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SOUTHERN FRIED FUNERAL Antics at the Alhambra

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January 12, 2025
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The Alhambra Theatre launches into 2025 with the fast-paced comedy, SOUTHERN FRIED FUNERAL, one of two plays by writing duo Osborne and Eppler. Set in Mississippi, SOUTHERN FRIED FUNERAL’s action takes place over several days in August in the home of Dorothy Frye (Peg Pachal), who has just lost her husband, Dewey.  Dorothy is faced with dealing with funeral arrangements

Make Room for Daddy

Dude Dad Debuts in Duuuval Words by Shelton Hull  Whereas social media was once the ugly duckling of the communications world, platforms like YouTube and TikTok have now become the most reliable indicators of social trends, and the primary means by which stars are made today, particularly in regard

Haunting Love Story

October 23, 2012
Written by Cassidy Roddy Arthur Kopit’s and Maury Yeston’s musical “Phantom” bewitches audiences as an operatic ghost story — one that delivers passion and humor. “Phantom” isn’t to be confused with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” It came to the stage in January 1991, five years after
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Burning Question

October 23, 2012
Written by Nick McGregor WHY? might be one of the hardest musical nuts to crack. Centered on Yoni and Josiah Wolf, two Jewish brothers from Cincinnati, the group personifies snarky hipster rap at times. At other times, they produce pastoral, electro-bathed indie folk. And at others, they take self-skewering geek-pop
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SPORTS AVENGER 10/18/12

October 18, 2012
by TOM WEPPEL During these Fall days, in which football weekends simply dominate everyone’s attention, it is always interesting to observe how teams fill stadiums…and how fans follow their favorite teams. In so many cases, the intensity and the quantity of fans who get into various teams all comes down
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The Great Divide

October 16, 2012
Written by Tricia Booker On Oct. 18, 1934 — 78 years ago this week — a young white woman named Lola Cannady left her home near Marianna, Fla., to water the family hogs. She never returned. Her bludgeoned body was later found nearby. She had been raped. Claude Neal, a
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Journey of a Quarter-Century

October 16, 2012
Written by Nick McGregor Alternative rock boasted a gloomy, cynical outlook in the early 1990s, but one slice of the genre’s iconic soundtrack will always remain upbeat, thanks to Blues Traveler. Formed in 1986 in Princeton, N.J., the band wood-shedded around the New York City area for several years before
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Talk of the Town

October 16, 2012
TEDx RIVERSIDE/ AVONDALE: COLLECTIVE GENIUS 10 a.m. Oct. 20 Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St. Riverside $100, attendance limited to 100 people Apply at tedxriversideavondale.com OTHER SPEAKERS Parvez Ahmed The author, educator, activist and Folio Weeky’s 2010 Person of the Year details his work as director of UNF’s new Center for
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Fables of the Reconstruction

October 16, 2012
Written by Dan Brown The narrative thread is sewn through a fabric of dreams and allegory in the singular art of Ke Francis. During the past 30-plus years, this multimedia artist-educator has rendered his stories through an arsenal of media, ranging from painting, printmaking and sculpture to photography and installations.
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Performing with Inner Peace

October 9, 2012
Written by Alan Sculley One of the real changes in how Ani DiFranco approaches live performing these days may be something that, in a strict sense, isn’t actually part of what she does on stage. But rest assured, as DiFranco indicated during a recent phone interview, it’s making a difference
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Behind the Best of Jax

October 9, 2012
Denise M. Reagan For years, I have watched Folio Weekly’s Best of Jax issue hit the streets, and flipped through the long list of winners. But I never fully appreciated the phenomenon until I saw the process from the inside. Best of Jax is a BIG DEAL. Not just to
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Understanding Andy

October 9, 2012
Written by Kara Pound After earning her BFA from Rider University, Jacksonville native and current education director at Players by the Sea Barbara Colaciello moved to New York City and spent six years (1977-’83) at The Factory, Andy Warhol’s studio on Union Square. There, she worked as the advertising director
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