Kebab 📷 Photo via Nik Stain
Wooooo!!! We’re back baby! East Village dollar slice joint is back to selling 99 cent slices! Woooooooo! Siri, play “Dreams and Nightmares!”
On the opposite end of the Tompkins food pyramid: The Avenue A Juicy Lucy, which rivals perhaps only Hawa on East Broadway for highest volume of acai bowls sold to skateboarders, is shutting down due to vandalism at that location :(
“The wood goes from Canada to China, then back to America to the warehouse, from there to the distribution in Europe and then to the shops. And every player in between, including distributors, wants to earn something from the board.” Solo has an interesting deep dive on something so obvious, yet so elusive: how are skateboards really made?
There’s literally one New York trick in the Australia x NZ team New Balance video that dropped on Friday, and it’s a 10/10 impossible over the uphill bump-to-bar outside the Montrose L, which, up until recently, was a quintessential “if only it weren’t uphill…”-spot. Apparently, skateboarding has evolved past caring.
Transworld’s latest episode of SkateHoarders is a 37-minute dive into three-plus decades of east coast skate graphics with Mitch Hartman, and heavy on the Philly lore.
“How I break through that feeling is just being grateful and appreciative of where I am [and] remembering this position that I’ve been blessed to sit in for a long time. I couldn’t name many filmmakers in skating who have stayed at their company for over five years, let alone 12.” Simple Magic profiled Toy Machine and Foundation videographer, Don Luong, about the labor of love that is skate video-making in 2024.
Can’t imagine there’s a person with as much sports x skateboarding crossover as Atiba, so the latest episode of The Bunt was certainly a watershed moment for Cephas and Donovan.
Closer mag capo + skate media O.G. Jaime Owens is the latest subject of Slam City Skates’ “Visuals” series. He loves noseblunts :)
Destination Station is the new full-length video from the Antics Skateshop crew down in Haddon Heights, New Jersey — a small-town scene just across the border from Philly.
Village Psychic collab’d with Studio Skateboards on some wizardry.
ICYMI: A World of Shit, the latest video from Bust Crew, dropped last week.
iPhone Loosies Corner 🚬 — Three minutes of loosies from Massimo Cristofoletti, a recent #QSTOP10 favorite.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “Like ten years ago, before I knew any of you guys, this girl from my hometown moved to New York and had a quote of the week within two weeks.” — Salomon Cardenas