''EU Jacksonville'' is a monthly entertainment magazine published in

Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which th ...

. It contains feature reporting and entertainment and cultural guides for Jacksonville and the

Northeast Florida Florida's First Coast, or simply the First Coast, is a region of the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of North Florida. The First Coast refers to the same general area as the directional region of Northeast Florida. It roughly ...

region. It was recently acquired by Boldland Press, Inc. Attorney John Michael Phillips has been linked to the ownership group.

History

The publication was founded as the ''Southeast Entertainer'' in 1976 by Jacksonville businessman and musician Tony Trotti. Originally an occasional publication, Trotti made it a weekly in the 1980s and changed the name to ''First Coast Entertainer'', leaving his job as vice president of George Washington Life Insurance to work on the paper. In addition to covering Jacksonville's entertainment scene, the paper had a promotion arrangement with film companies to give out free movie tickets to readers. Trotti died in 2003, and the ''Entertainer'' briefly stopped publication. Associate publisher Will Henley started a similar weekly called ''Entertaining U'' or ''EU Jacksonville'', and then bought and absorbed the ''Entertainer'', retaining most of its staff. ''EU'' underwent several format shifts and redesigns during the 2000s. In March 2008 it shifted to its present monthly tabloid format with expanded web offerings. The paper includes feature stories as well as reviews of films, music, entertainment and nightlife in the region.

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''EU Jacksonville''
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