Our lives revolve around stories. When told correctly, stories have the power to inspire, challenge, and organize ideas in an otherwise puzzling world. They often provide a framework for understanding ourselves, so when a story realizes its potential, it's an absolutely transcendent event. Nick Gabaldon's is one such...

On December 12, 2009 on the North Shore of Oahu just a few hours after Mick Fanning cemented his second ASP World Title, Stab Magazine writer Chas Smith and the newly-crowned two-time World Champion shared an awkward and unpleasant exchange that resulted in Fanning calling Smith a "f--cking Jew" several...

And so it's decided. After much speculation, the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) and Quiksilver officially announced that the sixth stop of the 2011 ASP World Tour will take place in Long Island, NY and go by the name: The Quiksilver Pro New York.

While the...

Consider the fact that one in fourteen people on the planet has a Facebook account. That means that, by the numbers, every single United States citizen (every single person) is a Facebook member...plus 190 million more people.[1] To say Facebook is big is like saying Motley Crüe had drug...

With fingers clasped in solidarity and feet planted firmly in the sand, nearly one hundred strangers stood hand in hand on the beach just north of the San Clemente Pier in Orange County, California on Saturday afternoon. The group was participating in the Hands Across the Sand movement,...

Sixty-six days after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana and catalyzed the worst oil spill in U.S. history (one that also killed eleven workers and injured seven others), Americans stare shame-faced at the black shadow in the Gulf of Mexico. It's huge....