Rad Pad Icon: William Morgan (1930-2016)
If you’ve lived in Jacksonville long enough, you’ve likely enjoyed (or at least humored) a sunny day cruise, dawdling along the oceanfront thoroughfare…
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Why Don’t we get Drunk? Margaritaville is coming to Jax Beach
It's currently a field of dreams for a bunch of sons and daughters of sailors waiting for the soon to be erected Margaritaville--Jacksonville Beach edi…
Khan’s Newest Big Money Venture: Wrasslin’
The history of professional wrestling in Northeast Florida goes back to at least 1883, but the most important day in that history was probably January …
Lineup Announcement: Winterland II to bring underground garage, psych, blues, and hip-hop heavies
After a wildly successful inaugural festival in 2018, the garage-rock-leaning Winterland is back for more; this year with a more eclectic, but equally …
Rad Pad: Local Legend’s North Shore Surf Shack
Hanging from the foliage like ornaments on Christmas tree, a dozen or so small, multi-colored sculptures depicting a miniature wave rider stalling thro…
Local Music Spotlight: Sea Cycles new single “Quota”
For a lot of listeners, it’s a reflex to make sense of music by putting new sounds into familiar boxes. It’s easy to draw connections between existing …
#71in19: Let’s Get Boselli in the Hall of Fame
Of the 15 modern era finalists for the 2019 Hall of Fame, several names certainly jump off the list. Champ Bailey, the Denver Broncos and Washington Re…
Go: Springfield Biz’s Throw Down on Main St.
We're buying the Springfield hype. Drinking the Kool-Aid, if you will. From the gorgeous and historic architecture throughout the neighborhood to the n…
New tunes from Darkhorse Saloon soundtrack Parker Coffin edit
There’s an interesting synergy between surfing and music. If we’re led to believe that one informs the other, we’d surely be confused at the manifestat…
Rad Pad: A St. Augustine Tiny Home
From the moment we’re born we’re given a unique and important skill—the ability to look at just about any box-shaped edifice and think, this could be t…
Local Music Spotlight: Artist/Professor Mark Creegan’s “Comb Rainbow”
Savvier locals know Mark Creegan as one of the area's most vital visual artists, as well as a respected educator and gallery curator of equal renown. I…
Portfolio: Toni Smailagic Captures Culture Both Born and Reborn
“Whether it’s the mood, or the diversity of an event, I want other people to see themselves reflected at those events, and see that there is joy in the…
If This is Goodbye: The Best of Blake Bortles
Last Sunday's loss to the Texans capped a 6-10 season for the Jaguars--a campaign that ranks as the team’s most disappointing. It’s part of the modern …
NYE: MOCA’s annual soirrée is the p-ART-y to attend
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville is gearing up for their annual MOCA NYE pARTy, a much-awaited soiree that the museum site touts as “an event fo…
Watch: Brooklyn’s Champagne Superchillin goes Into the Void
When Brooklyn-based Champagne Superchillin dropped by the office before their North Florida gig, having listened to the Brooklyn-based group's muzak, w…
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…
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…
Portfolio: Florida as wild and strange, but also magical
When the round drawl of Walter Coker’s Alabama roots unfurls into the conversation, you listen—closely. In his stories, there’s a wealth of context tha…
Know Your Rights: New England-based Surf Photog, Brian Nevins
“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels their passion, in…
We Made a Record
In March, the team here at Void began inviting local acts into our office to play three song sets of original music. While far from a novel idea (NPR’s…
Go: Art Brewer at Surfer the Bar
On Saturday, Surfer the Bar in Jax Beach will host legendary surf photographer Art Brewer for an exhibition of the Dana Point-born lensman’s work. In …
Local Music Spotlight: Proof that DL is OK in “Good Complications”
There was a time (most of the 1980s) when the melodious, Unicorn-killing synth-chord stabs of the Yamaha DX7 led many a young scamp to stab open their …
WATCH: The Kids Have a Blast in Luke Kothera’s “e n d e”
The Northeast Florida surf kids (and young at heart) are doing alright, it seems. With their retro equipment (single fin logs, twin fishes, hulls of al…
Melissa Ross: “I Encourage Everyone to Get into the void”
Melissa Ross is a boss. Full Stop. If you don't regularly tune in to WJCT's First Coast Connect on 89.9FM (weekday mornings from 9-10 a.m.), you're …
Swell Forecast: Waves All Week
Hurricane season is in the books, but even though we Floridians may not like the cold, winter tends to be prime time for surf in North Florida. We're s…