Archive for April, 2009

Sea Turtle Awareness Month »

Do you like the beach? Hey, so do we!
We love a nap in the sun, we love sneaking cocktails out there and we love all the cool critters in and around it.
Our beaches are perfect for so many things – including nesting sea turtles.
We’re lucky here in St. A because our local organizations take such […]

Artist profile — Meghan Cooney »

By Ant Perrucci

Meghan Cooney, 29 is Drift’s Artist of the Month. A native of Falls Church, Va., Cooney has lived in St. Augustine for five years. A 2007 graduate of Flagler College, Cooney is big on art, welding and somebody’s trash into someone else’s objets d’art.
Drift: How did you get started in the […]

Blood & Butts: Harvest of Hope »

By Ant Perrucci
Travis told me and Rachel to go out to the St. Johns County Fairgrounds, check out the Harvest of Hope Festival, and get into trouble. We managed to get press passes (rad) and paid to do it (kickin’ rad). I had no idea what I was in for.
It was a weekend […]

Band Interview — Jamie Stewart »

By Shannon McGregor
Jamie Stewart, front man of avant-folksters Xiu Xiu, hits the road this month for a solo tour, his first since 2003. He stops at Café 11 on April 24, and the show promises to be a more intimate variation on a Xiu Xiu set, with instruments ranging from normal (electric guitar) to […]

Sampling — Propagandhi »

PROPAGANDHI
SUPPORTING CASTE
Smallman Records/ G7 Welcoming Committee, 2009
By Nick McGregor
Punk rock has fallen into a bit of a rut lately. While second-wave pioneers like Pennywise, NOFX, and Bad Religion continue to perform, record, and tour, the fire once lit under their collective asses seems to have sputtered. And let’s not even discuss the current […]

April edition — Fort Play »

You know, like fore play? Um, it’s a sex joke. People have been badgering us forever to do a Sex Issue, so we finally caved and gave it up. (Get it?) As usual, we stayed away from the obvious and tried to have a little fun with some of the monuments around town that, when […]