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FROM THE EDITOR
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(Bonus points if you THE SOUTH’S RACIST PAST IS recognize Lenny Curry’s a wound festering in the 2015 campaign slogan.) shadows. Any internet Okayyy, you’re probably therapist will tell you thinking, what does that acknowledging one’s consolidation have to do true history, even when it with a lynching memorial? hurts, can help us heal and Well, nothing. move on. The memo meanders To that end, on June for a few lines about 26, Councilwoman Anna contemplating the past and Lopez Brosche proposed recognizing history “that claiming the Duval County considers our diversity and Memorial Monument from If a community the challenges we have to the National Memorial for can acknowledge overcome” before dropping Peace and Justice in Alabama the dime: The committee and installing it in Hemming its painful past is tasked with “advising Park. The monument is —IT SHOULD how best to reflect our one in a set of 800 columns history in our parks and commemorating lynching public spaces,” (bingo!) and victims; each represents a “advising on enhancing county in the U.S. where at existing events or creating new ones to least one lynching occurred between 1877 celebrate historical moments.” and 1950, and is inscribed with the names To allow ample time for the committee of the victim(s). There are two sets; one to perform this important work, the memo will remain in the memorial’s permanent asks council to defer consideration of collection, the other is for each county Brosche’s proposal until the committee to claim and install—or not, as the case reports its findings and recommendations. may be. These are due by April 30, 2019, which, The symbolism of the Hemming Park if you’re counting, is nine months from location probably isn’t lost on anyone, now, six months after the for fresh remains the memory of the anniversary of consolidation, recent argument about our and two weeks before the city’s Confederate monuments, general election. particularly the soldier Far from being left out who casts a wistful eye to of the conversation, Brosche the south from the center is one of the seven councilors of the park across from Bowman has appointed to City Hall. Jacksonville the committee. Though may not be ready to tear that number could drop down all such relics, nor by one depending on even to recontextualize as St. Augustine is the outcome of a lawsuit doing, but Brosche challenging the governor’s believes we can at least appointment of Terrance pay respect to the seven Freeman, who was named local lynching victims to the committee one day who, regardless of after the governor subbed their real or imagined him in for Reggie Brown-crimes, did not on the same day he moved deserve to lose their to his new district. lives to the brutality To recap: Brosche has of the mob. proposed accepting a gift Private that will allow our city to contributors are pay homage to victims of expected to provide racism, at a time when the funds for many would agree that our transportation and community desperately installation, so the needs healing and City Council need reconciliation along racial only pass the proposed lines. Plus, it’s free and just legislation and the waiting for us to pick it up. mayor sign it. Our park services department There’s really no good reason not to pay our would then work with the National Memorial respects to these seven lynching victims. to ensure the monument is properly placed in Rather than proceed with haste, lest those a suitable location. anticipated donations are re-appropriated Getting what will essentially be a free by a Nigerian scammer, we’re going to wait memorial sounds like a no-brainer to me, the better part of a year before we even think and probably to most reading this. Students about bringing the monument home. of history may recall that the Confederate So why wait? It could be that Bowman wants to take time to truly consider the best soldier statue was also donated to the city, so place for the memorial. Or it could be a chess there is precedent. move intended to manufacture favorable But this is Jacksonville, where the only optics and timing so that someone, or thing that easy is the city slogan. someones, will benefit politically. On July 11, Council President If the former, great. We should make Aaron Bowman hit the pause button on thoughtful decisions about important matters. claiming our lynching memorial when he If the latter, well, many will be left with appointed a Special Committee on Historic that same old bitter, nasty taste of politics Remembrance. His memo begins by was usual. noting that 2018 is the 50th anniversary of Claire Goforth consolidation, when “the people of disparate claire@folioweekly.com communities elected to band together, and @clairenjax they created one city, one Jacksonville.”
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THE MAIL SHATTER THE GLASS CEILING AT CITY HALL
I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF MAYOR IN Jacksonville. The day after the historic 2016 elections, I decided to enter into politics to fight back against bigotry and stand up to the challenge of shattering a glass ceiling in Duval County. On Nov. 18, 2016, just 10 days after the elections, I became the first filed candidate for the office of mayor for the city of Jacksonville. As a transformational leader, progressive and professional activist, I felt no need to wait until AFTER the president-elect’s inauguration before I answered the calling to defend our democracy and republic. The Year of the Woman is now. I am considered among the FIRST women in the country to enter into politics. I am running on political reform, criminal justice reform and infrastructure of the mind, to name a few issues that I stand for. I hope to be Jacksonville’s first woman mayor!
Doreszell Cohen via email
CHANNELING KAFKA IN MANDARIN
I AM UNABLE TO CARRY ON BUSINESS IN JACKSONVILLE any longer. As of the end of this month, I will have to limit my service to a geographical area to a radius of 5-6 miles from my home in Mandarin. For over 30 years, I have struggled along in traffic, in the midst of never-ending road construction, in the hopes that eventually it would get better. It hasn’t. As a new fly-over is finished–finally–the roads are even more congested, with bumper-tobumper traffic inching its way in the expected directions depending on the time of day. Soon, the same roads are back under construction to be widened even more. Now we will have toll lanes to “help,” with no real certainty that they will–if you can even access those lanes in your particular part of town. I won’t. I’ve had to endure several years of decimation of the environment for these toll lanes (and they’re still not done), but won’t be able to get into that promised flow of traffic here in Mandarin. I’ll save money on gas, which will help as Jacksonville chips away at my income, one road project at a time. I surrender.
Deborah Hansen via email
Y’ALL AREN’T FROM ’ROUND HERE
RE.: “This Land is Not Their Land,” by Claire Goforth, June 27 CUTE PLAY ON HUMAN IMMIGRATION V. INVASIVE plants. Eventually, both usually assimilate and adapt. Azaleas, camellias, crape myrtle, ligustrum, viburnum, and many more have assimilated well. I am a landscape architect and love plants. I call this movement the plant Nazis. There are, of course, many different levels of invasives. The truly dangerous ones that spread rapidly and pose serious environmental dangers like potato vine, kudzu, Cogan grass, and many others, need to be aggressively addressed. Many of the plants on that invasive list are not really what I consider problem invasives. They may spread a little over time but do not pose any serious environmental danger. Lumping all of the listed invasives in a single, allencompassing group is not my idea of how we should be addressing this. Many plants on this list make excellent, hardy, ornamental plants for residential landscape and pose little if any environmental risk. Nandina and ardesia are examples. I have had both in my yard for over 30 years with no problem at all. I love native plants and have a lovely, natural, low-maintenance, low-water-use yard. My yard was rejected as a Florida Friendly Yard because of a few plants deemed to be invasive.
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Lad Hawkins via email
NEEDLING THE POINT
RE.: “Drop the Needle,” by Shelton Hull, May 30 GREAT ARTICLE. I GO BACK TO 78 RPM, THEN the 45’s came, then LPs, like when Firestone Tire had Christmas carol LPs for a buck to see if you would think tires. Someday people may wonder where “the flip side” of a discussion originated. No mention of needles, which were subject to a lot of discussion, different contact material and things like that. With all the metal and other innovations, maybe needles are not the annoyance they once were?
Jack Knee via email
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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BRICKBATS TO RICK SCOTT On July 10, the governor appointed Terrance Freeman to serve in place of suspended District 10 Councilman Reggie Brown. The rub? Freeman didn’t live in the district until July 10 at the earliest. BOUQUETS TO DOYLE CARTER A reader recently reached out to Folio Weekly to express thanks to City Councilman Doyle Carter for same-day action to address their concerns about a home on their block that had been the subject of residents’ complaints for three long years. “I want to give a HUGE thank-you to him and his office for finally giving us hope [for] a drug-free and safer area to live,” they wrote. They also thanked JSO for its help. BRICKBATS TO PANAMA YOUTH SERVICES As the Florida Times-Union reported, in a viral social media video, a 15-year-old resident of a state-contracted group home in Jacksonville recently detailed a sexual assault that allegedly occurred two blocks from the home. In a statement, the CEO of Panama Youth Services, the company that runs the home, essentially blamed the child, reportedly saying, “When you leave the home, you put yourself at risk.”
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KAYAK FUN Looking to get into kayaking or SUP but unsure about the perils of poor balance and wary of wildlife? Welp, head south on A1A to North Guana Outpost, an outfitter with tours and paddles, plus rentals and demos. We think a sunset kayak eco tour is the perfect way to close the weekend. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday, July 22, North Guana Outpost, Mickler Road, Ponte Vedra, northguanaoutpost.com, $60 (includes kayak, life vest, paddle and an entertaining guide).
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THE OAK RIDGE BOYS
The Boys just keep on doin’ the dang thing, playing about 150 shows a year; been at it since the early ’60s, accumulating Grammys, awards from ACM, SMA and GMA, dropping 32 albums, hittin’ 17 No. 1 singles … whew! They continue their tradition of excellence with the Shine the Light Tour, 8 p.m. Friday, July 20, Thrasher-Horne Center, Orange Park, thcenter.org, $29.
SONGS OF LOVE & FAMILY COLM KEEGAN As a singer with Celtic Thunder and performances with Peter Corry, The Priests and Celtic Woman, Keegan (who also teaches) has more than paid his dues. His debut solo album, I’ll Never Be Alone, dropped in 2016 and now, the Irish singer is on an intimate North American tour with cellist Laura Durrant. Catch them at 4:30 p.m. Sunday (meet & greet 3 p.m.), July 22, Culhane’s Irish Pub, Atlantic Beach, colmkeegan.com, $20-$30.
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There’s something about the smell of ribs on a grill (even if you abstain from meat) that is the essence of summer. It’s hot, sweet, cool and pickin’, with Cain’t Never Could, The Firewater Tent Revival, The Wetland String Band and Rusty Shine, 5 p.m. Saturday, July 21, Hemming Park, hemmingpark.org, free. Downtown, hemming
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SAVANNA LEIGH BASSETT
“Her voice conveys beauty and her lyrics shine with wit,” says Niji Magazine, about the local singer who’s worked with the nonprofit Body and Soul, using music and arts in hospitals. Bassett’s inner beauty is a reflection of her authentic emotional vocals; she performs 6 p.m. Monday, July 23, Slider’s Seaside Grill, Amelia Island, sliderseaside.com, free. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JULY 18-24, 2018
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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS
BUSINESS DECISIONS
IS IT ELECTION SEASON? Or selection season? The answer depends on your perspective. In Jacksonville electoral politics currently, there are numerous examples of how the levers of democracy are worked to achieve desirable outcomes for connected people in local government and for those who fund their campaigns. Looking over the landscape, it seems uncertain how those who claim the mantle of populism will have any answer for any of these machinations. Let’s consider three recent controversies.
Chair Paula Wright launched a challenge to the incumbent Demonbuster in NW Jacksonville’s House District 14. Then a funny thing happened: All that social media sturm-und-drang was sound and fury signifying nothing, at least when it came down to writing checks. Wright got about $3,000, and most of it from allies she’d amassed on the school board. And Daniels? She’s near $50,000 raised at this writing, with buy-in from beer distributors, Big Sugar, those private prison/“baby jail” cutie-pies at the GEO Group, and our own Peter Rummell, who is always well-positioned to cut checks, but never so much as now—when the District development has finally gotten rolling with city buy-in. Let’s not forget Gary Chartrand and Charter School USA: two Daniels donors who have every reason to stick it to Wright for her traditionalist view of public education. Daniels’ politics don’t reflect what the Democrats claim to be about, though it should be noted that Bill Nelson has taken GEO cash and the Dems themselves have fed at the trough of the sugar industry. But given the fecklessness of Dems who, for a second cycle, have a strong candidate to push against Daniels—but won’t—the Republicans will keep her in place for six more years. Daniels already has a billboard on I-95 South on the Northside. That may be all the advertising she needs.
How your lawmakers are PICKED
TERRANCE FREEMAN TAKES OVER DISTRICT 10 SEAT: Many with ties to the
local GOP establishment and local business community (a Venn diagram with some overlap) applauded when Freeman took over suspended Reggie Brown’s NW Jax seat. Those whose interests are in District 10, however, were not clapping. Ten voters are more likely, by more than a 3-1 margin, to be registered Democrats. Freeman rushed to meet residency requirements the day he was sworn in; he did so by renting two rooms in the house of a friend in the district. City leadership has a stake in Freeman serving: Given a suit challenging the installation filed by Brenda PriestlyJackson, a former school board chair who also applied, city lawyers will argue that he satisfied residency requirements at the time of his application. The suit alleges that the requirements of the application changed: “For some unexplained reason, on or about the second week that the online application was available, the process for online application for appointment was changed to remove requiring that applicants first certify their status as a Jacksonville City Council District 10 resident.” This opened the door for other applicants, including Freeman. The governor delayed selection for six weeks before settling on Freeman, a Mandarin resident (until last week) who had run for State House in Arlington two years ago. Even if the legal case prevails, showing that Freeman satisfied the letter of the law, the spirit of the law is a different matter. But who cares? Not the local political establishment. Council President Aaron Bowman, who hired Freeman as an aide when elected, laid it down, saying that if folks don’t like the governor’s picks, they should run for governor themselves. The real endgame for Freeman won’t be re-election in 10. Rather, it will be a Chamberbacked challenge to Anna Lopez Brosche, whose at-large district contains both of Freeman’s rented rooms.
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IS WHITE ALL RIGHT?: We’ll close here with
another courtroom challenge of a council seat, this one in Council District 12, where former fire union head Randy White won a special election because no one else qualified. Whoops! One would-be candidate, Republican David Taylor, is challenging this one in court, claiming that qualifying for the election wasn’t published in a paper of record. Neither the charter or the state constitution contain any such requirements for a local special election; however, that’s not deterring Taylor, who believes state statute dictates otherwise. City lawyers and the Supervisor of Elections are confident in their position. Taylor wants the special election re-opened, but given the pace of court proceedings, ballots will likely already be printed and mailed for August before anything happens. And that’s just fine with the local establishment. White is known and liked and trusted; Taylor has a history of controversies too long to go into here. A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com @aggancarski
NEWS BITES TOP HEADLINES FROM NE FLORIDA & SE GEORGIA NEWSMEDIA
CLAY TODAY VOTE—IF YOU CAN
Election season is upon us, and you can always tell when it’s near when it comes time to start throwing people off the voting rolls. Just kidding—voting is a sacred act of civic pride, and we would never do anything to interfere with anyone’s ability to participate in our democratic process. Mmm-hmm. But there is nothing wrong with a little extra scrutiny of potential scofflaws, as Kile Brewer reported in the July 3 edition of Clay Today. In response to a request from Clay County’s Supervisor of Elections, the Florida Department of State did a deep-dive into the issue of so-called mail-forwarding services, which have apparently been used to somewhat sketchy effect, as far as voter registration is concerned. He wrote, “The opinion states that a person who uses a mail-forwarding service to establish residency in a county, but has no residential address there, is not a legal resident of the county and that is not sufficient to establish residency for voter registration.” This opinion, issued June 19, potentially affects as many as 3,000 registered voters in the county. Clay’s SOE then met with the owners of one mail-forwarding service and told them their clients would no longer be registered to vote there, and one of them, in turn, sought redress from the County Commission. The 3,000 people currently in question will be evaluated individually, using questionnaires and a list of 14 “overt acts” clients can use to establish legal residency. It’s unclear how any of this will impact the voter status of people using similar services in other counties, but with the 2018 elections looking to be about as close as they always are, every single vote counts—or not.
TRIBUNE-GEORGIAN A PEACH OF A PART
When you think of Georgia, what’s the first word that comes to mind? If you said “cinema,” you’re a weirdo, but you may have a point, if a recent story in the Tribune-Georgian is any indication. Reporter Jill Helton profiled local actor James Ballard, who’s carved out a nice little living acting in productions around the state. “Since Georgia has become one of the top destinations for film production,” she wrote, “acting opportunities are closer to home than they have ever been. Ballard, 27, commutes to movie sets all over the Southeast each week, but for now, he is still maintaining Camden as his home base.” The six-foot-three-inch military veteran has landed a number of small roles that play to his type, and that’s pretty cool. He’s racked up two credits this year, with another seven in the works for 2019. The roles have been small, but the productions have been, well, not small. “[T]he titles could not be any bigger,” Helton wrote, “and often include some of Hollywood’s most popular actors—Clint Eastwood, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Liam Hemsworth, John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Brendan Fraser, Naomi Watts, Lawrence Fishburne, Bradley Cooper and so many others.” His persistence has certainly paid off, and the same can be said for the Georgia film community, in general.
ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD BIG BROTHER IS RUNNING YOUR TAGS
St. Johns County Sheriff ’s Department has recently taken a lead with its use of so-called “LPR technology” in crime-fighting efforts. Its investment has generated serious dividends, according to Jared Keever of the St. Augustine Record. LPR stands for “license plate reader,” which has allowed the Sheriff ’s Office to get the jump on car thieves and other miscreants in the community. After starting it quietly as a pilot program last year, the department has slowly expanded its use of these devices. “They come in different forms,” Keever writes, “these cameras that scan plate numbers and check them against a database of vehicles that have either been tagged as stolen or connected in some way to a serious crime. “Some can be mounted to patrol vehicles and scan traffic as a deputy goes about his or her daily routine, others can be mounted permanently in high-traffic areas, and others can be moved around and placed in areas where they are needed most. The Sheriff ’s Office is using the carmounted and the moveable type.” Results came quickly and dramatically, leading to a sharp increase in vehicle theft arrests and, more important, the arrests of several folks wanted for violent crimes in other parts of the country, including an accused sex-criminal from Missouri and a murder suspect from Wisconsin. The program has gotten some negative heat, particularly from the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which worries about potential overreach by police, who could use the technology to spy on citizens whose only crime is being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s a legitimate concern, but until specific evidence of abuse materializes, it seems likely that the program will continue, and maybe even expand into other counties. After all, everyone likes a winner. Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com JULY 18-24, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
FOLIO COMMUNITY : COVER STORY Jen Lomberk brings a LAWYER’S BRAIN and ENVIRONMENTALIST’S HEART to her work as Matanzas Riverkeeper
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NESTLED ALONG THE WATER YOU’LL FIND A vibrantly colored rustic building adorned with reclaimed wood and a beautiful view of the Matanzas River. Inside, there’s a solitary, clean room with hardwood floors; a single desk stands by the window and several diplomas are hung on the wall. The Matanzas Riverkeeper definitely has the best office around. After starting her career as an attorney, Jen Lomberk found herself longing to escape the high-heeled world, wishing for a job that could incorporate her skills, education and love of nature in a more relaxing atmosphere. In late 2017, her dream came true when she became the Matanzas Riverkeeper. She’s traded heels for boots and she couldn’t be happier. “I saw this job as a way that I could use my legal degree to have a positive influence the policies that affect our water,” Lomberk writes in an email. It’s a beautiful day when I meet the engaging woman who spends her days protecting one of the most unspoiled waterways in Florida, so we decide to sit outside to discuss her new role. A smoldering fire pit creates a cozy climate as we settle into wooden chairs facing the water; behind us sits Genung’s Fish Camp, a relaxed, quintessential Old Florida spot that seems like the perfect place to hang out for a spell or stock up for a day on the water. Lomberk follows in the footsteps of Neil Armingeon, who hung up his boots last year after four years on the job. As the founder of the organization, Armingeon, also formerly the St. Johns Riverkeeper, is a tough act to follow, but Lomberk is absolutely up to the task. A native Floridian, she holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Central Florida, as well as a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida’s Levine College of Law, where she specialized in environmental and land-use law and policy. Her experience includes work on a broad spectrum of environmental and conservation projects, such as municipal beach regulation in Florida, national park management in The Bahamas, conservation easements to protect sea turtles’ nesting habitat, and serving as staff attorney for Alachua Conservation Trust. The river is truly in capable hands. More than 20 lush miles with beautiful surroundings comprise the Matanzas River. Starting at the St. Augustine Inlet, it runs south 16 miles, where it flows to the Matanzas Inlet and continues on for several miles. The tidal river provides water to several state parks, such as Washington Oaks, Faver-Dykes, River-to-
Sea Preserve at Marineland and Pellicer Creek Aqua Preserve. The fish-filled river is full of sprawling salt marshes fed by tidal creeks, and has oyster beds along its edges south of St. Augustine. In addition to common aquatic wildlife like egret, heron and anhinga, once in a while you can spot a sea turtle or a dolphin pod. Fishermen rave over the untapped beauty and abundance within the peaceful waterway, where mostly smaller crafts are run; larger boats can have difficulty navigating certain areas due to marshland and oyster beds. Approximately one-third of the riverfront is developed; the rest is either open land or publicly owned. Lomberk says these wild spaces are jeopardized by the influx of housing projects in St. Johns County, the thirdfastest-growing county in the state (14th in the nation), and she doesn’t see any signs of development subsiding. “There is a paradoxical relationship between our natural areas and development,” she says. “People want to live in pristine natural areas, but the process of developing those areas to build homes inevitably degrades those natural areas.” Like many environmentalists, she decries urban sprawl and urges smarter development focused on places with existing infrastructure, so that existing natural areas remain intact for habitat, ecosystem services (such as converting carbon dioxide to oxygen, absorbing floodwaters, etc.) and recreation. “Otherwise, we are going to lose all of the things that make this place a wonderful place to live,” she says. THE MATANZAS RIVERKEEPER ORGANIZATION IS licensed by the Robert F. Kennedy-founded Waterkeeper Alliance, an international group based in New York that includes more than 300 organizations across the globe. Riverkeepers like Jen Lomberk are environmental stewards tasked with protecting the body of water they oversee. They are often the first to sound the alarm when the dirty deeds of businesses or individuals spill into local waterways; they organize cleanups, promote recreation and generally serve as the voice of their river. As nonprofits, Riverkeepers have more flexibility to advocate than do government organizations, because they don’t have to navigate all that red tape and bureaucracy. This also means they can speak out strongly when a situation calls for tenacity. As we gaze at the river flowing by, Lomberk discusses the job of keeping the Matanzas River clean, saying that urbanization is the biggest danger to making sure the water stays
drinkable, fishable and swimmable. One of the main sources of pollution, stormwater runoff, intensifies with each new development built along the river. Lomberk says that she understands why people want to live alongside the engaging river—but she also thinks the state needs better laws to preserve the waterway for years and generations to come. It’s a mission that keeps Lomberk busy working the three pillars of the organization: advocacy, education and engagement. You can hear the passion and determination in her voice as she discusses the waterway gently lapping at the shoreline nearby. Lomberk’s advocacy includes supporting state legislation that promotes and supports the health of the river, and opposing any such that could harm it. As this is an election year, much focus has turned to environmental issues. Lomberk applauds any attention paid to preservation, algae blooms and offshore drilling, but finds it frustrating that many politicians confine their advocacy to just their campaign time when, in reality, such issues have been around for years, and will remain in play after those elected begin their terms and interest in preserving the ecosystem wanes. Lomberk closely follows the state legislative session, and encourages people to get involved with legislation that would help support the river. She also organizes events to further support the river. Though many legislators are sympathetic to these issues, and have passed laws and rules designed to minimize pollution, these are not retroactive, which limits their effect. This year, Lomberk and others were successful in their effort to get an initiative on the November ballot that would ban offshore drilling and fracking. Advocates and a broad, grassroots coalition of concerned citizens who do not want their waterways contaminated by an oil spill campaigned hard for the amendment, ultimately convincing the Constitutional Revision Commission to put it on the ballot. In order to pass, it will need 60 percent of the vote. Even though the amendment is coupled with the unrelated effort to prohibit vaping in the workplace, Lomberk is determined to score a win. The odds may be in her favor, as the banning of offshore drilling has acquired broad support among voters. “Offshore drilling has been a bipartisan [issue], because if there is a leak, it would be detrimental,” she says. She adds that most people don’t understand Governor Rick Scott’s flip-flopping on this
issue. Scott has been an avid supporter of offshore drilling in the past and she believes he’s now disingenuously claiming to oppose it to court votes for his U.S. Senate campaign against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson. Lomberk is also closely following a proposal to turn over responsibility for regulating discharge of dredged or fill materials into U.S. waters. The governing legislation, §404 of the Clean Water Act, is currently administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and implemented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Florida Department of Environmental Protection is in the process of trying to take over the program. “The problem is that if FDEP assumes authority over this program, they will not get any additional resources to implement it and they are already stretched pretty thin,” Lomberk says. “This is worrisome because this program protects sensitive waterbodies like the wetlands in our area that retain flood water during storm events, filter and clean polluted water, and provide critical habitat for fish and other wildlife.” Further complicating the issue is the fact that §404 is currently under revision, which means that FDEP may not even know precisely what it is assuming authority over if its efforts are successful. Equally as important as legislation is Lomberk’s work to preserve lands around the river and its watershed. St. Johns County used to have a viable program for this effort, but she says the county now lacks sufficient funds. The nonprofit North Florida Land Trust is also on the front lines of preserving lands crucial to maintaining the health of the river. Other states, such as New Jersey, offer incentives for landowners to designate their land as preserved, but Florida does not have a similar program in place. Last month, the courts may have delivered a gift to conservationists like Lomberk; on June 15, a judge ruled in favor of a coalition of environmentalists, including the St. Johns Riverkeeper, who had sued the state for failing to comply with 2014’s Water & Land Conservation Amendment requiring it to use a third of real estate documentary stamp taxes for land acquisition, restoration and management.
“I love the concept of a waterkeeper— someone whose job it is to act as a voice for the water and work to protect it,” Lomberk says. “But as romantic as that notion is, actually affecting change to protect our waterbodies is an extremely difficult task.” In addition to raising awareness about why the river should be preserved, Riverkeepers like Lomberk teach people about the effects of different pollutants. Many residents use herbicides or pesticides in their yards—and much of that winds up in waterways, causing or intensifying algae blooms, fish kills and other environmental degradation. There are also the serious issues of agricultural and industrial runoff, and septic systems that leach into the river, which can cause elevated levels of fecal coliform. As we chatted by the river, she said that they were currently seeking people who have docks on their property to farm oysters, which would assist in the Riverkeeper’s joint effort with the University of Florida to collect data on the Matanzas oysters. Information is another weapon in a Riverkeeper’s arsenal. The vital work of a Riverkeeper is ever-changing; Lomberk says that one day she might be teaching kids, the next photographing eagles, the next lobbying a legislator, all to benefit the Matanzas River. “There isn’t really such a thing as a typical workday for me,” she explains, without a hint of regret. It’s good to know Jen Lomberk has found her dream job by the water. Nicole Carroll mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ More at matanzasriverkeeper.org.
PUBLIC SUPPORT AND AWARENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL issues is key to protecting the ecosystem. Even the simple act of speaking to groups of citizens about septic systems today can help protect the river of tomorrow. Jen Lomberk engages the public by collaborating with residents, local organizations and government agencies, and says she enjoys working with folks on grassroots initiatives. She keeps them informed of upcoming events and works with them to clean up the water as well as help spread awareness about the importance of preserving the river.
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TOP HEADLINES FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF ALTERNATIVE NEWSMEDIA
LONGEST LASER LIGHT SHOW EVER
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After delays, false starts, adjustments and recalibrations, Columbia Free Times reports that the decade-long laser light show over the Congaree River could begin any day now. Yes, you read that right: decade-long laser light show. No, we don’t know how much speed it would take to keep Galactic playing that long. Anyhoo, over the last year, the argon ion lasers poised to Grateful Dead the night over the Congaree have been much discussed in the South Carolina burg 300 miles north of J’ville. Environmentalists remain concerned that the lights will interfere with wildlife, not to mention the natural view, but designer/artist Chris Robinson, who has 45 years’ experience in the field, is convinced that wildlife won’t be impacted, CFT adds. “Birds and bats see it as a solid object,” he told them in July 2017, “So, they won’t approach it, they’ll fly around it.” (Fear not, Congaree Riverkeeper Bill Strangler will keep a lookout to make sure.) As to the view, well, they’ll just have to get used to it. Our advice: Set The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and Pulse on repeat, man.
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DigBoston’s Chris Faraone hammered media coverage of 28-year-old Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who upset an established Democratic Congressman in NYC. The lusciously loquacious Faraone, whose Twitter (@fara1) is a treasure trove of acerbic quips that burn hotter than the third day of a UTI, took issue with reporters sneeringly pointing out that a year ago, Ocasio-Cortez was muddling mint for the dread mojito (if you’ve bartended, you get it). Faraone concedes that the accomplishments of the woman who could become the youngest congressperson in history should be studied and admired, but opines that focusing on her drink-slinging is “lazy buzzwords, clickbait.” Plus it ignores that skills acquired behind the bar will be uniquely useful in politics. “[D]ealing with the foulest quirky selfish pigs you can imagine, entitled animals who act as if they’re more important than the working-class people propping their world up” is probably “fantastic preparation for going to work with greedy DC pricks who are accustomed to doing nothing and being applauded for it,” he writes. Burn, dude.
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New Orleans’ Gambit recently posted an Associated Press piece reporting that Louisiana authorities have requested courts to order an additional stay for executions in the state. A lawsuit initially blocked the death penalty in the state four years ago; it has been eight years since anyone was executed in Louisiana, which has 72 inmates on Death Row. Gambit has previously reported on efforts to eliminate the death penalty—in April, a bill to do so passed a state senate judiciary committee with only a single whimper of opposition, before being killed in the house. Louisiana also had a Death Row inmate exonerated and his conviction overturned in 2016, the second such exoneration in the state in recent years.
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“Forest bathing.” That was all we had to read to click on Inland360’s story, “Taking a dip in nature: Forest bathing provides an immersive sensory experience.” Forest bathing. What could this be? Like I360 reporter Michelle Schmidt, we envisioned something that involved rolling around in the leaves, twigs and dirt, either nude or seminude, perhaps while chanting, or, throat singing, or doing a little yoga. Alas, not. “When I looked it up, I found forest bathing has a disappointing lack of leafy loofahs and metaphysical weirdness,” Schmidt writes. Turns out, all forest bathing entails is going to the woods and hanging out, with your mind, ears and eyes open to the natural beauty surrounding you. No phones, no bathrobes, no shower shoes required—unless you’re into that sort of thing—though bug spray and/or sunscreen might be a good idea. “It’s mostly just a nature walk or a wander in the woods, or whatever us normal people call it when you take in the natural world,” Schmidt continues. “Which means many of us have forest bathed without knowing it.” Gotta admit, milling smartly about in the woods at one of Northeast Florida’s beautiful parks sounds like an excellent way to recharge those metaphysical batteries. Namaste. 12 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JULY 18-24, 2018
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aindrops have just started falling outside as Andrew Gillum walks through the front door of Mimi’s Café on the Southside of Jacksonville on the fifth of July. He’s been to Mimi’s before, but the stakes increase with every trip. The candidate is all-in, and he leads from the front. His stride is smooth and consistent, gestures fluid; there is no manic energy, no obvious sign of stress or pressure in the six-foot-one frame that he carries easily, with better posture than your high CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 >>> school ROTC captain. story by SHELTON HULL JULY 18-24, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 13
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MAN COMES AROUND <<< FROM PAGE 13 He slides into a corner booth, in a navy blue suit, white shirt and a black-and-white tie. Gillum has been to Jacksonville at least 20 times, beginning months before he’d begun to make his case for succeeding Rick Scott as the 44th governor of Florida. It may prove to be his lucky number: Obama was our 44th president, and if Gillum wins in November, maybe he could be president, too, someday. But that is a long way away. At present, it’s 9:35 a.m., nearly nine weeks from the primary, and the first step is breakfast, though in his case it may be more of a mid-morning snack. Gillum has already been up several hours, doing interviews and prepping for a town hall meeting later in the day. Right now, the subject is footwear and sleep. “What’s the longest time you’ve gone with your shoes off?” I ask, eyeing his polished, brown cap-toe loafers with a buckle, size 11. Gillum, who is methodically eating a lemon poppy-seed muffin, like he’s using a line-item veto on legislation from a state house that might stay red, which is likely even if he wins—pauses to answer the admittedly inane question. “I don’t take my shoes off unless I’m asleep,” he says with perfect timing. Married and the father of three, Gillum, who turns 39 on July 26, is running against four older, richer, arguably better-connected Democratic candidates for governor while serving as mayor of Tallahassee (and doing so in a very hands-on sort of way, as friends and foes both attest). Even by those standards, the man doesn’t get much sleep. Luckily, he’s one of those people who can fall asleep anywhere, almost instantly, which is an indispensable trait in both politics and parenthood. It also helps that he’s a morning person. “It’s changed with my kids. It used to be a 5 a.m. wakeup, but now it’s more like 6:30,” he says. “When I’m home, I’m not able to go to work until after I’ve dropped them off, so I get to sleep longer in the morning.”
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum has energized young Democrats and progressives, who have flocked to the hard-working, straight-talking gubernatorial candidate. Gillum is probably the only person in history who can say that having a toddler and four-year-old twins has caused him to get more sleep, but he’s also the type who thinks of a 6:30 a.m. rise time as sleeping in. “It’s actually a positive development, because before I had kids, I’d be out of the house at 6 in the morning, and the only time I could get work done was between 6:30 and 8:30, before meetings began at the office. Now, who knows how that will translate once we win?”
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Commission. He became mayor 11 years later, winning 76 percent of the vote against three other contenders. Now he stands a chance of becoming one of the youngest governors the state has ever had, not to mention the first black governor. He’s running on a firmly liberal platform, campaigning on establishing access to health care as a right, rather than a privilege; combating man-made climate change by decreasing carbon emissions; making a $1 billion investment in public schools, raising teachers’ annual salaries to $50,000, and diminishing over-reliance on high-stakes testing; legalizing (and taxing) marijuana; gun safety reform; promoting equal treatment of LGTBQ citizens statewide; raising the state corporate tax; etc. Accordingly, it will
be easy for Gillum to differentiate himself from whichever Republican he may face in the general. The primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 28 ends a four-way competition that centers on a troika of top-notch Democratic talent drawn from all over Florida. All three campaigns are in the process of beating a path around the state, repeatedly. “In South Florida, you’re rarely just in Miami,” he says. “It’s usually Miami, Broward, Palm Beach. In Central Florida, it’s Orlando, Tampa. Jacksonville is special and unique, because there are not a lot of areas with high-density populations. As we get closer to election day, we have to be very surgical about what demographics and populations we’re out in front of.” Campaigns are always grueling affairs, but Gillum’s itinerary has been exceptionally brutal. “One day last year, we had the Florida Blue in Fort Lauderdale, but the teachers’ union was hosting their state conference at the TPC, and the trial lawyers were having their conference in Tampa. So, the day before, we were in Orlando; we drove to Tampa, drove to TPC and ended the night at a reception in Broward County. The only thing missing was Pensacola.” “That’s been one of the hallmarks of Andrew’s campaign,” adds Donna Deegan, a local news icon whose public embrace of Gillum has been one of the more interesting stories this year. “He’s been absolutely everywhere.” Deegan hosted Gillum at her house on March 29, a considerable boost to his standing with local audiences/voters, and she was by his side as he made the rounds in July. Even with a powerhouse like Deegan in his corner, Gillum’s path to the nomination runs uphill, with the slope increasing as his competition falls into defensive mode. U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham and Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine have backed out of a couple of recent debates, which has irritated the rank-and-file and minimized Gillum’s public profile leading into August. While this strategy has hurt his candidacy a little, Gillum thinks the Democratic Party suffers
far more. “Every moment that we are not engaging with voters and telling people what we believe, we think is wasted,” he says. “Not just for a candidate, necessarily, but for a party that is struggling to get back into power. Voters don’t really know what we think and believe, because we haven’t had a leader for 20 years.” This is the message Gillum brings to Northeast Florida, where a proposed Aug. 9 debate at Jacksonville University was turned down by his competitors; he and Chris King likewise vetoed a debate proposed for the panhandle, capping the debates at five. The last one was in Miramar on June 11, and the final two scheduled for Fort Myers on July 18 and Miami on Aug. 2. “This race, if there is a narrative to be written, it’s that it is wide-open,” Gillum says, playing down polls that have him trailing Levine. “We’ve not commissioned any ourselves, we’re just looking at public polls, and the only public tracking poll that’s been done is the Gravis Poll; the rest have all been paid for by Phil Levine, and there may be one or two independent polls, but the only monthly tracking poll is Gravis— which had us at third, then had us at second, and now has us at first. It also happens to be one of the polls that’s demographically diverse. So if black voters are going to be 28 to 32 percent of the electorate, then why are they showing up at 9 percent in the Phil Levine poll? Why are they showing up at 12 percent in the Rasmussen poll? They’re not to scale.” For a party that lost the White House in 2016, in large part because it took the polls as gospel and failed to foresee Trump’s late-stage momentum, this argument may carry extra weight. “If you look at the candidate who’s out there claiming the lead, it’s the softest lead you can imagine, because the majority of his supporters are still open to voting for somebody else.” Whoever wins has a reasonable chance of beating the GOP nominee, whether it be the scandal-plagued Commission of Agriculture Adam Putnam or lower-profile and even further-right Congressman Ron DeSantis, either of whom will enter the general election weakened by intra-party animus, the everpresent specter of Trump, and a natural tendency to commit a gaffe. It’s the most competitive governor’s race in a generation, and the most winnable for Democrats, a fact that has them dropping major coin and logging the kinds of miles that would make a big-rig trucker gasp. Gillum’s campaign to become the Florida’s first black governor has lit a fire under the rumps of progressive activists from one end of the state to the other. He is perhaps the first politician they can truly embrace on this level, and their passion is palpable at even a cursory glance. At just 38, Gillum’s meteoric rise in Tallahassee politics offers a clear path forward for a younger generation of politically minded people who got their start as followers of Bernie Sanders, and have now been galvanized by the Parkland students, whose efforts these last few months have captured the hearts of liberals—and some conservatives—nationwide. Gillum grew up in Miami, the fifth of seven children, graduating from high school in Gainesville. His ties to Tallahassee go back 20 years, to when he was a freshman at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, still a boy but already a man on the move. If he wins, he might be the first governor to use part of his salary to pay down his student loans, which is something to which Millennials can relate. He’s proficient in the argot of activism—he speaks their language, in terms of policy, using words
that carry extra weight in that crowd because he’s been able to actually do some of this stuff as mayor. Younger voters are seeing their peers put in work on his behalf, which also has substance. The campaign employs a fulltime staff of 25, augmented by about 3,000 volunteers, a number that increases on the daily. It’s not just the kids getting into Gillum, though, as a growing number of establishment Dems are coming to see him as a plausible alternative to the business-as-usual approach some would say has left the party playing catch-up with Republicans at a time when all the momentum should be firmly on their side. With an epochal midterm election season in full swing, Florida is once again positioned as a battleground state, and the results in November will bear directly on the local elections in spring 2019.
