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Popular bands, skateboard athletes and BMX champions will ride into Desert Breeze Park for Findlay Chevrolet’s Extreme Thing Sports and Music Festival this Saturday for the 14th year. This year, roller derby enters the mix, leaving this festival with everything an extreme heart desires. …Â
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An exotic icon known throughout Baldwin Park as the skateboarding parrot has gone missing.
The bird-napping occurred about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday as Gordo – a green Malaysian parrot from Guatemala – played in his cage on the front porch of his owner’s Bess Street home.
“My mother was at home and she heard somebody trying to break into the cage,” said Fred Mireles. “When she went out there, the guy was already (running away).” …Â
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It’s sink or swim for the “Dow Jones,” a concrete canoe built by UCSD’s Society of Civil and Structural Engineers. A team of engineering students loaded the 300-pound concrete canoe into a crate by hand on March 19.
The crate was loaded into a truck headed to the port at Long Beach, from where it will be shipped to Hawaii.
UCSD engineering students will compete against 17 universities from the Pacific Southwest at the annual American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCI) collegiate conference at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on April 2 to 4. The canoe will be judged on its design and its comparative speed to other canoes.
The secret to making this 25-foot concrete canoe float is …Â Details
He’s no stranger to observing overwhelming challenges, but by his own estimation, “This is the most daunting physical thing I have ever attempted,” Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan tells PEOPLE about his own amazing race – a 40-day, 39-city cycling tour from Los Angeles to New York.
Starting this Saturday, Keoghan, 41, plans to average 100 miles a day in pedal power. “Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics,” he says. “It’s good for the waistline and it’s good for the wallet, is what I’m saying.” … Details