Editorial
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Foliage, Snow, Sea Smoke
It was late August 2022 when Brian Nevins got the assignment: Bill Burr, the boundary-straddling comedian and native of Canton,…
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Beautiful Danger
Sitting in a Sydney café up on Hall Street, a toss away from Bondi Beach, Greg Nagel is explaining the…
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It Reef
A successful and principled clothing mogul told me about the wave. We were yakking about travel, wolfing sashimi, and drinking…
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Son of the Emerald Isle
As a 9-year-old with wool gloves duct taped to baggy wetsuit sleeves, Richie Fitzgerald was introduced to the cold craic…
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A Quiet Moment’s Echo
The two leading surf magazines from the 1960s through the 2000s were Surfer and Surfing. Surfer, being the original and…
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Arruza Light: Extended Captions
[Editor’s note: In TSJ 32.2’s “Arruza Light,” author Matthew B. Shaw profiles Cuba-born, Florida-bred photographer Tony Arruza. As expected with…
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Crystal Voyager
In TSJ 32.2’s “Crystal Voyager,” author Jed Smith follows mineral hunter and tube savant Asher Pacey up into the gum…
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Searching for Koa
I was chest-deep in the shorebreak with my feet on the bottom. Then suddenly the sand was gone. I’d bodysurfed,…
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On Style
On an aesthetic grid, the act of stalling a surfboard occupies space up and to the right for lifelong surfers.…
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In Search of Lost Time
In the hot Queensland summer of 2021, Gary Elkerton, a three-time runner-up to the world title, two of ’em amid…
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Specters of the North
The Deep End The alarm blared. And blared. And blared. “Turn that off!” I said. I looked over at photographer…
