Heath Ledger may be the Val Kilmer of his generation. Under a hand-wrung mop of dirty blond hair and hiding behind an assortment of sunglasses and an inexplicably nasal SoCal sneer, Ledger chews ...

In the summer of 1975, modern skateboarding was invented in the Santa Monica and Venice Beach areas of California. The young members of the Zephyr Team, sponsored by a permanently stoned surfboard ...

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; ...

In 2001, the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys memorialized the ratty, revolutionary surfing and skateboarding from the infamous Zephyr team out of Venice Beach, California. Guys like Jay Adams, Tony ...

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, ...

In the lively documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002), former skateboarding star Stacy Peralta told the story of the Zephyr Skate Team, the crew of shaggy southern California teenagers with whom he ...