I’m a Star Students host live film review of PBS documentary: Black Wall Street

Join I’m A Star teen influencers for a viewing of the PBS Documentary Black Wall Street Saturday. Students ages 12-18 will learn about the thriving black business district in the affluent Greenwood community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. As 2021 marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Read More …

Surviving Confederate Veterans hold reunion in Jacksonville May 1914

This marker is in the Confederate Park, which was earlier called the Dignan Park, in the Springfield Historical District, Jacksonville ,Florida, where the United Confederate Veterans celebrated their 24th reunion in 1914. The marker reads as : “On these grounds, May 6-9, 1914, the United Read More …

48 Hour Film Project 2020

Teams of filmmakers are ready to say “action!” this weekend as the 48 Hour Film Project gets started. The kickoff event is tonight from 6pm to 7pm at James Weldon Johnson Park (formerly Hemming Park). If you would like more information, including tickets to the Read More …

MOTH Presents the Screening of the Film Kusama: Infinity

Kusama: Infinity is an American biographical documentary film about the life and work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, from her modest, conservative beginnings to becoming an art icon. Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Kusama overcame impossible odds to bring her radical artistic Read More …

We don’t need another storage facility

Riverton Tower Senior Center, Inc. and the Silverfield Group want to tear down the former Jones College at 1195 South Edgewood, the historical location of The Edgewood Theater, Murray Hill’s first movie theater, predating The Murray Hill Theater by 2 years, so they can build Read More …

The Edgewood Theater: Murray Hill’s first movie theater

The Edgewood Theater was the first movie theater in Murray Hill. The Edgewood opened in 1947, the Saturday before Easter. California was the first film screened.  It was a  western, directed by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Fitzgerald. Two thousand people Read More …

Cozzilla is heading to Rain Dogs

Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Rosy Buçu Davis, Podcast Co-Host at Crypt Kids invites you out to Rain Dogs for a FREE showing of Cozzilla (Psychedelic Godzilla) Gojira (Godzilla) is a black and white Kaiju Film directed by Ishiro Honda in 1954 and the Read More …

Things to Examine the week of  March 18, 2018

Sunday Free pictures with the Easter Bunny 11 AM Mischievous Madams present Hollywood Harlots in Jacksonville! 7 PM Monday Spring Zoo Camp – Dinosauria 9 AM · Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Picasso’s Kids Call to Artists 11 AM · The Art Center Cooperative, Inc Board Read More …

Things to Examine the week of March 11, 2018

Sunday League of Legends 5v5 Tournament at GLHF Game Bar 10AM  GLHF Game Bar Brunch Goes Wild 11AM · Simply Sara’s · Motown The Musical 1:30 PM and 7 PM · Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts Spring Civic Orchestra Concert 5 PM · Jacksonville Read More …

Things to Examine the week of February 4, 2018

You may notice that we are not sharing any Super Bowl watch party type events. The Jax Examiner said all we have to say about the NFL for this season in our Patriots get by with a little help from their officials article. Sunday Disney Presents Read More …

Celebrate Black History Month with The Flying Ace

“The Flying Ace”  Screening Sunday, February 4th at 7:30 PM Presented in celebration of Black History Month by   Jacksonville University’s College of Fine Arts The Flying Ace (1926), an African American silent film made by Richard Norman at Arlington’s Norman Studios. The film features an all Read More …

Black History Month events

February 2, 2018 Celebrate Life, All Lives Matter event, VIP meet and greet, 5:30-6:30 p.m.; celebration, 6:30-8 p.m.; The Salem Center, 7235 Bonneval Road. Speakers are the Rev. Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr.; and Niger Innis, Congress with Racial Equality. $25, with Read More …

Things to Examine the week of December 10, 2017

Gingerbread Extravaganza Ongoing through December 23, 2017  Downtown Dazzle Ongoing through New Years Eve 5:30 PM · Jacksonville Children’s Chorus The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus (JCC) is proud to present its third annual downtown holiday celebration by illuminating the outside of its downtown office, located at 225 Read More …

Wings: Veterans appreciation screening & reception

Romance and war prove equally tough battlefields in the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture winner starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers and Richard Arlen. The Norman Studios Silent Film Museum, University of North Florida Military and Veterans Resource Center and Standfast Asset Management will screen the 1927 silent film, Wings at Read More …