and his allies.

You’ve been called a liar, had your motives questioned, been insulted forward, backward and sideways. You saw the staff undermine your position as council president.

And when you asserted your prerogative at the Feb. 14 JEA valuation study V-Day party, and cut the mayor’s mike as he was about to drop some knowledge, you were shredded on the daily paper’s op-ed page.

How can you not run?

They will BURY you if you run for reelection. The knives will come unsheathed for you, no matter how underwhelming the opponent might be, and checks will be cut against you. You won’t have the team to keep up with what will be done, both directly and through committees and through passthroughs of passthroughs.

And if you somehow win re-election, what then? I’ll tell you what. It’s going to look like it will in July, when Bowman moves you to the small office and the edge of the dais.

But that’s not all bad. It puts you closer to the green room.

You might as well run against Lenny Curry because, either way, you’re running against

him anyway.

In doing so, you will render yourself heroic, at least in the eyes of many of those who were on the fence about Curry and have yet to see anyone successfully stand up to that machine.

Questions are being raised, by councilmembers (including some who line up with the mayor on more issues than not), and outside the building, about the “boys’ club” in the mayor’s office.

“Too much testosterone in there,” said one ally of the mayor’s office, the same one who’s said all kinds of unquotable quotes about your presidency.

To function as president in that building as you have, undermined in ways both epic and quotidian, hamstrung by council committees that have often seemed overwhelmed or indifferent to their tasks (a result of the grand coalition that got you installed), you’ve had to develop nerves of steel.

It’s not easy to go up against a mayor with a machine that’s Big City and ruthless in every way.

Take that case to the people. You may as well. After months of disrespect, you have no alternative.

Curry is the boss in the video game. Do you have enough tokens to crack the code?

Helping matters along is a crowded field that could get more crowded. Jimmy Hill and Connell Crooms and Doreszell Cohen—they will each get some of the vote.

We have seen utterly marginal candidates for office after office come in with 20 percent of the vote for reasons no outside observer can discern. Hill has run for office before.

And Crooms voters will have reasons to vote for him.

The goal is to keep Curry below 50 percent and force a runoff.

How do you do that? That really is the open question.

You’ve gotten bolder and more blunt, month by month, about how business is done in City Hall. You confirm many people’s cognitive biases, or beliefs, or predispositions.

Saying things no one else will: This is a double-edged sword.

This is a malleable populace, one that responds to advertising and stimuli. The other side will have that. Level up. They are out to end your career either way.

Res ipsa loquitur.

A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com @aggancarski

NEWS AAND NOTES: FAMILY EDITION TOP HEADLINES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA KIDDIE JAIL

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Though considered a bastion of all things liberal, until recently, New York State was one of just two states sending all convicted 16- and 17-year-old juveniles to adult prison and jail. (The other is North Carolina; it will stop automatically charging 16- and 17-year-olds as adults in December 2019.) Last October, New York raised the minimum age of teen felons who can be held in adult facilities.

Now youthful offenders will be tried in family court and incarcerated in separate facilities if convicted.

Since then, communities statewide have grappled with several logistical issues, Ithaca Times reports. Foremost, there are few facilities that cater to this demographic; in addition to a bed shortage and overcrowding, the facilities are far apart, which means teens could be housed far from home, a problem many families don’t like. Rarer is an instance when a teen commits a serious violent crime and can’t make bail, in which case the cost of transporting the accused individual to and from hearings will be far higher than for an adult, as adults are transported in groups. These and other issues will be tackled in coming years and will likely increase the cost, and the fairness, of the justice system.

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OK, they might have been making music since the early ’90s, but it’s impossible to be anything but awed by the fact that Acid Mothers Temple has made more than 120 albums. No joke.

And you get tired just thinking about going to work. #Lazy. Las Vegas Weekly was equally impressed with the work ethic of the Japanese psych rockers, whose sound it describes as “gloriously trippy and heavy on hypnotic repetition.” To prepare to attend a concert by the band, whose full name is Acid Mother Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., which LVW says “matches the music perfectly,” it’s recommended a listening voyage that starts with La Nòvia and ends when you stop peaking (OK, we made that last bit up).

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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is getting the business end of a bad news cycle for giving her father a job. Iowa City’s Little Village notes, “When most adults give an elderly parent a job, it’s usually as a babysitter.” Reynolds appointed her 78-year-old pops to a state panel tasked with vetting candidates to replace a retiring judge. The (unpaid) gig is for six years, longer than his daughter’s term of office.

LV also reports neither the governor’s office nor appointee Charles Strawn made mention of their relationship when announcing his appointment; the governor just slipped his name in among 24 others being appointed to various positions. It was only after the Associated Press asked about it that the gov’s office confirmed the connection. Iowa’s anti-nepotism law, LV adds, does not prohibit the appointment.

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In February, Iran jailed Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami on charges of espionage. Two weeks later, he died in the infamous Evin Prison under what the family calls suspicious circumstances (the government claims his death was a suicide). Emami’s son, musician Raam Emami, aka King Raam, traveled with his brother and mother to Iran to bury him, Now Toronto reports. Afterward, Iran let the sons leave, but confiscated their mother’s passport and forced her to remain. Since then, the Emamis, the Canadian government, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and others have campaigned for her release.

Emami recently sat down with NT to talk about his thenupcoming shows in Toronto and Vancouver, two of the first he’s played since his life exploded.

He said it feels “strange” to go back onstage, but that the “healthy distraction” will be a welcome change from “all this anger and guilt.” Asked why he feels guilty, Emami said that he wished he’d spoken up as soon as his father was arrested—but that they weren’t worried at the time, which he calls a “lesson” and urges others to speak “as loud as you fucking can” if the same happens to them. He also talked about how hard it is for his mom, who’d been with his dad since age 17 and is tired, stressed and frustrated by her predicament. He added that he and his brother are determined to do anything—even go to Iran and face arrest or imprisonment—to get their mother home. In spite of it all, Emami says, “I have no choice but to be an optimist—to go on and to survive.”

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KING OF THE

WJCT’s new president and CEO comes home to public interest journalism

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’ve done this once before on a river up

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appetite strolling Downtown Jacksonville,

American Protestant family and my mother

as we got to know each other. My curiosity

was of Eastern European Jewish descent,”

his immediate response to my interview

piqued, not only about the latest keystone

McGowan says. The family did not lean

request weeks earlier—without hesitation,

member of our community’s cultural and

overtly in either religious direction; McGowan

moved to Jacksonville from London and this

he agreed and suggested a date and time.

news circles, but also about this guy who likes

notes that he did not have a bar mitzvah.

is the first time he’s put his toes in the waters

I’m less surprised now, watching him stride

walking around cities.

of Northeast Florida. I’m supposed to be

confidently into the water, sharks, currents

teaching him how to surf, but the ocean is flat.

and stingrays notwithstanding. This is not a

National Public Radio affiliate.

in New England,” my new friend says

McGowan almost surprised me with

as we carry oversized paddleboards to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. He’s just

“The wind is coming out of the west at a good clip, so we will want to be sure

man who dithers.

We met on a Friday in late February,

to stay close to shore or we’ll get blown to

unseasonably warm, but not swampy humid,

Morocco,” I warn half-jokingly, just to see his

which may be a rude awakening come August

reaction. The guy doesn’t even break stride, so I mention sharks, stingrays and whales.

D

“David’s parents were pretty much in the middle between strict and lenient,” says

avid McGowan was born in

longtime friend Dan Singer. Singer, who

New York City, where he spent

met McGowan when they were both 13,

his elementary years. “My

remembers the McGowan family with fond

father, a science teacher who

reverence. “They [McGowan’s parents] were

later became involved in the environmental

the parents you respected a whole lot.” The

for a man who has spent the last 20 years

movement of the 1970s, took a job at

passing years have not lessened their bond;

living and working in Europe. I wanted to get

Washington University in St. Louis, which is

Singer still refers to McGowan as one of his

Still zero hesitation. My new friend is a cool

him out of the office, as interviews conducted

where I spent what I call my ‘wonder years’

oldest and best friends and the two often take

character. Actually, he’s a really cool guy,

behind desks usually become more like an

before returning to New York,” McGowan

skiing trips together.

the kind of person to get to know early on,

interrogation than a conversation. Fishing

says, as we wander through the streets. Back

before he finds cooler and more important

for ideas, I asked what he’s into, hoping for

in NYC, he attended the private, all-boys

competitive as the next guy when it comes

people to hang out with, which will most

something like kayaking or hiking, though

Collegiate School in Manhattan.

to winning, but the competition isn’t what

likely happen considering that my most recent

not snow-skiing, one of McGowan’s favorite

“My mom was a social worker in the New

acquaintance, David McGowan, has just been

activities. He suggested a walk around the

York City school system. My father

named president and CEO of WJCT, the local

city followed by lunch; we could work up an

comes from an Irish Catholic/old

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“David is self-driven. He can be as

drives him,” Singer says. “It’s like when we

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Time Magazine as the head of media development, which in the late ’80s was still a developing field. While at Time, he met Nina, in 1989. Shortly after they married in 1993, McGowan was offered a programing position at WETA, a respected

go skiing and David would much rather

noncommercial PBS member station

find a new trail or terrain to ski, as opposed

serving the Capitol area, so the couple

to just simply going down the hill faster

moved to Washington, D.C. The move

than the next guy.”

was not planned, per se. “I never thought

McGowan, who attended Yale University,

I’d leave New York, at 31 years old and

describes himself as “a pretty good student.”

newly married. I did just that. I remember

While at Yale, he became a member of the

the conversation with Nina on the drive

Whiffenpoofs, a well-known a capella singing

back up from D.C. was not the easiest

group founded in 1909, composed of Yale

conversation, but we took the leap together.”

students, though not directly associated

Though he’s moved several times in his

with the university. Over the years, the

career, McGowan does not see himself as

Whiffenpoofs have featured the talents of

compelled by wanderlust to jump from city

notables such as Cole Porter and Prescott

to city; he simply takes an opportunity when

Bush. McGowan recalls his time with

it comes. As his time at WETA came to its

the group as “one of the most important

natural conclusion, an opportunity in London

experiences I had in college.”

arose and the McGowans, by this time parents

“I was musical but not a great singer, but

of a son and a daughter, decided to take the

I was a true bass and those are a bit rare,” he

leap across the Atlantic.

says. “And the musical part of the experience

J

was great, but I think the biggest influence it had on me was making me understand what a group of people who are very determined to do something can do.”

We interrupt our sojourn, stopping at

ust as we’re getting peckish, we happen upon the food trucks on South Hogan Street. McGowan has never had Filipino food, so we

line up at a truck serving that cuisine, chatting

Wolf & Cub, a chic boutique on Laura Street.

idly about food as we wait. He confesses that

McGowan had ordered a gift for his wife’s

his wife is more the foodie than he, and says

birthday and he was going to deliver it to

that he benefits greatly from her culinary

her the following day … in London. The

adventurousness. Over pancit and lumpia, we

McGowans have three children; the oldest,

talk about what makes a city great.

Jonah, recently graduated from college and

“For me, the No. 1 test for a city is ‘does it

works for a major record label in NYC; the

reward exploration?’ and in the few outings

middle child, Sophia, attends M.I.T.; his wife,

I’ve had in Jacksonville, it has come through

Nina, and youngest son, Ben, are still living in

so far,” McGowan says.

London, so he was flying out on the red-eye

McGowan is good, really good, at steering

to visit. The young man has just a year-and-

conversation where he wants it to go, which

a-half of upper school to go, and David and

he does with seamless, warm joviality.

Nina decided it was better to let him finish the

It’s apparent, however, that not for one

semester without any major disruption.

second has he forgotten that our walk and

“We live in Southwest London in a

conversation is intended to introduce him to

neighborhood called Fulham, right down

a new community. “David has a real talent for

the street from Shad Khan’s other team,”

taking things very seriously, while at the same

McGowan quips, referring to the Fulham

time enjoying the people around him and

Football Club. He describes himself as a

making them feel comfortable,” Singer says.

rabid football (aka soccer) fan and has been

McGowan says that his second test for

a Fulham season ticketholder for more than

a city is whether it has a quality jazz club,

15 years. “My son and I are headed to the

a comment that led to a good conversation

stadium tomorrow,” he says.

about music and the Jacksonville scene. We

As we continue through the city here,

chat about the Avant Radio Hour, an eclectic

McGowan shares his professional history.

music program on WJCT, which then leads to

After Yale, he, with Singer and another friend,

a full-blown conversation about WJCT—right

Dave Laufer, launched Prism Magazine, a

where he wanted to land all along.

small, nonprofit news periodical. “We started

“There is great work being done out there

it straight out of college,” Singer says, “and we

in nonprofit, public-interest journalism. It is

banged away at it until we reached a fork in

a really interesting time,” McGowan says. “We

the road and realized that it couldn’t continue.

[WJCT] have the great advantage of these

One of the hardest things for David to do is to

legacy platforms, these radio stations and TV

throw in the towel, but it worked out for the

stations, that provide us not only stability, but

best in the end.”

McGowan went on to work at

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work and head home to London for weekends

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happy about it, but it was what I had to do. I

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won’t lie. It was terrible,” McGowan admits.

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McGowan saw Jacksonville for the first time when he came to interview last August.

time had launched digital platforms in

After a long day of interviews, meals and

Cologne and Zurich, poured himself into the

conversations, McGowan opened the curtains

festival and its success.

of his room in the Hyatt Regency, gazed out over the St. Johns River, nodded his head

colleges and big cities, McGowan, who owns a home near Woodstock, Vermont,

surprised, “Jacksonville.”

saw the area’s potential as a new digital hub.

He planned to run the first leg and pass the

avid McGowan is a fairly fit

baton, but when no one surfaced to take it

guy. A few weeks after our

over, was still running it when they held the

Downtown jaunt, we meet in

fifth and final festival in 2015.

Atlantic Beach for a surfing

sheer will, he kept it going as long as he

wind, talking, as I (secretly) wait for him to

could,” Singer says.

fall into the water. OK, a small piece of me a this-guy-can’t-be-this-good jealousy. In the

“Whether we want it or not, we have a greater control today over how we consume

when I’m not watching, so technically it didn’t

media,” McGowan says. “One of my biggest

happen. (But we both know it did.)

jobs [at WJCT] is to make sure that we are as

Two things come clear out there. First, the Second, this guy isn’t going to quit until I me, but that he wants to accomplish the task;

to grow the emerging platforms for us at

swelling from somewhere inside of him is

WJCT. He really champions news and content

the determination to conquer any challenge

and, over the next several months, we’re going

presented. Thwarted by the wind, back

to see a plan emerge.” that you can see what’s good and where you

them there and come back for them, or paddle

need to get to at the same time,” McGowan

back against the wind to where we’d initially

says. “WJCT is a great convener—that’s

set off. Without hesitation, McGowan chooses

part of my predecessor’s legacy—here many

to paddle.

different communities can talk to each other

After the paddle, we grab a cup of coffee

and it’s pretty exciting to execute a vision

and talk more about the vision and mission

that will always help us punch above our

of WJCT, and McGowan’s recent experience

weight as a leader.”

leaving a country divided by Brexit and

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he had any reluctance to accept the position, country, media and discourse.

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he boards are strapped back onto the roof of my car as we sit in the courtyard of a Neptune Beach coffee shop, finishing up our

coffees. I, the Floridian, am constantly inching

important than at any other time in my

my chair to follow the shade. McGowan

adulthood. I feel highly motivated by

welcomes the sunlight. Our conversations

our [WJCT’s] core values of fairness, the

over the last few weeks Downtown, on the

pursuit of truth and the diversity of opinion,

water and via email have all felt comfortable

experience and culture,” McGowan says.

and natural. The air around WJCT’s new

He repeatedly mentions the need to

leader is consistently light and approachable,

increase WJCT’s metabolism, especially in the

which is a surprise considering his storied

digital landscape. “We must work to apply the

career and station.

resources that will allow us to continue to do

”

“The advantage of being the new guy is

we can walk the boards back to the car, leave

considering the current temperature of the

ry

Melissa Ross, host and producer of First Coast Connect, says, “David is well-positioned

reentering a country simply divided. I ask if

s,

available, relevant and innovative today and tomorrow as we were yesterday.”

do. It’s not so much that he’s competing with

onshore, we chat about skiing. I mention that

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The passion that inspired him to launch the festival has not abated in the intervening years.

end, he goes in the drink for a quick second

wind is not going to lie down as I’d hoped.

t,”

“It was absolutely his baby, and through

lesson. We cruise against a cumbersome west

might be hoping, not so much out of malice as

.

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in acceptance and whispered a somewhat

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out

around the world. McGowan, who by this

I ask him if he’s interested in getting

more of the work and make us more valuable

another surf lesson in the future.

to all of the different communities in our

Unsurprisingly, he accepts without second

footprint.”

thought—though something tells me I’ll have

Passion for digital media permeates his

to work to hold him to it sooner rather than

person; his speech speeds up just enough

later. McGowan’s plate is filling up fast as

that it’s noticeable when the subject is

WJCT implements new plans to launch under

broached. McGowan says that he has

his leadership.

always had a keen interest in the sphere

“I really believe that David will enjoy

where technology meets media. In 2011, he

the opportunity to shape the future of this

spearheaded the launch of the Woodstock

organization and, alongside that, the future of

Digital Media Festival in Vermont. The

this city,” Daniel Bean says.

driving ideology was that digital media can be a powerful force for positive change

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FOLIO A + E THE ELEMENTAL

A

APPROACH

fie Jurvanen’s breakout hit “All the Time” neatly encapsulates the original vibe of his solo Bahamas project: tip-toeing guitars, a subdued rhythm section that gently laps like a rising tide, and soulful vocals that punch and counterpunch the earworm hook, “I’ve got all the time in the world.”

Easygoing to the point of placid, “All the Time” also represents the polar opposite of what this Toronto native is up to today. Since the release of 2015’s double-Juno-winning album Bahamas Is Afie, Afie and wife Naomi have welcomed two kids into the world, nudging Jurvanen to give up his oncemeandering songwriting approach in favor of more focus and precision on follow-up album Earthtones.

Recorded with drummer James Gadson and bassist Pino Palladino—two of the session musicians responsible for cult hero D’Angelo’s seminal album Black Messiah— Earthtones snaps, crackles, and pops with modern R&B sophistication. Yes, Earthtones’ lead single “Way with Words” feels as breezy as “All the Time”—“Don’t keep me waiting on some SMS” will surely go down as a defining lyric of the millennial generation. But Afie is clearly operating on a higher plane of consciousness.

Folio Weekly: Earthtones came out in January. How have live performances of the material shifted since?

Afie Jurvanen: You get settled in your ways, so it’s a challenge to keep it fresh. My touring band can go wherever I want at a moment’s notice, which is nice—I can extend sections or dynamically change what I’m playing, and they can react in real time. Most of all, audiences seem to really know this new material. They sing along. As a performer, that’s such a fortunate place to be.

In a recent interview, you said, “When you can’t place [a song], either to a specific genre or era, that’s usually a sign it’s going in the right direction.” How much work does it take to get a song to that timeless place?

The songs that have that quality often come to me quickly—the whole idea will arrive fully formed in five or 10 minutes. That’s the best. But you can’t count on that. I think guitar music is going through a bit of a low point. There aren’t many guitar-based singer/songwriters connecting with a huge audience the way R&B and hip hop are. So I’m thinking, “What’s the best way to put this music out and have it appeal to as many people as possible?” For me, that means putting as little of a filter between the music and the people as possible. You don’t have to wonder what I’m up to onstage; the lyrics are right up front, and the guitars are right there jumping off the edge of the speaker without any effects or production. In my experience, people are connecting with those elemental parts of what I’m doing.

FILM Hemingway flicks ART MOCA exhibit ART Lysistrata LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CALENDAR

Afie Jurvanen’s Bahamas project has become more NUANCED and AUTHENTIC We connected with “Bad Boys Need Love Too,” about how growing up with an absentee father affected your own parenthood. Were you excising demons on that one?

When you have kids, you get a second chance to re-evaluate your own history.

You get this insight into yourself—it’s the selfish part of being a parent. I can think about how I grew up: What can I do for my dad or other people in this world who are very hard to love? The best thing you can do is show them empathy, love and compassion—all the stuff hippies have been preaching about for a long time.

After the release of Earthtones, you discussed how having kids affected your day-to-day songwriting life. Has that changed significantly as your kids have gotten older?

I have a daughter who’s one, so we’re still in the weeds. [Laughs.] Every day is pretty intense. In general, I’m just trying to be more direct in how I approach songwriting and life.

If something feels good—if it’s working— that’s a strong signal that it’s worth pursuing. Be ruthless and less precious. Trust the process. If this idea doesn’t work, another one will work just as well. If

you only have 10 minutes, you can probably write a song in 10 minutes.

Which totally flies in the face of a line from your song “Everything to Everyone”: “I don’t work as hard as I could.”

I certainly have friends who work a lot harder than I do. I’ve also had friends move to Los Angeles and go a little too far. You get a divorce or a drug problem. It’s dangerous.

You gotta know what you’re after and what sacrifices you’re willing to make. Living in Toronto, I’m in my own bubble. I like it, though; if I didn’t have a family, I might think about moving. But I feel like where I’m at now is sustainable. I want to have a long career.

I’d like to be playing music when I’m 50 or 60 years old. The fact that I get to decide my own schedule feels like the biggest achievement.

Have you ever been to the Bahamas?

I haven’t. When I started this solo project, I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing, and I needed a name for the project that gave me a little distance. I like the way the word “Bahamas” is not really plural but could be. You say it, and you don’t have to say it twice—people get it. It conjures up nice imagery.

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

BAHAMAS WITH SOUL BROTHER STEF 7 p.m. May 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $25, pvconcerthall.com

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FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS ERNS NS Hemingway-sourced films offer glimpses into Papa’s HEART OF DARKNESS

NO BLOODY

F*CKING CHANCE E

rnest Hemingway was notoriously disparaging about movies, especially those adapted from his work. For instance, he famously commented to Ava Gardner, about the film version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro (in which she co-starred with Gregory Peck), that the only things he liked about it were her and the hyena.

Unlike three other great American writers of his generation (Steinbeck, Faulkner, Fitzgerald), Hemingway never wrote for Hollywood big bucks. His only credited script was a collaboration with John Dos Passos for The Spanish Earth, a 1937 Spanish Civil War documentary. Three years later, he wrote one of his best novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls, on the same subject. Three more years, it was up on the big screen in a lavish production starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman with Dudley Nichols’ screenplay.

Yet Hemingway was more than willing to take the money and run, perfectly willing (if not content) to let other writers have their way with his fiction. One of the most famous examples of the author’s ambivalence about Hollywood adaptations of his work concerns his 1937 novel To Have and Have Not. Director Howard Hawks suggested that he and Hemingway collaborate on a film version, but when Hemingway declined, independent filmmaker is said to have remarked, “I’ll get Faulkner to do it; he can write better than you can anyway.”

Personally, I’ve always thought William Faulkner must have been delighted to get paid to do a number on his literary rival; along with co-writer Jules Furthman and an uncredited Hawks, he wrote a movie more reminiscent of Casablanca. It turned out to be a popular classic; its title was the only connection to Hemingway.

Curiously, six years later, the same studio—Warner Brothers—released another film version of the same novel, but under another title (The Breaking Point). This one was far more faithful to the book’s plot and especially the tone. Though Hemingway reportedly said he liked it better than all of the other celluloid treatments of his work, the movie lay low for decades.

In a nutshell, To Have and Have Not is Hollywood; The Breaking Point is Hemingway.

Except for the opening sequence about fishing guide Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) and a sleazy customer, To Have and Have Not (1944) ignores the rest of Papa’s novel. Harry meets Slim (19-year-old Lauren Bacall, playing a 22-year-old chanteuse), she teaches him how to whistle, he saves the anti-

Nazis and Casablanca gets a happy ending.

For most of the first half of the 97-minute running time, Breaking Point (1950) runs true to its literary source. Fishing boat captain Harry (John Garfield) is fleeced by a sleazeball client, leaving him in a tight spot for money.

Against his better judgment, he gets involved in a human smuggling operation; he survives only by double-crossing and killing the scheme’s ruthless instigator.

His money woes continue when the Coast Guard confiscates his boat. Faithful husband to wife Lucy (Phyllis Thaxter) and devoted father to two young girls, Harry isn’t tempted by blonde seductress Leona (Patricia Neal)—a character not in the book—but takes one last risky chance to keep his boat.

Things go awry, of course, as they always do for Hemingway characters. In the book, a band of Cuban revolutionaries are Harry’s downfall; in the film, it’s ruthless bank robbers. Harry survives in the movie, but not the book. The Breaking Point does not end happily.

The final shot, among the film’s more poignant moments, shows Harry being whisked away in an ambulance, leaving a small African-American boy behind, alone on an empty dock. The child’s father, Harry’s friend and first mate Wesley (Juano Hernandez), was killed by the robbers, his body dumped overboard. It’s a visual contrast to Harry’s last words in the novel, the coda to Hemingway’s declaration of human responsibility—“No matter how a man alone ain’t got no bloody fucking chance.”

Long unseen, due to Garfield being a Commie sympathizer during the Red Scare of the early ’50s, The Breaking Point, brilliantly directed by Michael Curtiz of Casablanca fame and just out on video from Criterion Collection, is ripe for discovery by film fans and Hemingway devotees.

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Back to Burgundy and Thoroughbreds screen. Throwback Thursday is Caddyshack, with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, noon May 10. French film Les Vacancies du Petit Nicolas, runs noon May 12. Casablanca runs 12:30 p.m. May 13, a Mother’s Day Special. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 697-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

IMAX THEATER Avengers: Infinity War and Pandas 3D screen. Deadpool 2 starts May 17. St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Avengers: Infinity War, Grace Jones and The Endless screen. Deadpool 2 starts May 17. Check website. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

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ARTS + EVENTS

CANUCWHATIC, new works by Marsha Hatcher inspired by Rorschach’s ink blots, are on view until May 14 at The Art Center, Downtown. (Pictured: one in the Canucwhatic suite.)

PERFORMANCE

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ST. AUGUSTINE’S SCOUNDRELS Margaret Kaler, Jane Sims and Wayne Sims tell stories of Florida, the South and Appalachia, with a close look at the Oldest City’s characters, crooks and scalawags, noon May 9 at Corazon Cinema & Café, 36 Granada St., $10-$15, romanzafestivale.com.

MAGIC & SKEPTICISM The avowed atheist Matt Dillahunty discusses philosophy, religion, science and history in a quest to believe “as many true things as possible.” A Q&A session follows; 8 p.m. May 10 at Ritz Theatre, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $32, ritzjacksonville.com.

MATANZAS TAP This senior citizen tap dance group, directed

by Judy Woodruff, is an energetic troupe; trained in traditional rhythmic tap, accompanied by jazz standards, 6:30-7 p.m.

May 10 at Colonial Quarter, 37 St. George St., St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

RED WHITE AND TUNA Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre (soon to be All Beaches Experimental Theatre) presents the third installment in the Tuna trilogy, a satirical ride into the hearts and minds of the citizens of Texas’ thirdsmallest town. Runs 8 p.m. May 11, 12, 18 & 19; 2 p.m.

May 13 & 20 at Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., $20, abettheatre.com.

BAD JEWS The New York Times wrote, “There’s nothing like a death in the family to bring out the worst in people. This unhappy truth is displayed with delectably savage humor in Bad Jews,” Joshua Harmon’s zesty play. Runs 7:30 p.m. May 10, 11 & 12, 2 p.m. May 13 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $15-$26, limelight-theatre.org.

LYSISTRATA Unblinkingly bawdy, this comedy is about war, the power of sexuality and frustration … and what lengths folks will go to satisfy their needs. Presented by A Classic Theatre, it’s staged 7:30 p.m. May 11 & 12 and 2 p.m. May 13 at Gamache-Koger Theatre, Ringhaver Student Center, Flagler College, 50 Sevilla St., $20, aclassictheatre.org.

BUCKETHEAD Though more a guitarist than actor, we listed Mr. Head here because of his act’s weirdo factor: He wears a plain white bucket over his head and incorporates nunchucks, robot dancing and toy trading into his stage performances. 8 p.m. May 16 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., $33-$38.50, pvconcerthall.com.

CHICAGO Broadway’s razzle-dazzle smash on the First Coast has it all: fame, fortune and all that jazz, one show-stopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing! It opens 7:30 p.m. May 17 and runs through May 20 at the T-U Center, 300 Water St., Downtown, $32-$97, timesunioncenter.com.

CLASSICAL + JAZZ

THE RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS A performance by world-class musicians of the organization that seeks to foster the appreciation of chamber music through performances and educational outreach featuring preeminent African-American musicians and composers, with an emphasis on building inclusion, 2-3:30 p.m. May 9 at Cummer Museum, 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org.

CHAMBER MUSIC: KATHY & FRIENDS Linda Wills, Kathleen Vande Berg, Susan McGee and Kandie Smith perform music

by Bizet, Handel and Moszkowski, noon May 9 at Ancient City Baptist Church, 27 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

THE LAWSON ENSEMBLE Violinist Aurica Duca, violinist/ violist Clinton Dewing and cellist Nick Curry perform noon May 10 at Ancient City Baptist Church, St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

JSYO MAJOR/MINOR CONCERT Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras perform with conductor Deanna Tham, 8 p.m.

May 11 at T-U Center’s Jacoby Hall, Downtown, $3-$8, jaxsymphony.com.

