Updates and Clarifications on Conmoto

• The special guest isn’t Black Kids, Ian Ranne (Triclops I) DJing local music between the sets and the Troupe Shoot Dancers performing with Lazerstar.
• The Art Show will be upstairs at Burrito Gallery from 11p – 1a, Three Olive martinis will be free for of-age art lovers.
• Afterparty – The official afterparty on Friday is at Birdies. TSI has said they will let ticketholders in to TSI for free that night.
• The official afterparty on Saturday night is at The Pearl. It will be DJed by the musicians from Conmoto.
• Beforeparty – Dinner with the bands. Bands will receive a 20% discount at Burrito Gallery on Friday and Saturday. Festers are invited to come hang with the bands from 4 – 630 both nights before the shows start.

Worst picture ever, but it’s all good. This was not our worst show ever, probably one of our best. Not only do we talk about Conmoto, we also talk about FRAM or Farmers at RAM and Bikevemberfest at RAM.

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EU Magazine Music Issue

EU Music Issue Issue and Conmoto Article

Art by Dog and Pony Showprints
Rob Roy on Entourage
Conmoto Ticket Pricing, Conmoto Schedule and Art Show Details

Tickets will be available starting Thursday at the box office of the Florida Theatre at 128 E. Forsyth Street. Tickets will hopefully also be sold on this page starting tomorrow (assuming the gods of the Internet so allow).

• Tickets will be $20 for all access (all venues both days + afterparties)
• $10 for Friday only (Florida Theatre)
• $10 for Saturday only (All Participating Venues). Afterparty admission not included, patron can pay at the door of afterparty.

The Commercial

Conmoto Art & Music Festival – Jacksonville Florida – Complete Film from JonBosworth on Vimeo.

Recommendations

Joey: Jaguars feature articles on Metro Jacksonville and their updated homepage
Jonathan: Being awesome at the Conmoto music fest and work (LAME)
Tony: Conmoto After Party at TSI
Jack: Buff Clout’s last show in Jacksonville

Next Week on the Show

Abel Harding, Jacksonville.com business columnist and UJW political consultant along with Fresh Ministries will join us to talk about the possible links between Springfield and East Jacksonville. Check out this video to get up to speed:

The Farm to Table Tour was created to highlight farmers markets around the country and the benefits they offer their communities, and to celebrate the food produced by each market’s farmers and vendors.

This event will pair local chefs with local farmers to prepare special tastings showcasing their partner farm’s fresh ingredients and visitors will have the opportunity to sample the chefs’ creations while also learning more about the market vendors, their products, and how to buy and eat seasonally. Chefs will serve samples from 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Here are the participating chefs:

• Michael McKinney of Chew Restaurant
• Eddy Escriba of Uptown Market
• Nick Robson of Eleven South
• Sam Efron of Taverna
• Eric Fritsche of Pastiche
• Richard Nunn of News 4 Jax
• Damon Burch of Biscottis
• Brian Vandenburg of Burrito Gallery
• Brian Siebenschuh of Orsay
• Floyd Slyman of Café Du Marche
• Rodrick Smith of Sweet Pete Catering
• Tom Gray of Bistro AIX

Sam Efron of Taverna, one of the chefs, will be a guest on Urban Jacksonville Weekly Tuesday night at 5:30. We’ll talk about Sam’s new San Marco restaurant, his involvement in the the Farm to Table Tour and the importance of buying and eating seasonally. Read Taverna reviews on Yelp.

In addition to free tastings, visitors will have the opportunity to select potted culinary herb plant starts at the Mobile Garden Highlander Hybrid, and can also enter for a chance to win a unique culinary prize package. Toyota will also provide interested market goers with the opportunity to take a ride in the 3rd Generation Prius or a 2009 Highlander Hybrid and take home a John Boos cutting board as a thank you gift.

Toyota is dedicated to using eco-friendly materials throughout the tour and will be purchasing carbon credits through TerraPass to offset the impact of the tour’s carbon footprint. In addition, to further support the market, Toyota is making a financial donation to the Riverside Arts Market, LLC, the organization that brings the Riverside Arts Market to life each week.

In this episode we welcome our new producer Jack Diablo and talk about the following topics City Budget – The Chopping Block, new parks for Brooklyn, Uptown Market (part 1 of 3). And if you missed the live show, you missed all the good talk before the show started. Get there early for insider info, that’s for the live viewers only.

