Subject: Winter Sports

• Hurley's Top Girlie: Lian Murray

  April 22, 1999

• See Dick Wakesurf

  Being cold below ground in Yorba Linda does not stop our favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon from finding himself in the news. The hits just keep coming, don't they? But far more fascinating than Dick being blamed for the Cambodian genocide, joined in the hereafter by Watergate-era foe Jerome Waldie and better liked by Democrats than Barack Obama is by Republicans at this point in their respective presidencies is the footage above from Slaysh!blog ("a pla

  April 7, 2009

• Welcome to the Poor Chalet

  The lifts are still running at Mammoth and our local mountains, but SnowSports Industries America (SIA) reports the retail side of the industry got hammered in February, continuing a steady decline that began last November, at the height of the Christmas shopping season. "Snow sports market sales declined 16 percent overall in February 2009 over February 2008," states an audit by the McLean, VA-based, not-for-profit trade association. "Snow Sports equipment sales were partic

  April 9, 2009

• Letters

  'Give us all a breakthe Mexican wetback has become the majority.'

  March 1, 2007

• An Inconvenient Slope

  Big Bears ski resorts are covered in snow despite a chronic lack of natural snowfall. So where are the crowds? Dont blame global warmingblame the media

  February 15, 2007

• Same Old Story

  Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

  January 4, 2007

• Making Snow Cones

  August 10, 2006

• Zen & the Art of Musical Composition Maintenance

  June 8, 2006

• Down the Hatch!

  March 9, 2006

• Aural Reports

  February 2, 2006

• Rhyme Scheme

  July 21, 2005

• Wave New World

  June 23, 2005

• Armada Sighted Off the Coast

  February 10, 2005

• The Gods Must Be Crazy

  August 5, 2004

• Let It Snow

  December 4, 2003

• Terror Threads

  October 10, 2002

• How to Become the Worlds Greatest Skateboarder

  March 22, 2001

• All You Need Is a Spark

  June 10, 1999

• Tourists Trapped

  December 10, 1998

• How Vans Inc. remains your very own personal megabrand

  November 26, 1998

• Chairlift

  June 18, 2009

• Wax On, Wax Off: Surfing, Violence and You (Pt. 1)

  Flickr user Jon Palos​Usually, almost nobody comments on the articles here at "Wax On, Wax Off." Every now and then, some sweet person will say something like, "I'm really glad I found this blog." That's about as involved as our readers normally care to get. But last week's story about a fight that broke out between a standup paddler and a shortboarder at Newport Point caused quite an uproar, attracting a whopping 28 comments and counting.A look at surfing, violence and the backlash to las

  October 29, 2009

• Wax On, Wax Off: Kicking off the Snowy Season and Surfside's Snowboard Carnival

  flickr user Alena RomanenkoFall is a brief season for Southern California. The first part of it sort of gets blended into the end of our summer. The groms go back to school, the weather gets hotter and the offshore Santa Ana winds start howling down the canyons. Things get dry and crackly, allergies rage, fires burn on the hillsides and west combo swells combine with the offshore conditions to create what some call "our real summer." But this summery part of autumn is short-lived. The late

  November 5, 2009