ANCHOR INTRO: KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says the Mingei’s new exhibit, Surf Craft, challenges stereotypes with its look at the design and the culture of board riding. Thanks to the movie Fast ...

The man once dubbed the Phantom Surfer is phantom no more. The tale of Bob Simmons, a pre-beatnik surfer from Pasadena, who dropped out of Caltech and then avoided World War II when he injured his arm ...

Dr. John Edward Kenvin, 91, of South Whitehall Township, passed away on November 3, 2019. Born March 31, 1928 in Hazleton, PA, he was the son of the late James N. Kenvin and Marie (Curran) Kenvin. Dr.

In the 1940s and early 1950s, when other surfboard shapers worked intuitively, legendary surfer Bob Simmons was applying mathematics and boat-building and aircraft technology to board designs. In 1954 ...

Fueled by the thrill of the ride, surfers have spent centuries perfecting surfboard designs for maximum hydrodynamic finesse. The Pacific Ocean’s breaks have inspired ingenious and stunning examples ...

In 1907, four years after “The Call of the Wild” was published, Jack London tried surfing when he visited Waikiki and wrote a reverent first-person account that helped popularize the sport in ...

Kenvin Moreau, 63, of Grand Island, a music teacher, director and actor, died Thursday (Jan. 17, 2002) in Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo.