The NBA Draft season has already gotten off to a great start before Adam Silver has even called a name. The Boston Celtics have traded the first overall pick to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for the third pick in the draft, as well as future picks. However, this move, all be it a big…
Category: Fashion
Forged
By Michael Luker In April 2016, the industry centered around the production and sale of fake sneakers was valued at four-hundred-sixty-one-billion dollars by CNN Money. A 2016 Complex documentary entitled, “Fake! Inside the Terrifying, Trillion-Dollar Bootleg Industry”, revealed that the top four most prevalently forged products are replicas of Louis Vuitton, Rolex, RayBan, and Nike,…
Sneaks This Week: March 4th Edition
By Peyton Gallaher 2 cents: Why Jordans aren’t selling out Jordan brand has been on a market shaping tear since 1984. The cultural influence that a simple pair of sneakers has created is simply incredible. A pair of mint condition “black cement” Jordan threes from their original 1987 release are equivalent in value to a…
A Watchers Guide To The 88th Academy Awards
By Justice Skinner The Oscars are finally upon us! It has been a crazy year defined by a gorilla named Harambe, a guy named Daniel’s white vans, and the future of the free world passing into the hands of Donald Trump. But despite the hysteria of the outside noise, the realm of cinema has had…
Sneaks This Week: February 25th Edition
By Peyton Gallaher 2 Cents: A rant and some advice from an insomniac who had no sneaker topics to write about this week. It is late night on Monday and Peyton Gallaher is engulfed by homework, general college leg work, and heaps of editing. He toils away, sitting at a desk while whittling at the…
Sneaks This Week: February 11th Edition
2 cents: The “Just Don” is the greatest sneaker collaboration of all time Don Crawley grew up on the South Side of Chicago witnessing Michael Jordan’s greatness first hand. Watching those dominant Bull’s teams of the 90s, a seed was planted in the mind of you Don as it was with so many others…
Sneaks This Week: February 3rd Edition
By Peyton Gallaher 2 CENTS: Is the future of the sneaker industry in the hands of musicians? Ballers want to be rappers and rappers want to be ballers. Sports and music; two interconnected cultural aspects of life. Both music and sports are archaic in heritage, but are integral in determining what is considered relevant in…
Sneak This Week: January 28th Edition
2 CENTS: Nike ISN’T DEAD The meteoric rise of Adidas in 2016 was a beacon, signifying a shift in the sneaker community. As the brand pumped out releases of NMDs, Yeezys, Ultra Boosts, EQTs, and many other fashionable, functional silhouettes seemingly every weekend, Adidas stirred up mad hype and watched its cache grow all year…
Supreme Leaders
by Austin Hegmon The most iconic North American streetwear brand is back at it again. Supreme has released their 2016 Fall/Winter line to the public. Shirts, pants, hats, and even noodle bowls flooded the previously closed website. Per usual, most of the interesting stuff sold out within a day. Thankfully, most the items get put…
Sneaks This Week: Summer Review
by Peyton Gallaher Ok, it’s been a minute kiddies. I’d come up with some bogus excuse for why you haven’t seen this in about two months, but that’s a waste of your time. I’ve missed a lot this summer. Therefore, this addition will be devoted to what my favorite summer kicks were. For all three…
Sneaks This Week: June 4 Edition
By Peyton Gallaher THE HEADLINES First Views of the Curry 3 After a miraculous 3-1 comeback in the Western Conference Finals the Warriors and MVP Steph Curry punched a tickets back to the finals (listen to a full preview of the finals on the first ever edition of the Rare Air podcast). The only question…
Sneaks This Week: April 23 Edition
by Peyton Gallaher NEWS AND NOTEWORTHY Top Playoff Kicks On The Court THE RUN Brand: Nike Silhouette: Air Presto Ultra Fly Knit Name: All White Old school style meets new school innovation as the Air Presto collides with Nike’s only material for shoes lately, Fly Knit. The classic Presto has always been a staple…
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