On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta's skateboarding documentary lit up Sundance, going on to earn an Audience Award in Park City. By Duane Bygre On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary ...

In the lively documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002), former skateboarding star Stacy Peralta told the story of the Zephyr Skate Team, the crew of shaggy southern California teenagers with whom he ...

In the summer of 1975, modern skateboarding was invented in the Santa Monica and Venice Beach areas of California. The young members of the Zephyr Team, sponsored by a permanently stoned surfboard ...

Lords of Dogtown is an odd, disorienting commodity — a fictional version of a documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s Venice, California, that was written by the man ...

In 2001, the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys memorialized the ratty, revolutionary surfing and skateboarding from the infamous Zephyr team out of Venice Beach, California. Guys like Jay Adams, Tony ...

Without a decaying coastal resort area called Dogtown, a pack of rebel rollers known as the Z-Boys, and a 1970s drought that left California swimming pools bone dry, who knows where modern ...

They came from broken homes and lived in poverty off dirty alleys. In a tough Venice, Calif., neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in the 1970s, Jay Adams, Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta found solace in their ...

Art imitates art imitating life in this fictionalized version of the award-winning documentary ‘‘Dogtown and Z-Boys,'' about the Southern California dudes who revolutionized skateboarding in the 1970s ...