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3 Oct 2014:
City links: The best city stories this week find Walthamstow going Dutch, look at plans for an undersea tunnel linking Helsinki and Tallinn – and welcome the arrival of ‘skateboard urbanism’
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18 Sep 2014: Space under Queen Elizabeth Hall to be kept open for skaters, marking a victory for the Long Live Southbank campaign
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17 Aug 2014:
Partying just as hard as they rode, Australian brothers Tas and Ben Pappas tore the 1990s skateboarding scene apart. Then tragedy struck. Now a new documentary is telling their story
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15 Aug 2014: To mark the opening of Vans’ new skatepark in London Waterloo this week, the UK’s number one female skateboarder, Lucy Adams, recommends her favourite skateparks in England
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11 Aug 2014:
Company aims to reach new heights by snapping up cavernous space previously used by Old Vic and theatre group Punchdrunk
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10 Aug 2014:
Eddie Martin's documentary reveals the drug-fuelled hubris that brought the Pappas brothers down, writes Jonathan Romney
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8 Aug 2014:
He covers a half-pipe in canvas, dips sponges in paint and straps them to his trucks, then amazes crowds with his live skateboard painting show. Is Matt Reilly the 21st-century Jackson Pollock? Check out his new way of making
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7 Aug 2014: The sidelining and self-destruction of Australian skateboarding stars the Pappas brothers is a fascinating tale, but this documentary is not quite objective enough to tell it, writes Peter Bradshaw
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1 Aug 2014:
All This Mayhem tells the story of Tas and Ben Pappas, world skateboarding champion brothers whose lives fell apart after both got involved with drugs
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17 Jul 2014: Exciting first set of wheels to seeing bland urban spaces from a whole new perspective, Kevin Eason extols the virtues of the board
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21 Jun 2014:
Hundreds of skateboarders in Manila, the Philippines, skate down main roads in the capital on Saturday to mark 'Go Skateboarding Day'
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13 Jun 2014:
Camden council's bench is specially designed to prevent skateboarders skating on it and homeless people sleeping on it
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13 Jun 2014:
In the week that spikes and other hostile architecture devices have been in the news, photographer Marc Vallée has a book of striking images documenting the obstacles put in the way of skateboarders
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12 Jun 2014: Pay-per-minute benches, 'pig ears' to prevent skateboarding, devices that emit an unpleasant sound only teenagers can hear … cities have many tactics to discourage 'unwanted' behaviour
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10 Jun 2014:
Former champion skateboarder Tas Pappas and the film-maker Eddie Martin discuss All this Mayhem, a documentary exploring the sport's hedonistic reputation
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