skateboarding
House of Vans warehouse in Brooklyn hosts concerts (and is a skate park) -- pics
“Vans made a power move into Brooklyn Saturday October 18, 2010 and unveiled its new, state-of-the-art event space, the House of Vans, opening it’s doors to 900 of New York’s skate community…
No Age played skate parties @ KCDC & Don Hill's (pics & video)
No Age paid a visit to NYC on Friday for not one, but two Skateboarding-related shows. Earlier in the evening they played on the halfpipe at KCDC Skateshop in Williamsburg in Brooklyn…
No Age played with 'The Bear' @ The New Museum, and w/ Spike Jonze & skaters @ a MoMa PopRally event (pics)
Just got back from NYC. I made a special trip up to the Big Apple to check out “An Evening of Skate Videos” – an event held by Poprally in support of the Moma’s exhibit honoring the work of Spike Jonze, co-owner of Girl Skateboards and director of “Video Days” (the epic Blind Skateboards video), and director of “Where the Wild Things Are…
MoMA Spike Jonze exhibition w/ another NYC No Age show
No Age and Spike Jonze are both involved in an upcoming PopRally event at MoMA happening October 15th. For the night, “An Evening of Skate Videos,” the museum “invited Patrick O’Dell (Epicly Later’d) to assemble an evening of influential skateboarding videos from the 1980s to today — including Jonze’s own legendary contributions to the genre — and to bring together a panel of significant skateboarders and filmmakers, including Jonze himself, to discuss their work…
Andy Kessler, RIP
“It is with a heavy heart that we report the untimely death of NYC skateboard legend Andy Kessler. Kessler, 49, died on Monday night from cardiac arrest due to an allergic reaction to a wasp sting he sustained on Montauk, Long Island…
Wavves broke his wrist skateboarding, but is still scheduled to play Bowery, P4K Fest, a skate park benefit...
Pitchfork reports that Nathan Williams of/aka Wavves “broke his wrist in a skateboarding accident” on July 12th.
Despite that, Williams is still scheduled to go on with his upcoming shows, the first of which is tomorrow, Wednesday, July 15th at Bowery Ballroom in NYC…
Janelle Monae played the Afro Punk Festival w/ Saul Williams (pics), playing Governors Island w/ Erykah Badu
“The other day I attended the Afro-Punk Festival at the BAM skate park. I had the pleasures of seeing Janelle Monae and Saul Williams. There were also cats skating around and doing tricks…
