Skateboarding

Whether Truth or Fiction, This Ain't California Is Engrossing

OFF THE WALL

Buy Larry Clark's skater gems

Only the Young

Waiting for Lightning Hits the Big Stunt But Misses the Big Questions

Why Danny jumps

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

Jackie Barcliff Sought By Police In Rape, Assault Tied to Occupy Wall Street Protest

In an unusually dramatic and verbose posting from police spokespeople, the NYPD says detectives are looking for a man identified as 44-year-old Jackie Barcliff (at right) in connection with an appalling rape and assault of a female Occupy Wall Street protester on Monday. Barcliff appears to be the ... More >>

Lil Wayne Hits The Decks With The Deweezy Videos

Last night at recently reopened Greenhouse, Lil Wayne the rapper welcomed Lil Wayne the skater to the world via the premiere of DeWeezy. Maybe it's because he started rapping professionally at an age when most kids where still learning their multiplication tables, but Wayne has always seemed to have ... More >>

All Hands On Deck

Making art you can ride

Q&A: Joey Bada$$ On Singing Biggie At Two, Tumblr Stalkers, And Finishing High School

Joey Bada$$ is perched over a Pac-Man tabletop arcade machine at a neighborhood bar in Flatbush. With a glass of Sprite resting on the video game's screen, he confesses that he's never played Pac-Man before, gives a laugh, and says, "I probably suck at this." Bada$$'s lack of experience at early-'8 ... More >>

Q&A: Ninjasonik On Tight Pants, Skating, And Coming For The Throne

If you're really "in the streets" of New York City, then most of the people in your circle should be street urchins and guttersnipes also using the asphalt lawns of the Big Apple as their playground. They're your closest friends, even though you didn't go to school together; you're not from the sam ... More >>

Live: Undead Jazzfest Shows Off Its Rock-Solid Vital Signs

Brian Chase (l) and Alan Licht (r) perform at Kenny's Castaways on June 23.​ Second Annual Undead Jazzfest Kenny's Castaways, Sullivan Hall, (le) poisson rouge, The Bell House, Littlefield, CrossFit Gym, Homage Skateboard Training Facility Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25 Better ... More >>

Tillman the Skateboarding Dog Takes New York (And We Meet Him)

As soon as you give a dog a skateboard, the iPhones come out. After all, skateboarding dogs are pretty much the perfect storm of YouTube video success (one-of-a-kind moments, extreme sports, and cute animals), and no one does it better than Tillman. You may know him from the iPhone commercial, or m ... More >>

Tiny Skateboarder Adorable, Gnarly

Via The Daily: seven-year-old Asher Bradshaw is a precociously talented skateboarder in L.A. who is totally the next Tony Hawk. Just look at him go! My favorite element of this is watching him interact with the older skaters at the skate park. His role models are these grizzled burnouts with holey ... More >>

Why Volkswagen's New Ad Campaign Sadly Won't Work in New York City

​Volkswagen has started an interactive advertising campaign called "Fast Lane" in which they use slides, skateboards, and aircraft sound effects in public spaces around Germany to promote their new Polo GTI. The videos are pretty fun, and yet, we're pretty sure this ad campaign is never going ... More >>

What Do Lil Jon and Susan Sarandon Have in Common?

Lil Jon and Susan Sarandon, reenacting the Twins poster. Photo via Complex/Say_WordYo​A love of skateboarding, apparently. Both were at yesterday's Maloof Money Cup at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, a pro skating competition sponsored by the infamous Maloof brothers, owners of the Sacra ... More >>

Maloof Money Brings NYC a Massive Skate Party, and a Free Park

​In a lonely corner of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in the shadow of Philip Johnson's decaying New York State Pavilion, construction workers are filling the Astral Fountain with huge chunks of styrofoam, which will then be covered with concrete. Is styrofoam really a good idea as a building ... More >>

