Live Music in our Oceanfront Courtyard. Kurt Johnston, toured with Bon Jovi, plays electric & acoustic guitar, steel guitar, banjo and keyboard. Debrann Johnston, vocalist playing electric & acoustic guitar and percussion.

Join us to have fun on summer nights at MOSH Cosmic Concert Series!These concerts combine a full-color laser projection system and hundreds of special effects on the planetarium's 60-foot dome with an 18,000 watt sound system to immerse you in a total visual and auditory music experience. Featuring soundtracks of Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Beatles and more!

Meet Seymour Krelbourn, a poor young man working at a run-down flower shop. After discovering an alien plant, he becomes endowed with fame, fortune and love. Unfortunately, the plant feeds on human blood. Journey on with Seymour as he makes a deal with the plant in order to keep his good fortune.

This class is for beginning and intermediate painters at varying levels of skill. Allison Watson will offer demonstrations on technique and teach fundamentals of color, composition and contrast. Ages 13 to adult.

This class is designed for painting students who have taken at least one session of Painting Basics and want to advance into more intensive study of techniques. For adults.

This blockbuster summer exhibit will feature enormous insects found in your own backyard. But don’t worry, you won’t have to watch your step around these bugs…they’re up to 600 times their actual size! You’ll learn everything you ever wanted to know about the critters in your backyard. The exhibits main attraction is a Praying Mantis 60 times bigger than the ones you would normally find in Florida! You’ll learn so much more about the bugs that inhabit our planet, including beetles, locusts, caterpillars and the many varieties of stick insects. Get a bug’s eye view of the life of insects with interactive vision displays including mosquito, honeybee and dragonfly heads that are 600 times bigger than real life! You’ll be able to see how a bug with compounded eyes sees, just by looking through giant lenses. Insect Giants will be exterminated later this summer. Don’t miss your chance to see these critters, up close and personal.

MOSH’s newest, temporary exhibit will feature music memorabilia and various other historic items from some of the most iconic and legendary musicians to ever visit The River City. Many of the items that will be on display are on loan from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Some of the items include a pair of Ray Charles’ Calvin Klein sunglasses, Slim Whitman’s guitar, a photo autographed by all four members of The Beatles, and a working jukebox.

Jacksonville’s musical history is the main attraction of this exhibit, and it showcases local legends such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special, The Allman Brothers, and Slim Whitman, as well as contemporary recording artists Limp Bizkit, Yellowcard, and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

For more informaiton, call (904) 356-6857.

An exhibit that features depictions of ancient ships on coins from the Greek, Roman and Phoenician eras, along with detailed models of early modern ships and manuscripts related to famous sea battles. Admission is Free.

Jacksonville Suns vs. Birmingham Barons

Info: (904) 633-6100

“The subjects of John Bunker’s paintings are” simmering with energy, saturated with fragments of color and wonderfully alive”.

Beyond creating an extensive and varied body of work over his 40 year career as a professional artist, John has also sustained an impressive museum career. He is a graduate of both the Smithsonian Institute’s Fundamentals of Museum Management and the JP Getty’s Museum Management Institute at the University of California at Berkeley.

As an active volunteer in the Jacksonville community, John has served as President of the Riverside Fine Arts Association Concert series, a member of JaxPride and Chairman of the Koger Gallery of Art and Gardens.

Last year John received the much deserved 2007 Individual Arts Award from the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville in recognition of three decades of leadership in the community.

Saturday matinees at 1:15 p.m. Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. Thru August 31.

This class is for beginning and intermediate painters at varying levels of skill. Allison Watson will offer demonstrations on technique and teach fundamentals of color, composition and contrast. Ages 13 to adult. Members $168, Non-members $188, Active Docents $84. For more information or to register, please call (904) 355-0630.

The Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library present this weekly program for caretakers and preschool children, 3 – 5 years old.

This program is free and open to the public.

With the future uncertain for Centre St.’s Post Office, the time is good to document the historical relevance of our city’s oldest post office building. This exhibit will feature archival photos, artifacts, and oral histories from people who hold the building’s history in their experiences.

In addition to recorded interviews for viewing and artifacts, the Amelia island Museum of History has a series of 38 photographs documenting the construction of the building dating from April 6, 1908 when the land was an olive orchard owned by the Lesesne family.

This exhibit will help preserve an era that will soon be changed forever. This temporary exhibit is included in regular admission of $7 for adults, and $4 for students and active military. AIMH is open Mon-Sat 10-4, and Sundays 1-4pm.

