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The Tony Hawk Foundation held its fourth-annual “Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground Stand Up For Skateparks” last October 7, 2007 at the Green Acres estate in Beverly Hills. The Stand Up event has been a tradition of the Foundation as a fund-raising activity for the benefit of their project.
Many exceptional items were also displayed for […]

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I want to know - in today’s world when just about anything and everything’s sold online, do you still think that retailers should boldly continue with their businesses offline? Do you think they should still continue to be aggressive with their campaigns offline or should they instead focus on their campaigns in the Internet?
These thoughts […]

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What do you get when you mix Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin (yup, of the famous Baldwin brothers) and six-time Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling rock band P.O.D. (“Alive”, “Boom” and “Youth of the Nation”) together for one whole day?
Well - you get nothing but one fun AsSALT Tour! The event, which will be held on December 15, […]

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Just recently, a news item has really caught my attention. It’s about a father of a 6-year-old who got injured in a fall after being left alone at a skate park.
The question now is — should the father be charged with mistreatment and neglect? (Well, technically the father has already been charged but what I […]

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Kudos to Eric Barkow, owner of an uber popular skateboard shop down at Columbus. We hear business is doing really well!
In fact, during the release of limited edition Nikes at his store, mile-long lines formed outside his shop.
“We had Pee Wee Herman Dunks, but the [MF] Doom Dunks have by far been the craziest,” […]

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For those few who haven’t seen his artwork, the skater and graphic artist Michael Sieben has been widely acclaimed in the skating industry for his quirky and influential creations. Sieben was one of the founding members of the influential Camp Fig gallery which was in existence from August 2002 to January 2006.
More recently, PETA writes […]

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