Chris Nieratko

  • Scientists Have Cloned the World’s Most Handsomest Skater

    Alien Workshop’s Dylan Rieder is undeniably the hottest man on Earth. It only makes sense, then, that scientists in Belgium have replicated him so that their citizens can bask in his beauty the same way we have in America.

  • Jordan Baumgarten Packs Heat Instead of Film

    Skaters say their board is a ‘ghetto pass,’ meaning it allows them to enter any hood, anywhere, regardless of how high the area ranks on America’s Deadliest Neighborhoods List. Photographer Jordan Baumgarten grew up skateboarding, but now his camera...

  • Geoff Rowley Returns to Liverpool

    I sat Geoff down for ten minutes in the ruins of the St. Luke’s Church courtyard so he could tell me and a random gentleman about his upcoming video part, battling injuries, his love for the Wild West, and his new pet project, CivilWare.

  • Size Matters in the NBA

    NBA preseason is just over a month away and to get you excited for tip-off we discussed players penis sizes with Kris Humphries’s ex and celebrity sex-tape star Myla Sinanaj.

  • Babysit My Ass

    In April, after a battery of tests, at age three and a half, my firstborn son was diagnosed on the autism spectrum. I should have realized something was up when he lined 34 pancake bites across his highchair tray equidistant apart from each other in a...

  • Skateable Art Is Not a Crime

    Skateboarders have been ticketed or arrested for street skating for decades, but the progressive city of Seattle is hoping to change that by creating 26 pieces of skateable art around the city that people can skate without fear of being Maced and...

  • Ed Templeton’s Huntington Beach

    For a skateboarder growing up on the East Coast in the 80s and 90s, Huntington Beach seemed like ground zero. When I finally visited after turning 18, it was like Hitler had won the war. Blonde and blue-eyed was the norm and Army/Navy stores sold Nazi...

  • My Favorite Street Photographer Is a Fireman from Camden

    Gabe Angemi is a second-generation fireman in one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in America: Camden, New Jersey. Gabe’s photos are reminiscent of WeeGee’s, in that he often arrives on the scene of a fire or crime before the police. The photos...

  • Tony Hawk's Son Is a Stoner

    Riley Hawk, like all white, teenage Americans, makes stoner rock in his garage and is afraid of big-booty video girls. Unlike other rich stoner kids, though, he actually does stuff. I talked to him about why he sucks at being rich.

  • Inside the Writer's Studio

    Former pro skater Scott Bourne moved to Paris to write the next great American novel.

  • Help Put Strippers Through College

    For just dollars a minute you can help feed a starving cam girl! They’ll do anything you want for $10, just no transcribing interviews.

  • A Quicky with Farrah Abraham and Chris Nieratko

    I am no longer a hoarder. As a child I amassed thousands of comic books. In my teenage years it was 'Star Wars' toys. In my 20s I sought out old, classic skateboards. Then I turned 30, got married, had kids, and realized I don’t care to have crap...