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During my college heydays, alcohol that always f***ed-up my friends and I were Wild Turkey 101 and Jägermeister. That green bottle caused much fun and pain. In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, photographer Atiba Jefferson travels to Wolfenbüttel, Germany to see how Jägermeister is made.
A junior high school kid daydreams and doodles in this animated short “Growth Factor” by Ryosuke Oshiro.
Okay, so I’m not the typical target audience for The New Yorker magazine, but I have at times picked a few issues at the dentist office or used articles in the magazine for research material for my college papers. The New Yorker also is known for it’s high-brow political satire comics and The New Yorker profiles one of their cartoonist Roz Chast.
To be honest, I wasn’t even born yet when these iconic kicks was released, the Adidas’ Superstar. Now the popular singer/producer Pharrell Williams adds his touch to the sneaker with 50 Supercolors. 50 bright colors to choose from!
I’m still not tired of hearing “Let It Go.” I get into karaoke-mode every time I hear the song somewhere! This Disney Elsa Deluxe Singing Doll Set will now add to my “Frozen” addiction.
It’s truly a small world in your hands with this mixed-media creations by artist Talwst. What if you find yourself opening up a jewelry box and instead of a sparkling ring or beautiful necklace, you find an incredible detailed miniature diorama? Well, that’s art and it looks so cool.
Somehow I found myself at the mall this past weekend and walked into a Hot Topic store and these 2015 Funko Frozen Mystery Minis caught my attention and credit cards. I bought a couple of blind boxes just to check it out.
A visit to Kyoto, Japan in this episode of Al-Kee-Hol to learn the art of mediating and drinking alcohol. Host Yuka Uchida and her friend Cindy Hoang travels around Kyoto visiting places like the Matsuo Taisha Shinto Shrine who is the god of sake brewing.
There’s such thing as gluten free Soul Food? This is what LA restaurant My Two Cents does. Munchies’ coolest show Chef’s Night Out interviews chef/owner Alisa Reynolds and her night out in LA of eating and drinking with friends.
Question, what if Wes Anderson, and not Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand) got their hands on directing Marvel’s X-Men? Well, the answer is here.
If you started drinking Friday night thru Saturday night and hung-over Sunday morning and need something to bounce back? Then this savory and yummy breakfast sandwich will do the trick. Restaurant owner/chef Alvin Cailan teaches how to cook his Eggslut breakfast sandwich.
Another Chef’s Night Out in Downtown LA and this episode is all about Foie Gras, well mostly. Munchies takes the town with chef Michael Hung of Faith & Flower. Chef Michael talks about his food passions and his favorite spots to eat with friends.
Need a light in your dreary dorm room or work desk? If you’re Disney’s Big Hero 6 fan, then you might want to pick-up this InfoThink Baymax USB LED nightlight.
I’m guilty too of watching videos of people eat, like for me, I admit I watch Ken Domik’s YouTube channel KBDProductions TV. Munchies foody journalist Charlet Duboc flys to Seoul to look at the hot trend of Mukbang which translates to “food porn” or eating for an online audience. In South Korea, many of these online eating stars called BJ’s (Broadcast Journalists) are very popular.
Besides watching my hodgepodge of Netflix shows and The Bachelor for some reason, my fave YouTube channel Munchies is at again with wonderful 5-part foody tour of Basque Country in Spain. I think it’s that time for me to travel to Spain again and since Ibiza is down south, it would right-in.
I recently had spare time to review a bunch of books and stuff, and one on the list is from Disney Worldwide Publishing, Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight. What a novel approach to this book project, take the original Star Wars concept art from Ralph McQuarrie and tie-in the 3 movies: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi into one book.
I love eating good oysters and this Munchies episode “In Shuck This” profiles right here in SF, Hog Island Oyster Co. and oyster shucker Anthony Rizzi. Everything you need know, well almost about eating, farming and shucking oysters is in this episode.
Eating Colombian food in K-town LA. Say what? Yupe, have a Colombian meal in Koreatown. On this episode of Chef’s Night Out they take a look at Escala restaurant and interview chef Chris Oh. Chris also takes viewers on a Korean food adventure in K-town LA.
When LEGO Friends appeared in retail shelves 2012, it weathered the controversy and has become a successful product line for LEGO. Lots of fans and third-party companies have been making custom LEGO minifigures, but not many have done customization of the LEGO Friends mini-dolls. Now, hopefully that’s about to change. LEGO fan JustJon works on customizing Friends mini-dolls.
If you ever find yourself in downtown Los Angeles, and instead of turning to Korean or Mexican food, grab some Indian food. In this fun eating episode of Chef’s Night Out, we get an inside look at Badmaash restaurant owned by brothers Arjun and Nakul Mahendro along with their dad chef Pawan Mahendro. And you get to know some other neat drinking and eating spots in downtown LA.
Snowboarding aficionados will enjoy this cool 3-part series from Adidas Snowboarding team. The 3-part series features snowboarders Jake Blauvelt, Eric Jackson, Kazu Kokubo, Helen Schettini, Keegan Valaika, Forest Bailey, and Louif Paradis.
If you live in urban city like San Francisco and find yourself bicycling and walking, then this new line of New Balance sneakers does double-duty. Created by New Balance’s Tokyo Design Studio, the C-Series will feature the CM600C for North America release, while the CT700C and 996C will be available in Asia and Europe.
Adidas Originals has collaborating with musician/designer Rita Ora for many years now and here’s her take on the iconic Adidas 1980s sneaker Superstar.
The trend by many “video” peeps on VIMEO is making time-lapse videos of the beauty of nature, landscapes and urban life, a “slice of life” as they call it. You maybe saying, oh no, not another video of this crap! But this is good, really. When you’re on your 15-minute break, sit back, put your headphones on and watch this imaginative time-lapse video.
In South Korea the drink of choice is Soju. My fellow Retrenders blogger Stephen Jang has told me many “Soju Drinking Tales” from his Ktown experience when he lived in LA. As for me, I rather drink Tequila, but I do really enjoy the flavored soju concoctions like Lemon Soju. In this new episode of Al-Kee-Hol, host Charlet Duboc goes to Seoul to experience Soju drinking.
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