‘In The Field’ with The War Report: Slow Impact 2026
In our first collab post with ‘The War Report’, Jamie breaks down the slow impact 2026 fits front to back.
AB’s Top 5 Videos of 2025
Our Top 5 videos of 2025 reflects votes from AB contributors (and a few friends) across the NW for their five favorite skate videos of the year.
Cal Skate: 50 Years and Pushing
Cal Skate has managed to stay in business for fifty years, surviving the dot-com bubble, 2008 recession, and COVID. Now, Howard Weinder, the founder of the shop, is passing ownership to Chris Nukula, employee and manager of the shop.
Melonchaly: Da Vinci’s lost box
A look back at Portland’s Da Vinci watermelon box.
Natalie on Her New Book and Antisocial’s New Home
Natalie talks about her new book and the importance of Antisocial and skateshop in general.
Natalie Porter’s New Book is Here
Our friend Natalie Porter just launched her new book Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders which is a deep dive into the women and non-binary skaters who pushed through a hostile industry and built their own lanes in skateboarding
Knobs Off: Coming Full Circle on Half Circle
Guest contributor Cole Somers argues for liberating Portland’s ‘Half Circle’ in his first article on the site.
Filming with Ryan Lay for Sci-Fi Fantasy’s ‘Endless Beauty’
As many of you who keep up with AB know, this thing is primarily dedicated to covering the skateboarding that comes out of the Northwest, which may leave some of you curious as to why tf we’re posting the Sci-Fi video
Adjacent: A New NW Skate Event Coming This Summer
This summer, we’re launching an annual event called Adjacent, a weekend long gathering celebrating skateboarding in the Northwest. The plan is for the event to rotate to a new NW city each year, but we’re kicking it all off in Portland, July 25th to 27th.
Fos Art Show in Portland
We stopped into Fos’ Art Show in Portland on Go Skate Day 2025 to check out his art and the new collab with Heroin x Tactics.
New AB Hats
We finally decided to make a small run of AB hats and added a shop to the site so you can grab one.
A Conversation with James Alby
We caught up with James Alby to talk about his upcoming documentary Chimera, the intersection of skating and pottery, creative discipline, and finally settled how to pronounce “vase.”
An Interview with Faith Doudna
In this interview we chat with Faith Doudna about growing up in Selah, WA, getting sponsored, filming video parts, making the move to Portland and who she’s inspired by.
Under Exposed with Kyle Steneide
In this Under Exposed interview we chat with Kyle Steneide, a NW raised and LA based videographer and video editor.
‘Various’ Show at One Moto Cafe
One Moto Cafe, located right by Willis Kimbel’s Rip’s Skate Shop, hosted an art show titled Various, displaying works from various skaters in Portland, Oregon. Some of the featured artists were Sebo Walker, Noah Smith, James Alby, Chet Childress, Joe Brook, and Tyler Bledsoe.
Talking to Jim Arasim the Creator of skatecreteordie.
In this quick interview we speak with Jim Arasim, a Seattle skater and sole developer of the app skatecreteordie.
AB’s Top 5 Videos of 2024
To nail down our AB Top 5 Videos of 2024, we compiled every NW video that dropped this year and sent the list to our contributors & a few OG’s to vote on their favorites. Here are the official AB Top 5 Videos of 2024.
All City Showdown Returns + Gutter 2 Release Party
Excitement and anticipation filled the air as 35th North geared up for the premiere of All City Showdown 24, the first one in 8 years.
Behind the Northwest Open with Sam Goldberg-Jaffe
Talking with Sam Goldberg-Jaffe, the skate marketing manager and skate team manager for Tactics about the 3rd Annual Northwest Open.
The Rockstar Energy Open was Maybe Actually Good?
In this article Bailey shares his experience of the 2024 Rockstar Energy Open in Portland, OR.