From page one where I first met Surf Dude, I fell hard in love. “I didn’t mean to be famous,” the vagabond starts his story, “I’m just your average yellow dog that was once loved, but became a drifter ...

Every year, Cocoa Beach, Florida, stages the effervescent "Surfing Santas" event, a "surf-off" and costume contest attended ...

Stereotypes, like eggs and vacuum cleaners, are made to be broken, just waiting to be broken you might say, creating a mess for those unprepared for it. The surfer dude is one of those eggs. Get ready ...

It wasn’t when I noticed the gray hair leaching into the corners of my beard or when I discovered my mid-length was getting dinged up while my shortboards gathered dust. This totally un-radical ...

Aug. 24, 2001 — -- Hey Dude! If you think you can throw around a couple of "totally tubulars" and pass yourself off as a surfer, you're a real hodad with the IQ of a Malibu Barbie. The misguided ...

Many moons ago, a young actor named Sean Penn made a household name for himself playing the quintessential surf dude Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." It was, in a word, awesome. Every ...

Bob Levy grew up in El Salvador but discovered surfing in California, and he vividly remembers the day he returned to his homeland and hit the beach with a stiff, 10-foot surfboard under his arm.

Canoe surfing, particularly in an outrigger, is an ancient Polynesian tradition. The plastic, cookie-cutter kayaks you find at Costco and lining the beach at Sandals Resorts, those are not in ...

Jeff Spicoli is alive and well, playing quarterback for Agoura High. Wearing his baseball cap backward atop his long hair and possessing a vocabulary that includes saying “dude” multiple times, ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Matthew McConaughey and his pals, including co-stars Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson, probably had a blast making "Surfer, Dude." But they forgot to provide an ...

I have lived a relatively long life, zeroing in on my 76th birthday on Sept. 29. In terms of being a surfer, I am an old dude, almost always the oldest person in the lineup when I paddle out. I feel ...