The Jaxson Magazine takes a look at plans for a new Downtown Marriott and overall the history of a site that was once the largest shipyards in the South. Read More
For over 20 years, Anne Wind has been hosting live music at Jack Rabbits while her husband Tim Hall books shows across the First Coast through JaxLive. In the age of COVID-19, the folks behind Northeast Florida's oldest small-scale music venue are looking for help to keep the music alive. Read More
Now open, the Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center (JRTC) at LaVilla officially replaces the Rosa Parks Transit Station as the main downtown bus transfer facility, serving most Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) regular and express bus routes, the Skyway and the First Coast Flyer Bus Rapid Transit network. Read More
During the formative years of Jazz and Blues in America's late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jacksonville was a major performance venue in this part of the country. Unfortunately, not much is known by the majority of our population because much of this history resides exclusively on the African American side of town during the height of the Jim Crow era. Most of this scene took place in the area downtown know as LaVilla. With this in mind, here is a brief a look at a few forgotten theaters in LaVilla. Read More
