The Beachside Resident June 2015

The Travel Issue

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Editor’s Note

Travel Narrows the Mind tell that story. We will be working with Kennedy Space Center and Space Florida to change this perception, and inspire the public to come learn more and witness the evolution of the space industry as we move towards the return of manned space flight.”

But there are other draws here as well – among them, other kind of travelers themselves: sea turtles.

Yet despite an increase of awareness about these amazing creatures, there are still too many instances of people interfering with them – folks scaring turtles off with flashlights or by walking up to them.

There are too many accounts of adult turtles dying after falling into the large holes some beachgoers dig on the beach.

Overall, it’s trash that seems to affect turtles the most.

Too often, stomach contents of young turtles that washed ashore dead have been found to contain man-made refuse.

During your travels this summer – wherever you may go – stay mindful of what you take away with you – and what you leave behind.

It’s both unsettling and pleasing to live in a place other people love to travel to.

We adore revealing the beauty of our area to visitors, but we also dread the congestion they cause on our roads.

It’s said that travel broadens the mind, but we at the Resident like to think that travel narrows it in such way as to discover life’s essential meaning: that, despite all our outward cultural differences, deep inside, we are all one.

The issue you hold in your hands celebrates travel from both directions – those coming here to explore our natural treasures as well as those of us who depart from here and return with the joyous feeling of having arrived home – and making our beachside communities that much richer from our experiences.

One of the locals we interviewed in this issue is Eric Garvey, Executive Director of the Brevard Tourism Development Council.

“The biggest misconception about our area is that the space program has ended,” he says. “There is a vibrant space industry here and we need to

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At its fundamental level, travel means change.

Both change and travel are not always easy things to take on, but feelings of trepidation are part of the journey.

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Contents

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Strange Florida Word on the Street Lifeguards Book of the Month Horoscopes Gardening Tips Recipe of the Month Bartender of the Month Restaurant of the Month Chef ’s Corner Local Scribe: Matthew Ericson Resident of the Month Open for Business Local Scribe: Rick Piper Local Amp: Hot Pink Music Calendar Album Reviews Local Amp: Dead Serios The Art Side Jedi Grind Tricks Florida Surf Museum Boardrider of the Month Surfrider Cocoa Beach Fishing Reports Patrick AFB Puzzles Answers/Bleed Page The Movies Inquire of Romeo Out and About

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Naked Ambition Florida first responders rescued a naked man from the top of a Fort Lauderdale drawbridge on Friday, after he got stuck when the bridge was raised while he was walking across it.

“He was swimming in the water previously, and he jumped out of the water and went to cross the bridge,” bystander David Izabal told the Sun Sentinel, explaining how the naked man got atop there. “The bridge was coming up before he had gotten off the bridge.”

Fort Lauderdale firefighters initially tried to reach the man with ladders, The Associated Press reported, but the ladders weren’t quite tall enough. Instead, members of the Broward Sheriff ’s Office scaled the structure and -- after wrapping the man in a towel -- secured him in a harness fixed to the structure. Then the bridge was slowly lowered back down.

NBC Miami notes that this is the second time someone has required a rescue from the drawbridge in the last few years.

The drawbridge spends 95% of the time in the up position, the NBC station reports, a nd is flanked by “No Trespassing” signs.

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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! Gaylord, 37, turned himself in at the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office on Tuesday, telling authorities that he had stabbed Mr. Happy repeatedly with a kitchen knife before cutting up Mr. Happy’s imaginary body and burying the imaginary victim in his backyard.

Gaylord and Mr. Happy have been best friends for seven years, according to the perpetrator himself, but several concerning incidents involving Mr. Happy led to his untimely demise.

“His room was a mess all the time with his toys and dolls. He left his empty vodka bottles all over the kitchen… never picked up his empty cocaine baggies.

He messed up my apartment to the point where I just couldn’t get it clean. Before Hap started doing drugs and acting weird

he was my BFF (best friend forever)… we’d go dancing, play on the children’s park equipment, both huge fans of doom metal – listened to it for hours with the lights turned off.”

Don’t you hate it when your imaginary best friend leaves his cocaine baggies everywhere?

But the incident that pushed Gaylord into a murderous rage was when Mr. Happy allegedly crashed Gaylord’s car, and yet, somehow, Gaylord himself ended up under arrest.

“That drunk driving incident I got unfairly blamed for and just how messy he had become put me over the edge and I murdered him. I did the unthinkable and killed my best friend. I’m a terrible, terrible person and I need to be punished.”

It’s reported that Gaylord was incredibly drunk at the time he turned himself in.

Gaylord demanded the death penalty when he turned himself in — pleading for it to be immediate. When police declined to put the distressed man to death for killing his imaginary best friend, Gaylord became belligerent and threatened officers. He was taken into custody and his house searched.

Police found drug paraphenlia and a machine gun in Gaylord’s home, and booked him on multiple charges.

Word Street

is limited to 36 teams totaling 144 players so don’t hesitate! cbhsgolf.com 6/27: 4th Annual Cocoa Beach Pirate Fest at International Palms Resort at 10am.

A free event that celebrates all things pirate! Along with plenty of pirate-themed vendors and delicious food and beverages, there will be a living history pirate encampment, Blackbeard’s ship, an interactive treasure hunt for kids, and water cannon battles in a 150,000 gallon splash pool. The fest will be capped off with an adult’s-only ticketed Pirate’s Ball in the evening. To learn more, go to cocoabeachpiratefest.com

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Smoke on the Water & Fire in the Sky 7/2-7/4: This three-day Independence Celebration will have stunning fireworks displays to dazzle and delight. Enjoy fireworks over the harbor in Port Canaveral on Thursday, fireworks over the beach in Cocoa Beach on Friday, and fireworks over the river in Cocoa Village on Saturday. The celebrations will occur between 8pm and 10pm each night. Call 321-433-4470 for more information.

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6/5-6/6: Cocoa Village 5th Annual BBQ & Blues Festival will see two days of delicious barbecue, amazing Blues acts, and fun for the whole family.

Barbecue experts will be competing against each other for over $10,000 in cash prizes, with categories like People’s Choice, Best Sauce, and Best Dessert. For more information and to see the full schedule of events, go to cocoavillagebbqandblues.com 6/26-7/5: RENT at The Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse.

The beloved Broadway musical and major motion picture will come to the Playhouse for six days. Sing along or experience for the first time this Tony and Pulitzer award winning show.

To learn more or to order tickets, visit cocoavillageplayhouse.com 7/4: Cocoa Village Fourth of July Celebration 2015 at Riverfront Park at 8pm. Enjoy food and beverages and listen to the Brevard Symphony Orchestra as they provide the soundtrack to this patriotic party. Fireworks will begin at 9:15pm. Get more details at cocoafl.org

6/6 : Cocoa Beach Minutemen Football Golf Scramble -The 2015 Cocoa Beach Minutemen

Football Golf Scramble will take place on Saturday, June 6th, 2015 with a shotgun start at 8am. Teams should arrive at 7am. Space in the tournament

Cocoa Beach Library Free Friday Movies at 3pm: “Bon Appetit” 6/5: “The Lunchbox;” 6/12: “Waitress;” 6/19: “Julie and Julia;” 6/26: “The Hundred-Foot Journey”

Port Canaveral 6/19-6/20: Canaveral Mac Attack Fishing Tournament at Port Canaveral. Hosted by The Cove Merchants Association, this SKA sanctioned Division 8 tournament is for Kingfish, Dolphin and Wahoo. A Captain’s Party will take place in the evening on 6/19, and the fishing will take place on 6/20. For more information, go to facebook.com/ CanaveralMacAttack

Melbourne & Eau Gallie

5th Annual Titusville Sea Turtle Festival

6/12-6/13: Come learn about sea turtle conservation and education in a fun family environment!

Friday night will see a street party with a kids activity area, live music, digital films and a Sea Turtle Soiree. Saturday will start with a Playalinda Beach clean up, and afterwards an art reception to see local children’s “Turtle Tribute Art Exhibit”. Go to titusvilleseaturtlefest.com to see the full schedule.

6/6: Surfguys 6th Annual SUP Paddle Challenge at Squid Lips at 8am. There will be a 6.25 mile long course and a 2.5 mile short course. Awards will be given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in both courses. To register, go to paddleguru.com 6/7: 30th Annual Pineapple Man Triathlon. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Melbourne Beach, this test of endurance beings at the historic Melbourne Beach Pier and ends on Ocean avenue. Proceeds benefit the community and different humanitarian projects. Go to

pineapple-man-tri.com to register and to learn more.

6/13: 3rd Annual Bottoms Up Beer Run in Wickham Park at 6pm. Not your typical 4k, this event combines the sport of running or walking with the sport of drinking. Five different home-brews provided by the Spacecoast Associates for the Advancement of Zymurgy (SAAZ) will be consumed by participants along their route, but water will of course also be provided. Proceeds from

Beachside Fireworks Schedule

dishes, there will be arts and craft vendors and live entertainment for a great Friday night out. Go to eaugalliearts.com of find out more.

7/3: EGAD BBQ in the Park at 6:30pm. Bring the family to the square for games, sparklers, live entertainment and BBQ from JR’s Ribshack. Free admission. For more info go to eaugalliearts.com or call 321-574-2737 7/4: Firecracker 5k at 7am.

