Armbar Insurance: Meet Jiu-Jitsu Practitioner and Self-Defense Instructor, Mattie Brown
Most people probably haven’t been in many fights, if any at all. And that’s a good thing. (To be clear, anything before middle school or involving sibl…
Editor’s Picks
Rad Jobs — Logan Bowles, NFL Photographer
Making it as a professional photographer in the age of “everyone thinks they’re a professional photographer” is no simple feat. Actually surviving sole…
#1 in the 9-0-Future: What Does the Urban Core Look Like in 2023?
It’s one thing to compare Jacksonville’s downtown to the urban cores of other major cities and express frustration. Certainly, when compared to big cit…
Liner Notes: Inside our #1 in the 904 Issue
It often seems like conversations about our relationships to social media are as much a part of our modern existence as our actual use of it. So he…
We Picked up a Drifter: Rob Machado is in town
For surfers of different generations, San Diego’s Rob Machado brings to mind different visions. Surfers of Gen X likely remember Machado as a standout …
VOID GETS RAW: One-On-One with WWE Superstar Alicia Fox
Back in high school, I had a friend named Tori. As I remember her, she was a somewhat shy, wickedly funny, strikingly beautiful member of our school’s …
How to Longboard: Just Stand There?
As both someone who appreciates surf craft of the heavy, nine-foot-plus variety and someone who has made a "living" as a surf journalist (debatable whe…
Void Pro / Am Results
CONGRATULATIONS ASHER NOLAN for winning the 2018 PRO MENS title! A BIG THANK YOU to presenting partner Kona Brewing Company and ALL of our sponsors fo…
WATCH: We can finally stand to look at this edit
Do you find it intolerable to watch videos of people surfing when there are no waves and you yourself have been unable to shred? Samesies. Which is why…
Kenny Richards, Ginger Beer, and the Root of Curiosity
Kenny Richards is a searcher. That interrogative spirit has led the Atlantic Beach native and Episcopal School graduate down a rabbit hole (or ten). Th…
Know Your Rights: Step into Liquid with Brewmaster Eric Luman
"Know Your Rights" is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels his or her passio…
Liner Notes: Inside July’s Drink Issue
Here’s something: Drinking is pointless. Sure, it can be delicious. It can be fun. It can spark conversations that bring us closer together, push us ap…
Study: Here’s how to be a better Jags Fan
A marketing professor from a very silly university has conducted a very unimportant study and the results don’t quite sit well with us here at Void. …
99 ACRES OF LAND: What the fight to save Guana suggests about our State
In the northern reaches of St. Johns County, ribbons of creeks carve through stands of pine and a nexus of spartina grass before falling off into the G…
FINANCIAL ADVICE: From the Green Room to a One, Two, or Three Bedroom
Those old enough to remember the pre-recession economy, circa 2007, will certainly recall how utterly bananas the housing market was in Northeast Flori…
Zander Morton’s Dream Job Vanished, so he Embarked on a New Odyssey
“Magazines, Christ, they’ll kill you,” former Surfing Magazine Nick Carroll lamented in his heartfelt eulogy to the shuttered magazine. In the piece, p…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Interview: Photographer Julien Roubinet Stopped by to talk New York-New Jersey surfing and “Ice Cream Headaches”
“If they get lucky, some people start out discovering something that makes them feel better than they ever felt before. If the feeling is strong, they …