More than one analyst has seen, in Gillum, similarities to other prominent AfricanAmericans on the national scene, most notably former President Barack Obama and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. That latter comparison is of greatest relevance, given the roughly equivalent path Booker has taken from the Municipal Council of Newark to the governorship in Trenton, from which he advanced to Washington, where it seems almost inevitable that he will end up somewhere on the national Democratic ticket in the next two or three elections. Just as many observers see Booker as the most likely candidate to be America’s second black president, a successful run by Gillum this year will instantly put him in a similar sphere of perception. “Florida is a big state,” says Gillum, “so I don’t suffer illusions that we’ll be able to
individually retail our way all the way through it, and that’ll be enough. It won’t be.” To that end, Gillum has raised a few eyebrows among progressives and conservatives alike with some of the support he’s received from certain big-money donors, including $1 million from billionaire Tom Steyer and $700,000 from the infamous George Soros. These dollars will go a long way toward helping close the advertising gap as Aug. 28 draws nigh.
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halfway between North Shore Park and the iconic Carroll’s Meat Shoppe. Gillum has a personal connection to the church: His uncle Carlton Jones is a pastor there. By the time Gillum takes the podium, he has already put in a 12-hour day, including seven media appearances, but it seems like he is just getting started. As he speaks to the enthralled crowd at 9 p.m., Gillum comes across exactly the same as he did at 9 a.m., and not much different than he has at other local events in recent months. If anything, Gillum seems to be gaining strength as he enters the final weeks of primary season, an apt metaphor for the campaign itself. At Gateway to Heaven, Gillum is joined by supporters like Tony Hill, Mia Jones and Tracye Polson, who have all bucked the party establishment that seems to mostly lean toward his competition. Each of their campaigns will benefit greatly if Gillum gets the nomination, especially since he’s explicit about the need to bring new voters into the process. “I consider them ‘opportunity voters,’” he says. “We’re trying to turn out those voters who have the musclememory of what it means to vote; they just don’t turn out in off-cycle elections.” He points out that in 2016, six million fewer people came out to vote nationwide than in 2012. Part of Gillum’s case for the nomination is his personal charisma, and the thousands of miles he’s clocked on the trail so far, giving him a unique ability to both inspire new voters and motivate longtime voters, some of whom may be inclined to sit out this cycle due to a perceived lack of party leadership. “My pastor refers to this distinction as ‘the thermostat versus the thermometer,’” says Gillum. “Leaders are thermostats. Anybody can be a thermometer—any one of us can read the temperature. We just look at the gauge and read what it says.” What’s needed, he thinks, are leaders who can set the temperature, and the pace. A Democratic win for governor in November will shift the polarity of party politics in Florida, and would be the biggest win for the Resistance in a year that’s had plenty, with no doubt more to come. That cannot happen unless the progressive left is on
fleek, and Gillum has done the best job so far of skimming the cream from the massive crop of volunteers who matriculated under Bernie Sanders two years ago, whose energy had not been effectively harnessed on a statewide level since. He benefits from running at a time when youth activism is the political story of the year, and doubly so from running in the very state where that story began. He speaks their language because it’s his language, too. With most politicians, supporters show up, maybe buy a T-shirt to take home and wear later. The Gillum folks buy their shirts on the way in and put them on, and wear them on the way home. What he once lacked in material resources, he’s made up for in human capital and sweat equity. All his people see the hours he puts in, and what he gives up every day to campaign. His commitment keeps them motivated, keeps their energy high and rising. He gives them a chance to put in serious work, and they are seeing the results for themselves, with more buzz and a fresh influx of capital to further execute a strategy that’s already working. Like many recent underdog campaigns, Gillum’s has used the power of social media to offset a lack of TV time. He has nearly 34,000 followers on Twitter, double that of Graham or Levine. He has another 50,000 on Facebook, almost double that of Graham but 11,000 fewer than Levine. Oddly, none of them has much of a following on YouTube, though Gillum’s page offers a variety of clips that are essentially TV-ready, and the candidate is eager for people to see them. These next few months between state and local elections will dictate the course of municipal affairs for the next decade, and Floridian Democrats are looking to generate a “Blue Wave” of winning in 2018 to overpower the Trumpdominated Republican agenda, not to mention drown the president’s hopes of winning his second home state in 2020. A loss like that would hurt Trump’s feelings more than Alec Baldwin’s impressions, to say nothing of his reelection chances. The first step for Democrats is taking Tallahassee. If Andrew Gillum is to run the table this fall, it is absolutely imperative that he wins hearts, minds and, most important, votes in Northeast Florida. “Our campaign has not yet begun our paid communications,” Gillum says. “When we do that, and voters get to see me, to understand me and my family, I trust every day that we will have better resonance in this state than any other candidate running.” Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com
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Bob Colacello POPS THE TOP on memories of his friend and colleague Andy Warhol
nyone would envy his career and his life. So it could come as a surprise when a warm, affable voice answers on the other end of the line and proceeds to respond to questions with the disarming honesty and thoughtfulness that one might expect from a close confidante. Then again, Bob Colacello is used to spilling secrets and sharing snippets of his soul over the phone. For 13 years, Colacello worked alongside the late, great Andy Warhol, one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th Century, who, in addition to influencing the arc of history, loved to hear secrets, anyone’s secrets. “He really read people very well; he was fascinated by people–he tape-recorded everyone he met,” says Colacello, who edited Warhol’s Interview magazine from ’71-’83. “If Andy could have interviewed and photographed the entire world population, he would have done it.” At the time of Warhol’s death on Feb. 22, 1987, Colacello was working for Vanity Fair, which he left this May after 35 years. The two had seen one another several weeks earlier, so the news, delivered over the phone to an exhausted, jet-lagged Colacello in Gstaad, came at him like a terrible, shocking dream. He’d begun the trip excited to share the terrific news with friends that Mort Janklow had helped ink a deal for Colacello to write a biography of Warhol. Instead, he returned to the States to bid adieu to the old friend who’d given a cocksure Columbia University graduate student his big break after reading Colacello’s review of Warhol’s movie Trash in the Village Voice. Reeling from the news, Colacello’s first impulse was to scrap the book. Tina Brown, then-editor of Vanity Fair, now a legend in her own right, was having none of that. She insisted that he write something for the magazine, and proceed with the book. The result is 1990’s Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, an intimate, fascinating portrayal of a great man of mystique,
written with unflinching honesty and love by someone who knew him as an intimate friend, confidante and employer. Though Colacello had well more than a decade of firsthand experience with Warhol from which to draw, he approached the biography with a journalist’s discipline; interviewing dozens of Warhol’s relatives, friends, subjects, superstars, hangers-on and associates. As the narrative unfolds, it quickly becomes clear that working for Andy Warhol afforded incredible highs–traveling the world, befriending famous people, having access reserved for aristocracy–but it could also be maddening, impossible and thankless. In Colacello’s decade-plus at the helm of Interview, he increased circulation twentyfold, from 5,000 to 100,000, took the magazine from operating in the red to firmly in the black, a fact that Warhol, as astute a businessman as probably any artist ever, should have keenly appreciated, and probably did on some level. Yet in the end, Colacello’s exit from
PORTRAIT OF THE POPE OF POP: ANDY WARHOL WITH BOB COLACELLO
6:30-8:30 p.m. July 19, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., event sold out; Colacello signs copies of Holy Terror after the lecture.
the publication was driven, at least in part, by frustration with Warhol’s refusal to reward his contribution commensurate with Interview’s success, and the gradual wearing down that can quite naturally result from working for an eccentric genius, particularly one with an almost unmatchable work ethic and proclivity for flights of fancy and insecurities that are, at times, utterly repugnant, other times, wholly endearing. “Andy, even more than being famous, wanted to be beautiful, according to the classic idea of beauty,” Colacello says thoughtfully, later adding, “He wanted to believe so much that everyone was a beauty. Including him.” Yet for all his many contradictions and flaws, the Warhol who leaps to life from
the pages of Holy Terror is consistently curious, industrious and prone to acts of kindness, a rare sort of superstar who may not have always agreed with the very talented people he kept in his sphere, but always relied on their judgment, to some degree. Anyone who achieves that level of fame attracts sycophants, and certainly Warhol was no different, but the people whom he chose to work closely alongside were far from an entourage of nods. “That was part of his genius, too, because so many successful people, whether it’s in business, politics, art–they get so full of themselves, they only want yes-men around … ,” says Colacello. “Andy was actually a very good businessman in a sense; he was a good manager. [Warhol friend and collaborator] Pat Hackett always said he chose people who could do something that he could not do.” For all Warhol’s immense talent and trailblazing as an artist and filmmaker, had Warhol been less of a human being, a talent of Colacello’s caliber would never have deigned to remain by his side for so many years, or to bring his kid sister, local arts powerhouse Barbara Colaciello (Bob dropped the ‘i’ years ago), to work alongside him at Warhol’s Factory. Thirty-one years after Warhol’s untimely death just shy of about 60 years old–the artist famously guarded such minor personal details as where he was born and when–the past feels present when Colacello speaks of him, as he will at the Cummer Museum on July 19. (The Cummer is also exhibiting Warhol’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1930, shown here.) “People sometimes say to me, ‘What do you think Andy would be doing today if he were alive?’” he muses. “And I say, ‘He’d be dating Kim Kardashian, and he and I would have the biggest fights.’ He’d say, ‘She has to be on the cover of Interview,’ and I’d say, ‘Over my dead body,’ and it would go on like this.” Hear these bon mots and more at the Cummer this Thursday. Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly @clairenjax JULY 18-24, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 17
FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS
SCHMALTZY &
SENTIMENTAL Two LUSH MUSICALS unfettered by fact
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he vice of procrastination linked with the limited viewing venues in my hometown of St. Augustine made me miss The Greatest Showman on the big screen last year. Finally seeing it on video spurred me to check out two older musicals. Both older films are, like The Greatest Showman, reputedly musical biographies of entertainers. Unlike P.T. Barnum, though, Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg were actual musicians, noted composers in American theater and film in the first half of the 20th century. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) is Kern’s story and Deep in My Heart pays tribute to Romberg. MGM excelled in lavish productions, and the films show the glitz and talent with which Tinseltown was brimming. The films are textbook examples of Hollywood’s cheerful abandonment of truth in service of entertainment lush in music and dance. These two are woefully short on factual reality. But ah! The music! Jerome Kern’s single greatest achievement was Show Boat, which premiered on Broadway in 1927. Clouds Roll By fittingly opens with an 18-minute production montage from that simulated premiere, highlighting songs like “Cotton Blossom,” “Make Believe” (Tony Martin, Kathryn Grayson), “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” (the radiant Lena Horne) and, of course, “Ol’ Man River” (Caleb Peterson). From there, the 41-year-old Kern (played by 27-year-old Robert Walker) reminisces about his life, particularly his friendship with mentor James Hessler (Emmet Evan “Van” Heflin Jr.) and Hessler’s daughter Sally (Lucille Bremer), neither of whom really existed. Apart from his music, Kern’s life was quite commonplace. One notable event was when he just missed sailing on the Lusitania, sunk by a Nazi U-Boat during WWI. Dorothy Patrick provides a bit of fictional romance, as Kern’s real-life wife Eva. When Kern was told MGM was going to film his lifestory, he reportedly said he wanted to check with his wife about the casting of Robert Walker. She told Jerome to play himself; she’d take Walker. Kern died as Till the Clouds Roll By was still filming, so the concluding scenes are a montage of individual hits from productions after Show Boat. Performing those are Angela Lansbury, Dinah Shore and Judy Garland, with reprises by Grayson, Martin and Horne. The movie concludes with 31-year-old Frank Sinatra, backed by the MGM orchestra, warbling “Ol’ Man River,” rather a comedown from Caleb Peterson’s opening version of the great song. Deep in My Heart (’54) has the advantage of Stanley Donen’s (Singin’ in the Rain) direction and a star turn by Jose Ferrer
(Oscar-winner for Cyrano De Bergerac three years before). It’s been restored in high-def; it looks as great as it sounds. The facts of Sigmund Romberg’s life are skewed and arranged to fit his career’s various hit musical numbers. His best achievements came early (The Student Prince, ’24; The Desert Song, ’26). Romberg’s first marriage is ignored, letting the screenwriters construct a largely fictional courtship of second wife Lillian Harris (Doe Avedon). Though he become identified as a writer of light operettas, among his early successes were jazzy tunes for singer Al Jolson and his ilk. The marvelous musical numbers are the real stars, though, including a duet by Ferrer and then-wife Rosemary Clooney, and a lively song-and-dance number by Gene Kelly and older brother Fred. Other memorable performers are Vic Damone, Jane Powell, Howard Keel and leggy ladies Ann Miller and Cyd Charisse. Schmaltzy at times, sentimental at others, both Deep in My Heart and Till the Clouds Roll By are rousing entertainment for lovers of classic MGM musicals and the talented singers and dancers who made them so great. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com
NOW SHOWING COLONIAL QUARTER MUSIC PARK The 2017 animated fantasy film Coco runs 8:30 p.m. July 18 at 27 St. George St., St. Augustine, 824-1606, free. CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ RBG screens. Throwback Thursday 1939 Film Series: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, introduced by local author and film historian Thomas Hischak, noon July 19. Summer Sundays runs Up, 2 p.m. July 22, $2. Flipper runs through July 26; free; details on website. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 697-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. IMAX THEATER Ant-Man & The Wasp, America’s Musical Journey 3D and Pandas 3D screen. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again starts July 19. St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. SUN-RAY CINEMA Sorry to Bother You, Ant-Man & The Wasp and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? screen. Summer Kids Series: Paddington, July 18 & 21. The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine animated musical runs July 19. Cinemass Series, Werchmeister Harmonies runs July 22. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. SUMMER MOVIE CLASSICS A 25th anniversary showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas is 2 p.m. July 22 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787; tix info at floridatheatre.com.
ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE
ABET THROUGH THE YEARS It’s a fundraiser and a cabaret! ABET, now All Beaches Experimental Theatre, offers a musical flashback of past shows, as songs are sung again– or for the first time–in this production with musical direction by Erin Barnes, direction by Rhodie Jackson, 8 p.m. July 21, 2 p.m. July 22 at SET Studios, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 20, abettheatre.com, $20-$25. WOMEN’S WORK Jax-based Kelby Siddons’ play is a Louise Nevelson-inspired immersive theater piece mounted by Phase Eight Theatre Company, 7 p.m. July 19 & 26 at MOCAJax, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, phaseeight.org, $25. VENUS IN FUR Thomas, a put-upon playwright/director, needs an actress for the female lead, the role of Vanda, in his version of a sadomasochistic tale. An inappropriate actress is the only one to audition–and she’s named Vanda. The play runs 8 p.m. July 19, 20 & 21 at St. Nicholas Park Christian Church, 3226 Beach Blvd., eventbrite, $20. NEWSIES Publishers Joe Pulitzer and William Hearst had no problem hiring boys to deliver newspapers all over New England in 1899. But the kids had problems, so they went on strike. This dramedy musical, presented by Apex Theatre, tells their story and the story about the change in child labor laws, 8 p.m. July 20 & 21, and 2 p.m. July 21 & 22 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., pvconcerthall.com, $25. IN THE HEIGHTS The Tony-winner for Best Musical, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is about NYC’s Washington Heights area, as cultures clash and blend. The play opens 8 p.m. July 20, and runs Thur.-Sun. through Aug. 12 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org, $25-$28. CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG It’s a car, it’s a boat and it flies … it’s from the past but portends the future, it’s the little racer that did. Through July 29 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com, $38-$59. FRUIT SNACKS Open mic night for drag queens: Drag, standup, music, 10 p.m. July 24 at The Metro, 859 Willowbranch Ave., Riverside, free admission. THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME This intriguing show runs 7:30 p.m. July 20 & 21 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina, $15-$20, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL: THE WHITNEY HOUSTON SHOW Belinda Davids sings the songs that superstar Houston made immortal, 8 p.m. July 21 at the T-U Center’s Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, fscjartistseries.com, $44-$91.50. HEATHERS THE MUSICAL Mean girls are eternal; revisit croquette-playing snoots and how they rule, 7:30 p.m. June 20; through Aug. 19 (check website for days/dates)
at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, limelight-theatre.org, $26. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Presented by a talented group of kids in grades 7-12, this Summer Musical Theatre Experience runs 7:30 p.m. July 20, 21, 27 & 28 and 2 p.m. July 22 & 29 at FSCJ’s Wilson Center for the Arts, 11901 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-2222, fscjartistseries.org, $20-$25. AN ACT OF GOD The One who is the Alpha and Omega answers questions that have bugged mankind for millennia, 8 p.m. July 20, 21, 26-28 and 2 p.m. July 22 at Amelia Community Theatre, 209 Cedar St., Fernandina, ameliacommunitytheatre.org, $10-$22.
CLASSICAL + JAZZ
SOJU NEOSOUL “This concert is not just a show, it’s a production. Every detail has been carefully chosen to deliver an amazing experience,” says Breezy Jazz Club. 6:45-9 p.m. July 18 at 119 W. Adams St., Downtown, facebook.com/events, $10. GARY STARLING Solo guitarist Starling and jazz violinist Russell George play, 6:30 p.m. July 20 at Brick Restaurant, 3585 St. Johns Ave., Avondale; 6:30 p.m. July 21 at Table 1, 330 A1A, Ponte Vedra, garystarling.com. THE JAZZ & POETRY DEN This monthly performance art series highlights artists, poets, singers and musicians of Coastal Georgia and surrounding communities, 8 p.m. July 27 at Unitarian Universalists of Coastal Georgia, 1710 Gloucester St., Brunswick, $10 donation, proceeds benefit Christopher Holliman Achievement Scholarship, eventbrite.com.
COMEDY
LAUGH LOUNGE Creative Veins and Marlin & Barrel Distillery present this weekly Comedy Showcase, 8 p.m. every Sunday at Dos Gatos, 123 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 323-2471, laughloungejax.com, free admission, VIP $19.89 per booth. ZAINAB Fresh from her breakout performance on HBO’s “All Def Comedy,” the comic is here to ply her trade, 8 p.m. July 19 & 20; 7:30 & 10 p.m. July 21 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com, $22-$150. RENO COLLIER The comic riffs on West Virginia cousins, Scottish heritage and unruly in-laws, 7:30 p.m. July 19, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. July 20 & 21 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, comedyzone.com, $20-$119.50. VENTRILOQUIST MIKE PALMA, MATTHEW ELLIOT All the dummies are in town! 8:30 p.m. July 21 at Jackie Knight’s Comedy Club, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, thegypsycomedyclub.com, $12.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
AUDITION: NEWSIES Held 5 p.m. July 20, 1 p.m. July 21 and 6 p.m. July 22 at The Island Theater, 1860 Town Hall Cir., Ste. 54, Fleming Island, 254-1455, theislandtheater.com.
CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT CAP is hiring teaching artists for the 2018-’19 school year, capkids.org/jobs. JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT For applications to show works, email jennifer.murray@flyjacksonville.com.
ART WALKS + MARKETS
ARTISAN MARKET More than 90 local artisans offer handmade items, plus classes, workshops, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. at Coconut Barrel, 3175 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 484-8729, coconubarrel.com. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local/regional art, produce, toys, live music–Camp Excellence Performing Arts, Mike Shackelford Band, Ciaran Sontag–10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. July 21, under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. 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. SPACE 42 FARMERS MARKET Fruits, veggies, crafts, 4-7 p.m. every Wed., 2670 Phyllis St., Riverside, spacefortytwo.com. ST. AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE FARMERS MARKET Live music, baked goods, art, local produce, 8:30 a.m. every Sat., 1340 A1A S., 209-0367. 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, the farmers market has an art gallery, food, crafts, etc., 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com.
MUSEUMS
CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. The Lost Bird Project, through Oct. 21. Fields of Color: The Art of Japanese Printmaking, through Nov. 25. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. A Dark Place of Dreams, monochromatic assemblages of Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock and Kate Gilmore; through Sept. 9. Atrium Project: Claire Ashley’s Close Encounters: Adam’s Madam. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Mission: Jax Genius, 12 local makers encourage curiosity, interactivity and feedback. Earth Explorers, through Sept. 9. Native Networks: Cultural Interactions Within & Beyond Northeast Florida, through September. WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME MUSEUM St. Augustine, 940-4123, worldgolfhalloffame.org. New exhibit, Tales from the Collection, shows golf-related artifacts, including Andy Warhol’s painting of Jack Nicklaus.
GALLERIES
THE ART CENTER TAC Gallery at The Landing, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. Smothered in Blue until Aug. 2. Solomon
HARRY McCORMICK, known for contemplative interior scenes, displays artwork through Sept. 20 at St. Johns County Administration Building, 500 San Sebastian View, 209-0655. (Pictured: McSorley’s Old Ale House.)
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ARTS + EVENTS Dixon is July’s featured artist. Rachel Huff Dixon shows with Dixon; reception is 6 p.m. July 25. BOLD BEAN JAX BEACH 2400 Third St. S., 853-6545. Artist Jessica Becker showcases “3D paintings,” jessicabecker.com. BOLD BEAN RIVERSIDE 869 Stockton St. DVNMYA shows portraits and tattoo-influenced watercolors. BOLD BEAN SAN MARCO 1905 Hendricks Ave., 853-6545. Artist Madeleine Peck Wagner exhibits selections from her Heart of Butter series, madeleinewagner.com. BREW 5 POINTS 1024 Park St., 374-5789. The Tiger King exhibit runs through August. CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT 207 N. Laura St., Ste. 300, Downtown, 281-5599. Salamat Datang-Welcome to Malaysia, new works by Dennis Ho, runs through August. CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Curatorial Choice: Burnett, Hart & Pierson, through Aug. 11. HENDRICKS AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH 4001 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 396-7745. Artists Who Mentor the Passing of Knowledge and Wisdom, works of Jax-based artists and a skilled mentee; through Sept. 1. HIGHTIDE GALLERY 859 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, thehightidegallery.com. Painter Sally Evans displays new vibrant works through August. MAKERSPACE AT MAIN LIBRARY 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, jaxpubliclibrary.org/jax-makerspace. Prescribed Expression: Relief in Healing Arts through July 22. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Downtown, southlightgallery.com. UNF Senior Photography exhibits. SPACE 42 2670 Phyllis St., Riverside, 888-421-9222, spacefortytwo.com. Luisa Posada Bleier’s Untitled runs through August. ST. JOHNS COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 209-0655. Harry McCormick displays works through Sept. 20. STOUT SNUG ON THE HILL 1190 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill. Showtime features works of Space, Aaron Smith, Wendy Means and Lynda Diamond, through July 21. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., staaa.com Ninth Annual Nature & Wildlife Exhibition opening reception is 5-8 p.m. July 21. THE VAULT AT 1930 1930 San Marco Blvd., 398-2890, thevaultat1930.com. Rosalie Mark Atkins displays new works through July. THE YELLOW HOUSE 577 King St., Riverside, 419-9180, yellowhouseart.org. Erin Kendrick’s show, Her Own Things, runs through Oct. 3.
EVENTS
PORTRAIT OF THE POPE OF POP Warhol is fascinating, but we’d rather hear his biographer, writer Bob Colacello, chat about his time in “Drella’s” orbit–(resulting in Holy Terror, which a FW staffer reads annually) 6:30-8:30 p.m. July 19 at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, members $30, nonmembers $40, cummermuseum.org. ROB EMAHISER Emahiser discusses the Volunteer Life Saving Corps of Jacksonville Beach, 6 p.m. July 19 at
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SOJU NEOSOUL delivers more than a show, it’s an experience. 6:45-9 p.m. July 18 at Breezy Jazz Club, West Adams Street, Downtown, $10.
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Beaches Museum Chapel, 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, beachesmuseum.org, $5. MEET THE ARTISTS Participate in public dialogue with artists commissioned to design streetscape artworks for Phase II of Downtown Investment Authority’s Urban Arts Project in Elbow District, 6 p.m. July 19 at Main Library’s Makerspace, Downtown, culturalcouncil.org. JACKSONVILLE POST OFFICE RENAMING The Kings Road Post Office is being renamed in honor of civil rights activist Rutledge Pearson, a president of Jacksonville NAACP and a notable baseball player with Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro League; 10 a.m. July 20 at Kings Road Post Office, 1100 Kings Rd., Downtown, eventbrite.com, free. BLUEGRASS, BEER & BARBECUE FESTIVAL Hosted by Hemming Park, this has great ’cue, live music by Cain’t Never Could, The Firewater Tent Revival, The Wetland Strong Band and Rusty Shine, 5-10 p.m. July 21 at Hemming Park, Downtown, hemmingpark.org. JAXCOT 2018 A multicultural food truck festival with crafts, kids’ area and food–lots and lots–11 a.m.-7 p.m. July 21 at Morocco Shrine Auditorium, 3800 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Southside, free entry. SoMMA MEETING The Society of Mixed Media Artists’ July meeting, with Wendy Sullivan and Carole Foster, is 10:30 a.m. July 21 at the CCPVB, 50 Executive Way, Ponte Vedra, free. JAX JUMBO SHRIMP The Shrimp start a homestand against the Montgomery Biscuits, 7:05 p.m. July 23 (Wear Your Favorite Jersey Night) As Seen on TV Night), July 24 (Turn Signal Appreciation Day–our favorite!), July 25 (Corks & Forks), July 26 (Mick Jagger Turns 75!, Thirsty Thursday) and July 27 (Red Shirt Friday), all at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, Downtown, single game tix $5-$18, 358-2846, jaxshrimp.com. Next up: Mississippi Braves. EMERALD TRAIL MASTER PLAN Imagined by famed architect Henry Klutho more than 100 years ago, Jacksonville’s Emerald Necklace is about 19 miles of new trails, greenspace, parks and waterways around the urban core, linking urban neighborhoods and Downtown to creeks and waterways. Get a sneak peek of the master plan and give feedback, 6-8 p.m. July 24 at FSCJ’s Advanced technology Center, Rm. T-140, 401 W. State St., Downtown, groundworkjacksonville.org. SEA LEVEL RISE CANDIDATE FORUM PROJECT Hear what candidates think of climate change and global warming (no matter the fatwa that he-who-shall-not-be-named has placed on those terms), 6-8 p.m. July 26 at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Reserve Research, 505 Guana River Rd., Ponte Vedra, rethinkenergyflorida.org. BLACK OPAL A showcase for emerging artists of color features painting, Phase Eight Theatre Company and DJ GeeXella, 5-9 p.m. July 29 at WJCT Studios, 100 Festival Park Ave., Northbank, zenslayfu.com, $25. FIGURE DRAWING Artist William McMahan holds a class with a live model, 5:45 p.m. at Cummer Museum of Art, Riverside, cummermusuem.org, members $30, nonmembers $40. __________________________________________ To list an event, send time, date, location (street address, city or neighborhood), admission price & contact number to print to Madeleine Peck Wagner; email madeleine@folioweekly.com or mail 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Space available policy. Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. printing.
FOLIO A+E : ARTS
COMBUSTIBLE ART Black Opal, a showcase for EMERGING ARTISTS
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ast summer, Jacksonville artist Zenslayfu, also known as Kandice Knecole Clark, conceived Black Opal to highlight the works of artists of color on the rise. This year, the multimedia event returns to build bridges and break down barriers between communities. Joining Zenslayfu this time around is Phase Eight Theater Company, with a preview of its forthcoming production Ruined, by multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Lynn Nottage. Clark and Phase Eight founder and artistic director JaMario Stills discussed the show with Folio Weekly. They make a most complementary team, with Clark representing the visual arts and Stills speaking for performance. Clark has built an extensive grassroots network that cuts across Jacksonville’s often insular neighborhoods; Stills navigates the institutional world with ease. Black Opal is a meeting of these worlds, all under the sign of “artists of color.” The term is vague enough—and combustible enough—to warrant an official definition on Zenslayfu’s site. An ‘artist of color’ is “a person whose skin tone has served as a defining characteristic at one point or another in their life and who uses a creative skillset to express their thoughts, ideals, emotions and lived experiences.” “‘Artist of color’ doesn’t just mean ‘black artist,’” says Clark. “A lot of communities have been defined by the color of their skin. We want to bring them all to the table.” The first edition of Black Opal, featuring
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15 emerging visual artists of color, was held at the 5 & Dime Theater Company in Downtown Jacksonville. It was so successful, Clark sensed immediately that she’d have to scout a bigger venue for the follow-up. This second edition is staged inside the broadcasting facilities of WJCT, also home to the offices of Stills and Phase Eight. “I missed the first edition of Black Opal,” admits Stills. “I only heard about it afterward, but I became a fan immediately. I reached out to Kandice earlier in the year because I felt the project we were starting to work on was complementary to the Black Opal vision.”
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5-9 p.m. July 29, WJCT Studios, 100 Festival Park Ave., $25 (includes a voucher to see Ruined), zenslayfu.com
That project was Phase Eight’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined. Written by New York-based playwright Lynn Nottage, Ruined sketches the exploitation and abuse of women in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Phase Eight’s Ruined officially premieres on Aug. 3, but cast and crew will tease a scene at Black Opal. It’s not just about promoting the new production, however. Stills sees Black Opal as a means of cross-pollinating Jacksonville’s art scene. He wants the visual and dramatic arts to mingle.
“We thought, in addition to presenting some great art, here was an opportunity to bring our respective audiences together,” he says. “The mission is really two-fold: to present art and to develop audiences. We’re really excited about it.” The entire event is a site-specific installation. Paintings, photography and installations serve as landmarks along a walking circuit that wends its way through WJCT’s main hall and sound stage, where the performances unfold. Participating artists among the class of 2018 are mostly fresh faces, including Ari Charis, Cephas Bradley and M. Will. “Black Opal is really about emerging artists,” says Clark. “Many of last year’s participants have moved on up. This year, we’re showcasing a new group.” Black Opal’s theme “Le Congo” is a nod, of course, to Ruined. It also speaks to the current pop-culture moment, a moment in which American audiences are exploring their African roots. In addition to the exhibition and performance, Black Opal features music by AfroLatinx DJ GeeXella, a street-style market with refugee vendors and a fashion show highlighting global fusion. “We want to represent not just African heritage,” notes Stills, “but also the ways in which urban America has adapted those ideas, fused and repurposed them to be as dope as we are.” Georgio Valentino mail@folioweekly.com
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FOLIO A+E : MUSIC Tampa native Madison Turner turns nonstop stress into CREATIVE INSPIRATION
COURSE CORRECTIVE
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f there’s one thing that everyone in the United States can agree on, it’s this: Being burned out sucks. Whether you’re struggling to make ends meet, struggling to balance work and school, struggling to stay healthy, or struggling to maintain your sanity in these politically corrosive times, saying “the struggle is real” about real life actually, for once, feels accurate. Now we’ve got a soundtrack for that struggle: Madison Turner’s folk-punk gem A Comprehensive Guide to Burning Out. The Tampa native and current Richmond, Virginia, played with hybrid hardcore band Paranoia Dance Party before striking out on her own, injecting everything from bouncy ska to heartwrenching rock into her self-released records. While 2013’s Life was directly inspired by Turner’s experiences as a transgender woman and 2015’s Depression is self-explanatory, sparks of hope punctuate A Comprehensive Guide—on “Portland, Oregon,” she sings, “It’s nice to put yourself out there/And make new friends/What did I ever do/To deserve these good people in my life?” Folio Weekly spoke with Turner before her first-ever show in St. Augustine. Folio Weekly: You’re touring with George Geanuracos, who helped you write and record A Comprehensive Guide to Burning Out, right? Madison Turner: Right. Before I went into the studio, I sat down and went through the idea process with him. George is a really good friend. I met him six years ago, when his band Yankee Roses came through Tampa. It’ll be cool to play duo sets with George—me on guitar and him on fiddle. It’s great to play with people who are so much more talented than I am.
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Will it be tough to reinterpret the songs from the album to that stripped-down setting? I think it’s almost truer to play them acoustic. That’s how they were written; that’s their essence. I love the way this album sounds— and I haven’t said that about a lot of things I’ve released in the past—but there’s a lot of extra
stuff going on that isn’t super-necessary for the core song. What compelled you to write about such a pervasive topic? And are you still feeling that same sense of burnout? Things are pretty similar. I’m still trudging along and doing my best, which I think is what most people are doing. The album is about being burned out, but it’s also about the depression and monotony that everyone is expected to continue [dealing with] throughout their lives. It wears people down. I’m turning 31 very soon, so I’m getting up there and feeling that.
MADISON TURNER WITH YANKEE ROSES, NO PDA, CLAIRE VANDIVER 7:30 p.m. July 23, Sarbez!, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $3
As you’ve gotten older, has your songwriting voice shifted from the strictly personal to the more universal or even political? I write personal—that’s how my lyrics come out. But at the same time, that feels political to me. I write from the mental health perspective of somebody who is transgender. Even if I’m not necessarily talking about being trans, a lot of depression is informed by that. From the most recent album, “No” is the most overtly [political]. It’s not an “I, I, I” song; it’s more against people committing sexual assault and thinking they can get away with it because of their clout. That’s a little bit of a departure from what I usually do. But I also don’t feel pressured to do anything that I don’t genuinely feel. With political issues, maybe I’m not the best person to say it. One of the women in The B-52s wrote what she called “the next transgender anthem,” and it’s the worst song—so offensive and terrible. In that sense, I don’t to speak for other people. I want to let other people’s voices be heard. And I certainly don’t need to tell anybody that Donald Trump’s terrible.
I love the line from “Richmond, Virginia” about “A grocery bag holding hope for tomorrow” that’s “tied so it won’t get wet.” Has Richmond lived up to those hopes for you? I definitely found a really great community in Richmond. That was a huge part of the decision to move there. I was couch-surfing after spending a year in Oregon, not planted anywhere, and I picked Richmond because I liked everybody there. Tampa had a great community, too, though. The weird thing was, I met a lot of great people in Tampa after I decided to leave. Is your day-to-day life in Richmond significantly different than it was in Tampa? Not really. I still spend a lot of time to myself, hanging in my room with my dog watching TV or playing video games. I’m working part-time at an animal shelter, which is great. Richmond is a city that feels both big and small at the same time. Is it a city that might help you launch a career as a full-time musician? Do you feel like that’s in the cards for you? I would love to play music full-time. I don’t know what that looks like in terms of survival, though. You have to make it to a certain level of stardom, or put aside your own thing to play other people’s music. That’s fine, but that’s just not me. That adherence to your own voice shines through on just about every song you’ve written. Authenticity is a really good word to use. But I’m also a big fan of writing songs that are fun-sounding and depressing. “Do You Ever Feel Like a Failure?” is a peppy skarock song with a fiddle solo, but it also contains some of the most depressing lyrics I’ve ever written. Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com
There will never be another Whitney. That being said, BELINDA DAVIDS gives a solid approximation of the songbird in the The Greatest Love of All: The Whitney Houston Show, 8 p.m. July 21, T-U Center, Downtown, $32-$63.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
GNARWOLF, COVINA 8 p.m. July 18, Jack Rabbits (JackRabbs), 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $12. MARTY FARMER 6 p.m. July 18, Boondocks Grill & Bar (Boondocks), 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497. SPADE MCQUADE 6:30 p.m. July 18, Fionn MacCool’s, Jacksonville Landing, 374-1247. MUSIC BY THE SEA: AIN’T TOO PROUD TO BEG 6 p.m. July 18, St. Aug Beach Pier & Pavilion, thecivicassociation.org. SOULO 9 p.m. July 18, Surfer the Bar (Surfer), 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 372-9756. 86HOPE, DAD’S DAY OFF 9 p.m. July 18, Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. JESSICA (WILD OAKS BAND) 5:30 p.m. July 18, Tazikis Mediterranean Café, 14035 Beach Blvd., 535-6714. CHRIS DUARTE GROUP 7:30 p.m. July 18, Mudville Music Room (Mudville), 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008, $10. CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: THE RAISIN CAKE ORCHESTRA 7 p.m. July 19, Plaza de la Constitución, St. George & King streets, St. Augustine, 825-1004, concertsintheplaza.com. SLIGHTLY STOOPID, PEPPER, STICK FIGURE 4 p.m. July 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre (StAugAmp), 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, sold out. PROJECT PAT, SWORDZ, HOLY SMOKE RECORDS, OAK, ANDY SEZ X OK! 8 p.m. July 19, 1904 Music Hall (1904MH), 19 Ocean St., Downtown, 1904musichall.com, $15-$20. DIG DOG, HOLY HELL, BORROMAKAT, JUICE 8 p.m. July 19, ShantyTown, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield. REDFISH RICH 6 p.m. July 19, Boondocks. LUKE PEACOCK, OTHER PEOPLES SONGS, ANNA LESTER, BRIANNA MACLEAN 8 p.m. July 19, Mudville. IVAN PULLEY BAND 9:30 p.m. July 19, Cheers Park Avenue (Cheers), 1138 Park Ave., Orange Park, 269-4855, $2. RASCAL FLATTS 7:30 p.m. July 19, Daily’s Place (Dailys), Downtown, 633-2000, dailysplace.com, $55-$131.50. OAK RIDGE BOYS 8 p.m. July 20, Thrasher-Horne Center (ThrasherHorne), 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6815, $29. MYSTIC DINO & THE FAMILY ONE BAND 9 p.m. July 20, Surfer. YOWSAH 9 p.m. July 20, Whiskey Jax (WhiskeyBay), 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208. RANDOM TANDEM, DIXIE HIGHWAY BAND 7 p.m. July 20, Boondocks. LIFT 9:30 p.m. July 20, Cheers, $2. OUIJA BROTHERS 7 p.m. July 20, Hyperion Brewing (Hyperion), 1740 N. Main St., Springfield. PSEUDO, SYMMATREE, KID YOU NOT, THE NED, HALF MY HOME, CLM 9 p.m. July 20, Sarbez, $5. OPPOSITE BOX, SIDE HUSTLE, TROPIC OF CANCER 8 p.m. July 20, JackRabbs, $8. LITTLE GREEN MEN 8 p.m. July 20, Whiskey Jax, (WhiskeyJB), 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Jax Beach, 853-5973. GUNNA 10 p.m. July 20, Mavericks Live (Mavericks), Jax Landing, Downtown, 356-1110, $20-$50. FELICITY, GUTTERLIFE, CENUS 7 p.m. July 20, Rain Dogs (RainDogs), 1045 Park St., Riverside. DICARLO THOMPSON, BILLY BUCHANAN 6 p.m. July 20, Seachasers Lounge (Seachasers), 831 First St. N., Jax Beach, seachaserslounge.com.
