• The FCCJ Artist Series recently announced its 2007-08 SunTrust Broadway Across America line up. This season will feature “Monty Python’s Spamalot” – 2005 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical. Other shows for the season include “The Wedding Singer,” “Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy” and “Lerner and Lowe’s Camelot.” For dates and ticket information, visit www. artistseries.fccj.org.
• Grand Renaissance Piano Salon, which opened in January in the Murtaugh Mansion on the corner of Riverside Avenue and King Street, is scheduled to move to a new temporary location on College Street on June 1, according to the salon’s piano instructor, Veronica Miller. The salon’s permanent location hasn’t been determined yet, but Miller said it will still be in Riverside.
• The limited edition, “Souled Out” album mixed by PC Synergy and recorded live at last month’s Art Walk, is now for sale. CDs are $10 each and can be purchased at Art Walk headquarters June 6.
• If you missed it at the Jacksonville Film Festival, the documentary “Revenge of the River” will be broadcast in High Definition Thursday at 8 p.m. on WTLV-12 and June 3 at 3:30 p.m. on WJXX-25. The film was produced by Ray Hays at PRC Digital Media and is an update about what has taken place on the St. Johns River since the invasion of the “Green Monster” algae bloom in 2005. The film also gives tips about what the public can do to protect the river and help restore its health.
• Plaza III The Steakhouse has now added a late-night happy hour from 10 p.m. until closing every day with half-price wine, well drinks and domestic beer. A few new items are also on the lunch menu including grilled shrimp spring mix salad, grilled sirloin sandwiches and selections from the dinner steak menu. A Kansas City Strip Florentine and a Cajun seared tuna appetizer have been added to the dinner menu along with garlic rosemary potatoes.
“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”
– Thomas Boswell, sports journalist