CHAMBER CHORUS An audition-only ensemble of 10-12thgraders, led by Jeff Dodd; students are challenged with all genres of music, both accompanied and a cappella. The concert is noon May 11 at Ancient City Baptist Church, St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

NORTH FLORIDA WOMEN’S CHORALE Under the direction of Kerry Fradley, the chorus sings its spring concert, Songs of the Season, noon May 12 at Ancient City Baptist Church, St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE YOUTH CHORUS The 35-voice chorus, under the baton of Kerry Fradley, presents Turn the World Around, a program of world music, folk songs and fun songs.

5:30-6:30 p.m. May 12 at Ancient City Baptist Church, St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

Chakaia Booker, India Blue, 2001. Rubber tires and wood, 73 x 43 x 38 inches. Colllection of the Flint Insititue of Arts, Flint Michigan; Bequest of Russell J. Cameron, by exchange and partial gift from the Friends of Mern aArt 2002.11.

FOLIO A+E : ARTS

BACK IN BLACK

New MOCA exhibit deftly mixes monochromaticism with MOOD and MYSTERY

U

sing one color, or a minimalist palette of colors, can be a dicey move.

Whether a 2D or 3D work, making a piece with fewer colors could “streamline” a work into a ruminative piece or, on the flip side, creating a one-note idea that’s more gasping-art squeak than mesmerizing visual drone. As luck would have it, the current exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville is in the first camp, showing works created primarily in one color: black.

And, for the most part, the exhibit succeeds in offering a somewhat radical take on how color, even a single color, can affect what we glean from an experience with visual art, through perception, interpretation and surely emotional response.

A Dark Place of Dreams features work by four artists: Louise Nevelson, Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock and Kate Gilmore.

Nevelson (1899-1988) is the central figure and guiding force of the show.

Considered to be one of the more radical, pioneering sculptors of the 20th century, Nevelson is best known for creating largescale, painted-wood pieces, assemblages made from objects she found in urban environments. The show’s three other artists are rather like apostolic heirs to Nevelson’s vision; Booker, Fensterstock and Gilmore bring their own flavors to the table, yet Nevelson’s pervading influence is clear in the gallery spaces and collective works.

The exhibit displays six 3D and two 2D pieces by Nevelson. The 2D pieces reveal her impressive printmaking skills, indicating a kind of “flattened” representational quality of what she explored through sculpture. Untitled (30-1/8 x 23-3/8 x 4-3/8; 1958), the smallest of Nevelson’s 3D assemblages, is a coffinlike cabinet, or arcane treasure box, housing wood planks resembling blades of black grass, a spiraling headstock blooming out of this contained field. It’s a strong example of her brilliance—essentially three distinct physical elements, one being the actual container, seemingly creating narratives that rise and fall as one stands before it. Rain Forest Garden (95 x 44 x 11; c. 1964-1979) expands the artist’s concepts and approaches to undeniable grandeur. Once-mundane materials, like small slats and bedposts, are morphed into

the mystic. Quarter-moon pieces of molding direct one’s attention to the center of the piece, then draw the focus away; in total, a sense of stabbing roundedness is at work. The title references a garden, but the piece has a somber, elegiac quality, standing in front of stained glass tempered with shadow. Nevelson can be viewed as a religious artist, in the way that these largescale works are shrinelike, pointing toward the ineffable and creating a kind of logical holiness; for pieces essentially formed from the randomness of what was found on the street and scrap yard, there is a staggering economy. Divine intervention aside, Nevelson’s devotional ability to tap into her higher self, and draw life out of withered planks and black paint, is as impressive as it is rare.

Nevelson began exhibiting her work in the 1940s and came to prominence in the ’50s, when Abstract Expressionism ruled the visual art scene. Her work seemed to run counter to, if not defy, a boys’ club of paintings replete with macho swaths and frantic color drips.

Nevelson shared a sense of process with the abstract expressionists, but while they may have celebrated the lightning-bolt psychology of colored motion on canvas, Nevelson worked methodically, selecting materials and dipping them in her black paint.

A similar methodology is evident in works of Lauren Fensterstock and Chakaia Booker.

At 78 x 240 x 26 and solid black, The Order of Things (2016) features Fensterstock in full flight. Three shelves drip with seashells, evoking everything from rotting fruit to caveborn stalactites. Fensterstock (b. 1975) takes Nevelson’s idea of monolithic and abstract and toggles them; at a distance, the seashells resemble grape clusters hanging through Baroque renderings of mythical beings.

Yet placing those forms in the deliberately measured shelves lets us time-travel to the postmodern, present day, where precision may be valued over phantasmagoric, and unwanted, constricting deadlines obscure the openness of our dreams.

The pair of Claude Glass Cube pieces (both are glass, paper and wood; 36 x 36 x 36; 2014) are cube-like terrariums, filled with black paper flowers and leaves. Like The Order of Things, Fensterstock’s approach borders on surgical: perfectly cut and arranged materials, in even more blackness.

The work of Booker (b. 1953) is a bridge between Nevelson and Fensterstock, both generationally and aesthetically. Like Nevelson, Booker uses an urban, 20th-century object: rubber tires. And like Fensterstock, she has a more classicist-quality to her work; albeit a classicist of a parallel world. A snake-like figure of Urban Townie (rubber, tires, metal, wood; 48 x 48 x 36; 2001) writhes, shedding

skin that blooms into a jagged flower. India Blue (rubber tires, wood; 73 x 43 x 38; 2001) has a similar obsidian form, appearing almost frozen, holding its breath, pausing before it slithers down a white pedestal. Echoes in Black: Industrial Cicatrization (rubber tires, wood, steel; 96 x 252 x 4; 1996) is large-scale relief showing what looks like an ongoing sequence of rubber tires bent, folded and jutting outward.

Oddly, Booker’s works draw comparison to those of one who may be considered a disparate artist to her actual style: H.R. Giger.

While Giger (1940-2014) is best known as the neo-surrealist creator of the Alien monsters, Booker’s almost-menacing beings and forms draw similarities to Giger’s “biomechanical” ideas of life cycles beginning, ending, evolving and mutating.

Three out of four ain’t bad.

When I first saw Kate Gilmore’s 2018 piece, It Needs Louise, I was standing between the Nevelson and Fensterstock section of the exhibit. Turning to the right, my first thought was, “Why in the hell is MOCA renovating that space now?” Whether this is a total misunderstanding of contemporary art, my undeniable hillbilly DNA, or a combination of both, is up to the reader. I do know this: Gilmore and her Louise trade in the legacy of Nevelson for the ever-coy “Emperor’s New Clothes School of Visual Art.” Planks of untreated lumber are in a grid on the wall.

Ends splattered with yellow and blue paint, they hang suspended over four stacks of lumber, surfaces speckled with dried paint drips and what appear to be handprints or footprints. An accompanying video shows Gilmore (b. 1975) creating the piece while a second video, Rock, Hard, Place (color, sound; 11 min., 15 sec.; 2012), shows Gilmore applying hot-pink paint to a large, black, wood grid filled with bowls.

Nevelson’s influence on Gilmore is evident—black grids, working in one or limited materials, etc.—but instead of precise, engaging and emotional works of Nevelson, Booker and Fensterstock, Gilmore’s featured work seems forced and contrived. It Needs Louise feels more blatant than anything else (“I am evolving the vision of Louise Nevelson…”) and the video views like an infomercial or webinar on “How to Be a Contemporary Artist in the 21st Century.” I’ll pass on the education.

All in all, A Dark Place of Dreams is a great success and MOCA curator Jaime DeSimone, who also wrote a commendable essay about Nevelson in the show catalog, should be applauded for creating a challenging exhibit as she ends her time at the museum. The show highlights an artist’s enigmatic work and legacy, in turn highlighting the artists she inspired, even if one of them may have taken a step back into the shadows.

Daniel A. Brown mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ A DARK PLACE OF DREAMS: LOUISE NEVELSON with CHAKAIA BOOKER, LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK, KATE GILMORE, through Sept. 9, MOCAJax, Downtown, mocajacksonville.unf.edu

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ARTS + EVENTS WYNONNA & THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY Five-time Grammywinner, New York Times bestselling author and “the greatest female country singer since Patsy Cline,” (according to Rolling Stone) Wynonna performs with the symphony 8 p.m. May 12 at the T-U Center, Downtown, $29-$89, jaxsymphony.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE COMMUNITY CHORUS Under the baton of Maestro Michael Sanflippo, the chorus sings Not One Sparrow is Forgotten, featuring the premier of Mass by Loren C. Fortna, 3-4:30 p.m. May 13 at Ancient City Baptist Church, St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

COMEDY

TRINA JEFFRIES Jeffries performs as family-friendly funny woman Sister Cantaloupe, 7 p.m. May 11 at Doubletree by Hilton Airport, 2101 Dixie Clipper Dr., Northside, $35-$50, eventbrite.com.

SHULER KING He’s shared the stage with Dirty South, Damon Williams and Arnesto and built a solid social media presence.

King is on 8 p.m. May 10 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $28-$150, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

MELANIE COMARCHO Known for roles in First Sunday, Hair Show and Boosters, the writer-actress commands the stage.

She’s on 8 p.m. May 11; 7:30 & 10 p.m. May 12 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, Southside, 646-4277, $19-$150, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

DEON COLE The versatile actor-comic is on 7:30 p.m.

May 10, 7:30 p.m. & 9:45 p.m. May 11 & 12 and 7 p.m.

May 13 at The Comedy Zone, 3103 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $25-$122.50, comedyzone.com.

FRANKIE PAUL, TIFFANY BARBEE Staged 8:30 p.m. May 12 at Jackie Knight’s Comedy Club, Gypsy Cab Company’s Corner Bar, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 461-8843, $12, thegypsycomedyclub.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

FLORIDA BIENNIAL Artists living in Florida and working in any media may submit original works. Juror is Sarah Fritchey, curator and gallery director at Artspace, New Haven, Conn.

Deadline June 1; $50 to apply, artandculturecenter.org.

ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Through a crowd-sourced, curator-lead application process, Art Republic selects three to five regional artists for mentorship including travel, advice and access. Winners announced Nov. 10; apply at artrepublic.com/artistdev.

TURN YOUR IDEA INTO A NOVEL A hands-on workshop with Janice Hardy about the novel-planning process, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 12 at Ponte Vedra Beach Library, 101 Library Blvd., $85 (includes lunch), fhbookfest.com.

ART WALKS + MARKETS

DIG LOCAL NETWORK Weekly network hosts farmers’ markets: Beaches Green Market, 2-5 p.m. Sat., Jarboe Park, Florida Boulevard & A1A, Neptune Beach; Midweek Market, 3-6 p.m.

Wed., Bull Park, 718 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach; ABC Market, 3-6 p.m. Fri., 1966 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach.

ST. AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE FARMERS MARKET Live music, yoga (bring mat, water bottle), flowers, baked goods, art, artisan wares, local produce, 8:30 a.m. every Sat., 1340 A1A S., 209-0367.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local/regional art, produce, snacks, live music—Pine Forest School, Shimmy Mob, Billy & Bella, Linzy & Laura—10 a.m. May 12 under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

FERNANDINA BEACH MARKET PLACE Farmers, growers, vendors, local goods, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat., North Seventh Street, Historic District, fernandinabeachmarketplace.com.

JACKSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET Open daily dawn to dusk, Beaver Street farmer’s market has an art gallery, food, crafts, etc., at 1810 W. Beaver St., Westside, 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com.

BERRY GOOD FARMS MOBILE MARKET Accepts WIC and SNAP, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. every Mon. at Pearl Plaza, 5322 N. Pearl St., Brentwood.

MUSEUMS

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AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM 1600 Julia St., Amelia Island, 510-7036. Artifacts and information about the journey of vision, struggle, joy and triumph of this historic site, and its contemporary inhabitants.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, flagler.edu/crispellert Selections from the Guidi Collection on view through June 15.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Ritz Chamber Players perform 2 p.m. May 9. Talks and Tea: a discussion of the Japanese printmaking exhibit, is 1:30-2:30 p.m. May 16, $6 nonmembers; free members. Thomas Hart Benton & the Navy, through June 3. Fields of Color: The Art of Japanese Printmaking through Nov. 25.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Lana Shuttleworth’s Nature Reconstructed, through June 3.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. Decorative and fine art and relics of the Victorian era are on display.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Project Atrium artist is Anila Agha. A Patterned Response is on view, and A Dark Place of Dreams revisits monochromatic assemblages of Louise Nevelson alongside contemporary artists Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock and Kate Gilmore; through Sept. 9.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Science Fiction, Science Future, through May 13. Hands-on exhibit NANO shows basics of nanoscience and engineering, through June 17.

Jim Smith’s Improbable Sci-Show, through June 28.

GALLERIES

THE ART CENTER COOPERATIVE 2 Independent Dr., The Landing, tacjacksonville.org. Picasso Kids Art Show, through May 18. Jacquelyn Pfaff-Pratt is May’s featured artist.

Canucwhatic, Marsha Hatcher’s new works inspired by Rorschach’s ink blot, on view until May 14.

BREW 5 POINTS 1024 Park St. Blakeley Miller exhibits a collection of prints—relief, woodblock, linocut and intaglio etching—and monotype processes; through May. GALLERY 725 725-5 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 345-9320, gallery725.com. Works by Peter Max and Romero Britto on view May 10-20. Artist reception 6-8 p.m. May 19; 1-3 p.m. May 20, RSVP suggested.

HIGH TIDE ART GALLERY 850 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, thehightidegallery.com. New works by Erin Finney, Jami Childers and others exhibit.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Downtown, southlightgallery.com. Collaborative gallery exhibits and sells works by regional artists. UNF Art & Design Portfolio Projects in Ceramics & Photography is on view; photographer Garry McElwee’s work is featured through May. THE SPACE GALLERY 120 E. Forsyth St., Downtown. Wyatt Parlette, Matthew S. Bennett and Nathan Eckenrode exhibit new works and site-specific installations in Other Places, through May. SPACE 42 2670 Phyllis St., Riverside, spacefortytwo.com.

Luisa Posada Bleiers presents new works through May. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., staaa.org.

St. Augustine Plein Air Exhibit: Where Art Meets History is up through May. THE YELLOW HOUSE 577 King St., Riverside, yellowhouseart. org. Voices Unearthed celebrates Élan Literary Magazine, which gives voice to young writers and artists. Curated by Douglas Anderson School students Evelyn Alfonso, Elma Dedic, Lex Hamilton, Ana Shaw, Kathryn Wallis and Lexey Wilson; through May 19.

EVENTS

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE A “members only night” is 4-8 p.m. May 10 (you can join for $10), 4-8 p.m.

May 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 12 at University Branch, 3435 University Blvd. N., Arlington, prices vary, fjpl.org.

MARTIAL ARTS DEMONSTRATION MC Master Andrew Schirmacher and local students demonstrate martial arts, including tai chi chuan, kung fu, ba gua, karate and tae kwon do, 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 10 at Willie Galimore Center, 399 Riberia St., St. Augustine, free, romanzafestivale.com.

