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Forget All About That Watersports Complex. DHA Convinced It to Move to Allen.

​Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte's building a wakeboard park up in Allen -- you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July. Not so long ago, Lac ... More >>

High Flyin' Wheelies

​Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte's building a wakeboard park up in Allen -- you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July. Not so long ago, Lac ... More >>

Mad Max Beyond AAC?

​Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte's building a wakeboard park up in Allen -- you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July. Not so long ago, Lac ... More >>

Two Words, Sounds Like...

​Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte's building a wakeboard park up in Allen -- you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July. Not so long ago, Lac ... More >>

Legendary Dallas Skateboarders, Rebuffed By The City In Their Efforts To Build A Public Skatepark, Go Underground And Build Their Own.

​Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte's building a wakeboard park up in Allen -- you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July. Not so long ago, Lac ... More >>

Chad Lacerte, the Man Behind Watersports Complex, Isn't Going to Sue the DHA. Yet.

​Last week I noted that a fairly significant wakeboard event -- scheduled to be held at the long-in-the-works Dallas Watersports Complex on Fish Trap Lake -- had to find a new home, after the Dallas Housing Authority pulled a Sybil and told Chad Lacerte thanks but no thanks after giving him the ok ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Butthole Surfers, Peaches, MEN at The Granada Theater

Butthole Surfers, Peaches and MEN Granada TheaterOctober 30, 2009 Better than: Not too much--especially since it was my birthday. Butthole Surfers​ About this same time last year, the original conglomeration of the Butthole Surfers came to Dallas to perform for the first time in over a decade. ... More >>

Dirt Don't Hurt

Butthole Surfers, Peaches and MEN Granada TheaterOctober 30, 2009 Better than: Not too much--especially since it was my birthday. Butthole Surfers​ About this same time last year, the original conglomeration of the Butthole Surfers came to Dallas to perform for the first time in over a decade. ... More >>

Wipeout

Butthole Surfers, Peaches and MEN Granada TheaterOctober 30, 2009 Better than: Not too much--especially since it was my birthday. Butthole Surfers​ About this same time last year, the original conglomeration of the Butthole Surfers came to Dallas to perform for the first time in over a decade. ... More >>

Original Butthole Surfers Lineup To Play The Granada On October 22

Butthole Surfers, Peaches and MEN Granada TheaterOctober 30, 2009 Better than: Not too much--especially since it was my birthday. Butthole Surfers​ About this same time last year, the original conglomeration of the Butthole Surfers came to Dallas to perform for the first time in over a decade. ... More >>

Skateboard Men Vow "To Never Return To Dallas Ever Again"

Butthole Surfers, Peaches and MEN Granada TheaterOctober 30, 2009 Better than: Not too much--especially since it was my birthday. Butthole Surfers​ About this same time last year, the original conglomeration of the Butthole Surfers came to Dallas to perform for the first time in over a decade. ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Journeys Backyard BBQ at Grapevine Mills

Butthole Surfers, Peaches and MEN Granada TheaterOctober 30, 2009 Better than: Not too much--especially since it was my birthday. Butthole Surfers​ About this same time last year, the original conglomeration of the Butthole Surfers came to Dallas to perform for the first time in over a decade. ... More >>

Excitebike 2008

Motocross hits Texas Stadium

Plano Skatepark is Becoming a Live Music Venue

Eisenbergs Skatepark was never meant to host music, but that hasn't stopped it

Action Sports Take Over Dallas

Those crazy kids have built our li'l skate rink into a huge international sport

Burst the Stereotypes

Athletes can be artists too

Totally Extreme

Whatever happened to lay-ups and salchows?

Get in on the Action

Whatever happened to lay-ups and salchows?

Snow Bored

Extreme sports may be fun, but First Descent is not

Nature Calls

Extreme sports may be fun, but First Descent is not

The Tao of Cowboy

Plus: The Big Jesus Bash

Skate Bored

The Z-Boys roll into Dogtown again, and truth is cooler than fiction

Head in the Sand

Dust to Glory honors the Baja 1000, where everybody's a legend

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of "big wave" surfing

Bull Riding

Greg Noll helped create big-wave surfing

Board Games

Jon Comer's doing what's Never Been Done

Now Boarding

Hop on the bandwagon

Extreme Estrogen

Surf's up for Girls Learn to Ride

Snow Show

Why am I an X Games convert? Because they're sick.

Mo' Bull

Check out the rockin' broncs

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Check out the rockin' broncs

Best Place to Skateboard

Downtown

SK8 4 Zero

Party at the park

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Party at the park

Pink Ribbons

Plano runs breast cancer out of town

Down & Dirty

To the extreme

Shamrock On

Kids get locked in, not locked up

Flying Circus

Tony Hawk is the ringmaster of the Boom Boom HuckJam

Best Place to Skateboard

Eisenbergs Skatepark

X Marks the Spot

Xtreme sports hit the mainstream

Beached Wail

Mystery, intrigue, and hunky surfers

Speed Demons

Crusty Demons of Dirt

Ride 'Em, Surferboy

As coastal Texans head inland to escape heavy weather, landlocked beach boys are catching waves and sitting on top of the world

Hot wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

This Sand is Your Sand

On the Texas coast, the only thing eroding faster than the sand is the state’s Open Beaches Act

Slacking in style

How skateboarder and surfer dude Tracy Feith wheeled out of Dallas to become the latest, hottest thing in haute couture

Being Spike Jonze

The acclaimed rock-video director has made one of the year's oddest, funniest films. So why is he scared of his own shadow?

Fly Boys

Like a gang of punk Peter Pans, suburbia's not-so-lost boys flock to Eisenbergs Skate Park to test their wings