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May 16, 2023

Jacksonville moves up eight spots on Best Places to Live list

U.S. News and World Report ranked Jacksonville the 16th best place to live in the U.S. Sarasota was tops in Florida.

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May 12, 2023

Looking for a place to retire? Forbes likes Jax.

Jacksonville was the only city in Florida to make Forbes’ list of the best places to retire.

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February 28, 2023

Shadows take the spotlight in new Cummer Museum show

The artwork of Anila Quayyum Agha features elaborate, internally lit metal sculptures that explore the link between light and shadow.

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January 20, 2023

Big changes coming to Jacksonville’s concert venues

Renovations are planned at the Florida Theatre and Ponte Vedra Concert Hall that will force each to close for several months.

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January 12, 2023

The National Anthem will rock again at Jaguars game

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi will perform the National Anthem for Saturday’s playoff game against the Chargers.

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January 6, 2023

After 30 years, Karpeles Manuscript Museum to close in Jacksonville

The museum is one of more than a dozen around the country to display founder David Karpeles’ collection of rare documents and manuscripts.

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January 4, 2023

Jacksonville ‘theater kid’ returns home with ‘Aladdin’

Joshua Kenneth Allen Johnson attended Jacksonville’s Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. In “Aladdin,” He’ll appear on the same stage where he graduated.

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December 28, 2022

New Year’s Eve fireworks: What’s on tap in Jacksonville

Jacksonville sure does love its fireworks displays. You can find the skies over Downtown exploding in colorful sparks on the Fourth of July, after the annual Lighted Boat Parade and after many Jumbo Shrimp baseball games. So it makes perfect sense to welcome 2023 with a bang. Plans are in the works for the city’s annual New Year’s Eve fireworks

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December 2, 2022

Jacksonville teen creates eye-popping holiday light show

High-tech wizardry and old-school technology blend to create a holiday light show in Mandarin. Caleb Wolfram, 19, has spent countless hours designing the light display on his parents’ house at 1423 Rivergate Drive off Mandarin Road. He meticulously programmed the 50,000 lights to flash, blink and flow to match classic holiday tunes in a 30-minute show. “I really overthink a

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December 2, 2022

Lash the gorilla dies at Jacksonville zoo

The oldest silverback gorilla at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has died at nearly 46. Lash had lived at the zoo since 1998. He was born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in 1976 and would have turned 46 on Christmas Day, far beyond the average life expectancy for male gorillas in captivity, which is about 33 years. Lash was

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November 10, 2022

Pete’s Bar bash is back with a hitch — the Clydesdales

The annual Pete’s Giving event in Neptune Beach on Thanksgiving Day will have some famous visitors this year — the Budweiser Clydesdales. The Neptune Beach City Council unanimously approved plans for the event, which will require the closing of First Street between Atlantic Boulevard and Orange Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. As holiday revelers mill in

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