Album Spotlight: La Luz moves out of the garage on “Floating Features”
Let’s not defile our nappies–or even soil ourselves: La Luz is cooler than your band. Formed in 2012 in Seattle, La Luz almost immediately attracted th…
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How to Make a Stained Glass Wall Hanging
In the extra bedroom of her cozy Craftsman house tucked away on a picturesque street in Murray Hill, glass artist Danielle Clark of House of Pale is cr…
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…
Arts Profile: Improv Jazz Musician Jamison Williams
There’s much lip service in current popular culture regarding “staying in the moment” and mindfulness. For musician Jamison Williams, the idea of “now”…
Go: Alt-Folk Duo Flagship Romance says goodbye to Jax for now
On Saturday, the Jacksonville-spawned alternative folk duo, Flagship Romance, will perform at Jax Beach’s Blue Jay Listening Room. It’ll be the popular…
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…
Bold Bites: The Zen Butcher Company
Adam Finley and his girlfriend, Samantha Sievens, were lying in bed one morning when they resolved to start a business together. Sick of their day jobs…
Gallery: For those who went to Rockville (we salute you)
The more than 90,000 people who flooded into Metropolitan Park last weekend for the eighth annual Monster Energy Welcome to Rockville were well-receive…
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…
Editor’s Note: The act of making things is a deeply human endeavor
Aren’t we Millennials a precious bunch? Putting birds on this. Pickling that. Crafting. Artisinal(-ing?). It’s all quite cute. And, sure, quite mockabl…
Local Music Spotlight: LPT gets down in Gainesville; Boytoy releases “Night Leaf” and heads to Europe
BOYTOY Night Leaf Papercup Music When Boytoy released their 2014 debut EP featuring the single, “Blazed,” they penned a strong contender for the 4…
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…
Interview: Karina Petroni on island life, sensory overload, and falling in love with surfing all over again
Standing on the boardwalk at 6th Ave. North in Jacksonville Beach, former internationally ranked competitive surf-star Karina Petroni is suddenly overw…
From the Lineup: Freaky Fun Late April Swell Gallery
After showing off all winter, the mighty Atlantic proved she still had a few tricks up her sleeve—much to the amusement of local surfers—sending a some…
Go: Local lensmen combine the tangible with the digital for photography exhibition “As of Now”
Our insatiable appetites for Social Media have made the majority of us, in a way, amateur photojournalists, doggedly capturing our daily highlights in …
Interview: La Luz’s Lena Simon on music, a Grammy nomination, and relocating to Jacksonville
Twenty eight year old musician Lena Simon has had a busy 2018, thus far. Buoyed by the success of 2015’s Weirdo Shrine, Simon’s band, the surfy, irrepr…
Go: Downtown DIY art venue The Space Gallery transforms one last time for “Other Places”
Over course of a nearly a dozen shows in less than a year and a half, Downtown Jax DIY art venue The Space Gallery has been in a constant state of tran…
Spark Notes: The weather and more conspired against the reignited Idea Festival
Unfortunately, the odds were against One Spark this past weekend, as everything from the weather to conflicting events across town—i.e. Springing the B…
Interview: French Log-Sytlist Nathan Sadoun likes North Florida, Loves Baconators
French longboard maestro Nathan Sadoun is just 19-years old. Yet the young Marseillais has already developed a refined style, evident in his steezy nos…
OPINION: Bring Us a Wave Pool!
Last summer, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, Jaguars Owner Shad Khan, City Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa and Jags President Mark Lamping took …
Yardcore: Part Training Facility, Part Fantasy Factory, Atlantic Beach’s The Skate Yard Mirrors the Evolution of Skateboarding
Off Mayport Road and W. Third Street in Atlantic Beach, dug into a pile of rocks in a conspicuous corner of the new outdoor skateboard training facilit…
Queen B’s Historic Coachella Performance had Jacksonville Connection
More than two days after it occurred, a performance by the most famous pop-musician on the planet is still reverberating across the country. One of th…
Localism Is not a Dirty Word
“That’s far enough slug,” the guy said with an apparent level of seriousness behind a sly grin. With only three heads in the water that morning, paddl…