Much respect to the Volcom Girls Team who have spent the first few months of 2k7 wrecking snow, water and pavement. Traveling, contests, events, having fun and sincere dedication to  surfing, snowboarding and skating has been the main drive for the girls team over the past eight weeks.

An oldie, but a goodie. Peace to IAM for featuring Dready Kruger and Timbo King in his video ‘La Saga.’

None of us here at Frank151 claim to be rocket surgeons, but we’re willing to bet they pinpoint the Kenny Rogers gene in the next twenty years.

Frank slaps its stamp of approval on this four-episode series of hilarious and slick animation. Done in the style of your standard-issue nature documentary, Predators of the Sprawl features a British guy doing the voice-over and photographs of New York locales as backdrops.

With this and much more at their disposal, the artists at The Nursery have crafted a satire on the typical urban poser who prowls the Sprawl in search of fashionable things to wear, do, and see. His or her fate? To be gobbled up by the city in its rawest forms.

Life imitates art, too, as there’s a hoodie up for auction.

Nearly five years have passed since an Alaskan high school student unfurled a banner reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” at a school event, setting things in motion for a free speech hearing before the Highest Court in the Land a week ago. Frank’s favorite scumbag lawyer with a severe inferiority complex, Kenneth Starr, rears his ugly head again as prosecutor on a witch hunt.

It ain’t Whitewater or the Oral Office, but under dispute is whether Joseph Frederick had his constitutional rights violated when his principle tore down the banner and suspended him for 10 days. The Supreme Court Justices view any ruling they make as setting a Damned-if-You-Do/Damned-if-You-Don’t precedent, either encouraging students to go nuts testing that free speech limit or allowing administrators to significantly stifle the voice of the youth.

Get yourself up to date on the nitty gritty of the case, and sit tight as a verdict hangs in the balance. Your words are at stake!

Laurel and Hardy star as Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum in this 1934 classic about two toy makers. With a tagline like, “1 and 1/2 hours of howling hilarity,” how can it be bad? Just make sure not to confuse it with the 1986 TV remake featuring Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore. Not as good.

Frank151 has a lot of respect for other magazines out there. But with the massive amount of periodicals popping up every day, we rarely take the time out to praise any of them. There is one magazine that stands out above the rest and merits mentioning.

Aspen magazine was created by Phyllis Johnson in 1965. Unlike any periodical before it, Aspen was a multimedia ‘magazine’ which came in a customized box that contained anything from vinyl records to 8mm film. While the first two issues stayed close to the goings on in Aspen, Colorado, future issues delved deeper into the arts.

Like the Frank Book, Aspen was a quarterly publication that featured guest curators for each issue. Contributors included Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, John Cage and Samuel Beckett, among others. Though a great concept, Aspen only lasted until 1971.

“If Aspen was an art director’s dream, it was also an advertiser’s nightmare. The ads, stashed at the bottom of the box, were easily ignored. And although Aspen was supposed to publish quarterly, in reality the publication date of each issue was as much of a surprise as the contents. ‘All the artists are such shadowy characters,’ publisher Johnson said, ‘that it takes months to track them down.’ After issue 5+6, there were no more ads in the magazine.”

Respect to Aspen for being a true originator. Unfortunately, creativity does not always pay the bills.

Zealous Records has got us covered, literally, with this “too good to be true” compilation of covered material. By track number three, a Beatles cover by Al Green, “Soul Sides Volume 2″ has you reeled right in. It then progresses into the depths of Soul, literally. With the soppy slink of Marcia Griffiths cover of Al Green’s “Here I am (Come and take me)”, listeners get a doped up dose of liquid rhythm. By the time you get to the bonus track, Laura Lee’s cover of “What a Man”, if you have any soul, you will be soled completely. Other standouts include a cover of “Express Yourself” by Reggae pioneers Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, El Michaels Affair’s cool cover of Issac Hayes “Walk on By”, and Esther Phillips cover of “Home Is Where The Hatred Is”. The many millions of horribly bad covers that plague society are just about all made up for with this one CD.

The internet domain suffix .tv is actually property of the country Tuvalu, just as .us belongs to the United States. Though Tuvalu’s deal with inforamtion.ca never went through, this is the beginning of their negotiations as reported by the BBC in 1998. And brush up on all the country domain codes here.

It’s money origami, Money. Who doesn’t want a tiny shirt or a portrait of their favorite president (assuming your favorite president made it onto a bill)?