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Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta Interviewed on SkateboardDirectory.com

Our mondo Dogtown * interview with Stacy Peralta *, Tony Alva *, and a few other East Coasters, touching on subjects including Tommy Guerrero *, Sean Penn *, Gator *, staying pure, Mark Gonzales *, Christian Hosoi *, and pool skating. (extract: ...into the inner cities now, you see black kids, Mexican kids, Salvadorian, Vietnamese...skateboarding. You...We got Asian, Mexican-American, we got black kids, Polish, whatever, you know, every walk...our fire was like Led Zeppelin * and Black Sabbath and Iggy Pop, and Ted Nugent...20 years. ?: Skate shops. T: Not the fly-by-night ones. There’s a lot of...) (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under Dogtown and Z-Boys, Lords of Dogtown, 2002 Archive, Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva)

Harold Hunter in the New York Times

Harold Hunter *, whose skateboarding prowess and outsize personality led him to modeling, movie roles, celebrity friendships and prominence in the downtown Manhattan scene, was found dead on Feb. 17 in the East Village housing project where he grew up. (extract: ...sneakers, and with him were his trademark black fedora and a skateboard. Hundreds of visitors...New York's skateboarding movement by recruiting black and Hispanic children and by introducing them...) (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2006 Archive, Harold Hunter)

Powell Team Update, April 2003

Powell * update mentioning skaters including Steve Caballero *, Pat Channita *, Jon Comer *, Moses Itkonen *, Rodney Jones *, Danny Wainwright *, Tony Manfre *, Tyler Hansen *, Silas Baxter-Neal *, Oliver Buchanan *, Jordan Hoffart *, Animal Chin *, and others. (extract: ...CAB Dragon deck. It comes with a black background and is SOC shape #135, K...) (Full Article) Search *
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The Skateboard, The City, and Socio-Spatial Censorship

Here Architect Iain Borden * discusses "skateboarding and socio-spatial censorship in the late twentieth century city" in his article "An Affirmation of Urban Life." Says Iain: "Cities are always places of contestation and contradiction, conflict and counter-cultural engagements. ... But of course cities are also places of power, and the contradiction between homogenization and fragmentation of urban space is continuously fought over, as urban managers of all kinds ... seek to dictate the character of social space. The urban practice of skateboarding is one such area which they seek to control." (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2003 Archive)

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