The Void Guide to the Holidaze: Dealing with Music Madness
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Some may cherish the holidays, while others may cringe. Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, we here…
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Watch: One Eleven Heavy’s Airy Boogie
For the last two weeks, Void's famed Arts and Music scribe, Dan Brown, has been touring the Northeast and Midwest, adding a thunderous backbone to the …
Do Good Spotlight: The Giving Closet Project
Beginning with the first day of every school year, abandoned possessions start to accumulate in the lost-and-found. It’s the cast away "stuff" that beg…
Music: Wine & Trucks Lineup is Ridiculous!
This Saturday our partners at Edible Northeast Florida and Bold Brands are throwing a #pinkiesdown kinda wine party at the Seawalk Pavilion. With dozen…
Do Good Spotlight: Operation New Uniform
Transitions can be taxing. Shifts in life paths and careers are stressful and intimidating. Our military veterans sometimes experience that upheaval tw…
VOID SURFBOARDS: What’s up with 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…
Nomadic Surfer Jazmine Dean and the Peaks and Valleys of living the Van Life
We live in a society of dreamers—a world full of nine-to-fivers with our heads in the clouds, visualizing greener pastures, far away from the confines …
Local Music Spotlight: Pop$hit Day Day’s “In Due Time”
This seven-song set of tunes from Duval hip hop artist Pop$hit Day Day is chock-a-block full of hazed-out production effects and rubbery beats. If ther…
Surf News: Justin Quintal Wins (another) Duct Tape
Local longboard master Justin Quintal continued his nearly decade-long domination of the Vans Duct Tape Invitational, taking first place this weekend i…
Jags have impact players on AND off the field
It could be argued that the Jacksonville Jaguars thrilling run to last year’s AFC Championship game was a public service of sorts--lifting the spirits …
Do Good Spotlight: The Performers Academy
Ebony Payne-English, managing director of The Performers Academy describes the organization's headquarters as “the labyrinth.” As she leads me on a tou…
No Wanee 2019: Popular music fest cancelled
The de facto gem of a jamband gathering that is the Wanee Music Festival will not be throwing down in 2019. Early this week it was announced that the e…
Do Good. Not Bad: Inside our November Issue
I can still remember the elation in King David’s brown eyes. His nervous grip on my shoulder as I walked us further out to greet the incoming tide. …
#1 in the 9-0-Future: St. Augustine Squares off Against Sea Level Rise
Before Hurricane Matthew, Katie Conway didn’t anticipate the flooding that drove her family from their home in the Davis Shores neighborhood of St. Aug…
Void Votes: And so can (see: should) you!
You've read the ballot and done your homework. You are ready and charged up to participate in Democracy. It's your duty. It is your right! Wait... am I…
Local Music Spotlight: WØRSEN’s “Stronghold”
The latest from local grindcore gods WØRSEN does not disappoint. Released in early October, Stronghold features eight tracks of the band’s certain pumm…
Local Music Profile: Mr. Al Pete
Mr. Al Pete is all about community. While he admits that he’s somewhat of a witness and observer in this life, his latest and fifth full-length, Mister…
How to Not Get Ripped Off
There’s a misconception that artists have the luxury of being perpetually inspired free spirits with few concerns other than making great work. However…
LISTEN: We Got Two Turntable Tuesdays and Some Ginger Beer
You may have heard that we made a record. But if for some reason you have not yet purchased, much less listened to our first-of-its-kind local music co…
Let’s Go to Cape Hatteras!
Tell me if you've ever heard the following: "Next time there's a swell, let's go to the outer banks!" For North Florida surfers, some form of tha…
Void Votes: WTF are these Ballot initiatives, explained (Part II)
Break's over. Let's get back to it. In Part I of Void's WTF are these Ballot initiatives, explained, we broke down the first six proposed amendments o…
Staging Change at The 5 & Dime Theatre
Theatre and activism make excellent bedfellows. Almost from its roots in Ancient Greece, theatre has been pushing society’s collective buttons and poki…
Go: 35th Annual WaveMasters Pro/AM at Jax Pier
Here's a bit of trivia: The most successful, most recognized surfer EVER is 11-time World Champ (and former Baywatch star) Kelly Slater. You with us, s…
Void Votes: WTF are these Ballot initiatives, explained (Part I)
With 13 proposed amendments on the Florida ballot this election cycle, you're bound to think you're looking at a prescription drug pamphlet, as opposed…
Looking for Great Local Art? Try a coffee shop (or bar)
Tony Rodrigues has come close to bashing his thumb more than a few times. The guy has called North Florida home for 20 years and in those two decades h…