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Donavon Frankenreiter To Headline Catalina.com and KROQ's ROQ N' SURF Summer Series

SoCal native Donavon Frankenreiter is scheduled to play Catalina.com and KROQ's ROQ N' SURF summer concerts series on the water. Pepper, rock n' rhythm roots band, will headline the first date, Saturday, June 16, with support from Long Beach-based singer songwriter, Josh Fischel, and The Fiction. ... More >>

Bobby Martinez's Rebel Cry

Can the enfant terrible's harsh words and crisp moves reform the corporatized surf scene dominated by Orange County's action-sports industry?

Meet Shaheen Sadeghi, the LAB Man

In his his quest to hipsterize OC retail, Shaheen Sadeghi has built quirkily beautiful properties and gained more than a few critics

Element Skateboards: Chad Muska's Usage of N-Bomb Not Racist

TMZ.comChad Muska arguing with one of the security guards.​New York-based pro skater/musician Chad Muska was arrested on July 13 for felony vandalism--tagging his last name on both the El Capitan Theater and a Coffee Bean location in Hollywood. That story in itself, actually, is pretty boring. The ... More >>

Banzai Bowl Offers Acai of Pleasure

[Hole In the Wall] This surfer-hippie outpost specializes in America's latest miracle-fruit fad

At Renzo's, Life Is a Ceviche

Surfer Renzo Macchiavello creates Incan favorites in Irvine

Big-Wave Surfing's Swell Guys

The monster swells can be big business, but for one group of OC surfers, it's still all about the ride

Courtney Conlogue: The Fighter

The Santa Ana teen hopes her kick-ass training regimen will carry her through her rookie season as a pro surfer

[UPDATED:] Katin Team Challenge Attracts Top Surf Stars to HB Pier This Weekend; Sorry, No Kelly Slater

Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyDerek Peters of Team Quiksilver throws his tail. Conditions are only expected to improve by the first heat horn on Friday.​Update: Jan. 5, 3:53 p.m.: Swells have started appearing at HB Pier and so too have some of the competitors for the Katin Pro/Am Team Challenge. The W ... More >>

[UPDATED w/ VIDEO] San Clementian Pat Gudauskas, Final OC Surfer Competing At Pipeline, Loses In Round 3

Courtesy of ASPPat Gudauskas, typically smiling in victory or defeat.​Quality scoring waves just weren't finding their way to Pat Gudauskas' in his Round 3 heat at the Billabong Pipeline Masters today.Gudauskas, of San Clemente, was the only remaining OC representation competing at Pipeline, in th ... More >>

OC Surfers Competing At Pipeline: Gudauskas Through, Simpson Out

© ASP/CestariAerial maneuvers aren't common at Pipeline, but this one worked for Pat G.​Triple Crown season in Hawaii is rapidly coming to a close. The first two contests at Haleiwa and Sunset are behind us, with only the final stop at Pipeline, the crown jewel of the Seven Mile Miracle (nickname ... More >>

Andy Irons, Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame Inductee and Legend, Dies at 32

Wikimedia CommonsAndy Irons, 1978-2010​Three-time surfing World Champ and legend Andy Irons has passed away at age 32. While the cause of death is still unconfirmed at the moment, Surfer reports that family sources say he passed during a layover flight from Puerto Rico to his home in Kauai, Hawaii ... More >>

Dana Brown Rides High with Highwater

​The opening moments of Highwater, Dana Point documentarian Dana Brown's latest film opening today in Orange, were worrisome.With his 2003 directorial debut Step Into Liquid, Brown continued the pioneering work of his filmmaker father Bruce Brown, who turned the masses onto surfing with The Endles ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Agenda Tradeshow in Huntington Beach

​ ASR, usually the surfing world's biggest tradeshow, will be hard pressed this year to compete with the success of the Agenda Tradeshow this past weekend. Held at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach, Agenda saw a wide assortment of designers, surfers, artists and industry types converge for p ... More >>

Greg Long Fights Off Kelly Slater, Wins Another Big Wave Crown

The Billabong video above from last spring chronicles San Clemente's Greg Long catching one of the greatest big wave paddle-in tubes of all time during the Red Bull Big Wave Africa contest at Dungeons, Cape Town South Africa. It also earned him Ride of the Year honors and $50,000 at the 2009 Billabo ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Report from Oceanside's California Surf Festival

by Aaron MendozaThe California Surf Festival, held in Oceanside this past weekend, was like a ghost town most of the time. There was no bustling festival on the streets, no heady atmosphere full of people. Many of the film screenings were nearly empty. Perhaps it was the decently shaped west combo s ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Aussie Photographer Ray Collins Receives Grant from Follow the Light Foundation

by FlameLast night, the Follow the Light Foundation awarded its coveted annual grant to Australian surfer and photographer Ray Collins. The event was held at the Surf Heritage Foundation's headquarters in San Clemente, a veritable museum of vintage surfboards, photography and...well, heritage ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Catching Up with Joe McElroy of Rent Control