HOLISTIC SELF-CARE: YOUR SECRET POWER FOR ENHANCING PATIENT CARE American Holistic Nurses Association offers this event to give nurses new self-care skills to use at home or work, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 11 at UNF’s Herbert Center, Southside, $90, ahna.org/regionals.

KING OF THE HILL SURF FEST The fifth annual benefit, with a pro/am surfing contest and fishing contest, is 7 a.m.-noon May 12 between Cherry and Walnut streets on the sand, Neptune Beach. Proceeds benefit Mission House programs for the Beaches homeless community. A fishing seminar with local fishing legend Larry Finch, along with food and prizes, is 6-8 p.m. May 11, at Neptune Baptist Church, 407 Third St. Registration and details for both is on neptunebaptist.org/ kingofthehill, or call 249-2307.

MAY PICKIN’ The antique-sters of Girls Gone Pickin’ hold a one-day open warehouse sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 12 at Cottle & Gunn, 219 Osborne St., St. Marys, Georgia, facebook.com/events.

ST. MARYS PORCHFEST A modest, sweet iteration of porchfest celebrations beloved across the land, with 15 performances on several small stages, 1-5 p.m. May 12 at St. Marys Welcome Center, 400 Osborne St., St. Marys. Michael Hulett wraps it all up 6-8 p.m. at St. Marys Waterfront Park.

DINE ON THE WILD SIDE A benefit to raise funds for HAWKE wildlife rescue includes a sneak peek of the new exhibit “Oasis on the Nile,” plus wild bird sanctuary guided tours, live music by Jamie DeFrates, 5-9 p.m. May 12 at St. Augustine Alligator Farm, 999 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $20 ages 5-11; $40 ages 12 and up, hawkewildlife.org.

GEEK OUT ART SHOW, VOL. 2 Artists, art connoisseurs, comic lovers and collectible enthusiasts gather at this meld of a mini-comicon and art show, noon-5 p.m. May 13 at Galimore Center, St. Augustine, $5, romanzafestivale.com.

KATHY STARK BOOK SIGNING Stark, maker of luminous, detail-filled watercolors, chats about her book, The Wilderness of North Florida’s Parks, 6:30 p.m. May 17 at Mandarin Community Club, 12447 Mandarin Rd., free, 268-0784.

MEMOIR WORKSHOP Dr. Milinda Jay Stephenson, FSU Panama City creative writing professor, leads a hands-on workshop to help turn family stories into better stories (by which we of course mean fiction), 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 17 at Ponte Vedra Branch Library, 101 Library Blvd., $85, fhbookfest.com.

WILD AMELIA NATURE FESTIVAL The festival includes the release of a rehabilitated sea turtle to its ocean home, a nature cruise, silent auction fundraiser and family friendly events, May 18-20, times and prices vary, wildamelia.org. __________________________________________ To list an event, send the time, date, location (street address and city or neighborhood), admission price and contact number to print to Madeleine Peck Wagner; email madeleine@folioweekly.com or mail 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Items run as space is available.

Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. printing.

FOLIO A+E : ARTS pictured: Lysistrata Shielding Her Coynte (1896), by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98).

THE SALVATION OF

GREECE

A new translation of Lysistrata is staged in St. Augustine

’40s and ’50s, [when it was taught that] a woman’s place was in the home. She struck an independent course and made a good living for herself—and at times, for her husband during the war—and her two children.

Valentina would not tolerate fools easily [...]

In some ways, she was a Lysistrata of her times.

You taught at Flagler for many years. What did you teach?

I taught English and American Literature; also literary criticism and film. I am a translator myself, and translated several ancient Greek plays. [The last one, Antigone by Sophocles] was staged at the Flagler College Auditorium in 2010.

In attempting a project like this one, what are the things a translator must consider?

The goal of a translator is fidelity to the original. The translator must also have a sense of the audience of today, in this case, the American audiences of 2018. Translation is an art in itself, and the translator must consider the great responsibility of transferring a classic work—written long ago—to an audience of his/her time, without distorting or altering the original.

T

o pause and realize that the names of gods, goddesses and heroes from antiquity still ignite the imagination is to consider the power of storytelling. Perhaps, more than anything promised by any deity in any pantheon, this is true immortality.

Recently, author Madeline Miller has received praise for her book Circe that followed her extraordinary debut, Song of Achilles. Both are stories that revisit ancient Greek myths, told in a devastating manner that recalls poetry and humanity.

Closer to home than Troy (for those of us living in Florida anyway), A Classic Theatre mounts the play Lysistrata. The premise?

In a mission to end the Peloponnesian War (Athens v. Sparta, 431 BCE-404 BCE), Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their male lovers until a peace has been negotiated.

In so doing, a battle of the sexes ensues. If the thematic arc seems familiar, it might be because Spike Lee mined Aristophanes’ drama for the acclaimed (and blisteringly funny) <Chi-Raq>.

When asked about the decision to mount the play, Limelight Theatre co-founder Anne Kraft, said “... it is classic, and that is one component of our mission (we produce classic, historic and original works); then, we thought it was incredibly timely given the current social/political climate; but the biggest element in our decision was that Constantine Santas, a local resident and friend whose Greek family member [Valentina Santas] had translated the work, offered it to us. It seemed absolutely too good to pass up!”

Folio Weekly and Constantine Santas discussed his Aunt Valentina, translation methods and Lysistrata.

Folio Weekly: Tell us about Aunt Valentina.

Constantine Santas: Valentina Santas (19152015) emigrated from England with her parents at a young age, at the height of the Great Depression, and she and her parents lived in Palaion Faliron, near Piraeus. Her father was in the commercial navy, and the family (they also had a son) managed to survive. Valentina had an enterprising mind and sought to make a living by teaching English to native Greeks.

[She met her husband, Santas’ uncle, in the early 1930s. By 1957, she was working at the English Institute of Piraeus, specializing in the novels of Jane Austen. She also studied opera, worked with her husband on his literary projects, and established her own school on the island of Aegina.]

She sent me the translation of Lysistrata some time before her death in 2015, asking me if I could edit the play and find a producer or publisher for it.

Why do you think she was compelled to make the translation?

As far as I know, the immediate aim was to generate some income for her son, who suffered (as many Greeks did) from the economic crisis. Therefore, all proceeds, loyalties, etc., will go to him. But I think Valentina had deeper inclinations. She was a strong-willed, fiercely independent woman who lived during the generations of the ’30s,

What did you take into consideration as you edited the work?

The manuscript arrived in handwritten form—as all her writing was. I took time out, more than two months, to type it in Word, preserving the format as much as I could. I tried to preserve passages that were either chorus-like (spoken by a group), and keep some of the lyrical passages as intended by Aristophanes, who was a comedy writer, social critic and a lyrical poet. I was surprised as to how much Valentina had rendered those lyrical passages and short poems as beautifully as she did.

Why do you find this play compelling enough to revisit?

A classic work, whether in poetry, drama, music or other art form, is worth revisiting because it echoes ideas of universal value.

Lysistrata is a work of art, but with a message.

The rebellion of women against their own city, and their occupying the Acropolis, where the treasury was, was a daring act, perhaps only a fantasy. But Lysistrata has stood the test of time ... [it] can be considered the first play/ drama of a women’s movement in Western Literature.

Madeleine Peck Wagner madeleine@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Lysistrata Harolyn Sharpe, Director. Staged in Reader’s Theater style, 7:30 p.m. May 11 & 12, 2 p.m. May 13 at Gamache-Koger Theater, Ringhaver Student Center, Flagler College, 50 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, aclassictheatre.org, $21.50

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The band that’s been described as “Soviet surf punk,” IGOR & the RED ELVISES take the stage 8:30 p.m. May 10 at Café 11, St. Augustine Beach, $20-$25.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

RUBEN STUDDARD: LUTHER VANDROSS TRIBUTE 8 p.m.

May 9, The Florida Theatre (FlaThtr), 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $34.50-$150, floridatheatre.com.

RYAN CAMPBELL 9 p.m. May 9, Surfer the Bar (Surfer), 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 372-9756.

TFDI & KRISTOPHER JAMES 7 p.m. May 9, BlueJay Listening Room (BlueJay), 2457B S. Third St., Jax Beach, bluejayjax. com, $30.

NFFN ARTIST SHOWCASE 7 p.m. May 9, Mudville Music Room (Mudville), 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $10.

BRAINREK, KYLE HEWIT, D. DEVILL, KELVIN HAYES, SCRATCH N SMITH, ROMEO ARTICK 9 p.m. May 9, Myth Nightclub (Myth), 333 E. Bay St., Downtown, 707-0474, $7.33-$10.50.

TIMOTHY LEON 8 p.m. May 10, BlueJay, $15.

JOE BONAMASSA 7:30 p.m. May 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre (StAugAmp), 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, staugustineamphitheatre.com, $87.50-$157.50.

POST MALONE, 21 SAVAGE 8 p.m. May 10, Daily’s Place (Dailys), Downtown, 633-2000, dailysplace.com, $55-$85.

IGOR & the RED ELVISES 8:30 p.m. May 10, Café Eleven (Cafe11), 501 A1A Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $20-$25.

NORDISTA FREEZE, DIGDOG, CHARLIE SHUCK, LORETTO 8 p.m. May 10, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside.

REBEKAH LONG 7 p.m. May 11, Mudville, $10.

STACEY BENNETT, SMOKESTACK 6 p.m. May 11, Seachasers Lounge (Seachase), 831 First St. N., Jax Beach, seachaserslounge.com.

OZONEBABY 9 p.m. May 11 & 12, Cheers Park Avenue (Cheers), 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855, $3.

RAMONA 9 p.m. May 11 & 13, Surfer.

The WONDER YEARS, TIGERS JAW, TINY MOVING PARTS, WORRIERS 6:30 p.m. May 11, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $23.

MAGIC GIANT, YOUNG RISING SONS 8 p.m. May 11, Jack Rabbits (JackRabbs), 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $15.

FUNK FEST: XSCAPE, BRANDY, LIL KIM, ADINA HOWARD, ANTHONY HAMILTON, TANK, PLIES, CARL THOMAS, RAHEEM DEVAUGHN May 11 & 12, Metro Park, Northbank, funkfesttour.com, $55-$400.

LARRY FLEET, PHILLIP WHITE 8 p.m. May 11, BlueJay, $25.

CHOIR OF BABBLE, The NED, KID YOU NOT, ANCESTROS CORD 9 p.m. May 11, Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $5.

STEVE FORBERT, JESSE BARDWELL 7 p.m. May 12, Mudville, $10.

BIG JOHN, FOLK IS PEOPLE 6 p.m. May 12, Seachase.

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CODY WEBB 8 p.m. May 12, Ritz Theatre (Ritz), 829 Davis St. N., Downtown, ritzjacksonville.com, $24.

JACKAL & HYDE 9 p.m. May 12, Myth, $12.61, $23.16.

UNCOMMON LEGENDS 9 p.m. May 12, Surfer.

The PAUL THORN BAND, HEATHER LEE, JORDAN WYNN 8 p.m.

May 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall (PVCHall), 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, pvconcerthall.com, $29-$41.

FLAGSHIP ROMANCE 8 p.m. May 12, BlueJay, $20-$30.

The LIFE & TIMES, PLS PLS 8 p.m. May 12, JackRabbs, $10.

MARC COHN & HIS TRIO 8 p.m. May 13, PVCHall, $44.50$54.50.

STEELY DAN, The DOOBIE BROTHERS 7:30 p.m. May 13, Dailys, $66-$199.

DINNER TIME, UNCLE MARTY, CHEAP SUITS 9 p.m. May 13, Planet Sarbez.

BRADFORD LOOMIS 8 p.m. May 13, BlueJay. TWO by FAUX 2:30 p.m. May 13, Hyperion Brewing, 1740 Main St. N., Springfield, 518-5131.

The EARTH IS OURS, WHATEVER YO, SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS, MODEST IMAGE 7 p.m. May 13, JackRabbs, $8.

BAHAMAS, SOUL BROTHER STEF 8 p.m. May 14, PVCHall, $25.

BAY KINGS BAND SHOWCASE 8 p.m. May 14, BlueJay. RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS 7:30 p.m. May 14, Mudville OH WONDER, ASTRONOMYY 6 p.m. May 15, PVCHall, $32.

AARON THOMAS 9 p.m. May 15, Surfer.

ODESZA 7 p.m. May 16, Dailys, $40-$69.

BUCKETHEAD 7 p.m. May 16, PVCHall, $33.

DEAD EYES ALWAYS DREAMING, TODAY’S LAST TRAGEDY, ALBERT the CANNIBAL 7 p.m. May 16, JackRabbs, $8.

The SUPERVILLIANS, COLIN PATERSON, MATT HENDERSON 9 p.m. May 16, Surfer, $10-$15.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

LOVE MONKEY May 17, Cheers COMPLICATED ANIMALS May 17, House Concert; socialitefiascomusic.com/complicatedanimals SAVAGE MASTER, BEWITCHER May 17, JackRabbs DYNOHUNTER, UNIVERSAL GREEN, PILOTWAVE, CHARLIE HUSTLE May 17, 1904MH BLISTUR May 18, Cheers DiCARLO THOMPSON, STACEY BENNETT May 18, Seachasers G. LOVE ACOUSTIC May 18 & 19, Café11 PAUL IVEY & SOULS of JOY May 18, Hyperion Brewing R-DENT, CONJURE RELEASE SHOW, PSYCHO HILL May 18, Nighthawks CHAD PRATHER May 18, PVCHall THE STEELDRIVERS May 18, ProhibitKitch DIALECTABLE BEATS, NICKFRESH May 18, 1904MH

