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Pandemic could put Jaguars’ traditions on ‘timeout’

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September 24, 2020
Lindsey Nolen Remember the basketball game HORSE? Well, on Thursday nights during the National Football League regular season the Jacksonville Jaguars’ offensive line comes together for their own version of the game, “CAT.” They’ve also been known to play a game of Rock Band or two. This is because on Thursdays after practice, Center Brandon Linder typically hosts the OL

Inconvenient Truths

January 11, 2011
All the news of jobs last week was no doubt a relief to Florida Gov. Rick Scott — the Jobs Bill, job losses, protesters demanding jobs, the death of Steve Jobs. The flood of keyword clutter in the headlines provided Google cover for the governor’s own jobs story, the one

DEEP ROOTS

June 2, 2003
8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4The Florida TheatreDowntownTIX: $37.50-$42.50floridatheatre.com Florida Theatre128 E Forsyth StreetJacksonville, FL 32205Phone: (904) 355-5661 View larger map Songwriters-in-the-round Southern Soul Assembly features four musicians known for being in the vanguard of Southern-born music that blends rock, gospel, funk, and blues. Local native son JJ Grey (Mofro), blues

ONE-MAN JAM

June 2, 2003
FOLIO MUSIC by JOHN E. CITRONE There are all types of one-man bands. There’s the street performer, with his homemade contraption full of wires and pulleys going every which way. There’s the YouTuber, who sits amid three, four (or more) instruments and jumps from one to another (or more), cobbling

SEISMIC RECOGNITION

June 2, 2003
FOLIO COMMUNITY by GREG PARLIER From Kings Bay to the Matanzas Inlet, the fight for a clean Atlantic Ocean in Northeast Florida — one untarnished by oilrigs and air gun blasts — has been led by a young activist and a resort town mayor. Last week, Fernandina Beach Mayor Johnny

Get Up, Stand Up

May 29, 2002
Written by Susan Cooper Eastman Lydale Richardson learned about the Civil Rights Movement from his grandparents. When protesters in Georgia and Mississippi had to go into hiding because the Klan was trying to kill them, some came to Leonard and Eliza Atwater’s Northwest Jacksonville home. The Atwaters also gave money

Midnight Writer

May 29, 2002
Written by Marlene Dryden The Allman Brothers Band spent so much time around these parts in the late ’60s and early ’70s, it’s common to hear locals claim to having known them — or at least having seen them play. Some may even swear they smoked with Duane, or shot

On the Rise

May 29, 2002
Written by Susan Cooper Eastman Twenty-four hours before Sarah Bogdanovitch and Marcelle Fernee loaded up their bicycles with 37 crusty and still-warm loaves of bread, and then pedaled them to customers in Ortega, Avondale, Riverside, San Marco and Springfield, they had to decide what kind of bread they wanted to

Humble Beginnings

May 29, 2002
Written by Christopher Harvey What makes a strong community?” It’s a question I asked each of 11 key people within a large urban area in the Southeastern United States. As they took a moment to prepare their answers, some longer than others, I thought of the research I had done

Failure to Thrive

May 29, 2002
The worst sentences I’ve come across this year haven’t been in the pages of the much-reviled mommy porn (which I’ve admittedly not read) or the fumbling, transcribed speeches of Gov. Rick Scott (which I, grudgingly, have). Rather, they’ve been in the proscribed FCAT pretests of my capable, obedient third grader.

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