Tagged Frank Stoner

As ever, the only sure thing about a street comp is high blood pressure. Here in Denver, a little over a week ago, Luke Bender hosted the Mile High City’s annual comp: The Mile High Battle. I hadn’t...

Our columnist-at-large Frank Stoner recently skated for this short section with Michael Langhausen on camera. As a seasoned, meaning old, beat-up blader, Frank was trying to get a glimpse of the real abilites...

Style is one of these things that seems to have baffled humanity for a very long time. In the discipline of Rhetoric, the debate has been going on for about 2,500 years, and shows no sign of slowing down. In...

On Sunday afternoon I was watching the World Cup and saw the final shoot-out between Croatia and Denmark. It was a very tense situation because the goal-keepers had each blocked an inordinate number of shots,...

One of the patterns that we've all experienced now for (going on) decades is the ritual coffee, beer, Gatorade, Coca-Colas, beer, or smoking that comes after a session with the homies. It gives everyone a...

Over the last few years or so, I’ve heard the term “sandbox” being used more and more—particularly in tech domains and video game discourse. If you haven’t heard this usage, the basic idea is a kind...

The Mile High Battle was again a success this year. Luke Bender says that they had an amazing year filled with all sorts of entertainment and top notch skating: "Huge thanks to all the sponsors who support the...

Looks like this year's Colorado Road Trip was one of the best ever, as we'll soon hear from Be-Mag's Frank Stoner, who was also there. Ant Medina finalised and released this awesome edit from the trip,...

Every summer “Smiley” Jason Mosley and Dom Montoya run a BBQ and skate event here in Colorado. It was designed originally (simply) to get the folks from Denver (and elsewhere in CO) to go up to Fort...

A few weeks back Josip here at Be-Mag asked a few of us to share some thoughts on what we think 2017 will bring for rollerblading. Typical of myself, I couldn't say much other than, "I think it will be...

So much stuff went down in the past few days that we didn't have enough time slots to put everything in and write a little bit about it. The 2016 Mile High Battle was awesome and you should come out next year...

Usually, the kind of question you ask will co-determine (or co-create) the kind of answer that you’re likely to get as a response. When the question is “Will you marry me?”, the answer is likely to...

In linguistics, we have a term for the kinds of words that can mean anything. Literally anything. No matter what you look at, point at, speak at… BOOM, there it is. Unlike my normal articles, this one...

Quite honestly, we need more girl skaters in general to bring more diversity and more different perspectives to rollerblading. This is a topic soon to be discussed in a 'For your consideration' column by Frank...

Words by: Frank Stoner Since we’ve already divided up my little writing project into a few different posts, we figured ‘why not go whole hog’ and do this last one as a Monday extravaganza. In...

For a long time, I’ve wanted to write a piece on the very strange relationship the rollerblading community has with the gay community. For those of us who grew up in the 1990s, just about every altercation...

In the first "Burning Questions" episode, Be-Mag all-star columnist, rhetorician and cognitive linguist Frank Stoner recruited our infamous messageboard to expand the range of topics discussed in the space of...

It’s no secret that I’ve been in something of a slump lately when it comes to writing articles for Be-Mag. I’m months overdue on a double article for Smiley about the (misguided) notion of Family in...

It turns out that the humble Frontside is a rather complicated little scamp and much can be said about it—so much so that I’m going to have to divide up everything I’d like to cover about it into two...

In the prelude to this series, I wrote about the difficulty people and cultures face when trying to restore their native language from brink of a phenomenon known as ‘language death’ once certain...