Joe Donnelly

Photo by Jim Pidgeon Step Into Liquid, the joyful and poignant first solo outing by Dana Brown, the scion of surf filmdom’s first family, opens at the Nuart on August 8. It’s easily one of the summer’s best movies. Here, Brown, who co-wrote and co-edited The Endless Summer II, talks......

My wife and I are fairly new to our neighborhood, just south of Sunset in the Rampart division of Silver Lake. But our next-door neighbor Manuel, who came to Los Angeles after leaving Guadalajara, has lived in these parts for 20-some years. He’s done his best to make us feel......

Craig Kelly’s death last week in an avalanche on a remote peak in British Columbia seemed to be almost eerily preordained by the legend the snowboarder constructed during his life. The 36-year-old Kelly, a four-time snowboarding world champion and three-time U.S. Open winner, was one of seven who died on......

Photo by Anne Fishbein When the crash came, I tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Nothing. I tried Esc. Nothing. No files, no desktop. And rebooting only made things worse. My computer just sat there, taunting and omnipotent in its refusal to give me a break, which is how I often think of God......

If you’re interested in getting sucked in: Dogtown and Z Boys: A Film About the Birth of the Now is tentatively scheduled for release by Sony Pictures Classics next April, but you can try to sneak a peek at the AFI Film Festival this November. Major goose bumps from a......

Jay Adams‘ fellow Z-Boys regarded him as the soul of the Dogtown movement. He skated with a natural combination of aggression, talent and disregard for convention that made him the archetype of the modern skateboarder. His peers likened him to Mozart and Hendrix. “Jay was a natural. He would do......

Photos by Larry Hirshowitz If it wasn't for them, skating would have gone straight into Toys "R" Us. It was like roller-skating. There wasn't anything aggressive about it. They made it aggressive. They gave it that rebellious image. -- Aaron Meza, editor of Skateboarder magazine THEY PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE......