#1 in the 904 — 2018 Voting
Your voice. Your choice. Who do you think is #1 in the 904? For the eighth year in a row, Void wants to know who and what our readers believe is #1 in …
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Tonight: Meet Very Funny, Very Good Surf Journalist Chas Smith at SURFER the Bar
Author, and now documentarian, Chas Smith has earned infamy in the world of surf journalism, spinning mostly first-person documentations of surfdom acr…
Jacksonville Beach or Bust: The Beaches Museum Opens Exhibit on the Historic Jax Beach Boardwalk
Before Surfer The Bar and Hoptinger. Before Sneakers and even Freebird. Yes, even before the opening of Adventure Landing's historically important Ship…
Revelrous Local Rap Duo Drops Tracks Just in Time for Hurricane Season
The double-brained-child of RickoLus and Bleubird, Hurricane Party is a pop/rap (prap?) mashup project. On the sports-air-horn-and-rambling-rich episod…
Go: Florida Surf Film Festival at Surfer the Bar
Though Florida’s vibrant surf communities are collectively known more for the ridiculous number of surf stars the state’s produced—Frieda Zamba, Lisa A…
Brooklyn’s Las Rosas Flout Garage Rock Superficiality
If you were to create one of those silly data-collection schemes masquerading as a Facebook survey titled, “Are you a contemporary Garage Band?” New Yo…
Christian Griffith was compelled to help prevent and treat child abuse, so he went for a run.
On a bucolic stretch of two-lane highway in rural Iowa, Christian Griffith’s sustained gallop slows to a plodding trot. He’s already eclipsed the halfw…
Local Artist Finds Innovative, Gorgeous Way to Repurpose Void Mags
From what our readers tell us, there are plenty of ways to repurpose old periodicals. While we are flattered when fans of Void tell us they collect eac…
UNF’s Spoon University Chapter isn’t Forking Around
I remember one night I was scrolling through Pinterest, trying to find some new egg recipes when I came across an article headline that read, "I Tried …
Get Psyched with Volcom Stoneys
Surfer-shaper-artist-screenprinter, Wayne Satterwhite, Jr. is the Northeast Florida surf community’s resident renaissance man. Aside from being one of …
Behind the Centerfold: The Outdoor Issue
Northeast Florida is a place of unimpeachable beauty, often inspiring us to be our best selves. It’s also fully capable of stopping us in our tracks. H…
LINER NOTES: Here’s what’s inside our 2018 Outdoor Issue
Growing up listening to my late-father’s tales of psychedelic surf exploits during the mid-70s post-shortboard revolution, California, especially South…
Watch: Justin Quintal in “All Day, All Night, All Right (Coast)”
North Florida surfer Justin Quintal suffers from a rare and incurable condition. Unlike more common, more treatable abnormalities, such as F.O.M.O., Qu…
Listen: Local garage rockers Mercy Mercy unearth enjoyably primitive sound
As youth culture began to reverberate across the world in the early to mid-1960s, rock n’ roll infiltrated the suburbs and tens of thousands of youngst…
Video Premiere: Local rock trio KSICK get heavy, contemplative on “Hem of the Garment”
It’s an old and demonstrable adage that the best art comes from suffering. And though riff-heavy local rock trio KSICK frontman Lane Pittman’s positivi…
How to Make a Geode-Embedded Concrete Table Top
Inside the capacious DIY art venue, The Space Gallery in downtown Jacksonville, concrete artist Josh Gaston’s starting to sweat as he furiously polishe…
#Vanbusiness: Ian Guthrie and his resplendent Chevy are reimagining a conventional business model
Ian Guthrie, 33, is from Memphis, Tennessee. Big Blue Betty Boo Boo is a 1990 Chevrolet P30 Step Van from Portland, Oregon. One year ago, Guthrie bough…
Spanish Roots: Local surfers exhibit classic approaches at the Duct Tape Invitational in Spain
After 14 events over the course of nearly a decade, Joel Tudor’s traveling circus—better known as The Vans Duct Tape Invitational—has grown to include …
Dunes Day: Fletcher High students partner with the Public Trust to protect area Beaches
Jacksonville Beach, with its warm weather and pristine, white sand beaches, continues to attract droves of tourists each year, stimulating the beaches’…
Comic Pro: New Jax comic shop owner aims for “more than a store”
It's difficult to focus on just one thing when entering comic book store Gotham City Limits; with the massive wall of comics, the flashing pinball mach…
Tackling the Problem: St. Johns County gets 15 new fishing line recycle bins
Discarded or lost fishing lines have deadly consequences for animals, both on the land and sea. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation…
Local Faves: Yield Design Co. founders offer a list of their favorite Florida makers
From their warehouse in the West King Street district near downtown St. Augustine Rachel Gant and Andrew Deming operate one of the hottest design firms…
Album Spotlight: La Luz moves out of the garage on “Floating Features”
Let’s not defile our nappies–or even soil ourselves: La Luz is cooler than your band. Formed in 2012 in Seattle, La Luz almost immediately attracted th…
How to Make a Stained Glass Wall Hanging
In the extra bedroom of her cozy Craftsman house tucked away on a picturesque street in Murray Hill, glass artist Danielle Clark of House of Pale is cr…
Legend Alert: Watch this cool video honoring three influential Florida surfers
A couple of weeks ago during a run of freak late April swell, as lines of long period swell ran across the then-well-packed sandbars, creating shoulder…