GoLO Spotlight

• Woodside Lane: Reclaiming Local Treasure

  If you haven’t yet made a stop into Woodside Lane Grainmill Art, a storefront on the Square for about six months, it’s well worth your time for a look-see. With so much commitment to ‘going local’ here in San Marco and the greater Jacksonville area, Woodside Lane’s beautifully handcrafted tables couldn’t be more ‘local’.

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  How 'bout a little history with that haircut?

  When a local business opens up shop in one of our historic urban neighborhoods, it doesn’t just add to the area’s diversity and vibrancy; often, its owners also become custodians of unique historical structures that might otherwise have remained vacant or fallen to a wrecking ball. The Cecil Vignutti Salon for Hair, located at 1545 [...]

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  Mrs. Howard's–Proof that you can Aim High when you GoLO

  First things first: Most of us cannot afford to shop at Mrs. Howard’s. Unless you’ve just won the lottery, or happen to be the beneficiary of a lovely inheritance, the high-end furniture, accessories and linens showcased in this impeccably elegant design emporium, located just outside of Avondale at 4128 Herschel Street, are just plain out of reach. [...]

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  Edge City, at the intersection of style and community

  When Gunnel Humphreys and Tom McCleery first opened Edge City—the iconic 5 Points boutique that has fed the fashion appetites of a generation of young hipsters—bellbottoms and cork platform shoes were all the rage. The year was 1976, and Tom, recently laid off from a job in the steel industry, decided to invest his severance [...]

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  All Cookies. No Cutter.

  Pity the poor child who has no concept of what a real bakery is beyond the refrigerator case at his local Publix supermarket. Outside of major urban centers like New York, the classic old-school bakery–those corner-store emporiums of sweetness where recipes are treasured family secrets and the air is redolent of cinnamon and butter–are almost extinct. [...]