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11 FCCJ Artist Series-One Thousand and One Nights Performing Arts Center, Jax 11 “Drive & Yield Project” Art Opening/Reception JU Brest Museum, Jax 12 An Evening of Musical Song & Dance Thrasher Horne Center, Orange Park 12 JSO “How Suite It Is!” Performing Arts Center, Jax 12 Ethel Merman’s Broadway Flagler Auditorium, Palm Coast 12 “Leading Ladies” Theatre Jacksonville, Jacksonville 12 FCCJ Artist Series-“Turandot” Performing Arts Center, Jax 12-13 Big Yard Sale Catty Shack Wildlife Ranch, Jax 12-27 “The Rainmaker” ABET, Atlantic Beach 12-27 “Leading Ladies” Theatre Jacksonville, Jax 12-MAR. 11 Celebrating Black Hisotry Exhibit MOSH, Jax 13 Auditions: Fat Pig 2pm ABET, Atlantic Beach 13 Auditions: Jacksonville Symphony Chorus 3:30pm JU Fine Arts Building, Jax 13 JSO with Seven Nations Performing Arts Center, Jax 13 Science of the Circus MOSH, Jax 13-28 “Rob Becker’s Defending the Caveman FCCJ Artist Series Performing Arts Center, Jax 13-FEB. 24 Classes For Children-Drawing & Painting MOCA, Jax 14 Absolute Auction Catty Shack Wildlife Ranch, Jax 15 Auditions: Fat Pig 7pm ABET, Atlantic Beach 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day MOSH, Jax 15 Class: Traditional Oil Paintings with Sydney McKenna Cultural Center, Ponte Vedra 16 “Music of Our Time” UNF, Jax 17 Ritz Chamber Players Performing Arts Center, Jax 17 FCCJ Artist Series-Golden Dragon Acrobats of China FCCJ Wilson Center, Jax 18 Pulp Fiction Theatre Boomtown, Jax 18 “The Motown Experience” JSO Performing Arts Center, Jax 18 Open Gallery Grand Opening San Marco, Jax 18 “Caring For Your Edible Landscape” Urban Garden Field, Jax 18-20 “See How They Run” DASOTA, Jax 19 “Einstein Alive!” Theatreworks FCCJ Wilson Center, Jax 19 Arbor Day Program Duval County Extension, Jax 19-20 JSO “The Motwon Experience” Performing Arts Center, Jax 19-20 Comedian James Gregory Comedy Zone, Mandarin 20 Lecture Series: Lives of Objects-Artists and Patrons in Ancient Egypt Main Library, Jax 21 JSO Family Series Performing Arts Center, Jax 22 Beaches Fine Arts Series-Joshua Bell Performing Arts Center, Jax 22 Brahms String Quartet & Clarinet Quintet UNF, Jax 23 Clarinet Virtuoso Guy Yehuda Library, Ponte Vedra Beach 23-28 “Sweet Charity” FCCJ Artist Series Performing Arts Center, Jax 25 “Rip Van Winkle” Theatreworks Florida Theatre, Jax 25 “I Can’t Stop Loving You-The Music of Ray Charles” UNF Fine Arts Center, Jax 25 JSO “Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony” Performing Arts Center, Jax 26-27 Comedian James Gregory Comedy Zone, Mandarin 26-28 13 th Annual Official Electric Football Super Bowl & Convention Embassy Suites, Jax 26-APR. 8 Other Worlds: The Landscape in Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Jax 26-APR. 8 Second Skins: Sculptural Soundsuits & Tondos by Nick Cave MOCA, Jax 27-28 Auditions: Shakespeare in Orange Park 2pm Orange Park Community Theatre, Orange Park 27 Book Signing-Dr. Hal Baumgarten “D-Day Survivor” Barnes & Noble, Mandarin 30 FCCJ Artist Series-Rigoletto, Teatro Lirico D’Europa Performing Arts Center, Jax 30 “Music of Our Time” UNF, Jax There’s more art in Jacksonville than most people realize, and sometimes in odd places. A colleague with a penchant for hot sauce pointed me in the direction of an art gallery placed inside Pepper Rama, a store that specializes in hot sauces of every kind. They showcase 8 to 12 artists a year in one person shows. No giclees or reproductions are allowed. All the work in the gallery must be originals, though the mediums vary from 3-D sculpture to paintings. The artist currently on exhibition is Mark War- 28 december 28-january 3, 2006 | entertaining u newspaper hot art, hot sauce a strange place for art by eriN tHurSby scopes1925@msn.com ren, who is presenting a diverse assortment of art called “Influences.” Two walls feature his work. On one there’s his “Praise the Lord and Pass the Snakes,” “A Devil of a Week” and an odd but ultra cool cartouche that forms an arch over the two works. The cartouche is a double banner of blue carved from wood. In the center of both banners are winged eyeballs. It was wacky and interesting enough that I began plotting where I could put it on a wall. I caught up with Warren via phone to interview him for EU and asked him about his very different pieces. Says Warren, “I jump from medium to medium so I don’t burn out on any one thing.” Besides creating strange and wonderful works of art, he works at the Cummer Gallery, where he has worked off and on for over 20 years. He’s been creating some kind of art for a long time. “I wasted a lot of paper in high school,” he jokes “and I’ve been hand carving wood since I was 5-6 years old.” His wife, Diane Warren, owns and operates Pepper Rama and Mark is one of a few artists whose works have graced the