THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS | FROM ADDICTION TO SOBRIETY WITH KYLE VANDONGEN Jonathan Labez·December 15, 2022Blade 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...
QUEER VOICES IN ROLLERBLADING Jonathan Labez·June 26, 2021INTRODUCTION | Jonathan Labez @JMLabez Being queer in rollerblade culture has been a story that has remained on...
WHEELS & FEELS – EPISODE 1 Kevin Little·April 29, 2021For the last several months the Aware group – a cross section of skaters from across the industry...
BLADES AND THE BADGE- AN INTERVIEW WITH CHICO ANDREWS Kevin Little·July 22, 2020INTRODUCTION & INTERVIEW BY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: KEVIN LITTLE @KEVINMLITTLE 2020 has been a year that will not be easily forgotten. Starting...
NEEDED CHANGE WITH PHILIP MOORE Be-Mag·June 23, 2020INTERVIEW BY TYLER FARRINGTON | @TYLERFARRINGTONPHOTOGRAPHS BY ERICK GARCIA | @ESGVISUALSFORMATTING & LAYOUT BY JONATHAN LABEZ | @JMLABEZ Philip Moore has been on all...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN AND UN-AMERICAN Jonathan Labez·June 20, 2020Words and Photos | Jonathan Labez | @JMLabez Art Direction | Ryan Loewy | @RyanLoewy I don’t usually...