Ben Thompson discovered the name for his store while working as a kitchen manager in Ann Arbor. A customer comment card noted, one day, that the place was starting to look like a flophouse. Thompson ...

Sometimes the most compelling art comes in unexpected packages. For Damian Estrella, the canvas is particularly radical: He paints the undersides of skateboard decks. The 24-year-old is a recent ...

The Board Factory is the latest kiosk to open at Downtown Disney, allowing shoppers to design their own skateboards. Nine-year-old Skyler Ludin of Irvine was visiting Santa at the Paradise Pier Hotel, ...

Skateboarding has ebbed and flowed in popularity over the years, but never truly gone away. Perhaps no one knows this better than custom board designer Bear Walker of Bear Walker Industries. As the ...

Some of hip-hop's biggest cultural ambassadors are teaming up to create custom skateboards for charity. W Hotels of New York has teamed up with the charitable organization STOKED.org to launch "W ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm based in Chicago and have written for ESPN and Rolling Stone. If you’ve never heard of Bear Walker, it’s safe to say you know ...

A non-profit organization in Whistler, B.C., is holding an online auction featuring custom skateboards with handcrafted Indigenous designs to help boost year-round sporting opportunities for ...