Live Urban Jacksonville Weekly 50th Episode

Saturday January 23rd we’ll be having the first ever, but not the last, LIVE Urban Jacksonville Weekly. It will be on the back patio of the Burrito Gallery at 1:30pm. There will be food and drink specials, giveaways, live performances by Tough Junkie and we’ll be taking your questions.

Join Tony, Jonathan, Jack and Ian Ranne, owner of Shantytown Pub and Hip Hop Hell Records. We’ll be talking Downtown, Springfield, Hip Hop and taking your questions.

If you want to sponsor the show with giveaway items please let me know. We’re also looking for an ongoing show sponsor to help us buy new microphones and headsets for the studio.

Other Cool January Events In Your City

All of a sudden the 5 Points Theatre is the venue of choice.

Cinema Sounds 5 Jacksonville is 4 bands playing a movie soundtrack

• CIVILIZATION Duval’s premier punk-sludge duo does Destroy All Monsters
• WUDUN dynamic fuzz pop does Metropolis
• DIAMOND HYMEN lo-fi electro does Jesus Christ Superstar
• BRIGHT ORANGE ambient / ethereal / warm drones does Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan

Pecha Kucha #7 is fast-paced presentation fun with beer on tap
I’ve seen Corey’s Failure to Succeed and it’s awesome. Worth the trip.

• Carl Smith – “From mess to success, getting my kids to keep their rooms clean.”
• Florence Haridan – Hope and Help
• Corey Grusden – Failure to Succeed
• Tiffany Manning – The Girl Next Door
• Luis Casillas – How to have 26 hours of fun in one day

Midnight Movie Schedule at the 5 Points Theatre for January

• 2001: A Space Odyssey plays January 15th. Because it’s a long one, we’re starting it at 11 pm
• The Breakfast Club play at midnight on January 22nd.
• Labyrinth is midnight on January 29th.
• Back to the Future Part II will be February 5th.

Screening of “$100 and a T-Shirt” by the Main Library Zine Collection
Main Library » Experience the ups and downs in the zine publishing world as it was experienced by Joe Biel and the rest of the staff at Microcosm Publishing. Refreshments will be provided.

One of Springfield’s most successful and loved businesses, Shantytown Pub, turned two last Friday. After two years they’re still going strong and have outlasted a few other notable Springfield businesses during that time. I attribute their success to the hard working owners and loyal patrons from in and out of the neighborhood.

Shantytown has been one of many bright spots in Springfield over the past year and I am looking forward to another year. If you like, leave your thoughts, thanks and photos for Shantytown, here are some of mine.

Top 5 Shantytown Memories

1. The day I saw the new mural on the side of the building.
2. Urban Jacksonville blog party
3. DJing at the Partisan the Sea after party with Dennis from Thought & Theory
4. Seeing the Vice Magazine bathroom wallpaper for the first time (in it’s pristine state). I thought it was a brilliant idea.
5. The first Shantytown post on Urban Jacksonville
6. Any cold night in the backyard with the fire pit going

The Vice Magazine Wallpaper This is what it looked like about two years ago.

The Backyard Always changing, some of Jacksonville’s most dope graff.

Five Favorite Shantytown Photos (in no particular order)

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credit: jeanneciasullo

credit: cracklow’s faux toes

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Top Five Shantytown Flyers