Starting at the Honor America Liberty Bell Memorial Museum, this is a great way to be patriotic and exercise at the same time. Register at runningzone.com 7/4: Melbourne Fireworks at 9pm over the Indian River Lagoon at Claude Edge Front Street Park. For more info go to melbourneflorida.org

Thurs : July 2

Port Canaveral

Palm Bay

at EFSC

7/3: City of Palm Bay Independence Day Celebration at 4pm on the EFSC Palm Bay Campus. Celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence with live music, food trucks, a kid zone, and a spectacular fireworks display at 9:15pm. To learn more go to palmbayflorida.org

Sat : July 4

Rockledge

at The Cove

Fri : July 3

Cocoa Beach at Sidney Fischer Park

Palm Bay

Cocoa Village at Riverfront Park with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra

Melbourne

at Front Street Park

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7/4: Rockledge’s 29th Annual Independence Day Family Picnic at 10am in McLarty Park. This beloved 4th of July event will have kids’ activities, food, and music. Plus, it’s free! For more info go to cityofrockledge.org

Viera

at Space Coast Stadium

the race benefit St. Baldrick’s and SAAZ. Get more information at facebook.com/ BottomsUpBeerRun 6/19: EGAD EATS! Hosted by the Orlando Food Truck Bazaar, this is the first convergence of different meals on wheels which will continue to take place every third Friday for the remainder of 2015. Along with a variety of delectable

7/4: 21st Annual Great American Celebration at Space Coast Stadium.

Gates will open at 5:30pm for this evening of amazing family fun. In addition to watching the Manatees baseball game, guests will enjoy a private BERM party, an all-you-can-eat BBQ dinner, a commemorative 21st annual event t-shirt, a Manatees baseball cap, and a fireworks show after the game.

Purchase of tickets is required.

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Lifeguards

Be a Real Einstein

by Nataleigh Palmer

Many urban myths surround Albert Einstein. One of my favorites was a very heartfelt mathematical message on the front of his office door “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”

There are many philosophies of money management. From watching the latte factor and not overspending on daily treats to investment. Everyone has an opinion of where you should you save or spend your money.

Every dollar above the minimum you need to keep the lights on and pay the bills is a choice.

Your vote.

Money grants the power of options. We are so fortunate to live in a time where a child’s favorite toy can be purchased on a whim or a family trip can

be booked in seconds. Small and large decisions and a bit of good luck determine our path.

Disposable goods to priceless works of art, everyday we all make a choice.

What will you choose?

Book ofthe Month Being There: In the Battle of the Bulge

By Paul Bruce, $8.00/ Amazon.com Local Resident and Minnesota native Paul Bruce shared his journey from New York Army Postman to solder during the Battle of the Bulge. The Battle of the Bulge occurred during World War II when German forces launched a surprise attack through the dense forests of Ardennes. Heavy losses occurred on both the German and Allied sides. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle the United States fought during World War II and had the most casualties. Winston Churchill declared,” This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory.”.

The specter of D-Day casualties still fresh in everyone’s nightmares, Bruce left his loving wife Norma (who served as a WAVE) to fight in the European theater. He had no idea

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what awaited him. Jack of all trades, he served as a temporary postman, radio man, lineman, paratrooper and MP. From icy covered foxholes to boxcars, he painted a vivid picture of the uncertain everyday life of an Army solder. Nightmare sergeants, accidents, and disabled engines challenged him to keep his cool and stay alive.

Bruce freely poked fun at himself as he relayed stories of a naive young man unaccustomed to the interpersonal conflicts of war. The sharks and heroes who drifted in and out of his life affected his career and survival in unpredictable ways.

Bruce captured the heart and spirit of the young men and women who confront the world’s challenges with their best foot forward. Tom Brokaw wrote in his 1998 book, The Greatest Generation “that these men and women fought not for

fame and recognition, but because it was the “right thing to do.”

An enjoyable whirlwind peppered with funny stories of pranks and misunderstandings. Bruce walks us through a sliver of history with a first person perspective that grants us a rare glimpse of “being there”m.

–Nataliegh Palmer

Are you a local author interested in being reviewed?

Please email: nataleigh. palmer@gmail.com

Horoscopes

by Lance Stardancer

VIRGO

CAPRICORN

The good news is that you’re due to inherit a crapload of currency.

No, really -- a crapload. Luckily, feces is still considered legal tender in certain areas of Burundi.

If you had half a mind, you’d give up all your reprobate ways and get on the straight and narrow. Sadly though, you only have 1/16th of a brain, so all bets are off.

SCORPIO GEMINI When life gives you lemons, you make a really terrible batch of lemonade. Seriously, it’s too acidic. And there’s seeds swimming around in there. Haven’t you ever heard of Country Time? Jeesh.

CANCER You’re never satisfied, are you crab? Things could always be better at work, at home, at school, and in bed. As they say, the grass is always greener on the other side of the penitentiary wall.

LEO You’ve been down for quite some time, haven’t you? Everything looks bleak, dark and foreboding. What you need is a good dose of religion. Unfortunately, no one will accept you into their ranks but the Scientologists. I suggest renting “Battlefield Earth.”

As the sexiest sign in the Zodiac, you always dress to impress.

Your taste in lingerie, however, leaves a lot to be desired. Instead of browsing the racks at Frederick’s of Hollywood, you’re ordering online from Ralph’s of Anaheim.

LIBRA What’s the one thing that keeps you from attaining your goals?

What is it that’s cramping your style? And why can’t those lousy scissors cut through your alcohol detection anklet?

SAGITTARIUS Where did May go? What happened to all those plans you made? That to-do list is still hanging on your fridge and not one task has been crossed off.

Why not start off small, like by changing your socks and burying all those dead cats piled up in the living room?

AQUARIUS If I had a nickel for every time you said something brilliant, water bearer, then I’d have about 17 cents. I threw in my own two cents to give you a leg up. Too bad it doesn’t help.

PISCES You know what your problem is, fish? Absolutely nothing. You’re sitting pretty in the catbird seat on top of the world. Which is exactly why no one can stand your company for more than two minutes at a time. Shut up, will ya?

ARIES Oh, ram. Your life is in dire need of improvement. Start by figuring out which gender you actually are and the rest should fall into place.

TAURUS Boy are you a piece of work.

Never in all my days as an astrologer have I come across such a sick individual. Take 43 aspirin and don’t bother to call me in the morning.

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Gardening Tips

Colorful Shade Gardens

By Nataleigh Palmer

My backyard looks more like Fangorn Forest than a sunny, beachy, tropical oasis.

If various shades of green have you feeling blue, fear not. There are many colorful options for your beautiful shade garden.

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Begonias are perennial flowers that thrive in varying amounts of shade but favor filtered light.

Don’t make the mistake of planting in full shade because flowers need some light to bloom. They can be found in a variety of colors and leaf shapes. They’re hardy, cheerful plants that make great boarders and are happy in pots. Also very easy to grow from seedlings or cuttings.

Impatiens are annual flowers that perfer part to deep shade.

Unlike the more hardy begonias, impatiens are thristy. They need to be watered often and will stress quickly if forgotten over a hot weekend.

Coleus are perennial plants who love bright light or part shade. Beautiful multicolored leaves are great for color in strange corners of your yard where light and shade met.

They can survive as tall trees lose leaves and expose them to too much light and thrive when shaded.

Azaleas (salt tolerant depending how far you are from the

beach) perfer partial shade, dappled is best.

Too much sun burns the leaves, not enough and you won’t get flowers.

Acid lovers, they feel at home under an oak tree.

Oak trees provide the right amount of shade and acidic soil from their leaves. -Nataleigh Palmer Do you know a yard or gardener that you want spotlighted for the next issue? Tell me about it.

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A Splash of Color

By Samantha Deebel

I like to cook with organic veggies and fruits and local, wild-caught seafood whenever possible..

This recipe was concocted in my kitchen, which is fondly named “Sammy’s Mermaid Kitchen.”

As I was preparing it recently, I accidentally bought Bleu Brie instead of the normal Brie, but I must say the bleu really made this dish sparkle! I also ended up scrapping the salsa and using the radish and kale instead.

–I hope you enjoy!

Mermaid Poblano Peppers (Dinner for 2 or appetizers for 4)

2 poblano peppers 1/2 lb. wild-caught Florida shrimp 1 wedge French Bleu Brie Cheese 1 ripe Avocado 1 small watermelon radish 1/2 cup kale chip crumbles

and brush with olive oil. Put on a cookie sheet and roast in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes until tender but crisp.

While the peppers are roasting, steam and peel the shrimp, then set aside. Slice the wedge of Bleu Brie into 4 quarters and slice off the waxy rind. Slice the avocado into quarters and then into smaller slices. When the peppers are done, divide the shrimp evenly into each pepper, top with the cheese slice and the avocado slices. Put back in the oven for about 10 minutes until cheese melts. Garnish with grated watermelon radish and kale chip crumbles.

Cut peppers in half lengthwise

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Bartender ofthe Month

Scott Clark

of Foo Bar Downtown Melbourne a daily basis than almost any vocation, I have to be selective.

Least favorite thing?

The stress of being convivial in a controlled chaos environment.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve witnessed from behind the bar?

Besides the thousands of costumes I’ve seen in the t went y-p lus years of working Halloween, or the gentlemen who did the “Superman” shot to impress new clients, I would say seeing a guy get arrested by U.S. Federal Marshalls because the facial recognition caught him at my bar at the casino during the grand opening.

Scott Clark, mixologist extraordinaire at Melbourne’s Foo Bar, is one of the more accomplished bartenders we’ve featured in these pages.

Scott started bartending in the Washington, D.C. area after serving a tour in the Navy from 1989 to 1994, and later honed his skills for five years behind the bar at Harrah’s Casino in Las Vegas.

Right now, the Melbourne resident enjoys access to the ocean and the weather it brings. “Having lived in colder climates, I’ve learned not to take it for granted.”

Scott also happens to be a monozygotic mirror-image twin.

“We’re most commonly called ‘identical twins,’ but with the twist that we are mirror image.

Age and life have changed us slightly, but we are very alike in a lot of things.”

Take a break from the heat and visit Scott sometime this summer. ... Or is it really him?

What do you love most about your profession?

Watching and learning about the human condition called life unfold in front of my eyes on a daily basis. Making friends with honorable souls I come across.

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What’s the strangest concoction you’ve ever been asked to make?

Hennessey spiked Strawberry Daquiri takes the cake. But the Lemonade and Merlot was the runner for years.

What, in your opinion, is the most overrated drink out there?

