Jean Queen

Julian Sutter’s credit card is on ice, literally, he says. The 25-year-old froze it, three months ago, inside a cup in his apartment’s freezer. He’s also liquidated his mutual funds to pay off several thousand dollars in credit card debt, started eating 60-cent cups of noodles for lunch and hasn’t bought a new pair of jeans in half a year (he used to buy two each month).

More here: Inland young adults see valuable lessons in poor economy (The Press-Enterprise)

Their uniforms are tight, sagging jeans, T-shirts and Vans, not jerseys and cleats. Their coaches are their teenage friends, not someone several times their age with a whistle around his neck. Their playing fields are Riverside’s streets and the Moreno Valley Skatepark, not a high school gym or stadium.

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Inland skateboarders use growing national association to strut their stuff (The Press-Enterprise)