MASON AGUIRRE

At the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy, Minnesota native and Burton Snowboard team member Mason Aguirre missed the podium in the halfpipe competition by less than a point...

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ERIN MAGEE

What would Madonna do? That’s a question Erin Magee asks herself every day. “She’s my fashion icon, my musical icon—my everything icon,” gushes the Canada-born fashion designer...

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THE DEAR & DEPARTED

Dan Smith is living two dreams at once. When he’s not fronting the New Wave–inspired rock act The Dear & Departed, he’s busy at his other gig as a tattooer at High Voltage Tattoo in Los Angeles...

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SKRATCH

Southern California custom car guru Skratch laughs cautiously about the flowing script across the front of his Skratch’s Garage T-shirt that reads, “I ain’t the best but I’m better than you...

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TARA LEVITIN

Old keys and tiny faucet handles. A pocketknife and a wolf tooth. Where others see antique oddities, Tara Levitin sees jewelry....

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STRIKE ANYWHERE

Twenty-six hundred miles from his Virginia home and it’s all the same deal to Strike Anywhere singer Thomas Barnett. Signs of urban conflict and ghosts of the subverted and forgotten...

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ANTONIO BALLATORE

Picture an interior designer and chances are you’re not envisioning a bearded, burly, tattooed ex–punk musician from New York City...

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THE CLIPSE

Strip any given Clipse song of references to drugs, exotic cars, lavish locales, and, of course, money—what’s left? Still enough lyric-driven hip-hop...

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