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 ...

In 2001, the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys memorialized the ratty, revolutionary surfing and skateboarding from the infamous Zephyr team out of Venice Beach, California. Guys like Jay Adams, Tony ...

In the summer of 1975, modern skateboarding was invented in the Santa Monica and Venice Beach areas of California. The young members of the Zephyr Team, sponsored by a permanently stoned surfboard ...

In the lively documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002), former skateboarding star Stacy Peralta told the story of the Zephyr Skate Team, the crew of shaggy southern California teenagers with whom he ...

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 ...

On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta's skateboarding documentary lit up Sundance, going on to earn an Audience Award in Park City. By Duane Bygre On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary ...