The restored Brooklyn Banks stand as a monument to contemporary street skateboarding: the act itself and the culture’s emergent civic guardianship. We checked in to hear what the space means for the generations of New York skaters localising the Banks once again 🧱 — skatebylines.com/2025/07/15/b...

Dolores Magazine's editor-in-chief, creative director and photographer Raisa spoke about her approach to expanding on submissions and broadening the landscape of skate media for our editors’ roundtable on pitching. Live now at Skate Bylines 📝 — skatebylines.com/2025/07/01/p...

We're back with the baseball analogies for another story on pitching, this time from the perspective of magazine editors. To unpack what makes for a good story and effective pitch we spoke to the editors of Free, Mess, Skate Jawn and Dolores ⚾️ 💨 — skatebylines.com/2025/07/01/p...

"Orson Welles had it that, 'If the camera doesn’t like an actor, it just stares at him.' Cameras loved Dylan, but skateboarders loved him better. Eventually," writes @kylebeachy.bsky.social of Dylan Rieder. — 🌹https://skatebylines.com/2025/05/26/dylan-rieder-style-was-his-soul/

In a heartfelt essay on Dylan Rieder, @kylebeachy.bsky.social considers style, skateboarding, and how skateboarders come to know those whom we admire from our distances. Live now at Skate Bylines and available as read by Kyle wherever you get your podcasts 🌹 — skatebylines.com/2025/05/26/d...

Sarah Anderson on creating small but meaningful change from her inspiring Beyond Boards interview which covers her work with Deckaid, as an English teacher, and many more uplifting things, and is one of Quentin Delille’s highlights from Beyond Boards 🎙️ — skatebylines.com/2025/05/06/b...

Tyshawn Jones is suing former sponsor Supreme to the tune of a million dollars. @colenowicki.com takes the stand to dispatch for Ranked & Filed, playing at Skate Bylines and wherever you get your podcasts 🎬 @farrangolding.bsky.social ⚖️ — skatebylines.com/2025/05/19/c...

Anthony Van Engelen on ‘The Hat’, a ten-gallon crown of honour passed amongst the Alien Workshop team during the making of ‘Mind Field’ as discussed in the 100th episode of Beyond Boards🤠 We spoke to host Quentin Delille about his highlights from show 🎙️ — skatebylines.com/2025/05/06/b...

Beyond Boards, the most well-researched podcast in skateboarding recently reached its 100th episode. Host Quentin Delille shared his highlights from thoughtful conversations with writers, photographers, videographers, artists and other interesting folks 🎙️ — skatebylines.com/2025/05/06/b...

Tom Schaar told the world “Vert’s Not Dead” with his new video part. @colenowicki.com considers what that means for the future of the discipline to introduce ‘Ranked & Filed’, a Simple Magic and Skate Bylines co-production edited by @farrangolding.bsky.social ✨ — skatebylines.com/2025/05/01/t...

“He’s mowing the lawn all across L.A.” — @kylebeachy.bsky.social on the inherent goodness of contemporary Andrew Reynolds. Thanks to all who shared our latest podcast and gave kind words. It means a lot 😘 — skatebylines.com/2025/04/15/a...

This week, vert is back, baby! I launch my campaign to bring back Stoned Wheat Thins, Muska puts a ™️ on it, and more. www.simplemagic.ca/the-best-of-...

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Tom Schaar assures us that vert is not dead, Muska trademarks himself, I come to grips with a new superpower, a really annoying part of a superpower in decline, and more.

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"Stu Kirst is hugging Rowan Zorilla while "Mandy" is playing." ❤️ @kylebeachy.bsky.social on the wholesomeness Andrew Reynolds brought to ‘Baker Has A Deathwish Part 2’ from our podcast ‘A Puzzle of Andrew Reynolds’ by @farrangolding.bsky.social 🎞️ — skatebylines.com/2025/04/15/a...

A dark knight in white denim 🦉 @kylebeachy.bsky.social on Heath Kirchart in a tangent from ‘A Puzzle of Andrew Reynolds’. Playing wherever you get your podcasts and at Skate Bylines 🎙️ — skatebylines.com/2025/04/15/a...

🎙️ @kylebeachy.bsky.social on the narrative which underwrites @andrewreynolds in ‘Stay Gold’ ✨ 'A Puzzle of Andrew Reynolds with Kyle Beachy’ hosted by @farrangolding.bsky.social is playing at Skate Bylines and wherever you get your podcasts 🎬 — skatebylines.com/2025/04/15/a...

Age, thoughtfulness and an undisputed frontside flip 🏆 @kylebeachy.bsky.social reflected on his essay 'A Very Large Puzzle: On Andrew Reynolds' in the latest episode of the Skate Bylines podcast. Playing now on the site and wherever you get your podcasts 🧩 — skatebylines.com/2025/04/15/a...

A pair of lines as perfect as could be. Revisiting this scene of Andrew Reynolds just to say there’s something special coming up this week. Stay tuned, stay gold.

Edmund Bacon, former Philadelphia city planner and co-designer of Love Park, skated there to protest the city’s hostility to skateboarding at age 92. Love's rebirth in Malmö, Sweden is an act of "cultural continuity" which seems right out of Bacon's playbook 📖 — skatebylines.com/2025/04/08/p...

'Spolia' seeks “not to bring back history, however, but to enable active engagement with the past in the present, while projecting forward,” writes Amelia Gan, relayed in Dom Teoh's essay on Love Malmo. (A few moments from Love Park’s past and present, 1/6 👇) — skatebylines.com/2025/04/08/p...

Spent yesterday with a skater in his fifties, spotting traffic for the trick a young, trans skater was trying. Old skater has known young skater since they were a tiny little kid on a scooter. Lifetime stuff. Kept having to correct himself on their pronouns. Did in fact correct himself every time.

When a spot is destroyed how is its legacy preserved in a tangible form, beyond images and stories? The answer may be “Spolia”, an architectural concept which reincorporates materials, “Turning rubble into something both relic and resurrected," writes Dom Teoh 📝 — skatebylines.com/2025/04/08/p...

We’ve launched a global board for events, talks, workshops (and other occasions) rooted in skateboarding, cultural storytelling and media starting with a few coming up over the next month by Dolores Magazine, @vadiparty.bsky.social, @kylebeachy.bsky.social and more: skatebylines.com/skateboardin...

‘Tres Leches’ invites you into the homes of skateboarders, photographers and videographers to meet their pets. We spoke to Heckride about the point and shoot zine and the professionals and furry pals met along the way 🐾 — skatebylines.com/2025/03/07/p...

A handful of moments from 'Vase' captured by Henry Genualdo Kingsford for Grey Skate Mag and republished in our story with Nick Jensen about the curtain call of Isle Skateboards 🏺 skatebylines.com/2025/02/28/i... 🎞️ Tom Knox, ollie in and out

Isle Skateboards, the company behind ‘Vase’ that propelled the careers of Tom Knox, Jacob Harris, and raised Britain’s profile in contemporary skate culture, ceased operations last week. We spoke to Nick Jensen, co-founder and creative director, about Isle's journey: skatebylines.com/2025/02/28/i...

"I'm just telling you, my observations..." Bylines Haiku, February 2025 www.skatebylines.com

In recent years, skateboarding has built chops in academia. To make these findings accessible to grassroots culture and media Brian Glenney, Associate Professor of Philosophy, wrote collated 2024's research into a report accompanied by a primer on skate studies 📚 skatebylines.com/2025/01/23/w...

From Kate Bush in ‘Cunnies Box’ to Max Palmer in ‘The 917 Video’, Geoff Campell spoke about soundtracks that stick with you and the merits of a saxophone. As told for Geoff's episode of ‘The Eleven O’Clock Number’, playing at Skate Bylines 🎷 skatebylines.com/2025/01/01/e...

Tim Williams frontmans the friends section of ‘Cunnie’s Box’ scored to Kate Bush’s “James and the Cold Gun”. Geoff Campbell reflects on filming in Melbourne during that era in his episode of ‘The Eleventh O’Clock Number', playing in full at Skate Bylines 💨 skatebylines.com/2025/01/01/e...

Geoff Campbell on Nick Jensen in ‘Eleventh Hour’ 🕰️ A decade before “Running Up That Hill” reaching No. 1 in the UK almost 30 years after its original release, thanks to ‘Stranger Things’, the song featured in Jacob Harris' award winning indie video. 🎥 skatebylines.com/2025/01/01/e...