I happen to really like the works of Ken Ludwig, a fairly prolific, award-winning contemporary writer across stage, screen, and books. When I saw that Theatre Jacksonville was doing DEAR JACK, DEAR ...

Words by Teresa Spencer Every spring, Jacksonville tips its hat to speed. The Bob Hayes Invitational Track Meet isn’t just another high school competition with bleachers and stopwatches. It’s a ...

It's a classic tale of good vs. evil, with the Devil trying to steal a soul. But how can a good baseball underdog story turn out bad?! The Tony Award winner from 1955, DAMN YANKEES, is packed with fun ...

A discarded member of a wealthy family orchestrates a plan to prune his family tree so that he can receive a grand inheritance in “How to Make a Killing.” John Patton Ford makes his sophomore effort ...

Words by Carson Haines and photos by Tim Gillies It’s quite common during this time of year to hear about a classic and ...

“West Ashley Street,” sang the Jacksonville Harmony Trio in 1927, was the only place you could “ever lose these awful Jacksonville Blues.” That same year, Paramount “Race” Records recorded a ...

The kids came first. While the rest of Jacksonville straightened its spine to complete the transforma­tion into a bold new city, the kids remained bent with the weight of nonconformity, and the ...

Farah & Farah was once one of Folio Weekly’s most consistent and generous advertisers. Like most local media outlets, we relied heavily on their ad dollars. And when a sponsor puts that kind of money ...

Reader for Issuu Flipping through magazines for as long as she can remember, Ambar Ramirez has always known she wanted to be a journalist. Fast forward, Ambar is now a multimedia journalist and ...

In a city where Whole Foods, Publix and Fresh Market can amicably exist within a three-mile radius from each other; just on the other side of a connecting bridge, an entire community struggles to make ...

Let’s just say it: Northeast Florida is many things — historic, beachy, charmingly weird — but it is not exactly the capital of clothing-optional recreation. We’re more “flip-flops and SPF 50” than ...