Interviews
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Landing Pitches with Skateboarding Magazine Editors: Making The Big Leagues, Part 2
The editors of Free Skate Mag, Dolores Magazine, Skate Jawn and Mess Skate Mag come together for a discussion of what makes for a good story and what helps pitches stand out. Story by Farran Golding Collages by Templeton Elliott In the introduction to Jimmy Breslin’s Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, an account of…
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LES Skatepark: The Civic Center of New York City Skateboarding with Ian Browning
Exploring park space in New York and the city’s rise to prominence in skate culture through the lens of the Lower East Side skatepark with Ian Browning, author of the Quartersnacks story ‘Civic Centre — A Profile of the L.E.S. Park at Ten Years’.
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Talking Interviews with Eric Swisher of The Chrome Ball Incident
Question and answer interviews have long been the predominant format for written skateboarding journalism. To unpack how they became so ubiquitous and answer what, exactly, makes for a good one, the script was flipped on Eric Swisher (“Chops”) of The Chrome Ball Incident.
