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Whether Valentine’s Day is peeping up over the beautiful horizon or not, love is everywhere along the Space Coast, and this issue of The Resident is full of it. (Love, I mean.)

Love manifests itself in many ways here – love of our environment, our lifestyle, our communities – but we seem to get the most breathless when we think of the people who help us on a daily basis.

That’s part of the reason why we give everyone we cover, regardless of the section, a chance to offer “shout-outs” to the friends, family, and neighbors who’ve contributed to their success and happiness.

Often these shout-outs and expressions of appreciation are so enthusiastic and heartfelt that they overshadow the interviewees’ own accomplishments. Even more frequently, people simply give up trying to thank all the friends – however distant or peripheral

– who’ve helped them or have lifted them up due to their sheer number.

It says something about the area that folks are more willing to attribute their success to others rather than themselves, and every issue of The Resident is simply overflowing with gratitude and love for our fellow earthlings.

We recommend reading extended, unabridged versions of some of the articles in these pages online at www.thebeachsideresident.com – particularly Greg Gordon’s wonderful piece comparing poker to surfing.

We also had a hard time fitting all the love into our “Resident of the Month” article about Tanner Jam 2015, a local, grassroots benefit in the name of Merritt Island youngster

Tanner Fallon to fund research for the fight against cystic fibrosis.

Tanner’s grandmother, Maureen Fallon, had this to say, and we didn’t want to leave it out: “The outpouring of love for Tanner and people with CF kind of gets caught up in my throat, and I have a hard time talking about it without getting a tear in my eye...” she said.

“All our friends help by volunteering to do something, from promoting it on social media and collecting prizes and gifts to be raffled, to bringing out instruments and artistic talents out of the goodness of their hearts, setting up vendor booths and donating their hard-earned cash.

There are so many names and so many good people out there, you probably don’t have room for them in one edition… We just can’t say enough about the folks in this area.”

And neither can we.

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On The Cover The cover, and this arresting image, took shape in artist Derek Gores’ Gallery located in the EGAD district of Melbourne. “The Gallery is my studio and home to many of my daydreams,” Gores told us. “In addition to art shows, we host improv classes and performances from the Not Quite Right troupe, live music and DJs, and live drawing sessions with Dr. Sketchy’s. The Gallery is available for super-gorgeous parties, weddings, and events through the wonderful Nave Event Services.”

“Lately,” Gores says, “I’ve been playing with galleries in Los Angeles, Tucson, Denver, New York, and a few more overseas. I’ve had fun commissions for the Kentucky Derby, Prada, and Heineken.

David Lee Roth had me design a t-shirt for his friends! (I should list that first.)

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I was fortunate enough to realize along the way that the art has to matter to me in order to matter to anyone else, so I aggressively keep it all quite intuitive. Cats, rotary phones, and butterflies have been showing up recently. My kids throw me welcome curveballs.”

The Gallery is located at 587 W. Eau Gallie Blvd. Call (321) 258-2119. Visit www.derekgores.com or check Facebook: “Derek Gores Gallery”

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Cape Canaveral 2/20: Free Movie at Canaveral City Park at 7 p.m. Visit www. cityofcapecanaveral.org for more information.

Cocoa 2/21: Cocoa Mardi Gras & Louisiana Shrimp Boil at 5 p.m. in Cocoa Village. Live music from Pepper and Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers. Spectators can catch hundreds of beads during the float parade, enjoy the Louisiana Shrimp Boil by Fishlips, entertainment on three stages, vendors, and much more. For more details, visit www.cocoamardigras.com

2/27: Dog N’ Bone Friday Fest from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Myrt Tharpe Square Gazebo in downtown Cocoa Village.

Family fun for all, featuring live music, kids’ crafts, and vendors. Tom Levine, well-known writer for Florida Sportsman Magazine, author of four acclaimed Florida books, wearer of notorious (but tasteful) naked lady aprons at book signings, former candidate for Orlando mayor, engaging public speaker, nature lover, and first Floridian to attempt to hitchhike to the South Pole, will be signing and selling his books. Find out more at www. cocoafl.org

Cocoa Beach Name That Channel: In an effort to aid boaters, Cocoa Beach has started to install lighted markers at the west end

of the city’s channel where they meet the Banana River main channel. The residents of the city are encouraged to submit names for the remaining channels. The city’s Waterways and Wildlife Advisory Board will select the best names submitted for the 100, 300, 400, 500, and 600 channels. Please submit recommendations to the city clerk’s office no later than February 27.

Cocoa Beach Library 2/4: Author Tim Dorsey at 2 p.m. The popular Florida mystery writer will speak about the writing process and introduce his new book, “Shark Skin Suite.” Copies will be available for sale and signing.

2/13: The Glass Bank: The History of an Icon at 2 p.m.

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Historian Dr. Lori Walters of UCF’s Institute for Simulation

& Training will discuss the history of the Cocoa Beach landmark. Call 321-784-0528 for more information on other ongoing programs. 2/14: Love Your Library – 5th Annual Wine Tasting Benefit at 6 p.m.

The Library is located at 550 N. Brevard Ave. Call 868-1104 or visit www.cocoabeachpubliclibrary.org

Melbourne & Eau Gallie 2/7: Eau Gallie Founders’ Day celebrates 155 years of Eau Gallie history with live musical entertainment from St. Johns Wood, family activities from the Eau Gallie Library, Foosaner Art Museum and the Brevard Zoo, historic presentations and the traditional fish fry dinner. Go to www.eaugalliefoundersday.org to learn more.

2/13-2/14 Robot Love 3D, two days of art, music, and love at the Foosaner Education Center in the Eau Gallie Arts District. Friday, February 13 from 6 p.m. to midnight (must be 21). Saturday, February 14, from noon to 3 p.m. (all ages-friendly show; kids 17 and under get in free); evening hours 6 p.m. to midnight, but must be 21. Admission is $20/ night. Find out more at: www. robotloveart.com or read our interview with organizer and renowned local artist Derek Gores in this issue.

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Port Canaveral 2/6: 30th Annual Chowder Cook-Off at 6 p.m. at Cruise Terminal 6. Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys has joined five other judges who will decide who has what it takes to be crowned the “Best Chowder” and “Best Twist” on the Space Coast. Tickets can be purchased online at www. cocoabeachchamber.com or www.visitcocoabeach.com and in person at the Cocoa Beach Regional Chamber of Commerce office (400 Fortenberry Road, Merritt Island).

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River Rocks on U.S. 1. It’s our go-to spot. We’ve even watched a rocket go off right in front of us. It was like watching our love shoot off into space.

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Harry Potter – the character!

Now, let me tell you about my cats...

Well, it’s not a crush, but I’d like to pick up Jim Morrison and ask him a few questions.

Jay Alvarez. He’s a surfer who takes photos, and he’s hot.

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My first love is my only love.

I’ve known him since I was 15 … no, 16. I had just turned 16.

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Swiss Miss Using the stolen identity of a Credit Suisse bank official, a UPS mail drop in Fort Lauderdale, and her experience as a timeshare saleswoman, 21-yearold Floridian Amy Brook Wilkerson copped to defrauding nearly $800,000 from unsuspecting investors. Wilkerson, a

high school dropout formerly of Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, agreed to return to South Florida and surrender last year after learning she was under investigation by federal prosecutors and the United States Postal Inspection Service and pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in West Palm Beach to 29 counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Postal Inspection agents learned in 2013 that Wilkerson, who eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes, used the stolen identity of a Credit Suisse employee in New York to persuade 19 victims to “invest” about $800,000 by wiring money to what appeared to be a Credit Suisse account at a bank in Fort Lauderdale and later to the Bank of Georgia in Tbilisi, investigators said. She used Skype to contact the victims, who lived all over the U.S., and provided some of them with fake account statements that appeared to document their profits, authorities said. Agents found dozens of transactions between Wilkerson’s accounts in Turkey, including the purchase of airline tickets from Turkey to Orlando, resort reservations and even a debit card charge to pay a Comedy Traffic School fee for an 8-hour remedial driving class.

Dog’s Will Due to a printing error by a rug manufacturer, recent visitors to the lobby of the Pinellas County Sheriff ’s Office were greeted with the comforting message “In Dog We Trust” emblazoned on the crest of the Department’s carpet. According to CNN and their affiliate, WTS, a deputy standing in the lobby spotted the misprint.

The company who produced the rug has promised to replace it, but USA Today recently reported that Sheriff ’s Office officials opted to auction off the curiosity and will donate 100% of the proceeds to Canine Estates, Inc., a local animal rescue organization. The opening bid of $100 reached $2,303 as of January 15.

Get Out of Town

Hey, Jack Kerouac!

by Alberto Rivera

Both Kerouac and his mother lived in the home during a transitional period ( July 1957) when Kerouac went from anonymous unknown to the critically acclaimed voice of the burgeoning Beat Generation.

This isn’t merely a place where cries of “Kerouac slept

Jack Kerouac’s Orlando Residence 1418 & 1/2 Clouser Avenue Orlando, FL 32804 This is a quiet neighborhood now. One can only imagine the stillness surrounding it in 1957, when Orlando was a massive tangle of orange groves, cattle farms, occasional tourist courts, and not much else. There wasn’t a whole lot of reason to stop in Orlando then; Disney wasn’t here. Tourism in the way of sunshine and fishing were on tap, then as now. Lots of former GIs had settled in the area, choosing mosquitoes over long winters spent shoveling snow.

Just an hour’s drive away in Cape Canaveral, NASA was gearing up to chase after the Soviets, who’d blindsided the world by successfully launching Sputnik. And the air conditioner was increasingly making the humid Florida climate more bearable for those not made of sterner stuff.

It was here in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando in a modest 1920s cottage, that Jack Kerouac, while staying here with his mother, typed a first draft of “The Dharma Bums,” on a scroll naturally, and also received a fateful phone call telling him his most recent work, “On The Road,” was a

hit.

This home is now owned by The Kerouac Project, and the home is a residence for writers to live rent-free for a time so they can focus on their work. In 1996, Bob Kealing, a freelance writer and reporter for an Orlando NBC affiliate, discovered the the existence of the home and its cultural significance, and realized it had been omitted from all of Kero u a c ’s biographies at the time.

No one – neither the State of Florida, The City of Orlando, or any private organization – had taken any steps to preserve the dwelling.

Kealing contacted John Sampas, Kerouac’s brother-inlaw and estate executor, who told him the exact address: 1418 & 1/2 Clouser Avenue.

here!” can be claimed in hopes of garnering a few more tourist dollars. No. He crafted the opening lines, and all which would follow, to the sequel of “On the Road” here. In the same way he searched across America’s highways, juke joints, and jazz bars in search of meaning, the protagonist of “The Dharma Bums” seeks out the isolation and physical demands of the mountains to search inward as he attempts to make sense of Buddhism and ultimately himself.

In March of 1997, Kealing published a 4,000-word article in the Orlando Sentinel about his find. Local bookshop owners Marty and Jay Cummins got in touch with Kealing about purchasing the home as a tribute to Kerouac. Thus, The Kerouac Project was born.

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This rhyme, accredited to St. Jerome, has been used to inspire career growth and improve food habits, and has been frequently used as a foundation for price structures for goods such as power tools. But after getting a few quotes recently for a home repair I noticed the quotes for the work resembled the “good, better, best” design.

I wondered what place superlatives have in your budget? Do you aim for the middle or average option?

Is it always in your best interest to buy the best of everything you can afford? When is it the right time, or is there ever a time when the cheapest option should be considered?

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base model? “Congratulations, this basic model is slightly better than nothing”? I don’t think so.

Recently, life conspired to leave me fridgeless at a time when I needed one the most (which is all the time, actually). Who wants to live out of a cooler for three months? We went to a big

box store and bought the cheapest fridge on the floor -- a slightly scratched one, no less. After asking what discounts we could look forward to, we scheduled a delivery. One week later and we love this fridge. It fits the space perfectly, it has enough room all of our food, and the sides of our cabinets hide the scratches.

I have no complaints. Sometimes good is o.k.

Everyone seems to glance at the middle choice before choosing an option. The middle or average is a springboard to drive us toward one direction or the other. Why? Dan Ariely, author of “Predictable Irrational,” calls this “decoy pricing.” He argues that the middle is a yardstick measuring how much something is supposed to cost and is rarely chosen as an option. He further states that it is only chosen when one of the options is removed and only two options exist. But isn’t the middle or better choice still a valid choice?

When the “Best” Isn’t Always the Best Option Once, in an early adopter phase, we ran out and bought the best and latest cutting-edge designed washing machine a name-brand store carried. So cutting-edge, in fact, it nearly bled me dry. First the computer motherboard got zapped by a thunderstorm and we were quoted more than twice the price of the washer to replace it.

Luckily, a nearly forgotten warranty saved the day. But even a few years later it constantly leaked out of a poorly designed rubber gasket and was more of an annoyance than a space age wonder. Looking back, a basic model without all the bells and whistles would’ve been easier. Strangely, that was a time when good would have been better than the best.

Horoscopes

by Lance Stardancer

Aquarius The Aquarian woman is like a fickle, flighty butterfly who’s hard to pin down, so handcuffs might come in handy.

Pisces Being popular rocker Bob Seger certainly has its benefits. Being Robert Seeger, State Farm Sales Representative of the Year for the Central Florida Region, however, barely gets you a window booth at Steak N’ Shake.

Aries If your mate seems listless and uninspired during romantic moments, try inflating her with a bit more air.

Taurus Everyone around you admires your knack for seeing the big picture, but they’re nowhere to be found for your exhibition of venereal disease watercolors.

Gemini

Libra

You have a habit of alienating those closest to you with your shocking opinions. It’s no wonder, then, that you don’t have a single homosexual handicapped friend.

Plan well ahead for your big Valentine’s date and pay close attention to your finances.

It could mean the difference between a romantic weekend getaway to St. Lucia or a two-minute dry hump behind the Port St. Lucie Denny’s.

Cancer This month will find you suddenly catapulted to fame. Enjoy the ride while you can though, because you’ll come crashing down into a stinking pile of normalcy about a week later when everyone resumes treating you like the creepy guy who’s always uploading videos of his cats

Leo This February 14 it’s vital that you take extra pains to create the right romantic mood. No girl wants to be wooed to the sound of “Master of Puppets.” Well, at least no girl worth knowing.

Scorpio This month I recommend keeping your inner thoughts on women close to your chest rather than close to their delectable, milky white bosoms. You know how dames are.

Sagittarius You’re planning a romantic Valentine’s dinner and have some bold, boundary-pushing ideas for recipes, but I’d skip the chocolate-covered oysters. Sounds like a hospital visit waiting to happen.

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Capricorn

Whichever way you slice it, your prospects for romantic success will diminish considerably this month. And whichever way you slice that Valentine’s chicken cordon bleu you cooked it still spells “salmonella.”

Being courteous and gentlemanly for a change will get you far in romance this month with a potential partner you’ve long admired from afar. But if you can’t muster the energy, just try roofies.

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Growth: 8-15 ft. tall Blooms: Loose double-ruffled yellow. Looser blooms means it won’t last as long in a vase.

Light, sweet candy smell.

Special features: Hardy (especially in the cold), disease-resistant, and salt-tolerant.

Prefers: Full sun (not westerly, unless dappled or shaded). Can be shade-tolerant but remember: less sun=less blooms.

Problems: During the rainy season or after a period of heavy rain it can be vulnerable to a number of diseases, namely: black spot, rust, and powdery mildew. Insects such as thrip, aphids, and scale

Growth: Can reach over 20 ft. tall, but unlikely to get to that height unless all the conditions are perfect and you never bother to cut them back. But you are too smart for that; you’ll cut them back. I love that about you.

Blooms: Large, loose blooms with rambling, curving stems, perfect for a trellis or an arbor.

Special features: Hardy and salt-tolerant.

Prefers: Strong support. It wants to wrap around something like a sturdy trellis; tie it to the trellis

with garden fabric or ties. Make sure that whenever you plant anything against the side of your house you leave at least a foot or two off the wall. You need to give it room to root and receive rain.

Problems: All the same problems as the above variety. But this one needs a little more “training,” which is just a fancy word for cutting whatever stalks are dead or are going in the wrong direction.

Don Juan (Red)* Growth: Fast grower that regularly gets anywhere from 8 to 12 ft. tall. Width about 6 to 8 ft.

Blooms: Vibrant loose red petals that smell amazing.

Special features: These are the easiest beginner roses. As long as you plant in a sunny location on the east side of your house you will have an amazing plant everyone will think you fuss over.

Prefers: A sturdy trellis to lean against or wire.

Problems: Same as above. *My personal favorite. I grew up with these roses and have a special place in my heart for them.

Helpful tip: All plants need to be in the right location. Eastern, full sun is best, due to the perfect intensity.

Recipe ofthe Month

Sweets For The Sweet

By Samantha Deebel

If you want to prepare something delicious for your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day, here’s a homemade cheesecake recipe from my friend Sarah P. Jones.

Sarah graciously made this coconut cheesecake for me and my coworkers at Sunseed Co-Op recently and it was magnificent! Sarah is a lovely soul too, and says the secret ingredient to her cheesecakes is, of course, love. Happy Valentine’s Day to all!

Coconut Cheesecake 1 cup graham cracker crumbs 1 cup shredded coconut, toasted (unsweetened) and finely shredded 1/4 cup granulated sugar 4 tbsp. unsalted butter 4 8-oz. packages cream cheese, at room temperature 8 oz. ricotta cheese

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 6 large eggs 4 tbsp. cornstarch 1 tsp. vanilla 15-oz. Cream of Coconut (Goya is a good brand) 1 cup whipping cream 1-1/2 cups shredded coconut Line bottom of pie pan with parchment paper. Wrap outside of 9” diameter springform pan with 2-3/4” of foil sides. Mix graham cracker crumbs, coconut, and sugar in medium bowl. Add butter and mix to blend. Press mixture into bottom and up sides of prepared pie pan. Chill while preparing filling. In a food processor, beat cream cheese

and sugar in a large bowl until blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add cornstarch and vanilla and mix. Add cream of coconut, whipping cream, and shredded coconut; beat just until blended.

Pour into crust. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Bake cheesecake until puffed and golden – about 1 hour and 35 minutes. Turn off oven and let set for 1 hour. Transfer to rack; cool completely.

Refrigerate until well chilled.

Cover and keep refrigerated. Serve with mango puree and fresh whipped cream.

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The Art Side

How did Robot Love get its name?

February 13 & 14 see the return of Robot Love, an art show that began organically through the efforts of a variety of local artists and has since expanded to become the region’s premier arts and culture event.

Held at the Foosaner Education Center in the downtown Eau Gallie Arts District (EGAD), Robot Love 3D promises two days full of art, music, and love.

A portion of funds raised will go to Club Esteem, a charity that works with kids from one of the most impoverished areas in Brevard.

We spoke to beloved local artist and principal organizer Derek Gores and co-curator/ gallery designer Clifton Chandler about the highly anticipated event and its role in renewing enthusiasm for art in both Eau Gallie and the Space Coast at large.

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Derek Gores: The name, I think, came from a spontaneous lyric in a group-collaborative lo-fi digital song several local artists had their hand in back in 2009 or so. The name has it all – random, epic, emotional, and real, but with the threat of artificial. It’s vivid without being limiting. It rolls off the tongue. It has love. And it has robots!

What kinds of artists will be participating this time around?

Clifton Chandler: Contemporary artists with mixed motives.

From bravado to private contemplation, they all have their reasons.

DG: Expect pects, some Mark Twain geniuses you the new kids.

some usual susexperts by the definition, some overlooked. Plus

How will this event be different?

DG: Higher prices, fewer Blackberries, more lives saved!

I have no idea; I can’t be objective. There will always be new technology, and always be a craving for things created by human touch. It has been five years since the original shows. I think even more than the outthere art and the gorgeous space design, the audience reacts to the audience. I can’t think of another event that brings out daring folks of every genre. Lawyers, car collectors, surfers, DJs, young professionals … the culture makers, the culture cravers.

Somehow it adds up to one big collective personal experience.

And this time we’re really getting our sponsors involved in the exhibition.

Both of you champion art and community collaboration in unusual ways, inviting amateurs and enticing people from many fields to exhibit with you as artists. Your methods are very non-elitist, and yet your work and exhibits command top dollar. Can you elaborate on your methods, and why the response is so strong?

CC: Elitism is just the deification of a temporary advantage.

Reality provides thousands of new audience members every day. Since they just walked into the middle of the movie they don’t know who is “important”

so they pick someone at random – a la carte. First come first served. These new vagabonds are both our base contributors and audience members.

We are too diverse to have criteria in common beyond the simple knee-jerk “neat!” Elitist art is, by contrast, forced to maintain consensus through indoctrination propaganda or we wouldn’t even realize they existed. We vagabonds just walk around looking at whatever we think looks neat. And then we show our friends. It’s a wonder that elitism exists at all, it’s so inefficient.

DG: One of my longest-standing motivations is: what does the Art want?

Roughly half my artistic thoughts seem to be about connecting with something someone else creates, whether they

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Open for Business

TrepHub Melbourne’s TrepHub isn’t so much a business in the traditional sense as it is a crucible of innovation, a meeting place for likeminded people from a variety of fields in which to share ideas.

think they’re an artist or not. So I end up with a thrilling spiderweb of cohorts in automotive design, magic, fence building, farming, parkour, psychology.

It is fun to shine the pretty gallery lights on the results. I don’t think very much about how many people like something – I can only support a one-to-one ratio of art to collector.

Tell us about the charity you’re helping, Club Esteem.

DG: It’s a phenomenal organization that works after school with kids in one of Brevard’s most challenged neighborhoods. Their mission is nothing less than to end the cycle of poverty in that community.

The whole team involved brings more passion than any I’ve ever worked with. The overlap for me is that I know that when kids, or anyone really, can create their own world on a canvas or piece of paper, that can be translated into empowerment out in the real world.

Derek, tell us about your new position with EGAD and the buzz in the District, much of which surrounds your own gallery there.

