Austin Stephens and posse came up with an awesome skate vid—seemingly homemade but with expert tricks and moves. It features probably the dopest use of Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” we’ve heard in a minute, too. And while the skills on display here prove ultra smooth…

If we have dwelled too much on Mr. Hawthorne lately, it is because it’s deserved. Mayer Hawthorne’s has a compelling story also. Brought up in the shadow of Motown gives him auto street cred, but the fact that he’s a white male version of Sharon Jones boggles. Sorta.

Adjoining Santa Monica’s famous Dogtown, it ain’t no surprise that Venice, California is equally as central to the rise of skateboarding. While street and pool skating has always been strong in the beach town, what’s puzzling, however, is that Venice skaters never had their own park…

While the untidy drawings and adjoining texts may seem the work of a snotty adolescent, if you haven’t discovered and read David Shrigley you are missing a healthy dose of absurdist, slightly disturbed and dead on cultural commentary seemingly absent in print since Matt Groenig.

Speculation is that on the occasion of the annual ‘Go Skateboarding Day’, Dogtown (Venice), the legendary birthplace to the sport (as we know it), will receive a new skatepark. The boardwalk in Venice has always been a place for freestylers to congregate, and old schoolers to longboard, but saw the demolishment of the Pavilion in 2000.