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December Mail

December 2, 2024

Opinion

Activate. Revitalize. Transform. These aspirations have guided the conversation on Downtown Jacksonville for the last 20 years. During that time, many have tried to answer the core questions needed to actualize this vision: How can we build more apartments? What restaurants will attract the most people? What programs can make them stay? The City, Downtown Vision, Build Up Downtown, [insert

Feature·Opinion

Folio Soapbox

Do you ever have something you’re itching to say but you’re too afraid to do so? Scared you’ll get canceled over the candid conversations you have in the privacy of your own home or mind? Is there a secret that you need to let go to finally feel released? Well,

Boquets and Brickbats

BOUQ: To Feeding North East Florida for making it easier for

Combined Minds: What Your Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dish Says About You

Words by Ambar Ramirez & Carmen Macri Ambar: It’s that time

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

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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