Local Music Spotlight: St. Augustine math-rockers deliver potent riffage
In the greater field of the North Florida music scene, Giraffrica surely prowls wild territory. The St. Augustine trio is skilled purveyors at what co…
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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…
Get Shack’d: Surf-centric book is worthy of your coffee table
Looking through the eclectic imagery of unique living spaces and those spaces’ eccentric inhabitants as we put together January's Rad Pads Issue, it b…
Muzak Mondays: New tunes from LANNDS, The Young Step; Faze Wave goes into the void.
We know there are naysayers out there. What with their “Remember the good ol’ days of music?”, their “Kids would rather play video games than play mus…
Song Premiere: The Young Step get fun and “Physical”
In late November, with the release of the synth-y, stylized single "Ghost Town" St. Augustine's sonic chameleons, The Young Step, teased a relatively …
Bold Bites: Donut call it a comeback
If you dabble in the world of pop culture and the conspiracy theories that are bred from it, you’ve certainly stumbled across The Simpsons and likely h…
Faze Wave goes Into the Void
There's an obvious, unmistakably youthful energy to local indie rockers Faze Wave. It could be partly due to the band member's cherubic countenances (t…
Watch: St. Augustine Shaper Sean Cusick in “Creative Mind”
North Florida has always been flush with talented surfboard shapers. While your Whisnants, your Rozos, your Dunlops, your Whites, etc. are still going …
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…
Watch: The Young Step drive around a “Ghost Town”
A few weeks back we premiered a tasty new track from way cool St. Augustine band The Young Step. "'Ghost Town' is definitely about a specific experi…
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…
Song Premiere: With “Ghost Town,” The Young Step are ready to breakout
"There's joy in the rain after a month of heat. There's another hurricane though it's not on the beach," croons The Young Step's Ben Whitson (guitar, v…
Surf Therapy: For Mental and Physical Wellness, Just Add Water
Here’s a thought: Surfers are selfish. When broken down to its basic components, surfing is a solitary sport, in which participants tote hunks of foam …
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 …
Bound By Water: “Florida’s Last, Best River”
”Bound By Water” is a monthly column focused on all things water in the state of Florida from fisheries to conservation to the people who affect it. Co…
#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…
Wanna be in our 2018 Photo Annual?
Calling all Northeast Florida lenspeople. Don't miss your chance to be a part of Void Magazine's Photo Annual. Click here to find our handy submission …
Interview: Joel Tudor, Florida Man
This morning, as Joel Tudor, Justin Quintal and I sat floating and attempting to psychically actualize one ridable set wave from the gutless northeast …
Bold Bites: Meal Prep Options that Don’t Suck at All
Ask anyone who’s good at fitness what their secret is and they’ll likely give you the same answer–diet. But eating right can be a chore and seeing as h…
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…
Interview: Duct Tape Festival Brings Musician and Pro Surfer, Lee-Ann Curren to Town
Since its inception a decade ago, Joel Tudor’s traveling longboard road show, the Van’s Duct Tape Invitational, has been about a lot more than logging …
Know Your Rights: Shaper Gallery, Ken White
Over the course of 20 years shaping surfboards, humble St. Augustine board builder Ken White's rubbed elbows with his share of legends. Aside from work…
Bartender Spotlight: Six Questions for Jason Gustavson, Prohibition Kitchen
Among the throngs of tourists on St. George Street, barkeep Jason Gustavson creates distinctive cocktails (like the Coral Kiss featured herein) for loc…