Matt Warshaw grew up in Manhattan Beach in the ‘60s, just as surfing was cementing its central place in Southern California’s culture, and spent his youth in the water. He and his high school buddies ...
When talking about localism and hierarchies within surfing, 3x World Champion Joel Tudor said, “I get mad when people say, ‘You surfers are so selfish’, because it’s the same shit in the corporate ...
The Palos Verdes Estates Police Department, accused in a class-action lawsuit of protecting a band of territorial surfers, recorded more than a dozen incidents of surf-related localism since January ...
Palos Verdes Estates police, already the target of a national media glare over what some claim is their hands-off approach to surfing localism, are investigating a new act of vandalism fitting the ...
Palos Verdes Estates has agreed to put out a welcome mat to its coveted Lunada Bay surf spot and pay millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees to resolve a lawsuit accusing city officials of failing to ...
A view of the southern portion of Lunada Bay in Palos Verdes Estates, including the so-called "goat trail" that leads from the bluffs to the beach. (Plaintiff's exhibit in Spencer v. Lunada Bay Boys ...
Palos Verdes Estates police, already the target of a national media glare over what some claim is their hands-off approach to surfing localism, are investigating a new act of vandalism fitting the ...
When I sat in a theater to watch The Surfer, my initial reaction was: who is this movie for? It felt too cheesy to appeal to surfers. Poor attempts at surfer slang like “he cut it up” to describe good ...