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Northeast Florida’s News & Opinion Magazine • Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2013 • 124,542 Readers Every Week • Stay Hungry – Stay Foolish FREE
Are concerts at
Metropolitan Park
too loud?
A Bright
Idea
P. 7
Two buddies
aim to take
book to TV
P. 11
Find out
P. 35
what’s behind
our new website
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Volume 26
Number 44
EDITOR’S NOTE
How you can be a part of Folio Weekly.
p. 4
Brevity is the soul of these animated and live-
action fi lms nominated for Oscars.
p. 20
NEWS
Are Metropolitan Park concerts too loud and too
vulgar?
p. 7
MUSIC
London trio rides its minimalist musical
permutations to massive international success.
p. 26
BUZZ
St. Augustine Alligator Farm, collecting bicycles
for kids, background checks for ice cream truck
operators, the annual homeless count.
p. 7
Gainesville indie rockers Holopaw carve a niche
touring for an album recorded in St. Augustine
Beach.
p. 27
BOUQUETS & BRICKBATS
Gabriel House executive director Edward Asher,
Gov. Rick Scott and Principal Shana Adams and
Saint Clair Evans Academy.
p. 8
Johnny Winter emerged from a diffi cult decade
and overcame addiction with the help of a new
manager.
p. 28
ARTS
Roderick Borisade and Aaron Hazouri created
“Buddy and Bird” to teach children lessons
about diversity and friendship.
p. 35
DEEMABLE TECH
What is a podcast?
p. 10
THE SPECKTATOR
The similarities between Kareem-Abdul Jabbar
and Lance Armstrong.
p. 10
BITE-SIZED
Tossgreen offers a fun, healthy, fast-casual
dining experience.
p. 44
ON THE COVER
A guide to our new website and how you can be
a part of it.
p. 11
BACKPAGE
The right training regimen will keep owners and
pets happy.
p. 55
OUR PICKS
Willie Nelson, Wounded Warrior Project concert
benefi t, The Capitol Steps, “Draw Your Heart
Out” First Wednesday Art Walk, Pre-International
Noise Conference and WWE Smackdown.
p. 17
MAIL
p. 5
FILM LIST
p. 21
LIVE MUSIC LISTING
p. 29
ARTS LISTING
p. 36
THE EYE
p. 40
HAPPENINGS
p. 42
DINING GUIDE
p. 45
FREEWILL ASTROLOGY
p. 50
I SAW U
p. 51
CLASSIFIEDS
p. 52
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
p. 54
SPORTSTALK
MaliVai Washington remembers his Davis Cup
experience.
p. 18
MOVIES
“Warm Bodies”: Clever premise and one-liners
reanimate this standard zom-rom-com.
p. 19
Cover illustration by Paul T. Fenn
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Editor’s Note
Website Is a Two-Way Street
Your contributions are the heart of the new folioweekly.com
B
ack in the golden age of journalism, all-
to be presented in our galleries. If you
organized or attended an event, post your
photos for everyone to enjoy.
A new feature of the site is called What
Do You ink? We will pose questions about
local news and events throughout the week
and seek your feedback.
We will comb through the comments,
stories, blogs and photos online and print the
best of them in Folio Weekly to create a more
robust and interactive publication.
Folio Weekly prints the most complete
calendar listings in Northeast Florida. at’s
one reason why so many readers make a
habit of picking us up each week. We put a
lot of work into gathering that information.
Now, we’re asking you to help us improve
and expand our calendar by submitting
events online. We will be phasing out email
submissions, so this will be the best way to
get your event listed in print, though we’ ll
still have to edit our calendars based on
space. However, posting your event on our
searchable online calendar means it will get
even more exposure. And, you can upload
photos to go with it. If you attach high-
resolution photos (200 dpi and at least 8
inches wide), we can consider them for print
in Folio Weekly.
