The Milestone at Marker 32
Celebrating Ben and Liza Groshell and their restaurant endeavor By Laura Riggs More than half of all restaurants will fail in their first year of business, and roughly 80 percent close within three to five years after opening. The ones that make it past the five-year mark will often stay open for at least a decade, but restaurants that stay open longer than 10 years are a rare gem. For independently owned restaurants, the hill is a...
Natalie McCray-Krauz on Creating the Arbus 30th Anniversary Cover
By Madeleine Peck Wagner a whisper gathers more attention than a shout Sometimes, and always when least expected, my phone buzzes and in comes an image of wit and inventiveness that makes my day. That this image will often inflame my own imagination is, I think a testament to artist, art director, and designer Natalie McCray-Krauz’s extraordinary ability to transform the most mundane of objects into...
A New Public Art Installation
Honoring the Arlington Community By Melanie Young Just as the eyes are the window to the soul, the entrance to a college campus is a window into the community that lives, works, learns, and plays there. For Jacksonville University (JU), that window recently became even more emblematic of the university’s relationship with the Arlington community. At the site of the turbo traffic roundabout welcoming drivers and pedestrians to...
Marsh & Saxelbye A beautiful Legacy
By Wayne W. Wood Jacksonville’s extraordinary natural landscape is complimented by its (often overlooked) manmade beauty. It is a surprise to many that Jacksonville has a greater number of outstanding architectural gems than any other city in Florida. Jacksonville has the most sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places and a quarter of those were designed by a single architectural firm—Marsh & Saxelbye. Made up of...
30th Anniversary Publishers Note
Arbus Magazine’s. 30th Anniversary A little over 30 years ago, the desire to explore the impact of art and culture on our daily lives and business success became part of my personal journey. As a professional stockbroker with a Series 7 license, I found myself broke and unemployed after the Black Monday stock market crash of October 1987. I needed to reinvent myself, and thus the idea for Arbus was born. Why An Arts and Business...
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