Interview: Pro Bodybuilder Laura Norton Breaks the Mold
Laura Norton doesn’t shy away from heavy lifting. Actually, she seeks out the opportunity often and in regular intervals. Recently, Norton turned pro w…
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Unsung Heroines: These women work behind the curtain to make the magic happen
The sports spotlight is targeted. All-stars bathe in it, while those just outside of it crave it. Typically reserved for athletes, coaches and boistero…
UNF Student is Destined for the Stars
Lee Giat is a man with many talents and an extraordinary resume. He’s literally destined to spend his future among the stars. Stars, that is, like thos…
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…
Know Your Rights Shaper Gallery: Sean Cusick
St. Augustine surfer-shaper Sean Cusick is part of talented crop of young craftsman mowing foam in the Oldest City. A shredding surfer on all manner of…
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…
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…
Coyote Tasty: Jax-native Brandon McCullers and the spirit of mezcal
Once while interviewing the Director of Photography for very hip, very prosperous media giant Vice Media, Jake Burghart, I asked the St. Augustine nati…
Know Your Rights: T-U Features Writer, Matt Soergel
“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…
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…
#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…
#1 in the 9-0-Future: JTA has Futuristic Plans for the Skyway
The Skyway is that elevated people mover that snakes through Downtown Jacksonville and has, since opening in 1989, ironically failed to move many peopl…
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 Forecast – Tropical Update
VOID PRO/AM WEEKEND! And... We have waves!!! What more could you ask for!!! Tomorrow and Sunday the Void Pro/Am is going down and you don't want to mis…
Bartender Spotlight: Five Questions with Corey Littlefield, Dos Gatos
Tending bar at the Florida-theatre-adjacent Downtown cocktail lounge Dos Gatos, one would most certainly have the opportunity to serve up a drink to a …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …