Skateboarding
The Trials and Tribulations of Building a Skatepark in India
Holy Stoked, a small collective based in Bangalore, India, is working to create a community of skaters in a country where many people have never even seen a skateboard. Parks are important to any young skate scene, so Holy Stoked got some funding and...
Inside the Writer's Studio
Former pro skater Scott Bourne moved to Paris to write the next great American novel.
'The House Video' Is the Best Skate Video of the Year (So Far)
Skateboarders, generally speaking, are poor dirtbags, and so cramming seven or eight dudes into a three-bedroom apartment is a common arrangement in the skate world—one that isn't even typically a source of shame. Every once in a while, when the stars...
Marque Cox Has Prize-Winning Roach Clips
Cha Cha is a bar in Los Angeles that skateboarders flock to like degenerate humming birds to a humming bird feeder filled with rotgut whiskey. A few months ago the Skateboard Mag helped cement Cha Cha's status in the skateboard community by...
Pizza Party at the Good Company
For this week's Mahal, I headed over to the Good Company in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for a pizza party in celebration of Henry Gunderson's artwork. The Good Company opened six months ago. It was an idea birthed during an acid trip and its main...
Ryan Florig Blends Skate Photography with Guns, Weed, and Fire
Ryan Florig is an American in his mid-20s with a knack for the natural. Self-taught with disposable cameras, this Washington-based photographer thrives on the principles of street photography. He won't be found in the studio—most of his photo stories...
Jeff Grosso Has a Beautiful Mind
Is Jeff Grosso the last vestige of free speech in skateboarding? We don’t know, but we like the way he talks about drugs.
Shredding with Galen DeKemper
Galen DeKemper has been shredding New York City for the last decade. For this week's Taji's Mahal, I got to talk to him about his latest skateboarding video, 'MMM,' how Houston Bump and Gay Ledge are his favorite skate spots in the city, and the future...
So Long, Sieben
Attention riders of skateboard toys: it is with a mixture of happiness and bummertude that we can confirm Michael Sieben, artist and prolific writer of VICE articles, has accepted the job of managing editor at that old stalwart of skateboard rags...
Skateboarding's Most Violent Team Manager Has Mellowed Out
Deluxe Distribution's Mic-e Reyes has never kicked anyone off his team for smoking pot, but he has kicked a lot of ass over the years.
People Skateboard in St. Petersburg, Too
It's unfair, but when I think of Russia I think of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' snow, and old people who drink vodka to ward off pneumonia. But then I got a glimpse of Vika Mak's pictures and realized that wherever you are in the world, skating all day and...
My Friend Copied Eric Koston’s Face
Sure, in the grand scheme of things looking like Koston decidedly puts you on the B-list of celebrity impersonators. My friend hasn’t gotten laid for his face or been mobbed by throngs of adoring fans, but Supreme cleared out the store for him one time...