The kind folks at Shelter Surf Shop in Long Beach have seen fit to bless Maggie with a solo show on May 31st, 7pm. Maggie has lovingly prepared over forty images of deserts and saltwater, birds and flowers, sun sets and silhouettes… all for your viewing pleasure!

Kim and Graham have lined up musical talents, Clancy and the Makeshift Trio (anyone have a link?) and Neil Harrison, who makes these sweet rides to provide soundage. Refreshments will be served.

Be there or be square!

Shelter is ON it with their art openings. This Saturday (4/26) night’s show by Bill Livingston, is titled “If You Don’t Surf, Dont Start” (a photographic exhibition of those who do). Hehe, the title is just in time for summer. I’m going to miss it due to being inland, and that’s a bummer cause Kim and Graham put on fun events.

BONUS! While I’m on the topic, here’s a slideshow from last month’s opening, Sacred Ride. I missed this one too.

Come check out a slide show of surf imagery by the talented Maggie Marsek in the park on Leucadia BLVD and the 101, this Saturday night. As a bonus, you get to listen to the tunes of internet hipster JP -Surfy Surfy- St. Pierre .

Saturday March 29th, Shelter Surf Shop will be celebrating their spiffy new location on 4th St in Long Beach. Kim and Graham really know how to put on an event, as their last gig, the Ether book tour was full of creative and in-trim surfers.

The re-opening will serve double duty as the opening night for the art of Estibahn Bojorquez. I’m bummed I’m going to miss it due to a last minute trip to the east coast, but if you are anywhere nearby, do yourself a favor and stop by.

There was some drama at this year’s anything but three. It seems some athoritiiii just can’t believe that a bunch of people could organize a gathering that large without commercial interests involved. Read the captions in the slide show for the whole story, with embellishment where required.

Maggie is hosting 70 or so photos of sick boards, rad shapers and surfers on her site, but she thought you might want to be able to comment and such on these here.

Photos by Maggie Marsek.

It was great to see lots of you, and even better to ride your boards. Please send ding repair bills for the boards I broke to :

Surfy Surfy
Leucadia, CA 92024

This Saturday (March 1), Nat Young will be speaking at Patagonia, so head on down, find your homies in the crowd and enjoy hearing Nat be Nat.

On Saturday, March 1, join shortboard trailblazer and five-time world champion Nat Young at the Patagonia Surf Shop (http://www.patagonia.com/usa/patagonia.go?assetid=5172 ) in Cardiff, where he will share slide images of pivotal moments from his newly revised book “The Complete History of Surfing: From Water to Snow,”. Following the show, Young will have books available for signing. This is an outdoor event but should the weather look questionable, it will be hosted indoors or on the heated patio. Doors open at 6:45 pm.

The annual Ground Swell Society (how freaking great is that name?) conference is this weekend! The event is a 2 day gig, with Saturday tapping the craniums of the kind of surf folk you wish you had access to all year round. The academic portion of this years event is solidly formed around south swell, with talks ranging from swell generation off New Zealand to Baja Pointbreaks. You can tell the karma on this event is great as it’s attracted an out of season south swell, from New Zealand of all places. :D From the event’s press release:

Did you know there’s a place where ocean swells roll for over five thousand miles? Where there are standing waves big enough to swallow container ships? Where yesterday’s mariners could be “caught inside” for months and today’s surfers get the longest rides in the world?

If you were worried about spending your weekend indoors, fear not. Sunday is reserved for riding an array of environmentally sensitive equipment from BioFoam to a Peruvian reed craft.

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The organizers behind the Currumbin Alley Fish Fry in Austraila really have it together… they’ve got the best logo of any Fry, past or future a pretty nice blog and they’ve been organizing this thing since forever. I even saw a poster for it at Surfride Solana Beach, Ca, USA of all places.

70 has a few friends headed over for a three week tour of Australia, with one of the stops being this Fry. With any luck, I’ll have some pictures of some sweet fishy sliders to post.

You’ve got some options this weekend, but what are your plans for Thursday? Migrate Home will be showing Chivo’s work, and it’ll be worth it…

Maggie Marsek has seven prints showing alongside Albe Falzon, Andrew Kidman, Jair Bortoleto and other local and international artists and shapers. Looks like great fun if you are in Brazil. More on Surfer’s Path.

Update: Sorry about misspelling your name Jair, Maggie has your back!