By Ant Perrucci

Michelle Robideaux-Pent opened her front door and the first thing I noticed was that her house had a door in the living room.

Not a door to another room, or anything, but a door leaning up against the wall, painted, written upon and clad in gold leaf.

“To me, a door represents taking initiative,” Robideaux-Pent said.

It’s an interesting statement to make, especially considering Robideaux-Pent’s pedigree. Born in West Palm Beach, but a resident of St. Augustine “since junior high,” she attended Florida Atlantic University in the early 1960s, where she majored in art education.

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Story, photos by Rachel Bardin

Couchsurfing is the antithesis of the “don’t talk to strangers” mentality. It promotes not only talking to strangers, but inviting them in to stay at your house.

It’s an unconventional way of traveling that leads participants off the beaten path of hotels and visitor information centers. It is a network of travelers and hosts all over the world. The motto is “Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch at a Time.”

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By Ant Perrucci

When Loose Screws closed its doors in May, St. Augustine didn’t just lose one of its more colorful local businesses.

It’s possible that at least two civic organizations that used the store front as a base of operations would also be struck with a killing blow.

In the month since the store – which offered a local video-rental service, records and t-shirts for sale, and a small consignment shop – closed, Food Not Bombs and the Collective Press, two of St. Augustine’s most high-profile activist groups, have been forced to take stock and figure out where to go from here.

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By Shannon McGregor

North Carolina rockers Avett Brothers are almost as advertised – two parts Avett, one part not-Avett. And they are excited about their new album, I And Love And You, the band’s first on a major label, produced by bearded legend Rick Rubin. Well-known for their stirring live shows, Avett Brothers stop at St. Augustine’s Amphitheatre July 16. Drift chatted with younger brother Seth about being Southern, the Zen of Rick Rubin, and his total lack of sibling rivalry with older brother Scott – for real, they love each other.

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MOBY
WAIT FOR ME
Mute, 2009

By Nick McGregor

Few performers have touched on more aspects of musical art than Moby, the New York DJ, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and all-around celebrity. Starting with his hardcore punk roots, the man otherwise known as Richard Melville Hall (his middle name inspired the nickname) has dabbled in house, techno, dance, lounge, electro-pop, and alternative rock genres, in addition to soundtracking movies and video games, acting, and remixing everyone under the sun.

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