Skateboarding

Armando Gonzalez: The Skate Shopkeeper

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Latino neighborhoods in the early 1980s, skateboarders were rare. The ones who were around were mocked as whitewashed wannabes. After all, skateboarding was born when beach k ... More >>

Somehow, "Gangnam Style (Diplo Remix)" With 2 Chainz And Tyga Ain't So Great

If, for the next few moments, we may be entirely liberal with the application of the term, I've remixed a fair amount of things in my short, trivial life. When I was a pup, several friends and I remixed the skateboard. We made something called a MEGA SKATEBOARD, wherein we took two four-foot-by-fo ... More >>

Danny Way, the World's Best Skateboarder, Gets a New Documentary

Josh Androsky, L.A. Comedian, Comes Forward as Shroomed-Out 'Skateboard Rabbi' on The Price Is Right

The only thing funnier than an L.A. comedian on shrooms has to be an L.A. bank executive on bath salts -- and, unfortunately, we don't have video of the latter. So we'll have to settle for this retarded-hilarious clip from an early May episode of The Price Is Right, which makes a lot more sense now ... More >>

Odd Future and Streetwear Employees Resent Fairfax Avenue Tourist Influx

Skateboard Bombing to be Banned in Los Angeles; Law Awaits Villaraigosa's Signature

The L.A. City Council really tackled the big non issues today. Besides declaring this Bob Marley Day, the body voted to ban high-speed downhill skateboard cruising known as "bombing." Of course, the city is underwater financially, our roads suck, and you're essentially seeing your local taxes raise ... More >>

ESPN X Games Los Angeles 2012: Confronting Fear, Pain and Mortality

The world of sports may be focused on London, but during the past week athleticism of a decidedly ballsier kind was on display in Los Angeles as wide-eyed kids, patient parents and industry hangers-on oohed, ahhed, gasped, and clapped at the feats of physical imagination and occasional crashes that ... More >>

Chris Schwartz, 'Pro Street Luger' From Agoura Hills, Killed When Skateboard Hits Parked Car

A young Agoura Hills daredevil who listed himself online as a "professional street luger" and "inline speed skater" died just after midnight this morning in a tragic skateboarding accident. City News Service reports that Christopher Schwartz, 29, was not wearing a helmet when he took his Dirtsurfer ... More >>

Skateboard as 'Deadly Weapon' in Venice Attack: Ashley Berg, Savoy Anderson Charged

Skateboards are for riding, not for fighting. But the L.A. City Attorney's office today said that a Venice homeless couple -- 21-year-old Ashley Berg and 33-year-old Savoy Anderson -- was involved in using a board as a weapon in an attack on another pair last week. It happened on a street becoming ... More >>

Skateboarder Wields Ax on SoCal Freeway, Leads CHP on High-Speed Chase

A sick new move that has rocked the skateboarding world in a way not seen since Tony Hawk's historic "900" was completed near The Birdman's hometown of San Diego this week. That's right, authorities allege that 24-year-old Thomas Robert Landry of San Diego executed the "5150" flawlessly, starting w ... More >>

Skateboard 'Bombing' to Be Outlawed Under City Leader Joe Buscaino's Proposal: Kid Skaters Would Also Have to Wear Helmets

Bomb a hill, go to jail? New L.A. city Councilman Joe Buscaino is proposing to outlaw high-speed skateboarding down steep hills following the tragic deaths of a couple teen skaters in his Harbor-area district. But perhaps the most controversial aspect of his proposal:

Dancing Is Not a Crime

Jacques Heim and Diavolo Dance Theater Mix With Skateboarders at the Music Center

Courtesy Diavolo Dance Theater​ "Here are our rock stars!" shouts a grinning Jacques Heim, artistic director of Diavolo Dance Theater Heim is like that, full of jolly bluster and French bonhomie. It's part of his charm, his public signature. His greeting was directed at the boys pictured abov ... More >>

Skateboard Parade World Record Set in Venice, According to Guinness

Yo! Venice!SkateLAvia?​How many Angelenos with skateboards does it take to create a world record? Apparently not many. Guinness World Records announced today that a skaters' gathering outside Venice High School last summer took the prize for "largest skateboard parade." The number of part ... More >>

Omar Von Muller's Skateboarding Dogs. Yes, Skateboarding Dogs.

