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Caravan Stage Company Performs "Hacked"
Tonight and tomorrow night the Caravan Stage Company will present "Hacked". The show is staged on a specially designed sea going barge and has been docked at Metropolitan Park for a while. The international cast and crew travel the world performing free original rock opera musical productions and is...
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Jax FilmMaker, Drew Brown, Wins Academy Award
Drew Brown started working on this essay about his experience winning an Academy Award a couple of weeks ago. We talked as he was about to board the plane to LA, still unaware that he would win the GOLD, and were just as thrilled as anyone alive to learn he had taken the top honor. Join us after the...
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Amanda Morales Farewell Performance: Venus In Fur
Venus in Fur, the unbelievably provocative, sexy production being mounted at Players by the Sea recently held a preview for theatre writers and bloggers, to sit in on a rehearsal and get a feel for the electrically charged production. MetroJacksonville attended as well and what we found was a role that...
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Department of the Interiors: Celebs
Celeb's Corner Kitchen is on A Phillip Randolph Avenue at the beginning of the historic Florida Avenue District on Jacksonville's incredibly historic eastside. This is after all where the scions of the Harlem Renaissance actually mixed and lived and worked for decades. Zora Neal Hurston is a part of...
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Dirt Altar: Last Performance for Looking Lab Project!
Jim Draper and Casey James will be creating the final performance for The Looking Lab Project in downtown. Joy Poulard-Leverette's experimental multi media series is a partnership with Petra Management and it concludes with what might be a water changing performance by Draper as he ventures into storytelling....
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Id Magazine: The Red Issue Spring of 1992
In spring 1992, Creative Director Clair Mead Hartmann said that she wished to create something really nice with iD Magazine's Red Edition, which featured an interview with artist Lee Harvey. Clair clearly achieved (and exceeded) her goal with this issue of iD Magazine. Id was the first publication that...
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Girls Rock Jacksonville Expanding Camp Program!
Girls Rock Jacksonville exists to cultivate self-empowerment and positive identity development in female-identified youth through music experimentation, DIY media and peer collaboration. Going into their third year, the organizers of Girls Rock Jacksonville have been preparing for their inaugural summer...
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The Flea Markets of Jacksonville
Whether it’s a computer from a traditional storefront that accepts major credit cards or a used lawn mower put out by someone simply attempting to de-clutter their garage, you can stumble upon nearly anything imaginable at a flea market. Fruits and vegetables, canned food, clothes, electronics, and...
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