Forget tales from Fashion’s Night Out, today brings us even bigger news — at last, Nike Air Mags are upon us! The light-up, powerlace kicks made their big-screen debut in 1989’s Back to the Future Part II, when Marty McFly found himself saving humanity in the year 2015. Now you can have your very own piece of Hill Valley four years ahead of schedule. The rules of the game are explained over at Nike’s eBay page — basically, we have ten days, 150 pairs of Mags auctioned off each day, and all proceeds go to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The eBay site even has an accompanying video, starring Bill Hader and Kevin Durant, to answer the question we’ve all been wondering.

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Today at Flavorpill, we couldn’t believe how different/creepy Kristen Stewart looks when she actually smiles. We hoped that a new biography that says fashion icon Coco Chanel was a Nazi spy isn’t really true. We thoroughly enjoyed Splitsider’s roundup of TV comedy’s most tragic characters, which includes poor Ron Donald from Party Down. We fell in love with Misty Woodford’s dreamy Polaroid pics. We were surprised to hear singer Josh Groban will be making a cameo on The Office as Andy Bernard’s brother. (Less surprising: the news that TLC has decided to cancel Kat Von D’s reality show LA Ink.) We discovered that some of our favorite authors were actually copywriters before they became famous for their work. We celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Nike swoosh by reading about the iconic logo’s origin story. We were amused by the findings of a new poll that says Betty White is America’s most trusted celebrity. We decided that it was worth giving french fly-flavored lip balm a try. And finally, we couldn’t stop laughing out loud over this extremely short escalator. While we usually support laziness, this is taking things a little too far, don’t you think?

Today at Flavorpill, we watched the official trailer for Scenes From The Suburbs, Spike Jonze’s companion short film to his music video for Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs.” We were horrified to hear that Larry King may join the cast of The Daily Show. We couldn’t decide which Disney movie Broadway musical adaptation idea is more misguided: Freaky Friday or Father of the Bride. We watched some of the angriest walk-outs in 60 Minutes history. We were excited to hear that longtime Flavorwire favorite Maura Johnston is the Village Voice’s new music editor. We wanted to own a pair of these Nikes that Gabriel Dishaw made out of old computer parts. We were jealous of whoever lives in this futuristic bedroom that has its own waterslide in the closet. We were impressed by Wile E. Coyote’s James Franco impression. And finally, we flipped out over these knit versions of our favorite movie characters — particularly The Dude.

Today at Flavorpill, we read about what it was like to be a stage dancer for Nirvana. We wanted to visit the top secret tiny art museum that NASA planted on the moon. We tried to picture the sneaker freak/internet geek who’d don a pair of Nike Air Twitter Birds. We were confused by the fact that Lester Bangs is narrating Lady Gaga’s comic. We were jealous that Ms. had the chance to interview Feminist Hulk. We watched as some cats reenacted the BP oil spill crisis in just one minute. We refused to believe that Coolio knew that his new juggalo tattoo was missing a “g.” We listened to the songs of the summer for every year since 1940, when “I”ll Never Smile Again” by Tommy Dorsey was everyone’s favorite jam. And finally, we had it confirmed that most up-and-coming New York artists’ work is concerned with stuff like “sex” and “race” — not “serial killers.”

1. Zooey Deschanel will star in a new HBO series based on I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, a juicy memoir about “bed-hopping with musicians and movie stars in the late 1960s.” [via Deadline Hollywood]
2. The creator of the original MacGyver series has sent a cease-and-desist warning to the studio that produced the MacGruber film. [via ArtsBeat]
3. Last night’s confusing season premiere of Lost, explained for you by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse [via EW]
4. Nike has partnered with nine organizations, including Yahoo, Best Buy, and Creative Commons to form the GreenXchange, a giant think tank for corporate sustainability. [via Fast Company]
5. Caleb Larsen‘s sculpture A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (a black box with electronics inside it that connect it to the web ) keeps selling itself over and over again on eBay. [via The Stranger]

One of the rising stars of the Asian art scene, Korean artist Osang Gwon makes alluring, figurative sculptures from an accumulation of detail pictures of his subjects, and riveting photographs of sculptural installations of mediated consumer products. Gwon has shown his work around the world, collaborated on a record cover with British band Keane, and created commissioned projects for Fendi and Nike. We caught up with Gwon at his Arario New York show to discuss his unique way of making art and the fresh ideas behind it.
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Imagine that you’re back in 1917. World War I seems unending, the Russian Revolution is in full throttle, the worldwide influenza epidemic is about to take off, and there’s no Tamiflu protection for at least another 80 years. Amidst all this doom and gloom, Converse launches the first Chuck Taylor All Star, a shining beacon of rubberized hope in these turbulent times.

A smash hit from the beginning, All Stars (and all the various low and hi-top combos subsequently produced) were perennially associated with hip, subversive counter-culture. All Stars were the outsider kicks, favored by 1950s rockabilly kids, punk rocker Joey Ramone, and grunge-king Kurt Cobain. So what on earth has happened to the credibility of this simple shoe? When did Converse All Stars move from being achingly hip to Ellen DeGeneres-friendly? When we saw this monstrous new creation, we knew that this was an issue that needed to be investigated. Behold, the rise and fall of Converse All Stars. Read More »

Today at Flavorpill, we drooled over Madge’s Upper East Side Double-Wide. (She’s come a long way from the girl who ate bags of popcorn in Alphabet City.) We discovered the modern-rock haters, PRE-DURST. We thought the world might be ending thanks to Amy Winehouse’s rider demands for Yorkshire tea and a sober crew (OK, and some tequila. Attagirl!). We couldn’t decide which new store is cooler: Nike, Puma or Adidas. We wondered where all of you fall on our Spectrum of Online Friendship. We wished we had a bike to take to get blessed. Do unicycles count? We examined the carbon foot print of printed books. We wished we had an iPhone so we could read the Wall Street Journal for free. We wondered who would spend 2K on Prince’s purple iPod. We booked our tickets to Cleveland, thanks to this compelling travel video. And finally, we watched the trailer for the new Harry Potter flick. Whaddayathink?