Jake Phelps, the longtime editor of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, died Thursday of undisclosed causes. He was 56; his uncle, Clark Phelps, made the news public on Facebook.
Plenty of kids give their parents a few extra gray hairs when they take up skateboarding. That's even true for the Tony Hawk household, apparently.
“This is a qualification year,” says Chris Gallagher Stone. He’s just finished a run at Costco and is on his way to a birthday party, so we chat while he drives over toward home on the North Shore of Oahu.
Snow pelts our faces us as we Tango down the icy sidewalks from the Jupiter NEXT hotel to a local pub in a suburban Portland, Oregon. "I can't feel my feet," offers a gruff voice from behind a gaiter as we cautiously scurry alongside Burnside Street's frozen road.