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Dive in, the Pool’s Empty

By Joshua Rothkopf

Ah, to be young, wild and Californian: Dogtown and Z-Boys, an affectionate, free-spirited history of the reinvention of skateboarding in the mid-’70s, from faddish obscurity into a global code of bad-boy arms, has a lot on its agenda. There’s enough depth here, solidly anchored to the desperation so often bred in slums, to take its interviewee’s claims of urban revolution seriously.… return to article

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