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2024-2025 NFL Season Record Predictions

FOLIO

August 29, 2024

Feature·Football·NFL·Sports

Words by Gray’s Gridiron Key: * denotes division winner ^ denotes wild card + denotes Super Bowl appearance Underlined players are in their rookie season. As the preseason concludes and NFL teams begin to shape for the upcoming season, let’s take a look at some key information for each team and predict the fates of all 32 NFL franchises

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News AAND Notes: Arts Edition

COMMUNITY NEWS -from Staff BOLO Keith Haring’s Art In the way back of 1989, at the invitation (and tireless coordination) of teacher Irving Zucker, Keith Haring and nearly 500 Chicago Public Schools students collaborated on a 480-foot mural comprising 36 panels. It was subsequently divided into 61 sections and parsed

Folio Summer Street Team: Pizza Giftcard Giveaway

Folio’s Summer Street Team headed over to downtown Jacksonville during lunch time

STRAIGHTENED OUT at ELEVEN22

FOLIO COMMUNITY story by CLAIRE GOFORTH Darkness beckons on the southwest corner

The Domino Effect of Desantis’ Drag Ban

June 14, 2023

Feature·LGBTQIA

Words by Su Ertekin-Taner On May 17, Florida turned a deeper shade of red. Now signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Senate Bill 1438, blatantly coined Florida’s “anti-drag bill,” defines restrictions on public food service establishments and lodging establishments that admit children to “adult live performance[s],” or “any show,

Folio’s Interview with Margaret Cho

May 31, 2023

Comedy

Folio’s Interview with Margaret Cho.

Juneteenth Events 2023

May 31, 2023

Events

June 10 Juneteenth Rodeo Jacksonville Equestrian Center blackrodeousa.com June 15 “Respect: Soul Music in the Civil Rights Movement” Lincolnville Museum & Cultural Center, St. Augustine lincolnvillemuseum.org Black Founders Forum UNF–Adam Herbert University Center ps27foundation.org Live Jazz Performance with Marcus Click Lincolnville Museum & Cultural Center, St. Augustine

Jacksonville Jaguars Preseason Predictions

May 31, 2023

Football·NFL

Words By Carson Rich The NFL draft has concluded, and the schedules are out, so now it is time to predict how the Jacksonville home team will fare this upcoming season. Week 1: Indianapolis Colts (Away) The Jaguars begin their journey on the road against a division rival.

Folio’s Survival Guide to Music Festival Season

May 31, 2023

Music

By Carmen Macri and Ambar Ramirez Our days of long sleeves and pants are a distant memory as we welcome jean shorts, fringe tops, and tank tops with open arms. As we readily anticipate the arrival of summer with its warm embrace and sun-kissed days, we can feel the

Florida’s Miraculous Spring Waters

May 31, 2023

Environmental·On the River·Outdoors

By Ted Hunt Medical practices during most of the 1800s relied on traditional treatments such as bloodletting, blistering, high doses of mineral poisons and vomiting. One or more of these techniques would hopefully restore the body’s natural balance, and the patient would be cured from a variety of illnesses. Bloodletting

Bouquets and Brickbats

May 31, 2023

Opinion

Bouq: Tim Tebow for donating $5.5 million toward a new state-of-the-art pediatric dental surgery center. The Lakeside Dental Surgery Center, being constructed on Philips Highway, will cater to those with special needs and patients from all backgrounds. His gift will help fill the dearth of pediatric dentistry in Jacksonville, which

I Sea You (and Taste Too): AB Kitchen

May 31, 2023

Food + Drink·Local Chef·LocalLy Ownded·Restaurants

Words By Su Ertekin-Taner I was certainly feeling like an Anton Ego (the food critic in the movie Ratatouille, for those that don’t recognize the character by name) when I walked into Neptune Beach’s AB Kitchen this afternoon, especially after the publication of my last food review. I laid my

Best Bites

May 31, 2023

#EatUpJax·Food + Drink·Local Chef·LocalLy Ownded·Restaurants

Arlington Cliff’s Bar & Grill cliffsbarandgrill.com La Palmerita orderlapalmerita.com Rice + Noodles Korean Restaurant riceandnoodles.net Seven Wonders Restaurant 7wondersbakery.com Tabouleh Cafe taboulehcafe.com Beaches Anejo anejococinamexicana.com Angie’s Subs facebook.com/angiessubs Aqua Grill aquagrill.net Azurea at One Ocean azurearestaurant.com Barbara Jean’s on the Water

Podcast Picks

May 31, 2023

podcasts

Su Ertekin-Taner These days everybody has a podcast, so we did some deep diving into the local podcast scene and found these two pearls. The Short Box: A Comic Book Talk Show A soft jazz, percussion and brass heavy instrumentation crescendos like a superhero’s theme — fitting, to say