Stacy Peralta

Reader: Republicans can skateboard, too!

Skateboarding legend Stacy Peralta came to Auraria on Monday, where he talked about movie-making, skateboarding and politics, telling the crowd, "When parents tell me their kids are skateboarders, I tell them, sorry, your kids are Democrats." But Milton puts the brakes on that:

Stacy Peralta: "When parents tell me their kids are skateboarders, I tell them, sorry, your kids are democrats."

Stacy Peralta -- legendary professional skateboarder, founder of the Powell Peralta skateboard company, documentary filmmaker and commercial advertising mogul -- visited the Auraria campus yesterday to speak with students on the art of being creative. "When kids tell me their kids are skateboarder ... More >>

Five reasons to go see skateboard legend and filmmaker Stacy Peralta today

Stacy Peralta, a '70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right -- and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill and dozens of the top pro skaters of the '80s and '90s -- will be the feature ... More >>

Skater Stories

Top five flicks at the 2012 Boulder International Film Festival

The Boulder International Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with Darling Companion at the Boulder Theater, and continues through Sunday with fifty diverse films as well as celebrity appearances, workshops, and ways to get involved in social causes. Below, festival director Kathy Beeck shares ... More >>

Impossibly Passable

Snow Bored

Extreme sports might be fun, but First Descent is not.

Skate Bored

The Z-Boys roll into Dogtown again, and truth is cooler than fiction.

Head in the Sand

Dust to Glory honors the Baja 1000, where everybody's a legend.

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of "big wave" surfing.

Auto Iconography

Bad-boy skaters perpetuate their own myth in Dogtown and Z-Boys.

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession.