Posted by: Price Latimer Agah
From June 3 - 8, I attended The Venice Biennale – The 53rd International Art Exhibition titled Making Worlds. The Venice Biennale was born through a resolution by the City Council of Venice in 1893 to found a "biennial national artistic exhibition"; the first Biennale was actually held in 1895... continue reading

MOTORCYCLE GANG (American International Pictures, 1957)
Here we have the Goofus and Gallant of cyclist movies. A 78-minute pageant of action-filled mayhem cradles about half an hour's worth of moralizing in Edward L. Cahn's Motorcycle Gang, a fogbound and rickety bridge leading from The Wild One to somewhere near The Wild Angels... continue reading

The French, ever inventive, also introduced the shaving brush in 1748, often fashioned from stiff badger hair, which made shaving more pleasurable and convenient, as soap could better soften the whiskers. This was a start in the link between shaving and luxurious pampering which we continue to embrace today. Even so, most European men continued to be shaved by professional barbers until about 1900... continue reading

by Jon Patrick of the Selvedge Yard
We're talkin' standup guys, not hoodlums-- former flyers and servicemen in WWII looking to keep the rush alive. They were solid citizens who loved the sport and brotherhood of riding-- accomplished racers, builders and all-around honorable guys... continue reading

Posted by: Dustin Beatty
Neighborhoods in Los Angeles are segmented by various highways and byways which begs the question: Why aren’t more people riding motorcycles? It makes perfect sense with rising gas prices and congested roads that Angelenos would kick over their daily transportation each morning but that’s not the case... continue reading

THE WILD ONE (Columbia Pictures, 1954)
The Wild One, the seminal biker picture, casts a lengthening shadow that stretches from 1954 into the present day, its influence echoing not only through the motorcycle-movie craze of 15 years later but also the emergence of the juvenile-delinquency picture, which began in earnest almost immediately after Marlon Brando and his leather-jacketed comrades roared onto the screen... continue reading

By 500 bc, Alexander the Great insisted that his troops shave to avoid dangerous beard-grabbing in combat, and because he believed it looked tidier. His logic persisted for almost two centuries. In Rome, the rich retained servants to shave them, while the less wealthy would head to a barber who used an “iron novacila,” a shaving instrument which tended to rust and grow blunt, cutting many and killing a few with tetanus. But this didn’t deter Roman men from seeing a tonsor because, as has always been the case, the barber shop was the heart of local gossip and news. As well, one’s class and status could be read by the hair on your face, including whether you were a slave or master... continue reading

Brooks Leather Tool Roll
We would like to direct your Special Attention to the new Brooks Cycle Bags & Accoutrements and to the remaking of the original Tool Bags & Holdalls, inspired by J.B. Brooks’s original designs of the 1890’s and early 1900’s...
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Systematic domestication and rearing of pachyderms is not an easy task. On average, it takes around three months to school a wild elephant and for them to learn the essential 6 commands: sit, stand, walk, stop, turn and carry a 500lb BSA motorcycle on your back... continue reading

One of the founders of the legendary 59 Club, The Reverend Bill Shergold (2nd to the right), died last month aged 89. Known as the  "ton-up vicar",  “FARV” or the "biker priest", Shergold famously ministered to hordes of young hot headed rockers, who used to tear around London’s North Circular on their Nortons, BSAs and Triumphs, intimidating the population at large and causing retired Captains to sputter up their gin...
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From the producers of The Heart Is A Drum Machine and Moog, Blood Into Wine: The Arizona Stronghold follows winemaking partners Maynard James Keenan (Tool, Pucifier, A Perfect Circle) and Eric Glomski in their efforts to produce wine in the desert... continue reading

New York-based artist Aaron Young is best known for his vast September 2007 spectacle of an art installation ‘Greeting Card’, where Young used his loudest brushes to date and orchestrated motorcyclists to burnout over painted wooden panels in the Park Avenue Armory... continue reading

The fortune of facial hair has waxed and waned for five thousand years. If your archbishop said shave, you did so to avoid hell’s fire. If your sovereign’s beard caught fire, you sympathetically removed your own. Any student of history can appreciate the vagaries of the male ego and the impositions of vanity, but until 150 years ago, removing the beard was no simple task... continue reading

Brought to you by the team behind Brittown and Choppertown, we hear that the editing for the new film The Harbortown Bobber is coming along great and we have been asked to share the teaser with everybody... continue reading