STEVE MILLER BAND, PETER FRAMPTON 5:30 p.m. July 20, StAugAmp, sold out. VILLAINFEST: FILTH, NEAR EMPTY, KILL THE SOUND, A MATTER OF HONOR, DENIED TIL DEATH, FACES OF MANY, DEFY THE TYRANT, AUDITORY ARMORY 3 p.m. July 21, Mavericks, $10. MATT KNOWLES, DAKOTA BAND 7 p.m. July 21, Boondocks. LANDT, THE TIME FRAMED 10 p.m. July 21, Sarbez, $3. MONKEY WRENCH 9 p.m. July 21, WhiskeyBay. B-SIDES 9 p.m. July 21, Surfer. PRO BONO BAND 9 p.m. July 21, WhiskeyJB. ROCKET BAND 7 p.m. July 21, The Landing, Downtown. BIG JOHN AUSTILL, GOOD WOOD BAND 6 p.m. July 21, Seachasers. PUZZLES TO PIECES, EMUNESS, PERSONALITIES, ENGRAVED, CARDINAL VIRTUES, INDIVISION, FALLEN SONS 6:30 p.m. July 21, 1904MH, $10-$12. BLUEGRASS, BEER & BARBECUE: CAIN’T NEVER COULD, THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL, THE WETLAND STRING BAND, RUSTY SHINE 5 p.m. July 21, Hemming Park, hemmingpark.org. SONDRA HUNT 8 p.m. July 21, The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SwanneeMusic), 3076 95th Dr., Live Oak, 386-364-1683, musicliveshere.com. LISA & THE MAD HATTERS, THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL 9:30 p.m. July 21, Cheers, $2. FREDDIE McGREGOR, DUBWISE 8 p.m. July 21, JackRabbs, $20. DJ WILL’S SUMMER SLAM 8 p.m. July 21, Murray Hill Theatre (MurrayHill), 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807, murrayhilltheatre.com, $10-$15. VIOLENT FEMMES, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN 6 p.m. July 21, StAugAmp, $44-$74. THE WHITNEY HOUSTON SHOW 8 p.m. July 21, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts (T-UCtr), 300 Water St., Downtown, 633-6110, timesunioncenter.com, $32-$63. COLM KEEGAN, LAURA DURRANT 4:30 p.m. July 22, Culhane’s Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, culhanesirishpub.com, $20-$50. NEW ROCK SOUL 9 p.m. July 22, Surfer. CHICAGO, REO SPEEDWAGON 7 p.m. July 22, Dailys, $49-$139. RUNNER’S HIGH, FROM WORLDS ALIKE 9 p.m. July 22, Sarbez, $3. THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL, DENTON ELKINS ACOUSTIC Noon July 22, Seachasers. THE 418 BAND Noon July 22, The Landing. RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS 7 p.m. July 23, Mudville, $10. MADISON TURNER, CLAIRE VANDIVER, PUDDLED, NO PDA 7:30 p.m. July 23, Sarbez, $3. BABYBLU, THE FORUM, ASTER & IVY, IOH 7 p.m. July 24, JackRabbs, $8. TREVOR BARNES 9 p.m. July 24, Surfer. PAUL IVEY 6 p.m. July 25, Boondocks. TAD JENNINGS 9 p.m. July 25, Surfer.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
FRACTURED FAIRYTALES, BLOOD, BATH & BEYOND July 26, JackRabbs SAMUEL HERB July 26, Boondocks
THE GREAT CLOWN WARS (WINCHOWSKERS EXPERIMENT) July 26, Sarbez MEAN MARY July 26, Mudville EVAN MICHAEL & THE WELL WISHERS July 27 & 28, FlyIguana PAUL LUNDGREN BAND July 27, WhiskeyBay MARK JOHNS, BLACK CREEK RI’ZIN’ July 27, Boondocks VINYL RECORD EXTRAVAGANZA July 27, Hyperion Brewing Co. DE LA GHETTO July 27, Mavericks DON McLEAN July 27, PVCHall CHILLULA July 27, Surfer PARTY CARTEL July 27, WhiskeyBay POCO, PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE, ORLEANS July 27, FlaThtr SMOOTH & GROOVE: KEITH SWEAT, FAITH EVANS, JON B, LALAH HATHAWAY July 27, VetsMemArena SAMUEL HERB, COTTER HILL & BERNARDUS July 27, BlueJay DEGREASER, SCRAPS, MERCY ME July 27, Sarbez YARDIJ, DENVER HALL, SOUTHPOINT, BILLY & BELLA, KING COMPLEX July 27, 1904MH ROSEDALE, PARKRIDGE July 27, JackRabbs THE FRITZ July 28, 1904MH BIG JOHN AUSTILL, FOLK IS PEOPLE July 28, Seachasers HIGHWAY JONES July 28, Hyperion KORYN HAWTHORNE July 28, Murray Hill Theatre MATT KNOWLES, KEVIN SKI July 28, Boondocks SUN-DRIED VIBES July 28, Surfer CHRIS THOMAS BAND July 28, WhiskeyBay WILDFIRE RISING, 60 WEST BAND July 28, The Landing STRIKING MATCHES July 28, JackRabbs LIL BABY July 28, Mavericks DISPATCH, NAHKO, MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, RAYE ZARAGOZA July 29, StAugAmp STRANGER THAN FICTION, THE FALLEN SONS, SUFFERING OVERLOAD July 29, JackRabbs SOULO LYON BAND July 29, Surfer THE PAUSES July 29, RainDogs DARCI LYNN & FRIENDS July 29, T-UCtr GROOVE COALITION, CORTNIE FRAZIER July 29, Seachasers THE KATZ DOWNSTAIRZ July 29, The Landing ERIC MOORE July 29, Hyperion DONAVON FRANKENREITER July 30, Surfer RAVEL, LITTLE GIRL July 30, JackRabbs BECOMES ASTRAL, TODAYS LAST TRAGEDY, TETHYS Aug. 1, JackRabbs CORTEO Aug. 1, VetsMemArena MS. LAURYN HILL Aug. 2, Dailys HippiefeST 2018: VANILLA FUDGE, BADFINGER, JOEY MOLLAND, MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS, RICK DERRINGER Aug. 2, ThrasherHorne 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, MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE, SHARPTOOTH, TWIZTID, WAGE WAR, AUGUST BURNS RED, CROWN THE EMPIRE, EVERY TIME I DIE, IN HEARTS WAKE, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, NEKROGOBLIKON, ASSUMING WE SURVIVE, DON BROCO, PALACE ROYALE, SLEEP ON IT, STORY UNTOLD,
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC TRASH BOAT, WITH CONFIDENCE, FAREWELL WINTERS, LIGHTERBURNS Aug. 2, Old Cypress Lot near Met Park LEGIT, SHEPARD, KID EURO, SKAM, REPRESENTING NUKAOS, BRANDON ALEXANDER Aug. 3, JackRabbs J CREW BAND Aug. 3 & 4, FlyIguana WOLF & BEAR, MAKARI Aug. 4, JackRabbs A-TRAIN LIVE: RONNIE JORDAN Aug. 4, RitzTheatre POWERGLOVE Aug. 4, 1904MH PAUL IVEY & THE SOULS OF JOY Aug. 4, Boondocks CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER FESTIVAL: MADI CARR, OUIJA BROTHERS, GLASS CAMELS Aug. 5, Karpeles Museum THE LANKY GANG, DJ LIL B Aug. 5, JackRabbs O.A.R., MATT NATHANSON, THE NEW RESPECTS Aug. 5, Dailys STEEL PULSE Aug. 5, PVCHall TBA BIG BAND Aug. 6, Mudville 311, THE OFFSPRING Aug. 7, Dailys BRADFORD LOOMIS Aug. 9, BlueJay RAGE FEST: RINGS OF SATURN, ATTILA, SUICIDE SILENCE, VOLUMES, SPITE, CROSS YOUR FINGERS Aug. 10, Mavericks PEPPINO D’AGOSTINO Aug. 10, Mudville MR. MELLOW Aug. 10, BlueJay DK The DRUMMER, SUCRE Aug. 10, JackRabbs ELLIS PAUL, DONNY BRAZILE Aug. 10, Café11 OF GOOD NATURE, SERANATION Aug. 11, JackRabbs LONELY HIGHWAY BAND Aug. 11, SuwanneeMusic GRANT PEEPLES Aug. 12, Second Sunday at Stetson’s CARNIVORA Aug. 12, JackRabbs MARIE MILLER Aug. 12, Café11 SAM PACETTI, COUNTRY ARTISTS TRIBUTE Aug. 12, Sounds of the South, Fleming Island EMBY ALEXANDER, RIP JUNIOR Aug. 13, JackRabbs RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS Aug. 13, Mudville FIT FOR A KING, LIKE MOTHS TO FLAME, CURRENTS Aug. 14, 1904MH CHUCK NASH BAND Aug. 14 & 15, FlyIguana WIZ KHALIFA, RAE SREMMURD, LIL SKIES, O.T. GENASIS Aug. 15, Dailys THE ALARM Aug. 15, PVCHall JONAH MATRANGA, THE PAUSES Aug. 15, JackRabbs TODD RUNDGREN Aug. 16, PVCHall TRENT TOMLINSON Aug. 17, Dalton’s Sports Grill JASON MRAZ, BRETT DENNEN Aug. 17, Dailys TOM & NATALIE Aug. 17, Mudville BLUE JAY’S FIRST BIRTHDAY: YETI TRIO, MIKE KENNEALLY, BRYAN BELLER Aug. 18, BlueJay BEN STROK & FULL ELECTRIC, CUSTARD PIE Aug. 18, Sarbez BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM Aug. 18, Seachasers YUNO, LANNDS, BOBBY KID Aug. 18, JackRabbs UMPHREY’S McGEE, SPAFFORD Aug. 18, StAugAmp LINDSEY STIRLING, EVANESCENCE Aug. 20, Dailys ULTRA DELUXE, AC DEATHSTRIKE, SOUNDALTAR Aug. 20, Sarbez TBA BIG BAND Aug. 20, Mudville JEFF BECK, PAUL RODGERS, ANN WILSON Aug. 23, Dailys FLIPTURN, DENVER HALL, BOBBY KID Aug. 24, JackRabbs FORT DEFIANCE Aug. 24, BlueJay RICK SPRINGFIELD, LOVERBOY, GREG KIHN, TOMMY TUTONE Aug. 25, StAugAmp MANGO MARGARITA BAND, TROP ROCK JUNKIES Aug. 25, Jax Landing STEPHANIE QUAYLE Aug. 25, RitzTheatre LITTLE JAKE & THE SOUL SEARCHERS Aug. 25, Mudville BELMONT, SUCH GOLD, INTERVENTION Aug. 27, JackRabbs BADFISH SUBLIME TRIBUTE Aug. 27, Surfer THE BRIDGE STREET VIBE, MADI CARR Aug. 30, BlueJay INCITE, AETHERE Aug. 31, Nighthawks BRIAN McKNIGHT Aug. 31, FlaThtr NOCHE ACUSTICA CON TITO AUGER Sept. 1, JackRabbs SING OUT LOUD FESTIVAL Sept. 1-23, St. Augustine venues LAST OF THE STREET SURVIVORS FAREWELL TOUR: LYNYRD SKYNYRD, CHARLIE DANIELS BAND, KID ROCK, JASON ALDEAN Sept. 2, TIAA Bank Field 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 5 O’CLOCK SHADOW Sept. 7 & 8, FlyIguana UP FROM HERE Sept. 8, JackRabbs K.D. LANG Sept. 10, FlaThtr JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR, JD SIMO Sept. 11, PVC Hall DEEP PURPLE, JUDAS PRIEST Sept. 12, Dailys DIERKS BENTLEY, THE BROTHERS OSBORNE, LANCO Sept. 13, Dailys SUPERSUCKERS 30th Anniversary Tour Sept. 13, JackRabbs WIDESPREAD PANIC Sept. 14, StAugAmp JORDAN PETERSON Sept. 16, FlaThtr ROGER McGUINN Sept. 19, PVCHall YEEK, CHAOS CHAO Sept. 21, JackRabbs LEE ANN WOMACK Sept. 21, PVCHall JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT, THE DECEMBERISTS, LUCERO Sept. 22, StAugAmp HERE COME THE MUMMIES Sept. 22, PVCHall DREAMERS, WEATHERS, MORGXN Sept. 22, JackRabbs FOZZY, ADELITA’S WAY, STONE BROKEN, THE STIR Sept. 26, Mavericks TANNAHILL WEAVERS Sept. 26, Mudville DAVID BYRNE Sept. 26, FlaThtr TROYE SIVAN, KIM PETRAS, LELAND Sept. 26, Dailys KIM RICHEY Sept. 27, Café11 EVAN MICHAEL & THE WELL WISHERS Sept. 28 & 29, FlyIguana TALK ME OFF, DEBT NEGLECTOR RICKIE LEE JONES, ANDERS OSBORNE Sept. 29, PVCHall COLONY HOUSE, TALL HEIGHTS Sept. 29, JackRabbs MAKING SUM NOISE, MTV EXPERIENCE Sept. 29, Jax Landing NEEDTOBREATHE, JOHNNYSWIM Oct. 2, Dailys DELBERT McCLINTON Oct. 5, PVCHall ARCH ENEMY, GOATWHORE, UNCURED Oct. 6, 1904MH DANNY GOKEY, TAUREN WELLS, RILEY CLEMMONS Oct. 6, T-UCtr SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION OF PRINCE Oct. 6, FlaThtr WU-TANG CLAN (RZA, GZA, METHOD MAN, RAEKWON, GHOSTFACE KILLAH, U-GOD, INSPECTAH DECK, MASTA KILLA, CAPPADONNA) Oct. 7, StAugAmp TODD SNIDER Oct. 10, PVCHall PETER BRADLEY ADAMS Oct. 11, Café11 BENISE Oct. 11, FlaThtr Suwannee Roots Revival: KELLER WILLIAMS’ PETTYGRASS, THE HILLBENDERS, DONNA THE BUFFALO, JIM LAUDERDALE, VERLON THOMPSON, LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND, THE LEE BOYS, THE SAUCE BOSS, BELLE & THE BAND, WHETHERMAN Oct. 11-14, SuwanneeMusic GENE WATSON Oct. 13, PVCHall MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Oct. 13, FlaThtr IRATION, COMMON KINGS, KATASTRO, MORE Oct. 13, StAugAmp WELCOME TO MOCKVILLE Oct. 13, 1904MH ISRAEL & NEW BREED Oct. 13, Murray Hill Theatre WEEN Oct. 14, StAugAmp STEEP CANYON RANGERS Oct. 14, FlaThtr MUNDY Oct. 16, Culhane’s Irish Pub ANDERSON EAST, SAVANNAH CONLEY Oct. 16, Mavericks BOB LOG III Oct. 19, JackRabbs MEAN MARY & FRANK JAMES Oct. 19, Mudville COLT FORD Oct. 19, PVCHall BRETT ELDRIDGE, ABBY ANDERSON Oct. 20, Dailys DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, CHARLY BLISS Oct. 20, StAugAmp GRIFFIN HOUSE Oct. 23, Café11 THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY Oct. 25, T-UCtr ALICE IN CHAINS Oct. 26, StAugAmp SUWANNEE HULAWEEN: STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, ODESZA, JAMIROQUAI, JANELLE MONAE Oct. 26-28, SuwanneeMusic DWEEZIL ZAPPA Oct. 27, PVCHall BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM Oct. 27, Seachasers LIL DICKY, MUSTARD, OLIVER TREE Oct. 29, StAugAmp PALE WAVES Oct. 30, JackRabbs BLUE OCTOBER Nov. 4, JackRabbs
AMY RAY & HER BAND, DANIELLE HOWLE BAND Nov. 8, PVCHall JAKOB’S FERRY STRAGGLERS Nov. 8, Mudville JASON CRABB Nov. 9, Murray Hill Theatre SHEMEKIA COPELAND Nov. 10, PVCHall VINCE GILL Nov. 11, StAugAmp OTTMAR LIEBERT & LUNA NEGRA Nov. 11, PVCHall JENNIFER KNAPP Nov. 14, Café11 KATHLEEN MADIGAN Nov. 15, FlaThtr THE AUSTRALIAN BEE GEES Nov. 16, FlaThtr STRAIGHT NO CHASER Nov. 18, FlaThtr STEPHEN STILLS, JUDY COLLINS Nov. 19, FlaThtr MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS Nov. 20, T-UCtr BENJI BROWN Nov. 23, FlaThtr PIANO GUYS Nov. 26, FlaThtr DAVE KOZ, MINDI ABAIR, JONATHAN BUTLER, KEIKO MATSUI Nov. 29, FlaThtr MARC BROUSSARD & HIS BAND Nov. 29, PVCHall OLD DOMINION, MICHAEL RAY, HIGH VALLEY Nov. 30, StAugAmp GHOST PALE DEATH TOUR Dec. 1, FlaThtr JJ GREY, THE BAY STREET BAND, MILLAJOHN’S BLUE SOUL Dec. 1, Congaree & Penn Farm MANDY HARVEY Dec. 8, RitzTheatre IRIS DEMENT, PIETA BROWN Dec. 8, PVCHall PETER WHITE, RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, PVCHall JANE LYNCH, KATE FLANNERY, TIM DAVIS, THE TONY GUERRERO QUINTET Dec. 17, RitzTheatre CHRISTMAS WITH ROCKAPELLA Dec. 19, FlaThtr THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, JUNIOR BROWN, THE BLASTERS, BIG SANDY Dec. 21, FlaThtr DONNA THE BUFFALO Dec. 29, PVCHall BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM Dec. 30, Seachasers THE KENNEDYS Jan. 17, Mudville ARLO GUTHRIE Jan. 23, FlaThtr JEANNIE ROBERTSON Jan. 26, FlaThtr TOM & NATALIE Jan. 26, Mudville PINK MARTINI Jan. 28, FlaThtr FINN MAGILL & DAVID CURLEY Jan. 29, Mudville INDIGO GIRLS Feb. 9, PVCHall PINK March 5, VetsMemArena GET THE LED OUT March 15, FlaThtr JOAN OSBORNE Sings Songs of Bob Dylan March 21, PVCHall TEMPTARIONS, FOUR TOPS April 28, FlaThtr
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA GREEN TURTLE, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith every Thur. Dan Voll every Fri. Vinyl Nite every Tue. SLIDERS, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie, Pili Pili July 18. Tad Jennings July 19. Hupp, Milltown Road July 20. Jimmy Coleman, Instant Groove July 21. JCnMike, Justice4Joleen event July 22. Mark O’Quinn July 24
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.