Jameson. Joking… Long Island Iced Tea. Reminds me of just mixing everything from your parents’ liqour stash with what was in the fridge. Horrible.

The most underrated?

Jameson. Joking again. Its the shot du jour. I hate it, but it does the trick. I would really have to say gin-based drinks. Gin tends to be on average a higher proof liquor than one expects. It’s medicinal.

What is your own drink of choice?

My Cosmo or Margarita. I have won a competition with my Margarita and dumbfounded other accomplished bartenders with my Cosmo. I am also very well known for my personal recipes for shots and concoctions. I enjoy challenging myself to make new ones almost weekly. If you already visit me, then you possibly already have a personal one.

Can you recommend a triedand-true hangover cure?

A pint glass full of pickle juice. I know sounds like it would make it worse, but what do you have to lose?

Which celebrity, living or dead, would you most like to serve in your bar?

Jimi Hendrix or Frank Sinatra.

It’s a tie for their music and personal style prowess. I would love to see them in their natural habitat called life in front of me.

What are some of the things on your bucket list?

Follow the Silk Road Trail. To travel to almost every country.

Learn to play the guitar.

What would you order for your last meal?

A perfectly grilled steak and macaroni and cheese from my brother with Baked Alaska as dessert. He kills it with both!

What would you like to come back as in your next life?

A pelican. Think about it: they seem to be at the top of their food chain. You can fly, too.

Parting words of wisdom?

Success is measured by how many lives show up to your funeral to pay respect.

Foo Bar is located at 816 E. New Haven Ave. in downtown Melbourne. Call them at (321) 728-7179 and look for them on Facebook: “Foo-Bar”

Chef’s Corner

Suzy McDermott

Mustard’s Last Stand Restaurant ofthe Month Michael and Sheila Pavlick are the owners of the trio of Mustard’s Last Stands located throughout Brevard County.

They came here from California, where Michael was a drummer. In between gigs, he traveled and worked in restaurants. The original Mustard’s was opened in 1987 by Michael’s aunt and uncle.

“In 2003 they asked if I wanted to buy Mustard’s, so we moved to B r e v a r d ,” Michael explains.

“It’s always been family owned.”

Later that year they opened the downtown Melbourne location, and finally opened the S o u t h C o c o a Beach restaurant in March 2015. They specialize in Vienna Beef products from Chicago, and are the only dedicated hot dog restaurant to do so in the area. Recently they even got inducted into The Vienna Beef Hot Dog Hall of Fame, which is only awarded to one or two restaurants across the country yearly. To say that’s quite an accomplishment would be an understatement.

At Mustard’s they make homemade coleslaw, which is

slightly sweet and is perfect for their Salty Dog, a must-try comprised of fried pickles, jalapeños, and New York onions.

They also make homemade vegan and meat chili.

Michael’s favorite? “They’re all good in their own way… We have over 50 different types and a Daily Dog on the specials board. If it’s popular we put it on the menu, that’s pretty much how a lot of our adventurous dogs came about -- others I’ve found during my travels, hence the names.”

The Classic Chicago Dog is the most popular, but another customer favorite is the aptly named Hangover Dog. It all starts with a Vienna Beef, turkey

or veggie dog, then comes chili, cheese, fried egg, bacon, fries, and Sriracha on a fried bun. It’s bound to get you through even the roughest afternoons.

There’s also the Chiwawa Dog, a hot dog rolled in a corn tortilla, fried and then topped with chili, cheese, salsa, jalapeños, and sour cream.

“You might be surprised to know that we even have fried cod,” Michael adds. “We do it as a foot-long Sea Dog with tartar sauce, or as fish and chips.” “ There’s also the Frito Pie,” he tells us.

“It’s a blast from the past from San Diego with Fritos, chili and all the fixings.

We also prepare various types of chicken s a n d wiches.”

“Our Italian roast beef uses Vienna Beef too.

It’s spot-on city style,” he laughs. “We also make homemade potato chips and have over 15 different kinds of fries. For example, there’s the Insanity Fries. They start with long, thin-cut, crispy fries topped with cheese, grilled onions, jalapeños, bacon, spicy ranch, and then a fresh, free-range fried egg goes on top of the whole thing. It’s truly insane.”

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Simpler Times

Though June’s featured chef is rather small in stature, she makes a big first impression with her enthusiastic, forthright manner -- which is probably helped by her prominent New York accent.

Suzy, a Long Island native, was also an NYPD detective for 21 years before retiring in 2010.

but owners Jeremy and Lina Graves draw the line at her shrimp salad, the ingredients of which will forever remain a secret “at all costs.”

The chicken salad featured here is prepared a way one of Suzy’s chef friends used to make it, and it proved to be so good that she hasn’t changed a thing…

Chef Suzy’s Chicken Salad Put two boneless chicken breasts in the oven with a little bit of water in pan. Bake at 350 until chicken is cooked to temperature -- 165 -- then let cool and cut into cubes.

Place the chicken cubes in a bowl, add finely chopped celery and mayonnaise to personal preference.

Season with kosher salt, white pepper, and garlic powder, then chill and serve.

Suzy decided to go to culinary school in 2012 and then moved here to Cocoa Beach in 2013. Now, she’s at the fantastic Simpler Times deli by 6am daily, and sets to work prepping a multitude of recipes for the day.

Some are traditional recipes taught to her by her mother -- for instance, their renowned cauliflower salad -- and others are things she picked up from New York chefs.

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2nd Annual Cocoa Beach Firefighter’s Golf Tournament Who says great things can’t be accomplished in short amounts of time? Enter the 2nd Annual Cocoa Beach Firefighter’s Golf Tournament.

Picture our recreation pavilion by the pool packed to the brim with local business owners, residents, public-safety personnel, elected officials, community leaders, nonprofit organizers, dignitaries and corporate administra tive boards.

The music is playing below the low rumble of the crowd of about 170, food and beverages are being served by the newly-opened L o n g D o g g e r ’s restaurant, golfers are matching up their raffle ticket numbers to claim their prizes, and the pavilion is lined by not-for-profit and corporate tents. It is a colorful and lively scene of networking – not too shabby for just a second attempt at bat for the Cocoa Beach Firefighter’s Charitable Foundation.

Truth be told, the tournament is now almost 30 years old and was previously organized by the Elks of Cocoa Beach. Matthew Ericson of the Cocoa Beach Firefighters gives us some history of the relationship surrounding the tournament hand-off.

“Well, all of the social clubs in the City have been very welcoming and very supportive of us over the years. We have worked very closely with the Shriner’s for decades during

the Cocoa Beach Art Festival, which actually began as a fish fry and a city-wide get together some thirty years ago. A few years back we filed as a nonprofit with the IRS, and during

that season we reached out to all these groups - the Masons, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Elks and so forth, both to make their acquaintance and to find out what we were getting ourselves into. They were all very sweet and genuine people doing great philanthropy in the community – we spoke at some of their meetings and they gave us great advice and were incredibly helpful – we are still friendly with all of them today.”

“Right around that time, we were teaching a lot of CPR to the community and the Elks allowed us to host a few classes at their hall and we established a relationship with them… I have to mention real quickly that the program has been temporarily suspended because we are working on transitioning

that function in the form of a private-public partnership with the City as part of the Fire Department’s public relations program. In any event, a few months later they discussed the possibility of us partnering on the next golf tournament and potentially transitioning the event entirely to our organization. We accepted their offer and it has been a great exp erienc e ever since – an insane amount of work, but a great experience that is greatly beneficial for our community.”

The Firefighters went on to explain how the Elks took them under their wing, taught them about how to organize and execute the event, and the successes and failures they learned over the years. They also spoke on how helpful all involved City staff has been in supporting the event, with a requested name drop and thank you to Joe Tucker at the Golf Course and Theresa Hardcastle at the Recreation Department for all of their helpfulness. I then asked Matt what the Firefighter’s organization actually is and what they do.

“We get asked that a lot actually. Most people see us and they think ‘The Firefighters’ and they’re right, but we actually wear a few hats. We consider ourselves firefighters, community leaders and a Continues on Page 34

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Eric Garvey Executive Director of Brevard’s Tourism Development Council Meet Eric Garvey. When Eric was just four, his father, a Navy pilot, took a job with Delta Airlines in Atlanta, so the Garvey’s moved from their hometown of Virginia Beach down south.

“I went to college and played soccer at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta,” Eric told us. “After college, I started a graphic design business which began my career in marketing/ communications. In 1996, with my wife and two young children, we moved to St. Simons Island on the coast of Georgia for a change in lifestyle.”

“I was a partner at that time in a promotional marketing firm and established an office on St. Simons. Most of our work was with consumer product manufacturers like Coca-Cola and Rich Foods.”

After a few years, Eric left the firm and went to work for the Jekyll Island Authority, which began his career in tourism management.

When he’s not working, Eric loves spending time with his family, and plays golf when time allows.

“I also enjoy keeping up with the European soccer leagues and catching a game on TV when I can. I like to stay active, and I’m looking forward to learning to surf.”

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Describe what you do every day as Executive Director of Brevard’s Tourism Development Council.

The Tourism Development Office (TDO) manages the 5% Tourist Development Tax which is collected on all overnight lodging. The tax is allocated by local ordinance and funds our beach improvement program, cultural marketing, support for the Brevard Zoo, and funded the Space Coast Stadium.

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The Gateway to Adventure Now into its fifth decade, the cruise industry boom shows no signs of slowing down.

In that time, the number of passengers has swelled from under 500,000 annually to more than 20 million in 2014.

Thirteen of the the 23 members of the Cruise Lines International Association, the major cruise trade group, did not exist 30 years ago.

Another change in the industry has been the swift rise of Port Canaveral as a cruise port. It has long been a departure point for cruise lines, but within the last decade, Port

Canaveral has come up behind Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Jacksonville as an embarkation hub for a growing number of canny cruise passengers from all over the world.

It’s reckoned that over 60% of cruise passengers in 2014 set forth from Port Canaveral. That’s a staggering statistic when you account for the historical significance of Miami and Ft. Lauderdale as traditional southern launching points for the Caribbean

Islands -- and destinations further along.

