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JACKSONVILLE Jacksonville Jazz Festival Schedule and Highlights painting by oscar senn spring art guide newest galleries, notable artists and what to see. entertaining u newspaper free weekly guide to entertainment and more | april 12-18, 2007 | www.eujacksonville.com 2 april 12-18, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper table of contents cover art by Oscar Senn feature Spring Art Guide .......................................................................................PAGES 15-18 Riverside Pub Crawl ......................................................................................... PAGE 20 movies Grindhouse (movie review) ................................................................................. PAGE 6 Movies In Theaters This Week .....................................................................PAGES 6-10 Seen, Heard, Noted & Quoted ............................................................................. PAGE 7 IMAX Earth Day Film Fest ................................................................................... PAGE 7 Perfect Stranger (movie review) ......................................................................... PAGE 8 Disturbia (movie review) ................................................................................PAGES 8-9 Pathfinder (movie review) ................................................................................. PAGE 10 at home On The Bubble - TV shows endangered ............................................................ PAGE 12 WJCT’s America at the Crossroads (TV review) ................................................ PAGE 13 Video Games ................................................................................................... PAGE 14 food The Row .......................................................................................................... PAGE 21 music Jacksonville Jazz Festival ..........................................................................PAGES 22-24 Jacksonville Jazz Festival Schedule ...........................................................PAGES 23-24 Music Calendar .........................................................................................PAGES 24-28 Lao Tizer (interview)......................................................................................... PAGE 25 Tab Benoit (George’s Music Springing The Blues Festival) ................................. PAGE 26 Summerbirds in the Cellar (interview) ............................................................... PAGE 27 Pineapple Fest (interview) ............................................................................... PAGE 28 As Tall As Lions (album) .................................................................................. PAGE 29 Good Charlotte (album) .................................................................................... PAGE 29 arts / theatre / on stage Disney on Ice (interview) .................................................................................. PAGE 30 Grease (Alhambra Dinner Theatre) .................................................................... PAGE 31 Arts Calendar ............................................................................................PAGES 31-32 The Company (JU Fine Arts) ........................................................................... PAGE 32 Shakespeare (Orange Park Community Theatre) ............................................... PAGE 33 columns and stuff The Jock .......................................................................................................... PAGE 33 NASCAR News & Notes ................................................................................... PAGE 34 eujacksonville.com | april 12-18, 2007 3 Don’t miss Jazz Festival headliner DIAne SchUUR this Saturday at the thisweek Florida Theatre. Steve Forbert APRIL 12 Discovered by punk thursday patron and Ramones manager Danny Fields Summer Concerts In The Plaza - First Coast Jazz while strumming on stage Orchestra at CBGB’s, Forbert’s Bring your chair and enjoy an evening concert in St. Augustine’s sound -- a rich merger of Plaza de la Constitucion while enjoying the cool breezes under a country, roots and pop canopy of live oaks during a live concert featuring the First Coast -- was an anomaly in New Jazz Orchestra. Plaza de la Constitucion - 7-9 p.m. York’s thriving new wave Info: 904-825-1004 scene. Café Eleven, St. Augustine - 8:30P APRIL 12 - 15 Info: 469-9311 THE LION KING This is your last chance to experience the phenomenon of Disney’s The AP “Bands THE LION KING. You have only a few days left to marvel at the You Need To breathtaking spectacle of animals brought to life by award-winning director Julie Taymor, whose visual images for this show you’ll Know” Tour Alternative