Skateboarding

Five People Making L.A. a Better Place

This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing. But some of the people in this year's issue aren't just interesting -- they're downright inspiring! Check out all of our 2013 People Issue profiles From Dr. Coley King, who's working to treat Venice's homeless community, ... More >>

Here's What I Listened To While I Underwent Incomprehensible Dentist Torture

"You're going to bleed, ok?" There were a lot of things said to me Monday afternoon, but that was the only thing I heard. It was said to me by Teresa, an otherwise perfectly pleasant dental assistant. Big as Barack Obama becoming the first Black President, big as Thomas Edison coming up with the ... More >>

Man Alleges Lil Wayne Entourage Member Smashed His Head With Skateboard

Last year Downey, California-based bill poster Alfredo Marino saw Lil Wayne on Fairfax Avenue. He approached him hoping to get a photo, but says the encounter ended with a member of the rapper's entourage smashing him in the back of the head with a skateboard and sending him to the hospital. Marino ... More >>

Charley Ford, Noted Skateboarder, Murdered In Compton

An up-and-coming skateboarder named Charley Ford was fatally gunned down as he sat in a car in his hometown of Compton over the weekend, authorities said. The 24-year-old's death was quickly lamented by local skaters and friends on Facebook, who started an RIP Charley Ford page. Here's what sherif ... More >>

Why Are Angelenos So Good at Designing Human-Powered Transportation?

The streets of Venice Beach whir with the crunchy hum of skateboards, the utterly '80s rhythm of Rollerblades, the impossible physics of a surfer pedaling a beach cruiser barefoot, one arm slung around a board. A new design exhibition on Abbot Kinney that focuses on human-powered movement is almost ... More >>

USC Ranks As A Top 'Hipster College' in U.S.

USC has beaten UCLA in recent academic rankings, and you know the Trojans are a dominant force in football. But did you know the students on the campus next to Exposition Park were cool kids, too? A new ranking of "Hipster Colleges" by Unigo says ...

Ronald Weekley Jr.'s Claimed Injuries in Skateboard Take-Down by LAPD Fake?

An LAPD officer who writes under the psuedonym of Jack Dunphy is questioning the injuries claimed by Venice skateboarder Ronald Weekley, Jr. in a take-down by Los Angeles cops that was captured on video. Dunphy writes a fresh critique of news coverage of the controversy, singling out KTLA News for ... More >>

Ronald Weekley, Jr: L.A. Police Union Defends Cops in Video Take-Down of Venice Skater

It doesn't appear that skateboarder Ronald Weekley, Jr. did anything to deserve getting punched in the face by an LAPD cop, as seen on video of his take-down by police in Venice last weekend. And those badges involved will have to answer why so much manpower was involved in nabbing a 20-year-old ov ... More >>

Ronald Weekley Jr., Skater Punched by LAPD, Hires Trayvon Martin Lawyer Benjamin Crump

The family of Ronald Weekley, Jr., that Venice skateboarder tackled by police and punched by one cop in a take-down captured on video, has hired the same attorney who represents the parents of late teen shooting victim Trayvon Martin. The attorney was introduced to the press yesterday during a news ... More >>

Skateboard Bombing Down Hills Banned in Los Angeles

Thanks to a few kids who like to fly down hills on their skateboards, as they've done since the dawn of the sport, the L.A. City Council today voted to ban such "bombing." Not only that but, essentially, in the city of L.A., skateboarders will soon have to obey traffic rules just as a driver or bic ... More >>

Uggie The Artist Dog's Trainer Omar Von Muller: The Man Behind the Dog

Stardom came late in life for Hollywood's Next Big Thing. Before he played opposite Reese Witherspoon and landed a scene-stealing role in an Academy Award-nominated film, he endured random parts in commercials, TV shows and films -- and even performed tricks on Third Street Promenade for pocket ... More >>

Echo Park Lake Debris From Draining Includes Guns, Parking 'Boot,' Boomboxes

If you've ever wondered what's been lurking beneath the surface of an urban watershed like Echo Park Lake, now you know. Because of a draining and dredging project by the L.A.Bureau of Engineering, the city has come up with this list of fine, inner-city detritus which, in this case, includes two gu ... More >>

Dragonslayer: Interview With Director Tristan Patterson

Culture Clash Enterprise: Will Anyone Buy a T-Shirt That Shows Images of Gay Sex?

​"To put these images on a t-shirt seems taboo, but tomorrow it's going to be completely normal," says 26 year old native Minnesotan Melissa DeBlieck, one half of business venture Culture Clash Enterprise, which she started with her boyfriend. Recently the company launched the very racy "S Co ... More >>

Chris Cahill, Original Z-Boys Skater, Dies in L.A.

cahillunderground.comChris Cahill.​Original Z-Boys skateboarder Chris Cahill died late last month in L.A. at the age of 54, according to several reports. Although the Z-Boys were immortalized in the film Lords of Dogtown and in the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, Cahill wasn't featured much ... More >>

Steve and Alex Olson, Skateboarding Father-Son Team, Hit the Paint in Venice (Video)

Tibby RothmanAlex Olson on deck.​ If skaters in Venice, California, now have a skatepark to themselves, it's still illegal to hit the decks in Venice, Italy. But on June 6, the iconic skateboarder Steve Olson, a pro-skater since he was a teenager in the 1970s, and his son Alex, whose low-key r ... More >>

