Dime Magazine: Keydren Clark
"They used to laugh at Keydren Clark. The older kids at the Hamilton Park Courts in Harlem would never let the young kid play because he was always so much small than everyone else.

Today, “Kee Kee,” as he’s been called since his youth, is still usually the smallest cat on the court. The difference now is that Clark’s the one doing the laughing. At just 5-10, the St. Peter’s College star junior point guard in Division I’s leading scorer, as of press time giving opponents 25.5 points per game."
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Dime Magazine: We Reminisce: Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt
"There was a time when your grandmother didn’t know the name Jay-Z. Think back to the mid’90s, years before Beyonce was even close to legal, when the recently named president of Def Jam was just another hungry, street-hustling MC from Brooklyn’s (infamous) Marcy Projects. Teaming with Damon Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke to get their fledging Roc-a-Fella Records off the ground, they dropped Jigga’s debut LP, “Reasonable Doubt” in 1996. The Takeover had begun and the rap game was never the same again. As the 10th anniversary of Jay’s debut approaches, we take a look back at one of hip-hop’s greatest albums…"
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Doesn’t Anyone Have a Light?
"Smokers fear the inevitable. They know the day is coming, but when will the forces strike? Illegalization of cigarettes is in only a matter of time. As the years pass by, social opposition, media coverage of the health risks as well as government regulation and taxation have all increased. Cigarettes used to indicate one’s social superiority. Now, astute non-smokers see the habit as classless. We are becoming more concerned with staying fit, saving the environment, eating healthy and fearing anything “bad” for you. Playing it smart (or acting like you do) is the new wave of cool. And thanks to advancements in anti-smoking products like chewing gums, patches and pills there’s more help in quitting than ever before. Society has asked its members, why smoke cigarettes?"
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Everlast Magazine: Yuri Foreman
Twenty-four hours. That’s the amount of time Yuri Foreman, a bi-product of the former Soviet Union and Israel, had been in American before he took his first steps up to the boxing mecca, Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn.

“I Knew if I wanted to be the best I had to go where the best trained,” Foreman says.
“I had never seen anything like Gleason’s,” he remembers. In Israel, we used to train in classrooms at the local high school. We’d place the chairs and desks around the room like it was a ring and spar there.”
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Metromix: Candyland
"Let's face it: The New York daily grind does NOT leave you feeling like a kid in a candy store. To achieve that feeling, you'll need something that's sweet, gooey, maybe sour and most likely bad for your teeth.Fortunately, some of the best candy stores in the world reside right here. The hundreds of bodegas may offer instant gratification with a Snickers bar, but the real addicts find their fix at the numerous "pick-your-own, in-the-bag, by-the-pound" bulk candy buffets. The idea of digging into a pile of jawbreakers with a plastic shovel may seem juvenile, but this Halloween you too can trick or treat (for just $9.99 a pound) at these dentists' paydays..."
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Shecky's: Canned Heat
"Pop and fizzle—ah…the sound of an aluminum tab breaking is music to our ears. Some people call it trailer park, but we call it home—beer in a can never tasted as good as when served at one of these spots."
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Shecky's: F-Bombed
With Bastille Day coming up, you don’t have to go through security to fulfill your Euro nightlife fantasy. Right here in the city, get bombed like the French and those other accented ones. Here are the best outposts this side of the Atlantic.
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SPIN.com: Nico Vega
"Who? L.A. rockers Nico Vega is comprised of vivacious lead singer Aja Volkman, guitarist Rich Koeler and drummer Dan Epand. The trio's post-punk driven sound is compounded with Volkman's invigorating stage presence, for the raven-haired siren has already been compared to the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O. Fresh off the road with the likes of the Shout Out Louds and Johnossi, Nico Vega's debut EP, No Child Left Behind is out now via the MySpace imprint.."
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