walls of the hot sauce haven. The piece “Praise the Lord and Pass the Snakes” is apt to get the most attention. At first glance, this tent revival scene, featuring those faithful parishioners that handle poisonous snakes as proof of their belief, seems to be in the style of claymation. On closer inspection, you can see that they are carved from wood. Warren says that he “was moved by seeing a special on PBS…I gotta hand it to somebody with enough faith to pick up a snake and be ok with that.” Each member of the revival, from the pastor to the parishioners has their own distinct personality. On the other wall are two series works: Warren’s “Bass School” and miniature Mondrians in stark black, yellow and red. The Bass, like the parishioners on the opposite wall, all have a distinctive personality, especially the “punk” bass in the back of the school, with its spiked fins, fishhook piercing and anarchy tattoo. The fish scales on the bass are made from Bass beer bottle tops. The impetus for the piece was a request and a fondness for the beer. “That was really a request on Diane’s part. We were drinking Bass beer so I made bass…I decided to do a punk fish…the size of the piece depended on the chunk of wood…pins were bought and the melted glass beads I bought for the eyes.” The Mondrians have become a holiday tradition for Warren. “I work at a museum and we do the typical Christmas exchange every season…one year I got the Registrar, whose job it is to uncrate and check to artwork that comes in, so I made her miniatures. Each comes with its own box with padding and labels, tiny titles and artist statements in really small font…it’s kind of like accessories for Barbie the museum curator or Registrar.” You can find the Pepper Rama Gallery in the Pepper Rama store in the Riverside Village Shopping Center at 4555 Shirley Ave. Their new hours are Tuesday-Friday from noon-8PM and Saturday s from 10AM-6PM. Mark Warren’s exhibition will be there through December 30 th . The Pepper Rama Gallery’s Statement of Purpose: The Pepper Rama Gallery of Visionary Art is an exhibition space for visionary and contemporary art…The Gallery provides an opportunity for those artists that choose a different path, whose personal artistic vision can not be contained by ordinary means. By placing the Visionary Art Gallery inside Pepper Rama Gourmet & Hot Shoppe, we have a means to bring the community and artist together by creating an environment that fosters positive discourse and places cultural value on the artistic expression and imagination in us all.
talk to me jags vs. pats by BRENTON CROZIER bcrozier@gmail.com Amy Alvarez, Zachary Lewison and James Davis It was important for me to be a good ambassador and make the small rabble of New England fans feel right at home during their visit to Alltel this weekend. I greeted the cantankerous Patriot faithful with a Southern scorched, “Patriots suck wicked bad!” We’re a friendly lot here in the River City and wanted to make the extra effort to ensure the comfort of the Yankee transplants that braved the rain and rowdy Jaguar’s fans with a familiar vernacular; the infamous “wicked.” It is imperative to fully comprehend this bit of refined Northern verbiage to the fullest extent. In circles North of Newark, the word wicked is a multi-used adjective grouped together with an infinite bank of terms to form a universal idiom to convey one of two points: that something is good, great, cool, awesome, splendid, fantastic, hip, or exciting, or to add emphasis that something really, really sucks. I bumped into Jaguar fans Amy Alvarez, Zachary Lewison, and James Davis. We discussed last minute Christmas shopping, a Jaguars playoff birth waiting under the tree from jolly St. Nick, the gloomy, yet ripe-for-football weather conditions, and the visceral dislike (hatred is just too nasty this time of year, even for Brady and the boys) we shared for New England’s beloved Patriots or “Pats” as a native New Englander would say because they just don’t have time for the “riot” part. I’ve heard the same goes for “thank you,” “you’re welcome,” and “hello, how are you.” We were hoping that between the humidity, lack of Dunkin Donuts, deficit of discourtesy, and minuscule amount of Foxborough Faithful, that the Jaguars would be able to pick apart the esteemed Super Bowl regulars. I quizzed my new friends about their knowledge of the language abuse going on in New England. When asked whatever in the world “wicked pissa” could mean, Zachary quickly answered that “It means fierce.” You see my New Englander friends, we are a cultured and educated bunch here in Jacksonville; we’ve learned of your ways and customs. I then asked the group to use “wicked” in a sentence. Zachary volunteered, “We don’t think that Tom Brady is wicked awesome.” They were getting the hang of it, and