Scooter Newell
Article Category: Jedi Grind Tricks
Jedi Grind Tricks: October 2011 By Scooter Newell It started with a letter from the kids to local businesses. “We are skaters from the Cocoa Beach Skatepark!! And we love to rip!! We will be helping Junior Achievement raise money for our local school programs. On September 24, 2011, come help us “shred the gnar” at the 2nd Annual Skate to Educate Contest!!! Thank you for all of your support and shredding!!!” On September 24, the Cocoa Beach Skate Park teamed up with Junior... [Read more...]
Scooter Newell
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Dylan Durkin Interview by Scooter Newell Dylan Durkin is an excellent example of the amazing boardriding talent found right here in Cocoa Beach. Around the Skatepark, his name is synonymous with style. His effortless approach leaves people wondering how he’s able to make a highly technical trick look as simple as a kickturn. He’s competed as a young teenager all over the state as a sponsored amateur and often did well. Dylan even graced our April 2008 cover blasting... [Read more...]
Greg Gordon
Article Category: Costa Rica Surf Report
You could be surfing with Donavon! Photo: Safari Surf School/Billabong Costa Rica Surf Report: October 2011 By Greg Gordon FORECAST Caribbean Coast: Although occasional afternoon showers arrive from the tropics, this coast actually has more sunshine this month than the Pacific. Expect mostly tiny surf with a rare one- to two-day swell pushing in chest- to head-high waves. Pacific Coast: The rainy season is here in full force. Occasional morning showers will mess up the dawn patrol, but leave the... [Read more...]
Athena Sasso
Article Category: C.B. Surf Museum
Cocoa Beach Surf Museum The Hook By Athena Sasso Do you know what a “hook” is? Here’s one: “It was a dark and stormy night…” This one may be the most ridiculed attempt at a hook ever written, but if you’re honest you might admit it is suggestive and sinister enough that you’d continue reading. Here at the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum we have our own literary tradition in the form of Wave Lengths, our quarterly newsletter. Over the years, Wave Lengths... [Read more...]
Dicky Funston
Article Category: Get Out Of Town
Transylvania • By Dicky Funston • “… Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys…”... [Read more...]
Tobin Bennison
Article Category: Skilled Labor
Terri McCutchan • Tobin Bennison • For Cocoa Beach artist Terri McCutchan, nature is “God’s palette,” a gift to be appreciated in all its forms. Terri was born in Miami to parents who encouraged her creativity from the start. Her mother, an artist herself, was particularly supportive of her interests, and it was she who taught Terri to see art in everything around her. To this day, Terri credits her mother with opening her eyes to the boundless beauty of nature, and her work... [Read more...]
Tobin Bennison
Article Category: Restaurant Review
Juice ‘N Java • Tobin Bennison • Ask a group of friends to describe the ideal café and it’s likely you’ll hear some wildly different answers. What’s sure is that they’ll all find something to love at Juice ‘N Java. Both expansive and suitably cozy, this favorite local spot pleases the social butterfly and solitary thinker in all of us. There’s enough room outside for a sidewalk patio, and plenty within for large and small works of art, a performance... [Read more...]
M. Alberto Rivera
Article Category: 20 Questions
Jillian Burghardt of The Rossetter House Museum • M. Alberto Rivera • The history of the Rossetter House is the history of Brevard County. Overlooking the Indian River in Eau Gallie, on a property shaded with live oaks and sea grapes, this home has witnessed more than 150 years of change in the community. The property was owned and developed by three different families, each of whom made lasting contributions to the county. When John Carrol Houston arrived in what is present day Eau Gallie,... [Read more...]
Dan Reiter
Article Category: Dan Reiter, Local Scribes
Moonrise Serenade (in Gmaj7) • By Dan Reiter • Don’t be fooled, friend, Life undoes itself in every age, The world cracks and cracks, Sprouts up again through fissures, Nothing, everything is new. Don’t be fooled, Don’t doubt yourself, These days are better than before, These end of summer days, Swept with wind, Cusped with gold, These days of indigo And storm swells, Cocoa Beach days, Days of light, Days of sadness. As one empire dies, And dusts up the skies, The newborn rose Pushes... [Read more...]
Political Colic • By David Sherman • Twenty-seven years, two wives, and three kids ago (it’s how I tell time), my first wife, Joie, and I owned two horses: Rigel, a big, bay quarter Morgan mix gelding, and Stardust, a beautiful strawberry roan Appaloosa mare. The divorce left my ex with custody of both, because in Florida the wife almost always gets the kids. Sadly, in this case, the cost of maintaining both horses was more than she could handle, but rather than selling either horse,... [Read more...]
