Tag: Jacksonville FL
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AL Letson, Penumbra: Live at Henrietta’s at 9th & Main, Jacksonville, FL (2005)
Al Letson is a poet, playwright, performer, and radio and podcast host. This article first appeared on Bill Ectric’s Place in June 2005. Since that time, Letson has hosted and produced the show State of the Re:Union for National Public Radio. He now hosts Reveal, a podcast from PRX and Center for Investigative Reporting. Top…
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Tim Gilmore discusses The Klan in Jacksonville, FL – Its Repugnant Rise and Hysterical Collapse
The Coniferous Cafe was packed Tuesday night, June 13th, with every chair filled, many more people standing, and the crowd actually spilling out the door onto the sidewalk. I love this kind of motivated crowd, sincerely and lovingly united against bigotry and racism, ready to stand up for human rights. There aren’t many words I…
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Next at CoRK / Jax by Jax
Happening in Jacksonville, FL From Folio Weekly: Hurley Winkler is good at far too many things. Her CV includes helping produce Swamp Radio and Perversion magazine, and she’s just finished her master of fine arts in creative writing at Lesley University. Jim Draper is primarily known as a visual artist whose work has been seen…
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The David Roberts Interview
No one knew what to think when we first saw a band called the “Crawfish of Love.” The stage was strewn with surreal artwork, a manikin head, several TV sets turned on to random channels or static, guitar amplifiers, drums, and five musicians that looked like they were conspiring mischief among themselves. Andy King on…
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Chamblin Bookmine, Part One of Seven
The following was written by the always interesting Tim Gilmore on his blog, Jax Psycho Geo. Source: Chamblin Bookmine, Part One of Seven But after what happened with Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of “The Most Dangerous Man Alive,” I was too ashamed to go back. Even years later, when I’d assumed…
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Alan Justiss (1943-2011)
Poet Alan Justiss died on Valentine’s Day in Jacksonville, FL. In a touching tribute on Money Jungle Safari, Shelton Hull writes: The light is out on the 17th floor on Lomax Street, at the retirement community Alan Justiss called home at the end of his life. That light has burned out, and it will shine no more.…
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Arvid Smith
The Cross-Pollination Project is a compilation CD of songs from independent musicians in and around Jacksonville, FL.