DG: I’m the President of the Board of Directors of EGAD. Just like the spirit in our art shows, my board is made of people who are willing to work to make their town fantastic. It

is a strong and visionary board, with merchants, artists, architects, designers, the rotary, city representatives, financial whizzes and social workers. We see EGAD as the spot for culture, for smart fun, the soul of our little city.

From an economic impact standp oint, in addition to being a tourism draw, we recognize that companies like Embraer, H a r r i s , Northrup Grumman and others require culture nearby in order to retain good talent these days, and EGAD wants to live up to that challenge. Companies can choose anywhere in the world. We’re building EGAD organically and slowly, and the area is percolating nicely. We’ve had the art base a while -- key anchors like the Foosaner Art Museum, Eau Gallie Florist and several strong galleries -but we’ve slowly added some of the necessary complements -- a new thriving restaurant, dance, gelato, a great brewery, a tattoo shop, ballet, essential oils, bakery, pie shop, kids’ art tent, antiques, architects, a computer

coding lab for kids, an improv troupe, live music, new salons... and several surprises are on the way. We’re selectively courting creative restaurateurs, retail and night life. Call me if you want to be near the second busiest intersection in Brevard! I just love the place – it’s a little raw, a little refined, and completely real.

You can be yourself and create yourself.

Choose your medium!

Robot Love 3D unfolds over two days this month at the Foosaner Education Center (1463 Highland Ave.; downtown Eau Gallie) -- Friday, February 13 from 6 p.m. to midnight (must be 21) and Saturday, February 14 from noon to 3 p.m. (all ages-friendly show; kids under 17 get in free) and again from 6 p.m. to midnight for those 21 and over. Admission is $20 per night. Live music by Oranga Tanga, Konglom, and others. Presenting sponsor: Matt’s Casbah; Co-Presenting Sponsors: FracTEL; In-Kind Sponsors: Florida Tech, Foosaner Education Center, The Beachside Resident. A portion of all show proceeds go to Club Esteem. All the details at www.RobotLove3D.com and on Facebook at/RobotLoveArt

TrepHub began to take shape here two years ago when co-founder and tech polymath Ahmed Reza saw the potential for a Space Coast version of Silicon Valley.

“I was flying to Silicon Valley on the weekends to attend various events and was inspired by what I saw there,” Reza remembers. ”I met tons of creative people, many geeks who loved their craft, and in the process I became a much better engineer and entrepreneur ... I learned about new technologies and methodologies and got to connect with my counterparts at companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and several of the hottest startups.”

Reza related his experiences to fellow engineer and colleague Brandon Schmitt and both discovered that the Space Coast boasted one of the highest per-capita populations of engineers in the country. “I found this perplexing since I hardly saw the same Silicon Valley vibe here,” Reza admits. “I further learned that during the Y2K boom,

we were a hub of innovation, and the recent NASA Shuttle Project cancellation was just another in a series of setbacks for the area and its talent pool.”

“At the time, I used to hang out a lot with Brandon and another co-worker, Jim Maroulis,” Reza continues. “They were some of the smartest people I’d worked with thus far, and I figured if there are more people like this, maybe what’s missing is the venue for them to meet.”

Reza soon formed the Coders, Hackers & Founders Meetup Group, which held its first gathering at Melbourne’s Sun Shoppe Cafe. That same group is now over 400 strong, and makes up the core of the TrepHub community here in their bright, downtown headquarters, where over 1,000 engineers, entrepreneurs, and creatives from the area exchange ideas, solve problems, and innovate -- a central tenet of the non-profit’s mission.

“We’re here to ignite the spirit of innovation and

entrepreneurship by empowering the growing entrepreneur community of the Space Coast,” says Reza. “We do this by fostering a greater purpose beyond profit, spontaneous collaboration, ground-breaking innovation, and the courage to build amazing solutions for a world in desperate need of them.”

Reza admits that meetings can at first seem rather chaotic, but new members quickly feed off the group’s boundless energy. “Newcomers always report being surprised since we don’t operate like most organizations they’ve been to. It is a little bit chaotic at times and you may have to find your way around by asking whoever is close by, but that’s the point. People help each other out.”

“At TrepHub, the relationship stems from becoming part of the community. You can pay for a lawyer and pay for an accountant, but you can’t pay people to really care.

Especially if you want to get advice from an entrepreneur who has already made his millions (yes we have a few of those too). That’s where the big value is to new members, they may have to introduce continues on page 36

Skilled Labor

Janell Tobin

Coco Janell Organics Though she’s a Cape Canaveral native, it took the Hawaiian sun to start local entrepreneur Janell Tobin thinking about creating alternatives to chemical-laden skin products.

After graduating from Cocoa Beach High and earning her Bachelor of Science from UF, Janell spent roughly 10 years working in various locations throughout the country as a nurse.

“While living in Hawaii on contract for work, I asked the local lifeguards what they used for sunscreen,” she recalls.

“They told me that Shiseido Sun Stick was the best. So I used it when I went surfing and it was pretty good, but it was super-expensive and it had all these chemicals in it that I did not want to put on my face.”

Fast forward to about 2010, and Janell, now back in Florida, still found herself getting frustrated with the lack of affordable, natural skin care products on the market. “I just got so tired of reading all the labels and constantly searching for a clean

sunscreen that I just decided to make it myself,” she says.

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certified as a facial esthetician was the next logical step on her new journey. That, coupled with her nursing degree, lends her organic, homemade skin care products both practicality and style. Those factors also led to the creation of

her first recipe for a safe and clean hypoallergenic sunblock.

“I started reading and reading about different sunscreen recipes and after endless hours in

the kitchen, I finally made my first product: tinted face sunblock. I had numerous requests from people for different products like lip balm so I started making that as well. Then I’d get bored and start making other us e f u l products like moisturizers and bug repellent.”

“In the beginning, I would bring my products into the hos-

pital where I worked and test them out on everyone. I would tweak the recipe constantly until I had a formula everyone loved. I had to become a mad scientist in my kitchen to try to figure out which oils blend the best with others and how much to put in what for the right consistency,” she laughs.

There’s a lot of method behind my madness when I’m creating something.”

All of Coco Janell Organics products are made with natural, eco-friendly ingredients and product-specific blends of essential oils -- lavender, peppermint, lemongrass, eucalyptus, and geranium among them. continues on page 36

Local Scribes

Love, L-U-V

by M.A. Rivera

“I think you need a little thing called ‘Love Is.’ It’s a comic about two naked 8-year-olds who are married.” –Homer Simpson on relationship advice. s Courtesy Dr. Lori Walter

The Glass Bank Masterpiece to Dust

by Dan Reiter

The inside story of Cocoa Beach’s First Federal Savings and Loan Building is too squalid and tangled a yarn to weave into the space of this column. But forget the inside story for a moment. The outside story provides a simple enough object lesson, and might just illuminate the secret tragedy at the heart of the thing.

The Glass Bank – brainchild of world-renowned architect Reginald Caywood Knight – arose from the barrier island in 1961.

It was an audacious gesture, even for the Cocoa Beach of a burgeoning space age, a fivestory marvel encased in concave sweeps of glass, with all four walls yearning heavenward.

In 1963, Ramon’s Rainbow Room, zenith lounge of modern times, took over the penthouse. The Rainbow Room was a cocktail and jazz joint, a place for astronauts and celebrities to tinkle their ice over river and sea. 1963 was a mythological year for this whitesand city of Project Mercury, a launchpad of young heroes and geniuses, a time when the Glass Bank stood as a stylish icon of modernity.

Fifty years later, the landmark stood cracked and grotesque, a hulking shambles, spewing lumber and rot, spending its last days like a famous actress made unrecognizable by years of botched surgery attempts: wheezing, forgotten, rattling its bones under the cold glare of the hospital staff.

What path leads from glamour to ruin? You might blame it on the space bust of the ‘60s, or the drug-riddled aftershocks of Nam, or the malaise and despair of the ‘70s. You might blame it on recessions, on layoffs, on depressed property prices, on the steady, gradual degradation of downtown, on hurricanes or lawyers or men possessed, but that would be the inside story.

The tragic flaw of the Glass Bank was clear enough to anyone who cared to look at her facade: it was her ill-fitting crown, the 1981 concrete penthouse addition, so willfully antagonistic of the intentions of architect Knight – a windowless box, devoid of glass, off-kilter, a brutalist plug, blockading the cosmic flight of her skirt walls.

The 1981 team stuccoed over the lower corner windows, further reducing the organic feel, and mounted a concrete fortification wall across the sleek

columns of the balcony level, which had kept the upper floors in harmony with the angled, modernist colonnade of the ground floor.

This concrete afterbirth, this lobotomizing of the Glass Bank, serves as a cautionary tale for aestheticians and libertarians alike. Any municipal system that allows permitting of what amounts to a “floating strip club” atop its one true architectural masterpiece has deeply flawed historical ordinances. No consideration was made, even, to hide the maintenance staircase from the road. Rather, it was flaunted, like a jagged scar atop the beast’s head.

But the 1981 renovations did not technically kill the Glass Bank. They only killed its context. The business of laying the actual structure to rest would fall, in the end, to the people of Cocoa Beach.

Last month, Dr. Lori Walters, a professor of history at UCF, presented her lecture, “The Glass Bank: History of an Icon,” at the Cocoa Beach Library.

Over two hundred people crowded the hall. Another two hundred were sent away for fire safety concerns. Attendees were invited to participate in the conversation. They reminisced about the fabled Caesar salad dressing at the Rainbow Room, of the A&P in the First Federal Plaza, of the Polaris and the Starlite Paladium, of Wolfie’s and Brassy’s. continues on next page

February is traditionally the shortest month of the year everywhere but Nova Scotia. It is also the month during which corporations like to shove love and all its assorted paraphernalia down our throats like so many orange- and chocolate-glazed macaroons.

Love, amor, agape – including well-intentioned and purposeful lust – will all be represented by the people who swear we will perish if we don’t proclaim loudly how we feel about someone else. Your spouse, partner, and entire third grade class (up to and including the janitorial staff ), should be on the receiving end of something sweet and cardboardy.

Much like the vendors of such merchandise, love means something distinctly different to each and every breathing person. There’s smothering love, puppy love, love I don’t need to tell my not-yet-ex about, shout about it from the rooftops love, and the current-news fave, “I’m not really a stalker, I’m just super into you” variety of love.

I always found it fascinating when persons/ spokesmorons would blame violent films, songs, and video games for society’s ills and mishaps when, clearly, love songs, romantic comedies, and buddy films outnumber the violent entertainment choices three to one. No one blames Peter Cetera’s “The Glory of Love”

for their last divorce. The self-help section on finding and/or improving love is no good either. Save yourself some money and pick them up used at break-up variety garage sales, if you must. But I digress.

It’s hard to know what sort of love will bloom from a chance encounter at 3 a.m. in a laundry mat. There’s love you have to work at as well as the effortless variety.

There are slow-burning loves and raging infatuations, each with their pros and cons. But I have a few column inches to go here, so I’ll offer some of my skilled and trained observational truths: Love is a burning thing/ And it makes a fiery ring.

(Whoops. That’s not me, that’s June Carter Cash.)