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Urban Jacksonville Weekly #23 for 7/6/09

City Budget – The Chopping Block
What’s on Jacksonville city’s budget chopping block? (includes the infographic we were discussing)
raise millage rate
Historic Preservation – eliminated
T – no downtown association
JM – Joel as consultant, eliminate bureaucracy
JB – Ritz – eliminated
T – going to lose character
JB – lose special events
JM – scare tactic
JM – will pass (prediction)
JB – TU help people understand what it means
T – like $9 per household tax for school board raise

Brooklyn Parks
@mogdoy: #ujw. What boundaries define Brooklyn?
T – Brooklyn boundaries St. Johns River, I-95, LaNilla, Fuller-Warren
Metro Jax posted on both of these parks

Unity Park
UP – retention pond
Brooklyn Park development on hold
JM – Forest Avenue and entrance into city
T – Riverside Ave hard to cross
JM – make pedestrian friendly
T – Riv Ave screwed Brooklyn

Artist Walk
connects RAM to Riverside Park
T – add booths to RAM
JB – another tricky crosswalk
T – add streetlight
T – ride your bike
T – cops inside market not traffic
@mogdoy: #ujw. I always imagined that arts walk area as a burnside style skatepark.

Music section
All we really want to say about the music section is you have to tune in. And Jack is in a band called Chicken & Whiskey.

Uptown Market Part 1 of 3
T- open August-ish
T – Chef Eddie (BG)
T – killer breakfast menu
JM – grocery items?
T – staples only
T – beer and wine

Recommendations
Jonathan – jacksonville.com/jacksonville_blogs
Tony – UJ mixtape release party happy hour – midnight frozen drinks
Joey – Jax Observer radio

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Here’s a collection of reactions to the Mayor’s Thursday press conference announcing his plans for the final two years of office.

Jacksonville mayor calls for salary freeze
This was also mentioned in the press conference but received no questions or comments during the QA with reporters and business leaders.

Chief among the city’s financial woes is the pension contribution, which Peyton said will cost taxpayers $275,000 a day.

Mayor John Peyton: Investing in Jacksonville’s Future via Metro Jacksonville who also live blogged yesterday’s announcements

Mayor John Peyton’s complete presentation “Investing in Jacksonville’s Future” outlines his focus for downtown in his final two years in office.

Peyton shifting priority to downtown, riverfront

He didn’t have cost estimates for the wide array of projects, which are still conceptual. They range from developing a downtown gateway from the Brooklyn area to extending the Northbank and Southbank riverwalks.

Peyton’s downtown vision has considerable potential

Big dreams? Sure. But some of the work could begin now with money that had been set aside for public improvements in Brooklyn, where proposed development is off the table for now because of the bad real estate market.

One Jacksonville Politics blog contributor is not buying Peyton’s plan

The recently released Council Auditor’s report identifies millions of dollars in funding shortfalls (6.7 million of them to be exact) and the Mayor wants to revamp Metropolitan Park and Friendship Park?

Tony Allegretti is know for innovative marketing, ArtWalk anyone? The beauty of his marketing is it seems so damn effortless. He probably doesn’t know he struck on a brilliant idea this weekend at the Riverside Arts Market. Then again, maybe he does, and that’s why he was hired to be the Director.

Tony took pictures of booths with his phone and uploaded them to his photoblog O Snap, calling out booth numbers and highlights of the market as he snapped (Note: Tony needs a new phone with a better camera).

This is a great way to highlight and recommend individual vendors. Highlighting one vendor over another is definitely not his style, but you get the idea.

Next he should tie his photoblog to his RAM Director twitter account (I know how to do this by the way…). Snapping photos and posting descriptions and booth numbers directly to Twitter. Anyone following RAMDirector on Twitter would have a director’s eye view of the best and most savory at the market, at least for that particular weekend.

Checking tweets from your phone at the market, hitting up booths you might not have normally ventured to. Who else would you rather get recommendations from than the RAM Director, who’s been there every week and knows what’s new and what should not be missed. It’s a great way to market the market.

Tony, when you need a guest curator for the day, let me know. I’m totally down.