This exhibition examines the vital role that medical artists and their illustrations occupy in advancing the study and practice of medicine. Medical illustrations are used by physicians to share their techniques, by researchers to find answers, by medical students to learn and by patients to understand.

Mayo Clinic has one of the largest collections of medical illustration in the world with more than 60,000 pieces; about 150 of which are on display. The exhibition features original medical art rendered in a variety of media such as carbon dust, pen and ink, watercolor, airbrush and digital media. The illustrations range from interpretations of the human form to animated voyages inside the human body, studies of the brain, molecules and gene clusters, skeletons, and a rare look at the unique anatomy of conjoined twins. For more information, please call (904) 356-6857.

More to See. More to Zoo.

It’s here: your chance to see, touch and feed some of the sea’s most charming creatures.

Stop in soon, before this once-in-a-lifetime experience swims away! (Thru Sept. 2008)

There is an admission charge, in addition to regular zoo admission, of $3 for children, adults and seniors and $2.50 for members to enter Stingray Bay. Food for the stingrays is $1.

Adults $12; Children (Ages 3 -12) $7.50; Children under three FREE.

Purchase tickets online

Free admission from 5-9pm generously sponsored by Target.

It is filled with toys, it is filled with joy and it is filled with learning moments. A large and state of the art facility filled with toys, books and entertainment. Our play facilitators guide the tots through playing, fun and enriching moments. Nothing describes the Free Play Area better than fun, fun and fun! Meanwhile, caregivers can access the Internet with our free Wi-Fi system, or just talk to friends, while hanging out in the Tot Café. Check out the website for a full photo of the play area and all the fun classes and activities we have to offer! Call us at (904) 730-2625 for more information!

This blockbuster summer exhibit will feature enormous insects found in your own backyard. But don’t worry, you won’t have to watch your step around these bugs…they’re up to 600 times their actual size! You’ll learn everything you ever wanted to know about the critters in your backyard. The exhibits main attraction is a Praying Mantis 60 times bigger than the ones you would normally find in Florida! You’ll learn so much more about the bugs that inhabit our planet, including beetles, locusts, caterpillars and the many varieties of stick insects. Get a bug’s eye view of the life of insects with interactive vision displays including mosquito, honeybee and dragonfly heads that are 600 times bigger than real life! You’ll be able to see how a bug with compounded eyes sees, just by looking through giant lenses. Insect Giants will be exterminated later this summer. Don’t miss your chance to see these critters, up close and personal.

MOSH’s newest, temporary exhibit will feature music memorabilia and various other historic items from some of the most iconic and legendary musicians to ever visit The River City. Many of the items that will be on display are on loan from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Some of the items include a pair of Ray Charles’ Calvin Klein sunglasses, Slim Whitman’s guitar, a photo autographed by all four members of The Beatles, and a working jukebox.

Jacksonville’s musical history is the main attraction of this exhibit, and it showcases local legends such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special, The Allman Brothers, and Slim Whitman, as well as contemporary recording artists Limp Bizkit, Yellowcard, and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

This class is designed for painting students who have taken at least one session of Painting Basics and want to advance into more intensive study of techniques. For adults. Members $168, Non-members $188, Active Docents $84. For more information or to register, please call (904) 355-0630.

For more informaiton, call (904) 356-6857.

An exhibit that features depictions of ancient ships on coins from the Greek, Roman and Phoenician eras, along with detailed models of early modern ships and manuscripts related to famous sea battles. Admission is Free.

Tickets are $10. Featuring Penny 4 Your Thought, Dirty Shannon, Mystic Dino, Swerv, As Daylight Burns and others. For information please call 398-7496.

Tickets

Aromas has remodeled and expanded to create a new dueling piano bar experience. In addition to the new location, Crazy 88s Dueling Pianos will be performing an extra day of the week. All of your favorite piano players will be performing each and every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Enjoy a night full of your favorite songs and have an great time, while visiting the new and improved Crazy 88s Dueling Pianos at Aromas Southside. The cover charge is $5 starting at 8:00 p.m. and the dueling piano show will start at 9:00 p.m.

Make A Scene Downtown!

Every Thursday in August stop by your favorite downtown bars for drink specials, live entertainment, giveaways and more!

No cover and FREE parking.

