by Tori
September 15th, 2011
Last week was the 3rd annual FYF Fest held in Downtown Los Angeles’s State Historic Park. The one day music festival brought heavy hitters like The Descendents, Death From Above 1979, Broken Social Scene, Cass McCombs, Girls, and No Age. The lively Saturday was put on by Altamont and the team was sure to deliver. [...]
Tags: Add new tag, altamont, Amoeba Music, boxed water, Broken Social Scene, Cass McCombs, Cold War Kids, death from above 1979, DIY, Downtown Los Angeles, FYF Fest, Girls, Los Angeles State Historic Park, No Age, OFF, screen printing, The Descendents, The Stitch
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by Tori
September 9th, 2011
Here there ladies, Active Women’s is now offering our own line of socks! Everything you could think of from polka dots, to stripes, even hot pink! If you are an Active shopper then you know our socks are “World Famous”, and now us gals can have the same style and comfort as the guys. I [...]
by Tori
August 29th, 2011
A couple of months ago I stumbled upon a great old record player at a vintage/used record store by my house. My boyfriend had some old wooden speakers and a receiver and I was in business! Since then I have been on the lookout for old records, and great deals. Some of my best scores [...]
Tags: network Ride Shop Women's, Add new tag, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, music, pink floyd, record player, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Stitch, vinyls
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by Tori
August 11th, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I took a trip up the coast to a small beach town called Cayucos. I stumbled upon some of the most amazing thrift stores I have ever seen, with nick-nacks and antiques and collectables that blew my mind! It also happened to be the fourth of July so the American [...]
Congradulations to Dean Bertram from Rancho Cucamonga California!!! He won Theotis’s kit!!!
Do you like Theotis Beasley’s sponsors as much as he does? Well here’s your chance to win a bunch of gear from Spitfire, Skullcandy, Thunder, Nike SB, Bones, Altamont, Ashbury, and Baker…
Just click on the image below and enter to win… GOOD LUCK!!
Contest ends [...]
Tags: Add new tag, altamont, Ashbury, baker, Bones, emerica, nike sb, skullcandy, spitfire, Theotis Beasley, thunder
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by Randy
December 10th, 2009
Everybody knows that Nike has one of the best skateboarding teams around with names like Eric Koston, Paul Rodriguez, Gino Iannucci, Theotis Beasley, and Lance Mountain. What some people might not know is that one of Nike’s original riders is Reese Forbes. Well, Reese Forbes also rides for one of the sickest companies out right [...]
by ccady
December 10th, 2009
Last weekend we had the boys from Plan B in Costa Mesa and the turnout was massive! Turning up again at Active Santa Monica 1460 4st. Santa Monica, CA 90401 on Dec. 19th at 3pm for another historic meet and greet. Fans will be treated to a limited edition Plan B poster and have [...]
by ccady
October 27th, 2009
LA Park Shark was a huge success. Each stop was blasted with huge crowds, from moms and pops, bikers to scooter-ers, and just plain and simple the fans of skateboarding. Amazing Skateboarders with amazing skateboarding skills, throwing down tricks after tricks. At each park through-out Los Angeles, Jarritos’ thundersticks smacking, ice cold Jarritos fruit drinks [...]
Tags: active event, active event, Add new tag, Cerritos, contest, East LA, Garvanza, Highland Park, Houghton, Jarritos, LA Park Shark 2009, Long Beach, Pomona, skateboarding, West Covina
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by ccady
October 6th, 2009
After two weeks of LA Park shark qualifiers, here are the top rippers from each park:
Garvanza- Ivan, Alex, and Damian.
Glendale- Canceled due to unforseen circumstances! Bummer!
Cerritos- Johnathan, Chris, and Justin.
West Covina- Victor Castillo(AKA, V for Victory!), Kevin, and Tanner. Peep the clip below provided by Doughnut. Thanks man, this stuf is hilarious!!
These cats will be [...]
by ccady
September 4th, 2009
Red Bull threw down $25,000 for an invite only Am manual contest. Blancos was stoked to be hosting along with Casey from Fuel’s Capt N and Casey Show. The top TM’s in the industry drew the names, so we’re looking at the best up and coming skaters in the world and the competition was vicious.
Bryant [...]
by ccady
August 20th, 2009
The One For One business leader, Toms Shoes threw down a spiffy party @ the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica for the founder Blake Mycoskie’s Birthday. Husband’s and Boyfriend’s needed to lock up their better halves for this shindig, cuz once they lay eyes on Blake it’s over with. I’m serious, this dude is way [...]
by ccady
August 13th, 2009
Let the games begin! Frijoles Blancos is doing his darndest to keep you peoples off the couch. This time we’re cookin’ up a double dose. We have your game of skate inside the nice AC Thousand Oaks Active and a quick best trick battle on this crappy, but rad quarter pipe! See you there winner takes all [...]
by ccady
August 7th, 2009
This event is for those who are brand new to skateboarding or those who have never skated before. It gives them a chance to receive one on one clinics with Skate Shop team riders and the Skatedogs crew. Often newbies can feel itimidated and without the proper motivation, try skateboarding and leave it.
The Youth [...]
by ccady
August 7th, 2009
An art benefit including some amazing people/ artists. We went last year and it was the place to be! Our good friend Deph will be throwing up some art for sale, along with heavies like Shepard Fairey, Michael Sieben (of Bueno fame), Craola, and Logan Hicks who just finished doing a bunch of rad stuff [...]
by ccady
August 5th, 2009
The Wild Stallions hit me up about a battle of the bands, but I told them to kick rocks cuz I was jammin to the SD park for the battle of the boards. Ofcourse I ran a double pits to chesty, it’s the best move a guy can make, before I ran up on these [...]
