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drinking guide 2007 drinking your way through the first coast st. johns town center phase two | ragtime restaurant review | polyphonic spree interview | brittni wood solo exhibit free weekly guide to entertainment and more | november 8-14, 2007 | www.eujacksonville.com 2 november 8-14, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper COVER PHOTO BY ERIN THURSBY, TAKEN AT TWISTED MARTINI table of contents feature Sea & Sky Spectacular ..........................................................................................................PAGE 13 Town Center - Phase 2 ..........................................................................................................PAGE 14 Town Center - restaurants .....................................................................................................PAGE 15 Cafe Eleven Big Trunk Show ..................................................................................................PAGE 16 Drinking Guide .............................................................................................................. PAGES 20-23 movies Movies in Theaters this Week ............................................................................................ PAGES 6-8 Martian Child (movie review) ...................................................................................................PAGE 6 Fred Claus (movie review) .......................................................................................................PAGE 7 P2 (movie review) ...................................................................................................................PAGE 8 HorrorFest 2007 .....................................................................................................................PAGE 9 home Netscapades .........................................................................................................................PAGE 11 Video Games .......................................................................................................................PAGE 11 Kylie Johnson - local author (interview) .................................................................................PAGE 12 dish Ragtime (restaurant review)........................................................................................... PAGES 18-19 music Music Calendar ............................................................................................................. PAGES 24-29 Chris Smither (European Street) ............................................................................................PAGE 24 Kings of Leon (Florida Theatre) ..............................................................................................PAGE 25 Polyphonic Spree (interview) .................................................................................................PAGE 26 Nathan Holley (interview) ......................................................................................................PAGE 27 Nickel Creek (interview).........................................................................................................PAGE 28 Crossin Dixon (interview) ......................................................................................................PAGE 29 arts / theatre / on stage Brittni Wood exhibit (Jane Gray Gallery) .................................................................................PAGE 30 Wedding Singer (FCCJ Artist Series) ......................................................................................PAGE 31 Moon over the Brewery (Theatre Jacksonville) .......................................................................PAGE 32 The Music Man (JSO/Alhambra) ............................................................................................PAGE 33 columns and stuff Native Foreigner ....................................................................................................................PAGE 34 The Jock ...............................................................................................................................PAGE 34 NASCAR News & Notes ........................................................................................................PAGE 35 eujacksonville.com | november 8-14, 2007 3 thisweekBallet Folorico de Mexico friday NOVEMBER 9 The Gourds The Gourds are an alternative country band, from Austin, Texas best known for their 2000 cover version of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin Spoon and Juice.” Check em out at Mojo Blues Bar, 1500 Beach Blvd. Info: (904) 247-6636 or MojoBBQ.com Talleyrand Music & Arts Festival The Talleyrand Music & Arts Festival will bring over 40 bands and Pretty & Nice 100 local and regional artists to Metro Park this weekend. “This is Pretty & Nice (Fun Power Pop/Dancier Indie Rock) are the the inaugural year of what’s sure to become (hopefully) a yearly four horsemen of pop doom. The glitchy pop quadrangle event. The weather is awesome this time of year, there’s a lull formed 3 years ago and currently resides in a yellow house in between summertime events and the holiday season, it’s perfect!” Boston preparing to emerge and destroy your life with catchy –Urban Jacksonville. Bands include Spoon, The Polyphonic Spree hooks and bad irony. Catch this “Tazer Rock” downtown this (read the EU interview on page 26), The Stills, Keller Williams, The weekend. Tickets: $5 TSIdiscotheque, Info: (904) 424-3531 Bravery, Pepper, Against Me!, The Format, Arrested Development, Rooney, The Julius Airwave, Astronautilus and plenty more. Tickets: NOVEMBER 9 - 10 $37.50 advance/$45 day of show. Metropolitan Park- 11 am to 11 Cabaret Parisien pm, Info: (904) 425-4555 or talleyrandfestival.com First Coast Opera presents a night of music, food and fun with the very popular opera, Cabaret Parisien. Tickets $20 door, $19 The Stills advance and include show, hors d’oeuvres, pastries and coffee. NOVEMBER 8 Bishop Baker Parish Center, 259 St. George St., St. Augustine. thursday Info: (904) 417-5555 or firstcoastopera.com. Ballet Folklorico De Mexico NOVEMBER 9 - 11 Mexico City’s premiere folkloric ballet ensemble heats up the stage Wrong Turn at Lungfish as they bring the past back to life before your eyes! A blend of tech- Players by the Sea presents ‘Wrong Turn at Lungfish’ an off- nical perfection, sophisticated costuming and original dances grant Broadway hit, nominated for the best play prize by both the this company its hallmark for uniqueness and quality. The onstage Tony and Outer Critics Circle awards. It is the story of a blind musicians add an element of living ritual reflecting the regions and and bitter college professor and his encounter with a saucy, cultural diversity of the folk music genres of Mexico. A colorful and street wise young woman who volunteers to read to him in the truly powerful experience for anyone who enjoys dance, music hospital. Both come to their relationship with questions, hers rich in history and a flair for the dramatic! Tickets: $10/students, dealing with her station in life and her handsome boyfriend and $30-$38/everyone else UNF Fine Arts Center- 7:30 pm, Info: bal- his about past life choices. Both leave with hopeful answers, letamalia.com even after the boyfriend shows up. Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth Street North on Nov. 9,10 15,16,17 at 8 pm and the 11th Beth Wood at 2 pm. Tickets: $12. Info: 249 0289 or playersbythesea.org After a few years of playing around Austin in her band, and then in a duo, Beth Wood kissed her day-job goodbye and returned to the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina to pursue music full- NOVEMBER 10 time. The natural beauty of her surroundings provided inspiration saturday while the supportive community helped Beth to become a standout Dan Zanes in the Asheville songwriters’ community. Now an established sing- Rolling Stone called Dan Zanes’ band The Del Fuegos the “Best sunday NOVEMBER 11 er/songwriter, she resides in Arlington, Texas while continuously New Band” of 1984. But once he got married and had babies, touring to support her six independent releases. Zanes opted to make more family-friendly music. Today, Dan Captured By Robots presents European Street- 8:30 pm, Info: (904) 398-9500 Zanes and Friends are the latest big thing in kid’s music that moms and dads can get behind and he’s got a Grammy to “Dubya” NOVEMBER 8 - 11 prove it. Tickets: $18.50-$28.50. Florida Theatre- 2 pm, Info: After years of dealing with difficult human band (904) 355-2787 mates, Jay Vance of Skankin’ Pickle decided to The Wedding Singer create a band of robots to play with. Direct from Broadway! It’s 1985 and you’re invited to The Wedding Tinsley Ellis Instead of following him, they revolted Singer, where every night is a totally rad reception for Robbie Hart and now force him to travel the universe Hard-rocking blues-soaked guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tinsley and friends until he’s left at the altar. Based on the hit film, the Tony with them; performing music and making him Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Award nominated show takes us back to a time when hair was big, contemplate the inferiority of the human race. Southern musicians who have come before him. Atlanta greed was good, collars were up and a wedding singer sporting Jay (now known as JBOT) and his musical Magazine declared Ellis “the most significant blues artist to a mullet might be the coolest guy in the room. The party only robots will perform their musical adaptation of emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell.” Tinsley makes lasts until November