Skateboarding

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 >>

8 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: October 19-20

Matt & Kim House of Blues, October 19 Infectious pop, bright-eyed wonder and criminally catchy hooks have made Matt & Kim one of the best live acts to emerge out of the Aughties. The duo -- keyboardist Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino -- feed off the energy of the crowd, and usually end up in ... More >>

Skatestock

Deep Time Goes on a Ghostly Holiday in "Gold Rush"

As the resident goth expert I am required to morbidly obsess about death for a certain number of hours a year in order to maintain my license. Luckily, Austin's Deep Time has come through with a new video directed by Cassandra Hamilton that explores the afterlife in such a wonderful, darkly humorous ... More >>

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

Celebrity Tech Endorsements: 5 Cool and 5 Highly Annoying Examples Of Product Pimpage

Celebrity endorsements are nothing new. They have been around as long as there were celebrities and companies willing to pay them to say they smoked Kool's or drove Chevy, or force us to explain to children and the elderly why we would giggle every time we saw the milk-stained upper lip of a famous ... More >>

SXSW: Lil Wayne's YMCMB Showcase At Austin Music Hall

​"I believe in three things: I believe in God; I believe that I ain't shit without you, and I believe that I ain't shit without you!" - Lil Wayne to his fans After being shut out of the T.I./B.O.B show at La Zona Rosa by order of the fire marshal, I headed over to see Lil Wayne at the Austin Mu ... More >>

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 >>

Austin Men Jailed After Skateboard-Whipping Photographer for Mohawk Shot

This guy's hair is impervious to photography.​You'd think Johnathan Washburn would dig it when strangers snapped his picture. After all, his unusual triple-Mohawk hairstyle seems like little more than a 24-7 "look-at-me" adornment, or possibly even a cry for help. According to this American-S ... More >>

Agent Orange

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

Jacob Isom: Skateboarder Stop Koran-Burning, But What About The Houston Boycott?

This video, of an Amarillo skateboarder stopping a local wingnut pastor from burning the Koran, has gone viral.But in the course of its viral-ness we've learned the bookburning Man of Faith is none other than the guy who called for a boycott of Houston after it elected Annise Parker -- who is a les ... More >>

Tarp Surfing: Pipeline Tubes Coming To A Parking Lot Near You

Wait! Where's your tarp?​It may be storm season in the Gulf, but so far the local breaks have been far from fruitful. For stir-crazy surfers looking for their tube-riding fix, you may want to look no further than that massive blue (or black, for an authentic Gulf surfing experience) tarp folded up ... More >>

Skate & Rock No. 3

4th Annual KBR Kids Day on Buffalo Bayou

Splish, splash the day away on the banks of the Sabine Promenade

Babes on Boards

Sisters are doing it by themselves

3rd Annual Rock the Cradle for Johnny Romano Memorial Contest

Skateboarders remember one of their own

Ace of Skates

BooTown gets you off your ass and out of the theater

PBS's Guru Of Extreme Skateboarding Twinkies & Ants Wearing Pants

Lois Bernstein​Skateboarding Twinkies, ninja squirrels and space hamsters are making their way to Houston, with Commander Mark leading the way. Things might get a little weird. Mark Kistler, the self-styled Bob Ross of children's art, will be holding drawing camps in the area over the next two we ... More >>

Roundwall Rumble Skateboard Contest

Local kids grind out a win at today’s open call competition

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!

Galveston's Skate Park Gets A New Name, For A Great Kid

Photo by Eric SausedaGalveston had a ceremony recently naming their skatepark after Johnny Romano, a 10-year-old skater who died last year after fighting leukemia."He would be embarrassed we were making such a fuss over him," Rhonda Gregg, a family friend who spearheaded construction of the skate pa ... More >>

Babes on Boards

Web exclusive!

Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark Give-a-way

Web exclusive!

Bayousphere

To Do: Grand Opening for Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark

Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark Grand Opening

Houston’s first public skate park is ready for business

Cuervo, Cuervo

CD Review

Skating By

Get On Board

Spray-On Soul

Getting Up is a flawed but fascinating ode to graffiti's early years

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

Rock and Roll High School

Vans Warped, Class of '04

Do the Indie Thing

WorldFest celebrates the obscure

Smoking the Halfpipe

Top skateboarders, BMXers and motocrossers do trippy tricks

Free-Falling

H-town skydiving options

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

Best Skate Park

Vans Skate Park

Skate or Die

In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

Man, Oh Man! Another Tie?

Men's gifts

Hot Wheels

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

News from Nowhere

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