Long before Tara Dakides was an X Games champ and leading lady of snowboarding, she was another 18-year-old having doubts about her next tattoo. "He had a twitchy eye," Dakides remembers of the tattooer who took a turntable in payment for a tattoo. "I should've known from that point that he probably wouldn't have done good work." She took the plunge anyway, and the artist left her with a giant mushroom design that spanned the side of her torso and ribs. Dakides never felt the image reflected who she was at the time. She always considered herself an outsider and spent her teens at basement punk shows and partying with ...
Ask pro BMX freestyle rider Nigel Sylvester which hurts more-getting a chest piece shaded or taking a header into the ground after missing a toothpick grind-and he'll say neither: It's all about mind over matter. "Riding bikes is physical-you're gonna fall down and get hurt," says Sylvester. "Same with tattoos. Yeah, some of 'em hurt, but I think if you brainwash yourself to think it doesn't hurt, then it doesn't." Judging by his success, Sylvester has mastered the power of positive thinking. Sponsored by Nike 6.0 and riding for Mirraco (legendary BMX champion Dave Mirra's outfit), the 21-year-old Queens, NY, native just celebrated the premiere of his latest Nike 6.0 ...
Chances are you're already friends with Metal Sanaz. Since launching her MySpace page in 2003, Sanaz has become a fixture on the friend lists of over 700,000 fans around the world who have helped her rack up more than two million video views for her online metal show. That fan base helped earn Sanaz a spot as the official host of MySpace: A Place for Metal, and lead to her work with Dave Navarro on a weekly radio show called Spread Radio, which can be found on SyncLive twice monthly. “There was never a goal of having it turn into what it has,” says Sanaz. “I just started finding little ...
Pro skateboarder Erik Ellington’s first-ever tattoo was nearly a casualty of his INKED photo shoot. “I went bombing down a hill and slammed,” the 31-year-old skater recounts. “I rolled down the hill like a rag doll, scraping up my whole right side.” The fall slashed up the word “Balance” on his upper arm—the name of the skate company he and a pal started as teenagers growing up in Tempe, AZ, one of the many ’hoods Ellington would call home en route to his current digs in Hollywood. His life and skateboarding career actually launched in the boonies of Anchorage, AK. “There wasn’t a whole lot to do up there in ...
The Bronx have a new album out—but you might not realize it. That’s because the Los Angeles band’s third album, like the two that came before it, is titled simply The Bronx. It’s part of the band’s plan to keep things simple—a plan that also includes recording at the group’s own studio and releasing The Bronx on their own label, White Drugs. “We really wanted to make a record that felt homemade—simpler,” explains guitarist and founding member Joby Ford. “We’re just trying not to overthink it.” Amazon.com WidgetsEver since the Bronx elbowed their way into the Los Angeles music scene back in 2002, fans, critics, and, most of all, music ...
"I've gotten to play a lot of drug addicts and hookers this year," muses actress Shirly Brener. The Bardot-esque blonde, who possesses a paradoxical mix of girl-next-door charm and femme fatale-worthy dark sensuality, revels in her distinctiveness. She's as comfortable portraying the bubbly love interest in a romantic comedy as a depraved addict in an indie flick. "Once you really get to know me you see that I am actually pretty edgy," she purrs over the phone. "There is a darkness, an edge, in me, and I really like to go against what is first expected." The Israel-born and L.A.-by-way-of-London-bred actress got her start in the business at age 2 ...
Sebastien Grainger, one half of the now-defunct Canadian dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979, is many things, but a great parallel parker is not one of them. In fact, the 29-year-old doesn't have a driver's license. "I had a driving lesson this morning at 10 a.m.," Grainger says, laughing, via telephone from Toronto. "I always lived in cities and I never found driving necessary. I still managed to get around. I wasn't interested in cars when I was a teenager. It's preparation for being a father. That's what triggered it. It was like, ‘How am I gonna drive my wife to the hospital when she's pregnant?'" Grainger is getting a ...
Hollywood hideaway Chateau Marmont, with its cadre of celebutantes, fringed lanterns, and butterfly-festooned decor, has always been known more for its trysts and tragedies than its food. But with the installation of executive chef Carolyn Spence, former chef de cuisine at New York City's Spotted Pig, both Chateau and Bar Marmont are finally building some culinary cred. “It's surreal,” says Spence of her glittery new world. It's hard to imagine a less likely arena for this North Jersey native who grew up in the gritty punk clubs of a pre-Giuliani Manhattan. Spence is tough, with a no-nonsense attitude and an aura of authority. She could hardly be more different than ...
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