Our Good Friend Benny Gold is having a release party for his new Guerrero Collection tonight Friday May 24th, 7-10pm here in SF at his flagship store. Come enjoy free beer, the Ferris Plock Art show, and the new Benny Gold Collection.

This Saturday May 18th, our good friends at Orchard Skateshop in Massachusetts together with Vans are hosting an exhibition featuring the works of Dennis McNett for Antihero, along with the release of their new ‘Off Campus Housing’ Orchard X AH Project by Dennis McNett. The show will feature all of Mcnett’s original artwork for Antihero, Eric Pupecki spinning records, free beer and special guests Julien Stranger and John Cardiel.

This Saturday, May 18th the REAL crew is heading out to Minneapolis to help Familia celebrate their 8th annual day of Familia. If you’re in the area come out for a free skate jam from 12-5pm with Davis Torgerson, Chima, James Hardy, Jake Donnelly, Robbie Brockel, Na-Kel Smith, Jack Olson and DC riders Josh Kalis, Wes Kremer and Cyril Jackson. Get the full info here.

This week REAL is gearing up for a day of Familia, Alex Midler dropped a Bangin! clip, AVE brought out the classics, Malto got recaptured, Jamie Thomas released a surplus, Gonz celebrated, Antoine handled the Tuesday 25, Lucas & JB had Freedom Fries, Slash ate a free lunch, Reynolds supported Southbank and you can too, JT, Clive, & Moose made Modern Art, Sewa got tricky, Theotis got buzzed, Stevie Perez got rad, and be sure to check out the Vans Pool Party Live Webcast this Saturday.

Davis Torgerson along with the DC and REAL crews are heading out to Minneapolis on May 18th to help Familia Skateshop celebrate their 8th annual day of Familia along with the release of a new Davis Torgerson DC X Familia colorway shoe and surprise from REAL. If you’re in the MN area, make sure you get there!

This weekend Saturday May 4th underground skateshop in New Jersey is hosting the solid Foundation Opening day with a contest from 12-6pm including a hippie jump contest, best trick, a product toss from REAL and Spitfire plus a hot dog eating contest. If you’re in NJ be sure to come out and skate.

If you’re in the Bay Area tonight, thursday 4/25 and looking for some epic Surf Rock come out to thee Parkside to see DLX sales crew member Scott Springer and his band Rocketship Rocketship play a live show. Guaranteed to be a good one.

Edgar Burn is a skater from Minnesota who was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic and liver cancer back in 2010. Through the local MN community’s support Edgar has been able to undergo Chemo treatment and continue to do what he loves by supporting art and music in his community. This weekend the 6th annual Post Holiday Extravaganza is going down Friday 4/26-4/27. Come out to support a great cause and maybe end up like Jake from last year with some personal Gonz artwork.

If you haven’t listened to die hard skater Ben Harper - do yourself a favor and do it.  If you have - then you know how good he is. Ben plays a live set with Charlie Musselwhite April 23 at 11:15 AM PT - you can listen live here

This Saturday 4/20 in Sacramento, CA the 28th and B Street Skate Park is having their 3rd annual Battle at the B Contest and Skate Race. Get there early to enter in the race, Best trick, longest Ollie and Longest kickflip contests. Registration starts at noon, guaranteed to be a good time.