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The article focuses on Carolina Altamirano left her home in Oaxaca City, Mexico, where she had been skateboarding for nine years, in search of opportunities to build her skateboarding career.

Announces that Danny Way won the gold in the X Games skateboarding competition held in Los Angeles, California.

The article reports on the debut of skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan with no age limit for girls as young as 11, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Topics mentioned include the significance of IOC's decision to elite skateboarder Kendra Long, two types of skateboarding events to be included in the Olympics, and the Park Skateboarding World Championships in São Paulo, Brazil.

The article discusses the dark side of skateboarding as shown in the case of security guard Dan Jansen, who had a permanent brain damage after a confrontation with skateboarders. Topics covered include the need for the sport to stop glorifying conflicts with security workers, the proliferation of videos that celebrated altercations with security guards homeowners and pedestrians and the repercussions for the sport. It also cites the sports' identification with rebellion.

The article focuses on Alexis Sablone, the 34-year-old skater from Brooklyn, had the best view and had been in contention for a medal, a bit to her surprise, and watched as girls less than half her age competed to win at the Olympics.

The article reports on the increase in skateboarding parks in New York City and other cities. It mentions how skateboarding has moved into mainstream culture, the parks as a form of sculpture and public space, and the contribution of skateboarders in the development of skateparks.

The article reports that petition is asking the Parks Department not to cover a patch of asphalt in Tompkins Square Park in New York and mentions that the Department of Parks & Recreation is planning to lay down turf to accommodate hundreds of children who play organized softball and baseball.

The article discusses Alexis Sablone, American architect with including information on her hometown in Old Saybrook, Connecticut; her latest projects; and she is known for goofy footed competitive skate boarder.

The article discusses the Brujas, a New York City crew of minority female skateboarders founded by Arianna Gil in 2014. Topics include the emotional support that the group provides for its members, the impact of gentrification on skateboarding in neighborhoods such as Washington Heights, and and the group's activist efforts to speak out against gentrification and promote a sense of community among minority youths.

A correction is presented to the article about a new mobile application (app) for matches users with professional skateboarders and skiers for skateboarding which appeared in the March 11, 2018 issue.

The article offers information on the Unity Skateboards founded by artist Jeffrey Cheung in Oakland, California which feature a number of LGBT people who were involved in skateboarding.

The article offers information on several topics based on New York City written by readers of the issue including a help from a skateboarder, watermelon offered by a juggler and the accent of three woman who were from Bronx, New York.

The article reports on professional skateboarder Brian Anderson who revealed himself being gay on a video posted on the website Vice Sports.

This article reports on the Mega Ramp built in the backyard of Bob Burnquist, a professional skateboarder. The ramp is 360 feet long and has two ramps at this point, with a third coming, with a fifty foot gap between the short roll-in and the ramp, with a seventy foot gap between the ramp and the long roll-in. It is as tall as an eight-story building. Burnquist anticipates incorporating the structure into his organic farm.

The article looks at how younger athletes in actions sports such as skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing and motocross are often forced to let their education suffer in lieu of their careers. According to the author, most young athletes are entering home schooling, independent studies or sports academies, if they choose not to drop out of school altogether. Comments regarding the issue from various athletes are included.

Focuses on Steve Rodriguez, a skateboarder in New York since 1983 who is helping the city design a new park. The location of the "Brooklyn Banks" that skateboarders from around the world use; The reason he got involved with the park project; New York City's appeal to skateboarders; Background on Rodriguez who founded a company that designs decks for skateboards; His association with Bob Redmond, the Parks Department's director of capital projects for Manhattan.

Discusses how skateboarding has changed into a mainstream youth sport. Reference to "Lords of Dogtown," a film about young Southern California skateboards in the mid-1970s, whose speed and agility changed the sport; How skateboarding began as a marginalized activity, prohibited by many communities; Observations on the new breed of skateboarders; Scope of the sport; The decreased dedication to the sport; Comments of Iain Borden, author of "Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body"; Growth of skateboarding parks nationwide; How some churches are supporting the once rebellious sport; Views of veteran skateboarders, including Tony Alva.

