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This Weekend in St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra, and The Beaches: June 29 – July 1
Jun 27th
Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band Concert
Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band return to the stage at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. New to the All Starrs are Steve Lukather (Toto) and Gregg Rolie (Santana & Journey) who will join All Starr alumni Richard Page, Todd Rundgren, Mark Rivera, and Gregg Bissonette. The performance will include a jukebox worth of All Starr hits. The performance will start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $29, $49, $64, $79 and $124. The St. Augustine Amphitheatre is located at 1340C A1A. www.staugamphitheatre.com
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: June 22-24
2012 Fountain Mercury King Buster 400
The premiere Southern Kingfish competition of the year – with over $175,000 in cash and prizes! The tournament kicks off on Wednesday with a children’s fishing outing from the St. Augustine Municipal Marina,111 Avenida Menendez. On Friday, the Junior Angler Tournament takes place noon to 3 p.m. On Saturday the main tournament takes place from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Sunday, there will be an awards party with live music Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. For registration and more information, visit www.kingbuster400.com
Claire Kendrick Exhibit
New paintings by Claire J Kendrick are exhibiting this weekend at St. Augustine’s Worley Faver Gallery. Texture is a mark of integrity and passion in Claire’s work. Her new seascapes use heavy layers of oil paint. Paint is mixed with wax and with a blow torch is melted.The gallery is a hidden jewel nestled in the old town, 11A Aviles Street, the oldest street in the United States.Summer Opening Hours 11am-4pm (Fri -Mon). Private and special openings also available. 904-304- 2310
Night Sights and Tales Tour
Be among the first to experience this new Gold Tour covering major St. Augustine sights at night and ghost tales, where appropriate. The tour covers the area between the Old Jail in the north and the National Cemetery in the south – nine miles in 90 minutes aboard a silent, comfortable all-electric bus. Tours are by reservation only and are priced at $20 per adult and $9 for children under 12. Call 904-325-0547 www.staugustinegoldtours.com
Bingo, The Musical at Limelight Theatre
Musical comedy about Vern, Honey and Patsy who have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through July 1. All performances take place at the Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue in St. Augustine. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and $20 for students and military. For more information, call 904.825.1164 or visit www.limelight-theatre.org
Saturday: June 30
Uptown Saturday Night
Live music, refreshments, new exhibits, book signings and much more from 5 to 9 p.m. at the galleries, antique stores and unique shops on St. Augustine’s San Marco Avenue between Ripley’s Museum and the Mission Nombre de Dios, 27 Ocean Avenue. Free parking at the Mission Nombre de Dios. 904.823.9263
Mark Alan Comedy and Magic Show
Mark Alan returns to St. Augustine with an all new comedy/magic show (rated G for everyone) including a suspension trick never before seen at the Pioneer Barn, 295 San Marco Avenue. The show begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults and $5 for children 3-12. 904-824-8874
Sunday: July 1
Bridge of Lions 5 K Run
Exciting run past downtown St. Augustine historical sites benefits Gamble Rogers Middle School. The race starts at 7:30 a.m. from the Castillo de San Marcos on St. Augustine’s bayfront. http://racesmith.com/races/BridgeofLions5K.html
Historic Tours Of Flagler College
Tours of Flagler College highlight the architectural heritage of the former Hotel Ponce de Leon. Built by millionaire developer, Henry Flagler, the hotel is considered one of the finest examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture and houses the largest collection of in use Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass windows. Located at 74 King Street, St. Augustine, tours take place daily thru August 28 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Admission is $10/adults, $1 for children 12 and younger, and FREE for St. Johns County residents. 904-823-3378 http://legacy.flagler.edu
Boston In Concert
Rock-favorite Boston returns to the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, located at 1340C A1A South in St. Augustine. The doors will open at 7 p.m., and the show will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets will be $39.50, $59.50, $69.50, and $125 for the first five rows. www.StAugAmphitheatre.com
Flagler College names AARP Bulletin editor Jim Toedtman as new Flagler Forum director
May 13th
Toedtman, a speaker at the program for the last 13 years, succeeds Victor Ostrowidzki, who passed away this past spring after battling cancer. Ostrowidzki, 80, was a veteran journalist and former White House reporter who covered every presidential election from 1964 to 1988. He joined the faculty at Flagler in 1997, founded the Forum series and taught classes on elections and the media.
The Forum brings nationally-recognized journalists and authorities to St. Augustine to discuss issues of local, federal and global importance. Past speakers have included Robert Novak, Mark Shields, David Broder, Joe Klein, Anne Coulter, Pat Buchanan and Chris Matthews.
“I am delighted with the opportunity of continuing and enhancing the Flagler Forums in ways that enrich the academic lives of Flagler students and benefit the St. Augustine community,” Toedtman said. “I look forward to the challenge of building on the solid foundation set by my friend Vic Ostrowidzki.”
Toedtman has had a distinguished career as reporter and editor for the New York daily newspaper, Newsday, and as an editor for Hearst Corp. newspapers in Boston and Baltimore. At Newsday, he was part of a team of reporters investigating Long Island land scandals that won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for public service. From 1986 to 1995, he served as managing editor of New York Newsday and helped develop and direct the staff, which won numerous awards including the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. He was named Newsday’s Washington Bureau Chief in 1995.
He was named editor of the AARP Bulletin in 2005. Since his appointment, the Bulletin has been consistently recognized for excellence in covering a range of public policy and consumer issues. It is published 10 times a year and has a circulation of 22 million. He also helped develop AARP’s online news and information website.
Toedtman graduated from the College of Wooster and earned a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. He also studied at the University of Queensland, Australia, as a Rotary Foundation Fellow.
Flagler College President William Abare said, “I am delighted that Jim Toedtman has agreed to accept our offer to serve as the director of the Forums. Over the past 13 years, Jim has become a good friend of the College and a close personal friend.”
Abare added, “We are extremely fortunate to have someone with Jim’s experience to lead this important program. He is a well-respected journalist who has a great network of friends and colleagues from which to draw Forum speakers. He is very familiar with our campus and our community and will be a great addition to our staff.”
Source: Brian Thompson, Director, News and Information, Flagler College.
“What’s Your Number?” One-Sidetrack Movie
Oct 6th
Official Website
“One-Sidetrack Movie”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
What’s Your Number? follows the recent Hollywood trend of movies about women who are assertive, raunchy, bawdy, and, yes, even foul mouthed.
In other words, the target audience is young men, who Hollywood believes don’t want to see movies about women unless the women are assertive, raunchy, bawdy, and, yes, even foul mouthed.
Get the women to strip and show off their bodies, and, heck, Hollywood has expanded the audience to include teenage boys, too.
Anna Faris, she of the Scary Movie spoofs of the, well, scary movies and the surprisingly good 2008 The House Bunny, stars as Ally Darling, a young woman in Boston who creates a dilemma for herself.
Ally’s sister is getting married, and Ally starts feeling sorry for herself. Then she learns that the average number of lovers a woman has in her lifetime is 10.5.
Ally counts up all her past lovers and determines that she has had 19, but then when she also learns that if a woman hasn’t gotten married after having had 20 lovers, the odds are she will never get married, Ally decides that she will never sleep with a man again unless he is the one she is going to marry.
Well, when that plan doesn’t work, Ally decides to track down all her past lovers to make sure that she hadn’t overlooked one and that he just might have been the one for her.
Of course, that is going to be difficult, and so Ally enlists the help of Colin, the guy who lives across the hallway from her in her apartment building.
Colin is played by Chris Evans, and he agrees to help Ally in exchange for being allowed to hide out in Ally’s apartment every morning so that he can avoid the latest woman whom he brought home the night before.
So, you can see where this is going, can’t you, and if you have seen the trailer for the movie, you have already seen most of the movie.
Now, there is one sidetrack that you won’t anticipate, and for a while you might believe that you were fooled.
We also see Ally’s parents, played by Blythe Danner and Ed Begley Jr., who are divorced because they have two entirely different personalities.
What’s Your Number? is a one-sidetrack movie that you can surely avoid.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”