So Flosstradamus tonight at the beach and I just heard about two other HUGE shows coming soon. Once the details are ready I’ll post them here. Both shows will be at TSI who coincidentally has a show tonight too: Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, Tigercity and DJ Nick Fresh!

Mr. Al Pete album review: Let’s Talk About It. $10 at The Royal Treatment Record store at 1520 Main Street.

Catch him tonight performing at the Hip Hop Hell Showcase before Flosstradamus. Springfield Bonus! The red house in the video below is right across the street from my house. There’s also a Tough Junkie and Shantytown cameo.

Tha Links!

Interesting video on Racism in Jax Fire & Rescue?
Riverside Arts Market will start on Saturday, April 4th
Zombie Zines now has its own blog
Young Springfield Businesses on the Move
The 22nd Annual Flowering Tree Sale (Saturday!)
Downtown Construction Update – February 2009 (Metro Jacksonville)
The Springfield Community Garden is Back! (Intown Jacksonville)
A New Look for East Bay Street? (Metro Jacksonville)
Connecting FCCJ’s Downtown Campus (Metro Jacksonville)

Super Fun Fest (via Jack Diablo) and via Zombie Bikes

Potentially there will be an after show. If you have a band and would like to perform contact the crew at jaxfest@gmail.com. Feel free to email your suggestions or volunteer as well.

I hear on the old grape vine that come this spring with the time change for more evening light and more stable weather we are very likely to start seeing CM hit the streets of Jacksonville. – Critical Mass In Jax?

Bright Young Things ’09 coming to Jane Gray Gallery April 3, 2009

Artists include: Heather Blanton, Christina Foard, Dustin Harewood, Madeleine Peck, Sharla T. Valeski, MactruQue

Trail Ridge No-Bid Contract

In addition to all the great content below we also discuss this issue at length on Urban Jacksonville Weekly Episode 5.

From Jacksonville.com
Trail Ridge Landfill: Inside the fight for your $750 million
Two more landfill companies want to bid on Trail Ridge

From Jacksonville Politics
Mayor digging in his heels on Waste Management no-bid contract
We’d like to bid, Mr. Mayor!
Mayor’s legal position on Waste Management no-bid contract crumbles

If you have some time write a letter to the editor of the Times Union. You can submit your letters via an online form here: http://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/submit_a_letter_to_the_editor. It’s just as easy – probably even a bit easier – than writing your letters to City Council. You could even submit the same text you sent to City Council!

Remember: the crucial point is not that Waste Management is a bad, evil company. They aren’t, necessarily. The trouble is that this process is indicative of a bad approach that’s outdated and does not accomplish what government should. We’re asking the city to open up the bidding process, give us access to the details of that bidding process, and accept the best deal. If that’s with Waste Management, then that’s great. Let’s actually find out. It wouldn’t be hard!

I talked about the Riverside Artists Market (RAMarket) last year. It’s a huge all-weather market under the canopy of the Fuller Warren Bridge on Riverside Avenue. As the opening of the market approaches they are looking for input:

This Saturday, January 24th, 10am – 11:30am, the RAM Committee will host a workshop for interested artists, food vendors and farmers. The purpose of this workshop is to receive feedback on the market guidelines (including market layout, booth assignment policy and cost structure, Market policies and procedures).

If you plan on going please RSVP by Today to Teresa Fish at teresa@riversideavondale.org if you plan to attend. I would go ahead and RSVP even if it is past the date of just show up.

The meeting will be held at the First Guaranty Bank Building at 760 Riverside Ave, across the street from the market site. The meeting will start at 10am.

If you want to listen to more on the Riverside Artists Market it’s a topic of the new weekly radio show Urban Jacksonville Weekly.

More Information
Riverside Arts Market Logo Contest
Coming soon: Northbank Riverwalk Square’s Artists’ Market
http://www.riversideavondale.org/index.php?id=58

Note from the Editor: This is the first installment of what (we hope) will be a recurring column. Peyton knows there’s more than enough dirt going on in this City to fill three weekly columns. But I digress. Under no amount of torture, threat of litigation or tickling will I reveal the identity of Von Tiny Paige, because I have no idea who he/she is. Please enjoy.