In order to contribute any of this content
to folioweekly.com, you will need to create an
account and log in. Please use your real name
and give us some contact information so that
we can get in touch if we want to publish
something you posted. All stories, blogs,
photo galleries and events posted by our users
will be submitted for approval by our sta—
before they appear online.
e new website also makes it easy for
you to share content through Facebook,
Twitter, Google+ or email. If you follow us on
various social media channels (facebook.com/
thefolioweekly, twitter.com/folioweekly), and
we hope you do, you can take part in even
more conversations about Northeast Florida
news and events.
Of course, you can still contact us by email
or through the good old-fashioned postal
service. You might be surprised to know that
we still get a fair amount of physical mail;
in fact, three letters in this week’s Mail had
stamps on them.
But we invite you to join us in our digital
transformation. We hope you use and enjoy
our website all week, in addition to picking us
up at your favorite location each Wednesday.
And best of all, our website has the right
price — free, just like our printed issues.
Denise M. Reagan
dreagan@folioweekly.com
twitter.com/denisereagan
knowing reporters researched and wrote
their stories, which magically appeared in
newspapers or were delivered as sacrosanct on
radio or television.
e process lived behind a hazy screen
where few had access. e public’s only
peek was through wisecracking, hard-
nosed Hollywood depictions of reporters.
Information only traveled in one direction
— from the media to consumers. Of course,
many fewer avenues to publishing existed,
and they were controlled by a powerful few.
en came the Internet, and the game
changed — although much of the media were
slow to realize it. Now, anyone with a WiFi
connection can reach an audience.
Finally, the great and powerful Oz-like
media have learned to include consumers in
the process. rough social media and other
tools, journalists ask their followers to suggest
people to interview for speci- c stories,
provide eyewitness accounts on breaking
news, give feedback on early versions of
stories and more.
Alternative media like Folio Weekly have
always valued and invited readers to take
part through writing letters, columns, essays
and stories. With the launch of the new
folioweekly.com, we have even more ways to
engage interaction.
We’ll now be publishing all of our stories
online, and each one will give readers
the opportunity to comment. We want to
create a safe atmosphere for thoughtful and
civil conversation, so please refrain from
name-calling, inappropriate language and
downright stupidity. Folio Weekly reserves
the right to remove comments that violate the
basic rules of humanity.
And there will be more content on
folioweekly.com than just what appears in
print. We’ ll feature new stories, reviews,
photos and more every day, including a
bunch of blogs: The Flog, Playing Around,
The Specktator, Bite-Sized, Deemable Tech
and Sportstalk. Read more about them on
page 11.
You, too, can write a story or blog for
consideration on our site. It could be a
reported story, an interview with a local
musician, an essay, a Backpage Editorial —
whatever interests you.
Local photography and artwork give Folio
We ekly its unique look and feel. e new
website is designed to showcase images with
a simple and slick photo gallery presentation.
We shoot photos of people at events around
Northeast Florida for e Eye, and now we will
be able to feature even more online. But
you
can also upload photos to folioweekly.com
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Mail
Right to Carry Saves Lives
e gun control advocates are always quoting
o -the-wall and unsubstantiated statistics
demonizing guns in their attempt to try to
convince fellow Americans that private gun
ownership is at the root of violent crime.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
irty- ve states have enacted right-to-
carry legislation allowing law-abiding citizens
to carry a concealed weapon. In these 35
states, homicide rates declined a� er citizens
were permitted the means of self-defense.
A massive study by John Lott of the
University of Chicago showed that armed
citizens deter violent criminals. His study
indicated that in states where residents can
acquire concealed-weapons permits, the
rates of murder, assault and burglary fall
dramatically. Women have been the primary
bene ciaries of this trend.
In 1987, the Florida Legislature passed a
concealed-weapons law. Did it turn Florida
into the “Gunshine” state? Did licensees go
out and commit crimes? Did crime increase?
No, no and no, and the statistics proved it.
