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City skateboards recently cornered Dave Bachinksy for a little Q&A about coming up from Massachusetts, turning pro, and yes, the upcoming release of his namesake video piece. Read on.

This one just in as a reminder from Dave Duncan. Tomorrow, Saturday, April 26th, Double D will be hosting the 13th annual Basic Backyard Bar-B-Que Bowl Bash in Huntington Beach. Show up by noon to sign up to skate in the jam sessions. There will be several age divisions.
The house is located at the end of Albacore Drive. Unlike the new San Jose skatepark opening tomorrow, no pads are required, which means more punk points from the judges! As always, it should be a fun one.

Appearing for their first skate demo since the release of Fully Flared, Guy Mariano, Marc Johnson, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll and Eric Koston will all be in Des Moines, Iowa to get their shred on for you and themselves Saturday, May 3rd. Jump on over to Subsect for all of the info and answers.

The 6th annual Top Shop team competition takes place this weekend at Minneapolis’ the 3rd Lair skatepark. Thanks to Spitfire, the top team will take home some cash and 5 sets of custom Top Shop wheels. Plus, they have the option to produce a limited run of these gems for sale at their store. Pretty cool huh?

With heavy hearts we’re saddened to bring you this news, but Ali Boulala has been ordered to serve a minimum 2 year sentence for the tragic motorcycle crash that critically injured himself and killed Shane Cross last year.

Justin “Figgy” Figueroa and Brian “Slash” Hansen have been welcomed to the Altamont squad with this video piece. In related info, TWS Biz’ Adam Sullivan caught up with Slash to discuss nicknames, and his new line up of sponsors amongst other things.
David Gonzalez just got stoned by Volcom. Yep, he’s on their roster along with the rest of their heavy hitters. Look for him to turn up the heat for the next decade or so.
Comin’ out swingin’ with his pro debut, San Diego’s Kellen James hits ‘em hard on the web with a full video part over at Jus Liv’n. Solid work Kellen!

We ran across this article on a California businessman pouring millions of dollars into developing a massive U.S. style amusement park in downtown Baghdad that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theater and a museum. Wait, did they say a skate park? Yup, and it seems the skatepark will be the first attraction to open this July.
From the article:
“Parts for 200,000 skateboards and materials to build ramps will be shipped from the United States to Iraq for assembly at state-owned factories, and provided free to Iraqi children along with helmets and knee pads.
Mr. Werner also plans to import American instructors to teach Iraqi children how to skateboard. When the sport catches on, Mr. Werner will start to sell the boards, which bear the slogan “Ride Baghdad Skate Park” in hot-pink Arabic.”
We have to wonder who is making the boards? Will Andy Mac fly over to spread a drug free message of skating for freedom? Can kids stop getting shot at long enough to shred? Will Mr. Werner turn a profit and in the process make Iraq the next skateboarding “gold-mine?” Stay tuned.

Last weekend saw several skate events take place across the country. Due to threatening wet weather, Brooklyn’s King of Spring was rescheduled to take place on Saturday, a day earlier that its originally planned 420 outing. With RB Umali’s sharp video documentation, the skate jam looked to be packed with sick action throughout the afternoon. Check out the footage with Zered Bassett, Jahmal Williams, Dan Pensyl, Billy Rohan and a swarm of ams and upstarts.
Sunday, April 20th brought together two remaining skate gatherings. The first being in Tampa where the SPoT crew and friends had assembled for a 420 Bowl Bash at the Bro Bowl. Well, it turns out that the civil servants in blue that are supposed to serve and protect, happen to frequent the SPoT website so they were well informed and showed up to the party to regulate and bring frowns (and parking tickets) to a planned afternoon of good times.
Out in San Francisco, about 200 people lined the sidewalk on 14th and Mission to witness and participate in the Satori 420 skate jam at 3 Up 3 Down. The illicit 30 minute contest stretched on well over an hour, with no police intervention whatsoever. Standout skaters and tricks included: Apollo Cuts – nollie shove nose manual, 360 shove out, Brad Johnson – manual to laserflip and kickflip nose manuals, and Aaron Harrington – 5-0 across the block and a nice manual to 360 shove out. Several others tried back lip and front lip across the entire block to no success. When it was all done, it was Adrian Williams who took the $420 purse with consistency. He handled 2-3 tricks capping off with a 5-0 to back tail. Unfortunately, Brandon Turner showed up too late for the competition, but charged a high speed nollie noseslide to end the event to the cheers of the crowd. It was a perfect stress free day with no problems, just the way it used to be in SF.

Jam on over to 48 Blocks where they’ve rounded up Sacto’s live wire Brandon Biebel for an interview.