Six members of two restless clans called the Street Ninjas and Gravity Pac circled each other at Grand Central Terminal, where they sniffed each other, taking in numbers, collective stature and most important, sneakers. Satisfied the Ninjas, fro Hyde Park on Long Island, and the Pac, from Putman and Westchester Counties, started clasping hands, knocking elbows and throwing down French slang. Parkour, a suburb in Paris is crowded by sneaker-clad teenagers who began navigating public places as skateboarders might, but without skateboards.

The article focuses on the 29-year-old professional skateboarder Alex Olson, who has a unisex clothing line.

The article focuses on the performance of a professional snowboarder and skateboarder, Shaun White during the opening of the Winter X Games, held at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado from January 19-25, 2015.

An obituary for skateboarder Jay Adams is presented.

An obituary for skateboarder Jay Adams is presented.

The article focuses on Paul Hoffman, the president and chief executive of Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey. Hoffman states that he always checks the weather online and he could consider himself as addicted to Foursquare. He says that he goes to McCarren Park in New York with his son to watch skateboarders and cyclists doing stunts. He mentions that he watch movie at Netflix and he is thinking of writing a book on deception.

The article reviews the play "Red, Black & Green: A Blues," by Mark Bamuthi Joseph, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City.

The article reports that hundreds of skateboarders in New York have resisted a decision by a New York Supreme Court judge declaring that the Broadway Bomb race is unlawful. It notes that Judge Geoffrey D. Wright signed an order directing Ian Nichols, the race organizer, to cancel the event because the race lack permit. It stresses that the race went on despite the court ruling with little incident in Manhattan, New York City.

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Over the last decade this city of 60,000 invested $76 million to erase memories of the malaise that had settled over its downtown. Not long ago, Main Street was a place to avoid, a skateboarder's paradise with little but concrete sidewalks and ratty parking lots. The grand Poinsett Hotel, built in 1925, stood vacant and was occupied by squatters. That money has bought newly paved streets, landscaped sidewalks, lighting fixtures and multistory parking garages. During the day office workers and tourists pop in and out of art galleries and boutiques, stopping for a chat in a coffee shop and taking in public spaces that include quirky sculpture and flagstones inscribed with quotations from figures like Oscar Wilde and Malcolm Forbes. At night, there are restaurants and bars for residents, some of whom live downtown, and guests who stay at the hotel, now restored and called the Westin Poinsett. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Larry Stevenson was working as a lifeguard in Southern California in the early 1960s when he noticed surfers darting around a parking lot on crude skateboards cobbled together from planks and roller skates on days when the waves were tame. Mr. Stevenson, an avid swimmer and surfer, thought he could do better. He began building boards shaped like surfboards in his garage, and sure enough, they offered a superior ride. By 1963, demand was so high he created a company to mass-produce them, Makaha, named for a famous Hawaiian surf beach. His designs revolutionized skateboarding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shaun White, the professional snowboarder and skateboarder, and his brother, Jesse, have designed boards and performance clothing and gear for Burton, and what they call ''off-mountain'' clothing for Target, for more than three years. Later this month, Target will introduce his latest creative endeavor: the Shaun White home collection, a line of bedding, lighting and home accessories inspired by skating, snowboarding, travel, music and art. Although he is only 25, the two-time Olympic gold medalist has already owned three homes. But while his tastes may have matured since he bought the first one, the youthful energy of skate and snow culture is still evident in his home furnishings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Seamlessly dovetailing style and subject, ''Dragonslayer,'' a poetic and affectionate portrait of the professional skateboarder Josh Sandoval, known as Skreech, vivifies a subculture of random hedonism and future myopia. Returning to the sport after an unexplained hiatus, Mr. Sandoval, intermittently wasted and admittedly self-destructive, wanders from Southern California to Arizona and from Copenhagen to Portland, Ore., with no real goals beyond wanting to ''see things.'' Oblivious to materialism -- vague mentions of sponsors are never elaborated on, and home is usually a tent pitched wherever -- he competes at ragtag gatherings and wipes out painfully and often. Bongs are hit and brews pounded, stomach contents expelled and injuries sustained; but over the course of 11 scrappy chapters virtually nothing changes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LOS ANGELES NECK FACE banged a metal pipe on the side of a blacked-out doorway, jumping out at unsuspecting passers-by to shout, ''Aaarrgh!'' Banksy floated anonymously (or so went the rumor) around the perimeter of a room dominated by a huge cathedral window the graffiti artist had scrawled with spray paint. Skateboarders skidded off geometric ramps designed by Lance Mountain and Geoff McFetridge just inside the entrance of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as an art mob filed in from a brisk evening and up a ramp into the enveloping graffiti world of ''Art in the Streets,'' the first major American museum exhibition devoted to street art, and a first for an occasionally controversial museum director making a debut. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. -- Chance Gaul cannot drive a car yet. He is only 14. But he is already the fastest thing on wheels around here. While Porsches and Mercedes-Benzes precariously descend the windy canyon roads here at 25 miles per hour, Chance bombs down at 40, sometimes even 60 m.p.h. on his skateboard, savoring the sea breeze on his face. But this may be his last ride here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ryan Sheckler had a nearly flawless final run in Los Angeles to win his third gold medal in Skateboard Street. Sheckler went trick for trick in the final jam session with Nyjah Huston, who won silver with a performance that would have meant gold in most years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The message from the 14-year-old Tunisian skateboarder was curt. ''Totally wrong,'' he said of my French. My conjugation was off and I should study spelling. On a scale of one to five, he said, my French practice essay was worth a one. Then he disappeared into the anonymity of the Internet. If there is any truth to the old Russian proverb that enemies parrot yes while friends say no, then it is easy to form fast friendships on Livemocha.com, a Web site devoted to helping people learn languages by swapping messages over the Internet and then correcting each other's messages. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A photograph is presented which features Cara-Beth Burnside, skateboarder and snowboarder, who was the only woman competing in the master's division at the Vans Pro-tec Pool Party in Orange, California.

