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Today is International Surfing Day. But, really, what's so special about surfing? Surfrider Foundation started the celebration 10 years ago -- a day for groms, newbs and pro-surfers alike to salute their sport and the ocean itself. "Get out and enjoy it," Surfrider's Katie Ferguson encouraged via email Friday with the Los Angeles Times. The activist group uses the day to promote the protection of oceans and beaches and "to ensure ... there's clean water to paddle in and waves to surf." The popularity of surfing is growing around the world. A 2012 report shows the number of surfers (or at least, those who claim to be surfers) worldwide grew from 26 million in 2001 to 35 million in...
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Today is International Surfing Day. But, really, what's so special about surfing?
Surfrider Foundation started the celebration 10 years ago -- a day for groms, newbs and pro-surfers alike to...
When Jim Black leads people on a robust walk three times a week on the grounds of the 120-acre Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, he's got powerful company: God.
The several dozen people who join him have shown up with the same hopes that anyone...
It was easy to miss a small black-and-white photo on the wall next to the blazing, glossy aesthetic of a deep-orange-and-red Chevy Impala known as El Rey.
The 1963 convertible is regarded as a pinnacle of modern lowrider culture, and even under...
It was just after a January storm in 1953, and the waves were epic.
With other adrenaline-addled young surfers, 16-year-old Ricky Grigg caravaned up the coast from Santa Monica to Rincon, just beyond Ventura. Racing with his board into the roar...
Hundreds of UC Santa Barbara students took to the ocean to honor six of their own who were killed last week during Elliot Rodger's deadly rampage through the seaside college town of Isla Vista.
With their surfboards, group floatation devices...
You'd think giving away books would be an easy thing to do, but Melissa Eggerling tries to put a lot of creativity and a bit of theater into the act.
On Wednesday, Eggerling will be one of 800 Southern Californians participating as "givers"...
When he was a young man, Hobie Alter had a clear vision of his future: He didn't want a job that would require hard-soled shoes, and he didn't want to work east of Pacific Coast Highway.
He succeeded.
The son of a second-generation...
Not long ago, I read an article about how some men stay in shape, and one guy said his tactic was to hit the gym any time he could and take whatever class was on tap.
That speaks to the appeal of classes — a defined start and end time...
Female country singers are complaining that their music is being pushed off the airwaves by a new crew of young, male, “bro-country” musicians singing interchangeable songs about dirt roads, pickup trucks, girls in tiny cutoff jeans and...
When 66-year-old Lance Jencks first began bodysurfing at the Wedge in Newport Beach, he would often arrive at 7 a.m. and stay until 11 a.m.
Jencks wanted to get out there early because he loved the morning's glassy waves, he explained to the...
Just when you thought “Shark Week” was over …
Seems the folks in Hawaii are experiencing real-life reruns of the Discovery Channel’s popular week of shows on the toothy denizens of the deep. On Sunday, a shark...
Back when I was a kid going to the beach every weekend with my dad, I never thought of body surfing as a workout. It was just pure exhilaration — dog-paddling out there for hours, waiting for a good swell, then swimming like crazy for a couple of...
An old surfing battle is resurfacing in Newport Beach.
A city panel, the Blackball Working Group, will take the first step toward...
Hard to imagine, but in the 1950s there were no more than a couple hundred surfers in Southern California. Spying one of these early adopters gliding across the waves was a rare treat.
Rarer still were the people who photographed them.
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