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
ATLANTIC BEACH BREWING, 725 Atlantic Blvd., 372-4116 Jam session 7 p.m. July 20. Larry Yancey 7 p.m. July 21 BLUE JAY, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 Stephen Pigman, Joe Moody 8 p.m. July 18. Underdog Improv July 19. Bryce Alastair Band July 20. Kaleigh Baker, Matt Walker July 21 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Colm Keegan, Laura Durrant 4:30 p.m. July 22. Irish music at 6:30 p.m. every Sun. DJ Hal every Sat. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 Beach City 10 p.m. July 20 & 21 GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. Wed. Michael Smith Thur. Milton Clapp Fri.
ASLYN AND THE NAYSAYERS, the St. Augustine-based folk trio, perform 6 p.m. July 24 at Prohibition Kitchen, St. Augutine, pkstaug.com.
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC HOPTINGER BIER GARDEN, 333 N. First St., 222-0796 Trevor Barnes July 20. Tad Jennings July 21. Dylan Gerard July 24 LYNCH’S, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Blistur July 20. Sol Radah July 21. Different Folk every Fri. Live music every night MEZZA, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer 6 p.m. Thur. Mezza House Band 6 p.m. Mon. Trevor Tanner 6 p.m. Tue. RAGTIME, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Billy Bowers July 18. Brady Clampitt July 19. Cloud 9 July 20 & 21. Side Track July 22 SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 DiCarlo Thompson, Billy Buchanan 6 p.m. July 20. Big John Austill, Good Wood Band 6 p.m. July 21. The Firewater Tent Revival, Denton Elkins Acoustic noon July 22 SURFER THE BAR, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Soulo 9 p.m. July 18. Mystic Dino & The Family One Band 9 p.m. July 20. B-Sides 9 p.m. July 21. New Rock Soul 9 p.m. July 22. Trevor Barnes 9 p.m. July 24. Tad Jennings July 25 WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Never Too Late Band July 18. Mikey Clams July 19. Little Green Men 8 p.m. July 20. Pro Bono Band July 21. Robbie Litt July 22. Mary Ann Hawkins July 24
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 Project Pat, Swordz, Holy Smoke Records, Oak, Andy Sez X OK! 8 p.m. July 19. Puzzles To Pieces, Emuness, Personalities, Engraved, Cardinal Virtues, Indivision, Fallen Sons 6:30 p.m. July 21. Afton Shows Push Play July 22 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6:30 p.m. July 18. Trevor Tanner 8:30 p.m. July 20. Mikey Clams 8:30 p.m. July 21 JAX LANDING, 353-1188 Neon Whiskey 7 p.m. July 20. Rocket Band 7 p.m. July 21. 418 Band 5 p.m. July 22 MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Gunna 10 p.m. July 20. Villainfest: Filth, Near Empty, Kill the Sound, A Matter of Honor, Denied Til Death, Faces of Many, Defy the Tyrant, Auditory Armory 3 p.m. July 21 MYTH, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 D3tay, Killoala July 18. Sullivan King July 20
FLEMING ISLAND
BOONDOCKS, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Marty Farmer July 18. Redfish Rich July 19. Random Tandem, Dixie Highway Band July 20. Matt Knowles, Dakota Band July 21 WHITEY’S, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Chelsey Michelle 6 p.m. July 19. DJ BG July 20. Party Cartel 9 p.m. July 21. Zeb Padgett 4 p.m. July 22
INTRACOASTAL
CLIFF’S, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Random Tandem July 18. Olympvs 9 p.m. July 20 & 21 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Boogie Freaks 8:30 p.m. July 20. Yowsah 8:30 p.m. July 21
MANDARIN
ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci July 18 & 22 IGGY’S, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, 209-5209 Hunter & Santana July 19. Comfort Zone July 20. Alex Affronti, 8 Days July 21. Scott Clafin, Hot Pocketz July 22
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
CHEERS, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 DJ Capone July 18. Ivan Pulley Band 9:30 p.m. July 19. Lift 9:30 p.m. July 20. Lisa & The Mad Hatters, The Firewater Tent Revival 9:30 p.m. July 21 THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Melt Behind the Wheel 10 p.m. July 20. Comfort Zone 10 p.m. July 21
PONTE VEDRA
MEDURE, 818 A1A, 543-3797 Ace Winn July 18. Ryan Campbell July 19. Will Hurley July 20. The Groov July 21 TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker July 18. Scott Elley July 19. Katie Fair July 20. Gary Starling July 21 TAPS, 2220 C.R. 210, 819-1554 Jay Garrett July 18. Red Level July 20. Redfish Rich July 21
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood S., 683-4182 Bill Ricci 5:30 p.m. July 20 HOPTINGER BIER GARDEN, 1037 Park St., 903-4112 Lurk City July 21 & 28 MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 DJ Will’s Summer Slam 8 p.m. July 21 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Ramallah, Cruel Hand 8 p.m. July 19. Cave of Swimmers, Amarok, Unearthly Child, Conjure, Brides 8 p.m. July 20. Dorothy Does Drugs July 21 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Dig Dog, Holy Hell, Borromakat July 19. Felicity, Gutterlife, Cenus 7 p.m. July 20. Automatik Fit, Engage the Threat July 21 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside, 389-2449 Billie & Bella, Mike Shackelford Band, Cortnie Frazier July 21
ST. AUGUSTINE
ARNOLD’S, 3912 N. U.S. 1, 824-8738 Cottonmouth 9 p.m. July 21. DJ Alex every Fri. OCEAN AVENUE BAR & GRILL, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Kingfish Joe Santana 9 p.m. July 21 & 22 PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George, 209-5704 Leelynn Osborne, Ramona Trio 6 p.m. July 18. Jory Lyle, Slightly Stoopid Afterparty July 19. Kalani Rose, G.W. Souther July 20. Jive Kats Collective, South City July 21. Clampitt, Marco July 22. Wes Cobb, Sea Floor Explosives July 23 SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 86Hope, Dad’s Day Off 9 p.m. July 18. Pseudo, Symmatree, Kid You Not, The Ned, Half My Home, CLM July 20. Landt, The Time Framed July 21. Runner’s High, From Worlds Alike 9 p.m. July 22. Madison Turner, Claire Vandiver, Puddled, No PDA July 23 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky July 20 & 21
SAN MARCO
JACK RABBITS, 15280 Hendricks, 398-7496 Gnarwolf, Covina 8 p.m. July 18. Opposite Box, Side Hustle, Tropic of Cancer 8 p.m. July 20. Freddie McGregor, Dubwise 8 p.m. July 21. Babyblu, The Forum, Aster & Ivy, IOH 7 p.m. July 24 MUDVILLE, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Chris Duarte Group 7:30 p.m. July 18. Luke Peacock, Other Peoples Songs, Anna Lester, Brianna MacLean 8 p.m. July 19. River City Rhythm Kings 7 p.m. July 23
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Anton LaPlume 8 p.m. July 19. Robbie & Felix July 21 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Yowsah 9 p.m. July 20. Monkey Wrench 9 p.m. July 21. Melissa Smith every Thur.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
SULLIVAN KING’S House of Wolves EP has been described as an “epic crossover between metal and dubstep.” See for yourself 9 p.m. July 20 at Myth Nightclub, Downtown, $20-$107, mythexperience.com.
CROOKED ROOSTER, 148 S. Sixth St., Macclenny, 653-2337 DJ Toy July 18 HYPERION Brewing, 1740 N. Main St., 518-5131 Ouija Bros 7 p.m. July 20 PALMS FISH CAMP, 6359 Heckscher Dr., 240-1672 Ciaran Sontag July 18. Lucas Villanova July 19. Patrick Rose July 20. Double Down, The Last Resort July 21. Michael Ward July 22 SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Dig Dog, Holy Hell, Borromakat, Juice 8 p.m. July 19 TIKI ISLAND, 614 Pecan Pk. Rd., 403-0776 Cindy Davenport, Highway Jones 7 p.m. July 21 _____________________________ To list a band’s gig, send time, date, location (street address, city/ neighborhood), admission and a contact number to print to Madeleine Peck Wagner, email madeleine@folioweekly.com or by the U.S. Postal Service, 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Events run on spaceavailable basis. Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. publication.
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FOLIO DINING Chefs Scott Schwartz and José Solome offer authentic Tex-Mex with innovative flair at EL JEFE, on Edgewood Avenue South, fast becoming a neighborhood fave. photo by Devon Sarian
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, familyowned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L Sa-M; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza.net. F BOJ winner/favorite. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie/slice. Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassauhealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ 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. $$$ BW K B L D Daily THE SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2017 BOJ winner. 2nd-story outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily
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SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F BOJ winner/favorite. Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, seafood. Open-air upstairs balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310, traysburgerstation.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa
ARLINGTON + REGENCY
LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK.
AVONDALE + ORTEGA
EL JEFE, 947 Edgewood Ave. S., 619-0938, eljefejax.com. Tex-Mex à la Chefs Scott Schwartz and José Solome, plus craft margaraitas, combo meals. $$ FB TO K L, D Daily FOOD ADDICTZ GRILL, 1044 Edgewood Ave. S., 240-1987. F Family-and-veteran-owned place is all about home cooking. Faves: barbecued pulled pork, blackened chicken, Caesar wrap, 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. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/ favorite. Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish. $$ 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. $ 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. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ 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. BOJ favorite. SEE MANDARIN. 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
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DINING DIRECTORY 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 BOJ favorite. Popular gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and … 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. $ 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. Beachy coffee & wine shop by day; wine bar at night. Fresh pastries, breakfast sandwiches all day. Grab-n-Go salads, hummus. $ BW K TO B L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 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. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F BOJ winner/favorite. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE SAN MARCO.
OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ 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 BOJ favorite. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. $ 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, whiteysfishcamp.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 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. $$ FB L M-F; D M-Sa
GRILL ME!
CHRIS DODGEN
Crane Ramen
1029 Park St. • 5 Points Born in: Winter Haven Years in Biz: 10+ Favorite Restaurant: Feed & Co. (Chattanooga) Favorite Cuisine Style: Soul/cajun Go-To Ingredients: Pork and butter Ideal Meal: Catfish & cheese grits Will Not Cross My Lips: No (No is giving up) Insider’s Secret: If you feel you have nothing left to learn, you'll never be a chef. Celebrity Seen at Your Restaurant: Shonen Knife Culinary Treat: Fried chicken skin MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers. com. 2017 BOJ winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ 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. $$ FB TO D Nightly
DOWNTOWN
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BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura St., 802-7745, bellwetherjax. com. Elevated Southern classics in an understated site, with chef/owner Jon Insetta’s focus on flavors; chef Kerri Rogers’ culinary creativity. Seasonal menu. Rotating local craft beers, regional spirits, cold brew coffee program. $$ 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. In Myth Nightclub. Locally sourced, organic fare, fresh herbs, spices. HH $$ FB D, Tu-Su
FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd., 739-7070, jaxdiner.com. Chef Roderick “Pete” Smith, local culinary expert, uses locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, vendors in American & Southern dishes. Seasonal brunch. $ K TO B L M-F, D F METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Dinner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. F 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. SEE AVONDALE. MOON DOG PIE HOUSE, 115 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 105, 287-3633, moondogpiehouse.com. Wings, apps, subs, calzones–and specialty pizza pies. $$ BW TO K L, D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. BOJ fave. Organic soup, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/wine. $ BW TO B L D Daily
ORANGE PARK
BOONDOCKS GRILL & BAR, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove Springs, 406-9497, boondocksrocks.com. Apps, burgers, wings, seafood, steak, weekend specials, craft cocktails. HH $$ FB TO K D M-F; L, D Sa & Su THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ 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 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.
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Smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides, stumps. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. BOJ winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ 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 CRANE RAMEN, 1029 Park St., 253-3282. Ramen done right; vegetarian, vegan items, kimchi, gyoza. Dine in or out. HH. $$ FB K L, D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2017 BOJ winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based drinks, sandwiches, desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2017 BOJ winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Dine outside at some E-Sts. $ BW K L D Daily FOO DOG CURRY TRADERS, 869 Stockton St., 551-0327, foodogjax.com. Southeast Asian, Indian inspired fare, all gluten-free, from scratch. Vegan & omnivore. $$ TO 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
13 sunraycinema.com. GYPSIES, 887 Stockton 2017 St., BOJ 389-0330, winner. First-run, 13gypsies.com. indie/ 2017 art films. BOJ winner. Beer, local Authentic drafts,Mediterranean wine, pizza–Godbold, cuisine:Black chorizo, tapas, Lagoonblackened Supreme–hot cod, pork dogs,skewers, sandwiches, coconut popcorn, mangonachos, curry chicken. brownies. Breads $$ BWfrom Dailyscratch. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S SUSHI PIZZA, CAFÉ,1620 2025Margaret RiversideSt., Ave., Ste.Ste. 201, 204, 388-8384. 384-2888, F SEE INTRACOASTAL. 2017 sushicafejax.com. BOJ winner/favorite. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. BIG Hibachi, OAK BBQ tempura, & Catering, katsu, 1948 teriyaki. Henley Patio.Rd., $$ Middleburg, BW L D Daily 214-3041. 1440 Dunn Ave., 757-2225, bigoakbbqfl.com. Family-owned-and-operated. ST. AUGUSTINE Smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, AL’Ssides, PIZZA,stumps. 1 St. George $$ K TO St.,L 824-4383. D M-Sa F 2017 BOJ SEEOak INTRACOASTAL. BLACK winner/favorite. SHEEP, 1534 St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. THE CORAZON CINEMA &BOJ CAFE, winner. 36 Granada New American, St., 679-5736, Southern; corazoncinemaandcafe.com. local source ingredients. F Specials, Sandwiches, rooftop combos, bar. HH. pizza. $$$Iindie FB R and Sa &first-run Su; L M-F; movies. D Nightly $$ Daily BOLD DESSERT BEANFIRST COFFEE BISTRO, ROASTERS, 121 Yacht 869 Club Stockton Dr., 417-0468, St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, dessertfirstbistro.com. boldbeancoffee.com. It’s all made 2017from BOJ scratch: winner. Smallbreakfast, batch, lunch,artisanal desserts.approach Plus coffees, to sourcing espressos, andcraft roasting beers, singlewine, origin, hot teas. direct-trade $ BW K TOcoffees. B, L Tu-Su Signature blends, hand-crafted syrups, THE FLORIDIAN, espressos,72 craft Spanish beers.St., $ BW 829-0655, TO B L Daily CORNER thefloridianstaug.com. TACO, 818 Post St., Updated 240-0412, Southern cornertaco.com. fare; fresh, Made-from-scratch local ingredients. Vegetarian, “Mexclectic gluten-free street food,”options. tacos, nachos, gluten-free, Signature fried vegetarian green tomato options.bruschetta, $ BW L D Tu-Su blackened CRANE fish cornbread RAMEN, 1029 stack;Park gritsSt., w/shrimp/fi 253-3282.sh/tofu. Ramen$$$ doneBWright; vegetarian, K TO L D W-M vegan items, kimchi, gyoza. Dine in or out. HH. $$ GYPSY FB K CAB L, D Tu-Su COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, CUMMER gypsycab.com. CAFÉ, Cummer F 34+ years. Museum Varied of Art urban & Gardens, cuisine menu 829 changes Riverside twiceAve., daily.356-6857, Signature:cummer.org. Gypsy chicken. 2017 Seafood, BOJ tofu, winner. duck, veal. Light$$lunch, FB R quick Su; L Dbites, Dailylocally roasted coffee, espresso-based MARDI GRAS SPORTS drinks,BAR, sandwiches, 123 San desserts, Marco Ave., daily347-3288, specials. Dine mardibar.com. in or in gardens. F Lively $ BWspot K L has D Tu;wings, L W-Sunachos, shrimp, EUROPEAN chicken, Phillys, STREET sliders, CAFÉ,soft 2753 pretzels. Park St., $$384-9999. FB TO L D Daily 2017 BOJ METRO winner. DINER, 130+ 1000 import S. Ponce beers,de 20Leon on tap. Blvd., Sandwiches. 758-3323. F SEE SAN MARCO. Dine 2017outside BOJ winner/favorite. at some E-Sts. Dinner $ BW Knightly. L D Daily MOJODOG OLDCURRY CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq.com. FOO TRADERS, 869 Stockton St., 551-0327, F 2017 BOJ winner. SEE AVONDALE. foodogjax.com. Southeast Asian, Indian inspired fare, all SALT LIFE FOOD 321 A1A, & 217-3256. gluten-free, fromSHACK, scratch. Vegan omnivore.F$$SEE TOBEACHES. L, D Daily SARBEZ, 115NATURAL AnastasiaMARKET, Blvd., 342-0632, GRASSROOTS 2007 Parkplanetsarbez.com. St., 384-4474, Local music venue has gourmet grilled melt: thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2017 BOJcheese: winner.Sarbez Juice bar smoked mozzarella, local300 uses certifi ed organicturkey, fruits, bacon, veggies.signature Artisanalsauce, cheeses, sourdough. beers. $ BWproduce, L, D Daily craft, importLocal beers,craft organic wines, meats, vitamins, WOODPECKER’S Backyard BBQ, $4930 S.R.B 13, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. BW TO L D 531-5670, Daily woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. F Smoked fresh daily. HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, in sandwiches, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2017turkey: BOJ winner. Authentic plates by the pound. sauces, 10 sides. $$ TOchar L Dsui, Tu-Su dishes from 8mobile stalls: BBQ pork beef haw