The difficulty for the average potential cruiser is not a dearth of information out there, but the intimidating wealth of particulars to consider.

Karen Bense, owner of Air, Sea & Land Travel in Cocoa Beach confirms this. “”Keeping up with the internet and the changing prices of the airlines, cruise lines and tour operators is our biggest challenge,” she said. “We spend many hours explaining the rules and pricing for the bookings. Lots of times, clients do not read the fine print on the internet and ask us to explain why the price they see there differs from the price we quote them. Once they understand that some taxes are not included in the internet price until they actually complete the booking, they realize we’re giving them a total price with all taxes and fees.”

There are four major cruise lines that operate out of Port

Canaveral: Disney, Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian. But Karen admits that recent bad publicity turns potential passengers off. The biggest misconception out there, she says, is that “people will get seasick.”

Considering the size of the vessels and advents in new cruising technology, you’re more likely to get sick from air turbulence on a flight than seasick on a cruise ship.

Another widely held misconception is that the majority of cruise passengers hail from other parts of the world. The fact is that over 35% come from Florida, and another 25% come from Brevard and surrounding counties alone.

“At certain times during the year,” Karen said, “the cruise lines will offer Florida special resident rates.”

It’s up to customers or trusted travel agents like Karen, however, to check with individual lines to find those windows of

discount opportunity.

Parking is another big bone of contention with cruising newbies.

“There is parking at the cruise terminal parking lots, which is the most costly and there are many off-terminal lots along A1A, including hotels, who have parking available along with shuttle service to and from the port,” Karen informed us.

Regardless, cruising as a travel and tourist option is making incredible inroads in the travel industry at large.

Along with new innovations, recently built ships have enhanced the typical cruise experience in a number of ways.

Standard cabins on most new ships are larger, and there are many more verandas across the price spectrum. More dining

options have become standard, with Norwegian Cruise Lines setting the pace with 11 dining venues on one ship alone.

There are also more entertainment choices, more sports opportunities, greatly expanded children’s facilities, more elaborate spas, internet cafes, in-cabin internet access, wireless facilities, and on-ship cell-phones that work at sea.

As a whole, cruising as a vacation continues to attract new travelers by the thousands and has devotees returning year after year.

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Karen Bense

of Air, Land & Sea Travel With many things changing so abruptly locally, it’s comforting to know that some of the best things here have stayed the same.

Cocoa Beach’s Air, Land & Sea Travel has seen its fair share of changes over the years, but their core values still stand steadfast: to offer reliable, affordable, and experienced travel advice in the midst of almost too many options from online travel sites.

Air, Land & Sea owner Karen Bense, a Connecticut native, moved from Vermont to these shores 29 years ago in search of the beachside lifestyle. She has traveled extensively throughout her life, and has visited some of the world’s most gorgeous beaches, but the draw of Cocoa Beach proved to be too irresistible.

“The ocean and the beach are my go-to place when I want to relax and chill out,” she told us.

“I live on a canal, so I also love to kayak the Thousand Islands.

I’m looking to try paddleboarding next.”

The enthusiastic, active, and community-engaged Karen informed us that Air, Land & Sea Travel was established in 1984 by Joe Harvan. She

purchased the business in 1994 after working for two other travel agencies for eight years.

“After college, I was a flight attendant for seven years before I got married. When my daughter started school, I was looking for something to do related to travel. The opportunity came available to buy Air, Land & Sea, so I did!”

Karen has never looked back, but she has seen a multitude of changes in the profession since she took over here.

“Back in 1994, there were about seven or eight travel agencies in Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach. After the airlines stopped paying agents’ commissions, the number of agencies slowly dwindled,” Karen explained. “Right now, we are the only full-service travel agency in the Cocoa Beach or Cape Canaveral area.”

“After 20 years in downtown Cocoa Beach, we’ve developed a dedicated clientele who have, in many cases, become like family to us. I have an excellent staff

who together have over 100 years experience in the travel industry.”

As a full-service travel agency that books airline tickets, cruises, and tours both domestically and internationally, Karen and her staff know what they’re doing from the inside out. Air, Land & Sea are members of the Cocoa Beach Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Convention & Visitor Board, CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association), ARC (Airline Reporting Corporation), Travelsavers (a national marketing association), and are fully bonded to sell travel by the State of Florida.

As experienced as they are, however, the agency still tackles contemporary challenges head-on. “Keeping up with the internet and the changing prices of the airlines, cruise lines and tour operators is our biggest challenge,” Karen said. “We spend many hours explaining the rules and pricing for the bookings. Lots of times, clients do not read the fine print on the internet and ask us to explain why the price they see there differs from the Continues on Page 34 J U N E 2015

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A large ancient Ais village site has been exposed during a sidewalk excavation in Cocoa Beach, but the proper scientific sampling that can tell us more about this historic discovery in our community may be brushed aside and paved over by the DOT without gathering proper science. You can help change that.

Arriving in Florida as a young boy, local resident Jeff Walker was introduced to small pottery sherds that were commonly found in his backyard along the river by the children of his neighborhood. “Oh, that’s from the Indians that lived all around here...” the kids casually informed, as he examined pieces of dark brown St. John’s pottery discovered while digging a fort in his yard. Time and development plodded on...

Decades later, in a conversation about his personal knowledge of this prehistory in his back yard, Jeff shared that, during his youth, running around the beachside woods of pre-de velopment Cocoa Beach, he had run across other sites. He told me to go look under a certain tree up on the the beach side of the island and I would find a midden where he and other kids had seen artifacts throughout the years. I contacted an archeologist and we followed Jeff ’s directions and confirmed that this highly unlikely positioned site (most village sites are on the riverside) was indeed a shell midden of ancient origin.

This information remained a mystery among a small group of like-minded people for years, curious as to what it meant, this shell midden mound

nestled among acres of lumps, humps, ridges and mounds that sprawled across the undisturbed portions of several private developments along the beach.

Until a couple of weeks ago when Brent Russell (another local Ais enthusiast) called me

on his way to work and said, “They are grinding up the sidewalk in that area. You should go check it out.”

When I got there, I told the Florida Dept of Transportation representative on site that there may be some ancient Indian presence in that area and asked if I could walk along and inspect the open excavated sidewalk trench where they had ground away the old path. I walked along and saw dense, concentrated amounts of mixed shell midden and artifacts exposed

and spilling out along the open earth path for 300+ feet next to a line of lumpy, landscaped ridge, part of the features we had long wondered about. The DOT had opened the hem edge of what turns out to be a series of large middens – refuse piles of shellfish and other food remains – from a large ancient Indian occupation.

From that pedestrian survey of the excavated strip, a small sample of surface collected artifacts was shown to the DOT representatives and to local archeologist – Chairman of the Brevard County Historical Commission, Alan Brech.

Brech, an expert in the history and formation of inlets and the aboriginal occupation of inlets, postulates a theory that this is a village that sat along the edge of the open, flowing, ocean inlet that originally formed the Thousand Islands behind Cocoa Beach. The dating of the village can also date when the

inlet flowed, invaluable data for geologists and archeologists and coastal flooding science. In my diagram of the 1943 pre-development aerial photos of Cocoa Beach you can easily see what appears to be scars along the river edge, which indicate multiple positions of an inlet migrating over a long time. Inward pointing rivulets and a mushroom shaped coquina ridge are both relics of an inlet site.

Presented with the midden evidence, DOT halted work in the area in question. I assumed that all the proper steps were

being followed – professionally inspect, survey, test and then record this amazing discovery of a large village site in our town. The Division of Historic Resources was consulted, DOT hired an archeological consultant to verify the discovery of the middens... and she did. And then, through a slip of a tongue I discovered that DOT was not going to do any scientific testing, or ‘shovel tests’, of the already exposed archeological material that is just laying open at their feet. Why are they squandering an opportunity for accurate dating of this major historic discovery without taking scientific samples? Discoveries just like this, during construction, are supposed to be the way the state collects data for an overall mandated survey of all historic and prehistoric sites in Florida.

I decided I was going to bring that disappointing decision to the light of day for what all of us know to be an extraordinary discovery. I hope to let the DHR and DOT know the people of Cocoa Beach care about history and want to know all we can about this amazing site so that we can understand it, protect it, take pride in it, and enshrine it as part of our community.

The story made the front page of Florida today and FOX news in Orlando, which is helping. The powers-that-be tried to make the argument that somehow we objected to the concrete paving of the new sidewalk...

To be clear, we are all for the sidewalk, we just want them to undertake proper shovel tests (a 3- to 4-hour task), collect the science,and then pave away.

Here is where you can help: I have a petition at Change. org asking for just that, and it seems to be moving them in the right direction. Please sign and share ASAP.

You can find and sign the Petition on my FB fan page -www.facebook.com/rickpiperart

At the time of this printing the decision to test the site was still pending. Go online at www.TheBeachsideResident.com for updates.

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“Spencer has worked as a music conductor and some of us have worked as performance musicians in the orchestras of our local theaters, as well as some of Orlando’s theater companies. In fact, we’re very excited at the moment to be in talks with the Cocoa Village Playhouse on doing a full-on ‘Motown Revue sometime later this year, so that’s something to be on the lookout for,” Spiva revealed.

As for their sound, Spiva admits that it’s a product of each member’s diverse backgrounds. “We each have our own eclectic tastes in music and we’ve been having a lot of

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“We’ve all either known or known of each other from our past musical endeavors, but we first worked together with the local ‘Night of the Classics’ super show that we’ve all been apart of in one way or another,” Spiva told us. “The five of us felt it was time for a new group to emerge in our local scene and had a lot in common regarding thoughts on just what kind of band that could be.”

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In keeping with their impressive musical backgrounds, Hot Pink members have been involved in the Orlando Fringe festival and also Titusville Playhouse’s production of “Parade.”

