A project two years in the making has brought the spirit of skateboarding’s origins back to the sport’s birthplace. On June 30, the California Heritage Museum launched its exhibit "Dogtown and the ...

Without a decaying coastal resort area called Dogtown, a pack of rebel rollers known as the Z-Boys, and a 1970s drought that left California swimming pools bone dry, who knows where modern ...

Lords of Dogtown is an odd, disorienting commodity — a fictional version of a documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s Venice, California, that was written by the man ...

I’ve lived in Venice nearly 20 years, and while much has changed, the history and influence of skate and surf culture has remained. You can still meet legends walking the Boardwalk and see the best ...

The most compelling element of Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta’s valentine to a crew of footloose Southern California teenagers who set a radical new style in skateboarding in the 1970s, is the ...

There's such a frenetic, freestyle buzz to the construction of Dogtown and Z-Boys that it might be easy to overlook an apparently mundane detail: the absence of opening credits. Dogtown dives into its ...