''THIS is what we don't need,'' Paul Sevigny said, groaning as he glanced up at a queue of honking taxis clogging the street in front of his new restaurant, Kenmare, in a quiet stretch of NoLIta. Standing outside the door where he was taking a cigarette break, Mr. Sevigny slumped his broad surfer's shoulders after an exhausting 24 hours -- he had been out until 4:30 a.m., D.J.'ing an event for Lexus and then organizing another at the nightclub Avenue, in addition to tending to Kenmare. His eyes were hooded, but his attire was buoyant: a smart Paul Stuart suit and a blue gingham shirt and knit tie by Charvet. His honey-blond hair, no longer the peroxide blond of the skateboarder who once built a half-pipe in his Connecticut backyard, was cropped on the sides, Wall Street style. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RYAN WASHINGTON, 21, said he can perform over 100 gravity-defying tricks on his skateboard, which has given him a place of honor at the local skate park. ''There is no limit to what you can do on a piece of wood with plastic wheels, he said. ''Whenever I master a trick, I feel like I am on top of the world.'' Mr. Washington, a member of the Lakota Sioux tribe, started skateboarding at age 14 and quickly fell in love with a sport that requires tenacity. Elaborate tricks can include dizzying midair flips and twists, and mastering them takes the discipline to get back on the board after falling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

