NEW! Fitted Hawaii “Cityscape” set

This Saturday, before you go trick or treating for some Snickers, scoop up some dope eye candy at the Kona St. headquarters.

This week’s Saturday release features a black shirt with the word HONOLULU outlined in the City’s skyline.  The fill is provided by an old Hawaiiana graphic that is sure to spark some memories.

Along with the dope shirt is a new New Era snapback featuring the modern classic ALOHA script. The hat is set of by a purplish-green crown, green brim, brown suede underbill and a white ALOHA logo. Inside of the New Era is a montage of oldHawaiian graphics.

You can scoop up these pieces (remember to say trick or treat, too) this Saturday, starting at 11am.  For more, check out http://www.FittedHawaii.com

Happy Halloween, kids. Be safe out there.

ARTafterDARK presents All Hallows Eve

Kick off your Halloween weekend with the FINAL ARTafterDARK for 2009.  SO, swing by the Academy this Friday in your flyest costume and get down to the sounds of mixtape king DJ BENZI in the Center Court and the hometown heroes Eskae and Compose from the Nocturnal Sound Krew. Also, Joseph Pa’ahana from the Drop Shadows crew will be rocking the video installation the whole night.

In order to plan for some elaborate costumes, some of the art galleries will be closed down, but there’s not going to be any lack of eye candy this night.

It all goes down this Friday night at the Academy of Arts on South Beretania. Doors open at 6pm and it’s $10 for non-Academy members.

For more, check out the ARTafterDARK page.

NEW! Kicks/HI Saturday releases

This Saturday, before you head out for some trick or treating fun, don’t forget to swing by Kicks/HI to scoop up some new gear for the day after.

First up is a quickstrike t-shirt.  Playing on the Hawaiian Sun classic Passion Orange drink, this shirt features the phrase ORANGE PASSION as a a shout out to the traditional Kicks/HI shop color.  The shirts are available in white or grey.

Also debuting this Saturday are two new St. Alfred duck canvas 5-panels.  Available in army olvie and black, two classic colorways to compliment your fall garb.

These are available this Saturday at both Kicks/HI locations (Ward and Makaloa) and the Kicks/HI online shop.

For more info, check out http://www.KicksHawaii.com

Hallowbaloo Music + Arts Festival

As if Chinatown couldn’t get any more nuttier on Halloween, there’s an all out attack on your senses going on this Saturday night.

Hallowbaloo is a music and arts festival spanning the length of Nu’uanu Avenue and all throughout Chinatown.  Art will be up in the streets, performers will be littered throughout Chinatown on various stages and clubs.  Some of the highlights include Doolin Rakes at 6:30pm on the street, DJ ESKAE at 9pm on the street and 11pm at Indigo, The Deadbeats at SOHO at 10:30pm, URSULA 1000 at Indigo at 10:30pm, then at the LOFT at 12:30pm, and mixtape king DJ BENZI at NextDoor at 11:30pm.

This is gonna be an action packed night of entertainment.  Did I also mention that there’s gonna be thousands of people roaming the streets in costume? Yeah, that’s gonna add an interesting wrinkle to this event.

This all goes down this Saturday night all throughout Chinatown. $10 wristbands will be available on site and that one wristband will get you into all venues that evening. So, come out and get there early. Last year, over 8000 people crowded the Chinatown streets for the inaugural festival. That number is expected to jump to over 10,000 this year.

For more info and to check out the FULL lineup, hit up http://www.hallowbaloo.com

Night of the Living Halloween Hip-Hop Jam

Halloween was made for all ages: candy, trick or treating, walking around in a fly costume. So, KUGA decided to take that feeling one step further with “The Night of the Living Halloween Jam.”

This event is an alcohol and drug free event featuring b-boy, art stations, live performances, a costume contest, and free candy.  Also, the hook for this event is a 2×2 b-boy battle… in costume.

Yes, costumes are REQUIRED for this battle, so it should be interesting to see who can rep the hardest while looking like Russell from UP (yes, that’s a last-minute costume suggestion, if you need one).

This all goes down this Friday night at the Kalaheo Neighborhood Center Gym in Kauai.  Doors open at 5:30pm and it’s $3 for ages 12 and under, $5 for everyone else.

For more info, check out http://www.kuga808.com

NEW! Olde Ivory “Ala Wai Canal Rats”

The first in a series of shirts from the Olde Ivory Anchor League, this one is a shout out to the monsters of the Ala Wai… no not the giant crustaceans that inhabit the bottom of the canal, but the other monsters of the canal: the rats.

Have you seen these things? They give NYC street rats some hard rubs and these suckers got skill like Master Splinter. Watch your back or they’re taking a piece out of it.

Anyway, this new design celebrates the monsters in a fun and enjoyable way, minus the possible chance of disease.  These shirts also incorporate Olde Ivory’s new comfy fit technology shirts.  FInally, science gets something right.

These new shirts are available NOW in the Olde Ivory online shop and on Thursday at in4mation Ward.

NEW! Fitted Hawaii “Pacific Vibrations”

Another Tuesday, another dope Fitted Hawaii release.

This week’s drop is very timely, with all the crazy weather happening.  The shirt is a tribute to the classic Joy Division “Unknown Pleasures” album cover.  The design is the same, but with the the words “Pacific Vibrations” hitting up the bottom and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hawaii tagging the bottom.

Why those three? Besides the fact that all three sit on the same tectonic plate, but they also share the same culture, foods, and ethnic groups.

Alongside with this shirt release, there’s also a Dodgers and Giants hat release as well.  Giants custom in all red with a white brim. Dodgers piece in classic Dodger blue with white logo.

This drops today at the Kona St. location at 11am. For more info, check out http://www.fittedhawaii.com

The Legends of Hip-Hop: Masquerade Ball 2009

This week will be a non-stop stream of Halloween events because, well, it’s not often that Halloween falls on a Saturday.  So, look for tons of things to be going down this Saturday.  The first of the “official” things found to be going down this Saturday is this event featuring two legendary hip-hop icons: Public Enemy and MC Lyte.

This is also gonna be a masquerade ball, so don’t forget to be rocking your costume, as there’s apparently a $300 costume contest going on.

Besides the two main acts, look for music from DJ Ready Red, formerly of the Geto Boys.

This all goes down this Saturday night at Pipeline Cafe.  Doors open at 8pm. For more info, email jedroa@yahoo.com or call 808-589-1999.

APB SALE!

Better late than never. Go get it NOW. Sale at apb until Sunday. http://www.downwithapb.com

NEW! Flying Coffin snapback hat

Check out the last piece in the Flying Coffin Fall 2009 collection.  It’s a red and black brushed canvas snapback, perfect for keeping that crazy hair down and when fixing your hair just isn’t an option at the moment.

Available now in the store link at http://www.flyingcoffin.com