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Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up some dust in Waterloo Park while Carlos Santana sets up shop in the Warehouse District
"...alternative side attractions such as screen-printing booths and a skateboard half-pipe...."
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Nov. 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell
Graveyard: Ungrateful Are We the Dead
Graveyard
"...I think overall very good. Vice magazine and some skateboard magazine hated on it. They didn’t like it. But..."
Sept. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Seven Sci-Fi Rock Flicks
Bowie, Kiss, Flaming Lips, Guitar Wolf, Frank N. Furter, and Marty McFly: celluloid rockers
"...a punk rock hero. Look: 1) He rides a skateboard everywhere, 2) he gets off fighting jocks in button-down..."
July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Steep
The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.
"...Simpsons based an episode around Bart's "extreme" personality and skateboard prowess. So Obenhaus' documentary on extreme, "big mountain" skiing..."
March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Photos from Art on Deck Opening!
"...will host “Art on Deck,” an exhibit of selected skateboards on loan from local private collector Warren McKinney. “This..."
Feb. 12, 2008 Events Post
Flipper, Baby
Flipper flaps live, plus a skate-or-die benefit ollies into in town.
"...Art Authority, one of Austin's newest venues, hosts a skateboard art show and benefit for the Austin EcoSchool. In..."
Feb. 6, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder
Pearl Jam
Gift guide
"...moments with guitarist Mike McCready's tattoos, bassist Jeff Ament's skateboard escapes, and the singer's eight-track machine ("It keeps me..."
Dec. 21, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Terrible One Hosts Benefit for Skateboarder
"...their friend Jimmy Levan who was in a serious skateboard accident last month that left him in a coma..."
Dec. 12, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan
Australian Cattle God
Who Let the Gods Out?
"...to unconventional promo items like a limited-edition Gorch Fock skateboard, which has since sold out. The label also has..."
Oct. 19, 2007 Music Feature by Greg Beets
Attack of the Teenagers
"...I’m back from the skateboard store. I’ll leave shortly to go to Walmart to..."
Sept. 18, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser
Firehouse Dog
A Hollywood pooch gets lost during a stunt and ends up a stray outside a downtown firehouse captained by a single dad with a stubborn school-skipping son.
"...silk robes and did computer-animated stunts and rode a skateboard and farted a lot. All these things were supposed..."
April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
'SXSW Presents'
"Pedal"
"...a subculture rarely recognized by the public. On a skateboard with a camera strapped to his helmet, Sutherland follows..."
Feb. 9, 2007 Screens Feature
Pharrell
Record review
"...the sophomoric lusts and laurels of Pharrell's cartoonish alter-ego Skateboard P. While such a lighthearted world-view might infuse a..."
Sept. 1, 2006 Music Review by Robert Gabriel
First Descent
This vertiginous documentary about snowboarding talks with the sport's greats and shows them in action, rocketing down crag-encrusted, virgin slopes like buckshot fired from God’s own 20-gauge.
"...stuck, though, since I ended up glued to a skateboard from for a solid decade beginning in 1984.) This..."
Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Wierup, a junior, normally arrived at school on his skateboard, having taken the bus from South Austin, Wilson said...."
Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature
True Today
Randy 'Biscuit' Turner's final interview
"...AC: How did the whole Big Boys/skateboarding thing come along?..."
Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Making Biscuit
Punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner serves art 24/7
"...DIY renaissance was to form the Big Boys with skateboard pals Tim Kerr and Chris Gates. He proved a..."
Aug. 19, 2005 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Lords of Dogtown
This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.
"...that if you’re even the least bit interested in skateboarding, Z-Boys is mandatory viewing. That said, this narrative re-creation..."
June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Remembrance of Things Weird
Nancy Higgins' 'Viva Les Amis'
"...I cajoled my mom into buying me my first skateboard, a baby blue Zorlac double-cut, with Pushead's shrunken head..."
April 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Everybody Loves a Wynn-er
Will Wynn is his own flavor of ice cream -- pure vanilla, but mixed with nuts
"...led the charge to get $150,000 for a city-funded skateboard park...."
Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Gadgets and Gizmos
From digital derring-do to super sculpey miniatures, imagination turns into mind-blowing matter in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
"...type of director not above using a wheelchair or skateboard to get that dolly shot when a traditional dolly..."
Aug. 9, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Freewheelin’
"...and Z-Boys get you all revved up about the skateboard craze? Then tune in to this back-in-the-day relic that..."
June 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Page Two
An exhilarating account of how the Zephyr Skating team changed skateboarding forever, Dogtown and Z-Boys finally opens at Dobie on Friday; in a summer of some truly great movies, it's a ripping piece of street storytelling not to be missed, even if you don't care about the sport.
"...and Venice where the Zephyr Team came together, changing skateboarding forever. Adapting surfing techniques and style to skateboarding, this..."
May 31, 2002 Column by Louis Black
Max Keeble's Big Move
"...same cult cachet (its cameo appearances top out with skateboarder Tony Hawk and pint-sized rapper Lil' Romeo), so its..."
Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Where Are They Now?
The future of Music Televison
"...back 120 Minutes, the music channel was soon airing skateboard competitions left over from ESPN. However, it did inspire..."
Aug. 3, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Skate Listings
"...has, thus far, exhibited a rather closed mind on skateboarding, rollerblading, and generally having a nice time by way..."
May 11, 2001 Features Feature by Shadrock Roberts
SXSW Film Reviews
Peter Sutherland's film about New York city bike messengers is that rare documentary that allows the viewer to live the spectacle rather than view it.
"...a subculture rarely recognized by the public. On a skateboard with a camera strapped to his helmet, Sutherland follows..."
March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson
The Stingers
"...was like musical Cheez-Whiz aimed squarely at the kiddie skateboard set. Dig these Stingers, though; straight out of the..."
Feb. 2, 2001 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw
Alive and Kicking
Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.
"...the Audience Documentary Award) for his sizzling history of skateboard culture. Using an impressive stash of old 8mm and..."
Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Studios Takes Flight
The past year has been witness to an amazingly cooperative tag-team project between the Austin Film Society, the Austin City Council, and the Mueller Neighborhood Coalition that -- as of now -- has resulted in a superstar studio setup that could well change the very fabric of filmmaking in Austin.
"...Henry Rollins, old skool rapper Kool Moe Dee, and skateboard icon Tony Hawk all rehearsing their lines one day..."