1. Burrito Gallery (21 E. Adams St.)

2. Dive Bar (331 E. Bay St.)

3. The Florida Theatre Bar (128 E. Forsyth St.)

4. Jessie B. Smith Memorial Plaza (Corner of Newnan St. & Forsyth St. across from the Florida Theatre) LIVE MUSIC

5. London Bridge (100 E. Adams St.) LIVE MUSIC

6. Mark’s (315 E. Bay St.)

7. The Tobacco Shop (19 N. Ocean St.) LIVE MUSIC

FREE PARKING Jax Center Parking Garage after 5 p.m. (corner of Bay St. & Ocean St.) Courthouse West Lot after 6 p.m. (behind the courthouse off Liberty St. & Coastline Dr.) Parking meters are free after 6 p.m.

INFO: 630-3690

The season’s 24 concerts, held in the Gazebo in the historic Plaza de la Constitución, will offer great musical entertainment. Concerts in the Plaza, has become one of the community’s favorite annual events and is certainly the best way to spend a Thursday night in St. Augustine. Those attending may wish to bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. For more information please call(904)825-1004.

“The subjects of John Bunker’s paintings are” simmering with energy, saturated with fragments of color and wonderfully alive”.

Beyond creating an extensive and varied body of work over his 40 year career as a professional artist, John has also sustained an impressive museum career. He is a graduate of both the Smithsonian Institute’s Fundamentals of Museum Management and the JP Getty’s Museum Management Institute at the University of California at Berkeley.

As an active volunteer in the Jacksonville community, John has served as President of the Riverside Fine Arts Association Concert series, a member of JaxPride and Chairman of the Koger Gallery of Art and Gardens.

Last year John received the much deserved 2007 Individual Arts Award from the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville in recognition of three decades of leadership in the community.

Saturday matinees at 1:15 p.m. Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. Thru August 31.

Live entertainment in the courtyard with Ritmo y Sabor: “Rhythm and Taste”!

A professional networking after-hours event sponsored by NetWorth. Sales professionals and companies are invited to network with other businesses to grow their business through quality referrals. The cost is $10 which includes heavy appetizers. A cash bar is available. Pay at the door or visit our website at www.NetWorthJax.com. Bring several business cards and get ready to meet your next BIG client.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE—August 28th “I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don’t tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth. . . . ” Elia Kazan directed Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, and Kim Hunter. 1951. 122 minutes. Not Rated.

With the future uncertain for Centre St.’s Post Office, the time is good to document the historical relevance of our city’s oldest post office building. This exhibit will feature archival photos, artifacts, and oral histories from people who hold the building’s history in their experiences.

In addition to recorded interviews for viewing and artifacts, the Amelia island Museum of History has a series of 38 photographs documenting the construction of the building dating from April 6, 1908 when the land was an olive orchard owned by the Lesesne family.

This exhibit will help preserve an era that will soon be changed forever. This temporary exhibit is included in regular admission of $7 for adults, and $4 for students and active military. AIMH is open Mon-Sat 10-4, and Sundays 1-4pm.

This exhibition examines the vital role that medical artists and their illustrations occupy in advancing the study and practice of medicine. Medical illustrations are used by physicians to share their techniques, by researchers to find answers, by medical students to learn and by patients to understand.

Mayo Clinic has one of the largest collections of medical illustration in the world with more than 60,000 pieces; about 150 of which are on display. The exhibition features original medical art rendered in a variety of media such as carbon dust, pen and ink, watercolor, airbrush and digital media. The illustrations range from interpretations of the human form to animated voyages inside the human body, studies of the brain, molecules and gene clusters, skeletons, and a rare look at the unique anatomy of conjoined twins. For more information, please call (904) 356-6857.

More to See. More to Zoo.

It’s here: your chance to see, touch and feed some of the sea’s most charming creatures.

Stop in soon, before this once-in-a-lifetime experience swims away! (Thru Sept. 2008)

There is an admission charge, in addition to regular zoo admission, of $3 for children, adults and seniors and $2.50 for members to enter Stingray Bay. Food for the stingrays is $1.

Adults $12; Children (Ages 3 -12) $7.50; Children under three FREE.

Purchase tickets online

It is filled with toys, it is filled with joy and it is filled with learning moments. A large and state of the art facility filled with toys, books and entertainment. Our play facilitators guide the tots through playing, fun and enriching moments. Nothing describes the Free Play Area better than fun, fun and fun! Meanwhile, caregivers can access the Internet with our free Wi-Fi system, or just talk to friends, while hanging out in the Tot Café. Check out the website for a full photo of the play area and all the fun classes and activities we have to offer! Call us at (904) 730-2625 for more information!