Skateboarding

KHVT Hosting Kickoff Party to Raise Funds for New Skate Park

Kingshighway Vigilante Transitions, or KHVT for short, aims to improve the community one skatepark at a time. But to make their plans completely concrete, they're going to need some more cents for cement. Their next step? A Kickstarter.com campaign. For the uninitiated, the crew of skate enthusiast ... More >>

Them Bones

The Dream of the '90s is Alive at Skatefest

You've Gotta Fight for Your Right to Ollie

12 to 6 Movement on How they Got Raekwon and Others on Thier New Record and Why They Called it Titties Out

It took a while, but local hip-hop trio 12 to 6 Movement finally unleashed their new collaboration-heavy album, Titties Out. Since our last interview with the group, they added songs with Joe Budden, Opio and A-Plus from Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics and Psycho Les from The Beatnuts to a tracklist ... More >>

O'Fallon, Illinois Is Getting a Pricey Skate Park for Summer

​O'Fallon's aldermen voted unanimously to spend more money to build a larger skatepark with more features than what was originally planned.The total bill is now budgeted at $264,000, up from $150,000. Most of that money will come from grants and the Park Dedication Fund ($125,000), with the parks ... More >>

MAKE and Take

Floating Skatepark to Dock at St. Louis Riverfront This Weekend

Photos courtesy of Red BullSkaters grinding their way down Old Man River.​At this very moment (9:09 a.m. on September 15) a 195-foot-long barge is making its way south on the Mississippi River toward St. Louis. Plugging along at around 10 mph, the vessel has drawn more than a few blank stares duri ... More >>

Kingshighway Skatepark Gets Nod in Popular Mechanics

courtesy of KHVT (Kingshighway Vigilante Tranny)Build a skate park, change the world!​OK, so they didn't find a cure for cancer or resolve the ongoing crisis in Libya. But the founders of the Kingshighway Skatepark still get a shot-out in the August issue of Popular Mechanics -- they're one of ten ... More >>

Now On Deck

Skaters Organize to Help Expand Kingshighway Skatepark

See more photos of the Kingshighway skatepark on KHVT's Flickr page​Not-for-profit organizations normally choose vanilla-sounding names in order to attract (or at least not scare off) potential donors. As the name indicates, Kingshighway Vigilante Tranny (KHVT for short) is not a normal not-for-pr ... More >>

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, Aug. 13-15, 2010

As the temperature tops 100, RFT has discovered some cool ways to stay, well, cool in these dog days of summer. We've got art, music, magic and more indoors, plus a skate show and bike race for you daredevils who want to brave the heat. Viva la air conditioning!

Into the Vallely of Death

Readers look forward to a return of civility in Webster Groves and far-reaching crime via MetroLink

Skateboarders Attack Motorist, Man Hospitalized After Face Meets Grip Tape

Courtesy Joplin PoliceChristopher J. Hill, 17, of Joplin, was charged with second-degree assault after allegedly using his skateboard to attack a driver.​A southwest Missouri man found out what it feels like to be on the wrong end of a skateboard "trick" on Monday.As reported by the the Joplin Glo ... More >>

10 Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, December 11-13, 2009

Any other month of the year you might be called a cheap-skate, penny-pinching tight-wad. But this is December. Being low on expendable funds ostensibly means you've spent your hard-earned money on gifts for loved ones. Stay fly this weekend on a budget and catch the holiday spirit with these suggest ... More >>

A Post That Isn't About Jeff Smith or Skip Ohlsen

For awhile it seemed Daily RFT was destined to set a Joe Dimaggio-like record for consecutive posts on the same topic (even though everyone knows 56 in a row is unattainable in this day and age) but here's a little morning levity, courtesy of Fail blog, to lighten up all the recent talk of shady pol ... More >>

Back to the Grind

St. Louis Video: Sinister Dane, "Absence of Angels" Tony Hawk Skateboarding

Sinister Dane playing "Absence of Angels" at the old Fire House in 1994. Tony Hawk is there skateboarding on a half-pipe. What?

Head on Collision Appears in Thrasher

Congrats to local metal dudes Head on Collision, who recently got a nice article in Thrasher, the seminal skateboarding and music magazine. The following picture was spotted on the STL DIY Hardcore message board:

Top 13 Non-Music Reasons to Attend the RFT Music Showcase

All Hands on Decks

The Sleeping

8 p.m. Monday, July 16. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

Follow the Money

Readers call out Paul McKee and Prince Joe.

Strong Bonds

Joe to Hank Aaron: Don't sell out! Back Barry!

Tricks Are for Everyone

Spray-On Soul

Getting Up is a flawed but fascinating ode to graffiti 's early years.

Ten High

S.O.K.A. skateboard shop throws one helluva birthday party

Skate or Die

Back in our day, we woulda gone uphill both ways to get to Tony Hawk's Boom Boom HuckJam

Skate Bored

The Z-Boys roll into Dogtown again, and truth is cooler than fiction

All A-board

Skate to fame and fortune at Saturday's PlayStation Big Hook Up event

Blatant Localism

Joe Herbert documents the skate scene

Hidden Valley

How Missouri skiing is supposed to be

A 'Stache of Evil

Beware the hair

Del Rey

Friday, November 14; the Rocket Bar

The Hawkman Cometh

Tony Hawk wants to see how many people he can get to say "Boom Boom HuckJam"

Behind the Grind

As Stoked documents, Mark "Gator" Rogowski lived fast and burned out faster

True Confessions

We feel our age at St. Charles' new skate park, bare our guilty soul to the Recording Industry Association of America and pay our last respects to another victim of asbestos

Eyeliner and Grease

Fast cars, fast bands, fast women

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

We're Young and Board

St. Charles embraces skaters

In Any Sport, What Is the Most Difficult Thing To Do?

Week of March 26, 2003

Skate or Die

Thrill-seekers on wheels of all sizes are invited to a get-together

Auto Iconography

Bad-boy skaters perpetuate their own myth in Dogtown and Z-Boys

Skate or Die

In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

Best Place To People-Watch

University City Loop

The Mellowfeathers with Brick Bat and the French New Wave

Sunday, July 29; Ramp Riders Skate Park

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

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