Bob Translates Warhol: Noted NY Arts Writer talks ‘Pope of Pop’ at the Cummer
At first, writer and critic Bob Colacello didn’t like talking about his dear, famous friend Andy Warhol. They were close collaborators for 13 years, af…
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INTERVIEW: UNF Student Connor Dolby on Winning Best Picture at Prestigious Film Fest
Campus Movie Fest is the world’s largest university-hopping student film festival and gives any student a week to make the best 5-minute movie they ca…
Jazz guitarist Taylor Roberts keeps time with the shifting scenes of popular music
Music is a journey with little time for sightseeing. If inspiration is fleeting, then it stands to reason that creativity can’t be too far behind. One …
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…
Announcement: Jax’s Yuno to drop Sub Pop debut, play homecoming show
When we last talked to synth-y, self-sufficient indie artist Yuno, he’d just inked a deal with unimpeachably cool Seattle label Sub Pop. The reclusive …
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 Cool Zine
With some pens, paper, scissors and a little imagination, two good friends seek to change the world—and have some fun along the way—one zine at a time.…
Local Faves: Mother-Daughter Founders of Riverside’s Cultivate share their favorite local makers and products
When Mariah Salvat started the now-quite-popular vegetarian restaurant and cafe, Southern Roots, with her husband J.P. in 2015, the aim was always elev…
Arts Profile: Improv Jazz Musician Jamison Williams
There’s much lip service in current popular culture regarding “staying in the moment” and mindfulness. For musician Jamison Williams, the idea of “now”…
Know Your Rights: Wood Surfboard Shaper and Surf shop owner, Drew McCormick
“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with East Coast surfers whose love for the ocean fuels their passio…
How to Make a Lamp out of Wood (and Steel)
A fountain of flying sparks coming off a table saw will make anyone take a few steps back. Those of us with the slightest sense of self-preservation wi…
Local Music Spotlight: LPT gets down in Gainesville; Boytoy releases “Night Leaf” and heads to Europe
BOYTOY Night Leaf Papercup Music When Boytoy released their 2014 debut EP featuring the single, “Blazed,” they penned a strong contender for the 4…
Go: Artist-in-Residence, Luisa Posada Bleier fills Space 42 with whimsical, colorful sculptures and more
For the past few months, artist Luisa Posada Bleier has been hammering, drilling, sawing, and splattering paint in a small room she refers to as her "c…
Go: Local lensmen combine the tangible with the digital for photography exhibition “As of Now”
Our insatiable appetites for Social Media have made the majority of us, in a way, amateur photojournalists, doggedly capturing our daily highlights in …
Interview: La Luz’s Lena Simon on music, a Grammy nomination, and relocating to Jacksonville
Twenty eight year old musician Lena Simon has had a busy 2018, thus far. Buoyed by the success of 2015’s Weirdo Shrine, Simon’s band, the surfy, irrepr…
Go: Downtown DIY art venue The Space Gallery transforms one last time for “Other Places”
Over course of a nearly a dozen shows in less than a year and a half, Downtown Jax DIY art venue The Space Gallery has been in a constant state of tran…
From Hobby to Booming Business — The Story Behind Mahina Swimwear
Darren Mongcupa, the owner and mastermind behind local brand Mahina Swimwear, is traveling down her very own yellow brick road to success. She initiall…
Interview: Synthy Jax musician Yuno just inked a deal with Sub Pop
Since the late-80s, the unimpeachably cool Seattle-based record label Sub Pop has kept its proverbial finger on the pulse of independent music. After s…
Ozzie, Burch, and the Volcom Crew Rage for a Reason in NEFL
A few weeks ago, I jumped on Volcom’s tour bus--a somewhat reliable 1983 Wanderlodge--with an idiosyncratic crew of locals (Wayne Satterwhite, Daniel T…
Local Designer Whitney Bolin Hosting Spring and Summer Fashion Show
Local designer Whitney Bolin is hosting her Spring and Summer fashion show April 15 in Nocatee. With dresses, skirts and kimonos, her styles are for th…
Salty & Soulful Boutique Opens in Jax Beach
Salty & Soulful made their boutique debut in Jacksonville Beach this March. What started one year ago as Owner Lisa Swindell Batts 'Wine Down Wedne…
Zine And Heard — Trenton Phillips Makes Noise, Releases Two New Books of Imagery
Local surfer/skateboarder, Trenton “Tarpits” Phillips is ceaseless in his search for creative inspiration. If the waves turn on, he’s most certainly in…