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December 10, 2024

Words by Shelton Hull Wine To Unwind is a new house music night taking place at Norikase, a very popular Japanese restaurant at 9734 Deer Lake Court on the city’s southside. These events take place every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 9:30pm, with The Balance King providing sonic soundscapes as patrons network and nosh. The place is well-known for

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It’s A CHRISTMAS STORY time at Alhambra

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)

THE ILLUSIONISTS will add magic to your season

This Tuesday, for one night only, the record-breaking THE ILLUSIONISTS-MAGIC OF THE

Laughter isn’t foreign to THE FOREIGNER

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

DEEP ROOTS

June 2, 2003

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Smells Like Craft Spirits

May 29, 2002

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Written by Nick McGregor The bumper stickers are everywhere in St. Augustine: “A quaint drinking village with a fishing problem.” In addition to being clichéd, the sentiment is outdated, since there’s nothing quaint about the city’s newest alcohol-related venture. St. Augustine Distillery Co. is the brainchild of marketing executive and

Canine Fashion

May 29, 2002

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Written by Dan Brown Polish off that Jaxxy Award! … Wait one Oxycontin™-pickin’ minute! You mean to tell me that no such award for excellence in Northeast Florida Music exists? Balderdash! If there is any justice in this world, “Early Reiser,” by local rock hounds DigDog, wins Album of the