Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Growing up in the 1980s as a skateboarder proved difficult in some key ways. For one, all the good places to skateboard were either illegal or by invitation only. Plus, if you kissed the ramp owner’s ...

A skateboarding halfpipe with a $500 trick contest. Dozens of vendors offering custom-made merchandise. And a roster of punk bands led by Southern California's venerable T.S.O.L. The inaugural ...