On June 14th, a riot broke out in chaos, after the Lakers beat the Magic for the NBA championship.  The downtown rage was created by a spawn of looting, which caused severe damage to The Holy Grail, a consignment store, that sells sneakers, hats, clothing, and accessories.  In the heart of the city, the store [...]

Words by: Bill Zimmerman Photo by: Andrew Strasser 2006 may have been Girl Talk’s break out year, but in 2008 he brought his frantic laptop creations to an even bigger audience. Gregg Gillis released his fourth Girl Talk project, Feed the Animals, and finished ’08 with a successful tour – including a Chicago show in [...]

VIDZ BY AG Directors: John Lloyd and Jim Yukich (puppets created by Peter Fluck and Roger Law) I know I’ve been 80s-centric thus far in the column, but there are so many gems from this era that can’t go without mention. It was the birth of the music video medium, and everyone was experimenting. No [...]

I always used to say that having a Rock Band drum kit in your living room was the most effective form of birth control on the planet. I was dead fucking wrong. This shit is a digital magic panty remover! Part deux doesn’t offer much more than the previous version, but the new library of [...]

Transworld Skateboarding Following in the footsteps of their last release In Bloom, And Now features skateboarding’s six newest rising stars flipping their skills on the plank. No comeback non-kids or top-tier pro parts here, just hungry ams ready to make the old pros look, well, old. Here’s a quick break down of the parts, and [...]

In The Force Unleashed you play as Galen Marek, aka Starkiller, the secret apprentice of Darth Vader looking to eliminate the last remaining Jedi. When this game was demoed at E3, people were salivating. Amazing graphics. A fucking STAR WARS plot line that involved using The Force! Oh man, this one had nerdgasm written all [...]

I like hockey games. I have to, I’m Canadian—deport me. NHL 2K9 is also the most fun I have had playing a hockey game since NHL ‘93 for the Sega Genesis, which was immortalized by that bloated jerk Vince Vaughn in Swingers.

SKULL BONG By now you’ve probably heard about the trio of Texas teenagers who dug up an old corpse in a cemetery, severed its head, and then made a bong out of the skull. But just in case you missed this spectacularly bad Geraldo special waiting to happen, here’re the bizarre details of what happened [...]

Sometimes Vapors contributor Curtis Kulig has teamed up with renowned restauranteur Steven Arroyo to open Small Bills. What is Small Bills? Good question. But all the LA cool folks were at the store opening and afterparty at Hyde.

LAS VEGAS, NV UndrCrwn did it big by releasing their new collab line with Mos Def at the Hardwood Suite at The Palms during MAGIC. Best party of the show? I think so. —PJC