This morning, I got another one of those friendly emails Amazon likes to send to remind me that they know me...maybe even better than my mom does. Like enough to know that even though I say I don't care about…
Continue Reading →Pete Maravich, Nate Tiny Archibald and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wore Pro-Keds. In the days before Nike and Michael Jordan cornered the basketball shoe market and athletes were still allowed to have a personality, Pro-Keds were some of the most stylish athletic…
Continue Reading →RIOTTT, the sneaker-obsessed online community that's been killing it with their cutting edge music/art/street fashion coverage, have recently launched a brand new contest in celebration of the Air Force 1's 25th anniversary. 1THOLOGY, the Nike-collab page of the site that…
Continue Reading →Let's get one thing out of the way before we begin: I don't like Twitter. Yes, you heard me. I simply don't "get" it and this is not for lack of trying. Just check out what people post on there,…
Continue Reading →Yesterday, I had one of those ideal days that summer seems made for. I headed out to McCarren Park Pool to saw the bands Illinois and Man Man, had some (see also: too much) beer and met some really cool…
Continue Reading →In Brazil, Nike has to break some sweat to gain a following, a totally opposite phenomenon than in the U.S., where Nike fandom oftentimes gets a little ridiculous when any new collaboration is released. For nerds like us here at…
Continue Reading →Okay, let's just put it out there; we could talk about the iPhone today, again. Over and over and over. Everyone else is doing it, and hundreds (or thousands, perhaps?) of people are hanging outside of Apple stores in all…
Continue Reading →Yesterday I paid a visit to the Apple Store in Boulder (above, left), and I could feel the iPhone buzz in the air already (I mean a palpable sort of buzz, more intense than the steady, annoying buzz that has…
Continue Reading →The world of lotions, soaps and other beauty products is way over my head. Just give me a Dove bar and Neutrogena moisturizer any day and I'm completely happy. Here in Brazil, however, men and women alike have a fascination…
Continue Reading →Around a month ago, the west end of Pearl Street was crawling with tight-panted/drastically banged girls and boys. It was scene in full force, something I'm admittedly and totally comfortable with- - but rarely confronted with in such throngs this…
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