Video Games Live: The E3 Event That's Open to the Public

Marcin Wichary, Creative Commons via WikipediaTommy Tallarico playing Video Games Live in 2009​Today is the first day of E3, the annual event where video game companies unveil their latest products. There's a lot of hype surrounding the three-day show, but, unfortunately most people won't be a ... More >>

Fresno Rapper Fashawn Has 'Bart Simpson' Swag in New Video Featuring Pro Skater Pierre-Luc Gagnon

Fashawn as Bart. Or is it Bart as Fashawn?​If there are three things Fresno's Fashawn loves, they're skateboarding, pot-smoking and rapping. And what goes better with that holy triumvirate than that perennial, spiky-haired, yellow icon of bad boy behavior, Bart Simpson? In a brand new video, ... More >>

Edward Sharpe Collaborates with Spike Jonze, Pro Skaters and Fireballs in New Video Featuring Unreleased Ima Robot Songs (MP3s Too!)

An actual screen-grab: Edward Sharpe and Spike Jonze ride their skateboard through the flames of death.​Worlds collide in a new Spike Jonze-produced skateboard short featuring unreleased Ima Robot songs and a whole heaping lot of pyrotechnics! What more do you need to know? Okay, a few deets ... More >>

Original 'Dogtown And Z-Boys' Surf Shop, A Santa Monica Landmark, Quietly Closes

Google Maps​The surf shop that was the epicenter of the noted surfing and skateboarding community known as Dogtown has quietly closed as a result of the economy, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported Thursday. Horizons West surf shop shut down last month, with owner and famed surfer Randy Wri ... More >>

Beach-punks and Ballyhoo: Pac-Sun's Seaside Sound and Swag Fest

The weather may have been breezy, but there was a definite warm-up going on at PacSun's Beach Ballyhoo in Santa Monica this past weekend -- warming up for skimpier fashions, warming up for summer sports like skateboarding and biking, and if the considerable showing of punky, pierced tweens was any i ... More >>

Daggers of the World Unite! Skateboarders, Artists, and one Runaway Visit Exhibit A

Daggers of the World Unite! O.G. Skateboarders, artists, and one 'Runaway' Visit Exhibit A

Bike to Work Week and Its Discontents

"Bikes are boring."There, somebody finally said it. The somebody was Tony Chavira, one of the bloggers at the urban design and living site FourStory. Chavira was complaining about Bike to Work Week, a feel-good non-event he was chiding because, deep down, when people say they hate cars, they mean th ... More >>

Industry's Stadium Woes: Walnut Won't Be Cracked

Diamond Bar's city council may have folded under the millions of dollars its town was offered to cooperate, but Walnut is still suing Industry to get its neighbor to halt the giant rubber stamp that's been hammering overtime to clear the way for an $800 million NFL stadium. Thanks to Curbed L.A., fo ... More >>

Idealist Propaganda: The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman

Photos by Erin Broadley. Click images for entire Idealist Propaganda slideshow."Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavitie ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Lolitas Invade Little Tokyo, Van Morrison, Derby Dolls Championship, Kat Von D and Bam Margera Host Skateboard Event

Well, we survived election week and like many of you I spent a majority of the weekend trying not to get out of bed, reflecting on what an absolutely amazing (yet exhausting) November we've had thus far. Over the weekend, while some Angelenos traded in partying for protesting, others opted to check ... More >>

Crewest Gallery and The Label Lab: The Z-Boy Show - Direct from the Source

Original Z-Boy Nathan Pratt, then and now. Click on image for entire slideshow. Photograph by Shannon Cottrell. In the 1970s it took a group of Venice-based visionary artists, surf and skateboard shapers, and passionate rag-tag kids to revolutionize skateboarding and launch the rebel skater lifest ... More >>

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

An L.A. Speculator Plans a Disney-Style Park in Baghdad

What a blast

Norwegian Pie: Joachim Trier's Reprise

These guys want to get laid and get somewhere

Paranoid Park: The Soundtrack of Their Lives

Skate movie dispenses with the angst, surrounds itself with Nino Rota and Elliott Smith

The Art Apartments

Elk Gallery show at the Regency Hotel

Eastside Connection

Also, David Reed, Eli Langer and Alvaro Siza

World Champions and Super Crews

A Fan's Diary

PHARRELL AND FRIENDS at Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, February 23

Bite Me, L'il Sisters

How Green Is Your Library

All He Wants for Christmas Is a Limited-Edition Nike

Go East, Young Surfer Girl

Could the best surf shop be in the Valley?

Insurgency Insipience

Flip-floppin’ again

Triumph of the Ill

“Beautiful Losers” in Newport Beach

Photo Essay

Prodigal Son

Aaron Rose is back, and he's brought his merry band of art-world outlaws with him

2002 Smiths/Morrissey Convention: Still Sixteen, Clumsy and Shy

To Live and Skate in L.A.

Tweakers in The Salton Sea and the wild boys of Dogtown

Fanboys and Cheesecake

The Sunshine Boys

Frying with Fu Manchu

Mutt and Joe

Letters

The Big Blowup

A mom’s guide to dumping Firestone tires