In 1987, Florida’s murder rate was 36 percent
above the national average. By 1991, it had fallen
to 4 percent below the national average.
e handgun-control people refuse to
admit it, but the right to carry a gun saves
lives. e greatest fear of violent criminals
isn’t police or prison but the possibility that a
victim could be armed.
Congratulate Governor for Drug Testing
In the Jan. 9 issue of Folio Weekly, you gave
brickbats to Gov. Rick Scott for “costing”
taxpayers more than $900,000 in his
fight to require drug-testing for welfare
recipients and state employees. He should
have received bouquets! I did not vote for
him, but I strongly support his stand on
requiring drug-testing for welfare recipients.
Anyone receiving taxpayer dollars should
be required to submit to drug and alcohol
testing, as they should
not
have enough
money to buy drugs or alcohol from welfare
benefits. If they can afford to do that, we
are paying them too damn much in welfare
benefits. The legal fees are a
very
small drop
in the bucket compared to what the waste in
welfare benefits costs taxpayers. Bouquets
to Gov. Scott for having the courage to take
a stand against what is wrong!
Steve Whitmarsh
Jacksonville
Learn About the Fair Tax
anks very much for making space for a
Fair Tax submission [“ e Fair Tax Is Good
for America,” Jan. 16], even if it was the
Backpage Editorial, where a large percentage
of readers probably never go. It’s particularly
important to put ideas like the Fair Tax in
front of would-be voters — even for creative
types in arts and entertainment to understand
the economy (which may lead to an
understanding of how much money is able to
œ ow into arts and entertainment so they have
a viable lifestyle other than “starving artist”).
I would bet most of your readers complain
a good bit about lobbyists and dirty, corporate
money inœ uencing politicians to create
the socio-political world they see around
them. But almost none of them realizes
that it is the 72,000-page IRS system that
enables that entire process. at is how it
got to be 72,000 pages. But if you want an
unlimited government — the opposite of the
founding vision for America — in which the
government can give you everything, you will
have a government big enough to take it all
away. is was predicted in the 1770s.
Tom Vogler
St. Augustine
Norman R. Dunn Sr.
Jacksonville
Real School Security
As expected, in the wake of the Connecticut
school massacre, the le� ists are clamoring for
strict gun control. Instead, they should turn their
attention to details of real school security.
e gunman gained access to the school
interior by shooting out the glass in a door.
Have their security people never heard
of polycarbonate plastic? General Electric
manufactures it under the trademark Lexan.
Many years ago, in a catalog for, among other
things, security lights, it was stated that a
one-quarter-inch-thick pane of polycarbonate
plastic would be enough to stop a .22 caliber
revolver bullet. Probably, a one-half-inch-
thick pane could stop a 9mm pistol round.
Much thicker panes are available; these might
be able to stop riœ e bullets. Even if the bullet
completely penetrated, the plastic would not
shatter; the bullet would make only a small
hole in it.
If that pane had been suž ciently thick
polycarbonate, the killer would never have
entered the school in the rst place.
Replacing all window and door glass
with polycarbonate would not only provide
complete security, but also make buildings
much more energy-ež cient.
To facilitate faster police response, school
ož cials should have special radio telephones.
e phones could broadcast directly on police
radio frequencies to call for rescue.
William C. Urban
Jacksonville
Tide Is Turning for Gay Rights
Another month, another issue of Folio Weekly
in which Mr. William H. Shuttleworth gets
all fussy because not enough people follow
his Bible without question or simply do
not interpret it the same way he does. As
if unquestioning belief in the Bible, and
adhering to his particular take on it, is
somehow mandatory.
I could go on and on about Shuttleworth’s
childish scare tactics, threats about his God
raining down destruction, just because Mr. John
Delaney insists gay people should be treated
with the same dignity and respect as everyone
else. I’m pretty sure not hating gays enough
has been cited as the causes of the Sandy Hook
Elementary shooting and Hurricane Sandy by
plenty already (without any proof, of course).
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