RACHEL McGOYE Album Release Show May 18, BlueJay J.C. JR May 18, Vito’s Italian Restaurant THE ELLAMENO BEAT, LITTLE BIRD May 18, Surfer ATLANTIC CITY BOYS, ABAGAIL, JAX SILHOUETTES, MAC GANOE May 19, Mudville STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, THE MASTERSONS May 19, PVCHall CHELSEY MICHELLE, HIGHWAY JONES May 19, Hyperion BIG JOHN, BILLY BUCHANAN May 19, Seachasers KYLE JENNINGS May 19, BlueJay DV3, TRVPFONIKZ, XANDER, DYVISION May 19, 1904MH ZANDER May 19, Surfer THRIFTCRAFT PROM NITE May 19, Nighthawks NEW ROCK SOUL May 20, Surfer ROB STERLING, DOUG & HEATHER May 20, Hyperion TBA BIG BAND May 21, Mudville AARON LEBOS REALITY, MATT HENDERSON, COLIN PATERSON May 21, JackRabbs LINCOLN DURHAM, The GHOST WOLVES May 22, JackRabbs SHANNON McNALLY May 22, Mudville TREVOR BARNES May 22, Surfer THE BUNNY, THE BEAR, IT LIES WITHIN May 23, Nighthawks THE SILVERPALMS, FONTAINE May 23, 1904MH WEST BROOK & FRIENDS May 23, BlueJay TAD JENNINGS May 23, Surfer THE PIONEERS OF ROCK ’N’ SOUL May 23, Limelight Theatre WINDWORDS, BEGGARS May 23, Sarbez MATTYB & THE HASCHAK SISTERS May 24, PVCHall MORGAN HERITAGE, JEMERE MORGAN, E.N. YOUNG May 24, JackRabbs DiCARLO THOMPSON, SMOKESTACK May 25, Seachasers NOUVEAUX HONKIES May 25, Café11 MIKE SHACKELFORD, STEVE SHANHOLTZER, TOM & NATALIE May 25, Mudville DAMON FOWLER May 25, BlueJay THE INTRACOASTALS May 25, Surfer CBDB, DOVETONSIL May 25, JackRabbs EVERCLEAR, MARCY PLAYGROUND, LOCAL H May 25, Mavericks BIG JOHN, CAT McWILLIAMS, MAMA BLUE May 26, Seachasers GUTTER VILLAIN, BLURG, CONCRETE CRIMINALS, STARGOON May 26, Nighthawks THE BIRD TRIBE May 26, BlueJay BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION May 27, 1904MH MONK May 27, Myth AZUL’S ALLSTARS May 27, Seachasers THE B-SIDES May 27, Surfer DAVID CROSBY, JAMES RAYMON, MAI AGAN, JEFF PEVAR,

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC STEVE DISTANISLAO, MICHELLE WILLIS May 27, PVCHall FLIPTURN, SKYVIEW, SOUTH POINT May 27, JackRabbs BRANDON McCOY May 27, BlueJay BIG BOI May 28, 1904MH DIRTY HEADS, AWOLNATION, JUDAH & THE LION, FRONT BOTTOMS, AJR May 27, StAugAmp HYMN FOR HER, DIXIE RODEO May 30, BlueJay THE COATHANGERS, THE WOOLLY BUSHMEN, MERCY MERCY May 30, JackRabbs NICK IZZARD May 30, Surfer LUKE PEACOCK May 31, Mudville MATTHEW BRIAN KIRKLAND May 31, BlueJay AMPLE ANGST June 1, Mudville CHASING JONAH, LANNDS, GABE DARLING June 1, JackRabbs HONEY HOUNDS June 1, Surfer BILLY & BELLA, EMILY ALDRIDGE, JEAN STREET SOUND, ALLIE & THE KATS June 1, 1904MH J. COLE June 2, Mavericks LONGINEU PARSONS June 2, Mudville BREAKING THROUGH, BLEEDING IN STEREO June 2, Cheers LEE BRICE, RANDY RODGERS BAND, LAUREN DUSKI, HA HA TONKA, CARLTON ZEUS June 2, Naval Station Mayport DANCE GAVIN DANCE, I SEE STARS, ERRA, SIANVAR June 2, PVCHall DR. NEU & BLUJAAFUNK June 2, Mudville THE DICKIES, THE QUEERS, BLURG, FRIENDLY FIRE June 3, JackRabbs SALT & PINE June 3, BlueJay DISCORD CURSE, BECOMES ASTRAL June 4, JackRabbs GRANT PEEPLES, JAIMEE HARRIS June 5, Café11 JOHN FOGERTY, ZZ TOP June 5, StAugAmp THE ASSOCIATION, THE TURTLES, CHUCK NEGRON, GARY PUCKETT, MARK LINDSAY, THE COWSILLS June 7, FlaThtr LEE HUNTER June 7, Mudville HARRY CONNICK JR. June 8, StAugAmp CHATHAM COUNTY LINE June 8, Café11 SNACKS BLUES BAND June 9, BlueJay PERPETUAL GROOVE June 10, 1904MH SIXES, HOLLOW LEG June 10, JackRabbs JOHN PARKERURBAN & FRIENDS June 10, BlueJay BLUEPRINT, WILLIE EVANS Jr., GEEXELLA June 10, Rain Dogs PARAMORE, FOSTER THE PEOPLE June 12, StAugAmp LA LUZ, TIMOTHY EERIE June 14, Root Down DAVID RYAN HARRIS June 15, Café11 DANKA June 15, Surfer CYCLOPEAN BLOOD TEMPLE, BURN TO LEARN June 15, Rain Dogs MERE WOODARD June 15, BlueJay McFARLAND June 15, JackRabbs SALT N PEPA, SPINDERELLA, KID ’N PLAY, COOLIO, TONE LOC, THEA AUSTIN, C&C MUSIC FACTORY, FREEDOM WILLIAMS June 16, StAugAmp BLUE HORSE June 16, Mudville COME BACK ALICE June 16, Surfer STARBENDERS, 5 CENT PSYCHIATRIST June 16, JackRabbs CHAMPAGNE JERRY June 16, 1904MH ALPHA QUADRANT, MOONDRAGON June 16, RainDogs PHIL KEAGGY June 16, Murray Hill Theatre BRIT FLOYD ECLIPSE June 17, FlaThtr

TIMOTHY EERIES, THE YOUNG STEP, REELS June 17, Sarbez JESUS WEARS ARMANI, IN CONFIDENCE June 19, JackRabbs SUMMER OF LOVE TRIBUTE: MUSIC OF LAUREL CANYON & MONTEREY POP, RETHREADED BENEFIT June 20, BlueJay COMBICHRIST, WEDNESDAY 13 June 20, Mavericks LATE NIGHT SPECIAL June 21, JackRabbs JUNCO ROYALS June 21, BlueJay SUMMER SURVIVORS June 22, Surfer LUKE BRYAN, JON PARDI, MORGAN WALLEN June 22, VetsMem CHARLIE FARLEY June 22, JackRabbs THE CONCH FRITTERS June 23, Anastasia State Park URBAN PIONEER, CAIN’T NEVER COULD June 23, Nighthawks LOGIC June 23, Dailys PIXIES June 24, FlaThtr ANNIE GUTHRIE June 24, BlueJay REBELUTION, STEPHEN MARLEY, COMMON KINGS, ZION I, DJ MACKLE June 24, StAugAmp CITY IN THE CLOUDS, MODEST IMAGE June 24, JackRabbs JOHN THOMAS GROUP June 25, Mudville INANIMATE EXISTENCE, THE LAST OF LUCY, FIELDS OF ELYSIUM June 25, JackRabbs ANGEL VIVALDI, HYVMINE June 26, 1904MH AMERICAN AQUARIUM, TRAVIS MEADOWS June 27, JackRabbs BELLE & THE BAND June 28, Mudville TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, MARCUS KING BAND June 29, Dailys MELODY TRUCKS BAND, BONNIE BLUE June 29, 1904MH MIKE SHACKELFORD June 29, Mudville BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB, B-52S, TOM BAILEY June 29, StAugAmp DION TIMMER June 29, Myth CHEAP TRICK June 30, Dailys SANDRA LYNN June 30, Ritz Theatre LUKE PEACOCK June 30, Mudville THE TOASTERS June 30, 1904MH COPPER BONESJune 30, RainDogs THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS, WALK THE MOON, MISTERWIVES, JOYWAVE July 1, Dailys DONNY & MARIE OSMOND July 1, StAugAmp TERRAIN, SATYR (GA), FRIENDLY FIRE, PROBLEM ADDICTS July 1, 1904MH DAN & PHIL July 5, StAugAmp BARENAKED LADIES, BETTER THAN EZRA, KT TUNSTALL July 6, StAugAmp SACRED OWLS BEWARE! TAKE CARE!, DOUGIE FLESH & THE SLASHERS, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP July 6, Nighthawks 3 DOORS DOWN, COLLECTIVE SOUL July 7, Dailys COHEED & CAMBRIA, TAKING BACK SUNDAY July 8, Dailys NIGHTHAWKS, DEAD BOYS, YOUNG LOUD & SNOTTY AT 40 July 8, Nighthawks ADVENTURES OF ANNABELLE LYN July 12, Mudville WRONG WAY, CRANE July 13, Surfer LOWERS ORDERS, SMART BOYZ July 13, RainDogs ORDINARY BOYS, KISSES ONLY July 14, 1904MH CRAIG WAYNE BOYD July 14, Ritz Theatre SLIGHTLY STOOPID, PEPPER, STICK FIGURE July 19, StAugAmp MYSTIC DINO, FAMILY ONE BAND July 20, Surfer

OAK RIDGE BOYS July 20, Thrsh-HrnCtr STEVE MILLER BAND, PETER FRAMPTON July 20, StAugAmp VIOLENT FEMMES, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN July 21, StAugAmp CHICAGO, REO SPEEDWAGON July 22, Dailys FRACTURED FAIRYTALES July 26, JackRabbs DON McLEAN July 27, PVCHall POCO, PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE, ORLEANS July 27, FlaThtr MIKE SHACKELFORD July 27, Mudville THE FRITZ July 28, 1904MH SUN-DRIED VIBES July 28, Surfer DISPATCH, NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, RAYE ZARAGOZA July 29, StAugAmp DONAVON FRANKENREITER July 30, Surfer LAURYN HILL Aug. 2, Dailys HIPPIEFEST 2018: VANILLA FUDGE, BADFINGER W/ JOEY MOLLAND, MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS, RICK DERRINGER Aug. 2, Thrasher-Horne Center VANS WARPED TOUR: 30H!3, THE INTERRUPTERS, KNUCKLE PUCK, MAYDAY PARADE, REEL BIG FISH, STATE CHAMPS, THIS WILD LIFE, WATERPARKS, LESS THAN JAKE, THE MAINE, MOVEMENTS, REAL FRIENDS, SIMPLE PLAN, TONIGHT ALIVE, WE THE KINGS, AMITY AFFLICTION, CHELSEA GRIN, DEEZ NUTS, ICE NINE KILLS, KUBLAI KHAN, MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE, SHARPTOOTH, TWIZTID, WAGE WAR, AUGUST BURNS RED, CROWN THE EMPIRE, DAYSEEKER, EVERY TIME I DIE, IN HEARTS WAKE, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, NEKROGOBLIKON, AS IT IS, ASSUMING WE SURVIVE, CAPSTAN, DON BROCO, PALACE ROYALE, SLEEP ON IT, STORY UNTOLD, TRASH BOAT, WITH CONFIDENCE, FAREWELL WINTERS, LIGHTERBURNS Aug. 2, Old Cypress Lot near Met Park COUNTING CROWS, LIVE Aug. 4, Dailys POWERGLOVE Aug. 4, 1904MH O.A.R. Aug. 5, Dailys ATTILA, SUICIDE SILENCE, VOLUMES Aug. 10, Mavericks MARIE MILLER Aug. 12, Café11 JASON MRAZ, BRETT DENNAN Aug. 17, Dailys UMPHREY’S McGEE, SPAFFORD Aug. 18, StAugAmp LINDSEY STIRLING, EVANESCENCE Aug. 20, Dailys JEFF BECK, PAUL RODGERS, ANN WILSON Aug. 23, Dailys STEPHANIE QUAYLE Aug. 25, Ritz Theatre SING OUT LOUD FESTIVAL Sept. 1-23, St. Augustine venues DANIEL CHAMPAGNE Sept. 4, Café11 KICK OUT THE JAMS 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR: MC50 (WAYNE KRAMER, KIM THAYIL, BRENDAN CANTY, DUG PINNICK, MARCUS DURANT) Sept. 6, StAugAmp DEEP PURPLE, JUDAS PRIEST Sept. 12, Dailys ROGER McGUINN Sept. 19, PVCHall LEE ANN WOMACK Sept. 21, PVCHall JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT, THE DECEMBERISTS, LUCERO Sept. 22, StAugAmp HERE COME THE MUMMIES Sept. 22, PVCHall DAVID BYRNE Sept. 26, FlaThtr KIM RICHEY Sept. 27, Café11 NEED TO BREATHE, JOHNNYSWIM Oct. 2, Dailys ARCH ENEMY, GOATWHORE, UNCURED Oct. 6, 1904MH (HED)PE Oct. 7, 1904MH SUWANNEE ROOTS REVIVAL Oct. 11-14, SpiritSuwannee

The duo ODESZA believe that to create, “you have to build something, then take it apart.” They play electronic music, 7 p.m.

May 16, Daily’s, $40-$69.

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC GENE WATSON Oct. 13, PVCHall WELCOME TO MOCKVILLE Oct. 13, 1904MH STEEP CANYON RANGERS Oct. 14, FlaThtr ANDERSON EAST Oct. 16, Mavericks DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, CHARLY BLISS Oct. 20, StAugAmp JENNIFER KNAPP Nov. 14, Café11 KATHLEEN MADIGAN Nov. 15, FlaThtr PIANO GUYS Nov. 26, FlaThtr OLD DOMINION Nov. 30, StAugAmp PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, PVCHall SWINGIN’ LITTLE CHRISTMAS: JANE LYNCH, KATE FLANNERY, TIM DAVIS, THE TONY GUERRERO QUINTET Dec. 17, Ritz JEANNIE ROBERTSON Jan. 26, FlaThtr INDIGO GIRLS Feb. 9, PVCHall PINK March 5, VetsMemArena ELTON JOHN March 15, VetsMemAren

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith every Thur. Dan Voll every Fri. Yancy Clegg every Sun. Vinyl Nite every Tue. SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & Pili Pili May 9. Tad Jennings May 10. Terry Campbell, Alan Dalton May 11. Charlotte P Band, Radio Love May 12. JCnMike, Brian Ernst May 13. Mark O’Quinn May 15

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance every Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance every Fri. MONTY’S/SHORES LIQUOR, 3644 St. Johns Ave., 389-1131 DJ Keith 10 p.m. May 10 & 17. Vegas Gray 10 p.m. May 18

THE BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BLUE JAY LISTENING ROOM, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 TFDI, Kristopher James, Matt Duke 7 p.m. May 9. Timothy Leon May 10. Larry Fleet, Phillip White May 11. Flagship 8 p.m. Romance May 12. Bradford Loomis May 13. Bay Kings Band Showcase May 14 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595 DJ Heather every Wed. DJ Hal every Fri. & Sat. Michael Funge every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 J Crew 10 p.m. May 11 & 12. Samuel Sanders 8:30 p.m. May 13 GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 Third St. N., 201-9283 Robbie Litt May 11. D-Lo Thompson May 12 GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Michael Smith every Thur. Milton Clapp every Fri. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Joe Taylor Band 10 p.m. May 11. Josh Ivey 6 p.m., 5 o’Clock Shadow 10 p.m. May 12. Kristen Campbell 2 p.m. May 13. Different Folk every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Wes Cobb 9:30 p.m. May 11. Radio Phillips 9:30 p.m. May 12 MEZZA RESTAURANT, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. May 16 SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Stacey Bennett, Smokestack 6 p.m. May 11. Big John, Folk Is People May 12.

