Surf Shacks Author on his Beautiful New St. Augustine Project
It’s hard to know what to call the 92-page St. Augustine issue. Tabloid size and chalked full of high quality color imagery, it’s perhaps too substanti…
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The Jacksonville Film Festival Gets a Reboot
It’s been six years since the last Jacksonville Film Festival. The event was poorly managed and lacked opportunities for attendees to interact with the…
Interview: Duct Tape Festival Brings Musician and Pro Surfer, Lee-Ann Curren to Town
Since its inception a decade ago, Joel Tudor’s traveling longboard road show, the Van’s Duct Tape Invitational, has been about a lot more than logging …
Go: Gideon Mendel’s “Drowning World” at MOCA Jax
The centerpiece of Gideon Mendel: Drowning World, a new photography exhibition opening at MOCA Jacksonville this week, features Middleburg residents Te…
#1 in the 9-0-Future: Community, residency, and activism in Northeast Florida’s art scene
Gallery shows, museums, and other cultural experiences are a proven way to enjoy work by local and visiting artists. But there is a creative current in…
Local News Producer Spins Her Second Jax-Based Narrative, “The Appeal of Ebony Jones”
Nikesha Williams is a busy woman. She is a television producer for local news station Action News Jax, a mother to a little boy, and now an accomplishe…
Behind the Centerfold Shoot: Void’s 2018 #1 in the 904 Results Issue
A classic car. Shades on. Windows down. An afternoon cruise down A1A. The warm, salt-suffused ocean breeze finds its way into the vehicle's interior. …
Bye, Bye Skeleton: New Sculpture Installations Coming to UNF’s Seaside Sculpture Park
It caused a stir in Jacksonville Beach last Wednesday afternoon. "Hey! Where's skeleton man going?! That was my buddy! I'ma miss that guy!," said a…
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…
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…
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…