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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.

It Can’t Be That Fun If You Keep Texting Me

Daily News July 6th, 2026 · 12:00 am · 1

Trung Nguyen in Osaka, Japan, as seen in The Stars of Midnight • 📷 via Patrick Woodling

The prolifically huck-heavy Stroller crew out of Greece hit New York in their latest edit. Gap front blunt on the bike lane curb on Allen and Canal is a #lowimpact Leap of Faith.

“Who are your top 3 New Jerseyans all time?” “Dude this is so hard. Can I say Tony Soprano?” Abada interviewed Hardbody Ross for Skate Jawn. Spoiler: He didn’t say Tony Soprano.

“OPHELIA” is the latest nine-minute edit from Theories brand. Ryan Alvero is tech as hell in the first part and Conor Noll closes it out. Shout out to his cat.

7 Years In The Making — Palace’s “Detroit 313” Video

Daily News June 29th, 2026 · 12:25 am · 5

The “return” of the full-length skate video is something that has been forecasted on such a loop that we can safely conclude it was never at risk of extinction in the first place.

However, in this past month, two of the year’s marquee releases both clocked in at a few minutes shy of an hour.

Palace’s Detroit 313 video is notable because it took seven years to film — an eternity in the social media era, and an echo back to skate videos’ blockbuster “golden age” when two or three full-lengths a decade was a reasonable cadence for a brand.

At a time when everything falls under the label of “content,” it is easy to fall into a routine. We are all guilty of it.

A Quarter Century

Daily News May 19th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 4

We obvs don’t know every skate crew in the country, but from a mediated standpoint, it’s hard to think of a crew as aggressively productive as Duplex. The fact that they do it all just off Saturdays and Sundays is INSANE. Our buddy Greg Navarro flew down to Florida to tag along with them and document how it all gets done for Thrasher‘s new “Lifers” series.

Bronze 56k dropped an edit to push their NB# shoe, starring Jordan Trahan, Shaun Paul and Marcello Campanello — with a cameo by the venerable William McFeely. Huge year for hitting Flushing in the snow.

The South Beach Macy’s ledge ranks as something that — despite walking past it every Miami trip ever — we’re perfectly ok never skating. But Zoogie and the crew always get the most out of this innocuous high, beveled ledge with no end. Wolff’s ender is dope.

You The World

Daily News February 3rd, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

For the life of me, cannot backtrack to where this screengrab originated from, but it was definitely a non-American skate video from January. Anyone?

Mike Heikkila is the latest subject of Skate Jawn‘s “$100 Chill” feature, and presumably the first person to ever get a haircut on Blubba. Good reminder to keep that lotion on you this winter.

The Palace team (+ Lucien Clarke’s mom) gather around the TV to rewatch their seminal all-London video from 2017, Palasonic. Would be dope to see them commentate on the Bronze x Palace Paramount video, which feels a bit “forgotten” within each’s respective videography.

“The idea that I could make a show about skateboarding, but wouldn’t be relegated to ‘skate art’ but be taken seriously as an art show that happens to be about skateboarding, was something I am grateful for.” Esteban Jefferson spoke to Monster Children about his new solo show that is inspired by the Brooklyn Banks. It is on view @ 303 Gallery on W. 21st Street until February 26.