A sold out Avalon Hollywood was filled with about 1500 surf fashion people for the 2nd Annual Design for Humanity Wednesday night. It was as swanky as surf industry stuff gets (I’m assuming with the red carpet and all).  A former Billabong person, Kati, was nice enough to bring me along. We’re borderline MGMT groupies at ...

Where Friday was partly about the storm, partly about the food and partly about the music Saturday was pretty much all about the music with two great meals mixed in. We started the day around noon, it was gloriously sunny but not as humid as New Orleans usually starts to get in May. Anxious to get the fairgrounds, we chose to dine at the ...