Press has remember forever. Thrill to the pulsating rhythms of the African assembled some of their Pridelands and an unforgettable score including the Elton John and favorite artist including: Tim Rice Oscar©-winning song “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” Cute Is What We Aim For, and “Circle of Life.” You don’t want to miss this opportunity, so Circa Survive, As Tall as go quickly, Sunday is the final show. Times-Union Center, Moran Lions, and Envy on the Theatre. Info: 632-3373 or order online at artistseries.fccj.org. Coast. Tickets: $14, $16 Show Day. Swinging with the Stars First Coast Birding and Nature Festival Read review of As Tall As Lions’ latest CD on page 29. The Second Annual “Swinging with the Stars,” a celebrity dance Discover the region’s phenomenal bird life and the abundant natural Freebird Live 6:30pm contest, will be held at the Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts, habitats that sustain them at The First Coast Birding and Nature FCCJ South Campus, at 7 p.m. The black-tie optional event, Festival. The festival features photography workshops, field trips, APRIL 13 - 15 sponsored this year by PGA TOUR, is a fundraiser for danceWORKS boat trips, nature seminars and special Digiscoping workshops. Jacksonville Jazz Festival at FCCJ. The star-sprinkled evening is offered at $50 per person. Admission is free and open to the public each day. Three days of art, food, wine and entertainment with George St. Augustine Amphitheatre – Thur. and Fri. 10 am-5 pm; Sat. 9 am- Benson, Al Jarreau, Jazz Attack featuring Rick Braun, Jonathan Super Totally Awesome Cool Show 8 pm.; Sun. 10 am-5 pm. Butler, Richard Elliot and Peter White, Chris Botti plus many Featuring Sensei, Plain Jane Automobile, Bobby Amaru, Tony & Info: 1-800-653-2489 or www.Getaway4Nature.com more. Venues include Florida Theatre, Metropolitan Park, and Nick and Neverland Symphony. As grand prize winners of the 2005 Ritz Theatre with activities going on all around town. Find out DiscMakers Independent Showcase, not only did the Orlando-based all the details on pages 22-25. band, Plain Jane Automobile, take home the distinction of being the Info: 355-2787 or www.jaxjazzfest.com. best of a series of bands hand-picked by major friday APRIL 13 Plain Jane Automobile A&R reps at Billboard magazine and Taxi, they also proved that the title of best unsigned band in the Southeast was just the beginning. Every Ghostland Observatory town, including Jacksonville, has been won over saturday and the songs just get better and better. Taking the best of rock, Brit-pop, driving rhythms, and APRIL 14 beautiful melodies they seem predestined to make a major mark in the current scene. Super Scientific Circus Jack Rabbits - 8:00 PM The Super Scientific Circus uses circus Info: 398-7496 skills and magic tricks to explain scientific APRIL 13 - 15 principles. With boomerangs, bubbles and bullwhips, rolling globes, spinning plates, Spring Art & Craft Festival and students floating in mid-air, The Super Look for something new to please your tastes Scientific Circus demonstrates and explains when artists display their creations during Ghostland Observatory concepts as diverse as friction, inertia, this free two-day festival. All work included Ghostland Observatory is not a band, but an agreement between atoms, molecules, gravity, centripetal and in the Festival will have passed a strict jury two friends to create something that not only heals their beat-driven centrifugal force, aerodynamics, sonic review, resulting in 125 artists exhibiting to hearts, but pleases their rock ‘n roll souls. Taking the working booms, static electricity, magnetism and sell in a variety of media, including oil painting, man’s approach, Ghostland Observatory spend countless hours in more. A great science lesson – and it’s watercolor, pottery, leather, photography, their south Austin studio. They have released two albums in less FUN! Tickets: $11.50. Wilson Center for the Arts – FCCJ South sculpture, jewelry, wood, textiles and more. Food, drink, beer, wine, than a year, and have moved audiences from coast to coast with Campus11:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. Info: 632-3373 or artistseries. music, children’s activities and more. their live performances and unique style. fccj.org. Francis Field on Castillo Drive – 10 am-5 pm. Jack Rabbits - 8:00 PM Info: 398-7496 Info: (904) 824-2310 or www.staaa.org 4 april 12-18, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper tinged Csardas, among their own arrangements of shorter Dorothy Bishop CD Release Party classical works and popular hits, whether Brahms or the Broadway and Opera star, Dorothy Bishop, direct from New York Beatles. Tickets: $18 EMMA Concert Series, Flagler College City, will perform hits from her new CD “I’m Your Diva Tonite.” An Auditorium, St. Augustine