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The FCC might’ve not been warned, but the Master of Disaster has a new radio show burning through the interweb and airwaves every Friday from 2pm- 4pm PST called Straight to Hell with Duane Peters. You’re all invited to tune in where he’ll play rare and hard hitting underground punk rock and talk a little shiz’ahh of course to kickstart your weekend.

If you’re in NYC on Saturday, June 14th you might opt to drop by the New Design High School for its Rooftop Rampage Best Trick Contest. With $3Gs in the purse…what’ve you got to lose?

In a show of solidarity, Kris Markovich has formed a new skateboarding company under the name of Given and has brought along most of the team riders from his previous camp and added Nate Jones to the line up.

Over the years we’ve often heard the phrase in skateboarding, “East Coast Represent!” and unless you’ve traveled to the roughness of skate spots and lived through the harsh winter months of the eastern states you probably have no clue regarding these words or the pride instilled in the skaters out there. Straight up, it’s tough to rise and shine as a skater out east with the brutality of weather delivered by mother nature. Truly, you can throw your California comforts out the window!
Well, the East’s Focus Magazine has released its skate video, Rise and Shine and dropped us a copy to check out and you can feel that pride and dedication through and through. The video opens up with a solid tribute to John Pildis (who was skating and got hit by a truck and lost the use of his legs) and features sick spots and 37 minutes of footage with the rising talents of Tom Asta, Kyle Frederick, Drew Windon, Zack Funk, Austin Kanfoush, Bill Sands, and Kyle Nicholson. Several montages round out the visual brilliance with stops in Florida, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, and the NJ/Red Bull Tour. Backed by a great selection of music, creative intros and overall art direction, Rise and Shine delivers the cinematic goods and lives up to its title.
Help support East Coast skateboarding and purchase this DVD. It is available though Focus mag’s online store or ask for it at your local skate shop. Hats off and high fives to all of those involved with this effort!
- bk

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According to SF Gate, 12-year-old skater Quentin Favia of San Francisco took it upon himself to collect a donation of skateboards for the kids at Oakland’s Rainbow Recreation Center. Now, instead of taking turns to share one of six skateboards, the younsters are hyped to ride at their own pace. Good work kid!

This Saturday, May 31st, a group of twenty five high school students from Beth Morrison’s advanced art class at Burbank’s JBHS will be displaying and auctioning hand painted skateboards at a special event called Artistic Influenza to raise money for the Land Of Plenty Skateboard Foundation.
Date and time: May 31st from 6pm – 10pm
Location: Stephen Schubert Studios at Gallery [S]
5120 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601
An online auction will be set up to correspond with the opening of the show sponsored by CreateAskate, Volcom, and Powell skateboards.

Demonstrating its full support of skating and international events, the Danish Government and its National Sport Committee has infused an additional $20K toward this summer’s DVS CPH PRO. The 2nd annual event takes place in Copenhagen on June 27th-29th. Read about the details right here.

Today MTV Networks and NBC Sports have announced a huge, wide ranging, strategic partnership to expand the AST Dew Tour going forward.
From the press release: “As part of the MTV Networks/NBC Universal alliance around the AST, MTV and MTV2 will provide lifestyle programming, targeted cross-promotion, multi-platform content and distribution, consumer products licensing and merchandising to the joint venture.”
With this announcement, remember you have the choice and right to eat up these commoditized products and hype (MTV board graphics anyone?) or continue to support the “real deal” skate companies and skate shops from which skateboarding has emerged over the years. Let’s not forget the Cowtowns, Pitcrews, FTCs, Familias, Skateworks, Nocturnals, MIAs, NJ Skateshops and others dedicated with deep-seated involvement and love for skateboarding huh?