Nada Surf: Life After The One-Hit WonderOn my subway ride home from work the other day, a young man pointed to my headphones and asked, “What’re you listening to?” This is an awkward question for music journalists. Sometimes we listen for personal enjoyment and sometimes because work requires it. (On some wonderful and rare occasions, it’s both.) But I answered him [...]
Surfing moves into a new dimensionThe other day a friend of mine loaned me a copy of an early '80s surf flick called 'Blazing Boards.' It was filmed right in the transition period between the 'Breaking Down the Door' generation and the spiked hair, purple and pink shorts crew that defined the '80s punk rock style. One of the interesting things about the movie was watching the old guys like Rabbit and Shaun, and the new crew like ...
Project Graduation: Win an iPad 2To benefit the 2012 Project Graduation, Global High School is selling raffle tickets for an iPad2. Surf the web, check emails, watch movies, play games, listen to music, read, write and more with the
iPad to Replace Textbooks in Classrooms?With the growing popularitty of tablet devices in today's society, you can do almost anything. Now, Apple is giving iPad users another reason to pick up one of their products through a new textbook program. It's true. You can do almost anything on these tablets. You can message friends. You can listen to music and watch movies and surf the web. Now, it could double as all of your textbooks ...