Love is not griping about going to that thing you can’t stand that someone else adores.

Love is not interrupting someone in the process of telling a story you’ve already heard 200 times.

Love is leaving someone the hell alone when you know that’s what they need.

Love is suffering through the process of listening to someone learn how to play an instrument.

Love is staying up late with someone who has a strain of flu you swear is probably ebola, and wishing you could take it away, because watching them suffer is the hardest thing in the world. continues on page 36

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Local Scribe: The Glass Bank Dan Reiter

Tanner Jam 2015 For all appearances, Tanner Fallon is just another average 9-year-old kid who loves LEGOs, soccer, tee-ball, surfing, and playing video games. He also happens to have the resilient spirit of a person five times his age. To meet him, you’d never know that he has cystic fibrosis.

Tanner wasn’t diagnosed with the genetic disorder until he turned three, explain his grandparents, Larry and Maureen Fallon. “He’d been in and out of hospitals until one of his doctors finally had him tested for CF -- they only began mandatory testing of newborns six months after his birth.”

It’s not an easy disease to live with at any age, but Tanner faces each day with admirable courage. Every day presents new challenges. Thanks to the love and dedication of his family – his grandparents, father and mother Shea and Shannon, siblings Tristan, Tessa, and Taylor – even his worst days seem surmountable.

“He has to be very careful not to be in contact with anyone who has a cold or the flu because CF has lowered his immune system,” Maureen explains. “He has to take enzymes with every meal and snacks to aid in his absorption of nutrients and his

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morning begins with breathing treatments that include a pulmonary vest and an inhaler to keep his lungs clear, and in the evening he has to repeat his treatments. His disease has also left him with what is called CF Diabetes (which is incurable)

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and he has to do insulin shots each day. It’s quite a regimen for him as he needs to get up early to make sure he gets it all in before school.”

Larry Fallon got the idea for a CF fundraiser held in Tanner’s name three years ago, after the family had attended some of the walks for life put on by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

“While the walks were inspirational and productive we believed we could bring more money to the table,” Maureen reflects. “Having known many good hearted musicians over the years, we started out with a big party and concert and after two times holding the Jam we’ve turned in over $20,000 for research to cure the disease.

We coined the phrase ‘Banding together to Fight Cystic Fibrosis,’ as all the bands involved donate their time and talent to our cause.”

“Tanner’s team has been the top money-raiser in Brevard four years in a row, and we would like to keep him up there and we would also like other groups in the area to challenge us,” she says. “Most of all, it would be so rewarding to be able to sigh in relief if a breakthrough would happen that would take the death threat away. We’d love to have CF stand for ‘Cure Found.’”

Tanner Jam is set for Saturday, February 28 at 12 p.m. and is hosted by H&D Roadhouse, located at 1811 E. Merritt Island Cswy. (SR 520) in Merritt Island.

Look forward to 50/50 raffles, good food and drink, and live music all day. Bands include: the Groove Shoes, The Seeds, Slick Willie, Loaded Dice, The Action, Hit N’ Run, Rick Deem’s SHRs, and the Big Blues Machine. A Poker Run will be held in tandem with the main Tanner Jam event. Entry fee is $10 per person; sign up at H&D Roadhouse at 9:30 a.m.

Last bike out at 10:30 a.m.; last bike in at 3 p.m. Stops are as follows:American Legion 359 Port St. John; Paradise Cove, Cocoa Beach; American Legion 200, Satellite Beach; Ashley’s Restaurant, Rockledge, and H&D Roadhouse, Merritt Island. All proceeds from the event will go toward cystic fibrosis research.

Volunteers and vendors are still needed; call 693-4371 to get involved.

Across the street, the people of Cocoa Beach were hard at work, demolishing their 82-foot-tall white elephant.

The scream of steel girders and the crunch of stucco played strange accompaniment to the historical lecture.

A couple of weeks later, a long-necked track hoe with a jackhammer dashed its head into the structure in crushing blows, worked its way around the old landmark like a laborer trying to remove a section of sidewalk with a hand chisel. It was a tiresome process. Rubble swelled at her haunches. The demolition crews lingered for weeks.

People watched from street corners, dodging hunks of concrete, contemplating her deconstruction, first her skirt walls, then her stucco, then her bearing columns. They had expected a wrecking ball, maybe, or dynamite. Something more expeditious.

Her inside story drifted in whispery vapors and tufts of insulation about their heads.

They coughed, shielded their eyes from the dust. Bitter memories resurfaced: negligent property owners locking horns in the court systems, the nearly half million dollars in forgiven city fines, the decades of mold and broken glass, the municipal coffers spread open to loan money for the demolition of the “long-standing eyesore.”

But forget the inside story for a moment.

“Certainly the year you were first exposed to the building plays a role in how you feel about it,” Dr. Walters said. “But regardless of your vantage point, the community has lost yet another link to an era when the space program defined Cocoa Beach.”

She will be giving a repeat performance of her presentation on February 13, at 2 p.m., at the Cocoa Beach Library, for those who were turned away from the first run.

The people of Cocoa Beach will wax nostalgic; they will reflect upon her ghost, and comb over faded pictures and computer renderings. A few will remember the Glass Bank as she once was, stripped of the corrosion of the decades, in her crowning days. By then, the crews should be sweeping her remains off the asphalt.

The outside story of an icon: put to rest in dramatic, conclusive fashion.

The inside story will not go down so easily. Lawyers, it would seem, are more persistent than steel and concrete. The property retains its 82 feet of air rights, and in the end, something massive, and probably less visionary, might go up in its stead.

In the meantime, the sun will shine in places that haven’t seen the light in fifty years. And the people of Cocoa Beach will begin the work of forgetting.

by Nomeus

Local Amp

The Civil Ties Since coming together in 2014, this young Satellite Beach-based trio has been making waves with their fresh approach to a musical genre that’s in dire need of revitalization.

With their eyes set to the future and their hearts clinging to rock n’ roll’s original spirit, Manny Fawcett, Levi Tate and Reo Shuy approach their original songs with the passion that

first bound them together when they first agreed on their common aim and “undying urge”: to simply rock.

Fawcett (guitar and vocals), Tate (guitar), and drummer Shuy also see their music as a way to overcome struggle. “It’s a great source for venting and stress relief,” they explain, “on

countless times, in the worst of moments, we sought solace in the unyielding power of our instruments. The music is about what we’ve experienced, endured, and ultimately came out on top of.”

Lofty ideals for a band this young, but seeing and hearing the Civil Ties play live just once proves that they’re in it for love, not for money or potential fame.

All three members have solid backgrounds in music already and are at ease with several instruments between them, but it’s as a classic rock-inspired trio that they operate best. “The idea for the band had been around for years and goes back to childhood,” they say. “We all wanted to form a band, and bring back the music of old; the real music of a generation slowly fading away to EDM and dubstep. We wanted to go back to a time when lyrics had meaning, and weren’t associated with an overbearing need for marijuana, ‘blowin’ O’s,’ or sex, as is the case with a lot of modern music.”

“As cliché as it sounds, the three of us share a need and desire to be a part of something that can change the world.”

Keep up with the Civil Ties by visiting www.thecivilties.com or checking them out on Reverbnation or Facebook: “The Civil Ties”

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Allan Wood Sat : 28

Bradley Daryl Burton

King Center for the Performing Arts Sat : 14

Gordon Lightfoot

Jig to a Milestone | Hogan’s | Saturday : 21 Sun : 15

Mon : 16

Tape Deck 2-7pm

Wed : 18

Matt Kateb 5-10pm

Jason Mraz Jackson Browne

Milliken’s Reef

Tue : 17 Fri : 20

Reflections 5-10 outside and live piano inside Sat : 21

Nolan’s Irish Pub Mon : 2

Songwriters Night Wed : 4

Pipe & Drum 8pm Fri : 6

Cahir O’Doherty

Mondays

Gunner Down 5-10pm outside and live piano inside

Wednesdays

Sun : 22

Fri : 13

Tue : 23

Sat : 14

Fri : 27

Fri : 20

Ted Villareal 5-9pm Paul Christopher 5-10pm Thursdays

Freddie Grant 5-9pm Sun : 1

Adrian Blades 2-7pm Tue : 3

Devin Lupis 5-10pm Fri : 6

Madd Hatters 5-10 outside and live piano inside Sat : 7

TBD

Matt Kateb 5-10pm Tape Deck 5-10 outside and live piano inside Sat : 28

Lion Heart 5-10pm outside and live piano inside

Sat : 7

Cahir O’Doherty Brendan Nolan Brendan Nolan Fiona Molloy Sat : 21

Fiona Molloy Fri : 27

Peg Dolan Sat : 28

Peg Dolan

Paddy Cassidy’s Irish Pub Wednesdays

Sasha

Thursdays

Tone Egan Fri : 6

Paul Rowan Sat : 7

Love Mussels Fri : 13

The Braineaters Sat : 14

The Mondo Tikis Fri : 20

Damion Suomi Sat : 21

Hot Pink Fri : 27

The Cheetah Coalition Sat : 28

Paul Rowan

Gunner Down 5-10pm outside and live piano inside Sun : 8

Absolute Blue 2-7pm Tue : 10

Matt Kateb 5-10pm Fri : 13

Coco Loco 5-10pm outside and live piano inside Sat : 14

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Madd Hatters 5-10pm outside and live piano inside

Jackson Browne| King Center | Wednesday : 18

Rusty’s Seafood & Oyster Bar

Fri : 27

DJ Apache Reggae Bash! 9-1 Sat : 28

3rd Annual White Trash Bash 9-close

Sundays

Paul Christopher 12pm Thursdays

Slow & Low Bar-B-Que Bar & Grill

Saturdays

Thursdays

Wednesdays

Jim Mitchell 5pm Shane H. 5pm Splash 12pm Sun : 1

Smoke N Oak 5pm Mon : 2

Adam V. 5pm Tue : 3

Jon Parrot 5pm Fri : 6

The Seeds 5pm Sat : 7

Smoke N Oak Sun : 8

Splash 5pm Mon : 9

Tone Egan 5pm Tue : 10

Jon Parrot 5pm Fri : 13

Andy Harrington 5pm Sat : 14

Matt & Eric 5pm Sun : 15

Smoke N Oak 5pm

Oranga Tanga | Robot Love 3D | Friday : 13 Mon : 16

Adam V 5pm Tue : 17

Jon Parrot 5pm Fri : 20

Tone Egan 12pm Smoke N Oak 5pm Sat : 21

Jim Mitchell 5pm Mon : 23

Adam V 5pm Tue : 24

Chris Glover 5pm Fri : 27

Tone Egan 12pm Chili 5pm Sat : 28

Matt & Eric 5pm

Sandbar Sports Grill & Bar Sandbooze Sundays

DJ Cerino & DJ Colione 9-1 Tuesdays

Teddy Time 5-10 Wednesdays

Jam Band 8-12 Thursdays

Big Daddy Karaoke 8-12 Fri : 6

Sub Tropicals 9-1 Sat : 7

Leonis 4-8 Action 9-1

Sun : 8

Red Tide 4-8 Fri : 13

High Energy 9-1 Sat : 14

Stoney House and the House Rockers 4-8 Vintage 9-1 Sun : 15

Signal 4-8 Fri : 20

Matt Riley Fri : 6

Stompbox Steve Sat : 7

Dave Myers Fri : 13

Matt Kateb Sat : 14

TBS

Fri : 20

Stompbox Steve Sat : 21

Dave Myers

Musical Seduction 9-1

Fri : 27

Sat : 21

Andy Harrington

10 Year Anniversary Party all day!

10 Bands - Open to Close Sun : 22

Absolute Blue 4-8

Rob D. Sat : 28

The Tiny Turtle Fri : 20

YAHTU featuring Seyba Diouf 7-10pm

Pepper | Cocoa Village Ampitheatre | Saturday : 21 F E B R U A RY 2015

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PADDY CASSIDY’S

Album Reviews

presents

a Night of

featuring The Electric Mess House on Fire

Sound Flat; 2014

and

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Think of ‘74-era Lou Reed fronting The New York Dolls after having been awake for a week listening to the first three Kinks albums non-stop. That’s what The Electric Mess sound like – and thank God they do. This is like the coolest post-mod mod album you may ever hope to hear.

