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From Warhol’s Factory to Babs’ Lab

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It’s the story of her open-heart surgery, how Barbara Colaciello opened her heart and built Jax a stage there. She moved from Factory to Lab, from that most famous art scene in America, Andy Warhol’s NY, to creating Babs’ Lab in NE FL. Here’s what happens now at this cultural crossroads.

New Story: Durkeeville: Kennelly Building; Ballot Cures, ‘Black Votes Matter,’ ‘Red Ball Building’ Goes Blue

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The story of the Black Votes Matter mural includes the stories of curing mail-in ballots with signature problems, of the “Mamas of the Movement” and the men and women memorialized in “In-Justice ‘N Jacksonville,” of environmental justice, of painting blue the former business HQ of a conservative Jax politician who opposed taxes and bussing. It’s about bearing witness.