My mom wouldn’t buy me Reebok Pumps.  It was the early ‘90s and all the kids were chasing after the latest innovation in basketball sneakers.  These shoes were supposed to...

It’s a strange thing – because I’ve always felt this connection to Chicago, the same way I feel about Vancouver and New York and pancakes and Jennifer Connelly. But...

… so says Hall of Heroes. Halfway across Indiana, a couple miles off the main highway and deep inside a picturesque neighborhood, there’s a house. If you take...

Ever since we stepped foot in Cleveland, we felt like we were hearing more about Akron than the city we’d come to visit.  Granted, this was primarily coming from...

When I told people we’d be traveling to the Midwest this past week – in specific, Cleveland – everyone automatically assumed it was for business.  Why would anyone fly...

I always wondered why – of all places – the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was located in Cleveland, Ohio.  Aside from a local disc jockey actually coining...

Ben, Scotty, Johnny Smoke, and I in the Midwest this week as we head from Ohio to Chicago.  Our first stop was the new Xhibition store in...

American retailer Pac Sun has got something big up their sleeves for this Black Friday… Let’s just say it involves Diamond, Been Trill, Crooks & Castles, V/SUAL,...

You know that whole Jennifer Lawrence thing?  That Fappening thing.  C’mon.  You know. Amidst the uncovering of celebrities’ most private moments – the viral orgy that pulsated through...

It’s been three years since our friends at Seoul Sausage first blessed us with a Korean-American-fusion lunch.  In that time, they won Food Network’s Great Food Truck...

Every Halloween, I head down to Jack’s Wholesale, the biggest and best candies wholesale purveyor in the city to stock up on trick-or-treat supplies.  They moved into...

Tattooing, like Streetwear, thrives in the underground.  Correspondingly, as the spotlight peels back generations of secrecy (aided by pop culture, the Internet, and a new school of iconoclasts), questions arise...