“In the future we plan on expanding the group and playing bigger and better venues,” Spiva adds. “At some point we’re planning on trying to play venues where we can hire on a full horn section and have backup singers as well. These guys are so talented that I don’t see any limit to our potential as a group.”

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Irish Music Session |Sundays from 6pm | Hogan’s Irish Bar J U N E 2015

Peter Robinson

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Jam Night with Dave Grooms WEDNESDAYS

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Tone Egan and Nick Mascolo FRI : 05

Mondo Tikis SAT : 06

Paul Rowan FRI : 12

Josh Miller SAT : 13

The Dull Blades and Wolfy Lonesome The Architects of Fear FRI : 19

Hot Pink SAT : 20

Damion Suomi FRI : 26

Joel Bailey and the Tear Jerkers SAT : 27

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Adam V 5pm TUESDAYS

Jon Parrot 5pm WEDNESDAYS

Jim Mitchell 5pm FRIDAYS

Tone Egan 12pm SATURDAYS

Splash 12pm

Andy 5:30pm Matt & Eric 5pm SAT : 20

Chili 5pm SUN : 21

Smoke N Oak 5pm THURS : 25

General Eyes 5pm FRI : 26

Smoke N Oak 5pm SAT : 27

Matt & Eric 5pm SUN : 28

Splash 5pm

Sandbar Sports Grill SUNDAYS

DJ Colione and DJ Cerino 9pm-close MONDAYS

Reggae/Ska 9pm-1am TUESDAYS

Teddy Time 4pm-8pm DJ Colione 9pm-1am WEDNESDAYS

Jam Session 9pm-close

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Mondo Tikis 4pm-8pm Pat Michaels 4pm-8pm THURS : 11

Island Breeze 4pm-8pm FRI : 12

General Eyes Acoustic 4pm-8pm Dub Masters 9pm-close SAT : 13

Tape Deck 4pm-8pm Hot Pink 9pm-1am SUN : 14

Smokin Torpedos 4pm-8pm MON : 15

Stompbox Steve 4pm-8m WED : 17

Moses Minons 4pm-8pm THURS : 18

Cocoa Beach Boyz 4pm-8pm FRI : 19

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General Eyes Acoustic 4pm-8pm 506 Crew 9pm-close

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Interconnects with the Public Radio satellite system

1995

Format changes to Smooth Jazz and station becomes a National Public Radio affiliate

2000

Studio renovation, live Internet streaming and 24/7 broadcasting

THURS : 04

2004

Matt K.

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Buck Barefoot

2006

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Andy Harrington THURS : 11

2010

Matt Riley FRI : 12

Stompbox Steve SUN : 14

Andy Harrington FRI : 19

Buck Barefoot

2012

2005

First radio station on the Space Coast to broadcast in HD Radio

30th Anniversary

Format changes to “Triple A” (Adult Album Alternative) with an eclectic blend of blues, rock, world, folk, electronica and roots music

A $1.57 million Public Education Outlay Grant from the Florida Department of Education initiates planning for a $1.8 million, 6,500-square-foot broadcast facility

New facility debuts on Oct. 11, 2012. With the new WFIT Broadcast Center, the station expands its community outreach with programming, cultural events and concerts.

2015 WFIT celebates 40 years of Public Radio on the Space Coast!

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Just Us Band 4pm-8pm

Sandbox Steve

Cocoa Beach Boyz 4pm-8pm

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Pat Michaels 4pm-8pm

The Tiny Turtle at Mai Tiki Market

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Regarded as one of the top alternative music college radio stations in the country

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Stompbox Steve 4pm-8pm

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1975 WFIT founded as a student-run college radio

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The Evolution of WFIT

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Andy 5:30pm FRI : 05

The Higgins 5pm SAT : 06

Jim Mitchell 6pm SUN : 07

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General Eyes 5pm FRI : 12

Chili 5pm SAT : 13

Smoke N Oak 5pm SUN : 14

Higgins 4:30pm

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Album Reviews

by M.A. Rivera

Amon Tobin The Foley Room Ninja Tune, 2007

Since 1997, Brazilian-born electronica wizard Amon Tobin has distanced himself from the genre’s surplus of cut-and-paste dabblers with a deference for organic rhythms and a keen ear for forgotten melodies. Incredibly, each of his 11-odd releases is an aural benchmark, and The Foley Room is no exception.

Built around shards of otherworldly white noise, the album layers drums lifted from Buddy Rich/Gene Krupa-like wigouts, free-jazz horn orations, and threads of suitably tweaked orchestral motifs.

Tracks like the filmic “Keep Your Distance,” “Ever Falling,” and “Straight Psyche” straddle the line between unsettling and soothing, while “Big Furry Heads” and the organ-driven “The Killer’s Vanilla” abandon that balance entirely. Bravely avoiding the unending loop structures commonly employed by lesser artists, Tobin fashions jagged, complex tunes out of surprising sounds and myriad textures. If you’re at all confused about music’s future direction, look no further for indicators; Amon Tobin holds the map.

Genki Genki Panic Ghoulie High Harmony

Independent Release, 2015 IAnyone who knows me, knows I enjoy the aesthetics of Halloween way more than Christmas, which is why there’s usually some ghoulish decoration still lingering around the home come January. I no longer pretend it’s laziness; I’ll just admit my weakness for most things creepy. So when Genki Genki Panic sent me their musical care package I had the warm

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fuzzy feeling of abject terror go through my veins. Genki Genki Panic are another really fun, landlocked, instrumental surf rock band. From Chatanooga, Tennessee, this band is perfect for your haunted tiki bar and related witchy goings on. “The Munge” is all muscle and brawn, throwing elbows as it pushes through a crowd before taking on all comers in a bare knuckle free-forall. “Drag the Lake” is a hang ten, classic drop surf number.

“Camp Crystal Lake” references the “Friday the 13th” film franchise and is nice

for being more restrained. It holds tension and swells and pulses like your heartbeat as you wait to scream “Don’t go in there!” in a crowded theater. “Your Body is a Wasteland” drives and moves like a zombie chomping down and getting it’s first taste of brains.

The punkishly quick “976EVIL” is my favorite track.

Two catchy riffs and a driving rhythm propel this forward with God knows what on your heels, but you don’t dare look back. This two man act from the spooky hollers (suburbs?) of Tennessee bear considerable watching. For one they’re really good. And for two, they are up to no good. Let’s hope they continue to entertain the dark and nepharious thoughts which have clouded their minds and brought them to this point. And may

this mental unrest continue to plague them for a long time to come.

Bad Luck Baby Put The Jinx on Me No Tomorrow Boys

Hound Gawd Records, 2014 This is an overlooked gem from my seriously cluttered In-box.

But we here at Indie Musicdot-C-O, are a one man outfit mostly, so WE are seriously undermanned most days. This said, I freakin’ love this disc – it’s oily, greasy, slippery, and you know, generally bad for ya. So this is like the audio version of salty, fried food.

Only gluten-free and covered in Velveeta: slippery, slithery and hard to get a handle on. Think Gene Vincent weaned on the MC5, Bad Brains and gallons of Cuban coffee.

Seriously, there’s a great jittery, unsteady quality like if you took a Buddy Holly 33, played it at 45, took a pencil and poked the speaker full of holes, well just because you could, it’d be a lot like this and worth the ass kicking you’d get from your old man when he get’s home and sees what the hell you did to his vintage Bose he’s been taking such good care of all these years.

About halfway through listening to ‘Bad Luck Baby Put The Jinx on Me’, you get the impression this is what The Misfits (original line-up) were shooting for when they wrote “American Nightmare.” “I Want a Lot (Not a Little),” “Rovin’ Man Blues,” and “Teen Age Vice” are all straight forward, unpretentious, and as American as a big block Chevy, aimless road trips and making long term plans with girls in tube tops you just met. No Tomorrow Boys got their musical references straight and attack these songs with a demented fury that’s impressive.

Put this on and get your head straight.

Local Amp They’re Not Joking:

A Tribute To Dead Serios Review by Bart Savagewood

Maybe you’re not from here. So your lack of understanding is understandable.

Dead Serios are currently back together after a many year hiatus, and better than ever. So what could be more fitting for the 30 year anniversary for heavy metal’s clown princes of thrash than a tribute from many of the artists they directly had a hand in inspiring? That’s exactly what this is and better than most anyone could have predicted or hoped for. This collection of ten songs rocks, rattles and oozes into places you’d never expect Dead Serios songs to go, not of their own accord exactly. This speaks volumes to how far-reaching the influence of this little band from the Harbor City is.

Skurvy the Clown, in many ways Dead Serios’ bastard heirs to lowbrow humor, kick off the disc with the best known, most radio played of all DS tunes, “Butterbean Queen.” There’s some Beastie Boys style threemen-on-the mic rapping and some great beat-boxing (is it even called that anymore?) by Brendon Keith to give it a spin.

The lead is wonderfully chaotic and over the top before returning to more lyrical wonderment of the once teenaged pop doll, Tiffany.

“Pizza Face” is given the total power ballad treatment

by Nightfall, and you know, I’m favoring it. If you want a slow song to make out to on a crowded gym floor at a middle school dance like it’s 1987, this version will do ya.

Bring your own time machine.

Katty Shack take us to the islands with ska (punk) and reggae-ish treatment of “No Pipe for Potato Head.” Before DS found confidence in their sense of humor they penned the occasional, more serious minded number.

Such is “Harbor City,” punched up here by Ty Oglesby with the help of UFO’s Paul Chapman on lead guitar.

Glitter Dollz head into the garage with their oily, tuff gurl reading of “Bad Luck.” It’s a slippery, rough and tumble

rocker. “People Need Ozzy” gets the most severe redressing by Fretless Rock, tearing up an instrumental version like a demented string quartet. Lazaras sinks their rotten teeth into the holiday classic, “Dead Under the Tree.” Dead Serios themselves even tracked

the long unrecorded, live staple, “Buster’s Got a Booger,” finally giving the number it’s due. Joey Image of The Misfits fame makes an appearance and is great. So is DigiSex Gimp.