DiCarlo Thompson, Stacey Bennett May 18 SURFER THE BAR, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Ryan Campbell 9 p.m. May 9. Ramona May 11 & 13. Uncommon Legends May 12. Aaron Thomas May 15. The Supervillians, Colin Paterson, Matt Henderson May 16. The Ellameno Beat, Little Bird May 18 WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Jerry Maniscalco 7 p.m. May 12. Acoustic Women every Tue.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA

J’S TAVERN, 711 Osborne St., St. Marys, 912-882-5280 Two Dudes from Texas open mic every Wed.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 Vibe & Direct May 9. Holey Miss Moley May 10. Luicidal May 11. Bobby Newport, Eden Shurman, Ion Zide May 12. Philip H Anselmo & The Illegals May 13. Dynohunter, Universal Green, Charlie Hustle May 17. Dialectable Beats, Nickfresh May 18 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon every Thur. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall every Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. JAX LANDING, 353-1188 Everchange 6 p.m. May 10. 7 Street Band 7 p.m. May 11. Str8 Up! May 12. De Sean Kirkland May 13. Jason Evans Band May 18 MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 The Wonder Years, Tigers Jaw, Tiny Moving Parts, Worriers 6:30 p.m. May 11 MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 Brainrek, Kyle Hewit, D. Devill, Kelvin Hayes, Scratch N Smith, Romeo Artick 9 p.m. May 9. Jackal & Hyde May 12

FLEMING ISLAND

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BOONDOCKS, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Mark Johns 6 p.m. May 10. Brandon Leino 7 p.m., Chris Underal 9:30 p.m. May 11. Matt Knowles May 12. Fond Kiser May 17 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Ivan Pulley 6 p.m. May 10. Down Pine 9 p.m. May 11. Neon Whiskey 9 p.m. May 12. Zeb Padgett May 13

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 The Benettrators 9 p.m. May 9. Highway Jones 9 p.m. May 11.

Wild Fire Rising 9 p.m. May 12 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Bad Habits 8:30 p.m. May 11. Spectra 8:30 p.m. May 12

MANDARIN

ENZA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci May 9 & 13 IGGY’S, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, 209-5209 Jay C Jr May 10.

Mr. Natural May 11. Ivan & Hank 1 p.m., 7 Street Band 7 p.m. May 12. Montalvo, Hot Pocketz May 13 TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Stu Weaver 9 p.m. May 9. Seize the Day 9 p.m. May 11. Chuck Nash 9 p.m. May 12

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

CHEERS, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 DJ Capone May 9 & 16. Audiokick May 10. Ozonebaby 9 p.m. May 11 & 12. Love Monkey May 17. Blistur May 18 THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Machine Kid 7 p.m. May 12. DJ Keith every Tue. DJ Covert every Thur.

PONTE VEDRA

MEDURE, 818 A1A, 543-3797 Ace Winn May 9 & 16. Ryan Campbell May 10 & 17. Will Hurley May 11. The Groov May 12 & 19 PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music most weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Live music most weekends

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood S., 683-4182 Bill Ricci 5:30 p.m. May 11 & 12. Back Alley Cadillac May 12 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Nordista Freeze, Digdog, Charlie Shuck, Loretto 8 p.m. May 10. Evergreen Terrace, The Hereafter May 12. R-Dent Conjure, Psycho Hill May 18 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Choir of Babble, Secret Cigarettes May 12 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Pine Forest School of the Arts, Shimmy Mob, Billy & Bella, Linzy Lauren 10:30 a.m. May 12

ST. AUGUSTINE

ARNOLD’S LOUNGE, 3912 N. Ponce de Leon, 824-8738 Jason Evans Band 9 p.m. May 12. DJ Alex every Fri. MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Live music most weekends THE ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Igor & The Red Elvises 8:30 p.m. May 10. G. Love Acoustic 8:30 p.m. May 18 & 19 PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George, 209-5704 Brian Ernst, Remedy Tree May 10. Raisin Cake Orchestra, Love Chunk May 11. Snake Blood Remedy, MJ Baker May 12.

Kalani Rose, Jon Bailey, Sam Shin May 13. Sea Floor Explosive May 14. Aslyn & the Naysayers May 15 SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 Choir of Babble, The Ned, Kid You Not, Ancestros Cord May 11. Dinner Time, Uncle Marty, Cheap Suits 9 p.m. May 13 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Those Guys 9 p.m. May 11 & 12

SAN MARCO

JACK RABBITS, 15280 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Magic Giant, Young Rising Sons May 11. The Life & Times, Pls Pls May 12. The Earth Is Ours, Whatever Yo, Sleepless Knights, Modest Image 7 p.m. May 13. Dead Eyes Always Dreaming, Today’s Last Tragedy, Albert The Cannibal May 16. Savage Master, Bewitcher May 17 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 NFFN Artist Showcase, Franc Robert, Just Suz, Madi Carr 7 p.m. May 9. Rebekah Long May 11. Steve Forbert, Jesse Bardwell May 12. River City Rhythm Kings May 14 RIVER CITY BREWING CO., 835 Museum Cir., 398-2299 Colby Word 5:30 p.m. May 10. Hot Mess May 11

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Black Martini May 10. Trev Barnes May 11. Robbie & Felix May 12 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Live music weekends. Melissa Smith open mic every Thur.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

CROOKED ROOSTER BREWERY, 148 S. Sixth St., Macclenny, 653-2337 Byestanders Band 8 p.m. May 12 HYPERION BREWING CO., 1740 N. Main St., 518-5131 5 Cent Psychiatrist CD Release 9 p.m. May 12. Two By Faux May 13. Paul Ivey & Souls of Joy 7 p.m. May 18. Live music most weekends PALMS FISH CAMP, 6359 Heckscher Dr., 240-1672 Bruce & Andy May 10. The Last Resort May 11. Bush Doctors May 12.

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FOLIO DINING At Second Street South and Eighth Avenue, BREEZY COFFEE SHOP WINE BAR is a cozy Jax Beach place serving lattes, bakery items and beer and wine.

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH

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

F Family-owned café in historic building. Worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh veggies, seafood. Dine in or al fresco under oakshaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub brews beer onsite; imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season THE CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap.com. F For nearly 40 years, family-ownedand-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L Sa-M; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Authentic Northernstyle pizzas, 20-plus toppings, pie/slice. Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassauhealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa POINTE RESTAURANT, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2017 BOJ winner. In awardwinning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2017 BOJ winner. 2nd-story

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

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

outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/ favorite. Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310, traysburgerstation.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite.

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

ARLINGTON + REGENCY

LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802.

F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

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

F Family-and-veteran-owned place is all about home cooking. Customer faves: barbecued pulled pork, blackened chicken, Caesar wrap and Portobello mushroom burger. $ K TO B L D Tu-Su HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/ favorite. Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish. Avondale’s Mojo has shrimp & grits, specialty cocktails. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/ favorite. 40+ years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. French/ Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362, south.kitchen. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Southern classics: crispy catfish with smoked gouda grits, familystyle fried chicken, burgers, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. $$ FB K TO L D Daily

BAYMEADOWS

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

F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2017 BOJ favorite. SEE MANDARIN. MAY 9-15, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 23

DINING DIRECTORY PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. F 2017 BOJ favorite. Since 1989.

Family-owned place has an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups.

Low-sodium & gluten-free. $$$ BW TO L D Tu-Sa THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. Gluten-free pizzas, desserts. HH specials. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. F 2017 BOJ favorite. Popular gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and–sure–whiskey. HH M-F. $$ FB B Sa & Su; L F; D Nightly

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 240 Third St. N., Neptune Beach, 853-6773, thecraftpizzaco.com. F Al Mansur re-opened good ol’ Al’s, in a new spot. Dine inside or out. $$ BW L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM SUBS, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. F 2017 BOJ winner.

Fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, 374-5735. 2017 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BREEZY COFFEE SHOP WINE BAR, 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211, breezycoffeeshopcafe.com. Local beachy coffee & wine shop by day; wine bar by night. Fresh baked pastries, breakfast sandwiches all day. Grab-n-Go salads, cheeses, hummus. $ BW K TO B L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. 2017 BOJ winner. Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. F Classic Old World Roman fare, big Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE.

BIG SHOTS!

spirits, cold brew coffee program. $$ FB TO L M-F CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth, 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Serving Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza.

Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa ELEMENT BISTRO & CRAFT BAR, 333 E. Bay St., 438-5173.

Inside Myth Nightclub. Locally sourced, organic fare with fresh herbs and spices. HH $$ FB D, Tu-Su OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com.

F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa SPLIFF’S GASTROPUB, 15 N. Ocean St., 844-5000, spliffsgastropub.com. 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Music venue has munchie apps, mac & cheese dishes, pockets, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. HH M-F. $ BW L D M-Sa URBAN GRIND COFFEE COMPANY, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. F 2017 BOJ favorite. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F URBAN GRIND EXPRESS, 50 W. Laura St., 516-7799. F 2017 BOJ favorite. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F. $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE. MOJO Smokehouse, 1810 Town Ctr. Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636.

F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfish camp.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Real fish camp.

Gator tail, catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek.

Tiki bar. Boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly

INTRACOASTAL WEST

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

MANDARIN + NW ST. JOHNS

AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2017 BOJ

JESSICA DuPONT

Myth Nightclub

333 E. Bay St. • Downtown Born in: Buffalo, New York Years in Biz: 20+ Favorite Bar: Slimelight (London, England) Favorite Cocktail Style: Molecular mixology Go-To Ingredients: Fruit juices & puckers Hangover Cure: Sprite, pepperoni pizza and sleep!

Will Not Cross My Lips: Jager Insider’s Secret: Push-up bras!

Celebrity Seen at Your Bar: The cast of Stranger Things When You Say "The Usual": Jameson

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit & Blues Bar, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shackburgers.com. 2017 BOJ winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. 2017 BOJ favorite. SEE MANDARIN. RAGTIME TAVERN Seafood & Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 34 years and counting, the iconic seafood place serves blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973. F 2017 BOJ favorite. SEE BAYMEADOWS.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA

CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552. Barbecue, sides, hot dogs, burgers, desserts.

Dine in or out on picnic tables. $$ FB K TO L & D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 6586 GA. Hwy. 40 B6, St. Marys, 912-576-7006. F 2017 BOJ favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. OUTERBANKS SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 140 The Lakes Blvd., Ste. H, Kingsland, 912-729-5499. Fresh seafood, burgers, steaks, wings. $$ FB TO D Nightly

DOWNTOWN

BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura St., 802-7745, bellwetherjax.com.

Elevated Southern classics in an understated setting, with chef/owner Jon Insetta’s focus on flavors, and chef Kerri Rogers’ culinary creativity. The Northeast Florida menu changes seasonally. Rotating local craft beers, regional 24 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | MAY 9-15 2018

winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199, athenscafejax.com. 2017 BOJ winner. 20+ years of Greek fare, serving dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), Greek beers. Vegetarian-friendly. Full bar.

Early bird menu Mon.-Fri. $$ FB L M-F; D M-Sa FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd., 739-7070, jaxdiner. com. Chef Roderick “Pete” Smith, a local culinary expert with nearly 20 years under his apron, uses locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, vendors and the community for American and Southern dishes. Seasonal brunch. $ K TO B L M-F, D F METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Dinner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. BOJ favorite. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/wine. $ BW TO B L D Daily

ORANGE PARK

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

Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com.

F 2017 BOJ favorite. Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em

CHEFFED-UP

POT O’ GLUTENLESS

GOLD

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A SAVORY CHEF and a pastry chef are enormous. Their professional skill sets are so vastly dissimilar, it’s almost like comparing a general contractor to a brain surgeon.

While the general contractor possesses many competencies, from understanding blueprints to leveling concrete, a brain surgeon exemplifies exceptional patience and revels in intricate detail. To be competent in either trade, one must have passion and be open to innovation.

In the culinary world, savory chefs are akin to general contractors. Talented, successful savory chefs spend much of their day as facilitators of kitchen staff. They do the scheduling, order supplies, train cooks and supervise myriad other activities in the back of the house.

On the other hand, pastry chefs focus on intricate details like tempering chocolate, pulling sugar, book-folding laminated doughs, and precisely measuring mise en place for batters and sponges. Thus, pastry chefs are very uptight and rarely stray into the savory kitchen where the pace is frenetic, where measurements—much to their horror—are done by eye, taste and touch instead of prissy electronic scales or fussy digital thermometers. Pastry chefs often think of the savory side as a place where uncouth, undisciplined barbarians ply their trade with little grace or skill. They, of course, are wrong!

(None of my pastry chef friends reads my column, so I’ll say whatever I want.)

Here’s the deal: In most kitchens, there may be one pastry chef, who tends to concentrate on complicated desserts, leaving other baking to the savory side. So to have an interesting menu with savory baked items, chefs like me are forced to sharpen our baking skills.

Over time, I’ve actually learned to enjoy baking—well, ‘enjoy’ may be too strong a word … let’s say ‘tolerate.’ As in, I must TOLERATE these damn electronic scales, measuring spoons and timers. Urg! Throughout these glorious columnfilled years, I’ve shared a few of my prized baking recipes and tips with y’all.

Remember to keep your butter very cold

Come for the cornbread, STAY FOR THE BACON

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when making short doughs and always let your doughs rest before rolling them out, which allows the gluten to relax so it rolls without springing back like a rubber band.

This week I share a gluten-free baking recipe. Yep, I can even Chef-Up gluten-free cornbread! The secret? Lots of bacon and a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet. I promise to continue discussing the (superior) savory side of baking in future columns.

CHEF BILL’S GLUTEN-FREE SKILLET BACON CORNBREAD Ingredients • 1-1/4 cups fine stoneground cornmeal • 1-1/4 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour • 1/2 cup sugar • 1 tbsp. baking powder • 1/3 tsp. salt • 1-1/4 cups buttermilk • 4 oz. butter, melted • 2 eggs • 1 tsp. xanthan gum (if G-F flour • doesn’t contain any) • 7 oz. raw bacon, small dice Directions 1. Heat a 10-inch cast-iron skillet in a 1. 400˚F oven.

2. Cook bacon until crispy, drain.

3. Sift dry ingredients together in a 1. large bowl.

4. Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl.

5. Mix wet ingredients and bacon into 1. the dry ingredients.

6. Grease the skillet with bacon fat.

7. Spoon batter into skillet, spreading 1. evenly with a spoon.

8. Bake at 400˚F for 20 minutes, or until 1. golden brown and a wooden skewer 1. comes out dry.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill Thompson cheffedup@folioweekly.com ___________________________________ Email Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Fernandina’s Amelia Island Culinary Academy, at cheffedup@folioweekly.com, for inspiration and to get Cheffed-Up!