sunraycinema.com. certified. Cuban sandwiches, 2017 BOJ winner. black beans First-run, & rice,indie/ plantains, art steaks, films.seafood, Beer, local roast drafts, pork.wine, Spanish pizza–Godbold, wine, drink specials, Black Lagoon mojitos,Supreme–hot Cuba libres. dogs, Nonstop sandwiches, HH. $ FB Kpopcorn, L D Dailynachos, brownies. METRO DINER, $$ BW3302 DailyHendricks Ave., 398-3701, SUSHI metrodinercom. CAFÉ, 2025F Riverside 2017 BOJ Ave., winner/favorite. Ste. 204, 384-2888, Original sushicafejax.com. upscale diner in a F 1930s-era Monster,building. Rock-n-Roll, Meatloaf, Dynamite chicken Roll.pot Hibachi, pie, soups. tempura, Some Metros katsu, teriyaki. serve dinner. Patio.$$$$BBW R LLDDDaily Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, ST. tavernasanmarco.com. AUGUSTINE 2017 BOJ winner/favorite. Chef AL’S SamPIZZA, Efron’s1authentic St. GeorgeItalian; St., 824-4383. tapas, wood-fi F 2017 red pizza. BOJ SEE INTRACOASTAL. winner/favorite. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), THE award-winning CORAZON CINEMA wine. $$$ & CAFE, FB K TO 36 RGranada L D DailySt., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. F Sandwiches, combos, pizza. SOUTHSIDE Iindie and first-run + movies. TINSELTOWN $$ Daily DESSERT ALHAMBRA FIRST Theatre BISTRO, & Dining, 121 Yacht 12000 Club Beach Dr., 417-0468, Blvd., 641-1212, dessertfi alhambrajax.com. rstbistro.com. BOJ It’s winner. all made Openfrom 50 years. scratch: Executive breakfast, lunch, Chef DeJuan desserts. Roy’s Plusthemed coffees, menus. espressos, Reservations. craft beers, $$ wine, FB D hot Tu-Su teas. $ BW K TO B, L Tu-Su THE EUROPEAN FLORIDIAN, STREET 72 Spanish CAFÉ, 5500 St.,Beach 829-0655, Blvd., 398-1717. F thefl 2017oridianstaug.com. BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local LARRY’S ingredients. SUBS, 3611 Vegetarian, St. Johnsgluten-free Bluff Rd. S.,options. 641-6499. 4479 Signature Deerwoodfried Lakegreen Pkwy., tomato 425-4060. bruschetta, F 2017 blackened BOJ favorite. ORANGE PARK. fiSEE sh cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW GRINDS, 11380 Beach, Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. KMARIANAS TO L D W-M F Pacifi c Islander fare, culture. stews, GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828chamorro Anastasia Blvd.,Soups, 824-8244, fitada, beef oxtail, pika;Varied empanadas, lumpia,menu chicken gypsycab.com. F katden 34+ years. urban cuisine relaguen,twice BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ chicken. TO B L D Seafood, Tu-Su tofu, changes daily. Signature: Gypsy M SHACK, Pkwy., 642-5000. F 2017 BOJ duck, veal. 10281 $$ FB RMidtown Su; L D Daily winner.GRAS SEE BEACHES. MARDI SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. F Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, SPRINGFIELD NORTHSIDE chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft + pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily ANDY’SDINER, GRILL,1000 1810S.W.Ponce BeaverdeSt., 354-2821, METRO Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F jaxfarmersmarket.com. 2017nightly. BOJ favorite. SEE SAN Inside MARCO. Jax 2017 BOJ winner/favorite.F Dinner MOJO Farmers OLDMarket. CITY BBQ, Local, 5 Cordova regional,St.,international 342-5264, mojobbq.com. produce. F Breakfast, 2017 BOJsandwiches. winner. SEE$AVONDALE. B L D M-Sa SALT LARRY’S LIFE FOOD GIANTSHACK, SUBS, 12001 321 A1A, Lem 217-3256. Turner Rd., F SEE 764-9999. BEACHES. F SARBEZ, 2017 BOJ115 favorite. Anastasia SEE Blvd., ORANGE 342-0632, PARK. planetsarbez.com. Local TIKI ISLAND music venue TAP HOUSE, has gourmet 614 Pecan grilledPark cheese: Rd., Sarbez 403-0776. melt: smoked Casual mozzarella, spot serves turkey, hot dogs, bacon, burgers, signature gator sauce, tail, gator localjerky. sourdough. Gator pond!Local $ BWcraft TO D,beers. F; L, $D BW Sa &L,Su. D Daily WOODPECKER’S UPTOWN KITCHEN Backyard & BAR, 1303 BBQ, 4930 Main St. S.R.N.,13,355-0734, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. uptownmarketjax.com. F BiteFClub Smoked certififresh ed. Fresh daily. fare, Brisket, innovative ribs,menus, pork, sausage, farm-to-table turkey:selections, in sandwiches, daily specials. plates by the $$ pound. BW TO B8 Lsauces, Daily 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su
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the blackening seasoning sprinkled on top. In my family, a fish+taco is a must when SOUTHSIDE TINSELTOWN available. Across the ditch,12000 it’s practically a law to ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, Beach Blvd., 641-1212, order the savory wrapped fish, so 50 Twoyears. Dudes’ Baja alhambrajax.com. BOJ winner. Open Executive ChefWest DeJuan Roy’sTacos themed menus. Reservations. FBaD Key Mahi with aioli drizzle ($13) $$ was Tu-Su Two tacos are stuffed with mahi, flavored given. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. F with a mysterious, if-I-told-you-I’d-have-to-kill-you 2017 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. marinade. Usually, I press details ingredients, LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johnsfor Bluff Rd. S.,of641-6499. 4479 but I let itLake slidePkwy., this time–that really is Deerwood 425-4060. marinade F 2017 BOJ favorite. tastyORANGE enoughPARK. to kill for. SEE MARIANAS 11380 10, 206-612-6596. Let meGRINDS, talk about theBeach, fries. Ste. Occasionally, here F Pacific Islander culture. at Bite-Sized, I getfare, thechamorro chance to inhaleSoups, … I stews, mean, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken enjoy really amazing fries; Two Dudes is among the relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su fewSHACK, on that list.Midtown They aren’t cut642-5000. in house,FBUT myBOJ M 10281 Pkwy., 2017 taste overruled me because, boy, do they know winner.buds SEE BEACHES. how to fry ’em: light, crisp and golden with a peppery SPRINGFIELD + for NORTHSIDE flair. We nearly threw down the last few! ANDY’S 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, TheGRILL, homemade-style “Totally Yum, No Bake Key jaxfarmersmarket.com. F 2017 BOJ favorite. Inside Jax Lime Pie” ($5) is the ideal finish to a true beachside Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. meal. Make your way to the Atlantic Beach or Breakfast, sandwiches. $ Beither L D M-Sa Ponte Vedra Dudes, crack cold764-9999. one and F LARRY’S GIANTTwo SUBS, 12001 Lem open Turnera Rd., indulge a light,SEE beachy, dining 2017 BOJinfavorite. ORANGE PARK.experience. TIKI ISLAND TAP HOUSE, 614 Pecan Park Rd., 403-0776. Brentley Stead Casual spot serves hot dogs, burgers, gator tail, gator jerky. biteclub@folioweekly.com Gator pond! $ BW TO D, F; L, D Sa & Su. ____________________________________ UPTOWN KITCHEN & BAR, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, If you have a recommendation, meFresh an fare, email uptownmarketjax.com. F Bite Club shoot certified. at biteclub@folioweekly.com. innovative menus, farm-to-table selections, daily specials.
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All fun and DRINKING GAMES THERE WERE TIMES DURING MY MISSPENT YOUTH that I engaged in silly drinking games that had basic rules: someone yelled “Chug!” and I did. Ah, those were the days. Well, they probably were, but I can’t seem to fully recall. Since then, drinking games have progressed. We have a wider variety than just games like Quarters, Spin the Bottle or 1960s Pass Out. Drinking games have been around as long as there has been alcohol. Ancient Greeks played a game called Kottabos. The object was to throw the dregs of your beverage, usually wine, at a cup balanced in the center of the room until you knocked it over by filling it. In Medieval Europe, drinking games were often used to settle disputes. These usually consisted of two quarrelling parties drinking beer until one has to get up or pass out. It beats dueling and had a considerably lower body count. Today drinking games are usually confined to fraternities on college campuses. But go to any local brewery and you’re likely to see a variety of games. While many aren’t strictly drinking games, I’ve often observed these seemingly innocuous amusements being turned into boozy competitions. Many breweries offer Giant Jenga, Corn Hole or Giant Connect Four. Often, the person who topples the Jenga pile, scores points in Corn Hole, or wins at Connect Four has to drink. One local beer bar, Dahlia’s Pour House, even had a giant game of Battleship with shots of
beer instead of pegs. If your opponent got a “hit,” you had to drink the shot in the corresponding location. Don’t forget the two most popular drinking games: Beer Pong and Flip Cup. In Beer Pong, players stand at opposite ends of a table that has cups half-filled with beer on both ends, arranged like bowling pins. Opponents take turns tossing PingPong balls at the cups across the table. Get a ball in a cup and your opponent has to drink it. First side to clear all the cups wins. In Flip Cup, opposing sides drink a beer, usually only partly filled, then set the empty cup on the table’s edge and flip it with one hand so that it lands upsidedown. The first team whose members all successfully flip their cups wins. Board games are also popular drinking games. An internet search will turn up a plethora of options. And the old Pass Out game is still out there! One of the newer board games brings your taste buds into play. Unlabeled–The Blind Beer Tasting Game has two or more players drinking mystery beers and trying to identify the type, even the brewery and name. The more specific a player is, the more points he or she accrues. It should be said that you should never drink in excess or drive after playing any of these drinking games. So grab a cab, amass a group of friends and indulge in some friendly competition. Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com
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AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY 1461 Hendricks Ave., San Marco
BOTTLENOSE BREWING 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, Southside
PINGLEHEAD BREWING COMPANY 12 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park
AMELIA TAVERN RESTAURANT & BREWPUB 318 Centre St., Fernandina Beach
DOG ROSE BREWING CO. 77 Bridge St., St. Augustine
RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach
ANCIENT CITY BREWING 3420 Agricultural Ctr. Dr., St. Augustine
ENGINE 15 BREWING CO. DOWNTOWN 633 Myrtle Ave. N., Downtown
RUBY BEACH BREWING 131 1st Ave N., Jax Beach
ANHEUSER-BUSCH 1100 Ellis Rd. N., Northside
ENGINE 15 BREWING CO. 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, Jax Beach
RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY 835 Museum Cir., Southbank
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., Southside
BEARDED BUFFALO BREWING COMPANY 1012 King St., Downtown
HYPERION BREWING COMPANY 1740 Main St. N., Springfield
SOUTHERN SWELLS BREWING CO. 1312 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach
BOG BREWING COMPANY 218 W. King St., St. Augustine
INTUITION ALE WORKS 929 E. Bay St., Downtown
VETERANS UNITED CRAFT BREWERY 8999 Western Way, Ste. 104, Southside
BOLD CITY BREWERY 2670 Rosselle St., Ste. 7, Riverside
MAIN AND SIX BREWING COMPANY 1636 Main St. N., Northside
WICKED BARLEY BREWING COMPANY 4100 Baymeadows Rd.
BOLD CITY DOWNTOWN 109 E. Bay St., Jacksonville
OLD COAST ALES 300 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine
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A MEMORY WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, CHINESE FOOD WAS an exotic culinary treat. Back then, we would actually go to “full service” Chinese restaurants. The dining rooms were always decorated with pictures of the Great Wall of China, colorful ornamental gardens, dragons, etc. The unpronounceable foodstuffs were very different from typical American fare and, best of all, each meal ended with fortune cookies. Although Chinese restaurants have evolved from sit-down to carry-out and delivery, the menu hasn’t really changed, and, to be brutally honest (kinda my M.O.), the food is not as I recall from my youth. In fact, it’s terrible. One thing that has changed is the variety of other Asian cuisines available in the 904. You could probably eat different Asian cuisine every day of the week. On Monday, I’ll have Vietnamese Pho, Tuesday maybe some pad Thai, Wednesday Filipino lumpia, a bowl of ramen will make Thursday delicious, for Friday perhaps Taiwanese pork belly bao, Saturday is Korean barbecue and, of course, Sunday is reserved for dim sum. What fun! We truly are spoiled with bright, sweet, salty, sour, tangy, funky flavors. But even with these varieties of unique deliciousness at our disposal, I still sometimes crave the Chinese dishes of my past. Since delivery places don’t have that retro-feel, I make the classics at home. There are a few essential things to consider when cooking Chinese: First, always have all mise en place prepared before you begin. Cooking time and heat don’t allow for halfwa-prepared ingredients. You never want to stop or slow down to finish cutting a neglected item. Second, marinating meats for 30 minutes or so really adds an amazing depth of umami. Third, pre-mix sauces. With all the different Chinese condiments most recipes require, it’s best to complete this first so you can just pour in sauce in one efficient step. Last, keep your wok SCREEMING HOT. For some old-time flavor, try this Cheffed-Up version of a Chinese classic.
CHEF BILL’S GLUTEN-FREE SZECHUAN BEEF Ingredients • 2 lb. tri-tip beef, 4” long, 1.5” wide, • 1/4” thick, cut across the grain • 3 tbsp. gluten-free tamari sauce • 2 tbsp. mirin • 5 tbsp. cornstarch • Sesame oil • Canola oil • 3 celery stalks, cut into 3” matchsticks • 2 medium carrots cut into • 3” matchsticks • 6 oz. snap peas, cut on bias, 1” thick • 6 scallions, white part sliced into 1/4” • rounds, green part cut into 2” pieces • 1/2 red onion, fine julienne • 1 3” knob ginger, grated • 1 tbsp. garlic, minced • 5 small dried chilis • 1 tbsp. Szechuan peppercorns
OVERSET __________________________________ Email Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Fernandina’s Amelia Island Culinary Academy, at cheffedup@ folioweekly.com, for inspiration and to get Cheffed-Up!
Sauce Ingredients • 1/2 cup gluten-free tamari sauce • 1/4 cup gluten-free hoisin sauce • 1/4 cup water • 2 tbsp. Sriracha • 2 tbsp. rice wine vinegar • 1 tbsp. sugar Directions 1. In a bowl, mix beef with the first •• 3 tbsp. of tamari, mirin and •• cornstarch. Marinate for 30 minutes. 2. Mix sauce ingredients in a bowl. 3. Heat wok coated with half sesame •• oil and half canola oil. When it begins •• to smoke, add 1/3 of the beef and •• quickly stir-fry. Remove, wipe wok •• and oil again. Repeat two more times •• until all beef is cooked. 4. Add oil in same way and stir-fry •• the vegetables along with the chili •• and peppercorns. Add beef and sauce, •• stir to combine. Heat beef through •• and adjust seasoning to taste. Until we cook again,
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DEAR DAVI
PETS LIKE ME:
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LOCAL PET EVENTS NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY & PETSMART ADOPTION WAGGIN’ TEAM • Meet adorable dogs and cats ready to adopt, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. July 21 at PetSmart, 13141 City Station Dr., 696-0289, petsmart.com. BEACHES PET ADOPTIONS • Cat and dog adoptions are 10 a.m.-3 p.m. July 21 at PetSmart, 1956 Third St. S., Jax Beach, 853-2135, jaxhumane.org. Camp Critters Part 2: Underwater Treasures is noon-3 p.m. July 21. More adoptions: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. July 28 at PetSmart, 10261 River Marsh Dr., Ste. 143, St. Johns Town Center, 997-1335.
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Behind every good human is an AWESOME PET waiting to share its story THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A GIANT FLYING lizard that breathes fire, but the natural world has plenty of real dragons parading down streets, some that puff out their throats to create an imposing ruff of spiked scales. The unique and handsome bearded dragon, fondly known as beardies, is a native of Australia. I shared a spot in the sun with one recently to learn more about the magical creature. Don’t let the name fool you; this reptile is more lizard than dragon!
Do you shed your skin? It’s natural for a bearded dragon to shed its skin as it grows. And as tempting as it may be, humans should never, ever pull off our skin. Let nature do its work. Peeling back our skin before it’s ready hurts and can cause infection.
Davi: Do bearded dragons make good pets? Didier: Bearded dragons are one of the most easy-going, well-behaved lizards you will ever find. We are among the easiest to leash-train, we love to snuggle, and will even allow our humans, on occasion, to dress us in fancy garb. That, along with our happy-go-lucky attitude, make us ideal pets.
How do you regulate body temperature? Think desert sun. We need light and heat to stay healthy. Without it, our bones become soft, our digestion slows and our mental well-being suffers.
What is your best feature? One of my most attractive attributes is my appearance. Not to be vain, but bearded dragons have a distinctive look which is actually a rare vestige from the dinosaur era. What activities are fun for you? There’s nothing better than a swim on a hot summer day! It’s a great way to get a little exercise while hydrating! Or I take a stroll outside. I spend more time looking around than walking, but I still enjoy the excursion. How do you scare away predators? Whenever I feel threatened, I hold my chin up, close my mouth and flare out my beard. The flared beard is a natural defense mechanism to ward off enemies. Tell me about the arm-waving. This is generally a signal of submission. It’s our way of saying, ‘Hey, I’m friendly.’
Do beardies need special attention or care? Because we’re desert creatures, we don’t need much water or humidity. But we’re ectotherms, so we need both a reliable source of heat and a cooler areato stay comfy.
Do bearded dragons have a language? When interacting among ourselves, we resort to sign language, like head-bobbing, to show dominance, and arm-waving to show submission. What do bearded dragons eat? We’re omnivores, so we’re not too fussy about what we eat. We mostly eat vegetables—not very dragon-like, huh? Insects, like crickets and worms, are tasty, too, and provide essential nutrients. It turns out that reptiles make great companions. Their blood may be cold, but they’ll win your heart. Before you decide to add one to the family, do some research, especially if you’re new to exotics. Each animal has particular care requirements and it’s best to choose one that fits your lifestyle. Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund never would’ve guessed that a cold-blooded creature could have such a warm heart.
PET TIP: SH*T HAPPENS AFTER THE SERIOUSLY DISGUSTING HUMAN, dogs are a gross second, some grosser than others. Retch in point: Dogs sometimes drop little dingleberries around the house like rogue Christmas ornaments that nobody wants to hang on the tree. There are various causes: 1) poo got stuck in their butt hair, 2) they’re too young to have developed sufficient sphincter control, 3) they’re old and losing feeling in their anus, or 4) they have health issues, such as fecal incontinence, weak hind legs or a spinal problem that’s causing a loss of feeling. Check with your vet. 32 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JULY 18-24, 2018
Meow meow. Mew. Meeeow. Wait–you don’t speak cat? No worries; I’m fluent in English and 72 other languages! The name’s Freckles, and I’m the oldest–and wisest–feline in residence here at JHS. Quite a big deal. I do enjoy bossing the kittens around, but I’d much rather be in a home … with you, perhaps? Visit 8464 Beach Blvd. and we’ll bond over a cup of catnip tea and tuna scones.
REPTILE RALLY • Learn about many desert friends and get a free reptile poster/coloring sheet and reptilethemed kid’s craft, while supplies last, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. July 21 at Petco, 11900 Atlantic Blvd., Regency, 997-8441; 11111 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 254-5715; 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 215-7498; 463713 S.R. 200, Yulee, 225-0014; and 430 CBL Dr., St. Augustine, 824-8520; petco.com. 92 AT THE JACKSONVILLE ZOO • Hot enough? When the temperature is predicted to be higher than 92°F–if two local weather authorities say the heat will hit 92 degrees or more–a half-off general admission coupon is posted on jacksonvillezoo.org, through Aug. 31. The coupon is good for the day indicated only. Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens, 370 Zoo Parkway, Northside, 757-4463, jacksonvillezoo.org.
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Champ Champ here! True to my name, I’m a champion kisser and sitter. I’ve also won medals for playing and treat-eating. Impressive, right? Let me show off my skills! When I’m not busy #winning, I like relaxing with humans, hanging out with my dog friends and napping. I know you want to meet me, so visit to JHS–open seven days a week!
