Industry News

AGENDA show brings Jim Shubin on board

The former VP of Marketing for RVCA, will be the head of Endemic Relations

AGENDA Trade Show, the leading forum for action sports, surf, streetwear, lifestyle and sneaker industries, announces another key hire in its ever-expanding team of industry experts with the addition of WeSC and RVCA marketing veteran Jim Shubin.

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Squaw Valley CEO goes Undercover

Andy Wirth will be donning his fake mullet for hit show

Anyone who's ever bumped a chair, flipped a mid-mountain burger, or stood in a ski school lineup has likely said at one point or another that the people running the resort are idiots who could never do their job. No chance in hell they could keep up on skis or a snowboard. This Friday, ski-serfs everywhere will get to see this dream scenario put to the test. Andy Wirth, the president and chief executive of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows will don a fake mullet and make an appearance on CBS's Emmy-Award-winning reality show "Undercover Boss."

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Wyoming legalizes hitchhiking

You'd never contemplate hitchhiking. After all, one only has to watch the news consistently to hear tales of hikers mysteriously disappearing from country roads, plucked up by serial killers in pick-up trucks. You'd never give someone a lift either--there's no telling how many body parts are stashed in that dirty pack. Hitchhiking is dangerous and, in most cases, illegal.
Photo courtesy Johnie Gall

But what if it weren't? The wheels are already turning for Jackson Hole,..

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Creed McTaggart picked up by new sunglass company Epokhe

Epokhe Eyewear, the brainchild of surfers Dion Agius, Mitch Coleborn, and filmmaker Kai Neville, unveiled it's new line of classic-yet-futuristic eyewear recently, and today they've announced their first official team rider has been welcomed aboard: 18-year-old Creed McTaggart. To accompany this announcement is a very enthralling motion picture offering from the keen eyes of Neville. As co-founder Dion Agius noted in a company release, "We just did a trip down the coast for an upcoming..

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