Pickup soccer is born of a love for the game. In a way, it is a forum for self-expression - an addictive, joyful, occasionally painful, and almost always fun and surprisingly competitive place. It's a web of interwoven and evolving philosophies of self, constituting style set within a commonly-accepted framework of a substance defined by attackin ... Continue Reading

Dear Whartscape 2010, What’s up? I imagine you are pretty tired after an entire weekend of being amazing. I know I still have sore feet. Do you think it was from standing for so long, or just the extreme heat firing up all that asphalt? I am not sure which, but our weekend together has left me walking funny! I hate to get all personal whe ... Continue Reading

For most bands, the debut album is the thing—the sink-or-swim, make-or-break moment, captured for posterity in physical form. It’s a product of months or even years of preparation and hard work, and its success or failure regularly dictates the musical futures of the persons most directly responsible for its making. As the album, so the band. Wi ... Continue Reading

The years blur by like scenery Blurs in the windows. And I am at the wheel Of a steel silver car In a watercolor of city lights, And pretty neighbor boys And the old chain stores with my childhood inside. I step out and into the scene--- Where have I even gotten to? The car is gone. The neighbors have moved. The stores are all clos ... Continue Reading

Tonight, the two most storied NBA franchises face each other in the last game of 2009-2010: Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Few NBA Finals games have this much hype, and even fewer deserve it. The last time the Celtics and Lakers met in a Game 7 situation was 1984. The Celtics won. That game featured eight future Hall of Fame players including Kareem ... Continue Reading