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All this month we’re supporting Walk a Mile In Their Shoes 5K

Walk a Mile In Their Shoes 5K – Sulzbacher Center
Saturday, March 27. Walk with Joey and Tony, we’re doing the one mile fun run with the kiddies! Abel is doing the 5K and Jack is sleeping in.

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A special thanks go to Abel Harding for joining us in the studio. Abel actual set the record for least amount of comments during the show. We love you man!

Coming Up on Urban Jacksonville Weekly

• March 15th – Josh Jubinsky talkin’ ’bout Zines
• March 22nd – Al Letson talkin’ ’bout State of the Re:Union
• March 29th – Shane Douberly talkin’ ’bout Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival

NEW coffee sponsor

Bold Bean Coffee
sippin on: Mexico Altura Chiapas

Return of RAM

• remarkable entertainment
• huge turnout
• Fringe did great
• insane pottery
• magic wands
• Dutch/Italian bikes
• Abel saw penguins instead

C&W Tour/Burro Sales Trip
went awesome!
best show in Houston
Burro stuff being carried in new shops

Recommendations

Jonathan – keep on talk of budget talks
Abel – Penguins at the Zoo
Joey – Pecha Kucha 8 and The Warriors at the 5 Points Theatre
Tony – Gum Bunch Pub after RAM
Jack – shows!

TONIGHT – East of the Wall, Goes Cube, Galactoid and a surprise! @ The Devil’s Playground (Facebook Event)
MONDAY – Caspian, Antarctic, Arms & Sleepers @ Warehouse 8B (Facebook Event)

Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance

Thanks to Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance for talking with us about Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, an event we’ll be supporting all month long at Urban Jacksonville Weekly.

4th annual Walk a Mile in Their Shoes 5K
Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Tony Allegracious, co-host

Recommendations

Tony 2010 RAM re-opening
Jonathan 13 Gypsies
Tom We’ll Always Be Pals
Kelly Pulp Juice and Yogurt in San Marco
Joey Spring Fashion Show at TSI (I’ll be DJ’n)

Comping Up On Urban Jacksonville Weekly

On March 15th we’ll have Josh Jubinsky in the studio to talk about the Zine program at the Jacksonville Public Library. Josh, or Mr. Josh, works in the children’s at the downtown branch and was instrumental in creation one of the largest public zine collections in the United States.

Zine: A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced /?zi?n/ “zeen”) is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.

Josh Talks About The Jacksonville Library's Zine Collection

video interview With Josh Jubinski (of inertia records) on jaxscene.blogspot.com for ‘zine’ program

Sara Dougherty, Sulzbacher Center PR

Trey Csar speaking last year at Terry Parker for a Learning To Finish Announcement

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Special Guests – Trey Csar (Jacksonville Public Education Fund), Mary Kelli (Education Reporter)

Upcoming School Board Town Hall Meetings

Thursday, March 11
Sandalwood High School, 2750 John Prom Blvd, 32246

Tuesday, March 16
Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology, 7450 Wilson Blvd., 32210

Thursday, March 18
Jean Ribault High School, 3701 Winton Dr., 32208

Tuesday, March 23
Mandarin High School, 4831 Greenland Rd., 32258

Jacksonville Public Education Fund

• new group
• help school district realign and refocus as a system
• ___ Collaborative
• “critical friend” of school board

• if half the dropouts had graduated last year, we’d have an additional $$$???
• not enough money
• school day reduced by 45 minutes
• what needs to be done with the little money available
• another brutal year
• anticipated shortfalls will not be pretty
• fairly progressive with local revenue
• member of state consortium
• lack the patience to allow the value of education to bear fruit
• Urban Education Symposium
• Twitter – @jaxpef
• elected v. appointed officials
• more important who’s there rather than how they get there
• school board is paid
• give leaders freedom but accountability and they will be able to change schools
• “visionary leader”
• no excuses!
• takes more than a year to move a school
• plateaus are common
• change takes time
• judging teachers based on how well students do
• work with state and union to ratify ____ memorandum
• no appointed board members in FL
• food fight
• no one is happy with education quality
• John Delaney
• JTA appointed, JEA appointed (crappy beauracracies)
• Constitutional issue

Recommendations

Joey – Ritz Theatre Thu Feb 25 “Panel of Pros”
Tony – Last week fro FRAM, RAM starts again Mar 6 “Riverwalk to RAM”
Jonathan – Toxic past haunts future of Jacksonville’s Hogans Creek
Trey – Cozy Tea Indian Dinner once a month
Mary – School Board Town Hall meeting dates
Jack – my mind is GONE, sorry

Coming Up on Urban Jacksonville Weekly

• March 1st – Walk a Mile In Their Shoes with Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance join us to talk about Walk a Mile In Their Shoes, a 5K to benefit the Sulzbacher.
• March 15st: Josh Jubinsky from the Jacksonville Public Library will join us to talk about the Zine collection.

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Jacksonville Public Education Fund President Trey Csar guests on Urban Jacksonville Weekly Monday February 8th at 9:30am
w/ guest Mary Kelli Palka, education reporter at the Times-Union
Watch Live on UrbanJacksonvilleWeekly.com

One item that doesn’t get much positive attention in Jacksonville is education. Now that I’m a parent of 2 (gulp) children, it’s something I’m forced to think about on a weekly, and increasingly, daily basis as my 4 year old prepares to enter kindergarten.

Magnet school or neighborhood school? Private or public? Will we make the right decisions and how will they map the future course of our child’s education? One question we have answered is we’ll be staying right here in Duval County.