One of the great things on this disc is wildly and widely varied the interpretations are.

And that’s what a great tribute disc ought to have. Re-imaginings and inversions of songs so they’re new all over again.

In terms of impact and influence, you’d be hard pressed to find a bigger thumbprint on the Space Coast’s sound-scape.

You could see DS headline at a club, see them open up for touring MTV acts. Talk to them afterward, and they were accessible. You could ask them how something was done, and for the most part, they’d tell

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If there’s an original band you saw live ’round this way in the late 80’s or 90’s, and they were playing and writing their own songs, booking DIY tours further away than Jacksonville, and absolutely playing for keeps every time they went on stage, then they were influenced in some way by Dead Serious, and that’s no joke.

All proceeds of this disc go to benefit the Genesis House. genesishouse-shelter.org www.ghoultone.com or on facebook: deadserios

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The Art Side

Pop Art In America

at the Foosaner Art Museum This summer, until August 30, art goes Pop at the Foosaner Art Museum, located in the Eau Gallie Arts District.

The exhibition, drawn from the collection of the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, includes works by artists at the heart of the the American Pop Art movement: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Larry Rivers, Jim Dine, and Robert Indiana.

The term “Pop Art” was first used in print by British writer and curator Lawrence Alloway in 1955 to describe a new form of “popular” art – a movement characterized by imagery borrowed from consumerism and popular culture.

Pop Art emerged in London in the mid-’50s and during the latter part of that decade in New York. By the late ‘60s, it had become the dominant avantgarde style.

Artists in the movement tried to target a broad audience by using images that were easy to recognize and understand.

Drawing from

the

consumer packaging and borrowing images from popular films and TV programs, Pop Art, with its modern feel and use of bold colors, revolutionized the way we look and think about art.

Andy Warhol hardly needs an introduction; virtually everyone is familiar with one or another of his works, but the depth of the simple images he produced – and reproduced – is often misunderstood. But Warhol did not simply paint representations of just any object. An active process of selection seems to inform his

work, and his images are largely based on those iconic commodities of everyday life we all know, but never truly examine.

His large body of work in many ways steered the eventual development of Pop Art as we understand it today.

Roy Lichtenstein, another giant of the movement, employed a procedure that lay in the enlargement and unification of his source material – whether its original purpose was to tell a story or sell a consumer product – on the basis of strict artistic principles.

Lichtenstein emphasized that comic strips and advertisements were not realist, as is often assumed, but highly artificial pictures that convey their messages with a sparing use of pictorial conventions.

A constant if restrained irony and a gentle sense of humour contribute just as much to the cheerful lightness of Lichtenstein’s work as the balanced, completely harmonious composition.

Likewise, the lesser-known James Rosenquist took as his inspiration the subject and style of modern commercial culture. Through a complex layering of such motifs as Coca-Cola bottles, kitchen appliances, packaged foods, and women’s lipsticked mouths and manicured hands, Rosenquist’s large canvases and prints embody and comment on the dizzying omnipresence

of the consumer world.

As well as being a painter, Larry Rivers, was also a sculptor, jazz saxophonist, writer, poet, teacher, and sometime actor and filmmaker whose work both intrigued and appalled viewers with its bold, almost crude forms, and titillating subject matter.

After moving to New York in 1958, Jim Dine instantly became an active figure in the

New York art scene, creating and staging many of the first “Happenings” along with artists Claes Oldenburg and Robert Whitman. His images are simple, warmly colored rendering of shapes and symbols rendered into harmonious and seemingly jarring patterns that recall the work of Paul Klee decades before him.

Born Robert Clark in Indiana, Robert Indiana took his native state’s name after moving to New York in 1954, a gesture that presaged his Pop-inspired fascination with Americana, signage, and the power of ordinary words. Few Pop images are more widely recognized than his LOVE prints. Originally designed as a Christmas card commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art in 1965, LOVE has appeared in prints, paintings, sculptures, banners, rings, tapestries, and stamps.

Selected works from these and other Pop artists will be on display at the Foosaner through August 30. The exhibition is augmented by a July 16 showing of the film “Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture,” a screening of “Easy Rider” on August 20, and a Pop Art Family Day event t be held on August 22.

The Foosaner Art Museum is located in the Eau Gallie Arts District at 1463 Highland Ave. in Melbourne. Call (321) 6748916 or visit www.foosanerartmuseum.org

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I’ve Got a Cocoa Beach Soul I Can Barely Control (...and Some Oregon Hidden Deep in My Heart)

By Scooter Newell • sk8scooter@gmail.com www.cocoabeachskatepark.com working and busy with life and prepping for Down 4 It, so I took to the streets. I started out on foot and decided to look for an old diner I ate at once about eight years ago. After zigtime I found myself just apol- zagging a few blocks, I found ogizing for not being in touch myself at a Veteran’s Memorial as often as I should and tell- Building and I took a detour ing her why it was so difficult and went inside. It was started for me to just simply call her. I by WWII veterans when they laughed and found strength in were first returning home in the her responses as she explained 1940s. The man who ran the facility, Bob, was very welcoming and informative as he showed me around the ballroom, offices, r e s t a ur a nt , and more.

I explained to him that I Photo: Michael Brinkerhoff just saw the Utah Honor that “All we can do is work from Flight during a layover in here on... and that’s all.” It was Salt Lake City before comso simple, but to hear it from ing to Oregon. I told him that her meant so much to me. We we stood and waved as these stayed until the server made WWII Veterans came through every possible “We are Closed” security one by one and I made gesture in the book, paid our sure to watch them all, since my tab, and called it a night. layover was long enough to do I had the whole next day so. I still had time for the Sky to myself since Chelsea was Club (thanks, Mom!). I said,

I was driving North on Highway 99 outside of Eugene, Oregon, heading to the airport, when the song “Wind of Change” by The Scorpions came on the radio.

I had spent the last five days in Eugene visiting my daughter, who performed in a show called “Down 4 It.” My daughter’s name is Chelsea, and she is part of a professional dance company called Dance Northwest/ D2. I had never seen any of her shows other than video clips and a few photos via the internet and when she told me about this show back in March, I thought: ”I hope I see some footage of this.”

Then another thought came to me: “No! You should go out there and watch it.” So, with a little text coordination, I was on my way.

When I got to Eugene on Thursday, I waited around until Chelsea got off work. She picked me up and drove to the Steelhead Brewery to have a late snack and catch up. A lot of the

or at least mouthed, the words: “Thank you” to each of them as they looked my way. Some smiled, some said, “You’re welcome,” and some saluted. I was honored.

My grandfather was in that war, and was lucky enough to make it home. I felt that I had to stand there for him -- and maybe even for all those who never made it home. Those veterans deserved for us to stand there out of respect . As I told Bob the story of my layover, he interrupted and said, “Tomorrow is the 70th Anniversary of the Allies’ defeat of Nazi Germany... that must be why they’re going.” I spoke to the Honor Flight organizer and he said they had to raise money for each of these veteran’s flight and expenses. I was blown away.

All the things we spend money on and we can’t pay for some of our oldest living veterans to go see their own memorial? Something is wrong with that. But anyway, back in Oregon, Bob finished showing me around

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unsupervised, but the vibe was great as far as the skating goes.

I skated the park twice that day and even landed a few tricks from the ‘80s.

The next day, I jumped in the car and was on my way to see Down 4 It. The auditorium was packed. Chelsea’s company was hosting this event and there were 10 other companies performing as well. It was a bit chilly for Florida blood but I only had a mile to walk. When I got within a few blocks of the hotel I noticed a woman sleeping on the sidewalk wearing a skirt and tanktop. She asked me for a cigarette. I asked her if she wanted my flannel. She nodded yes and I draped it over her and, with her eyes closed, she smiled. I walked on smiling and thinking about Chelsea and her performance. I was so proud to be her dad tonight. Every night. I kept on walking and started noticing the cool wind -- The Wind of Change.

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and talking about his kids and grandkids who were all serving in the military. I felt like all of this was connecting itself to me for a reason so I decided to make a small donation to the Veteran’s Memorial Building, said goodbye to Bob, decided to skip that breakfast joint and went back to the room and grab my skateboard.

I skated through downtown Eugene to the Washington Jefferson Park, which is on the edge of downtown where a new skate structure had been built.

It had already been featured in videos and was an amazing addition to the skate scene in Eugene. I lived there briefly in 2005-2006 and there were 8 concrete parks and none of them as nice as this gem. The park was the epitome of the current modern trend in skate park construction, complete with streetstyle areas, ledges, bowls and concrete ramp sections that are fused to large rocks for that western landscape look. It is under a bridge and

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It’s Too Hot Not to Surf

By Dan Reiter

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Waterman’s Challenge - June 5-7 Cocoa Beach’s favorite grassroots surf contest will be going on June 5th, 6th and 7th at the International Palms Resort. As usual, we’re shaking up the divisions. The Surfrider chapter challenge is bound to be competitive this year. Who will come out on top? Cocoa Beach?

The Sebastian chapter? Someone else? We will have plenty of longboard, shortboard, and stand-up divisions.

Come check it out!

The Waterman’s Challenge official party will be Saturday night ( June 6th) at Mambo’s, starting at 7 p.m.

Hurricane Season Begins June 1

on the beach in July. Stay tuned on Facebook for more details.

Last year’s standout storm was Gonzalo. Who knows what the Atlantic has in store for us this year? Here’s hoping some Saharan dust storms spin off and take that north curve up the coast...

The Florida Surf Museum is located in the Ron Jon Watersports Building. Visit www. cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org, or check Facebook — “Cocoa Beach Surf Museum.” Formal name and web address changes are forthcoming. Call 2588217 for more information.

Programs are supported in part through a grant sponsored by the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners and managed by the Brevard Cultural Alliance.

Swap Meet May’s potluck/ swap meet was a ton of fun. We had a great turnout. People brought food, boards, fins, wetsuits, skateboards, and more. Due to popular demand, we’re going to host another picnic/ board swap

Boardrider ofthe Month

Larry Rother

by Jenny Bilchak

With the end of school upon most of the country, the countdown for travel dates marked on the calendar has begun.

