When Australian skater Oliver Percovich first visited Afghanistan a few years ago, he was surprised by how excited the children he encountered were by his skateboard. Since then, he has started Skateistan, a skate school in Kabul that draws in nearly 400 students a week. Most thrilling of all is that 40% of these…
Fifteen-year-old skater Brianna Beristain is slated to compete in the prestigious Girls Ride Organization competition later this month. But, says her friend Triston Harris,
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Kids in Afghanistan — especially girls — have few opportunities to play sports. But Skateistan, "Afghanistan's first dedicated co-educational skateboarding school," hopes to change that.
In attempts to bring more women into the skatepark, Lori Peltier, a skater-mom from Houston, has started the "Babes on Boards" clinic. "The girls are going to go crazy!" she said. [Houston Chronicle]
WHAM BAM. See that? It's today's New York Post. Are we there yet? Are you still reading? Hellooo, SinisterRouge? I bet you'd like to know what story led the paper, since Obama's HUUUUUGE WIN in yesterday's Beltway Belt primary was positioned bottom-right. So I'll tell you: it was a story called "Truth hurts: My secret…
We just went to the bathroom, where we've been keeping the new book on Hillary Clinton (not to be confused with the other new Hillary book, which we hear up-plays public service and Senatorial career and Iraq to the detriment of the whole "Clinton, William Jefferson, Voracious Cock Of" topic). And after coming across…
