Skateboard legend and award-wining filmmaker Stacy Peralta recently shared a compelling insight as part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Speaker Series. He noted that when he inadvertently created ...

Long-running video game franchises all have to start somewhere, and it’s not always pretty. Looking back to that origin point can show us not just how the greats began, but how far they’ve come since.

Skateboarding legend Stacy Peralta’s latest documentary, “Bones Brigade: An Autobiography,” is like a high school reunion, filled with affectionate memories of an earlier, more innocent, time. The ...

Jeff Grosso, a skateboarder from Arcadia who rose to the heights of greatness in the 1980s before falling to the depths of despair and eventually making a comeback, died Tuesday at Hoag Hospital in ...

If art imitates life, the evolution of skateboarding video games isn't too far off from the progression timeline of our beloved culture. It started in the '80s, with the boneless being the only way to ...

In 2007, Bay View's Andy Maske created a Web site called skateboard-stickers.com to showcase his thousands of vintage skateboard stickers. Today, it is possibly the largest online museum of ...

Stacy Peralta, a ’70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right — and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — It’s a sport that gained popularity in the 1950s when kids took the wheels off roller skates and nailed them to a 2x4 and hoped for the best. Hit a pebble and off you go! So ...