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One Spark Art Experience
One Spark, The World’s Largest Crowdfunding Festival, is back for its third iteration in Downtown Jacksonville April 7-12, 2015. This year, One Spark has six categories: art, education, health & science, music, social good, and technology. One Spark, like Arbus Magazine, bring together art and business, and creates and environment for collaboration between creatives and innovators from across the country. This year, we wanted to give our readers a guide to the art experience at One Spark that includes don’t-miss projects and...
read moreWomen of Influence, Women Entrepreneurs
Twenty-one years ago Arbus Magazine began dedicating one issue annually to highlighting some of the area’s most influential and award-winning entrepreneurial women. Now, twenty-one years later, this special section continues to serve an important purpose: drawing much deserved attention to the women who change, and contribute to, our community in myriad ways. From a Jacksonville chef and caterer who has garnered a national clientele (the lovely Liz Grenamyer) to a longtime gallery owner exhibiting and accelerating the careers of regional...
read more“Silence Is a Bully’s Best Friend”
New campaign to change the culture of bullying Once considered a teenage rite of passage, bullying – thanks largely to the pernicious and relentless nature of social media taunting – has become a mental health issue for many children. The stakes are high. According to a research review conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, youth who are bullied are more likely to be depressed, think about suicide, and actually attempt suicide. Coming up with a workable plan to stop bullying has proven difficult. The approaches are all...
read more2015 Arbus Magazine Gold Star Restaurants
This is what we’ve always thought, here at Arbus: If you’re going to dine out and spend your hard-earned dollars, shouldn’t you be discriminating about where you choose to go? After all, there are many choices in the City of Jacksonville alone, and we also have the pleasure of having St. Augustine nearby with its distinct options, not to mention the Beaches. The eateries you’ll find here are not just some of our favorites, but specifically locally owned favorites. As a local arts and business publication, we feel it is our duty to introduce...
read moreThe Story of Simi Winery
In 1849 the world, all in a rush, discovered California. Among the fortune seekers were two brothers —Giuseppe and Pietro Simi. They didn’t find gold in the New World, but they did find the Alexander Valley where they established a winery and planted vineyards. When the Simi brothers both died unexpectedly during the flu epidemic of 1904, Giuseppe’s 18-year-old beauty queen daughter, Isabelle, took over. She proved more than capable of successfully running the business. By the 1920s, wines made by the Simi family were highly sought after in...
read moreThe Arts Give Us the Opportunity to Grow
As you enter the signature atrium at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (DA), it’s easy to see how this high school is set apart from most. Just behind the warm, smiling front desk attendant, there is a wall covered in beautiful art work. In fact, when you look around, you will see paintings or photos placed on each wall of the lobby. The atrium itself houses a small art gallery with amazing sculptures, stunning photography and breathtaking paintings. Each piece is a gift from a student, created while attending school here. At a time when...
read moreA Jacksonville Gem
The Florida Ballet’s Laurie Picinich-Byrd leaves her legacy in their performance of The Nutcracker While talking over the phone one night, Laurie Picinich and Michael Byrd, two accomplished ballet dancers working in New York City, lamented the fact that there were so many dance opportunities in NYC and so few elsewhere in the country. Byrd, a Jacksonville native, specifically cited the need for more dance in his hometown. By the end of the conversation, they had decided to start a dance company in Jacksonville and call it The Florida Ballet....
read moreShop Local!
We at Arbus have always championed the “Buy Local” ethos, and this year we are proud to point out just how easy that can be! Highly creative, unique, and — best of all — homegrown spots all over the city offer great gifting and celebrating choices, making for a merry season for the entire community. Our annual Shop Local Gift Guide takes you on a trip around each ‘hood, introduces you to new spots, and reintroduces you to our favorites. So, read, shop, eat, drink, and rejuvenate (perhaps in that order). Happy holidays from...
read moreGardens, and Tigers, and Butterflies! Oh My!
The massive male Malayan tiger jumps lightly from rock to rock, powerful muscles rippling beneath its coat, until he finally settles in the shallows of the gurgling stream to bask in the mist from the waterfall directly behind him. “See what I mean by the connection of art and nature?” I am at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens on a stifling hot summer day and Tony Vecchio, the zoo’s executive director, is remarking on the picture-perfect moment we are witnessing at their newest exhibit, Land of the Tiger. I have to agree that the scene...
read moreThe Impact of Design
Design. No matter whom you talk to or where you experience it, design is generally misunderstood and rarely implemented to its greatest potential. If you are a frequent traveler or inquisitive adventurer, you know great design when you see it. It stands out from the crowd, stops you in your tracks, steals your breath and makes you feel as if time has stopped. Without so much as a how-do-you-do, it amazes and delights, confounds and intrigues, startles and pro- vokes and talks to your soul. When we think of design in terms of architecture, the...
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