Need something to do tonight?

June 19th, 2011 | 1:02 pm | Daily News | 3 Comments

Deathbowl to Downtown Screening at the Ace Hotel

Most people reserve Sunday evenings for staring at TV screens (unless, you know, you actually skateboard), but the Sunday primetime grid is usually empty in the summer and basketball season is over. So if you’re looking for something to do tonight, and haven’t seen Deathbowl to Downtown yet, they’re screening it over at the Ace Hotel on 29th Street and Broadway. (N train to 28th Street and walk up one block, or B, D, F, M, N, R, Q, W to Herald Square and walk down five blocks.) Happy hour from 8 to 9 P.M. The documentary itself starts at 9 and runs for about 80-90 minutes.

We can nitpick about omissions and stuff being glossed over all we want, but when it comes down to it, it’s amazing that something like this was actually thought of, and executed so well. Hell, even twelve-hour Ken Burns documentaries leave things out, and Deathbowl does a great job with what details it chose to dwell upon in its eighty-minute runtime. If you have any interest in skateboarding history, or even the cultural history of New York, and you haven’t seen it, you probably should.

Trailer here. Ryan Hickey Deathbowl outtakes at the bottom of this post.

Lurkers 1 Screening This Thursday

July 28th, 2010 | 9:18 am | Daily News | No Comments

On Thursday, July 28th at 8 PM, they will be showing the original Lurkers video from 2003 at Mollusk Surf Shop on the corner of Metropolitan Avenue and River Street in Williamsburg. It is meant to accompany a screening of a surf film called Sea of Joy, and will also include a few other videos Joe Cups and Sam had made throughout the years. It’s an outdoor environment that is open container friendly insofar as you’re not waving it at cops. There will be some a barbecue to go along with it as well.

The version of Lurkers being shown is the original version that was premiered after EST3 at KCDC back in 2003, and not the modified version that was a bonus feature on the second run of Lurkers 2 DVDs. This version was only available on VHS from Autumn and Supreme and is widely under-seen, especially among those of us who were fourteen when it came out. (No, it is not on YouTube.)

To get there, you can take the L to Bedford Avenue, skate south on Bedford until you hit Metropolitan, make a right, and take Metropolitan all the way west to River Street, right around where you’d hit the water. Map here.