Milo Nuggets

Checking in again on Mexican chocolate food packaging. Nestle’s Milo Nuggets as seen in a Long Island bakery that also sells hispanic foods. While trying to find out more about Milo Nuggets I learned that Nestle uses Milo on a hundred different products, from candy bars to cereal. I also found a second skateboard packaging […]

Re:Board from Brazil, but in L.A.

Re: Board is an exhibit of Brazilian skate art that will be opening in L.A. at the Exhibit A gallery on March 27th. Strange thing is, there’s nothing about it on the gallery web site. Friend of the site Mr Coulter is headed down fro the event due to his affiliation with Uncommon, the iPhone […]

NYC Mural Blah blah CNN blah bah controversy

A Sofia Maldonado has a mural up in Times Square, NYC that has made some locals hopping mad, although you wouldn’t be able to guess why if you only saw the part we’re featuring here. Sonia is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. She was also involved in a project called Skate My Patria that […]

More Brazillian skateparks

Skatepark Itaguará Club, thanks to Eduardo Yndyo Tassara Rodrigues and Skate Curiosidade.

SOTW 3-8-10: Luciano Fleck Peixoto

This week’s shot of the week comes all the way from Brazil. Luciano Fleck Peixoto taken by Aalexandre Vianna, and previously published in the Brazilian magazine Cemporcento SKATE back in 2008. That snake run is a DIY project that dates back to 1977. Check out the shot of the week.

More places you won’t get to skate

Unless you live in Brazil. The pool is on a farm owned by skater Gui Barbosa (seven miles from downtown guaratinguetá sp – Brazil) and the place known as VERT in ROÇA – Half pipe is a covered one quadribanks, and now the GUI building a pool ta American to style (the shallow part 1.20me […]

fiberglass skateboard from Argentina

Weird old/crappy/cool board of the month: Argentine Fiberglass

One of our Argentine readers (Sure, why not? It’s the Internet!) Is checking out this board on the local Argentine equivalent of eBay. It’s made of fiberglass, don’t ya know? Well in case you didn’t it says so right on the top of the deck. Enlarge-o-rama. – Thanks to Mariano Tolosa Gomez for the pic.

Cheap Skateboards in Nicaragua

Gee whiz. Pretty, pretty boy. Onward to Managua.

You don’t have to go all the way to… Wal-Mart to buy… Chinese skateboards straight from your skate shop to… Aw hell. I can’t figure out how to spin this. Chip Atkins went on vacation to Nicaragua. I only know one other person who has done that, hail GVK! While in a supermarket in Managua, […]

modelo brewery.

Now I wanna…

This just in from reader John Aguilar who is our Senior Mexico Correspondent, even though he lives in Washington now, Old Mexico City skate spot behind the Modelo Beer brewery, we always had to sweep or scoop out all the plastic bags with dried up glue inside them that the glue sniffers would leave behind… […]