Tony Hawk’s Stand Up For Skateparks‘ fundraising party held in billionaire Ron Burkle’s Beverly Hills backyard yesterday November 9, 2008 raised over $1 million “to bring free, quality skateboard parks to low-income communities across the United States.”
. . . attendees included Tony Hawk, Shaun White, Anthony Kiedis, David Spade, Perry Ferrell, Chris “Big Black” Boykin, Kathy Ireland, Bam Margera and BMX legend Mat Hoffman, as well as event benefit committee members Jamie Lee Curtis and Mia Hamm. . . . plus performances by Social Distortion, and a Vert Demo on Hawk’s personal ramp, where he was joined by White, Bucky Lasek, Andy Macdonald, Kevin Staab, and BMX riders John Parker and Dennis McCoy.
We tried to get a press pass, but apparently our readership is not A-List enough. Follow the jump for the entire press release. [click to continue…]
According to the LA Weekly kids lined up “several hundred deep” outside the Active Westwood store on November 8, 2008 for the release of the Bam/Kat Von D model Element Skateboards. The tattooed cele-bro duo reportedly signed autographs for a while and then Mike V.’s band played.
Check the link for the entire 34 images slideshow of the three horsemen in action.
Next week on Friday November 14, 2008 at 8 pm (7 central), Tony Hawk will make a special guest appearance on the intrusively retarded NBC game show Deal Or No Deal.
A lifelong skateboard lover receives support from skating legend Tony Hawk in his quest for the million dollar prize.
Apparently, Tony has some kind of numbered box guessing talents we don’t know about. And how about those briefcases?
Today, the world’s best surfer will be competing at home in Coca Beach, Florida. Kelly Slater will compete in $10,000 Sean and Skippy Slater Invitational.
Slater will be among 36 surfers — and 24 longboarders — in his brothers’ benefit to raise money for the World Skin Cancer Foundation, a benefit created four years ago by his good friend, Drew Filliben, and Slater’s family. . . .”It was Drew’s idea,” Slater said. “He’s part of our family. We’ve been worried about his situation for 18 years or longer.”
Dermatologists will be on site on Saturday giving free cancer-cell screenings on the beach and there will reportedly be some “micro beer tasting” and a two-day street skating and BMX content in the parking lot of the Hilton.
Sal Masekela, who hosts the “Daily 10” on television network E!, will take the field on the same team as “The Hills” personality Holly Montag, sister of main character Heidi.
We don’t even know if our favorite entertainment host can even play poker? By the way he rolls we’re going to have to say, yeah. But on a team with Holly Montag? Sounds more like a nightmare team to us.
Alleged pro snowboarder Jesse Csincsak, the winner of the last season of The Bachelorette has been dumped by his finance DeAnna Pappas just four months after the two became engaged, according to a story on Eonline.
The duo had been planning to tie the knot May 9, 2009, and had even started a website to track their whirlwind courtship. . . .”I really felt like I was going to spend the rest of my life with him. I thought he was my fairy-tale ending,” Pappas told In Touch Weekly. “But after the show was over and we settled in to our normal lives, I slowly came to realize that we are two totally different people and it wasn’t going to work out.”
Back in August we mentioned that Tony Hawk and Swinger’s director John Favreau would be on a The Sundance Channel show called Iconoclasttogether. Well, tonight at 10:00 PM EST, is the night.
If you have the channel watch it, it will be good.
Tony Hawk has joined Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez, and Michael Phelps to dance around in their underwear in the latest Guitar Hero commercial according to a post on The Daily Voice.
The basketball, baseball, swimming and skateboarding stars appear on screen, a la Tom Cruise dancing to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock And Roll” in the movie Risky Business. . . The ad, which was directed by filmmaker Brett Ratner, shows the athletes with dress shirts, underwear and socks in a living room and on two sofas.
Tony Hawk and Per Welinder, business partners for the past 15 years, reached a definitive agreement whereby Tony Hawk has acquired all interest in the Birdhouse Skateboards brand from Blitz Distribution, Inc. . . . By purchasing the brand, Tony Hawk will initiate integrating Birdhouse into his overall activities and his business, Tony Hawk, Inc. Full ownership will also give Tony increased oversight and involvement to his biggest priority, the Birdhouse team riders.
Hard to believe this hadn’t happened sooner (especially considering the mainstream marketing power of Tony and Shaun White). No one does better with Tony’s brand than Tony. And maybe those new THPS controllers will be Birdhouse decks.
Tony Hawk has apparently purchased 