This Monday we’ll be talking to Trey Csar, President of the Jacksonville Public Education Fund. The non-profit organization was formed in 2009 to take the place of the former The Alliance for World Class Education, which worked for more than 10 years on teacher recognition and enhancing non-instructional areas of the Duval County school system.

It is focused on student achievement, especially for at-risk students and in lower-performing schools and has the following goals:

• work with local education and community leaders to create programs to help reduce drop-outs
• increase the graduation rate
• erase the achievement gap

There’s not much information online about the JPEF so this should be an informative show. The best place to keep up with them is the Jacksonville Public Education Fund Twitter account.

Required Reading

Five Strategies to Help Education Leaders Break Free
Knowledge is Power Program
Teach for America
Duval schools joins Race to the Top bid with union’s backing

DISCLAIMER Copious pre-show banter. Might actually be better than the real show.

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Special Guest – Abel Harding
Program helps some find jobs (worst headline ever TU!)
partnered with SHANDS
internship

Chicken & Whiskey Tour
FL to TX
straight DIY
new video by Ian Chase

Burro Bags Move
The Letterpress on Forsyth
combined with new record shop
Ian from Royal Treatment + Cash from Moon Colony Razorblade
soft opening whenever, grand opening mid-April or May Art Walk

Lomax Lodge Opens
opens today at 4pm for Ian’s b-day
new bar in 5 Points unnecessary? – hell no!

Laura Street Groundbreaking
revitalization and more walkable street
moving the Jackson statue into the street – roundabout
2-way street

Jacksonville.com Cinemania Film Club
for lovers, fans, and filmmakers
Tonight at 5P Theatre
Doorpost Film Project – Jax to Nasheville
$100,000 prize
showing top 4 short films
first people to show up get free jacksonville.com t-shirt
FREE!

JPEF returns next week to talk education
Walk A Mile in Their Shoes 5K for Sulzbacher

Recommendations
Jonathan – Moon (movie)
Abel – Hipster Puppies
Joey – Lyricist Hour via Nerdy South 7pm
Tony - riversideartsmarket.com, Fringe, Riverwalk to RAM (red carpet event)
Jack – Chicken & Whiskey Pre-Tour Throwdown

SUPER WONDERFUL @ 1992 San Marco Blvd.
Friday, February 12th from 6-9pm
Tonya Lee, Jen Morgan, Dustin Harewood, Matt Allison, Clay Doran, Barrett Fiser and Kyle Lemstrom.

Thanks to Kyle Lemstrom for guesting today. We kicked off our 51st show with a bang. That bang did not include the audio on Jack’s mic. I swear we tested it before we got started. If you missed yesterday, I wrote 5 Reasons Why Pop-Up Art Galleries Are Good for Jacksonville. We discuss this topic at length during the show.

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Next Week’s Guest

Trey Csar from the Jacksonville Public Education Fund. We’ll talk about education with Trey and special guest Mary Kelli Pakla, education reporter for the Florida Times-Union.

Recommendations

Kyle Black Bean Cuban in San Marco
Jonathan Gammel Rodgers Folk Festival
Jack Grand Opening of Zen Cog bike shop (Bike Jax Interview)
Joey I’m Board IV and First Friday’s in 5 Points at Underbelly

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As if you needed a reminder, our pants will be on the ground this Saturday January 23rd at the Burrito Gallery. We’ll host our first LIVE Urban Jacksonville Weekly in honor of our 50th show. Details:

Facebook Event Page
Time 1:30
Guest Ian Ranne of Shantytown Pub and Hip Hop Hell Records
Live performance by Tough Junkie
Specials and Giveaways

• Free chips and salsa with happy hour drink prices on beer/ frozen drinks from Burrito Gallery.
• Gift certificate from Burrito Gallery
• T-Shirts from Burro Bags, Content Design Group, RAM/FRAM
• A month of Business Management consulting from Florence Haridan

On To Yesterday’s Big News Day

Who knew there was a new single speed shop opening in Riverside. Pre-Opening Party » January 24 1-4pm
ZenCog Bicycle Company builds custom bikes including the ZenCog single speed coaster brake bike, the entire line of Surly,the cutting edge emerging Origin8, and the most affordable fixie in Jax, the Vilano. We specialize in single speed, fixies, 1X9, mountain, urban, road, and touring bikes.

Riverside Avondale Preservation hosts an inaugural social for a new young professionals group called RAP180.

Rick Mullaney shares his thoughts about the Kansas City Chamber Trip and where Jacksonville should head from there.
Kansas City did a remarkable job of bringing life and vibrancy to a decaying downtown. Kansas City brought focus, talent, and private sector participation to the downtown revitalization effort.

Jacksonville nonprofits want daytime homeless shelter
A group of nonprofits rallies for a daytime center for Jacksonville’s homeless. This could help clear downtown of drifters as the city embarks on a multimillion-dollar upgrade of Laura Street.

The Mayor is supportive of the daytime homeless shelter
Peyton also called for community to work towards turning the existing Duval County Courthouse into a future convention center. The site, which will be vacated when the new courthouse opens, is on the St. Johns River and adjacent to the downtown Hyatt Hotel.

JCCI annual progress report on Jacksonville’s quality of life is released
25th Annual Quality of Life Progress Report records progress in nine themes including Education, Economy, Natural Environment, Social Environment, Arts and Culture, Health, Government, Transportation, and Public Safety.

Download 25th Annual Quality of Life Progress Report
Download The Quality of Life Reference Document