MEET YOUR DOG TRAINER • Discover the educated, dedicated trainer’s Positive Dog Training philosophy, as it relates specifically to you and your dog, 2-2:15 p.m. July 18 at Petco, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Jax Beach, 273-0964, petco.com. SUNSET SAFARI • Tour the conservation center in openair trolleys, 5 p.m. July 19 at White Oak Conservation, 581705 White Oak Rd., Yulee, followed by cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and dinner, $175, whiteoakwildlife.org. Proceeds benefit conservation programs. Reservations and details, call 225-3396. AYLA’S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE • Thrift shop open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., 142 King St., St. Augustine, 484-8792, aylasacres.org. Proceeds benefit Rescue’s missions. Actress Loretta Swit donated lots of stuff, in Loretta’s Loft; check it out! And meet adorable adoptables. ______________________________________
NEWS OF THE WEIRD TO ABSENT FRIENDS
During the 2014 World Cup, five friends in Durango, Mexico, made a pact to travel to the 2018 tournament in Russia. They saved their money, bought a bus, painted it in Mexico’s colors and booked passage for themselves and the bus on a ship going to Spain from where, The Daily Mail reported, the friends planned to drive the bus to Russia. But just before they boarded ship in April, one of the five, Javier, told his friends his wife had put the kibosh on his trip. So the remaining four did the next best thing: They made a cardboard life-size cutout of Javier, looking grumpy and wearing a shirt that says, “My wife didn’t let me go,” and set off for Russia. The cardboard Javier has been very popular at the soccer venues, attracting female admirers, appearing on the big screen, crowdsurfing and being photographed with fellow football fans from all over the world.
obstructing free passage and confiscated the spoon as evidence.
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On June 23, firefighters of Engine 642 of the Henrietta, New York, Fire District went the extra mile after responding to an accident in which the injured driver was a pizza delivery man, according to Fox News. “Once the patient was cared for and loaded into the ambulance, the crew decided to finish the delivery so the pizza wouldn’t go to waste,” the fire department posted on its Facebook page. “If it’s not delivery it’s Di ... Fire dept?!”
DAMMIT, WOMAN, LET SLEEPING CONS LIE
In North Port, Florida, a witness watched on June 17 as 75-year-old Helena Molnar beat an unnamed man with a water jug after he watered her plants. When he’d emptied all the water on her plants, she went in her house and returned with a different weapon, which the witness didn’t see but said “made a different sound” than the jug. According to WWSB TV, North Port police found the victim soaking wet, with blood drops on his shirt. Molnar was charged with battery.
James J. Rynerson, 38, was held in the Mesa County (Colorado) Jail in May after being charged with menacing, disorderly conduct and trespass. But on May 21, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported, sheriff ’s deputies at the jail released him, having mistaken him for Marvin March, 35, another inmate. Jail staff gave Rynerson March’s belongings, and he wore March’s leather jacket as he signed March’s name to the release papers and left the facility. Rynerson’s wife was startled to see her husband in the garage at their home, and after he explained what happened, she convinced him to go back. She “personally drove him back to the Mesa County Detention Facility,” the report noted, and he was back in custody by 11 p.m., with new charges, including escape and forgery, added to his list.
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To kick off an exhibition focused on the opioid crisis at his Stamford, Connecticut art gallery on June 22, gallery owner Fernando Alvarez and artist Domenic Esposito placed an 800-pound, 11-foot-long steel sculpture of a bent, burned spoon in front of the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin. Purdue has been the subject of lawsuits alleging deceptive marketing and, therefore, responsibility for opioid addiction and overdose issues. “The spoon has always been an albatross for my family,” said Esposito, whose brother has struggled with drug addiction for 14 years. The Associated Press reported police arrested Alvarez for
When Juan Ramon Alfonso Penayo, 20, of Santa Teresa, Paraguay, failed to return after leaving his home June 14, his family assumed the worst. The town, on the border with Brazil, reported the BBC, is a hotbed of illegal drug activity. Police found a charred body three days later and called Penayo’s family, who, despite being unable to identify the remains, accepted that it must be him and made funeral arrangements. As they mourned over his casket during the wake, Penayo walked nonchalantly into the room. The body in the casket was returned to the morgue, and Penayo’s family celebrated his return.
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HOT SILVER WATCH You: Got soda, sat at table by me; medium height, black manbun, red dress shirt, sexy watch. Me: Tall man, short brown hair, mid-20s, gray shirt. Why didn’t I say hello? Too shy. Show me more silver! When: May 22. Where: Lee’s Sandwich Shoppe, Baymeadows. #1699-0530 BLUE-EYED GEMINI BOY Favorite Blue-Eyed Gem, you were leaving; left me behind. I think about you all the time. We read these ads and laughed. Miss you; hope you’re smiling. Love, Your Florida Gem. When: Aug. 8, 2017. Where: Downtown under Blue Bridge. #1698-0516 BEAUTIFUL EYES BARISTA You: Work at Bold Bean. Me: Hot, 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 BEARDED WET MAN POST-5K You: Tall man, dreamy eyes, black shirt, shorts, talked of running with my black goldendoodle. Me: Dripping wet brunette, pink tank, black yoga pants, enjoyed chocolate-covered strawberry. Never got your name. Wanna get wet again? When: April 7. Where: 1st Place Sports, San Marco. #1697-0411 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
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Tomando Café Summary
n the Spanish informative radio magazine program Tomando Café (“Drinking Coffee”) on Sunday, July 15th, we spoke with Jacksonville Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan and local leader Leon Carrero. Carrero shared with both Hogan and our listeners that apathy and lack of trust in the democratic process keeps some Hispanics for exercising their right to vote. With Hispanics moving from Puerto Rico and migrating from other countries, it’s more important than ever to put their mind at ease about the process. We asked Hogan what assurances voters have that the democratic process is safe and secure. Hogan explained that, since the 2000 presidential election hanging chad recount, lots of money has been invested to ensure the security of the voting process. For example, all voting machines must be certified before they are put into service in the 99 voting precincts in Duval County. He added that at the end of election night, a sample hand count audit is performed to double check the accuracy of the machines. Since October 2017, voters have been able to update their status from the comfort of a mobile device, laptop or home computer. When you visit duvalelections.com, you may register to vote, make changes to your existing registration record or even prefill a voter registration application form. Below is process for updating your voter status online: To submit an online application, you will need: • Your Florida driver’s license (Florida DL) or Florida identification card (Florida ID card) issued by the • Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles. To protect your identity, you will also need: • The issued date of your Florida DL or Florida ID card; and • The last four digits of your Social Security Number (SSN4). To be eligible to register to vote you must: • Be a citizen of the United States of America; • Be a legal resident of Florida; • Be a legal resident of the county in which you seek to be registered; • Be at least 16 years old to preregister, or at least 18 years old to register and vote; • Not be a person who has been adjudicated mentally incapacitated with respect to voting in Florida or any • other state without having the right to vote restored; and, • Not be a person who has been convicted of a felony without your civil rights having been restored.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE The deadline to register for an upcoming election is 29 days before that election. You can also update your registration record at any time. However, since Florida is a closed primary election state, a party change for a primary election must be made by the registration deadline for that election. If the deadline has passed, you can still submit an online application at any time for future elections. POLLS WORKERS NEEDED In closing, Hogan encouraged the audience to update their voter status and, most importantly, to VOTE! He also shared that the Supervisor of Elections is looking for poll workers for the upcoming elections. For more information, visit duvalelections.com Our next guest was Margarita Cavanagh of The Cavanagh Connection. Margarita and husband Eric are a duo of realtors who have been connecting buyers and sellers since 2005! According to Margarita, helping you with the purchase or sale of your home is just the beginning; you can expect support from the Cavanaghs through closing and beyond. She explained that homebuyers who qualify can take advantage of an array of incentive programs currently available. On our next program it’s Tutor Time with Antonio Arango and Ivan Diaz, who will talk about youth football. To listen to the interviews, visit the Tomando Café Facebook page @tomandocafejax. Thanks to Sam Taylor, publisher of Folio Weekly, for the opportunity to share.
STUNNING AUSTRALIAN BLOND 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 JULY 18-24, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35
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FRANZ KAFKA, KAI GREENE, SKEPTICS & HUMMINGBIRDS ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.” Whenever that quote is on the Internet, it’s falsely attributed to painter Frida Kahlo. In fact, it’s actually from poet Marty McConnell. In any case, you should heed it in the next few weeks. You really do need to focus on associating with allies who see the mysterious, lyrical best in you. Get inspired by a line Kahlo really did write: “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.” (What’s that? It’s chocolate buttercream stuffed between two thin rectangular chocolate biscuits.) TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Franz Kafka wrote this in his diary on Aug. 2, 1914: “Germany has declared war on Russia. I went swimming in the afternoon.” We could attribute his nonchalance about world events to callous self-absorption. But you should acquire a similar attitude in the weeks ahead. The astrological omens say you have the right and need to be sheltered from politics’ vulgar insanity and mainstream culture’s pathological mediocrity. So spend extra time on your own well-being. Kafka’s biographer says swimming did that for him, enabling him to access deep unconscious reserves of power to renew his spirit. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Am I delusional to advise a perky, talkative Gemini like you to enhance communication skills? Dare I hint you’re not quite perfect at a skill you were obviously born to ace? Yet that’s just what I’m telling you. The weeks ahead will be a good time to take inventory on how to more fully develop your natural ability to giveand-take. You’ll be in robust alignment with cosmic rhythms if you refine how you express messages and receive and respond to others’ messages. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Self-described skeptics ask me, “How can any intelligent person believe in astrology? You must have a brain dysfunction if you imagine the movements of planets reveal useful clues about our lives.” If the “skeptic” is truly open-minded, as an authentic skeptic should be, I give a mini-lecture to correct the misunderstandings. If he’s not (which is the usual case), I say I don’t need to “believe” in astrology; I use astrology because it works. For instance, I have a hypothesis that Cancerians like me enjoy better-thanaverage insight and luck with money each year, from late July through August. It’s irrelevant if there is or isn’t a “scientific” theory to explain it. I simply try to improve my financial situation at this time, and I often do. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some fine gifts you’re eligible for and likely to receive during the next four weeks include a more constructive, fluid relationship with obsession; a panoramic look at what’s below the tip of the metaphorical iceberg; a tear-jerking joyride that cracks open your sleeping sense of wonder; erasure of at least 20 percent self-doubt; vivid shows of excitement to be had by slowing down and taking your sweet time; and a surprising, useful truth given from your body to your soul. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): During 2018’s last three months, you’ll dismantle or outgrow a foundation, to prepare the way for building or finding a new foundation in 2019. From next January on, you’ll reimagine the meaning of home, grow fresh roots and come to novel conclusions about influences that make you feel secure and stable. Now is a good time to get a hint on how to proceed, and get insights on where to begin. 36 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JULY 18-24, 2018
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A reader asked Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle, “How does one become more sensual?” Meditate on that. It’s a good time to enrich and deepen your sensuality. To inspire, here are ideas blending my words with Cardelle’s: “Laugh easily and freely. Tune in to the rhythm of your holy animal body as you walk. Sing songs to remind you why you’re here on Earth. Give yourself the luxury of reading books to thrill the imagination and prompt fresh questions. Eat with your fingers. Let sweet melancholy flow through you. Listen innocently to people, be warm-hearted and slyly wild. Soak in colors with eager eyes. Whisper grateful prayers to the sun as you exult in its gifts.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If people aren’t laughing at your goals, your goals are too small,” says bodybuilder Kai Greene. I don’t know if I’d make such a brazen declaration, but it’s worth considering–especially now. You’re entering your astrological cycle’s Big Bold Vision time, when you should boost the intensity of your hopes, get closer to an ultimate form of what you want, and be daring enough to imagine your future’s most sublime possible outcomes. If you do all that with chutzpah, some folks may indeed laugh at your audacity. That’s cool! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The mini-chapter in your epic life story is symbolically ruled by butterflies’ fluttering flights, hummingbirds’ whirring wing hum, fireflies’ soft cool light and the seahorses’ dawn dance. To take maximum advantage of the blessings life shows you in the weeks ahead, align yourself with similar phenomena. You’ll be alert and receptive in just the right ways if you cultivate love for fragile marvels, subtle beauty and amazing grace. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Astrological omens ask me to tell you that you can make these requests: 1. People from your past who say they want to be part of your future have to prove their earnestness by forgiving your debts and asking forgiveness for theirs. 2. Those who push to influence you must agree to be influenced by you. 3. Folks who want to deepen collaborations with you must promise to deepen their commitment to wrestling with their darkness. 4. People who say they care for you must prove their love in a small but meaningful way. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll never find an ad for Nike or Apple within the sacred vessel of this horoscope column, but you may see plugs for soul-nourishing commodities like creative freedom, psychosexual bliss and generosity. Like everyone else, I’m a salesperson– though I believe the wares I peddle are unambiguously good for you. In this spirit, you may hone your sales pitch. It’s a great time to interest people in your fine products, ideas and services. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do me a favor? Do your friends, loved ones and the whole world a favor? Don’t pretend you’re less powerful and beautiful than you are. Don’t downplay or shrug off your magic. Don’t act as if your unique genius is nothing special. OK? Your specific talents, perspectives and gifts are indispensable now. We all need you to be bold and brazen and express them. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
Appellate court DOUSES smokable medical marijuana
M.D. M.J.
SMOTHERING
THE LAW
NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU’RE doing, where you’re doing it or why, we’ve all had some well-meaning killjoy douse our dreams in cold water, usually by saying something trite and quasi-folksy, like, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” Some poor bastard poultry peddler way back in the neoprene era apparently did count his fowl, speculating prematurely on what he’d be bringing to market, and the results were disastrous; he lost his farm, his wife left him for a vegan, and he ended it all by taking an overdose of millet. So he’s now the poster-child for Irrational Exuberance. Yeah, we front-loaded the column with bad jokes, because the innards aren’t funny at all. Well, it might be funny if you’re Rick Scott, whose efforts to stall the proper implementation of Amendment 2 got a serious boost on July 10, when a three-judge panel from the First District Court of Appeal chose to overturn a ruling by Circuit Judge Karen Gievers of Leon County that would’ve allowed patients to smoke their medicine, which she said was consistent with the spirit of the law. Neither “spirit” nor “the law” are words that anyone usually associates with our esteemed governor, who’d already committed state resources to resisting the ruling long before the appellate court made its decision. Cannabis connoisseurs from Palm Beach to Pensacola have been scratching their heads, trying to figure out what the governor finds so insufferable about insufflation, but the reality is, he’s actively stonewalled the medical marijuana movement from the start. This situation is wholly
consistent with the state’s slow processing of patient applications, the prohibitive fees required to be a licensed grower and countless other, smaller ways in which the bureaucratic process has been used as a weapon against the voters themselves. It’s almost amusing, sometimes. But not now. John Morgan brought the case on behalf of two patients, one with HIV and the other with ALS, who both credit cannabis with extending their lives after being given virtual death sentences by their doctors. It’s widely known that the form in which the stuff is consumed greatly affects the effect it has, and both patients claim that smoking it alleviates their symptoms in ways currently legal forms do not. These are real people–citizens, taxpayers, voters–and they are dying. These three judges, in deference to the governor, have officially ruled that their lives are expendable, and that their daily suffering is an acceptable consequence of political expediency. It’s wrong–legally, ethically and morally–and one hopes that the state Supreme Court does the right thing when the case comes before it later this year. One also hopes that ruling comes in time to save these ladies’ lives, but as the saying goes, let’s not count our chickens until they’re hatched. Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com _________________________________ Got questions about medical marijuana? Let us answer them. Send inquiries to mail@folioweekly.com.
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FOLIO VOICES : BACKPAGE EDITORIAL AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS DYING A SLOW DEATH. Between Russia helping Donald Trump win the presidency, extreme partisan gerrymandering that allows political parties to control legislatures far beyond the proportional votes they receive in an election, unaccounted dark money in politics, restricting voting rights, inability of Congress to stop a runaway presidency and the Supreme Court’s abandonment of religious neutrality, we are sliding toward an illiberal democracy, the kind on the rise in Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Poland and Hungary. In 1997, Fareed Zakaria warned of this phenomena, “Democratically elected regimes, often ones that have been reelected or reaffirmed through referenda, are routinely ignoring constitutional limits on their power and depriving their citizens of basic rights and freedoms.” Most Americans, although uncomfortable with the institutions that protect our democracy, have not yet reconciled with the fact that our democracy is also in a perilous state. There has been a steady erosion of the public’s confidence in our institutions. Using the start of this millennium as an arbitrary point of reference, the American public’s confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court, as measured by Gallup, has fallen from 47 to 40 percent; organized religion from 56 to 41 percent. U.S. Congress from a paltry 24 percent to a shocking 12 percent. Big business from 29 to 21 percent. Newspapers from 37 to 27 percent. The presidency from 42 to 32 percent. Banks from 40 to 32 percent. TV news from 36 to 24 percent. Only a handful of institutions have seen their approval ratings rise. Among the most notable are the military (which is the only institution that boasts a majority approval rating) and organized labor (which is seriously undermined by the most recent Supreme Court ruling against labor unions). What is at the core of this erosion? Major American institutions, for the most part, cater to the interests of the rich and powerful. At least that is the perception among a vast majority of Americans. And that perception is not without its reasons. When the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC ruled that corporations are people and money equals speech, it tilted the political playing field toward the rich and the powerful. The same Supreme Court also ruled in favor of gerrymandering, which in many states creates situations in which the party that receives the minority of votes rules like the majority, subverting the will of the people. On the economic front, tax policies and corporate reorganization have allowed wealth to be concentrated in the hands of the few. American income inequality is now on a par with Russia’s. Our political system is trending in that direction, too, where a strongman leads a sham
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
ISSLIPPERY ON A SLOPE
“…[W]e are sliding toward an ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY, the kind on the rise in Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Poland and Hungary.”
democracy and the ruling elites are a handful of oligarchs. Racial disparity remains a chronic problem with very little being done through public policy to redress centuries of discrimination. African Americans remain under-represented in every walk of life, except prisons. The recent Trump Administration action of tearing babies from their parents for the “crime” of seeking asylum is Kafkaesque. It’s easy to point to Donald Trump’s election as the starting point of decline, because he makes for an easy target with his bluster and authoritarian tendencies. While Trump is the most colorful and obnoxious symbol of a system that was failing its people at many levels, Trump did not necessarily create those fault lines—he simply exploited them to his own political and economic advantage. The Trump presidency will end at some point, though not soon enough for his many detractors. Whether he is impeached or loses the next election or wins a second term and is termed out, the wounds he has created by exploiting existing fault lines will need to be healed. That healing will require a new awakening by the American public. The midterm elections in 2018 could be that starting point. However, even if Democrats win back the House (very likely) and the Senate (possible but not probable), that’s not sufficient to change society enough to prevent a Trump 2.0 from emerging, either from the left (less likely) or from the right (quite likely). Trump 2.0 would be smarter and more manipulative than the original and may very well lead America to becoming a Gilead (Handmaid’s Tale) or the Capitol (Hunger Games). These scenarios may seem fictional and far-fetched today, but if one follows the trend lines, such changes are not outside the realm of possibility. Though where we stand today looks perilous, it’s not inevitable that an illiberal democracy is America’s future. Offshoots of resistance are slowly taking hold. Witness the election of a Democratic Socialist in New York who ran on a people-centered platform of universal healthcare, tuition-free college, higher minimum wage, addressing climate change, gun control, enacting criminal justice reform and a humane immigration system, all positions that have the support of the majority of Americans. Fear-mongering will scale new heights as vested interests try to preserve the status quo. But the onus, as always, rests with the American electorate. We must choose leaders who reflect our values and not succumb to the forces of darkness, who desire to rule our hearts and minds through fear. Parvez Ahmed mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Ahmed teaches at the University of North Florida.
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