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Keys To The City — The Making of Palace’s ‘DETROIT 313’ with Lev Tanju

Features & Interviews July 15th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 7

🔑 Story and Art Direction by Farran Golding
📷 Photography by Alex Pires and Polaroids (background images throughout) by Jack Brooks, originally published in the PALACE DETROIT 313 Photo Book

In the summer of 2026, an exhibition on the history of skateboarding at London’s Southbank Undercroft took place in a subterranean venue next to the world-renowned spot. In this corner beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, which was once part of the Undercroft itself, short films from communities connected to Southbank’s past and present played on loop. They were directed by and featured skateboarders the spot had incubated: the professionals whose careers it has been intrinsic to, the filmmakers whose archives present an ethnography of the area, the 100-strong crew of skate moms who meet regularly, and an atmospheric work by Lev Tanju, the founder and creative director of a generational entity born out of the brutalist landmark: Palace Skateboards.

Five Favorite Parts With Dick Rizzo

Features & Interviews June 10th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 6

📷 Portrait by Jersey Dave

With this installment, Dick Rizzo is the first person to achieve what can be described as the E.G.O.T. of Quartersnacks content: a Five Favorite Parts, a formal interview, a Favorite Spot episode, a Deep Dive episode, oh and a #1 on a Top 10 🤝

Check out the obstacle he helped concept and Jerry Mraz built if you’re in Jersey City, too.

New Futures and Distortions in Time — The Mechanics of Skate Magazine Covers

Features & Interviews May 19th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 2

🔑 Introduction, Interviews & Collages by Farran Golding
📷 Headline Composition: Román González by Alex Pires for Free Skate Mag, Momiji Nishiya by Allan Carvalho for Mess Skate Mag, Corey Bittle by Tyler Storm Brady for Skate Jawn, Alexis Sablone for Golden Hour and Brad Cromer for PLANK by Matt Price

Walking around chairs wrapped in merlot fabric, the waiters of L’Entracte Brasserie in Paris went about their morning shift, placing silverware and wine glasses, unfazed by the camera flashes of photographer Alex Pires.

The restaurant faces the Palais Garnier Opera House, a building that is almost two centuries old, and as iconic as other Parisian landmarks such as Notre-Dame and Sacré-Coeur. Outside the opera house, an image of the Palais Garnier’s façade was depicted on a temporary wall, producing an illusion the French call “trompe-l’œil.” It directed visitors to entrances above and below a stairway. Two hours before the venue opened at around 7 A.M. on a damp, December 2024 day, Román González threw himself into the temporary façade of the Palais, clinging onto a frontside wallride down the stairs.

Five Favorite Parts With Karim Callender

Features & Interviews April 30th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 5

📷 Photo via Keith Denley

The 2025 Q.S.S.O.T.Y‘s Five Favorite Parts was a bit of a journalistic “My War.”

Not because he didn’t want to do it — he was really hyped to do one — but because he began getting in his head about what to include. Too many parts! Too much stuff he loved. (Speaking from experience, an abundance of beloved parts is better than the opposite experience: getting on a call with someone and it’s, “Umm… uhhh… what was that Jake Johnson part where he skated the thing again?”)

Brand Narratives: Or How Skateboard Companies Rise & Fall & Rise Again

Features & Interviews April 28th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 10

📝 Words by Mike Munzenrider
🎨 Art by Francesco Pini

Stereo Skateboards emerged in the early 90s as a jazzy, loose-trucked alternative to what had come before. Its first video, A Visual Sound, is a classic, but by the end of the decade the brand was showing its age. “All anybody wanted was stairs and cartoons,” says Stereo co-founder Chris “Dune” Pastras, speaking on the phone. His partner at Stereo, Jason Lee, had already departed to pursue an acting career, and the brand’s distributor, Deluxe Distribution, Pastras says, had other companies that were blowing up. “Maybe it was a sign of the times.”