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Max Jackson and Tom Harris are not just best friends, but “retired” thespians always looking for a pub or two for a great night out all over London. Their new drinking hangout is Deadbeat, a cozy jazz bar that Tom bought a few years back after retiring from the theatre business. Some novellas may want you drinking a nicely brew coffee or tea with biscuits, but for this Guy Adam’s pulp fiction novel, you may just want to grab some beer and chips and enjoy the rollicking adventure.
Dragon Ball Z Creme Brulee Cakeballs
Star Trek Insignia Cookies
Totoro French Macaroon
Here are some summer fun projects for fanboys and fangirls with nerdy cook Rosanna Pansino. From Star Trek Cookies to Star Wars Light Saber Popsicles, watch the videos and start making the nerdy goodies!
The Ramen crew may have not been the first to stumble upon the fascinating eight year old Spidey-artist, but we still stumbled!
This kid was amazing and we felt this is one of the things that Big Wow Comicfest’s opens up to, and that’s passion and talent from everywhere under the umbrella of comics. On the floor at Big Wow Comicfest, you can’t help but feel inspired by all the people that are there introducing new stories, new artists, new genres, new characters, and it becomes an absolute gift when you run into someone as young as Ethan Castillo drawing Spider-man or Marvel Comic characters because he loves to! You actually start to feel the kid in yourself while watching him draw! “It’s just fun!” – He says.
We also recognized the extent of love and support that Ethan’s parents give him and we can’t help but strongly say, great talent can come from self-ambition, but it also comes from parents that nurture and encourage it!
Motor Trend’s latest episode of Ignition looks at American-tuned Subaru BRZ. The BRZ is tuned by Crawford Performance that packs in a turbo-charger pumping up 490-500 horses. I think its safe to say, it can do some amazing drifting with 550lb/ft of torque.
I’m really a big fan of the Canon 5D DSLR and here’s why. On a trip to Africa this March 2013, Benjamin Dowie took a video glimpse of Uganda and Tanzania.
This one wicked looking Miata! This custom turbo-charged 1994 Mazda Roadster by Chris Love has mix of USDM and JDM looks.
A look at classic car tuning culture in Japan on tuning, restoration and restomodding from 5 of Japan’s legendary retro tuners.
Continue to check back with RETRENDERS for upcoming segments from Big Wow ComicFest and FanimeCon!
I just can’t enough of time-lapse videos and this is a neat video on the city of Hong Kong by Javin Lau
Since the beginning of comics, superheroes have dominated the comic book pages, but the creative team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby didn’t just do superheroes, they also put science fiction genre onto the comic book format. Titan Books has collected various science fiction stories by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s featuring the likes of “Solar Legion” and “Blue Bolt” in The Simon & Kirby Library – Science Fiction.
P.I. Mike Hammer is back with some unfinished business. This hugely popular character has sold millions of books over the years and was created by acclaimed mystery author Mickey Spillane. When Mickey passed away in 2006, he still had a couple of Mike Hammer manuscripts that weren’t finished or published, and Spillane’s frequent collaborator Max Allan Collins known for his award winning graphic novel Road to Perdition, added the finishing touches to this Mike Hammer adventure.
Ramen and a Half was video recorded before a live convention audience for their podcast as they talked about what FanimeCon is all about and discussed a serious topic on how some Cosplayers can be uncomfortably handled by costume admirers and sometimes get perverse images taken of them without one’s consent – then get posted on the internet.
Where is the Retrenders team going to be at this Memorial Day Weekend? We’ll be at FanimeCon from May 24-27 taking place at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA.
For more info, go to: fanime.com.
This donut is wildly popular in NYC, introducing the “Cronut” by pastry chef Dominique Ansel. The donut uses croissant-like dough and then is fried and filled with vanilla cream. You can find this tasty treat in New York City at the Dominique Ansel Bakery.
Xcar takes a look at two iconic JDM cars, the Toyota Supra and tuned Nissan Silvia. The Toyota Supra was made famous by Fast & the Furious films and Playstation’s Gran Turismo video game series, Xcar takes a look back at the legendary Toyota Supra. And my grandma can drive this – a tuned automatic Supra!
Photographer Beth Galton takes some amazing food pics with this series – “Cut Food”. A cup of ramen noodles, donuts, eggs, corn dog, ice cream all cut in half.
One of the most picturesque cities in Canada is Montreal and here’s an artsy project by Stephane Hoareau for Timecode Lab. The short film video project showcases Montreal in the winter weather and some neat time-lapse scenes.
Fast food Japanese burger spot LOTTERIA with the help of ramen restaurant Menya Musashi will introduce the ramen burger for a limited time. The burger contains ramen noodles of course, BBQ pork in a brown sauce, hamburger buns and fish sauce. If you’re in Japan, this ramen burger will be on sale until June 2013.
Launching this Fall 2013 is the BBC Black line of apparel by Pharrell and Mark McNairy. The theme is all black and military inspired and GQ gets a first look and interview.
Motor Trend’s Ignition show takes a look at all 4 generations of the iconic BMW M3 sports coupe from the E30, E36, E46 and E92 models.
This is one lean mean Subaru Impreza and it’s challenge is to be the fastest Sooby around Germany’s iconic track – the Nürburgring. This Impreza features a 2-door conversion, aggressive looking aero parts, and over 500 horses built by UK aftermarket company Revolution.
This maybe the priciest one-seat exotic supercar in history. Lamborghini celebrates its 50th anniversary with this one-off concept that features a 5.2L V10 pumping out 600 horses.
Who doesn’t like Arizona’s Arnold Palmer canned ice teas? I’ve been drinking their various Arnold Palmer ice teas, the Half & Half Lite, Zero Calories, and the regular version for a couple of years. And it’s super refreshing on a hot day, but I digress, here’s a guy that really likes his Arnold Palmers!
This is one insane Mad Max-style Nissan Silvia. The car was dreamed up by Sataomi Nakawatase with a tribute to Japanese robots, military tanks, old factory walls and California license plates. The Silvia is fitted with a Greddy turbo, Stance Japan suspension and Mickey Thompson wheels.
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