Words by Kevin Duffel, photography by Johnny Oliver Making his mark as one of the original Z-Boys and then moving on to start Powell-Peralta in ’78, Stacy Peralta is a walking encyclopedia of skateboard history. Now a Hollywood filmmaker, he’s applying that same knowledge to full-length documentaries. Starting his career with 2001’s Dogtown And Z-Boys, [...]

This Flick had the absolute attention of its small private screening last night In Santa Monica and Weirdly ? This is the sort of Flick that Avenues down A Highway So New that the Pioneers of this “Sport” that has become from Little brother to surfing – to The “Mothership” of All “X-dreams” ! The [...]

This Flick Made Me wanna Skate as if I was at the Surf Theatre in “OLD” H.B. Watching “GO FOR IT” with The Audience Totally into it after Heavy Skate sesh outside the Church on The “SPA RAMP” With A Band out there Some Barby Q and “Monster Energy” Peeps Handing out Some Pretty Zingy [...]

The Duane Peters Story gets skate culture right The story of the Zephyr skateboarding team, the guys who midwifed modern skate culture, has been retold in magazines, books, the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary, and in the upcoming Lords of Dogtown,the feature film based on the doc. But as important as they were to the sport [...]

I Was In The Movie Biz for a while in the early 90s for extra dough being a movie EXTRA,it paid 40 bucks a day and 3 square meals a day,this one was one of Russell Crowe’s First U.S. Movies and I got A “BUMP” as we say in Extra world when ya get Featured,I [...]

Duane will be starring as Frank Glass in the gritty, indie film Hostility Hotel, which wrapped up filming last weekend. You can stay up to date with the film’s website or official Facebook page.

We Were Feared, a film on the legendary Costa Mesa punk venue the Cuckoo’s Nest, premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 24th. View the slideshow or read the article in OC Weekly.