Jacksonville, Florida
Last night I attended Punk Rock Burlesque: Sunny’s Last Show, at Rain Dogs. Sunny is leaving for NYC on May 1st. She will live in NYC and continue producing Jax PRB twice a year and co producing The Cabaret Hour every first Friday of the month. Read More …
Charlie Shuck opened the Punk Rock Show at Rain Dogs, Friday night, The Punk bands included; Forsaken Profit$, Some Kind Of Nightmare, The Wastedist, and SCUM. Some might find it odd that a poet/singer/songwriter playing acoustic guitar, would open for a night of Punk Rock. If you’ve ever had Read More …
The Justice Pub has commuted the sentence of the former Mark’s Jacksonville Downtown club and lounge at 315 E. Bay St. in the historic Hutchinson-Suddath Building. The building is no longer locked up behind closed doors. It is free and freshly painted with a kick Read More …
I was born and raised in Ohio. I’ve been a Cleveland Brown’s fan from birth. As such I hate Baltimore, Maryland with a passion. My hatred of the city of Baltimore existed long before they stole Cleveland’s football team. Baltimore Maryland also happens to be the Read More …
Last night I attended Punk Rock Burlesque: Sunny Parker’s Birthday Show, at Nighthawks. The Punk Rock Burlesque show is a biannual event, one you’ll have another opportunity to enjoy again, or for the first time, later this Fall. Sunny Parker turning 24 only happens once Read More …
Les Vixens Burlesque served it up hot and saucy, with just the right amount of cheese for Pizza Fest 4, Sunday night, at Nighthawks. Les Vixens are a post-modern rock n’ roll burlesque experience. Glitter & glam, girls & go-go, burlesque beauties that leave audiences Read More …
Pizza Fest 4! Damn! What a meal that was! An all you could eat musical buffet! Plus burlesque! You could survive on music and burlesque alone for three days. But we didn’t have to because there was also Pizza! Unlimited Five Star Pizza! And beer! Read More …
Forsaken Profit$ hails from Atlanta, Georgia, Dragons Den is their home. I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing them at Shantytown Pub for the PIZZA FEST 4 Preparty Some would call them Punk, or Thrash Punk, or Crossover Thrash, and or Skate Punk. Hell some would Read More …
When I told a friend I was going to the PIZZA FEST 4 Preparty at Shantytown Pub, she laughed and said, “you do know it won’t be poetry this time, right?” Her question was in reference to a previous visit we had made together for Read More …
Playboy magazine once described a dive bar as “A church for down-and-outers and those who romanticize them, a rare place where high and low rub elbows—bums and poets, thieves and slumming celebrities. It’s a place that wears its history proudly.” Shantytown Pub is a Dive Read More …
Late summer 1985. I was in Cotten’s BBQ looking at a map of Jax while I waited on my lunch order. A man called out to me from a nearby table, “First time here?” I replied with, “yes sir”. He stood up, walked toward me, Read More …
Shantytown Pub provides all the positives of a dive bar with few of the negatives. If you allow the music and the beer to do their thing you will just about forget you’re in a bar, or at the least, less of a bar and Read More …
Rain Dogs, the living room of Riverside, is located in the heart of 5 Points and is the heart of 5 Points. It has a low key atmosphere with a wide variety of more than 18 beers on tap and a multitude of bottled beers Read More …
Jacksonville has lost its Pearl. For seven years The Pearl was a gleaming light within the darkness of Springfield, a lone oasis within what has become a wasteland on a nearly deserted stretch of Main Street. This past Saturday The Pearl closed its doors for Read More …