To Alleviate Depression, Watch a Bulldog Skateboard

​President Obama may be heading our way, but we're also pretty excited about Tillman the skateboarding bulldog, who "loves New York City," reports the Daily News. In the city, "there's a lot of concrete, a lot of dogs, and a lot of open space, believe it or not, for him to do his thing," says ... More >>

Nebula+Quest for Fire+the Atomic Bitchwax

Interview: No Age Talk Spike Jonze, Live-Action Animal Films, and Playing the New Museum

​No Age's week beats your year. Last Tuesday, the duo of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt released their new Losing Feeling EP on Sub Pop. They also lined up four shows in the five boroughs that are so random and far-flung as to appear the work of four different bands. Tonight, t ... More >>

CHILD'S PLAY

Race down the Great Hill on a Big Wheel

X Games 3D: The Movie Tests Your Tolerance to Awesomeness

News Roundup: Kyp Malone, Wavves, Leonard Cohen

--TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone has released a song from his solo project, Rain Machine. The track "Give Blood," has Malone going as nuts as he would on any TVOTR track. The self-titled, 11-track disc comes out September 22nd on Anti. Check out the Malone-designed pornographic cover art here.--Follow ... More >>

Wow, That Ridiculous J. Mascis Skateboarding Trick Was Actually Performed by J. Mascis

SOTC buddy Ryan Dombal gets to the bottom of Dinosaur Jr.'s video for "I'm Over It," in which the band's three aging members do obviously stunt-doubled tricks on one skateboard and two BMX bikes. Except some of it--and not just the part where J. Mascis awkwardly cruises into the frame, and then si ... More >>

Want to See J. Mascis Do a Kickflip?

Continuing their streak of awesomely, defiantly old-school gestures, Dinosaur Jr. chose to make the video to "I'm Over It" an homage to skateboarding and BMX biking: J. and Murph and Lou cruising around town, Mascis on a skateboard, his rhythm section on bikes. 90% of the tricks here are pretty ob ... More >>

Studies in Criticism: Professional Basketball Player Paul Shirley on Merriwether Post Pavilion

Paul Shirley, professional basketball player, music critic: Try as I might, I can't tell much about an album during its first playback. With that in mind,I thought it would be fun to journal my efforts to grasp something new. First, though, I needed an album I thought would be worth my time. Anim ... More >>

GRAPHIC BY NATURE

Morning Breath and Cycle bring in the skaters

Year in Review: Paranoid Park, Skating For Dummies

Happy Birthday, Spike Jonze!

Anna Faris, Inadvertent Skateploitator?

Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose's Celebratory Portrait of the Early-'90s L.E.S. Artists

SWEET SHOT

Lia Halloran shreds the streets of L.A. for her art

Mike Hill's Frustratingly Inarticulate Chronicle of Steve Rocco

Kiko Was Here

A would-be Basquiat goes to prison in a misguided graffiti crackdown

Rocking and Rolling

Maverick director Clark talks skating, racism, pixelated nudity

Skate or Die

A kinder, gentler Larry Clark delves into South Central's boarding subculture

Lupe Fiasco: Already Turning Weird

Cult Following

A holiday guide to coffee-table books with a jagged edge

Velvet Stems and Balancing

Louie and Dewey help Unca Donald repair Tin Huey's flat

Halfpipe Dreams

A Bio-Doc Chronicles the Hawking of Skate Culture; a T&A Teen Comedy Just Hawks

Good Game Boy

Horoscope

Outside and In

Teenage Wasteland? Not in These Shows.

The Transporter

'Crutchmaster' Takes Dance to the Next Level

Hard Knoxville

Chairman of the Board

Tony Hawk Airs on the Side of Commercialism

Killing Yourself to Live

Balls to the Wall With Bam Margera & His Crew

Buy Low, Sell High

Rolling for Dollars

How a Bunch of Independent Skateboarders Unionized and Won

On Edge

Aggressive Skaters Have to Choose Between a Living and a Life

The Outsiders

Skateboarders bring their half-pipe dreams to New Jersey's city of last resort