JACKSONVILLE Guide to 2008 |2008 Interview with Sophomore Attempt | Juno | Tommy’s Pizza | 3 Eclectic Chicks | Tom Nehl Foundation free weekly guide to entertainment and more | december 27, 2007 - january 9, 2008 | www.eujacksonville.com 2 december 27, 2007 - january 9, 2008 | entertaining u newspaper table of contents feature Guide To 2008 ...................................................................................................... PAGE 17 movies Movies in Theaters this Week ...........................................................................PAGES 6-10 The Great Debaters (movie review) .......................................................................... PAGE 6 Juno (movie review) ................................................................................................ PAGE 7 National Treasure: Book of Secrets (movie review) ................................................... PAGE 8 Margot at the Wedding (movie review) ..................................................................... PAGE 9 Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep (movie review) .................................................... PAGE 10 home Mid-Season TV .................................................................................................... PAGE 12 Netscapades ......................................................................................................... PAGE 13 Videogames ......................................................................................................... PAGE 13 dish Dish Update .......................................................................................................... PAGE 14 Tommy’s Pizza Bistro (restaurant review) .......................................................PAGES 14-15 Marina Restaurant at Safe Harbor (restaurant review) ............................................. PAGE 16 music Music Calendar ..............................................................................................PAGES 18-22 kLoB (Cafe 331) ................................................................................................... PAGE 18 ASG (interview) ..................................................................................................... PAGE 19 Sophomore Attempt (interview) ............................................................................. PAGE 20 arts / theatre / on stage Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Alhambra) ................................................................... PAGE 22 3 Eclectic Chicks Trunk Show .............................................................................. PAGE 23 Tom Nehl Foundation ......................................................................................PAGES 24-25 columns and stuff Native Foreigner .................................................................................................... PAGE 26 The Jock ............................................................................................................... PAGE 26 NASCAR News & Notes ........................................................................................ PAGE 27 eujacksonville.com | december 27 - january 2, 2008 3 Rhonda Vincent will perform thisweek at the Bluegrass Festival JANUARY 4 - 5 JANUARY 3 thursday Hell on Wheels Hell on Wheels is the ass kicking Twelve Gauge Valentine documentary film telling the story of a group Twelve Gauge Valentine, a Tampa hardcore outfit that’s been touring of Texas women who band together to the scene for five years now, have decided to break up. Their final resurrect roller derby for the 21st century. tour with The Handshake Murders, Memphis May Fire and SBW is Emerging from the Austin music and arts rolling through town on Thursday. Come out and show some love scene, these women create a rock and roll while you can. Tickets: $10. Jack Rabbits- 7 pm, Info: (904) 398- fueled version of all-girl roller derby that has 7496 spawned the derby craze that’s sweeping the nation. Tickets: $8.25. San Marco Theatre- JANUARY 3 - 5 11:55 pm, Info: (904) 703-2446 32nd Annual New Year’s Bluegrass Festival Some of bluegrass’s biggest names will attend the 32nd Annual JANUARY 5 New Year’s Bluegrass Festival on Jekyll Island including Rhonda saturday JANUARY 6 Vincent & the Rage, Marty Raybon, Bobby Osborne & The sunday Rocky Top X-Press, The Lewis Family, Cherry Holmes and many Wherefore R. Carlos Nakai & Udi Bar-David more. The three day live music fest kicks off on Thursday and goes Christian Indie-rockers Wherefore formed less than a year In this unique collaboration, RC Nakai, the world’s foremost Native through the weekend. Jekyll Island Convention Center, Info: www. ago and are already releasing their first record, The Journey. American flute player, and Israeli-born Udi Bar-David, cellist