You have about a week left to see SLAP Pal and Japanese photographer Taro Hirano's (who shot the cover and had the Portfolio in our May 2008 issue- the "pool issue") show of his work from the Pool book series along with his new pool work up at Tortoise in Los Angeles.

Since we're so busy with building the new site, blogging has been a bit hard. Isaac keeps it go with a look into Tweaker Zines 1rst Year celebration. Judd updated his blog with some scans of old journals.

Sick Boys is having their DVD Re-Release show in San Francisco at Thee Parkside Thursday, December, 11th, 2008. Live music with Nowheres and Hot Lunch. All proceeds to Benefit the Johnny Romano Foundations. If you can make it out, drop on by for the good times. Spread the word!

Sorry for the lack of posts, we're engulfed in going online with the new site! Here some random Monday links: DLX hit us with their entertaining holiday catalog. Bigfoot has broken ties with Rasa Libre and has his own site. Cliche always has tight little teasers for you. Sheckler has expand his enterprise with a new training facility. Jay Strickland tells how the whole Baker situation really went down! Support SLAP pal, Jahmal Williams, in his latest venture, the HOPPS Store. In the heat of the moment, Erik Olson updated his blog. Wish us luck, it's gonna be a couple of busy weeks!

All zine heads should check out a new age of zines: the Digital Four Star zine. No xerox machine needed!

The Converse Skate site is up and running! Check out the Ambassadors page complete with photos and videos of their star studded team.