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Why Every New Macbook Needs a Different Goddamn Charger, from College Humor, March 19 ↓
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VOTE!!! Primary election March 24, early voting at libraries now open. Jaxonpool endorses for Mayor: either Alvin Brown (D) or Bill Bishop (R), see Lenny Curry’s plausible denial; for Sheriff: Jay Farhat (R); At-large city council seats: #1: Anna Brosche (R); #2: John Crescimbeni (D); #3: Tommy Hazouri (D); #4: Greg Anderson (R); #5: Ju’Coby Pittman (D); District city council seats: #1: Melody Shacter (D); #2: Lisa King (D); #3: Aaron Bowman (R); #4: Ramon Day (D); #5: none; #6: none; #7: James Eddy (R); #8: Terry Fields (D); #9: either Garrett Dennis (D) or Glorious Johnson (D); #10: Joseph Willis (I); #11: none; #12: Abner Davis (D); #13: none; #14: Jason Tetlak (D).
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Southbank Riverfront — Vision in Transition II — Healthy Town & Shipyards Projects, from The Jax Left, March 21↓
2015 Jax Sheriff Debate, from mdh8320, March 22↓
Sheriff’s debate – Alternative link
Season in rewind: UNF men’s basketball makes history, from UNF Spinnaker, March 22↓
UNF Men’s Basketball – Alternative link
August’s List, by Farinelli, a Jacksonville resident. Not so easy listening. Genres: alt-country, alt-hip hop, Americana, cosmic, dance-pop, electropunk, experimental, folk, indie, lo-fi, neo-psychedelic, noise, post punk, shoegaze, synthpop, trip hop, etc. Watch & listen
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“SPEAKER MAYA PENN IS MULTI-TALENTED CEO” (March 20), by Becky Gibson. Somewhere in the City: People, places, and happenings in Jacksonville. This site’s goal is to help ignite the growth of a proactive community. Read
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What We Do in the Shadows 500th review! (March 21st). Panned Review, by Jacob Lusk. Film reviews by a Jacksonville movie-reviewing fiend and English teacher. Read
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“Designing the Parachorus — Or Why I Sing with a Dog.” On the Blink, by Emily Michael. Considering how my light is spent. Blog posts, music reviews, and published articles from a blind writer, musician, and Jacksonville English instructor. Read
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“Which Person Here is the Future Famous Writer Who Will Someday Immortalize Me?” (March 20th) Smart Ass Cripple, by Mike Ervin. Expressing pain through sarcasm since 2010. Voted the World’s Biggest Smart Ass by J.D. Power and Associates. Read
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The Field Negro, by Wain Bennett. Sometimes candid, sometimes tongue-in-cheek discussions about race. Read
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Brain Pickings, by Maria Popova. A library of cross-disciplinary interestingness and combinatorial creativity. Read
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“The Promise of Spring” (March 20) Calvin’s Story, by Christy Shake. Epilepsy & beyond: a mother’s journal. A mother’s journal of the anguish, grief, joy, and triumph shared with her chronically ill son. Christy and Calvin live in Maine. Read
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“Wanted: Choice Position” (March 18) Maggie World, by Sally Coghlan McDonald. Normalizing the abnormal. A mother sharing her experiences raising her disabled daughter and navigating, advocating and dealing with the system. [Although Maggie passed away in 2014, her mother continues to write. She lives in San Francisco.] Read
Eat & Gargoyle Magazine. A Jacksonville literary magazine published by Mark Ari: “I’m delighted to announce a new EAT Release in collaboration with Gargoyle Magazine. Gargoyle, based in Washington D.C. and edited by poet Richard Peabody, is one of the longest running and most respected independent journals in the country.” Read
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Eat Flash #1. EAT Flash is a collection of writers reading their own brief works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and prose poetry. All of the writers are connected to the Jacksonville area. Work by Al Letson, Coe Douglas, Mark Ari, Tim Gilmore, Hurley Winkler, Sohrab Homi Fracis, April Gray Wilder, Marcus Pactor, Grant Kittrell, and Christine Utz. Produced by Mark Ari. Listen
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Eat the Public Domain. EAT the Public Domain is devoted to songs and poetry in the public domain. Most of participants are Jacksonville musicians and/or poets. Work by Mark Ari, Teri Youmans Grimm, Steven Sherrill, Spiral Bound, Mark Williams, Dewgrass, Davis Parry. Produced by Mark Ari. Listen
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Mudlark, edited by Dr. William Slaughter and published in Jacksonville. An electronic journal of poetry and poetics. Dr. Slaughter is Professor Emeritus of UNF’s English department. Read
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The Jaxleft Channel, from George Farrar. A progressive, public affairs channel for the people of Jacksonville, Florida. View
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Progress Florida: Founded in 2008, Progress Florida is a nonprofit organization promoting progressive values through online organizing, media outreach, and networking with Florida’s leading progressive organizations. Read
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