Corasanti, 56, of Getzville, agreed to a consent decree under which he may practice medicine only under the supervision of another licensed physician while he is on probation. He also must be monitored by a therapist and a sobriety monitor. . . The order goes into effect Monday. He may appeal to lift the probation after three years.
Corasanti must also undergo “random sobriety screenings” and enroll in an “ethics program.” We’re still hoping Corasanti gets at least his year in jail. He will be sentenced on August 16, 2012.
For the past two days (August 1 – 2, 2012) the Agenda Show has packed buyers, brands, and the media into the Long Beach California Convention Center and dazzled them with a wild array of clothing, accessories, surfboards, and skateboards.
Because of its growing size it seemed like more than a few industry veterans still couldn’t help comparing the Agenda Show to the long defunct ASR Show. With the exception of a small area of tables (the Agenda Cafe) on the South East end of the center, the entire 224,000 square feet of floor space was filled.
Everything felt bigger. We had to park farther away. We walked in large groups from the parking garage. Inside on the Berrics Agenda skateboarding end of the show it was often difficult to walk down an aisle without having to say excuse me several times. It seemed too busy writing orders to even look up. And that played into the feeling of bigness even more.
“It’s really not that much bigger,” Agenda Co-founder Aaron Levant said. “We have about 50 new brands, but we also had a few brands that wanted to increase the size of their booths.”
Even with those increases, however, at least one of the brands who took more space this year believed they could have used even more. “We’ve been writing orders all day,” said a partner at one clothing brand. “And our sales manager came back to me and said if we had more room to show the line we could have written more orders.”
With that kind of thinking Agenda can only get bigger. But one thing is for sure: the Agenda Show is still virtually free of the bikini models that seemed to get so much play back in the day. “We did let one exhibitor have a model,” Levant said. “But that’s because they’re a clothing company that makes bikinis and buyers need to see how they fit.”
We keep thinking we’ll eventually reach the point where Gary Rogers stops making us laugh. Each week we expect it to be next week. But the kid keeps on coming up. This episode it was his opinions on girls who skate that got us wheezing. Watch and you’ll see what we mean.
For the past four years New York Times writer Azam Ahmed and Director Ryan Ferguson have been working on a documentary film showing how skateboarding is changing lives in Chicago’s gang infested streets. Here’s what Ahmed has to say about Skate or Die:
We’ve scraped by with almost no money, compiling more than 100 hours of footage that follows the life of one skater who was shot in gang crossfire while sitting on his mother’s porch. Here’s the original story that was an inspiration for the film. . . Now, we need to cut about 100 hours of footage into a movie. To do that, we need a top-notch editor. While we’ve cut costs in every way imaginable, to professionally cut this film will cost about $35,000.
The filmmakers have have $29,940 already pledged on Kickstarter, but the have only 60 hours to reach their goal of $35,000 or they lose it all. If there is anything you can do to help the project, please click the link and make a donation.
We mentioned this several times, but the great thing about starting a business in 2012 America is that there will never be a worse time to kick one off. Brian Wenning announced over the weekend that he is launching a new skateboard brand called Lockdown. Jenkem Magazine has an interview with Wenning that includes all the details.
Why did Wenning start it?
Because when is this bullshit recession gonna end? And in a recession if you put in 14 hours of work or whatever I don’t think you are gonna waste your money buying a fucking Element board. There’s also good things about a recession, like there are so many good skaters right now that aren’t hooked up.
Want to see what went down in Copenhagen over the weekend (July 29, 2012)? It’s all right here. Apparently, Nyjah Huston “had it on lock until just before the last jam” of the Copenhagen Pro.
So, Chris Cole reportedly “blew the doors off the joint, viking style” at the Copenhagen Pro today. And thanks to SPoT Life Event Check we can all see exactly how it happened. For the complete results (via the Skatepark of Tampa), follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Dr. James G. Corasanti, the Getzville, New York physician who was driving drunk and reportedly texting when he mowed down (and killed) 18-year-old skateboarder Alexandria M. Rice has been fined $10,000 and put on five years probation by the New York State Department of Health, according to a story in the Buffalo News.