for the aandabluegrass.com or (706) 864-7203 Hear it performed live and snag yourself a copy this weekend Philadelphia Orchestra, explore their intercultural journey to cre- at their CD release show at the Murray Hill Theatre. The ate music together. Their recent recording, Voyagers, is a result of Sophomore Attempt, Matlock, The Namesake, and Parade the this collaboration. Admission: free. St. Paul’s By the Sea Episcopal City will also perform. Tickets: $10. Murray Hill Theatre- 8 Church, Jacksonville Beach- 3:30 pm, Info: (904) 249-4091 friday JANUARY 4 pm, Info: (904) 388-7807 World Famous Lipizzaner Nolan Neal JoEveritt Nashville singer/songwriter Nolan Neil proves that his Stallions JoEveritt, one of the hardest working little bands in Jacksonville and hometown isn’t just churning out country music. Creating Now on their 37th Anniversary tour, the winner of Battle for PlanetFest 2007, will be performing this Friday soulful alt-rock tunes, Neal breaks Tennessee stereotypes as World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions have at Jack Rabbits with Scenic Void and Time Cat. Jack Rabbits- 8 pm, he strives toward mega-stardom. Hear him perform live with all new music, choreography and rou- Info: (904) 398-7496 Society Red on Saturday. Ocean Club- 8 pm, Info: tines that are sure to delight the entire family. The unforgettable show focuses We Still Have (904) 242-8884 We Still Have Paris Paris on the historical background and foun- dation of the Lipizzaner breed, from its We Still Have Paris is a pop- General Tso’s Fury original breeding and use as a horse of punk/rock band from the Garden Ska is not dead, but if it is, don’t tell Fernandina war to a horse of nobility and aristoc- State featuring ex-members of To Beach boys General Tso’s Fury. The group, who racy to a living form of equestrian art. Kill The King. Taking influences proudly display their “Master of Skankology” Tickets: $22.50-$29.50. Jacksonville from, according to the band degree on their MySpace page, formed in 2006 Veterans Memorial Arena- 6 pm, Info: “everything that makes us and just released their first full-length album in (904) 630-3900 happy (such as Applebees and December. See them rock mid-90s style this sunshine),” the four-piece just weekend with Ampleforth, Commonplace, and I released their new EP Shame Hope You’re A Doctor. Tickets: $10. Freebird Live- Kids Like Us Shame Shame last month. Check 8 pm, Info: (904) 246-BIRD Tallahassee has never been known for producing great hardcore them out this Friday with My Aim bands, but that’s all about to change. Kids Like Us are poised to is True and The Fall Affair. Fuel become the next big break-out hardcore band with their blend of Coffeehouse- 9 pm, Info: (904) JANUARY 5 - 6 punk, thrash, and southern rock influences. Their live show is not 425-FUEL to be missed with entire songs often becoming sing-a-longs for the crowd. See them with label mates Know the Score this Sunday. Fuel Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew Coffeehouse- 7 pm, Info: (904) 425-FUEL Brainworms No election year would be complete without the Richmond, Virginia has a irascible, irreplaceable and incomparable Jackie heck of a hardcore scene Mason, who brings his latest one-man comedy tour Human Factors Lab and Brainworms is one of the de force, Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew, to the Human Factors Lab began in the winter of 2003, hitting the South reasons why. The band brings Wilson Center this weekend. Mason has appeared Florida music scene and creating an intense following almost from their hairy hijinx to Café Eleven in a variety of films and television shows, most notably day one. In the summer of 2004 they released their first record, this Friday to kick off their seven-city Florida tour. Environmental “Caddyshack II,” but he’s best known as one of the greatest Plastik, and set out on an East Coast tour, building fans on a na- Youth Crunch, The Max Levine Ensemble, DoomHawk and Capsule stand-up comics of all time. Tickets: $37.50, Wilson Center for tional level. With their unique blend of electronic and organic instru- will also perform. Tickets: $5. Café Eleven- 8 pm, the Arts, FCCJ South Campus, Info: (904) 632-3373 mentation, Human Factors Lab creates their own brand of industrial Info: (904) 469-9311 rock. Tickets: $10. Jack Rabbits- 8 pm, Info: (904) 398-7496 4 december 27, 2007 - january 9, 2008 | entertaining u newspaper monday JANUARY 7 Sleep Serapis Sleep/Don’t Kill the Messenger My momma always says nothing cures a case of the Mondays like a good metal show. Sleep Serapis Sleep and Don’t Kill the Messenger will be coming to The Pit this week for their only Florida stop this time out. The Pit- 8 pm, Info: (904) 223 9850 New Shanghai Circus JANUARY 8 tuesday New Shanghai Circus featuring the Incredible Acrobats of