FROM VON and the well meaning people at Tiny Paige

This is the first of a series of columns from the VTP. This opinion column is copyright free however, if quoted, any pieces of the content of any column must be linked to the entire column. Von, like Ron, has access to inside information without owing power people anything for that info.

If you know something about the Jacksonville political and power scene but don’t want to lose your job, your contract, your husband, etc. send us an email at vontinypaige@gmail.com. Your tip may or may not be mentioned. We will never ever mention or give up your email. Use a fake email if you are paranoid.

Your tip should be reasonably reliable, however we do not guarantee anything in our column. Not even our opinion, which can change on a dime. Think of it as local politics for entertainment purposes. Or if you are a subject of a snip, tell us about all these LIES in the comments where they are posted! We will correct all proven mistakes!

So here is what we’ve heard lately

Angela Corey or someone who really likes her has spent a lot of time on as a troll on one of the local message boards. Of course she will probably win in a landslide but the committment to squash any counter balance to her “kill em all let Rutherford sort them out” campaign may lead to more academy awards. Only this overbearing troll has us totally hearting Plotkin. If it wasn’t for her annoying superior attitude we probably wouldn’t even vote for this office.

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Ron Barton of the soon to be defunct JEDC is missing in action. Since the northbank riverwalk was reopened in May. What is going on with economic development downtown? Miles Development in Brooklyn? Is that a development or an understatement as to how far we are from anything happening? They should change the name to Miles and Miles. Ron, call home.

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The Fellas in the planning office have been told to not go to jags games with Paul Harden any more. Bye bye club seats. Hello loneliness. Don’t worry the private sector will always be there for you after a few “math errors”.

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Jacksonville, you used to be easy to figure on the national political scene. Except I heard Obama won the hob nob poll. And had almost 20,000 votes more than McSame in the primary. Winds of change? We need visual clues! Show me your yard signs! Has it already been four years since Jacksonville was one big black W sticker? Since then, they have all gone the way of sub prime mortgages. We don’t blame you for not putting out those McBush signs but we think you should put em up high like gas prices. Design-wise they are an improvement. But where is the pride? Don’t forget if you do or do not put out a sign NO ONE will know you voted for a half black American!

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We’ve got some juicy port stories coming in to our port. Tell us what you know about the port, Mayport, what the business climate is like in the Bahamas or any old thing that we need to know. If its interesting, involves power and politics and needs to be told we will make some room. Just drop a tip at vontinypaige@gmail.com.

See you next week!

The state of street art in Jacksonville goes beyond Urbismus. Here what some others are getting up to. This is by no means comprehensive, just what I could cover in a few hours on last weekend. Complete Street Art Update photoset.

Brooklyn

Five Points

Downtown

San Marco

Marisa who blogs at Flufflife will be having a gallery show at the Art Institute of Jacksonville in Baymeadows. I know, Baymeadows, soo not urban. BUT, Marisa is a good friend of mine and an awesome artist. Check out the Munny she created for the Color of Munny show.

“Full Circle” featuring works by Sarah Crooks Flair
Friday night December 7th, from 6pm-9pm

This show will be at the Jane Gray Gallery in Brooklyn. That’s North Riverside for all ya’ll who don’t know. Next to the Blue Cross Blue Shield building at 643 Edison Avenue.

Crafty Sidewalk Sale at Bogda
Saturday December 8th, from

Bogda’s sidewalks are sponsoring a one-of-a-kind craft fair so get here around 9am to see all the goodies. Get there early for good deals on art by Jimmy Pines and handmade jewelry by Kailene. All are now priced $15 a piece. Word!

International Fest of Cinema and Technology
December 6th-8th, 2007 in Springfield at 9th and Main

Festival screenings include short comedies, dramas, animated films, experimental films, music videos and documentaries and are from independent filmmakers from a variety of countries. All festival screenings will be taking place in historic Springfield in Jacksonville at the Rusted Hinge at 9th and Main. Specific details about all the films screenings and the festival schedule can be found at the festival website.

Tickets for each night are $6 per screening session, $3 for students. Screenings will be taking place Thursday December 6th and Friday December 7th from 5pm-11:30pm. On Saturday December 8th, screenings will run from 2pm-11:30pm. Live music will be performed on Friday December 6th from 6pm-10pm approximately. All attendees will also receive half off regular drink prices when they present their ticket stubs.