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Rare Boards (and an Even Rarer Book) Auction Raises $680k for Surfing Heritage Spot: Update

See the update at the end of page 2 on last weekend's Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction raising $680,000 and other event details.ORIGINAL POST, MAY 9, 2 P.M.: The Surfing Heritage & Cultural Center in San Clemente is putting "some of the world's most rare and iconic surf memorabilia" up for ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Tales From the Surf Ghetto

Meet the ragtag band of craftsmen, entrepreneurs and weirdos at the heart of OC's surf industry

Wunderkind Kolohe Andino and "the Best Wave Ever Surfed at Lowers"

Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyThe kid surfs better than you and everyone you know.​The young man known as Brother continues to grow his legend. This past Saturday was just another awe-inspiring day in the life of San Clemente's Kolohe Andino. He won the Under-18 division of the Quiksilver USA Surf ... More >>

[UPDATED: Event Called Off] 'Eddie Would Go': With Monster Swell Scheduled to Hit, Big-Wave Surfing Event May Run Today

Sharing a Waimea Bay monster.Update, 11 a.m.: Event manager Glen Moncata just made the call that today is "not an Eddie day." The decision was based on inconsistent sets and waves not quite the size that he and contest director George Downing deemed appropriate for making the event run-ready.Origina ... More >>

[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 >>

Just Like Starting Over

Pilar Diaz's solo stint has been a helluva ride

Weekend Surf Championship Rocks the '80s

​Saturday and Sunday's 22nd annual Quiksilver Newport Beach Surf Championships pay homage to the famed Echo Beach breaks in a big way, with the invitational "Quiksilver Echo Beach Challenge" pairing groms with top pros; the "Expression Session" honoring the '80's era of surfing with prizes for ... More >>

Today's Don't Miss: "Cypher Vision"

​This is tough, because recommending a corporate surf film goes against my, comrade Kim Jong-Il and Barack Obama's training.

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 >>

Wax On, Wax Off: New Year's Dispatch from Mammoth

MammothMountain.comWax On, Wax Off has been chasing snow and festivities around California during the holidays. That, combined with shaky wifi and limited computer access, has made things on the blog a little slow. But this week is shaping up to be a raging good time up here at Mammoth Mountain. Wit ... 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: Nike, Hurley, Converse Store Opens at Irvine Spectrum

The new Nike 6.0 x Hurley x Converse store just opened its doors last Wednesday at the Irvine Spectrum, just in time for the spendy atmosphere of black Friday. Located across from the Cheesecake Factory, somewhere between Brookstone and the movie theater megaplex, the store sits on what one Hurley s ... 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 >>

Catch "Clay Marzo: Just Add Water" for Free Tonight

The Quiksilver-produced, Jamie Teirney-directed documentary Clay Marzo: Just Add Water screens for free tonight as the cinematic collaboration between the Newport Beach Film Festival and Sage Hill School continues on like sun-kissed waves. See the flier after the jump . . . 

Wax On, Wax Off: Boardfest 2009 Postponed Due to Bad Economy

We in the surfing world don't often talk about the economic downturn that has plagued America in recent months. Sure, there are more guys out in the water during work hours, having lost the jobs that used to keep their days filled. Surfboard sales are at rock bottom (the relatively small ma ... 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

[Trendzilla] The Return of Quiksilver's '80s styles

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 >>

Young Guns 3 World Premiere in HB

Watch Quiksilver's "hottest up-and-coming surfers" in the Thursday, July 26 world premiere of Young Guns 3. Like our editorial assistant Amanda, you too might be asking yourself: What is a Young Gun? "It means you travel so much you get new pages in your passport every six months," according to ... More >>

Soup Dreams

Huntington Beach High surf-team documentary catches air

I Hate People

Poor, pitiful pearl goes to OCMA

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Playtime

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Repo Man

Commie Girl

Night of the Ladyboys: How the A-list have fallen

Open-Air Cinema

Watch movies outside? Where?

Suits You

Mary Miller designs your pleasure

'Military Is Very, Very Important'

And camouflage is back, at the latest Action Sports Retailer expo

Step Into Liquid, Bro!

Starring Courtney Love, Danny Bonaduce and a guy showing his wang!

Whos a Black Sheep?

Nightlife and more
Sept. 22 - Sept. 29

Abercrombie & Fish

The Quiksilver Indies Trader blends sex, surf and science

Where Dank Lives

ASRs little bro, Agenda, does just fine hawking board-sports gear in a chilly warehouse

You Will Be CEO of Quicksilver In One Year

Hats off to Quiksilvers annual holiday party

For Those About to Bid, We Salute You

Orange County Design Collectives fashion auction offers sameness, subterfuge

EIGHT DAYS

Re-Imagining Retro

Again.

Dont Be That Guy

A brief guide to first dates

Aloha, New York

Manhattan turns west, toward Quiksilver

Diary of a Mad County

Resolved

The Year in Girl

Congressman Rohrabacher? Meet Jan from the Vandals!

Spending USA

Blue Crush stokes local surf industry

What a Feeling!

(I am rhythm now)

More Les for Me!

Dont do the House like you did Lindas Doll Hut

Whooooooooooooo!!

We get our ass kicked at the SXSW schmoozapalooza!

Hating Everything

Isnt that sad?

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

Extreme Madness

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

Hurley's Top Girlie: Lian Murray