With the end of school upon most of the country, the countdown for travel dates marked on the calendar has begun.

Sitting at Surfinista talking to this months Boardrider, Larry Rother, I was taken on a mini-vacation as well as a trip through time. I didn’t have to watch “Endless Summer” to understand the culture of surfing in the ‘50s and ‘60s in Hawaii, I just had to get a cup of coffee and spark a conversation.

Larry’s father was born and raised in Hawaii. After fighting in WWII he fell in love overseas and brought her back to the islands. Not long after, Larry was born in Triple Army Hospital in 1949. His family settled down in Waihee-Waiehu when he was 7, not far from his father’s base, Schofield Barracks.

Waihee-Waiehu, a small plantation town up on a hill with lots of red clay and the smell of pineapples in the air, had no immediate appeal.

But within 20 minutes you could get to the North Shore and Larry grew up surfing empty Haleiwa, Laniakea, Pipeline, and Sunset breaks. Larry remembers his first ride on the other side of the island. He went to visit his

grandmother, a housekeeper in a very affluent area. The owner was a widow off on safari in Africa and she had a longboard sitting in the back yard of her oceanside home. Larry decided to take the board out to a kneehigh reef break and rode his first wave on his stomach at the age of 10 and was hooked. I asked Larry if anything takes his back to that moment. He said, “No, nothing like that first time, but every ride is special.”

Larry and I touched on the evolution of surfboards. “Growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s, you saw people only riding longboards. I don’t think enough credit is given to boogie boarders. I used to go to Waikiki to a place called The Wall and marvel over these guys who would stand up, make sections, and fly. I never put boogie boards and shortboards together, but by the mid ‘70s longboards were out and shortboards in.”

About three years ago, I surfed one of the last days at Pine Trees in Kona because of condo development and wondered if Larry saw that happen much. Surprisingly, he said no, he thought after 50 years the sand would shift and coral reefs would die, but not much has changed.

What he has seen change is the beach itself. “Growing up, beaches were pristine – just sand and some bushes you would park behind. Now you see concrete, grass, showers and pavilions…

It’s just different,” he says.

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Larry came to Cocoa Beach a few years ago after living around the U.S. for the last 20 years. Shortly after moving here, he had local Sean Slater at Sslater’s Bait & Tackle shape him a 9’10 board for mid and large waves.

Then he had his 9’2 Ron Maze shipped over from Hawaii and he also acquired a board called “The Machine” – a wave jet that helps him get past the white water on big days.

“Try surfing twice,” he advises. “You may not like it the first time, but the second time you will understand the feelings that will come over you being a part of the ocean and our planet.

Also keep Cocoa Beach the way it is.

No highrises like in Waikiki. Keep the country country, as they like to say in Hawaii.”

I ran into Larry a few weeks ago on a busy, flat Sunday walking around Coconuts Beach picking up trash through his support of our local Surfrider Association, and he wanted to give a shoutout to his mom, who has recently had to leave her home in Hawaii and move in with her daughter in Texas.

When you see Larry around town, make sure to give a warm Aloha. Remember Aloha is not just a greeting, but a state of being.

Mahalo, everyone.

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without filters. When filters were first introduced in the early 1950s Kent brand cigarettes used asbestos as part of their filter. The filters themselves may be adding to the carcinogenic effect of smoking as they are made with thousands of plastic fibers that are linked to several negative health consequences. These plastics cause resistance to biodegrading and is a factor in littering, environmental damage, and suggested lung damage.

A ban on cigarette filters makes sense. Since they are contributing to the negative health consequences of smoking, littering the earth, and polluting our soil and water with toxic chemicals they serve no purpose.

Please join us.

Upcoming Events The researchers call filtered cigarettes a “farce” in terms of consumer safety, with a recent National Cancer Institute review showing that these are not healthier or safer than non-filtered ones. Jonathan Samet from the University of Southern California advised the California State Legislature that “it is evident that filtered cigarettes have had little impact on the risks of smoking over the last half century.”

Since existing anti-littering laws have not decreased the quantity of cigarette butts on the ground, researchers are asking for new environmental interventions and partnerships with environmental organizations. Another proposal is to hold the tobacco industry legally responsible for clean-up (cigarettes are the most common form of litter in the world) and to add labels on cigarette packages about the toxicity of discarded butts.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other

researchers discovered that a cigarette butt soaked in a liter of water for 4 days will kill both the topsmelt and the freshwater fathead minnow species. Filters float and are washed to and in storm drains when it rains and end up in our lagoon.

Fifty entire years after the Surgeon General declared smoking cigarettes to be harmful, tobacco continues to be the single greatest cause of preventable cancer mortality worldwide.

The tobacco industry is pretty shady. They added a filter to continue to market their product in a more “healthful” way and declared that filtered cigarettes have “low-tar” however research results indicate that the risks of tobacco to health remain extremely strong and some concentrations of carcinogens in cigarettes have likely increased with time.

The first cigarettes were wrapped in corn husks. In the 17th century husks were replaced with paper and until the 1950’s cigarettes were sold

Wednesdays: Surf Flix, Coconuts, 6 p.m.

June 6-7: Waterman’s Challenge, International Palms Resort June 6: Surfrider Challenge, International Palms Resort June 17: Monthly Meeting, The Surfinista, 6 p.m.

June 19: Cocoa Beach Friday Fest June 20: Surfers For Autism and International Surfing Day, Lori Wilson Park

Whether you surf, body board, swim, fish, bike, walk, or just enjoy a clean, healthy beach, please consider joining the Surfrider Foundation. We hold regular meetings on the third Tuesday of every month, 6 p.m. at The Surfinista, 86 N. Orlando Ave. in Cocoa Beach. Hope to see you there. Visit www.cocoabeach. surfrider.org

Fishing Report

The Atlantic Frenzy!

By Capt. Jamie Glasner www.finandflycharters.com

Every year I look forward to June, and I’m so glad it’s finally here.

Pelicans Surf

By Thomas McGauley

Pelicans surf, of course. Everyone knows this, and if they don’t, all they have to do is go down to the beach and watch them do it.

They track the swells, inches above the water, in single file.

They look like a squadron of B-17 bombers over the Rhine River in 1944.

Then they swoop in and glide along the open face of the wave. Their long, curved wings almost touch the water. They lift, they cruise, they sway.

When the wave crests the water birds rise over it. Surfers call this a floater. But no kid at Sebastian Inlet ever did a floater as powerful as a pelican.

In this behavior, pelicans are not seeking aerodynamics, or ground effects – they are having fun. They are surfing.

The pelican on land is an awkward and ugly bird. It has big,

webbed feet and walks like a drunkard. It has a long beak and an extended throat pouch for scooping fish.

But these large birds are remarkable fishers. They hover in the air, spot something, and dive, beak first, into the water.

They submerge for seconds, and surface with a meal, water draining from the pouch. But sometimes they take the easy way and steal a fish from a fisherman.

Pelicans, like their human surfing counterparts, do not always get along with fishermen.

When pelicans take to the air they are graceful indeed. Over land, they fly in V-formations.

They fly high, over the dunes, over the condos, in the currents, and can go for some distance without having to flap their wings.

But over water pelicans always fly in single file. They knew the dynamics of drafting before the boys at NASCAR. Pelicans seem to especially enjoy the early morning swells; it is wonderful to see them when the ocean is glassy and glazed by the sun. They spurn the face of the wave. Kelly Slater has nothing on them.

The only surfing problem these goofy sea birds have is that the waves in Florida can often be so small it’s difficult to catch a good ride. When the sea is flat, fewer pelicans cruise the shoals.

Dolphins also surf, but seagulls do not surf. Seagulls are like frat boys: gathering in large numbers, showing off, raising Cain, squawking and quarreling. But they do not surf.

Seagulls are kooks.

If the polar ice caps melt, and Florida slides back into the sea, one thing will remain: pelicans dipping a wing near the curl of a wave.

June is the start to my favorite time to fish, because there are so many different species to target around this time of year – kingfish, red snapper, sharks, jacks, flounder, ‘cudas, bonitos, and snook, to name just a few. If you’re the kind of person who likes to sight-fish tailing redfish on the skinny water flats, then you’ll love sight fishing large, laid-up tarpon along the beaches from Port Canaveral down to Satellite Beach. It gives me goosebumps just writing about it...

I can’t explain how intense it

is to feel the power of a silver king, and let me tell you, not only is it intense, but they also really challenge your angling abilities. Just remember one

thing: “Bow to the king.”

Now onto the snook. June is an awesome month to target snook because it’s their spawning season. Large

schools of snook will stage up in the mouths of inlets, and one of my favorite places to run my snook charters is down at the St. Lucie Inlet in Stuart. In 2009, I had one of the best snook bites I have ever witnessed there – we ended up with just a little over 75 of them ranging from 15-30lbs. Absolutely insane. There are also a good number of snook that will stage around our jetties at Port Canaveral.

Bombers and live bait are the ways to go when fishing around here.

Now for our famous redfish... The Mosquito Lagoon seems like the place to be for targeting these guys, reason being that the Mosquito Lagoon still has grass flats, which provides a whole ecosystem of bait fish for the redfish to feed on. The Banana River is also good for redfish durng the fall mullet run when the water is at its highest point.

If you do come across some redfish, try using jigs, as they have been very aggressive toward the jigs and cut bait.

Good luck and be safe on the water – and if you’re interested in a tarpon charter, give me a call!

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Reserve Airmen support fourth launch of unmanned reusable spacecraft by 45th Space Wing Public Affairs

Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing provided range-clearance and safety support for the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 11:05 a.m. EST, May 20, from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Onboard the rocket was the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the U.S. Air Force.

The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold: reusable spacecraft technologies for America’s future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth.

