Extreme Sports

Top Five Things to Do in Houston Sports This Weekend: Dirt, Clay, Mud and Cheerleaders

TGIF, my children. It's time to rev up the weekend and get yo butt in gear. You may want to lie around on your couch watching the Final Four or spend some time absorbing "culture" at a "museum." I say blow all that crap out of the water with an ass kicking good time like any red blooded American. Ho ... More >>

Largest Skate Park in America Being Built Near Greenspoint

When I tell people I grew up near Greenspoint, they jokingly respond, "Oh, you mean Gunspoint?" Thing is, I'm old. Well, I'm not OLD old, but I'm old enough to have grown up in a neighborhood just north of Greenspoint Mall that was more like living in the country than a demilitarized zone as it beca ... More >>

Skatestock

Spike Jonze's Top 9 Music Videos

There's no doubt that Spike Jonze is an enigma of a director and artist. He's worked in all types of mediums: he filmed bullriders at the Astrodome, changed the world of skateboard videography, and visually recreated the brilliance of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are. Plus, he's made us al ... More >>

Wayward Son: The Jordan Richter Story

Monster Energy AMA Supercross

Two Local Helmetless Teen Skaters Suffer Life-Threatening Brain Injuries

​Tara Csatlos is 16 years old, but her vision is equivalent to a 40-year-old's. In the past year, she has almost died several times, traveled back and forth to Illinois to see medical specialists and dropped out of spring semester at Cypress Woods High School. All of this due to a freak skateb ... More >>

The Best Tony Hawk Video Game Soundtracks

​It sounds like heresy to most older folks, this writer included, but for about the past decade, a lot of younger gamers have been discovering punk rock, ska, and classic and indie hip-hop through the Tony Hawk series of skateboarding video games. The idea may be repellent to those of us who r ... More >>

Free Concerts Keep Skateboarding And Rock Connected

Disfrutalo!​"The genesis of the Skate & Rock Free Concert Series was to bring live music into our skate park," says Barry Blumenthal, a skater who helped put together the upcoming concert series and also assisted in raising funds to build the Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark just west of downtown. ... More >>

Johnny Romano Skate Jam: World's Largest Skatebording Charity Event

Photos by Taylor Turner​Every year Southside Skate Park brings together fans and amateur and professional skateboarders from all over the country to raise money for a good cause. South Shore Distribution hosted the 14th Annual Johnny Romano Skate Jam at Southside Skate Park Saturday, November ... More >>

GhoulsFest

No Boat, No Problem: Wakeboarding Alternative Coming To Houston Next Spring

Photo courtesy of Wake Nation"Uh, where's my boat?"​What's a wakeboarder to do when his access to a boat is strangled? Or when the local rivers, San Jacinto and Trinity, are closed off for, say, a piranha infestation? (Never say never!)Beginning in spring 2011, Houston wakeboarders, waterskiers an ... More >>

Skate & Rock No. 3

3rd Annual Rock the Cradle for Johnny Romano Memorial Contest

Skateboarders remember one of their own

Butthole Surfers

Ace of Skates

BooTown gets you off your ass and out of the theater

Summer Session at the Skatepark

Photo by Katharine ShilcuttThe Kingpinz Summer Session will soon be underway at the Lee & Joe Jamail Skatepark tomorrow afternoon. Skater or not, the contest will be fascinating to watch, as the two events -- grommet run and best trick throwdown -- will feature some of the slickest skatin ... More >>

21st Annual Young Inventors Showcase

Web exclusive!

Artist of the Week: Outspoken Bean

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. Photos courtesy of ... More >>

Art Rock: Butthole Surfers, Hell City Kings and Whorehound at Meridian Tonight

Bayousphere

Skating By

Get On Board

'Cue Up

Roll Aid

It's an all-day skate-apalooza at the Texas Skate Jam

Skate Bored

The Z-Boys roll into Dogtown again, and truth is cooler than fiction

Jane's a-DJ

Alterna-god Perry Farrell's been caught spinning

Ballsy Bikers

Supercross riders crash 'n' burn for your pleasure at Reliant Stadium

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of "big wave" surfing

Golden Boy

Morgan Faulkner may be the best surfer Texas ever kicked out

Biking Dirty

BMXers eat dirt and catch air

Do the Indie Thing

WorldFest celebrates the obscure

Smoking the Halfpipe

Top skateboarders, BMXers and motocrossers do trippy tricks

Long Shot Against Longhorns

Rice squares off against UT for first time this century

Chop Talk

Houston remains embroiled in what to do about Memorial Park

Idiot Savant

Brad Tucker retains a quirky, casual approach as he tinkers with his art

Reeling from Wheeling

Sleepy Waller wrestles over rights for skateboarders

Hell on Wheels

Breanna Brand rides out the legacy of Frog Town and family splits in her feisty race toward the BMX finish line

Best Skate Park

Vans Skate Park

Cruel Summer

Looking for fun? Crush will leave you blue.

Best Adventure Race Series

Texas State Championship Sprint Adventure Races

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

Mood Over Matter

Taking the Waves

A tale of love, life and longboarding

Biked Out

Time may be up for the Ho Chi Minh Trail

News from Nowhere

Clearing the desk for the New Year, and other excuses for a column

Letters

Surfing Safari

Bruce Brown goes back to the beach to hang ten, again

Letters

Panic in Memorial Park

Cyclists say wait Ho Chi Minh-ute