Bring your own Ritalin and/ or Adderal and be prepared to stay up all night, because this is a band intent on working out some serious dancefloor grind. There are hooks, fat organ riffs, edgy, camp attitude, and one amazing song after another. With only one song clocking in at over four minutes, this isn’t for the faint of heart; agitated and subversive, this is garage flavored rock at its best. More refined than most three-chord bands because of the panache and aplomb with which they attack the songs, The Electric Mess are probably an absolute nightmare to have to follow live. “Leavin’ Me Hangin’” is a monster of a number at the center of the disc that will leave you breathless. “Better to Be Lucky Than Good,” “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave,” and the title track are also phenomenal numbers. But as stated earlier by a noted expert (me) this whole damn thing kills from start to finish. Even if you buy this now, you’ll kick yourself for not having bought it sooner. Go! I say, go! – M.A. Rivera

Dr. John

Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch Concord; 2014

Dr. John’s tribute to Louis Armstrong is neither for traditionalists or Naw’lins tourists in search of nostalgic crooning. According to the 73-year-old pianist, the jazz icon Armstrong “came to me in this dream and said, ‘Do my stuff – your way.’” The songs here are inverted, re-imagined, and flung headlong into this millennium with hip hop and funk infusions. But jazz is a living, breathing art form, dependent on new ideas and fresh blood to re-invigorate it time and time again. Dr. John pushes his own limits on these collaborations and often ventures far from his own familiar waters. The album features a slew of special guests, many of which are trumpeters and New Orleans natives (Terence Blanchard, Wendell Brunious, Nicholas Payton), as well as other artists like Bonnie Raitt and The Blind Boys of Alabama. “Tight Like This” features Arturo Sandoval and Telmary and is a sweltering, Spanglish hip hop spin on the classic and an instant standout that only grows stronger with repeated listening.

“Sweet Hunk of Trash” sounds like catching up with that couple from “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” after they’ve finally settled down.

“When You’re Smiling” features The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and is a sunny – nay, positively jubilant end to a bright-eyed tribute to an enigmatic musical figure.

– M.A. Rivera

AC/DC

Rock or Bust Columbia; 2014

It’s nice to know that during troubled times you can count on some things never changing. AC/ DC is one of them. From start to finish, every track on “Rock or Bust” sounds like it could have followed a tune off their debut album or one of their mid-’80s releases, or could even be a lost track from the “For Those About to Rock” sessions. No surprise appearances by orchestras, no guest spots by crossover acts, or sixteen measures of some rapper lending their street cred to these old dudes. Nope. Tried and true, steady as she goes, AC/DC stays the course of maximum distortion and mildly dirty locker room lyrics, and they don’t care if you don’t care about their stunted development. Forty years on, this is the first album without founding member Malcolm Young.

Other brother Angus has stated these songs were culled from previous songwriting sessions prior to Malcolm’s illness. No less than four songs contain the word “rock” in the title. Fair enough.

And cliched themes are punched up with sufficient panache to still feel credible. “Play Ball” is a solid bit of head shaking noise and “Baptism by Fire” deserves more attention than it will ever receive. And still not one ballad to their credit. For this alone, we salute them. – M.A. Rivera

Restaurant ofthe Month

Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty It’s no secret that local landmark Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty offers some of the best views, values, and quality food in the area. It also happens to be one of the most romantic restaurants on the planet.

Just ask George and Molly Hathaway.

The Hathaways, both 72-yearsyoung, have spent every Valentine’s Day at the Lobster Shanty since 1992, and plan on continuing the tradition for as long as they can.

“We came here 23 years ago to look for a condo and got in the habit of grabbing lunch at the Shanty to go over listings,” Molly recalls. “One time, we were so busy that we’d forgotten that it was Valentine’s Day, so coming here for dinner was the perfect decision.”

George remembers that evening fondly as well. “It was just a beautiful night and everything was perfect,” he says. “By

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the time we finally bought our place the following year, we spent Valentine’s Day at the Shanty again. After that, it just kind of became a tradition for us. We’ve missed it a few times, but we always make sure to have a make-up dinner here, even if it’s a few weeks after Valentine’s.”

Though they spend most of the year in their hometown of Norwalk, Connecticut, George and Molly spend each February and March at the Cocoa Beach condo they purchased in 1993.

“We couldn’t afford a place with a river view, which is what we originally wanted,” Molly

says. “But why, when you have a gorgeous restaurant like this right down the road? The view is just spectacular.”

“We’ve been lucky to see a few great sunsets for Valentine’s,” George adds, “but what we really come for is the food and for the memories. We’ve never had a bad meal here, and trust me, we’ve had hundreds.

I think that speaks for itself.”

Though Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty is known for its impeccable seafood dishes, turf items are just as stellar, and a range of platters and specials offers the best of both worlds. Their extensive menu will satisfy a variety of appetites (those of children as well), and though you won’t find romance specifically stated among the selections, it’s everywhere at the Lobster Shanty – whether it’s February 14 or August 23.

“We don’t have children, so we’ve been lucky to travel more than most people,” Molly reveals. “The Lobster Shanty is, in our opinion, the best one out there. You could say we’re in love with this place.”

Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty is located at 2200 S. Orlando Ave. in Cocoa Beach.

The spacious Lobster Shanty is also a great place to host large gatherings, banquets, and reunions. Call them at 783-1350. To view their full menu, log on to: www.cocoabeachlobstershanty.com

Chef’s Corner

Luca Filadi

The Mango Tree prepares today. But as accomplished a chef as Luca is, he’s quick to downplay the food world’s current obsession with technique. “The French cook from technique,” he told us, “Italians cook from the heart.”

Chef Filadi’s philosophy is that all food is romantic when it is prepared with passion and good ingredients and shared with special people.

Mango Margarita Grouper It’s fitting that we chose The Mango Tree’s Luca Filadi as February’s featured chef, because heart is the main ingredient in all of his excellent dishes.

It’s also fitting that he chose a recipe that incorporates his restaurant’s namesake, the mango. Mango Margarita Grouper is a favorite special at the popular eatery that combines a fresh local fish with a favorite beach beverage, the Margarita.

Chef Filadi began his culinary studies at the age of 14 in his native Parma, Italy, and the ensuing years saw him enroll in French and British cooking academies. Elements of what he learned while cooking all over the world inform the contemporary Italian cuisine he

4 6-oz. black grouper fillets 8 jumbo shrimp 1/3 cup Camarena Tequila 1/2 cup Cointreau 1/2 cup mango purée 3/4 fresh lime juice 1 cup fresh diced mango 3 large cloves diced garlic 1 medium onion, diced 2 medium tomatoes, diced 1 small jalapeño, seeded and minced 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro Combine all ingredients, except fish and shrimp, one hour ahead of serving and let marinate. Season grouper and shrimp with salt and pepper and either sauté or grill them. Spoon a heaping serving of the fruit and vegetable marinade over fish, top with shrimp, and serve. Simple and delicious!

The Mango Tree is located at 118 N. Atlantic Ave. in Cocoa Beach. To make reservations, call 799-2600. They’re open for lunch on Tuesdays from 11a.m. to 2p.m. and dinner is served Tuesday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to close.

To view their entire lunch, dinner, and dessert and wine-paired menus online, visit www.mangotree-restaurant.com.

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Jedi Grind Tricks

Open-Minded

By Scooter Newell • sk8scooter@gmail.com www.cocoabeachskatepark.com

The Cocoa Beach Skate Park hosted the inaugural Cocoa Beach Open this past January 17. The bowl contest featured upper-level amateur and professional skateboarders as well as masters, who are former pros for the most part. We were able to give a way $5,000 along with some amazing awards to the winners and it would not have happened without some amazing community support.

Rusty’s Seafood & Oyster Bar sponsored the Masters Division and they kicked off the entire contest reminding the younger skaters that you can still shred up in to your 40s and 50s. This is the group that had no X-Games

to watch. Heck, they barely had anything but the film “Skateboard Madness” to watch – and even then they’d need to see it in the theaters. The Masters, like in any activity, have paved the way for the generations that

follow. These guys were skating for real. Buck Smith, from Jacksonville, still seems to progress at 47, having some of the best lipslides and boneless variations in the state. In the end, Grind For Life’s Mike Rogers took 3rd Place with solid lines through the Park, staying on and using the whole thing – big cradle carves, rock-n-roll boardslides, grinds and sweepers, and more.

Rich Payne, who is another over-40 local, managed to claim 2nd Place with eggplants in the deep end and frontside lipslides on command. Rich was stopped by his long time friend, Jimmy “The Greek” Marcus, from Clearwater. Jimmy is at home in an empty swimming pool.

Floating ollies over hips, effortless disaster variations, and highspeed smith grinds are just a part of what he did in the finals.

Great skateboarding all the way around. Honorable mention to Guy Hoffman who, at random, skated the very first run of the very first Cocoa Beach Open.

Thanks so much to Rhett and the entire crew at Rusty’s for sponsoring this division!

We created the Cocoa Beach Open as a venue for any highlevel competitor, amateur or pro, to have a chance to earn money with a no-politics contest and a grassroots feel with professional judges and staff.

Coconuts on the Beach sponsored our Open Division and they really lit up the night.

Skaters from as far as South Carolina ventured to Cocoa Beach for the event. There were so many great skaters that I’m going to have to refer you to the results section – find it online at: www.thebeachsideresident. com. Central Floridians like Ashton, Poptart, Drew, Brandon, and Yoda really came out in full force and all were skating top-notch. Third Place went to Nick Wallace from Clearwater. He showed up and amazed spectators and skaters with his attack-mode style and technical lip tricks like nosegrinds and

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combo smith grinds. We even had a surprise visitor/competitor, in Beaver Fleming from the Nitro Circus Tour. He showed up and threw down a whole lot of strange tricks including a backflip maneuver over the “island” section of the Park earning him 2nd Place. I could go on for hours, but I won’t!

You can replay the webstream at www.CocoaBeachSkatePark. com and see just what I’m typing about. Honorable mention to Max Potter, Elijah Allred, and Killian Horne, our local crew hanging with some of the toughest names around. Also Honorable Mention to Grace Marhoefer for being the only girl in the contest.

