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The Lights of Platform Gail
Usually when I go out to the Channel Islands, it’s to dive for sea urchins. This time it wasn’t a…
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The Pat Curren Gun Project
[Editor’s note: This feature was originally published in TSJ 3.3 in the autumn of 1994. It’s been digitally republished here…
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Choice Cuts
48 Hours on Shifting SandBy Alex Dick-Read From TSJ 31.5 The author’s casual trespassing and embedded reporting on the land…
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Fetched Up in Amber
Mike Purpus is waiting on the second rung of the staircase that leads to his second-story apartment in South Redondo…
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Seeds of Abundance
On a clear spring morning, I crouch alongside Evan Marks in the dirt. “It all starts with a seed,” he…
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Borderlands
At Europe’s most southerly point, Tarifa, Spain, Atlantic swell and Old World ruins create an inviting crossroads of offshore diversions…
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Big Game
It was a Monday morning in the winter of 2013 when Sam Yoon received a message from Hawaiian big-wave surfer…
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Regaining Control
Subject I was born in Wilhelmshaven, a harbor town by the North Sea. In the 1960s, when I was in…
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Thirteen O’Clock
One Too Many Fish in the Sea My roommate Bob Diemer was calling me from outside our house: “Kempton, you…
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The Quiet Line
Surfing in Hawaii can be a brutal experience for the visitor. No matter how successful, wealthy, or influential you are…
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Limbering Music
South from Bordeaux, the west coast of France drops like a plumbline into 200 flat miles of sand and pine.…
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Brain Dump
I can’t believe that I get to do what I do. It’s fucking weird. I’m sure a lot of people…