These Local Bartenders Travel the Country Mixing Drinks
Joel Kollinger is gearing up to drive to Oakland and along the way he is going to stop by a few bars. He may sample some drinks, but he is more keen on…
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Bartender Spotlight: Six Questions w/ Amanda Steele, Flying Iguana
Talented barkeep Amanda Steele mixes stiff cocktails and pours unsullied spirits at the tequila and mezcal focused Neptune Beach taco joint, Flying Igu…
Jagger, Grisham, Buffet, Hemingway were Patrons of these Local Dives
Maybe it’s time to rethink our take on dive bars. Perhaps they have a place here, featured in the community rather than hiding the in shadows of street…
Bartender Spotlight: Six Questions w/ Nikki Mendez, Barley Republic
Barley Republic bartender, Nikki Mendez, seems to have the appropriate palate to pour drinks at the historic St. Augustine Irish Gastro Pub and Cocktai…
A Beschen Session: Pipeline charger, Mauli Ola crew at SURFER tonight!
North Shore-based pro surfer Gavin Beschen doesn't remember if he's been to Northeast Florida before. Which is surprising, given that judging by the wa…
Why are Freshwater Turtles Dying in the St. Johns River?
Freshwater turtles are a quiet, reserved species that tend to keep to themselves. But the role they play in local ecology cannot be overs…
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…
Rat Town’s Danny Knierieman and The School of Hardcore Knocks
Even though he’s been around the punk rock block and back, Danny Knieriemen seems more interested in current nihilism than coy nostalgia. Since the…
Pub(lication) Crawl: Local breweries to offer pints of Void
For the second year in a row, we’ve partnered with local breweries to craft a mighty and distinctive flight of beers, the flavors of which were inspire…
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…
Old City Style: 2018 Log Jam Recap
How great is surfing in Northeast Florida in the summer? I mean besides the crowds, lack of beach-adjacent parking, tourists, lack of quality surf... d…
How to Drink Like an Adult
That stage of life where pounding beers while mixing all types of gut-rot liquor are over (or at least they should be). Welcome to a new, more mature w…
Behind the Centerfold: The Drink Issue
Drinking, in and of itself, is a pointless endeavor. But, it's very much OK to love things that are pointless. And Drinking is one of those compulsions…
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…
VOID SURFBOARDS: Mike Whisnant on Void’s New Crop of Shred Sleds
If you’re an East Coast surfer, especially a Northeast Florida-based one, the name Whisnant likely rolls off the tongue as easily as the word “nor’east…
LOCAL MUSIC SPOTLIGHT: Black Metal Trio XAEUS Brings the Noise!
Here’s a soapbox gripe and grievance: When promethean Norwegian Black Metal gods Mayhem played at Mavericks last November, the crowd size was not unlik…
LASH & Sandy Paws “Pups & Prosecco” event to benefit K9S FOR WARRIORS
on Friday, June 29, LASH and Sandy Paws in Jacksonville Beach will hold a community event to support K9s For Warriors, a non-profit dedicated to provid…
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…
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…