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This is a free article. You can sign up for BrandStrat and receive free articles to your inbox, but the best way to support my work is through a paid subscription that gives you full access to premium content. Thanks in advance! Vans, a brand deeply rooted in skateboarding culture, continues to expand its horizons with the introduction of its new OTW category last week, meaning "Off The Wall." This move signifies a nod to Vans' esteemed skateboarding heritage while embracing the diverse intersections of creative expression.

One thing that happens when you write a cookbook is that you have a lot of egg whites left over. That was especially true when I wrote The Perfect Scoop and used egg yolks for making a gazillion batches of ice cream, which coincided with the time Romain learned about egg white omelets and frittatas, which went on heavy rotation. (Pro tip: Adding a whole egg or two to the whites “hides” the fact that it’s mostly egg whites.

The Firehouse Restaurant, on the North East Corner of Main and Rose, occupies a former Venice fire house at this location whose exterior is little changed from its 1906 construction. In 1904 unincorporated Los Angeles County south of Santa Monica votes to form the City of Ocean Park. The new city has to quickly acquire the services required of a city - police, fire, sewers, etc. In January 1905 a bond issue for $5,000 for fire equipment gets the fire department started.

Daily Podcast and supplemental posts on the cultural intersection of politics, media bias, and technology with a dash of irreverent humor by Stephen L. Miller, @redsteeze (Fox News, National Review, New York Post, and The Spectator Magazine) No thanksncG1vNJzZmilmaG5pr7VnqmsraOisqW1wGeqrpqjqa6kt42cpqZn

You can click here to access the tool. You can click here to check out my training programs. Early in our time training together, Taylor and I developed the VESP scale for autoregulation.  We’ve found that, for ourselves and for the athletes we coach, it’s usually a more intuitive and consistent scale than RPE or RIR.  You can read more about the scale here, but the basics are simple: VESP 7: feels light on your back or in your hands, and moves fast

There’s a lot that can be written about Krishnacore’s historical moment in the ‘90s, and although time has rendered most of that moment into a tiny mark, the era will still be remembered as a major part of hundreds of people’s lives—not the least of which includes Vic DiCara, the former Inside Out and Shelter guitarist who went on to form 108 and become one of Krishnacore’s most vocal agents. But after the wave, there was a washout: Vic contentiously left ISKCON, the institutional body best known in the West for being “the Hare Krishnas,” and was forced to rediscover and recreate himself after almost a decade as a monk.

(This is one of a series of posts about my childhood as a missionary kid in Kenya. You can find other fun tales under the tag “Memoir.” They are drawn from a manuscript rejected by various agents and publishers.) Aspreviously mentioned, one type of event my mother attended in search of equestrian Attire so we could take riding lessons was dog shows.  Dogs are a massive deal for white Kenyans. But like the purebred dog-owning community in Kenya at the time, the purebred dog community was rather small, insulated, and, I hate to say it, inbred.

View most updated version of this post on SubstackSearch our full archivesShare Victor Carstarphen was a songwriter, producer, and keyboardist who was one of the members of MFSB, the backing band for Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International Records. Alongside the songwriting and production duo Gene McFadden and John Whitehead, he co-wrote several of the label’s classic songs in the 1970s. See our earlier post on Gene McFadden for more on the masterpieces they created together, including “Bad Luck” and “Wake Up Everybody” by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Billy Paul’s “People Power,” and “Somebody Told Me” by Teddy Pendergrass.

Read about the entire incident and then some over at CWBChicago. We originally posted this on our Instagram account last week, but this week Substack notified everyone that improvements were made with hosting videos here. Therefore, let us know if you notice any changes with these improvements. We ask because publishing videos like this on YouTube typically results in a suspension and a strike. Thanks for watching and remember “We don't want nobody nobody sent”.