Thanks again to Christy, Jojo and the crew at Coconuts on the Beach for getting behind us and sponsoring the Open Division! Shoutout to Jessie Saum for making the awards, and to Mike Duffield, Rich Rudolph, Miles from Klassick, Craig Harriman, Sean O’Hare, Mike

Rogers, and others for donating product for our raffle. And thanks to Destination Brevard for the photos.

Next Contest Monday, February 16 is the “Shred President’s Day,” an allages contest in the street course sponsored by the Cocoa Beach Optimist Club.

Shoutout to Matt Bellina We were thinking about you for sure that day! We believe in you and your recovery! Glad Mr. O’Hare was able to stop by in your stead. And to our buddy, Thomas Gregory, we love you, too and can’t wait to see you fully recover soon as well.

Vendors contact scooternewell@gmail. com More info and registration at www. cocoabeachskatepark.com

CB Surf Museum

Starting in March

Show Your Love

Join The Surf Museum

By Dan Reiter

Well, it’s February and all my friends keep hopping on flights to Puerto Rico. For my part, I’ll be staying in town, shuttling the kids back and forth to school, and trying to get a session in now and again. The water’s cold, but the skies are clear enough, and once in a while we’ll see a little push.

Here’s hoping for something fun this month

The Big Meeting is February 8 The Surf Museum’s yearly meeting will be held at 1 p.m., February 8, at the Cocoa Beach library.

Drop in and find out what kinds of parties and exhibits we’re planning for the upcoming year.

Also, we have some exciting news, for members only. Not a member? Come to the meeting and sign up. You’ll be supporting a local tradition and linking yourself to the Brevard County surf community!

“Talking Story” – Surf History Interview Series

paddlecraft. Details coming soon on our Facebook page, and in our monthly Beachside Resident column.

Live Reggae EVERY SUNDAY 1pm-7pm

Potluck Beach Get-Together & Swap Meet

ALL AGES NO COVER

WEEKLY SPECIALS

Sometime around the first week of May, the Surf Museum members and friends will find a place on the beach to surf, hang out, eat, and swap used boards with each other. Join us!

MON DAYS

Microbrew $4 Jerk Chicken Sandwich $5 T U ES DAYS

Margaritas $5 Fish Tacos $5 WEDN ES DAYS

Frozen Raspberry Rita $5 Burger $5 T HU R S DAYS

Frozen Rum Runners $5 Pulled Pork $5 HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY 4-7PM

Locals Only The “Locals Only” exhibit will be showing for a limited time at the Ron Jon Watersports building. On display is a historic collection of Space Coast shaped boards dating back to the 1960s.

You’ll be amazed at some of the stuff our curators were able to get in for this one.

Thanks to all those who came out to Bob Freeman’s interview at Surfinista last month. We’ll be posting the talk on YouTube soon, so keep up with us on Facebook or watch out for the news on 2ndlight or 16streets to hear Bob’s stories. Next month we’ll be announcing the second in the “Talking Story” series, which focuses on the surf legends of Brevard County from the ‘50s up to the present, from Sebastian up to Playalinda.

Florida State Paddleboard Championship On April 4, we will be hosting the annual Florida State Paddleboard Championship – a 7-mile ocean race open to all

The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum is located in the Ron Jon Watersports Building.

Visit www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org, or check Facebook — “Cocoa Beach Surf Museum.” Call 258-8217 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.

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Seven Ways Surfing is Like Playing Poker

By Greg Gordon • www.crsurf.com

I’ve had a good run of both surfing and poker at home in central California and Costa Rica, and while watching the Pipe Masters online I had time to reflect on two of my favorite hobbies.

Both I had learned to do at a young age, and I think when I do either there is a connection to my dad. He was a Navy Diver so I grew up by the coast and we have sailed, snorkeled, or swam along a large swath of the East Coast. He also taught me poker and chess, and he still plays some online home games to keep the mind sharp (although my mom has been winning the tournaments lately).

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Both surfing and poker have histories going back over 500 years, but the poker I’m talking about is Texas No-Limit Holdem, not your play-money, five-card game where threes and one-eyed Jack are wild.

Here are seven ways they are similar to me. Maybe you can think of a few more?

1. Surf breaks and players can both be categorized, but no two waves or hands dealt

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are exactly the same: Some will pound you while others you know will let you off easy. Some are easy to read, you know what they are going to do every time.

Most surfers and poker players

do it for recreation, but some are very competitive even when not in a tournament. Both can be unpredictable.

2. They are played in exotic locations: Australia – check.

South Africa – check. Asia – check. The Caribbean – check.

Florida and California – more venues than you can shake a stick at. The players in both games will spend a lot of money

traveling to new and foreign locations, where the locals speak many languages. The accommodations closest to the venue are generally overpriced, but closest to the action. If you

are on a budget, you can crash on a friend’s sofa. When you go a new spot, the locals give you this look like they are going to take all – your chips or your waves.

3. The old timers get respect … sometimes: Shaun Tomson, Tom Curren, The Duke, and Doyle Brunson. Legends that live and play their sport to the end. It keeps them young, their

minds sharp. They are searching for the double up and know where to sit in order to find it.

When they leave us, their stories and glories are retold by their family and friends, and annual events and charitable fundraisers are hosted in their honor. But if you didn’t know who they were then you just look at them and play your game, hoping they stay out of your way.

4. ... But the young risk takers rule the lineup: These days you visit a lineup and the youth are out in droves. Gratefully the casinos don’t let in kids under 18, or you’d be going all in with an 8-year-old wizard with nothing but a trust fund to lose.

In surfing they sit the deepest, play recklessly, and compete more for their share of the scraps, while the older surfers wait for the big pots.

5. There are pros in both sports: You can win a lot of money but the sponsors don’t pay. Only the top professionals get any type of big endorsements. It could be a clothing company, an entertainment company, possibly some upstart that makes sunglasses. Their logos are splayed on their body like tattoos, on hats and shirts.

There is a tour, and sometimes it feels like a grind, especially when they don’t win their draws. The men outnumber the women, and the women’s prize money just doesn’t stack up.

6. It can be fun to be a spectator: If you are not a pro but

still like the sport, it’s just fun to watch the professionals compete. It’s not your money invested in the tournament, it’s not your boards that are getting broken. These guys (and girls) take risks that you wouldn’t think of doing. The announcers know the game, but sometimes they drone on when there isn’t a lot of action. The fans cheer their favorite competitors.

There is always an element of luck involved in catching cards or catching waves. And any hometown hero can be the next champ.

7. With big rewards are big risks: Have you ever made a bet that would cost you $1 million dollars? Or maybe it would cost you your rent? Hopefully it won’t cost you your life, but if it does then you are in WAY too deep. You do more than you expect to play the game, and make sacrifices. And when you are dropping into a wave, you can’t hesitate. It’s all in or nothing.

Boardrider ofthe Month

Operation Surf

by Jenny Bilchak

This month I’m taking a different approach for our Boardrider by giving a shout-out to the group of wounded active duty military heroes past, present, and future who comprise Amazing Surf Adventures’ Operation Surf and the Cocoa Beach event they’ve planned for March.

Amazing Surf Adventures helps develop community programs that use surfing and other activities to help individuals change their perspective and overcome particular life challenges.

President and Founder Van Curaza started the organization with his lifelong passion of helping underprivileged and at-risk youth and his experiences with wounded soldiers and veterans.

ASA has touched over 300 men and women with its California events in Santa Cruz and the Central Coast, and will be increasing that number soon with our help. Operation Surf itself began thanks to Navy Corpsman Derek McGuiness, who lost his leg in the war. His desire to learn how to surf set the project in motion.

ASA’s Operation Surf is coming to Cocoa Beach March 19-25 and they need donations, sponsors, and volunteers to keep this event on track. They’ll be bringing a group of wounded active duty veterans injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to our beaches to give them the experience of surfing our beloved waves. These veterans have been treated for multiple types of trauma, including spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, burns, amputations, and PTSD. As boardriders, beachcombers, ocean lovers, or simply proud Americans, we hope you can help make the day a successful one.

This time of year, we have a wide variety of people walking our shores.

Sometimes as locals we get upset about the traffic, the lines at the grocery store, and the litter on the beaches from disrespectful visitors, but we can’t forget the tranquility and peace we’re sharing with the people who come here. Many of them walk the shore lines, swim, or surf in the waves and kayak through the 1000 Islands soaking in the sun.

Cocoa Beach will also do this for the veterans visiting us next month. Many

of these men and women are suffering from life-altering experiences, and our precious ocean will be a main part of their rehabilitation therapy.

I am happily in a relationship with a combat veteran and have witnessed firsthand the serenity he receives from the ocean when times get difficult.

When he surfs, like many of us, life and its worries are forgotten, and a simple state of peace is reached. Give back to our brothers and sisters by helping out.

Go to www.amazingsurfadventures.org and look for Operation Surf on Facebook to see how you can get involved. ASA gets no federal funding for its events, so your assistance is appreciated more than you know.

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Surfrider

Let Love Rule

By Jackie Beatty • www.surfrider.org • www.cocoabeach.surfrider.org

Dag Hammarskjöld, the great UN leader, once reflected that we’d never make sustainable progress in our world until we all “walked the longest journey” -the journey within.

Each of our capacities to create the world we dream of depends on our own journey, from fear to love, toward believing in ourselves and leaving our demons behind. In order to create the change we went to see around us we must first learn how to love who we are inside.

The history of progress for humankind has always been one where the illusively unachievable becomes the new reality. This new reality is born out of the visions of humanity and the work of people seeking to remake the world in seemingly impossible ways. The late Nelson Mandela said something that applies to all the great struggles of our era: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

All of us know that our planet is in danger. As humans, our treatment of the Earth has a great influence on animals and plants that right now are experiencing a mass extinction. We act as if our lives are not supported by our ecosystem. We

are like sleepwalkers, or beings eating away at our own life support systems. The changes to our ecosystem within the past 60 years are unprecedented in the previous 10,000 years and the future of all life depends on the decisions we make now.

We have to hear the bells of mindfulness that are sounding all across our planet. We have to start learning how to live in a way that a future will be possible for our children and our grandchildren.

In order to move forward as a human race we need to make a collective change. Waiting for our government or people in positions of power to initiate these changes for us is not going to happen. WE are the ones who need to demand change because we have that power when we stand together.

We need radical change. Evolutionary change. And we need it now.

We have reached a developmental turning point that calls for a new survival equation

that challenges us to reset our current state from fear to trust, from part to whole, and from nation-state patriotism to whole-Earth matriotism. We all belong to the Earth and we are in this together. Heart-based wisdom needs to go along with activism and love for our planet, love for the whole human family, and love for ourselves.

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

February 6: Cape Canaveral Street Fest, Taylor Ave. 6p.m.-10 p.m.

February 7: Sea oat planting, meet us on the beach at Minutemen, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

February 18: Monthly Chapter Meeting, The Surfinista, 6 p.m.

February 20: Cocoa Beach Friday Fest, DTCB, 6 p.m.-10 p.m.