Saturday night, a bunch of friends from the local surf scene took part in the opening party for an art show called "The Last Piece Hanging."  The exhibit is currently showing at the Artery at the Lab, and will be showing through the end of the week.Today, we're catching up with Joe McElroy, one of ... More >>

Step Into Highwater With Dana Brown

Dana Point filmmaker Dana Brown returns to the surf for his next documentary, Highwater, which is scheduled to make its Orange County premiere at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 24, in the Regency Lido in Newport Beach.As he did with Step Into Liquid and Dust to Glory, which both marked their local debuts w ... More >>

Out of the Pond, Echo Beach Mark World Premieres Tonight

Two films make their world premieres at the Regency Lido Theatre tonight as part of the Newport Beach Film Festival's 2009 Action Sports Film Series.First, at 6:15 p.m., it's Out of the Pond, Irvine-based, action-sports clothier Billabong USA's new film from director Chris Heffner that follows the c ... More >>

[Newport Beach Film Fest] Orange County Connections Abound Among This Year's Entries

Road Builders Union to Surf Industry: Fuck Off!

The Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council issued an ultimatum to the Aliso Viejo-based Surf Industry Manufacturers Association: stop sponsoring environmental groups opposed to the 241 Foothill-South toll road or face the mighty wrath of more than 100,000 union workers ... More >>

And the Wet Envelope Goes to ...

If you're burning $2,000 for a VIP table at Surfer Magazine's 36th annual Surfer Poll and Video Awards ceremony Tuesday night at the Grove of Anaheim, at least you can feel warmed that you are helping two worthy causes. Proceeds from VIP table sales at the annual, invite-only event that honors the ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Shopping In the Out of Doors

What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XVIII

This weekend began on Thursday thanks to Rockstar Energy's Taste of Chaos tour coming to Long Beach arena. Weekly staffers and freelancers headed out and experienced the shenanigans reporting back later, hung over and rocked out. Music Editor Dave Segal spent Friday taking in Crystal Castles at Det ... More >>

Big Wave Riding Awards 2008

Sea Monsters Off San Diego!

What’s 105 miles off San Diego and 17 miles long, lurks just three feet below the surface at its highest point, earned San Clemente’s Mike Parsons a nifty $60,000 for about two minutes’ adrenalin-stoked work in January ’01, and generates waves so freakin’ huge they show up on radar? Itâ ... More >>

The General's Last Stand

Vang Pao devoted his life to fighting communism in Laos—until his onetime ally, the U.S. government, arrested him

Letters

'For the record, no one currently in our employ was contacted or quoted. In fact, the surf industry does support Save Trestles and Surfrider Foundation'

Trendzilla

The wonders of elastic!

So Board With the USA

Seeking low wages and lax environmental laws, OC boardmakers reluctantly find themselves in Asia

Thats a Paddling

Learning to surf means having to paddle. A lot

For Those About to Bid, We Salute You

Orange County Design Collectives fashion auction offers sameness, subterfuge

Black Label

The Closet and its new competitor, Active, arent that different

Singing a different 'toon

Letters

Letters

Bored Competition

The ocean stinks, but surfers are too busy to help clean it up

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Spending USA

Blue Crush stokes local surf industry

Hell Week

We werent doing sex stuff! We were just having spit fights!

Gosford Park

Raise the Bar

All Jack Flynn needs to make it is 33 and one-third cosmos a night

Dropping In

Following his sale to Nike, Bob Hurley has global reach

Costa Mesa

Its got the rest of OC licked when it comes to dining

How to Become the Worlds Greatest Skateboarder

From Indiana to Orange County by air: The life of Brian Patch

Scenes From the Uber-Mall

Bribe-a-rama! And boys, boys, boys. Damn, we love this job!

Orange Countys Radical Culture Czars

Economists fear him. Adults emulate him. This kidand thousands like himare teaching corporations how to sell the world everything from edgy soft drinks to extreme sunglasses

Hurley's Top Girlie: Lian Murray

Chicks Rule

Or at least hold their own in Vegas