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Bricks and Bouqs

August 26, 2024

BOUQ: To the Jacksonville Transportation Authority for providing local students free rides to school. Middle and High school students are eligible to ride JTA buses and the First Coast Flyer every day at no cost through JTA’s My Ride 2 School program. To learn more, visit www.jtafla.com To VyStar Credit Union for creating the MOCA Centennial Scholarship. The four-year scholarship

Combined Minds·Editorial Opinion·Feature

Combined Minds — The Role TikTok and Pop Music Are Playing in the 2024 Presidential Race

Words by Ambar Ramirez & Carmen Macri Ambar: You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? Carmen: You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you. Ambar: If you’re on TikTok, you’ve probably heard that infamous Vice President

Will AI bots replace humans on the internet? — A dive into the dead internet theory

Words by Emily Cheyne Artificial intelligence has been a growing topic

Dear Dumbs,

Dear Dumbs, Thank you for the podcast and for the monthly

Weird Wild Stuff: Queen Elizabeth II Edition

October 3, 2022

History·Learning·Opinion

The year’s weirdest and wildest news story so far was actually not so weird and wild, after all. It speaks to the perpetual perdurability of Queen Elizabeth II (April 21, 1926-September 8, 2022) that a 96 year-old woman who’d just beaten covid in February could die in September, and the

Abandoned and… Haunted?

October 3, 2022

Feature·Opinion

Being so close to St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States, as well as one of the most haunted, it would be foolish to think that the hauntings come to halt once one arrives in Jacksonville. With haunted restaurants, bars and hotels, the list of ghost sightings

Dear Dumbs

August 24, 2022

Dear Dumbs

I really love your Gang of Two podcast. Thanks for all you do … blah, blah, blah. Here’s my problem. I’ve been living with my girlfriend for three years, and I really want to break up with her. What’s the best way to approach this? Thanks, Danny Jacksonville Beach TERRY:

What “independence” are we even celebrating?

July 1, 2022

Opinion

Nothing says “America!” more than failures in gun control, a tanking economy, record high inflation, further marginalizing already marginalized groups and taking bodily autonomy away from the majority of the United States population? (Yes, according to the U.S. Census over 50% of Americans have vaginas. Sorry, Chad. Your dry spell

Folio Vol. 36, Issue 12

June 23, 2022

ART·Downtown·Editorial Opinion·Environmental·Lifestyle·Movies·Music·On Stage·Theatre

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Folio Vol. 36, Issue 6

March 23, 2022

Charitable·Community·Editorial Opinion·Environmental·Health & Wellness·LGBTQIA·Lifestyle·LocalLy Ownded·Outdoors·Restaurants

Hello hello, more Northeast Florida news and opinions coming your way! Click to read on issuu March Issue-PDF-linked

November Entertainment Go-To Guide 2021

It’s Time to Burst our Bubbles

May 24, 2021

Editorial Opinion

In his May Publisher’s letter, John M. Phillips ruminates on the world returning to normal, and how in some ways it shouldn’t. Lives matter. Yes, that’s true. But adding an adjective or descriptor seems to make people upset or think it’s somehow escalating one life over another. It is not.

What If Jacksonville Suddenly Woke Up?

October 27, 2019

Business·Community·Editorial Opinion·Feature·History·Perennial·Urban Planning

Some say Jacksonville is a diamond that wants to remain coal. What would it be like if Jacksonville were a city that didn’t hate itself… led by people who acknowledged its achievements? Here are a few things that possibly would have happened in New York, Rome, London Paris, Seattle, or