Adam GropmanDash goes skateboarding​It's a pleasant summer day down at Venice Beach, the boardwalk humming with activity. On the paved path pointing toward the water, near where Windward Avenue ends at the beach, a skateboarder shows off, kicking sturdily against the pavement, leaning into ... More >>

Go Skateboarding Day: Thousands of Skaters Overtake Downtown L.A., Venice Boardwalk

​Updated after the jump with live pics from the traffic nightmare. No, that's not a swarm of cicadas outside your office, celebrating the first day of summer like it's 1840! That, friend, is an adorable mob of 1,000s of skateboarders, practicing their right to rebel on the one day of the year ... More >>

Hot Boarding Skateboard Accident Involving Car Tow Puts 35-Year-Old Edward Culhan in Hospsital

Hot boarding.​Updated at the bottom: The skateboarder died. Mix speed, a skateboard and alleged drunk driving and you probably have a recipe for hospitalization. Authorities say a skateboarder being towed by a suspected DUI driver crashed and ended up hospitalized with critical injuries over ... More >>

Heidi Lemmon: Chairman of the Board

Jesus Hates Skater Kids: 'Lincoln Ramp' Half Pipe in Venice Torn Down by Fun-Killers at United Methodist Church

Juice MagazineThe Lincoln Ramp in better days​Updated after the jump: Photos of the Lincoln Ramp being dismantled, set to be U-Hauled -- in sad little strips -- to various parts of the Valley. Plus, the reverend's defense. The riff-raff who frequent the Lincoln Ramp in east Venice Beach are f ... More >>

"Art in the Streets" Press Preview: Deitch, Gastman, Rose, Fab 5 Freddy and More

Patrick Range McDonaldThe crowd watches the curators speak at the "Art in the Streets" press preview​ Journalists, artists, museum administrators and other members of the art community -- a few hundred, it seemed -- came out for the press preview of MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit yesterd ... More >>

Westchester to Break Ground on New Skate Park With The Help of Councilman Bill Rosendahl

A skater gets air, but not over Westchester. Not yet.​The city of L.A. continues to roll out skate parks, despite recent opposition from neighbors concerned about noise from skateboarders at a West L.A. rec center. The latest one will see a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday at 11 a.m. at 7000 ... More >>

D*Face Comes to L.A.: British Street Artist Talks Advertising, Skating and Punk Rock

See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshow, "D*Face in Los Angeles." Saturday night at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, "Going Nowhere Fast," the latest show from D*Face, will open. It is the British street artist's first solo show in Los Angeles. He had previously appeared in group shows ... More >>

Four Suspected L.A. Taggers Brutally Beat Jogger With Skateboards, Steal Mp3 Player

skaterscafe.comMr. Hooligan, in the park, with the skateboard​Suburban night jogging -- already plagued by the prospect of creepy sexual offenders lurking in the shadows -- just got even less attractive. New freak attackers to be paranoid about: rebellious young riff-raff who sneak up behind ... More >>

FILM SCHOOL VS. FARMERS MARKET

Teens Worship in a Parking Lot After Venice Pastor Shuns the Skateboard Set

New pastor bars youth group at United Methodist Church

Skateboard-Tailor

Skateboard-Tailor

The Little Lord of Dogtown

West Los Angeles Skate Park 'Made By Skaters For Skaters'

Steve La​Alec Beck, the 23-year-old co-creator of the Stoner Recreation Center's new skate plaza, hopes the skate park becomes a safe haven for board-riders looking for a place to meet outside of public spaces that usually don't welcome them. A recent visit to the granite playground demonstrat ... More >>

Dogtown's Good-bye

Farewell to an original zephyr

A pricey Venice loft steals a historic name. Laddie John Dill and others say: "It's the antithesis of Dogtown."

​Lance LeMond, you're a second generation Dogtown skater, ("third generation, technically" you correct us), you make your living through an online skateboard store, you are calling the L.A. Weekly from the newly "ollied" skatepark in Venice, you helped organize its opening day. Can you afford a un ... More >>

Dogtown Skate Park: Jesse Martinez Pays Homage as the New Bowls Open at Venice Beach

By Tibby Rothman You couldn't blame the cluster flock of politicians who showed up for the official opening of the skate park at Venice Beach Saturday, October 3, after all that's what they do. Never mind their pontificating, or that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was a surprise attendee--he'd probabl ... More >>

Art of The Exiles

Yvonne Walker of "The Exiles" This past Friday, artist and skateboard maker Douglas Miles of Apache Skateboards was in town at the Artist Gallery to unveil a new series of pieces inspired by "The Exiles" -- Kent Mackenzie's recently re-released 1961 film about the lives of Native Americans in Down ... More >>

Lia Halloran

Sk8ter grrl

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

D'oh! Simpsons Limited-Edition Vans

Is that a Bart on your shoe?

Extreme Campers

Best place for your inner child to do backflips

Got Wood?

Arbor boards promise to improve your performance

Pretty Punk

How the hood rats in Wassup Rockers learned to skate, rock, turn their world upside down . . . and give Larry Clark the biggest wedgie of his life

Attention, Skaters With Visa Cards!

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

Sk8er Girl in Z-Boy Land

Director Catherine Hardwicke on being the Lady of Dogtown

Wipe Out!

Lords of Dogtown plays it down and pretty

Seeing Red

The 'Future Boy' Is Now

Shaun White and the X Games come of age

The Abruti Ploy

Turf War

It’s Little League versus skateboarders in Highland Park

The Black Hole of Z-Boydom

Mozart on Wheels

An interview with Jay Adams

The Ghosts of Dogtown

A quarter-century later, the Zephyr Competition Skate Team still rules

Sweat and Wild