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It’s A CHRISTMAS STORY time at Alhambra

December 1, 2024

Feature·Music·On Stage·Theatre·Uncategorized

For fans of the 1983 classic comedy film, A CHRISTMAS STORY, hopefully you already have your tickets for Alhambra’s production. If not, the best you can do is their waiting list, since they are sold out! The show very closely follows the movie’s storyline of young Ralphie Parker (Keegan Carroll) who desperately wants a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range

Downtown·Feature·On Stage·Theatre·Uncategorized

THE ILLUSIONISTS will add magic to your season

This Tuesday, for one night only, the record-breaking THE ILLUSIONISTS-MAGIC OF THE HOLIDAYS will be onstage at the Performing Arts Center in Jacksonville. Having originated on Broadway, the show features rotating performers who have wowed audiences around the world since 2012. Multi-award-winning Chris Cox – The Mentalist – has performed

Laughter isn’t foreign to THE FOREIGNER

It’s Betty Meek’s Fishing Lodge Resort in Rural Georgia. The racist local

Impact Players

Words by Shelton Hull and Photos by Ambar Ramirez From its earliest

SIX Queen Aragon says there’s Something for Everyone

March 28, 2024

Feature·On Stage·Theatre·Uncategorized

On Tuesday, 4/2/24, FSCJ Artist Series brings to the Center for Performing Arts the Broadway Boleyn touring company of SIX. In an era when women were more property than partner, SIX is derived from stories of the six women who married King Henry VIII. Notorious for his use and abuse

SHAKING IT PROUD DOWNTOWN WITH TINA, THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL

March 6, 2024

Theatre·Uncategorized

Born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee, the girl who was to become Tina Turner was born to a sharecropping overseer and worked picking cotton at an early age. Homelife was tumultuous with an abusive father and a mother who abandoned her to her grandmother at age 11. It can be

Seeing Your Way Around Northeast Florida, One Irish Pub at a Time

February 29, 2024

Events·Feature·Uncategorized

Words by Briana Pereira March 17, a day famous for drinking your day away decked out in green apparel while toasting leprechauns. St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect occasion for a bar crawl. A little history behind the holiday and all of its glory before moving on

Cain’t Say No to OKLAHOMA! at the Alhambra

February 24, 2024

On Stage·Theatre·Uncategorized

The first collaboration of the writing duo of Rodgers (music) and Hammerstein (book and lyrics), OKLAHOMA! is the epitome of a “book musical”, where dialogue and music intertwine seamlessly to move a story forward. The show may have been written over 90 years ago, but it provides today’s audience with

FOLIO WANTS YOU TO ROCK THIS WAY!

February 16, 2024

Archive·Entertainment·Festivals·Music

Ride Down(town) to HADESTOWN for a Helluva Show

February 7, 2024

On Stage·Theatre·Uncategorized

Words by Cessy Newmon What a way to go to hell and back. The first of Anaïs Mitchell’s stage endeavors, HADESTOWN intertwines two tales from Greek mythology: Hades & Persephone and Orpheus & Eurydice. It’s a very different approach to a tragic end to the love between two young adults

Bittersweetly put ON THE MARKET at Theatre Jacksonville

January 19, 2024

On Stage·Theatre·Uncategorized

Many of us have a friend or family member who has gone through the loss of a loved one, leaving a hole that no one knows if it can be refilled. Realtor Charlotte (Grace Bryan) is almost 2.5 years past the loss of her husband, and her colleagues are urging

Best Barista — Elias, Tetherball Coffee

January 18, 2024

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Best Barista Elias, Tetherball Coffee Avid coffee drinkers know how vital it is to start the day off right with a nice, hot cup of joe. They also know that making a good cup of coffee can easily go very wrong in inexperienced hands. At Tetherball Coffee, Elias not only

Best Speakeasy — Volstead

January 18, 2024

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Best Speakeasy Volstead Shrouded away on Adams Street, hidden under the guise of an old-timey barber shop is the moody speakeasy Volstead. Volstead is the cream of the crop when it comes to speakeasies in Jacksonville, and consistently stays true to the tradition of dark lighting and misguided entrances. Once

Best Hair Salon — Beauty Junkie

January 18, 2024

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Best Hair Salon Beauty Junkie Located on Edgewood Ave, this not so average hair salon has people coming back for more, like an addiction they just can’t resist. While the number of winning votes is undoubtedly related to the quality of their work, something tells us their all-inclusive gender-neutral pricing,