Hjalte. Jarmers. 2025 • 📷 Photo via Alex Pires
Golden Hour is a great, 19-minute New York scene video by Perry Scardigno, featuring a ton of “where is that spot?!” clips — assuming you can even think about skate spots right now. (Jk, K Bridge is a go at least.) Also has a sick Ricki Twohill part at the end.
“My dog was the one that originally found my cancer four years ago — she kept trying hit me in the nuts while we were playing and hit me really fucking good.” Ian Browning’s great “Rules of Skateboarding” series has formally moved from Village Psychic to Skate Bylines, and the newest installment is with TJ Rogers about the rules of publicly sharing personal things with fans of your skateboarding.
“I kind of want to skate for a brand because it’s like, ‘Okay, she has good clips!'” Free has an interview with Stella Aiha on the occasion of the new part that she dropped with Eetu Lilja.
“That’s why I use Rob Dyrdek’s Daily Affirmations Calendar, now available at select Subway sandwich franchises.” Fred Gall curates the latest Bronze 56k Radio mix.
37 minutes of grainy, crusty, snowy, beautiful Pittsburgh skateboarding in BORDIS & BORDUS, a mixtape (as opposed to a video!) by Jay Pitser and friends.
Our correspondent Adam Abada shared his grilled chicken recipe with Skate Jawn.
Ish Cepeda remixed his own part from the start of the year.
“The ‘State of Skate Studies’ aims to bring together as much of that scholarly work as possible into one handy, easy-to-navigate resource, along with some analysis and takeaways from the 2025 studies.” Simple Magic compiled the 142 scholarly books and papers published about skateboarding in 2025 by “an interdisciplinary community of scholars that takes skateboarding seriously. Maybe too seriously.”
The Slam City Skates blog has been podcast-ifying some of their recent interviews, and the latest is a 50-minute conversation with Mike Carroll. Love when skate shops become their own lil’ media brands on the side 🫡
It looks like they might stop closing off Canal Street in front of Labor this summer.
“Local coverage is important. It helps to shape the values and identities of our cities and renew and sustain their cultural and social lives.” Happy 15th birthday to Screen Slate, New York’s best media company.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — They were screaming “JOSE! JOSE! JOSE!” …in Philadelphia! So it can only be one thing.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “You never had flan, bro?” — E.J., aghast