James Davis took it up a notch with “Maurice Jones-Drew is wicked awesome.” There could not be a more appropriate use of wicked, my friend. Stick that feather in your cap, snowbirds, and call it whatever kind of pasta you want. Sadly, this was the Jaguar’s last home stand of the 2006 season. Even more heartbreaking was the appalling call at the end of the game that has nearly erased Jacksonville’s hope of a playoff appearance. It was a good run; you could even say it was a wicked good season. There is still a glimmer of hope for the Jaguars, a tiny, dull glimmer. Nevertheless, we will be rooting them on while they are playing their way through a tough Kansas City team. Thanks for the football fellowship, slurred analysis, smiling faces, and insightful quotes. Random thoughts from a cluttered mind... THE JOCK JAGUARS My, oh, my. The Jaguars season, which in some ways has progressed like a bad reality TV program, has come down to its final straw. The boys head out to Kansas City to play the Chiefs, all with very faint hopes of possibly squeaking into the playoffs. Should the Jags beat the Chiefs, they would need the Jets to lose at home to the Raiders, they would need the Bengals to lose at home to the Steelers, and they would need the Titans, of all teams, to lose at home to the Patriots. As you can imagine, the chances of all these stars aligning is quite slim. Unfortunately, the Jaguars put themselves in this position with losses the past two weeks, as we all know. They had so many chances to really move forward heading into the playoffs. But they have made mistakes in key situations, and, combined with the loss of many starters due to injury, especially on Defense, this team has simply come up a tad bit short. It’s been a completely frustrating season for all involved, from the players to the coaches to the ownership and fans. The Chiefs are a tough group, led by the bullrushing of Larry Johnson on offense. Herm Edwards has done a decent job in his first year as the K.C. coach, and it will be a tough task on the part of Jack Del Rio to get his squad fired up to beat these guys. And we will all watch and wonder what could have been. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE This should be a wild and crazy weekend in the National Football League, for all intents and purposes. Most of it will center on who will qualify for the two wild card slots in each Conference. In the NFC, there seems to be a tremendous amount of mediocrity. Teams that you wouldn’t think deserve consideration for a playoff slot are still alive. There are five teams in the NFC with 7-8 records. They are: the Giants, Packers, Falcons, Panthers, and Rams. One of them will receive the sixth and final wild card spot in the playoffs, no matter what. Coincidentally, all five teams play their games on the road. Tom Coughlin has certainly had some massive problems with his Giants in the second half of the season, having lost six of his last seven games. However, New York has the best shot at that final wild card slot, if his boys can come through and beat the Redskins in Washington. If they don’t, then the Packers are next, but they have to play the Bears in Chicago. You also have the Falcons in Philly, the Panthers in New Orleans, and the Rams in Minnesota. So, as you can see, its gonna get real nasty in the NFC this weekend. Its entirely possible a team with a 7-9 record could make the playoffs for the first time in history. We shall see. COLLEGE FOOTBALL As we all know, with the New Year celebration, we also have a plethora of Bowl games, which to me have become a joke. Nonetheless, a lot of us are entirely interested in seeing these matchups to view who will do what in certain situations. Here in town, the West Virginia Moutaineers will face the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Tech was in town a few weeks ago for the ACC Championship, so I don’t expect to see as many fans from the Atlanta area as we might expect to see from West Virginia. The Gator Bowl has a definite history for this city, without question, having been around for quite a few years. But I think local interest in this game has dwindled to some extent, as other games nationally have gotten more prominent, while the teams that have come here in recent years haven’t been as glamorous. Certainly, there is still a product and a game that receives interest, especially from the teams that will show up. But I think something needs to happen, on the part of the Gator Bowl Committee and the NCAA, to change certain aspects of this game to make it more prominent, for it to receive better coverage and attention. Tom Weppel talks trash on Thursdays from 7-8 p.m. on WIOJ-AM 1010, and on SportsAvengers. com 24/7. eujacksonville.com | december 28-january 3, 2006 29
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