Land Surfing

The weather has turned much colder, and our tackle shop reporters say there are relatively few anglers still hitting the water. In light of that, this week's fishing report will be the final one of the 2008 season. Look for the report to resume prior...

With innovative board sports growing -- think snowboarding, wakeboarding, kiteboarding -- it makes sense that the granddaddy of them all wouldn't stand still. Skateboarding, developed in the 1950s among surfers who wanted to "surf the streets" in their...

Is the beach big enough for swimmers and surfers? Southern California's coast has spots where you can do both -- though not always in the same place. Here are some beaches where water whirlers thrive. Leo Carrillo State Park, north of Santa Monica ( www....

Brooke Pfautz knows that sales at his mortgage banking firm will probably plunge during the NCAA basketball tournament that begins Thursday. But for the second year in a row, he plans to show the March Madness games on the office big-screen TVs and...

Catch a wave," the Beach Boys sang, "and you're sitting on top of the world." I won't be telling you about the top of the world. If, however, you want to hear about the world's depths - how the churn of the sea makes your limbs flail in entirely new...

HALIBUT cheeks and short ribs. Scallops and foie gras. Squid and pig's ears. Lobster and squab. Recognize the theme? It's surf and turf. For the guy shuffling chips at a Vegas craps table, hoping for a hot roller — or at least a meal comped by...

The perfect wave. It's the ideal surfers have been searching for since man first put board to water centuries ago. It's the genesis of chaotic elements, a rare alignment of natural phenomena that for lucky wave riders present at just the right moment...

Here are some of our favorite places in the borough, from DUMBO to Bay Ridge. Chestnut In a simply decorated space on Smith Street, Savoy alumna David Wurth turns out New American cooking that has turned this newcomer into a neighborhood favorite. The...

In Krakow, music can surprise A revival of Jewish culture in Poland coinciding with a '90s tourism boom centered on the Holocaust has resulted in an odd phenomenon: a thriving Jewish life without Jewish lives at its center. Is this even possible? That...

"Programmers don't surf. For one thing, getting a tan would undermine the programmer street cred; for another, surfers get up early and programmers generally sleep past noon. Without personal experience, simulating the thrill of surfing is a matter of...

Leonard Clark's great-grandfather arrived on the Magdalen Islands clinging to a lifeboat after the Good Intent, the ship he traveled on from England, lost its rudder in a gale in December 1855. His wife's grandfather floated ashore on a ladder several...

Timely -- and as demographically savvy as ever -- James Bond enters his new adventure off the coast of North Korea with some fast and furious surfing designed to show the "XXX" generation that the 007 dude still has the stuff. The waves and silhouetted...