Pachucos and Teddy Boys: How Generations of Youth in the U.S. and U.K. Borrowed From Each Other
Benjamin Munday the Sheer Joy of Moondog
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Help Beat Arctic Oil In Court!
A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.
Source: Nasa forecast: Which cities will flood as ice melts? – BBC News
Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago
Source: Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago
Source: Mapping 15 of Los Angeles’s Most Glorious Remaining Googies
Source: the unbelievable story of transgender soul singer jackie shane – i-D
Source: Extreme Heat Takes a Toll on Our Mental Health | NRDC
Source: Swift Cruiser Board | 100% Handmade in the UK | Lush Longboards
Source: Diggers delight: London’s 8 best secret record shops – The Vinyl Factory
Source: Thailand bans smoking on 20 popular tourist beaches | Travel | The Guardian
Source: Vulture Capitalists Circle Above Puerto Rico Prey | By | Common Dreams
Health Canada has advised the band council of Potlotek First Nation in Cape Breton to issue a water advisory after recent water tests showed high levels of iron and manganese. Meanwhile, the band is trying to get its new water treatment facility up and running.
Source: Potlotek First Nation advised its water unfit for drinking or washing – Nova Scotia – CBC News
Source: Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers
For centuries, journalists, academics, and even politicians have been obsessed with the idea of the untouched tribe.
Source: The Dangerous Myth of Utopian Societies
The Jersey Shore resort town of Asbury Park circa 1900, channeled through vintage high-resolution glass negatives and set to music, produced by the illustrious Ken B. Click Play, then the “Full Screen” icon for the full effect.
Source: Vintage Video: Asbury Park | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos
Source: Why We Must Stop the Flow of Tar Sands Oil | NRDC
Rapa Nui have written a new chapter in their history based upon their cultural values of guardianship, responsibility and accountability for the natural environment
Source: The Rapa Nui have shown us that conservation can protect …
Source: Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals | Environment | The Guardian
Diogenes’ Lantern, near the Brockton Arcade, also boasted imported teas, Italian soft drinks and folk singers
Source: Back in the Day: Riverside joined the Beat generation with 1950s coffeehouse – Press Enterprise
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In his native Detroit, Jack White—White Stripes frontman and one of the most active and influential musicians of the last twenty years—has built a beautiful, efficient, and fully staffed record manufacturing plant. Why? Because records are better.
Source: Welcome to Jack White’s Temple to Vinyl
The perennially popular bar style stays fresh
Source: A primer on tiki culture
The Hukulea’s crew did not use any modern navigational devices, instead relying on the stars, waves, and clouds to guide them
Source: Traditional Polynesian Vessel to Complete Round-the-World Journey | Smart News | Smithsonian
Santa Monica Pier is LA County’s most polluted beach – Curbed LA
Hawaii is considering creating a universal basic income
Catch of the Week: Surf Shacks – A surfer can never leave the sea behind!
Source: The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail
Brian Wilson talks to 6 Musict about playing Pet Sounds in its entirety for the last time
Source: BBC Radio 6 Music
India’s Biggest Skateboard Park In This Village Is Challenging The Caste System And Other Odds
Source: How America’s obsession with hula girls almost wrecked Hawai’i / Boing Boing
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Video: Underground Legends – “Odd Todd”
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Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone
To Save The Economy, We Have To Break Its One Sacred Rule
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Source: Surfing set to Indonesian 60’s pop / Boing Boing
With much assurance, the radioactive contamination would be contained, the Pacific Ocean is contaminated. Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are reporting that, Cesium-134, a radioactive chemical that leaked from Fukushima, is being detected…
Source: Officials Admit Radioactive Fish Off U.S. West Coast Have “Disturbing Fingerprint Of Fukushima” – Counter Current News
A Most Charming Surf Book – Capital Surfers
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Source: Bill Campbell-Weird-Oh’s artist. in Final Farewells Forum
Mozambique Surfing travel guide Mozambique surf spot + forum for surfing in Mozambique
It seems to me as if prophecies of Trump have been built into the culture, perhaps by the aliens who seeded us on Earth
Source: Full of nuts, watching a 70s western, I saw America’s future… | Stewart Lee | Opinion | The Guardian
After the fires killed 11 and devastated vast swaths of land in January many are asking if subsidised timber plantations are to blame
Source: Did Pinochet-era deregulation cause Chile’s worst-ever wildfires? | World news | The Guardian
Mozambique Surf Guide | GoSurfAfrica
“Awful,” says writer and painter Ben Shattuck – but in the good way.
Source: What’s It Like to Be the Artist-in-Residence at America’s Least Visited National Park? | NRDC
Climate change: Apocalypse by 1000 cuts
“I’m glad I packed extra anti-depressants on this trip.” – Mark Cunningham
Source: Jack Johnson’s Film On Ocean Plastic Pollution | The Inertia
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
Source: How Surfing Was Brought to Santa Cruz By Three Teenage Hawaiian Princes