Jacksonville, Florida
The City of Jacksonville invites residents and visitors Downtown to ring in the New Year with fireworks over the St. Johns River. The fireworks will begin at midnight, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. This year fireworks will be launched from a barge on the St. Read More …
Help light up Memorial Park for RAP’s annual Luminaria event! Activities begin at 1pm with setting up the luminaries. After the luminaries are set up, enjoy the park! Santa and Mrs. Claus will be stopping by, West Riverside Elementary Chorus will be performing, train rides, Read More …
Find your new furever friend at the Save Them All adoption event, hosted by Animal Care and Protective Services and the Jacksonville Humane Society, and sponsored by the Petco Foundation. To see the available animals, visit coj.net/pets and jaxhumane.org. Saturday at 10 AM – 4 Read More …
Join Groundwork Jacksonville and City of Jacksonville Urban Foresters as they celebrate the completion of several projects along the biodiversity corridor and work to create a more inclusive and sustainable community. RSVP Here. Friday, December 13th S-Line Urban Trail 2429 Davis St. Jacksonville, FL 32209
Home damaged by Hurricane Matthew? Help is still available for Duval County homeowners through the City’s Hurricane Matthew Housing Repair Program. The Housing and Community Development Division will begin accepting applications Monday. Funding is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-qualified, first-served basis. Read More …
Feeding Northeast Florida 1116 Edgewood Ave N Jacksonville, FL – 32254 (904) 513-1333 Feeding Northeast Florida (FNEFL) is our community’s newest effort to establish food security across 17 counties in Northeast Florida. Formed through a collaborative partnership between Feeding America and Second Harvest Food Bank Read More …
The sinister shenanigans started by Sleiman Enterprises’s fence fiasco seem to be behind them, and Perfect Rack Billiards, Buchner’s Bierhalle, Blackhat Vapor, and Beautifully Divine DIY Woodcraft Studio & Custom Gift Boutique will all be open for business soon. Once again, a big shout out to Goin Read More …
Yellow House invites you; Join us on November 16th for the opening of ‘Time is of the Essence: Recent Works by Sheila Goloborotko’ between 6-8pm. Meet the artist, enjoy light refreshments, and find joy in one another. It’s free and open to all! ABOUT THE Read More …
Most of the Murray Hill neighborhood on Jacksonville’s westside has heard that Perfect Rack Billiards, 1186 Edgewood Ave. S will be forced to stop serving food tomorrow, after Sleiman Enterprises put up a fence blocking access to their dumpster, to their grease holding tank, and Read More …
Wander between the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Jacksonville Public Library to hear poets, novelists, short-story writers, memoirists and student-writers read from their work highlighting Jacksonville stories and settings. Chamblin’s Uptown Bookstore is at 215 N. Laura Street, in the block next to the Jacksonville Public Read More …
Norman Studios was among the nation’s first studios to produce “race films” starring African American characters in positive, non-stereotypical roles. Today, Norman’s five-building studio complex survives in Jacksonville’s Old Arlington neighborhood. Join JPL for a panel discussion and learn why Norman Studios is a national Read More …
Erin Kendrick is a visual artist and arts educator from Jacksonville, Florida. Her color-rich, acrylic ink-stained works of art and transformative installations seek to inspire a dialogue about contemporary spectatorship and the power of language as it relates to perceptions of and about black women. Read More …
Holley’s Bar-B-Q is Jacksonville’s oldest and longest continuously operating barbecue restaurant. Holley’s was opened by Jack Holley in 1937 at 3604 Moncrief Rd Jacksonville, FL 32209. 83 years later, Holley’s is still standing, and still serving the community from that same beloved building. It may Read More …
In celebration of National Parks and Recreation Month, the City’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department will host Game On!, a day to enjoy the outdoors, this Saturday from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Robert F. Kennedy Park 1133 Ionia St. Jacksonville, FL 32206 Read More …
If you didn’t care about blue lives before black lives mattered, you really don’t care about blue lives, you just can’t stand the idea of black lives mattering. If you didn’t care about white history before black history month, you really don’t care about white Read More …
Jacksonville Public Library Director Tim Rogers has avoided, and or outright refused, all comment since cancelling the Storybook Pride Prom. The Prom was for LGTBQ Youth and was to be held this Friday at Willowbranch Library. All information from him has been posted on JPL’s Read More …
Who is Tim Rogers? His previous position was as executive director with The Metropolitan Library in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Jacksonville hired him after they fired him. The Metropolitan Library Commission voted Thursday August 25, 2017 to end its employment of executive director Tim Rogers effective Read More …
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) will operate the Skyway one Saturday each month to provide free rides and convenient parking. The event is sponsored by Friends of Hemming Park and their Downtown partners. June 22 is Skyway Saturday for this month.