February 21: U.S. Rodeo Queen Beach Clean Up, Minutemen Cswy., 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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The Big Bang

Winter Mayhem!

By Capt. Scott Bussen of the Relentless II www.fishrelentless.com

By Capt. Jamie Glasner www.finandflycharters.com

I’d like to say that the new year started off with a bang.

Unfortunately, in my case, it came with the clunk of a failing transmission.

Not exactly the way to start off 2015, but maybe I’m just getting the stressful garbage out of the way early. At least for now, I’m gonna believe that. Oh well, as they say: onward and upward. At least I haven’t been

thinking about the grouper I can’t keep!

With the yearly grouper shutdown upon us, the slow-trolling/live-baiting will take the center stage for a few months.

In January, the slow-trolling was pretty darn good. The kings were biting as if they hadn’t had a meal in weeks. As if they

weren’t enough, there were more than a few sailfish with some blackfin tuna, mahi, and cobia thrown in for good measure. Transmission not withstanding, all-in-all I would say that it was a pretty good start to the angling year.

The key to a carryover of last month’s action is going to be general water characteristics and temperature, the biggest of which is temperature.

This time of year, the fish are driven by temperature. Once the water temp starts dipping into the 60s, the king schools start tightening up into dense knots and begin moving south in a hurry. Once they get back to water north of the 70-degree mark, they tend to loosen up a bit and stop moving so fast. Hopefully, the water will stay above 70 and remain relatively clear. If that’s the case, we should be able to enjoy another month of awesome fishing!

February can be a decent month for trolling if you like to

catch sailfish. Just like the kings, the sailfishing will depend on water temp. The 70-plus range seems to be the key. The biggest problem for bally trollers is the fact that much of the sail activity has been centered around the kingfish on the inshore reefs. Bring plenty of ballyhoo as the kings have a tendency to clip them off right behind the hook. With the sailfish, there should be a good chance at a mahi, blackfin or maybe a wahoo.

For this month, if you’re running offshore, keep a close eye on your temp gauge. One fish’s nemesis is another’s fairy godmother. Those temps below the 70-degree line may make some fish move south. But that 68-degree mark is Baby Bear’s porridge for the cobia.

If you can find an edge where the water jumps from the mid 60s to the 67- to 70-degree range, you could be in the spot.

If there are Christmas trees of greenies and gannets diving along the edge, that’s even better. There’s a good chance there should be some manta rays and/or free-swimming cobia in the area. Have both jigs and livies ready in case you encounter some finicky fish.

Whatever the case, take your honey fishing for Valentine’s Day and cook her a hearthealthy fish dinner! Blackened cobia fajitas are my personal go-to, but don’t be afraid to step it up with some shrimp or scallops. Feel free to copy my M.O.; I won’t tell nobody!

See ya on the pond!

I love it when we come into a month where we can target multiple species of fish rather than just one or two. Change is good, right? Right.

So this month were targeting redfish, trout, and black drum.

The redfish and trout bites have been the most consistent with these weird weather patterns we’ve been having. You can find the redfish in pretty good-sized schools and also find single fish laid up in the potholes. Gulp jerk baits, jigs, live shrimp, finger mullet, and cut bait will do the trick for them. Try throwing a top water early one morning and you might get a decent-sized gator trout or even a redfish.

Most of the trout that I’ve been catching have been on jigs, but you can also sometimes get some big trout on cut bait.

The black drum fishing has also been exceptionally good; they’ve been ranging from 4 to 10 lbs. out there. Jigs and shrimp have been the ticket for them. It’s been a real soft bite for them as well, but once you got them hooked, hold on -- they fight just as hard as redfish once they get to a certain size.

Offshore, the main species we’ve been hitting good are the kingfish, most of which have been ranging from 10-25 lbs. Live bait is the best ticket for them. I’ve been slow-trolling live pogies and on some days you can’t even keep your bait in the water for more than 10 seconds. The cobia and tripletail are another two species to target. The former have been hit-or-miss and the last couple of times we caught them while slow-trolling for kings. On the other hand, the triple tail have been a lot of fun; sight-fishing them under the seagrass bed with live shrimp is a blast, but make sure you also carry live finger mullet if you can find them.

The snook fishing opens up this month

as well. Live bait cast in the surf is your best bet – but it’s important to remember that you can only keep one snook between 28”32”with a pinched tail.

Until March, good luck out on the water!

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Reserve wing cuts ribbon on $4 million aircraft hangar by 920th Rescue Wing Public Affairs

The 920th Rescue Wing held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 12 to mark the completion of an addition/renovation project on Hangar 630 – the wing’s fixed-wing aircraft isochronal inspection (ISO) hangar.

The primary incentive for the project was to expand the structure by roughly 10,000 square feet (from the building’s original 17,000), in order to fully enclose the wing’s HC-130P/N King refueling aircraft.

Prior to the renovation, Hangar 630 was a “nose dock” – large enough to accommodate all but the tail of the C-130 airframe upon which the wing’s HC-130 is built.

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wing maintainers to proceed with aircraft maintenance operations during all types of weather conditions, as well as to reduce corrosion problems for the aircraft caused by the salt air environment.

In addition to the expansion, repairs were made to the existing building’s exterior, the existing interior was painted, and repairs were made to the existing fire protection system. Improvements included installation of 100,000 gallon water tank to supply

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fire-protection system, installation of a 30,000-gallon underground containment tank for firefighting foam (Aqueous Film-Forming Foam), installation of a bridge crane, replacing high-bay light fixtures, installation of fire protection and alarm systems, renovations to existing fire pumps, coating and painting the hangar floor and other general architectural work (kitchens, offices and break rooms).

Some of the equipment required to fully outfit the

hangar as an isochronal inspection dock included maintenance platforms ($1.5 million), an Omni Arm landing gear removal and replacement tool ($70,000), and heavy duty tool boxes designed to house the array of tools required to perform ISO inspections ($50,000).

An Air Force ISO inspection is a thorough examination of an entire aircraft, during which aircraft maintainers look for

and repair problems in every system – from nose to tail and wingtip to wingtip.

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.

For more information on the 920th Rescue Wing, follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

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Get Out of Town Kerouac benefactors, chief among them Jeffery Cole, President of Cole National. A fan of Kerouac’s since the first printing of “On the Road,” Cole graciously contributed the balance required to purchase the property, thereby saving it from demolition.

Notable visitors to the home include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco’s poet laureate and owner of City Lights Bookshop; Carolyn Cassady, the widow of Jack’s traveling companion Neal Cassady; and Ron Lowe, who was close to Kerouac during his final years in St. Petersburg, Florida.

In 2002, Bob Kealing published his book “Kerouac In Florida: Where The Road Ends,”

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Open for Business TrepHub themselves to several people and pitch their ideas or what they want to do, but soon they’ll find the mentors or even other entrepreneurs whose advice they need.”

Michael Crown, President of FracTEL, a local telecommunications company, has established

and there’s presently a documentary in the works for PBS. The house isn’t open to the public, but if you feel inclined to pass by in your travels, take heart. When Kerouac was focused on his writing, he needed precious little but space to set up his typewriter and somewhere to sleep when he was exhausted. He wasn’t a man given to extravagant living; even once success had blessed him with cash.

Wherever life’s travels may lead, it’s important for storytellers to find the time to chronicle what they’ve seen and felt – to hopefully inspire others to seek their own path and purpose, whether on the highways or in the majestic solitude of the mountains or prairies, or lost in the dizzying, swirl of notes from a saxman’s horn.

For more information, visit: kerouacproject.org

many lasting business relationships through the group, and speaks highly of TrepHub’s sponsored StoryTimes, during which local entrepreneurs share their stories and experiences.

Speakers have included notable Space Coast success stories like Carol Craig, Alex Rudloff, and Keith Donald.

“The very first Storytime was with John Scott, the founder of XL Tech group,” Crown recalls.

“My attorney, Mark Mohler, introduced me to John after the talk. One thing led to another, and John has been working closely with us ever since.”

For his part, Reza is optimistic about the future of TrepHub

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Skilled Labor Janell Tobin Along with sunscreens, moisturizers, microderm face polish, and a variety of lip tints and balms, Janell also makes popular DEET-free, kid-friendly bug balm. No water or preservatives are used in any of her products and all are formulated with sensitive skin-types in mind.

“I specialize in people who have sensitive skin,” Janell says.

“My products will not burn or sting your eyes and are very therapeutic. I have the medical background and knowledge behind skin care, so I carefully pick out which ingredients I use. I also make a lot of my products in stick form so they’re easy to apply and travel-friendly.”

One the most rewarding things for Janell is launching and the local technology scene at large. “As far as I’m aware we’re a pretty unique organization, not just for the Space Coast but for the United States. While we’re not always the answer, if you’re looking to become an engineer, artist or businessperson, you’ll likely have much to gain by becoming part of the TrepHub community.”

TrepHub is located at 907 E. Strawbridge Ave. in downtown Melbourne. Call (321) 420-1900 or connect with them online at: www.trephub.com. You can also check for them on Facebook, Twitter, and a number of other social networking and industry-related sites.

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her products in smaller, momand-pop stores who support local businesses. “The first one was 321 Kiteboarding in Cocoa Beach and the most productive store is Sunseed Co-Op, where I feel so blessed, as they are huge supporters and promoters of my product line. It was real trial-and-error as what to sell and what people would buy, but since I sell a little of everything, people have a variety.”

“I always remember my first paying customer,” Janell smiles.

“She wrote me a check and I never cashed it. I wanted to keep it as a reminder that people actually want to buy my homemade products.”

To learn more about Coco Janell Organics and to place orders, visit www. cocojanellorganics.com/etsy. Place custom orders for foundation by contacting Janell at: cocojanellorganics@gmail.com.

Find her products locally in Cocoa Beach at Sunseed Co-Op, SSlater Surf & Tackle, Happy Healthy Human in Satellite Beach, and Nature’s Market in Melbourne.

Janell is also available for demonstrations at local venues and events.

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Local Scribe Alberto Rivera Love is welcoming the attempt to fix you breakfast, even though you’ve eaten better food in a Greyhound station.

Love is knowing what someone else needs and having it ready, unasked.

Love is listening to the tedium that is someone else’s heartbreak, ad nauseam. And then gently and discreetly paying for their first six months of online Ukrainian Love-Match referral services.

Love is looking at someone who’s not exactly like the person you met a long time ago and being appreciative, because neither are you that person.

And what does love look like exactly? Is it glossy, airbrushed, and perfectly unblemished?

No, the very things you can’t

stand about yourself (within reason): your crooked smile, pigeon-toed walk, your unsettling obsession with 1940s musicals, and the goofy way you laugh at things no one else will get are the things your true love will find most endearing about you. (Within reason.)

Then there’s all sorts of things that get mistaken for love as well. Enduring and surviving a shared common suffering, being friends of friends, or simply having met in the green room of the Jerry Springer Show. These can have troubled yet entertaining results, especially if it makes it to daytime TV. So whatever your love looks and feels like, I hope it/they treat you well this month – every month – and you get the love you want and deserve. * On a personal note, 17 years ago, resident Lisa Teed Sangster suggested to her recently graduated friend, “There’s plenty of work in Florida.” Said friend took this advice and followed I-95 South. For this, I will never be able to thank you enough.

