Three years ago, just about every teenage girl singing along with Avril Lavigne's "sk8er boi" started dreaming about skater boys in baggy clothes "rockin' up MTV." Although it may come as a surprise ...

Without a decaying coastal resort area called Dogtown, a pack of rebel rollers known as the Z-Boys, and a 1970s drought that left California swimming pools bone dry, who knows where modern ...

So what are the best skateboarding movies to watch? Do the secrets of our culture lie in skateboarding documentaries, or are they more accurately depicted in Hollywood movies about skateboarding? As ...

Lords of Dogtown is an odd, disorienting commodity — a fictional version of a documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s Venice, California, that was written by the man ...

At some point or other during the high-energy skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, at least four or five of the gods it depicts are pronounced "the best ever." These heroes, we're told, were ...

There was no shortage of eye candy at Tuesday’s “Lords of Dogtown” preem, which boasted rotating teams of skaters working out on a 50-foot half-pipe skating ramp set up next to the Mann’s Chinese; ...

Professional skateboarder Leticia Bufoni breaks down skateboarding in movies and television including 'Lords of Dogtown,' 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,' 'Rocket Power,' 'Skate Kitchen,' 'Kids,' ...

A project two years in the making has brought the spirit of skateboarding’s origins back to the sport’s birthplace. On June 30, the California Heritage Museum launched its exhibit "Dogtown and the ...

Dogtown Skateboards has officially welcomed Gabe Cortez to the team, and his debut part proves he’s more than ready to carry ...

The skateboarders in Lords of Dogtown are strange and beautiful things: graceful, sinuous, arcing into concrete, transforming graffiti-spattered streets into an ocean of dips and waves. Their lanky, ...