CHEFFED-UP CHEF CH EFFE FED D-UP UP G GROCERS’ ROCE RO CERS RS’ COMMUNITY CO COMM OMMUN UNIT ITY BUYGO 22 S. Eighth St., Fernandina Beach EARTH FARE 11901-250 Atlantic Blvd., Arlington JACKSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET 1810 W. Beaver St., Westside NATIVE SUN 11030 Baymeadows Rd., Jacksonville 10000 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin 1585 N. Third St., Jax Beach

PUBLIX 1033 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine ROWE’S 1670 Wells Rd., Orange Park 8595 Beach Blvd., Southside THE SAVORY MARKET 474380 S.R. 200, Fernandina Beach TERRY’S PRODUCE Buccaneer Trail, Fernandina Beach WHOLE FOODS 10601 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin MAY 9-15, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25

DINING DIRECTORY BITE-SIZED The hub of 5 Points, SUNRAY CINEMA sells popcorn, of course … and fries, pizza, sandwiches, hot dogs, desserts and –awesomest of all–beer and wine!

photo by Brentley Stead

Mochi, dumplings li and bao buns— OH, MY!

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photo by Devon Sarian

ALL THAT &

DIM SUM STICKY, CRUNCHY, SILKY, CHEWY, SWEET, GOOEY, savory, sour. Dim sum is a riot of textures, flavors and colors of which no one should be deprived.

Timwah Dim Sum Restaurant is the first dim sumonly restaurant in town and I’m a little behind the curve, as I just made it to the Southside spot that opened last summer.

Dim sum, a traditional Chinese breakfast food, has evolved into fare for an anytime meal. Honestly, I’d prefer it over sugary French toast, but something tells me I’m in the minority. Get there early on the weekends, and check the time–they have kinda strange hours.

Timwah serves dim sum from carts–signal the driver of the steamed cart or fried cart and be ready to choose. Steamed offers delicacies like chicken feet, pork shumai (which has shrimp) and shrimp shumai, sticky steamed rice in a lotus leaf with pork, and more. Soup dumplings are a must, of course, but my favorite steamed item? The bean curd roll.

Don’t let its lumpish mien fool you; covered with an amazing silky and surprisingly rich sauce, each bite had a little chew and a lot of flavor.

The fried cart is loaded with options for daredevils and milquetoasts, like a turnip cake or pan-fried chive dumpling. The golden-brown, baked pork bao buns were a delight. Expect a nice crunch

TIMWAH DIM SUM RESTAURANT 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676, Southside, dimsumjax.weebly.com

from the sugar cookie cooked into the top and the gooey filling inside. For a true fried delight, you must have a Sesame Ball. One bite into the crisp shell uncovers freshly made red bean paste with a whole lot of flavor.

As for dessert? Forget powdered sugar–wrap your tongue around silvered coconut. The coconutdusted housemade mochi dim sum surprised me.

There are two flavors–green tea and mango–packed with housemade fillings that are a far cry from the usual Americanized ice cream.

Our first bites of green tea mochi essentially shut all conversation down at my table. The subtle, perfectly paired blend of textures and flavors demanded to be savored. First, we took a moment to appreciate the earthy, slightly bitter flavor of good green tea. Then we savored the texture of whole, slightly sweet red beans. Really revel in the tastes, appreciate the tea, the mochi’s chewy texture, the tropical coconut. Cherish it. We haven’t even gotten to the mango, the brightest little ray of mochi ever. Fresh chunks of mango on the inside, not too sweet–it’s all natural here, my friends. It’s a tropical dream.

Timwah offers an affordable dining adventure.

Plates and steam trays from the carts range from $3.25-$7.99, each has about two to four pieces, depending on the selection. It’s a great way to break out of your comfort zone, especially if you go with a big group.

Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ If you have a recommendation, shoot me an email at biteclub@folioweekly.com.

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fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. F 2017 BOJ favorite.Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. Live music. $ FB L D Daily SPRING PARK COFFEE, 328 Ferris St., Green Cove Springs, 531-9391, springparkcoffee.com. F Cozy shop; freshroasted Brass Tacks coffee, handcrafted hot & cold drinks, specialty lattes, cappuccino, macchiato, teas, pastries, sandwiches, breakfast. $ B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2017 BOJ winner/ favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F 2017 BOJ favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. M SHACK NOCATEE, 641 Crosswater Pkwy., 395-3575. F 2017 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO.

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

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

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

Family-owned-and-operated barbecue joints have smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides and stumps, which sounds damn good. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. 2017 BOJ winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. 2017 BOJ winner. Smallbatch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting singleorigin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, hand-crafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com.

Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2017 BOJ winner.

Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espressobased drinks, sandwiches, desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2017 BOJ winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Dine outside at some E-Sts. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2017 BOJ winner. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2017 BOJ winner. Authentic dishes

from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055.

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

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

F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. 2017 BOJ winner.

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

Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE INTRACOASTAL. The CORAZON CINEMA & CAFE, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. F Sandwiches, combos, salads and pizza are served at the cinema house, showing indie and first-run movies. $$ Daily DESSERT FIRST BISTRO, 121 Yacht Club Dr., 417-0468, dessertfirstbistro.com. It’s all made from scratch: breakfast, lunch, desserts. Plus coffees, espressos, craft beers, wine, hot teas. $ BW K TO B, L Tu-Su The FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients.

Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/ fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 34+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. F Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq. com. F 2017 BOJ winner. SEE AVONDALE. SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A, 217-3256. F SEE BEACHES. SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632, planetsarbez.com.

Local music venue has gourmet grilled cheese: Sarbez melt: smoked mozzarella, turkey, bacon, signature sauce on locally baked sourdough. Local craft beers. $ BW L, D Daily WOODPECKER’S Backyard BBQ, 4930 S.R. 13, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. F Smoked fresh daily.

Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, turkey: in sandwiches, plates by

the pound. 8 sauces, 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

The BEARDED PIG Southern BBQ & Beer Garden, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. F 2017 BOJ favorite. Barbecue joint Southern style: brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com.

F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally.

250+ wines. Wood-fired oven-baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 1905 Hendricks Ave. 2017 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500.

F 2017 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. Upscale; fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, katsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily HAVANA-JAX Café/CUBA LIBRE Bar, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609, havanajax.com. F 2017 BOJ winner. Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches are big, thick, flattened.

Traditional fare: black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, chicken & rice, roast pork. Spanish wine, drink specials, mojitos, Cuba libres. Nonstop HH. $ FB K L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metro dinercom. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, taverna sanmarco.com. 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 6411212, alhambrajax.com. 2017 BOJ winner. Open 50 years.

Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. F 2017 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F 2017 BOJ favorite.

SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach, Ste. 10, 206-612-6596.

F Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. F 2017 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

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

Breakfast, sandwiches. $ B L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. F 2017 BOJ favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. UPTOWN Kitchen & Bar, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptownmarketjax.com. F Bite Club certified. Fresh fare, innovative menus, farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily

PINT-SIZED English companies PUSH THE BOUNDARIES of reason and taste

Illustration by Megan Dailey

TOASTING

BRITISH INNOVATION BREWERS ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS to tantalize your taste buds. It seems like every few days, there’s a new style that mashes up several traditional styles. These machinations have inspired brews like white IPA, a cross between Belgian witbier and American IPA, and farmhouse IPA, a blend of farmhouse ale with IPA. Now two British breweries have created new twists on beer.

Newcomer Curious Brewery, just a short train ride from London in Ashford in Kent, is owned by Chapel Down, one of England’s premier winemakers. While the main production brewery and restaurant complex are still under construction, the brewery is producing several beers with its own take on traditional brewing.

Perhaps the most interesting is the Curiouser & Curiouser series of limitededition beers. The series enlists the help of brewers from around Britain, all with a nod to the winemaker. The first in line, Curiouser & Curiouser Chapter 1, is Bacchus sour ale blended with wildfermented chardonnay. You read that right: They’re mixing beer and wine to make a hybrid.

The wine-beer admix is produced in collaboration with The Wild Beer Co., about 30 miles west of Stonehenge. Brewers there worked closely with winemakers at Chapel Down by barrel-aging the beer with chardonnay and Bacchus wine yeast. The result? A complex sour beer with aromas of citrus, nuts and vanilla.

The literarily astute have surely already recognized the name Curiouser & Curiouser; it was taken from and inspired

by Lewis Carroll’s most famous book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The packaging even includes the inscription: “Drink

OVERSET Me: Every adventure requires a first sip!”

Subsequent brews in the series will be titled and themed to chapters in Carroll’s book.

Another British brewer is tackling the weighty topic of food waste. Toast Ale is produced in association with Wold Top Brewery and uses the ends of loaves of bread to brew delicious beer. The creator, food waste campaigner Tristram Stuart, got the idea after visiting a brewery in Belgium that was doing the same. He teamed with English sandwich-making companies to obtain the unused heels of the loaves.

The innovative idea is a partial solution to a food waste issue involving some 24 million slices of bread thrown away each year in England alone. The bread replaces one-third of the grain used in the mash process. The resulting beer is said to have a slightly sweet caramel flavor, but it’s still very similar to other beers.

Using bread in brewing is nothing new.

More than 4,000 years ago, Babylonians used bread as a fermentable for beer.

Wold Top modernized the practice for the 21st century.

Last year, Stuart brought his Toast Ale recipe to New York City and, with help from Chelsea Craft Brewing Company in the Bronx, produced the ale. It was served at Tribeca Film Festival in conjunction with the premiere of Anthony Bourdain’s documentary Wasted! The Story of Food Waste. To support his mission, Stuart has vowed to donate 100 percent of his profits from the beer to his foundation Feedback.

Those are just two recent innovations in the brewing industry; I, for one, can’t wait to taste the next big idea.

Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com

PINT-SIZED PI NT-S NT SIZ ZED B BREWERS’ REWE WERS COMMUNITY COMM MMUNITY AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY 1461 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville

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

OLD COAST ALES 300 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine

AMELIA TAVERN RESTAURANT & BREWPUB 318 Centre St., Fernandina Beach

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

PINGLEHEAD BREWING COMPANY 12 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park

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

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

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

ANHEUSER-BUSCH 1100 Ellis Rd. N., Jacksonville

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

RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY 835 Museum Cir., Jacksonville

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

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

SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY 9735 Gate Pkwy., Jacksonville

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

HYPERION BREWING COMPANY 1740 Main St. N., Jacksonville

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

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

INTUITION ALE WORKS 929 E. Bay St., Jacksonville

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

BOLD CITY DOWNTOWN 109 E. Bay St., Jacksonville

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

WICKED BARLEY BREWING COMPANY 4100 Baymeadows Rd., Jacksonville

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created it in 1889 while he was in a French asylum.

Around that same time, 129 years ago, a Wyoming sheepherder created a sourdough bread starter that’s still fresh and usable today. Baker and cook Lucille Clarke Dumbrill pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her refrigerator and from it, makes pancakes. In the next few weeks, be as resourceful as Lucille in drawing on an old resource. The past has offerings to benefit your future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned 20th-century critic and author of more than 30 books. He was editor of Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. As a child, he spent most of his free time reading: 16 hours a day in the summer.

His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, got him a baseball uniform, to encourage him to diversify his interests. He wore the uniform as he read. Be as dedicated to your holy cause or noble pursuit in the weeks ahead. You have cosmic clearance to be singleminded about doing what you love.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love everyone twice as much and twice as purely as you ever have. Your mental health requires it, your future dreams demand it. Intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You could pass for normal in the next three weeks; you may be able to fool a lot of folks into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. It’ll be far healthier for your relationship with you, though, if you don’t do that. It’ll also be a gift to less daring associates who, IMHO, would benefit by engaging with your creative agitation and fertile chaos. My advice? Reveal yourself as an imperfect work-in-progress experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life. Recognize rough, raw features as building blocks for future achievements.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Torah is the Jewish religion’s primary sacred text, consisting of exactly 304,805 letters. When trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error. The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the weeks ahead doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, but make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as possible.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Paradise is scattered over the whole earth,” wrote scientific poet Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.” Luckily for you, fragments of paradise are gathering nearby. It’ll be a happy reunion of tiny miracles coalescing to create a substantial dose of sublimity. Are you ready to deal with this much radiance? Are you receptive to relaxing freedom? Don’t retreat into trendy cynicism so many mistake for intelligence: Paradise might remain invisible. My judicious advice: Be insistent on pleasure, voracious for joy, focused on a beautiful truth quest!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): These days, friends, allies and loved ones want more from you than they usually want. They crave more of your attention, approval and feedback. And that’s not all. They also hope you’ll give more love to you.

They’ll feel blessed if you express an even bigger, brighter version of your big, bright soul. They’ll draw inspiration as you push harder and stronger to fulfill your purpose here on Earth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One advantage you get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and leanings. For example, I can tell you Saturn, aka Father Time, is now willing to allot you a more luxurious relationship with time, if you don’t squander the gift on trivial pursuits. Be discerning and disciplined as you nourish your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you show Saturn how constructively you use his blessing, he’ll provide more dispensations in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night hangs on a wall in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. He

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off. As I napped, I had a dream: An androgynous angel appeared and said, “Please tell your Sagittarius readers they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.” Taken aback, my dream self replied, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?” “Yes, sir,” the angel answered. “Bootylicious. Bumtastic. Rumpalicious.” I was puzzled. “Metaphorically?” I asked, “Sagittarians should cultivate the symbolic equivalent of having beautiful buttocks?” “Yes,” the angel said.

“Sagittarians should be elegantly well-grounded, flaunt exquisite foundation, get to the bottom of things with flair. Focus on the basics.” “OK!” I said.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is an excellent time to discuss in elegant detail some semi-secret things rarely or never discussed. It’s also a perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness into situations suffering from half-truths and pretense.

Be aggressively sensitive; take a bold stand on behalf of compassionate candor. As you go about these holy tasks, be entertaining and profound. The cosmos authorizes you to be a winsome agent of change.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali shows three clocks partially liquefied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer Meredith Etherington-Smith speculated he was inspired to create this surrealistic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table. I foresee a comparable development in your life. Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My whole life is messed up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke truth and inspired adoration, which stirred up more chaos than she could manage. Luckily, you’ll have fewer problems with the attention that’s heading toward you. You’ll be skilled at gathering benefits and unflummoxed by pitfalls. But you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. So here are some handy tips to help you along the way: Tip No. 1: Stay in close touch with how you really feel about those who express interest in you.

Tip No. 2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached.

Tip No. 3: Even though you’re honored or flattered when someone finds you attractive, don’t blindly blend your energies with them.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD CARRY ON!

In Dorking, England, Chris Hepworth and his partner, Tanisha Prince, both of London, dived across the finish line in one minute and 37 seconds, setting a course record and capturing the coveted U.K. Wife Carrying championship on April 8. Any adult couple can compete—married or not and regardless of gender. The contest consists of one team member carrying the other, most using the “Estonian carry,” with the “wife” upsidedown, her legs over her partner’s shoulders and gripping him around the waist from behind. About 40 pairs ran the quartermile course strewn with hay bales and mud, Reuters reported. Hepworth and Prince plan to move up to the world finals in Finland.

“I think a Finnish guy wins it every year,” Hepworth noted, “so it’ll be good to go there and take them down.”

HEAVEN STILL ON EARTH

In Ohio in 2004, 6-year-old Alex Malarkey spent two months in a coma after a car accident, waking as a quadriplegic and telling his family he’d visited heaven, seeing angels and meeting Jesus. Alex and his dad, Kevin Malarkey, co-wrote a best-selling book in 2010, <The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven,> but in 2015, Alex admitted he’d made up the story to get attention. “I did not die. I did not go to heaven,” Alex told The Guardian. In a recent effort to set the record straight, Alex filed a complaint April 9 in DuPage County, Illinois, against the book’s publisher, Tyndale House, alleging that “any reasonable person would have realized that it was highly unlikely that the content of the book was true.” The Washington Post reported that while Kevin Malarkey is not a party to the suit—which cites several Illinois statutes regarding the right to privacy, defamation and financial exploitation of a disabled person, among others—it does allege Alex’s dad concocted and sold the story to Tyndale. The younger Malarkey received no royalties from book sales.

SOME BUNNY LOVES YOU

Richland Carrousel Park in Mansfield, Ohio, a family-oriented destination, wanted to have a seasonal attraction for kids who

wanted to pose for a picture with the Easter Bunny. But Ladonna Hughett, 54, had other things in mind on March 24 when she plopped on the bunny’s lap, grabbed him in inappropriate ways and made lewd comments, reported Fox 8 Cleveland.

She then moved on to ride a horse on the carousel, also in ways witnesses described as lewd. “As soon as you think you hear all,” said Mansfield Assistant Police Chief Keith Porch, “I’ve never heard of somebody performing those types of acts on the Easter Bunny.” Hughett was arrested for public drunkenness and is banned from the amusement park.

THE HYPNOTIC POWER OF SPECIAL SAUCE

McDonald’s drive-thrus are a chill place, if three recent events are any indication.

On March 17, police called to a McDonald’s in Okeechobee found Derril James Geller of West Palm Beach, passed out in his car, waiting in line. Geller was arrested for driving on a suspended license (for which he’d been charged three times already).

But wait! There’s more: In January, The Okeechobee News reported an Okeechobee woman was charged with DUI after passing out at another area McDonald’s drive-thru; in December, a Texas man got a DUI for nodding off in the line at that same McDonald’s.

SOMEWHERE THERE’S A BARREL SHORT ONE MONKEY

Workers renovating the old Dayton’s department store in downtown Minneapolis happened upon an unusual find in early April: a monkey’s mummified remains. The store apparently had had a pet department in the 1960s; The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported Steven Laboe, who worked there in the early 2000s, heard of a monkey escaping into an air conditioning duct, where it may have met its fate from an exhaust fan.

In fact, the mummy does show an abdominal injury. “We continue to find pieces of history in the Dayton’s project as we redevelop the building,” Cailin Rogers, a redevelopment team spokeswoman, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

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BEARDED WET MAN POST-5K You: Tall man, dreamy eyes, black shirt, running shorts, talked about running with my black goldendoodle. Me: Dripping wet brunette, pink tank, black yoga pants, enjoyed chocolatecovered strawberry. Never got your name.

Wanna get wet again? When: April 7. Where: 1st Place Sports, San Marco. #1697-0411 BEAUTIFUL EYES BARISTA You: Work at Bold Bean. Me: Hot and Iced Vanilla Latte every few days. Caught your gaze, couldn’t get away from your beauty. Care for a cup of … coffee? Or just a nice lazy afternoon? When: Wednesday, March 21. Where: Bold Bean San Marco. #1696-0328 HANDSOME T OF OHIO You: Baseball cap, T-shirt under shirt, khakis, eating pizza. You came to our table. We thought you worked there. We were going to Brix; you didn’t show. Looking for you. When: March 10.

Where: Flask & Cannon, JB. #1695-0314 STUNNING AUSTRALIAN BLOND WHOLE FOODS You: Long blond hair, black leggings, awesome accent, cruising store. Me: Brown hair, red shorts, clueless in store. Crossed paths, left chatting about Vegemite. Let’s continue over a cold beverage. Cheers, diplomatic relations!

When: 10:30 a.m. March 1. Where: Whole Foods San Jose. #1694-0307 DNDANGGG I was a Warlock; you, a Fighter. I cast the spells, you beat the NPC to oblivion. You had a French braid; I was impressed with your strength modifier. We campaigned six times; let’s roll a critical hit together:) When: June 2017. Where: Riverside. #1693-0221 BEAUTIFUL MAN AT DAILY’S You: Filling truck.

Me: Shy blonde washing windshield. You asked, “Do you want help with that?” I was speechless; second chance? When: Feb. 1. Where: Bartram Park Daily’s. #1692-0221 CHOCOLATE STUD You: Tall, chocolate man drinking a PBR by the dance floor. Me: Tall, hot brunette, covered in ink, drooling, watching you drink your beer. Will you marry me? When: Dec. 31, 2014. Where: Birdies. #1691-0214

BLACK VELVET KITTYCAT SLIPPERS 7 a.m., didn’t want to be at Quest Diagnostics till you walked in. You: Beautiful, tiny, long, dark hair, big black horn-rimmed glasses. Me: Stocky, black NY cap, black sweatshirt, Adidas high-tops.

Regret no “Hello.” Dinner? When: Feb. 2. Where: Beach Blvd. Quest Diagnostics. #1690-0207 TACO TUESDAYS We were feeding bottomless pits (our kids). You snagged last inside table, offered to share. You: Confident, beautiful, loving, enthusiastic mother. Me: Getting my head examined for not getting your number. Tacos again next week? When: Jan. 30. Where: Tijuana Flats Bartram Park. #1689-0207 MISSED YOUR LAST MESSAGES Waxed non-poetic on Sponge Bob, versions of ‘What a Fool Believes’. Easy, sweet conversation; missed messages before you ditched app (saw notifications; didn’t open). Silly to think you left number for me; feel you did. When: Dec. 28.

Where: Tinder in the Duval. #1688-0117 PHOTOBOMB LIONS FOUNTAIN SAN MARCO The photographer turned into my path; I was a jerk, raised my hands. I got closer, you turned and faced me. I sat, put my arm around you; she took our picture. Lunch? Dinner? Drinks? When: Jan. 2. Where: San Marco Square. #1687-0110 HOGWARTS EXPRESS You: Stunning smile, blonde highlights, left hand tattoo. Me: Long hair, glasses, buying brother Hedwig mug. Talked about your Universal experience. I’d be honored to wait in butter beer line with you. When: Dec. 24.

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DATA WAREHOUSE DEVELOPERS–Dsgn/model, dvlp, implmt & tst data warehousing & client/ srvr apps using data warehouse techniques & ETL methodologies such as IBM InfoSphere DataStage, SQL, PL/SQL, Informatica Pwr Cntr, DataStage, UNIX scripts, SQL Asst./TOAD, Autosys, Oracle.

Wrk w/ s/w dvlprs to migrate & load code & data.

Monitor, maint, optimize prfrmnce & scheduling of ETL processes/post ETL spprt. Req’d: Bachelors in CS/IT/IS, Engg (Any), or rltd +1yr exp.

BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST–Assess techn. req’s & engage in Systems/Business Analysis, Data Migration & Supply Chain Mgmt for enterprise prjcts using ERP SAP Modules incl. MM/ECC, AGILE. Liaise w/Snr. Lvl Mgmt & QA/Dev teams.

Create biz. system dsgn & funct. specs; implem.

Supp. EU training & coord. QA/Testing proc’s.

Req’d: Associates in Bus. Admin, Commerce, Finance, CS/IT/IS, Engg (Any), or rltd +3yr exp.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS–Prgrm, tst, implmt & spprt s/w apps using at least 4 of following: .Net, VB/ ASP/ADO .Net, C#.Net, AJAX, Web Services/WCF, MVC, HTML5, Bootstrap, AngularJS, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Visual Studio, MS Visio, TFS, Java Apps using Servlets, JSP, JSF, Java Beans, IBM Websphere App Srvr, IBM Purequery, Hibernate, JSON, Struts, Velocity. Docmt s/w engg wrk, provide tech. rpts to Sr Dvlprs, comply w/ proj. deliverables timeline. BS deg or equiv in Sci., Math, Comp. Sci., IT, IS, Engg (Any) or rltd +4yrs exp.

FOR ALL POSITIONS: Potential job sites incl Jacksonville, FL &/or various othr unanticipated locations thruout USA thus periodic relocation &/or travel may be req’d. No Telecommuting permitted. Ref job title & mail resume: SGS Technologie, 6817 Southpoint Pkwy, #2104, Jacksonville, FL 32216.

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FOLIO VOICES : BACKPAGE EDITORIAL America treats BLACK DRUG epidemic as a war and WHITE DRUG epidemic as a treatable disease

RACE AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC AMERICA’S AM MER ERIC ICA’ A’SS OP OPIO OPIOID IOID ID CCRISIS RISI RI SISS IS A PPUBLIC UBLI UB LICC health emergency of historic scope.

Disproportionately affecting rural and white Americans, billions of dollars have been spent, and thousands of lives lost, as we try to identify causes and implement solutions to this growing crisis. While documentaries such as Netflix’s Heroin(e) have helped put faces to these tragedies, a growing number of Floridians are able to see the painful impacts of this scourge without dramatization. By now, most of us know or know of someone who lost their life to this epidemic.

Fortunately, as with most problems both past and present, there are solutions. In the case of our uniquely American opioid epidemic, we have the opportunity not to only find the cure for opioid addiction, but to fix our systemically racist criminal justice system.

To do this, we need to recognize that America treats the black drug epidemic as a war and the white drug epidemic as a treatable disease.

For generations, America has been engaged in two very different conflicts against drugs and addiction. One conflict is white; the other black. Thanks to pharmaceutical companies, for more than 150 years, millions of white Americans have been hooked on legal drugs.

Opioids have a long-established history as a white drug, straddling the fine line between legitimate medications and drugs of addiction.

Morphine was a widespread pain reliever during the Civil War. Later, the white middle class was prescribed morphine for everything from general pain to menstrual cramps! By the end of the 19th century, white America was in the grips of a morphine epidemic. In 1898, the Bayer Corporation came to the rescue by massproducing a new “non-addictive” alternative to morphine. They called it heroin. Even before the turn of the last century, corporations have pushed opioids on unsuspecting, predominately white, consumers.

Today, the opioid epidemic is killing white Americans at a disproportionately high rate and the rates of opioid deaths in Florida are among the highest in the nation.

Pharmaceutical companies continue to profit from whites getting addicted on their legal product, while blacks are targeted and incarcerated once the product becomes junk on the streets. This progression from cure to cancer protects their legal business model and their ability to sell new cures for their poisons.

America’s second drug conflict, our “war against drugs,” began in the 1970s as an effort by the Republican Party to disrupt civil disobedience. In his 1994 interview with Harper’s, Richard Nixon’s aide John Ehrlichman famously revealed the motivation behind the

Nixon Administration’s drug war: To target Ni A African-Americans and the anti-war left. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the [Vietnam] war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities … . Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Many white Americans, particularly Republicans, do not want to admit that the mass incarceration of African Americans began as a Nixonian lie. They don’t want to admit that the planned disruption of black America was the result of a statist president’s sadistic whim.

Two decades later, Democratic President Bill Clinton escalated the war into a bipartisan one by championing federal three-strikes-andyou’re-out legislation, minimum mandatory sentencing guidelines, and other policies that devastated African-American communities.

The impacts of this race war haunt Florida to this day. According to the Sarasota Herald Tribune’s series, “One War. Two Races,” black Floridians represent 17 percent of Florida’s population, but have accounted for 46 percent of the state’s felony drug convictions since 2004. Further, “[t]hose with darker skin spend two-thirds more time behind bars for drug crimes.” In addition, “[b]lacks are nearly three times more likely to face a drug-free zone enhancement and account for two-thirds of these convictions statewide … .” “Once caught in drug-free zones,” SHT reports, “black Floridians spend nearly double the time in lockup as whites … .”

Florida’s recent appropriation of $53.5 million in state and federal funds for prevention and treatment programs, as well as updates to the state’s prescription database, is a solid investment. Our elected officials must commit to a public health approach and understand we cannot criminalize our way out of this epidemic. We cannot give in to using discretionary arrests, minimum mandatory sentencing, permanent loss of voting rights and the other racist policies from the last 40 years. We must hold bad actors in the pharmaceutical industry responsible for the roles they have played in keeping white America addicted to their products. We must finally end the racist drug war against our black communities and begin to treat ALL Americans suffering from addiction with compassion and equality under the law.

Dr. Daniel S. Cronrath mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Cronrath is a political science professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville.

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M.D. M.J. The Big Apple is SMOKING HOT

OVERSET NEW YORK

IS NOW NEW YORK CITY WAS CONSISTENTLY COLD AND WET up through the last week of April, at which point I arrived, bringing Florida weather with me. The locals displayed their gratitude in all sorts of ways, some of which cannot be discussed in a family publication.

Suffice to say that the City That Never Sleeps showed a degree of hospitality that even a native Southerner would envy, especially if you’re a smoker.

New York’s marijuana laws are considerably more liberal than ours, though still falling short of the laxity seen in places like Colorado or even Washington, D.C. Possession of 25 grams of fewer carries a fine ranging from $100 for a first offense to $250 for a third, with up to 15 days in jail tacked on. It doesn’t hit felony weight until eight ounces for possession, but penalties for selling the stuff are about as draconian as they are anywhere.

The deterrent effect was nonexistent, if the atmosphere was any indication: That characteristic smell was as persistent as the car exhaust and subway funk it mixed with, from Harlem to Hoboken, and everywhere in between.

If sharing is caring, then New York really cares, because things were being passed my way at every conceivable opportunity. Backstage at the jazz club; across the bar in Hell’s Kitchen at 4 a.m.; my Uber driver passing a spliff while we idled on the Brooklyn Bridge; old men in front of Bed-Stuy bodegas; young men selling bootlegs in Bensonhurst; vagrants vaping near the Verrazano; angel-headed hipsters burning ’dro, to and fro.

At no point did I even ask, but it would’ve felt rude to refuse. Besides, once they realized that I write a pot column in Florida, they felt obliged to show off what they were working with, like tweeting pictures of your food to Gordon Ramsay.

The reader may ask: Where were the police during all of this? They were busy keeping the city safe from real threats, which has always been a selling point for decriminalization. Fifty percent clearance rates for homicides just do not cut it up there, nor do jail cells swollen with potheads, not while ISIS still exists. And on the few occasions that 5-0 was to be seen, they were sometimes smoking, too—which they are not allowed to do, but with their union, it takes a whole lot to lose that job, as we have seen. I had no plans to write a column about my time there, but once I saw the quartet of NYPD folks repping #VapeNation in full tactical gear in front of the New York Public Library at 10 a.m. (allegedly), well, you can’t let details like that just go unreported. As the saying goes, “Anything less would be uncivilized.”

Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com

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