We recently created a cool contest with illRoots.com to give away a couple tickets to NoiseMakers with Peter Rosenberg featuring Raekwon (July 29, 2009, 7pm at 92Y Tribeca). Go to illRoots.com for details. Peter will pick the winner himself.

Need these in my life.

Over the weekend a friend of mine copped the shoe sneaker heads all over the country have been clamoring for since last summer, the latest in Nike’s line of hybrid kicks, the Nike Air ½ Cent. Fusing together the immensely popular sneakers of one Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway. A retrospective: