Tune in for the Metro Diner!

 Metro Diner to get its turn on TV's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives!

September 23, 2010 11:50 PM

 

DVR alert: Fans of San Marco’s Metro Diner will want to tune in Oct. 1st at 9 p.m. to the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

The Hendricks Avenue brunch hotspot will be featured in the upcoming “You Found Em” epsiode, where host Guy Fieri visits eateries suggested by viewers.

The show premiered at 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20 and re-airs at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1.

Fieri and his crew visited Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia earlier this year, stopping in at Riverside’s 13 Gypsies, Mayport’s Singleton’s Seafood Shack, Culhane’s Irish Pub and The Sun Dog at the Beaches, Avondale’s The Fox, St. Simon’s The Blackwater Grill and more. (Singelton's, Culhane's and Blackwater were featured in episodes aired earlier this year.)

Metro Diner owners John and Mark Davoli announced earlier this year their plans to build a replica of the Hendricks Avenue restaurant at Julington Creek.

CW17 Premiere of "In The Pits"

CW17 will begin airing In The Pits on September 25th at 9:00pm. In The Pits is an original and locally–written, –casted, –staged, –shot and –edited sitcom produced by Jacksonville-based BackLight Theatre Group.

In The Pits is a dramatic comedy about a Stage Group named the Parafloramore Theatre Company that in the Great Recession falls into hard times. With a six hundred thousand dollar shortage and a fall in donations the Executive Director, Fincannon, decides to hire the underhanded talents of the corporate sharks to try to bring some financial savvy to their not for profit group.

The show will run at 9:00 p.m. in prime time on Saturday nights beginning September 25th, so tune in to CW17 for great local programming and enjoy In The Pits! Don't forget to check out all of Jacksonville's locally produced programming at http://www.yourjax.com/.



Special Screening of Easy A!

Screenwriter, Bert V. Royal, former resident of Clay County, who current lives in Los Angeles, will have a special screening of EASY A, 7 PM, Friday, Sept 17 at the Carmike Cinemas Fleming Island 12 with his friends, family and the audience, to see his first major motion picture (as the writer). Carmike Cinemas Fleming Island 12 is located at 820 Town Center Blvd. Fleming Island, Florida 32003.

Easy A is a Sony Pictures film starring Emma Stone. The film is a comedy about a clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.  For more information on the film, please visit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282140/.

There will be a Q&A session and poster signing with Bert V. Royal, screenwriter after the movie. Ticket prices are $9.50 for adults and $5 for children under 11 and senior citizens.

Lawrence V. Smith, prominent photojournalist, dies at 78

Lawrence V. Smith, prominent photojournalist, dies at 78

He traveled with Fidel Castro and worked on "Wild Kingdom."
Florida Times Union
Posted: September 1, 2010 - 5:50pm
By Jessie-Lynne Kerr

Lawrence V. "Larry" Smith, an Emmy Award-winning photographer who spent his career pursuing adventure with a camera, died Monday of congestive heart failure in a local nursing home. He was 78 and had called Jacksonville home since 1959.

The family will receive visitors from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Corey-Kerlin Funeral Home, 940 Cesery Blvd. There will be a graveside service at 11 a.m. Saturday in Greenlawn Cemetery.

A native of Chicago, Mr. Smith received a degree in chemistry from Iowa State University and was working on his Ph.D. in biochemistry when he was drafted into the Army in 1954. He served as a guided missile expert.

In 1958-59, he worked as a cameraman in Cuba for CBS-TV during Fidel Castro's revolution.