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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
UNF’s Spoon University Chapter isn’t Forking Around
I remember one night I was scrolling through Pinterest, trying to find some new egg recipes when I came across an article headline that read, "I Tried …
Get Psyched with Volcom Stoneys
Surfer-shaper-artist-screenprinter, Wayne Satterwhite, Jr. is the Northeast Florida surf community’s resident renaissance man. Aside from being one of …
LINER NOTES: Here’s what’s inside our 2018 Outdoor Issue
Growing up listening to my late-father’s tales of psychedelic surf exploits during the mid-70s post-shortboard revolution, California, especially South…
Watch: Justin Quintal in “All Day, All Night, All Right (Coast)”
North Florida surfer Justin Quintal suffers from a rare and incurable condition. Unlike more common, more treatable abnormalities, such as F.O.M.O., Qu…
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…
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…
#Vanbusiness: Ian Guthrie and his resplendent Chevy are reimagining a conventional business model
Ian Guthrie, 33, is from Memphis, Tennessee. Big Blue Betty Boo Boo is a 1990 Chevrolet P30 Step Van from Portland, Oregon. One year ago, Guthrie bough…
Spanish Roots: Local surfers exhibit classic approaches at the Duct Tape Invitational in Spain
After 14 events over the course of nearly a decade, Joel Tudor’s traveling circus—better known as The Vans Duct Tape Invitational—has grown to include …
Dunes Day: Fletcher High students partner with the Public Trust to protect area Beaches
Jacksonville Beach, with its warm weather and pristine, white sand beaches, continues to attract droves of tourists each year, stimulating the beaches’…
Tackling the Problem: St. Johns County gets 15 new fishing line recycle bins
Discarded or lost fishing lines have deadly consequences for animals, both on the land and sea. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Go: Generations of local Punkers and HC-Bands Shred for Mitch Gerganous Benefit
If you’ve had an ear to the ground, so to speak, or perked toward Northeast Florida’s punk and hardcore scene at all over the last three decades, you'v…
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…