For the past 15 years, documentary photographer Karen Ballard has been working on a long-term project about Venice, a vibrant ...

Venice Beach Skate Park to open Saturday. Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Geri Lewis and Jesse Martinez will be among the professional and amateur skateboarding aficionados on hand today to christen the new ...

Volunteers remove sand from the Venice Skate Park on May 25. The park had been filled with sand since late April. Getty Images Professional skateboarder Paul Rodriguez wasn't surprised at all that ...

Venice Beach Skate-O-Rama By Malingering. Published Jun 21, 2007 11:00 PM Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise ...

At Sunset Dunes Park, San Francisco now has its first and only beachside skateboarding space with the addition of new ...

Not everyone is observing COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Ongoing offenders at the Venice Beach skate park pushed the Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation to fill the park with sand.

Katy Viola catching air while aggressive skating at a skate park at Venice Beach in Los Angeles. The sport, also called in-line street skating, had its heyday in the 1990s but has started to re ...

Worldwide, the image of the Venice Beach babe gliding along the boardwalk wearing nothing but a bikini top, ... * Hermosa Beach Skate Track. 710 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach (310) 318-0280.

Venice Beach can remain the “Skating Capital of the World.” The city council voted 9 to 1 Tuesday to begin a repeal of the decade-old ban on roller skating and skateboarding along Ocean Front ...

Skate meet-ups in large cities are common — outside the Louvre Museum in Paris, for instance, or in Venice Beach, California, where skaters have congregated for decades.

How Venice Beach's Second/Layer Is Taking Skate Style To the Runway. The rising brand designs essentials with a healthy dose of that laid-back, California f*ck-it attitude.