That's the future of surfing. It's really in the air. KELLY SLATER, a nine-time world champion, on new moves inspired by skateboarding. [1] [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 1978, Steve Alba competed at the first professional pool skateboarding competition in Spring Valley, Calif., and won. On Sunday, in the final event of the X Games, Alba, 46, competed on the skateboard park Legends course, featuring pool elements, and finished ninth. With familiar faces and familiar course designs, skateboarding has come full circle. Added to the X Games last year, the skateboard park event has helped return skateboarding to its roots -- spawned in the deep ends of empty swimming pools -- while embracing the fastest-growing segment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE legendary skateboarder and prolific artist Mark Gonzales paints the way he skates -- exuberantly, on whatever surface he can find: canvas, construction paper, sawed-off skateboards, a bowler hat that his girlfriend, the fashion stylist Heathermary Jackson, gave him. ''I didn't want to wear it until I painted it,'' said Mr. Gonzales, whose array of work is now on view at Half Gallery on the Lower East Side. Entitled ''South West,'' the show, which nearly sold out on opening night, is inspired by Navajo rugs. (''I just like them,'' he explained, helpfully.) Their vivid patterns find their way into most of the pieces. A painting of Michael Jackson (left), done after the pop star's death, features burnt orange zigzags across his face. Farrah Fawcett, as Mr. Gonzales pointed out, already had a Southwest moment: ''That famous photo of her in the red swimsuit? She's sitting in front of a Navajo rug.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE last time Claire Bigbie, now 30, skateboarded in an empty pool, she was 24. But she can easily conjure the stomach-dropping sensation, the sound of the board rasping on the pool coping, the happy effort it took to carve up to that edge. It was a ''permission pool'' in San Francisco, meaning its owners had given the neighborhood skaters permission to skate there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On a recent morning, a 27-year-old skateboarder who goes by the name Josh Peacock peered into a swimming pool in Fresno, Calif., emptied by his own hands -- and the foreclosure crisis -- and flashed a smile as wide as a half-pipe. ''We have more pools than we know what to do with,'' said Mr. Peacock, who lives in Fresno, the Central Valley city where thousands of homes, many with pools behind them, are in foreclosure. ''I can't even keep track of them all anymore.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOST sports equipment is designed to be functional first, stylish second. For skateboarders, and their shoes, this pattern is often reversed. Skateboarders know that they will quickly destroy their footwear, but still don't always seek shoes that are indestructible. They are usually on the hunt for lightweight shoes that look cool, even if they are sure to be shredded in a month or less. Price tags of $60 or more do not seem to deter them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was the most memorable scene from the X Games last year, one that was equal parts horrifying and exciting. For Jake Brown, however, memories of his 45-foot fall during the skateboarding Big Air finals remain hazy. Brown, a 33-year-old professional skateboarder from Australia, returned to Staples Center on Tuesday and again rode the 62-foot-tall, 293-foot-long Mega Ramp. He was practicing for the Big Air finals that will kick off this year's Games on Thursday. It will be his first competition on a Mega Ramp since last year's Games. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On Monday, Day 4 of the Fourth Annual Afro-Punk Festival, the skateboarders made the most noise. Mostly small and sinewy, of varying races, unhelmeted and riding uniformly weathered boards, they moved in a swarm around the skate park in the parking lot across the street from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing the occasional trick, but mostly scooting around aimlessly, grateful for a place to while away the evening. Next came the BMX bikers, executing frightening tricks -- an X-up here, a 360 tail-whip there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

10 P.M. (HBO) DANA CARVEY: SQUATTING MONKEYS TELL NO LIES He's going to pump you up! No topic is off limits for Mr. Carvey (left) -- politics, government conspiracies, permissive parenting, Scientology, satanic rock music, you name it -- in this special featuring new material performed at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, Calif. No person, either, as Mr. Carvey conjures up Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush, Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Andy Rooney and Al Pacino. 7 P.M. (Sundance) WASSUP ROCKERS (2006) Larry Clark (''Kids'') peels back the layers on young Latino skateboarders in South Central Los Angeles like Jonathan (Jonathan Velasquez, playing a version of himself), whose pursuit of the perfect slope takes him on a bizarre 24-hour odyssey. Writing in The New York Times, Stephen Holden called Mr. Clark's film ''completely alive.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article informs that Shaun White, a skateboarder, has won an X Games gold medal in the skateboard vert event on a 13-foot tall halfpipe at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California on August 5, 2007. It is informed that White, who has won six gold medals at the winter X Games, has earned his first gold medal at the Summer X Games on August 5, 2007.

The article presents information on the X Games, which continue at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California through August 5, 2007. It is stated that the action sports involve limitless risks and there are no governing bodies to control them. Mentioning about a crash during the sports, it is stated that the audience were stunned when skateboarder Jake Brown fell five stories to the wooden Mega Ramp below him and got seriously injured.