Over the Holidays, Nickel and Dime Skate Shop held a pop up art show and toy drive with the noble goal of donating toys to Union Rescue Mission. Be-Mag, along with The Dreamers Club, Full Plate Co, Skates Stay Strapped, and Trap Ninja Collectibles came out for this event to help make the holidays brighter for families struggling during this economically challenging time...
Blade culture (like skateboard culture) has problems with substance abuse. We end sessions and celebrate events with beer and blunts, which normalizes it. As a collective, there is a tendency of seeing younger skaters as more mature, erroneously equating a person's talent on skates to mean experienced at life. In part because older skaters with more life experience have a tendency of indoctrinating younger skaters to things they might not experience otherwise...
INTERVIEW: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KEVIN LITTLE, @kevinmlittle PHOTOGRAPHY: GINO GOTELLI, @ginogotelli There aren’t many skaters that have had the longevity...