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The good people at We Love Creativity have put together a great art event to coincide with ASR this weekend. “Eight Ply” is a skate art show, featuring original art work by more artists that you can shake a stick at–including Lance Mountain and Steve Caballero!

Words: Rhea Cortado

The word “epic” gets thrown around a lot in surf speak, but when we say that The California Surf Museum is throwing an epic bash, we mean EPIC…

Tomorrow night Save the Waves’ annual Life is a Wave fundraising auction blows up Mezzanine with eye-gouging surf conservation excitement…

Action Sport Retailer (ASR) and Sacred Craft have agreed to stage the summer edition of the consumer surfboard expo bayside in San Diego during ASR. The one of a kind event debuts on Saturday and Sunday, August 14-15, 2010 running concurrently with ASR at the San Diego Convention Center. As with previous Sacred Craft events the public is welcome.

Drift’s South Cackalacka compadre, Ethan Jackson, has a big night ahead of him. Tonight is the (ahem!) world premier of his first-ever film “Larga Vida, Pura Vida” and from the synopsis, it sounds like one hell of a trip.

Spring must be right around the corner because there is some serious stoke on tap for this weekend. Start things off right with the Almond 1 Year Anniversary bash on Friday night in Newport Beach.

Venturing out into the Chinatown area of downtown Honolulu for the First Friday evening festival that the city puts on every month, I was glad to see the streets alive and well…

Come pay respects to surf royalty Linda Benson, who will be honored with a “Lifetime Contribution to Surfing Award” at Pepperdine University’s “Girl in the Curl” event on February 6 in Malibu…

OK, if we can just get past the obligatory pirate pun, this pirate ship from the Jazz the Glass premier at the Hurley HQ on December 12 is some of the raddest functional art we’ve seen in a while…

San Francisco writer Jaimal Yogis fills Drift in on the goings on at the 2009 STWFF.

Looking for a way to enrich your gnar-centric life this weekend? If you live in NYC, the enterprising young dudes of the Valpo Surf Project have a solution for you. Saturday night head down to 102 W. 14th St. (2nd Floor) for a silent auction featuring photos, prints and original art along with a gift pack from Mollusk NYC and various other sundries.

We’re proud to announce that Drift will be the official media sponsor for the Searching for Michael Peterson US Tour this fall. The biographical documentary deconstructs MP’s rise to competitive domination in the 1970’s and sudden disappearance from surfing. We’re teaming up with filmmaker Jolyon Hoff to bring his movie to both coasts, beginning with a screening on the opening night of the New York Surf Film Festival, September 25.