Dec. 4-10 Arts Calendar Wednesday, December 4

What's coming up at Northeast Florida galleries, museums, theaters and more

Dec. 4-10 Happenings Calendar Wednesday, December 4

What's coming up in events, comedy, classes and more in Northeast Florida

Dec. 4-10 Live Music Calendar Wednesday, December 4

What's coming up at Northeast Florida clubs, bars and concert venues

Dec. 4 Mail: Class Size and Jacksonville Symphony Wednesday, December 4

As a Duval County school counselor in a Title I high school, I was immediately drawn to the Nov. 20 Backpage Editorial, “The Real Cost of Class-Size Compliance.”

ARIES: Dec. 4-10 Tuesday, December 3

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes I think too fast and too much. My logic gets sterile. My ideas are jagged and tangled. When it happens, I head to Turtle Back Hill for a saltwater marsh hike. The trail loops around on itself, and I arrive back …

TAURUS: Dec. 4-10 Tuesday, December 3

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the mid-19th century, French art was dominated by the government-sponsored Salon, whose conservative policies thwarted new trends like Impressionism. One anti-authoritarian painter who rebelled was Camille Pissarro. …

GEMINI: Dec. 4-10 Tuesday, December 3

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Lead us not into temptation, and deliver us from evil," is a request that Christians make of God when they say the Lord's Prayer. If we define "temptation" as an attraction to things that feel good even though they're bad …

CANCER: Dec. 4-10 Tuesday, December 3

CANCER (June 21-July 22): "You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks," said philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. You don't have to worry about that. The storm may howl and surge, but it'll ultimately pass. Though your tree may bend far, …

LEO: Dec. 4-10 Tuesday, December 3

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It's a perfect time to start reclaiming some of superpowers you had when you were a child. What? You didn't have superpowers? Not true. Before you entered adolescence, you saw things, knew things and felt things that were …

VIRGO: Dec. 4-10 Tuesday, December 3

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Not all darkness is bad. You know that. Sometimes you need to escape bright lights. It can be restorative to sit quietly in pitch blackness and drink in the mystery of the Great Unknown. The same's true for silence, …