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The successful launch marked the fourth trip into orbit for the OTV. Hours before launch, two

wing HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters took off from Patrick AFB to patrol the Eastern

Range, the 70-mile long by 10-mile wide swath of ocean extending east from the Cape that must be cleared of all air & marine traffic prior to every launch to ensure boaters are a safe distance from potentially falling rocket debris.

The 920th performs combat search and rescue as its primary mission, which includes rescuing servicemembers trapped and or wounded behind enemy lines.

Additionally, the wing is responsible for civil search and rescue, humanitarian relief and support of rocket launches. To date, the unit has saved more than 4,000 lives, both in peacetime and combat.

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Restaurant Mustard’s There’s a blackboard chalk wall for the kids to express their artistic talents, and a beautiful back porch so you can bring Fido. In fact, all three locations have dog-friendly patios.

Beer is also available, with eight different drafts on tap, including all your favorite craft concoctions. Mustard’s also offers a generous Happy Hour, specials like the Daily Dog Creation, and a 20% military discount on Mondays. All locations offer the same menu,

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Local Scribe Firemen’s Golf philanthropic organization. As ‘The Firefighters’ we live in the City an entire third of our lives – we live here, play here, shop and dine here and take our kids to the beach HERE. We also have an incredibly relational job. All of our firefighters are one extended family – we live together, we hang out outside of work and our kids are all growing up together. And as anyone knows, when you live with someone you see the best and worst of their character and habits so we get to navigate that fun little piece all the time which gives the job an additional element that’s… interesting! We also have a ton of interaction with our residents and visitors.

We are the first face they see on their worst day, we usually bring

and Eau Gallie and Melbourne provide convenient drive thru service.

If you text “mustardslaststandfl” to 31901 you’ll receive a special discount every Wednesday just by showing your phone.

“We are continuing to upgrade the Cocoa Beach location and look forward to the same funky décor as our other restaurants,” says Michael.

“Bring in your old license plates -- we have a great wall collection that’s getting bigger every day,” he adds.

Come see the adventures that Mustard’s Last Stand has to offer. You won’t be disappointed. some level of calm to those situations and just about everybody sees us at some point in their lives. We are well liked and it is rare that we can go out in public and not run into some of our friends here in town.”

“In way of ‘Community Leaders’, we are all very involved in the community and its events, we do have a tremendous amount of public trust which is our prized possession – and we spend a lot of time fostering and stewarding that resource. We love this City and believe in her, and because of that we watch our local politics very closely and we encourage the community to engage in that process, learn about our issues, support our elected officials in the difficult and oftentimes thankless job that they have, and bring solutions to the table that will enhance our collective future.”

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price we quote them. Once they understand that some taxes are not included in the internet price until they actually complete the booking, they realize we’re giving them a total price with all taxes and fees.”

Karen and her staff face other newer challenges as well.

“Everything takes more time than it used to, because there are so many travel sites people are looking at before they call us,” she said. “The internet is a great resource for information on destinations, but people still like to get advice from a qualified travel agent.”

During the summer and fall, Karen says popular destinations for clients are Europe – particularly Italy and Spain – and Alaskan cruises are sought out in the summer, while winter sees people looking to head to the Caribbean.

As for her own travels, Karen once counted her favorite trips to be ski trips each winter. But, she says, she has cut down that activity now that she’s older.

“One of my favorite trips,” she adds, “was a yoga and hiking trip to northern Spain with a group of 15 active women whose ages were 32 to 70. Australia is on my bucket list for next year.”

What’s one of the biggest challenges you’ve faced since taking on the job? I know there was some struggle about how to brand – or re-brand – the Space Coast when you first began. Do you think you’ve figured that out yet?

Air,Land & Sea Travel Agency, Inc. is located at 66 N. Atlantic Ave., Ste. 102 in Cocoa Beach.

Call (321) 783-4900 or (800) 799-1094 or visit www.als-travel. com for more details.

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The key for our destination marketing strategy is to not only create a coherent brand image for the Space Coast, but through the brand spotlight and not overshadow the destinations within the Space Coast – Cocoa Beach, Titusville, Melbourne, Melbourne Beaches, Port Canaveral, etc. This will be a challenge, but I know there is a creative solution and we will be working hard to successfully find the right approach.

How much of a role does – or should – the Port play in the Space Coast’s success?

The Port is a key piece of the puzzle and cruise-related tourism is actually the only segment driving new hotel development.

We are working on a co-marketing framework with the Port to help grow cruise-related tourism and maximize the opportunity it represents.

I learned recently that Disney Cruise Lines has a new offer for patrons to shuttle them directly back and forth to the parks and ships. Is there a way to entice these tourists off the “Disney Route” and get them to spend more time here in Cocoa Beach or Cape Canaveral?

As I understand it, Disney’s business model is to capture as much of the guest spending as possible. So I do not expect they will allow any other options for their cruise passengers other than a Disney excursion. We need to focus on the other cruise lines which are open to programs which will enhance the cruise guest experience and encourage more participation in our tourism product and attractions.

What percentage of cruise tourists do you reckon spend a few days here before or after their trips?

I reviewed a recent study that said 38% of cruise passengers stay on average 1.1 nights preor post-cruise. I know we are losing some of this market to hotels in Orlando, so we need to continue to elevate the profile of our community so more guests will choose to stay on the Space Coast and even extend their stay to enjoy what we have to offer.

What would you say is this area’s best kept secret – something the average middle American might take for granted about this place?

The natural beauty. Just off the beaten path you can find amazing natural beauty and abundant wildlife. We need to promote this more and work at making nature excursions more accessible to the visitor. Also, to witness a rocket launch is really an awesome event. I think we have great opportunities to promote space-related tourism which preserve the legacy of the space industry and highlight a future that inspires the imagination.

BrainTracker Answer: Difficult Common words: cliff, cuff, DIFFICULT, fit, fitful, flit, flu, fluid, if, lift, tiff.

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so audiences are invested, but it’s the action that engages you.

Hardy does a fine job as Max, portraying him as hardened yet still human. Despite being the title character, he rides shotgun as Theron steers the film. In a society almost overrriden by men, it was nice to see strong women playing integral parts in the story. Miller introduced a different kind of filmmaking with “Mad Max” 34 years ago and now, he’s simultaneously raised the bar and redefined the action genre. Grade: A

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Avengers: Age of Ultron Director: Joss Whedon

Mad Max: Fury Road Director: George Miller

Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult In a post-apocalyptic world where cities crumbled and fell, the only survivors left are

Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, James Spader the hopeful and the mad.

Assigned to transport a rig to a nearby town, Furiosa (Theron) steals her boss’s cargo in hopes of returning home, young Nux (Hoult) seeks to prove himself worthy by stopping her, and Max (Hardy) is the loner caught in the middle of it all. The new film has

ever ything that made the original films significant: primitive lifestyles, various tribes, and thrilling chase scenes. If action flicks like “The Matrix” are at level 10, to quote “Spinal Tap”- this one goes to 11. The entire film is one fully-charged action-packed chase. The story has some depth,

With the Avengers assembled and working as a team, Tony Stark (Downey Jr) attempts to create a peace keeping program to protect the earth from potential threats. Creating an artificial intelligence named Ultron (Spader,) the program turns on its creator and devising a different plan for the world. The overall plot points of the sequel are

very much like that of the original only this time, instead of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and rallying together to defend the world from evil, they’re earth’s mightiest janitors merely joining forces to clean up Stark’s mess.

Ultron had potential to be the menacing but written to use wisecracks and having a rushed story arc, he becomes the proverbial “villain of the week.” Familiar faces return but their roles are minimal feeling like forced cameos reminding audiences the films are connected. Cheap humor is used to make up for bad writing and character development. The first Avenger films dealt with the realization that heroes exist in our world and how they’re mutually influenced but sadly, that has been forgotten. There’s a lot of fighting and chaos but there are no ramifications or consequences especially for

Stark who shows little remorse for putting the world in danger. The film’s highlights are the portrayal of the Avengers as friends rather than strangers trying to become a team, the introduction of a scene stealing newcomer and the fantastic slow motion teamwork scenes. The first Avengers movie was preceded by characters and events whilst setting the stage for the future.

The sequel only does the latter then again, when you change team members, it goes without saying.The film will undoubtedly become a box office success but lacking originality and simply doing more of the same while changing little, the result becomes another movie with the Avengers rather than a thoughtful sequel. Grade: C+

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Dear frigid, anonymous woman. I take offense at this suggestion! I may be considered selfish by some readers, but I will have you know that I have a very giving nature! I give to Charity (who is a very lonely neighbor of mine) and I have been an organ donor for many years. I give it very frequently and freely.

Romeo,

Romeo, I know this isn’t really your specialty, but I’m looking for somewhere to invest my money in hopes of saving up for a romantic getaway with my wife of 6 years, “Karen.” Times have been tough, as we all know, but “Karen” and I haven’t been anywhere together since we got married. I’m hoping to put away a few hundred dollars and see a quick return. Any suggestions?

“Rob” Satellite Beach A puzzling question, Rob. The market is very unstable and your investment guess is as good as mine. All I can

advise is to stay away from putting your few hundred dollars into oil investments or you may find yourself with five digits in a hole.

Romeo Pomodoro, Having read your column devotedly for the past year, I can say that you are probably the most self-centered, egotistical, male chauvinist pig out there. You’re not interested in helping people with their problems, you’re only interested in self-gratification.

Welcome to the 21st Century!

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I’m afraid I’ve made a terrible mistake in marrying my wife, “Cynthia.” I was well aware of the costs associated with matrimony, but I had no idea that she was an inveterate sweet tooth.

Of course she failed to tell me of the state of her teeth, and I now find myself saddled with skyrocketing dental bills. I already have two jobs and I can’t see any way out of this predicament.

What should I do?

“Bill” Cape Canaveral Bill, I am sorry for this. If you cannot afford a dentist, I suggest you learn how to do it yourself with a book from Burns and Nobel. Once you feel confident enough, you must lay her down and start filling all her cavities. If you need help, I am good at drilling.

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