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OPE love your river city entertaining u newspaper change your free weekly guide to entertainment and more | february 8-15, 2007 | www.eujacksonville.com life in 2007 2 february 8-14, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper table of contents COVER ART: courtesy of Jimmy Pines feature Why I Love Jacksonville ......................................................................PAGES 16-21 Simone’s Belly Dancing ..............................................................................PAGE 18 Valentine’s Books .......................................................................................PAGE 19 movies Music & Lyrics (movie review) .....................................................................PAGE 6 Movies In Theatres This Week ...............................................................PAGES 6-10 Seen, Heard, Noted & Quoted .......................................................................PAGE 7 Norbit (movie review) ...................................................................................PAGE 8 From Sundance To Jacksonville Film Festival ................................................PAGE 9 The Messengers (movie review) .................................................................PAGE 10 at home Half Nelson (DVD review) ..........................................................................PAGE 12 Dogfight (TV Review) .................................................................................PAGE 13 Reality Check - John Shepard (interview)....................................................PAGE 14 Video Games .............................................................................................PAGE 15 food Romantic Dining..................................................................................PAGES 20-21 music Beam (Twisted Sisters) ...............................................................................PAGE 22 Music Calendar ...................................................................................PAGES 22-26 Grills & Guitars (Harpoon Louie’s) ..............................................................PAGE 23 Punk-A-Doodle-Doo ..................................................................................PAGE 24 Busdriver (album review) ...........................................................................PAGE 25 Old Crow Medicine Show (interview) ..........................................................PAGE 25 Rhonda Vincent (Palatka Bluegrass Festival)) ..............................................PAGE 26 arts / theatre / on stage Walter Evans exhibit (Cummer)) .................................................................PAGE 27 Happily Red (Theatre Jacksonville) .............................................................PAGE 28 Arts Calendar ......................................................................................PAGES 27-28 Orlando/UCF Play Festival ...........................................................................PAGE 29 columns and stuff The Jock ....................................................................................................PAGE 29 NASCAR news & notes ..............................................................................PAGE 30 eujacksonville.com | february 8-14, 2007 3 JOE BONAMASSA! thisweek Friday at The Florida Theatre FEBRUARY 8 - 11 FEBRUARY 8 thursday Flyin’ West Flyin’ West is the story of Percussion, Performance Art and the Power of a small group of African- Beethoven American women whose Benefit Concert for paralyzed accident victim Melissa Humber, life lives changed when partner of Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Principal Percussionist opportunities opened up Charlotte Mabrey. Tickets: $35 adult, $15 child. for people willing to settle Times-Union Center – 7:30 pm. Info: 354-5547 in the harsh and untested West in the late 1890s. These women Sub City Take Action Tour Red Jumpsuit Apparatus have left the - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus oppressive The guys from Jacksonville who make South in hopes up Red Jumpsuit Apparatus just keep of enjoying the popping up all over MTV. From their freedom that certified Gold Album Don’t You Make they have so long been denied. Themes of racism, It comes their most recent video ‘False domestic violence, inter-marriage between races, Pretense’ which is a who-dunnit that pride, freedom and the strength of the family unit saturday FEBRUARY 10 traces the murder of frontman Ronnie are examined. Tickets $15.00. Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Winter and all the players are suspects. Museum – Call for times and info: 904-632-5555 or Sweet Honey in the Rock Maybe you can find some clues when [email protected] Spend a morning with the Grammy Award-winning African they play at Plush. Info: 743-1845 American female a cappella ensemble with deep musical roots in the sacred music of the black church - spirituals, hymns, gospel American Invention - as well as jazz and blues. Tickets: $75 (VIP), $50, $25 The Jacksonville University music department will present the First FEBRUARY 9 Florida Theatre - 10 AM Coast Wind Ensemble in a concert titled “American Invention.” friday Info: 355.2787 The program will include works written by prominent American composers for wind band. The concert is free and open to the Omayra Amaya & Omayra Amaya The 9th Annual Night of China public. Terry Concert Hall on the JU campus at 8 pm. Company Celebrates Chinese New Year While embracing the roots of Night of China is an exciting opportunity to share In the Mood flamenco through passionate singing in the vast richness of the Chinese culture, as we In The Mood presents a retro 1940s musical revue featuring the and fiery footwork, Omayra adds a promote peace through people and strive to establish sensational String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra, boogie-woogies bold sophistication to the beautiful Jacksonville as an active participant in the global singers and swing dancers. The music and the arrangements are tapestry of flamenco. By blending community. From 2– 5 pm you can check out the as authentic as it gets. Tickets: $18.50 to $38.50. Times-Union the intricate rhythms of jazz with China Expo and learn about the culture, history, and Center, Moran Theater- 7:30 p.m. 632-3373 or artistseries.fccj.org. traditional flamenco song she brings businesses of China and at 5 pm celebrate the Chinese her artistry and the excitement of this New Year with a Performance provided by professional feisty dance to an inspiring new level. and local JCPA performers. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Omayra is the grandniece of arguably Verbal pyrotechnics, savage humor, and sexual friction...this Pulitzer Lazzara Performance Hall, UNF, Free Admission. the greatest Flamenco dancer who Prize-winning drama is Williams’ explosive portrait of a Mississippi ever lived, Carmen Amaya. Tickets: family. In Big Daddy’s house, nothing is as it seems. Secrets $24-$32. Lazzara stage, UNF Fine Sisters in Spirit struggle to surface. Strong characters epitomize strong desires. The Arts Center - 7:30 PM Shirley Caesar, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Kelly Price, Dr. show runs through March 4 at the Limelight Theatre, Joukowsky Info: 620-2878 Omayra Amaya & Yvonne Capehart, and Nicole C. Mullen will perform Family Foundation Center for the Performing Arts, 11 Old Mission Company will hold a free workshop their best known gospel music and original pieces Ave., St. Augustine. Call 904-825-1164 or visit limelight-theatre.org on February 8 at 4:00 pm. Call praising as sisters in spirit. Times Union Center for for times and tickets. 620.1898 to reserve your seat. Performing Arts - 7pm Info: 354.5547 FEBRUARY 8 - 10 Joe Bonamassa Happily Red: A World of Pure rd Joe Bonamassa is well known for 3 Annual Palatka Bluegrass Festival his raw, gritty voice and technically Imagination The Grascals, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and Rhonda Vincent & accomplished playing in the same blues-rock style as Stevie Ray The 5th Annual Cabaret Concert to Benefit Theatre Jacksonville with The Rage are just a few of the Bluegrass favorites you will hear at Vaughan, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Jonny Lang. Bonamassa Special Guest appearance by Amanda McBroom renowned Cabaret the three day event being held at the Rodeheaver Boy’s Ranch (10 has been collecting guitars since the age of 13 and currently performer and songwriter of “The Rose.” Theatre Jacksonville’s miles S. from Palatka on State Road 19). Rain or shine, covered has around 150 in this collection but tends to only use one Harold K. Smith Playhouse, Opening Reception at 6:30 pm, Curtain pavilion, tickets $25 Thur. & Fri., $30 Sat., and $70 for a three day guitar at live gigs, currently relying on either a 2004 Gigliotti ‘JB’ at 8:00 pm and a post-show celebration at Layla’s of San Marco. pass, $12 for Children 6-13 or $30 for three days. Info: (706) 864- Telecaster or a 1965 Fender Stratocaster. Info: 396-4425. Amanda McBroom will conduct a Musical Theatre 7203 or aandabluegrass.com. Tickets: $40, $27.50 Florida Theatre - 8 PM Info: 355-2787 Master Class on Sunday, Feb. 11 - 1:30–3:30pm. Read story on Read interview with Rhonda Vincent on page 26. page 28. 4 february 8-14, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper Darnell Levine Young Jazz-Soul Artist Darnell Levine at Soul Release Live Jazz-soul singer/songwriter Darnell Levine will make his Jacksonville debut as he brings his vocal stylings to Nokturnal Escape’s Soul Release Live. Boomtown Subterreana - 8pm monday FEBRUARY 12 Epitaph Tour: The Matches, I Am the Ghost, Escape the Fate, The Higher Oakland, California band, “The Matches” originally known