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Bartender ofthe Month What’s your own drink of choice?

Guinness, Guinness, Guinness, and oh … Guinness.

What’s the most overrated drink out there?

Any sugary shot. There are so many better things to drink than, say, a pineapple upside down shot.

Do you have a signature drink – one you’ve invented?

Chartreuse Gimlet: Grey Goose, Chartreuse Green, fresh lime juice, and honey syrup.

Any hangover cures you can recommend?

Mikey of Preacher Bar & Grill This month’s Bartender installment introduces two new arrivals to the beachside scene in both the bartender and the bar where he plies his trade.

Since opening a few short months ago, Preacher Bar & Grill has been getting raves for its uniquely inviting atmosphere, eclectic menu, and a lipsmacking selection of hard-to-find craft beers. It has also been growing steadily in

popularity thanks to its friendly staff, including expert tapster Mikey, February’s Bartender of the Month.

Mikey only just relocated from New York to Cape Canaveral this past September, about the time Preachers began to

take shape. Originally from the suburbs outside Boston, Mikey did his under -and post-grad schooling at Clark University in Worcester.

“I always thought about owning a bar, so after grad school I started bartending around Boston,” he told us. “I did that for a couple of years before I got a marketing and branding job with a beer distributor representing Heineken USA in the urban market of Boston.”

What’s the best place in the area for a romantic dinner in your opinion?

Honestly -- and not to plug the bar I work at -- but I think Preacher Bar has the best intimate setting for date. And I think a lot of people agree because we see a lot of dates.

Ideal romantic dinner?

Sitting at the corner of the bar eating and drinking all night to low candlelight and good music.

Preferably with a date.

What superpower would you like to have?

Gatorade and a prayer.

From there, Mikey moved to New York where he got into marketing for Time Magazine in Manhattan. “I wasn’t the biggest fan of living in NYC, so after about a year I decided to head elsewhere. I had some family that had been here for a while and my mom just retired and bought a condo here.”

When he’s not bartending, Mikey still does consulting work for Time, but also manages to squeeze in a few hours out among the waves. “I’ve been teaching myself to surf since I’ve been down here. It’s been hit or miss on that front,” he laughs.

blow me away. Plus it’s Michael f-ing Jordan and my friends would be so jealous.

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

The list is long and I have my fair share of stories. It’s tough to choose and some, honestly, I don’t even want to put on paper. I was working a club and watched a women’s hockey team start a brawl amongst themselves after one girl hit the other in the head with a glass bottle.

True team chemistry, I guess.

I would want the power of teleportation like Night Crawler from the X-Men, but without all the makeup.

Parting words of wisdom?

Keep smiling.

Preacher Bar & Grill is located at 8699 Astronaut Blvd. in Cape Canaveral.

Call (321) 783-9191. Look for them on Facebook – “Preacher-Bar” or visit http://preacherbar.com to view for their full menu

Which celebrity, living or dead, would you most like to serve and why?

Michael Jordan. I grew up watching him play and I know the stories he has would just

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Book ofthe Month The Museum of Extraordinary Things

By Alice Hoffman • Scribner, 2014; $27.99

Alice Hoffman, famed author of “Practical Magic,” has created a multi-layered mystery set in the hopeful Manhattan of the early 1900s when dreamers and survivors searched for a better life amid the harsh realities of stark factories and false economic promises.

The New York of this story vibrates with life, energized by the then-recent marvel of electricity and the optimism and faith that anything

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the Hudson as well. The raw nature of the riverbank and the city that threatens to devour it are here in stark contrast to the working poor and the elite, the lucky and unlucky, and the desperate and the hopeful.

One criticism, however, is Hoffman’s repeated use of italics, and page after page of it might strain your eyes -- especially if you’re a late-night reader. It becomes less noticeable the further you read, but can be distracting when reading longer passages.

Yet Hoffman has crafted a fictionalized literary time portal and breathes life into history with vivid descriptions of real New York landmarks like Luna Park and Dreamland, amusement parks that existed on Coney Island back in 1911. She also blends the tension of a murder mystery, the miracle of love, and the confusion of discovering your own path into a compelling novel you can’t put down.

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was possible. The Museum of Extraordinary Things, fueled by this wonder, promises human curiosities, sideshow acts, and exotic animals and promotes such stars as the Butterfly Girl, the Wolfman, and a living mermaid. Curated by the strict Professor Sardie, a devious showman with many secrets to hide, the museum also serves as the home of his daughter Coralie, a reserved and sheltered young girl who is a human wonder herself. But Coralie’s life is forever changed when she encounters Eddie, a young Russian photographer and outcast on the Hudson River.

A tragic event, a missing girl, and a quest to discover a sea monster known as “The Hudson Mystery” causes Eddie to stumble into an unknown world, and Hoffman prominently includes the River as the silent witness to a variety of strange happenings. The novel’s plot currents mimic the turbulent winter waters of

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Mike Cooney • Copies of the book can be purchased on Amazon.com.

Visit www.cooneyworldadventures.com to learn more.

Although there are plenty of guides out there about traveling the world, this new book by resident Mike Cooney is a very personal account of how he and his wife sold nearly everything they owned to take their three teenage sons on an around-the-world trek.

The first of a planned duo of travel guides, “Latin America” chronicles the adventures (and misadventures) of the family’s odyssey through Latin America for nearly four months. It also tells the story of how and why Mike and Catrell decided to “give it all up” so they could give their sons the lifelong gift of seeing the world before starting college. It’s one part DIY and two parts inspiration, and is intended to cause

others to get out of their comfort zone and see the world.

The book covers a variety of emotions and ends with a highly emotional reunion that brought two families on two continents together to celebrate the life of someone who died far too soon. It also peels away all the fluff of a typical travel book to expose the raw and unpleasant side of traveling, as it recounts how the family arrived to a destination with no place to stay. The majority of the trek was covered by bus, which included everything from a 15-passenger van with 30 people crammed in and on it, to a luxury double-decker bus with an android-like attendant who took care of their every need.

Mike and Catrell’s objective was to help create three “better global citizens” by exposing them firsthand to peoples, cultures, and destinations around the globe. The book tells of the challenges they faced before and during the trek, as well as the profound impact and life-changing experiences they had as a family and as individuals.

It’s an easy read and is divided into chapters consisting of stories about their travels from each of the countries they visited throughout the region. It also includes interesting facts about each country and a snapshot of the lasting impressions left on the Cooney sons, Morgan, Zach, and Harrison.

The Movies

by Matthew Phillips facebook.com/mattbillups

The Imitation Game Director: Morten Tyldem

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode

Mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) was a nobody before the outbreak of WWII, when the British government asks him to decipher a seemingly “unbreakable” Nazi code. Ordered to work alongside other geniuses who view him as an “odd duck,” it’s not long before Turing befriends Joan (Keira Knightley), warms up to his colleagues, and begins constructing the decoding machine that went on to change the course of the war, and history as a whole. At first we see Turing coming off as arrogant and unpersonable, but through flashbacks to his childhood and Cumberbatch’s superb acting abilities, he evolves into someone you eventually understand and sympathize with. “Imitation Game” is an eye-opening film that offers insight into how WWII was won and how Alan Turing’s life unfolded only to end in unjust treatment by the government he served. Fans of Cumberbatch, WWII, or biopics in general will love every bit of this film. Grade: A

Selma

Director: Ava DuVarney Stars: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo

In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. (David Oyelowo) led thousands of followers on a march from Selma, Alabama to its capital, Montgomery, to secure voting rights for African Americans. “Selma” isn’t a run-of-the-mill biopic that neatly bookends its subject’s life between birth and death, but rather depicts one momentous year of King’s life. Oyelowo’s King is so persuasive and charismatic that whether he’s having a private conversation or giving a speech

to a crowd of followers, you find yourself immediately on his side and stay with him every step of the way. The struggles many faced during those years were truly difficult and “Selma” makes that abundantly clear with some very hard-to-watch scenes. It’s with great skill that the film is able to transport the audience to the ‘60s to not only feel the anger and sadness of the era, but also the hope that with every struggle there is resolution. Grade: A

American Sniper

Director: Clint Eastwood Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller

Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) joined the military simply wanting to serve his country, but after four tours in Iraq, he became a legend -- the most

lethal sniper in U.S. history. Raised to be “a sheepdog who protects others, not a sheep or a wolf,” Kyle takes the lesson to heart by becoming the ultimate patriot.

Kyle’s belief in his country is matched by his fellow soldiers’ belief in him as they don “Punisher” skulls in his honor. Those expecting “Sniper” to consist merely of head-shots and killings will be surprised to find that it focuses more on the hard decisions made during wartime and the weighty consequences that often follow soldiers home. Helped in part by his own experience making war films, Eastwood also demonstrates his love for simple storytelling. Before the movie, you might steel yourself for nonstop action; during it, you’re likely to wipe away a few tears; after it, you’ll see life a little differently. Grade: A+

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By Romeo Pomodoro

Dear Romeo, My girlfriend of two years just left me. I’m wrecked. What I’m really devastated by is the fact that the breakup was all my own damn fault. You see, she caught me messing around with her best friend when she came home early from work. What should I do?

“J.T.” Cocoa Beach

Romeo,

Hey, Romeo!

During a recent trip to Venice, Italy, I picked up a beautiful wooden chest the dealer said was used by Renaissance women to store their love letters. It’s a very beautiful piece and is carved on the outside with various romantic and erotic scenes. I’ve recently run into some financial difficulty and am in desperate need of cash. I figured since you were from Italy and have wide-ranging knowledge about these things you might be able to help me assess its value or find a local dealer. Who knows? You may even want to buy it yourself!

I love my wife, don’t get me wrong, but she’s been getting on my nerves lately and won’t stop nagging me about my involvement in the local pool league. I work hard, Romeo, and it’s the only time I get to unwind with my friends, but she doesn’t care.

Even when we managed to win a tournament last year and I brought home my portion of the cash winnings she still complained. What am I going to do?

I refuse to give up playing pool.

Elise F. Cocoa I’d love to check out your chest, Kelly! Maybe after, I’ll let you look in my drawers!

I’ve got a nice piece in there just for you!

“Ricky” Satellite Beach Nikki, I wouldn’t worry too much your wife. It’s important that you keep playing pool with your friends because a happy husband makes for a happy marriage. I think your wife just needs to learn how to appreciate your pastime.

Next time you and the boys go out, I’ll drop by to visit her to teach her the pleasure of sinking some balls!

Sounds like you’ve been a very, very bad boy, CJ. I think you deserve a good spanking.

Be gentle with yourself.

Romeo,

I love pampering men and I’d love nothing more than to pamper you. One of my fantasies is to take you shopping. I love the idea of taking you to the mall and buying you clothes and taking you to Publix to pick out gourmet ingredients for a fabulous meal to make for you. Please help my dreams become reality!

Wanda G. Merritt Island I’m touched, Wendy. In fact, I’m touching myself as I write this! I’d be happy for you to take me shopping. I’ll be especially happy to have you to hold my sack!

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