Do Good. Not Bad: Inside our November Issue

I can still remember the elation in King David’s brown eyes. His nervous grip on my shoulder as I walked us further out to greet the incoming tide. …

Let’s Go to Cape Hatteras!

Tell me if you've ever heard the following: "Next time there's a swell, let's go to the outer banks!" For North Florida surfers, some form of tha…

Meeting of the Maestros: A North Florida music roundtable

For October's Arts & Music Issue, we sat down with local music promoters to talk about the state of Northeast Florida's music scene. What’s …

Wanna be in our 2018 Photo Annual?

Calling all Northeast Florida lenspeople. Don't miss your chance to be a part of Void Magazine's Photo Annual. Click here to find our handy submission …

Get Lit: Bridge Eight Presents “15 Views of Jacksonville”; JaxbyJax is this weekend

What’s the old adage about walking in another person’s shoes? Like any city full of unique individuals, there are going to be countless experiences and…

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 …

Fashion: Jaguars are Best Dressed in all of Ball Sports

Though their football title hopes may have been dashed by those insufferable cheaters, the New England Patriots, in the AFC Championship game on Sunday…

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…

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 …

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…

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…