Reviews of products from FRESH, Bacon, Zagg, Keen Footwear, Tagur and The Shred Sled. Check It! … read more
Product Reviews – October 2009
Zine Reviews – October 2009
Reviews of local zines A Thousand False Starts, Life Savings, Sofa King and Women, Duh! … read more
Beer Reviews – October 2009
Some of the best drinking holidays happen to occur this month––Oktoberfest and Halloween (pagan version please) being the most noteworthy. So I ask of you, please do your part and make this state all the more intoxicated. … read more
National CD Reviews – October 2009
Reviews of national music, including new releases from The Black Dahlia Murder, Converge, The Entrance Band, Exene Cervenka, Health, Karl Blau, Liturgy, Mew, Pissed Jeans, Thrice, The Twilight Sad and many more. … read more
Movie Reviews – October 2009
Reviews of recently released films, including 9, Big Fan, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Extract, The Informant and Jennifer’s Body, as well as DVD and Blu-Ray reviews. … read more
Video Game Reviews – October 2009
Reviews of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta and Wolfenstein … read more
Contributor Limelight: David Newkirk
I spy with my little eye a SLUG photographer whose name appears on nearly every other page in October’s issue of SLUG. We’ve kept David Newkirk busy shooting portraits of Sister Dottie Dixion, various studio engineers, ad images and everything in between. … read more
Fighting Back at Black Friday
Vancouver illustrator/cartoonist Ted Dave first conceived Buy Nothing Day in 1992. According to him, the idea occurred while working a routine 40-hour-a-week job in a downtown Vancouver office. “I was coming away at the end of the day and saying, ‘oh my god I just spent ten dollars on coffee and muffins again. What’s the matter with me?'” … read more
The Blue Collar of Odeus Skateboards
The concept for Odeus started with Alex Lemons skating in the mid 80s when the only board options were a plastic banana board or a Powell Peralta. The banana boards were poor quality and the Peralta was expensive. “There was no in-between option. I was going to be the guy that made that third option.” … read more
Localized: Aye Aye, Sleepover, The Kidneys – November 2009
This month SLUG’s Localized bring you the folkie-blusey psychedelia of Aye Aye, twee pop from Sleepover and opening band The Kidneys. It all happens on Fri. Nov. 13 at The Urban Lounge. Five bucks gets you in. … read more
SFK Man Zone
Simon Larson has recently been putting a lot of his creative energy into building custom motorcycles. From this passion was created the “Man Zone,” a garage in the back of their house where you can find anywhere from one to 15 people skating and working on bikes. … read more
DTX
The wasteland of pavement and cement are more or less glorified playgrounds and we do not understand why people are so fucking stupid that they don’t see this simple truth as well. I bought my first skateboard 15 long years ago. I progressed slowly without the aid of cement facilities or social support. No matter, I rode the bus route 8 on epic adventures the boys and me coined as DTX: down town motherfuckin’ extravaganza. … read more
