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Posted onJuly 30, 2012Editorials

Fake websites about Dyrdek and California Skateparks tell us what we already knew.

by MLJ14 Comments on Fake websites about Dyrdek and California Skateparks tell us what we already knew.

My feelings about how Rob Dyrdek and California Skateparks operate, and how that’s played out on the Roxhill project, are well documented here.  I won’t…

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Posted onJuly 13, 2012Call to Action

Skate For Change

by MLJ

  Skate for Change describes themselves as “a local group of skaters committed to giving back to the low-income & homeless in Seattle”, but in…

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Posted onSeptember 15, 2008October 9, 2008Other regions

Grindline brother injured on-site

by MLJ

Grindline crewman and long-time skater and park builder Chad Vogt was badly burned in a freak accident on -site in Sand Diego. Everyone please send…

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Posted onJanuary 20, 2008January 20, 2008Other regions

Cal Skate owner runs for City Council

by MLJ

Howard Weiner, long-time Portland skateboarding supporter and proprietor of the infamous Cal Skate, is running for Sam Adams‘ seat on the City Council. The Cal…

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Posted onAugust 26, 2007Other regions

NYT: For Skate Parks, It’s a Material World

by MLJ

The New York Times published an excellent piece today on the relationship between thoughtful design, skater involvement, and the long-term success of skateparks.

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Posted onJuly 23, 2007July 23, 2007Other regions

Skate Uganda. Nyo!

by MLJ

It’s official: Kitintale, a working class suburb in Uganda, now has more public skateable terrain than Seattle. Now what they need is some skateboards. In…

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Posted onJune 27, 2007July 5, 2007Call to Action

CTA: Police brutality in Arkansas

by MLJ

Several young skateboarders were treated with unreasonable predjudice by police officer Joey Williams on Go Skateboarding Day in Hot Springs, Arkansas. As the SPAC begins…

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Posted onJune 25, 2007June 28, 2007Other regions

Sunset Beach Switcheroo

by MLJ

Suddenly it seems as though Seattle’s skateboarders, who have been on the receiving end of every conceivable raw deal possible, are not alone in the…

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