BARZ OPTICS – LATEST SUNGLASS WINNERS

Update on “Some Like It Classic” movie - shot on 16mm colour film over 7 years - tailer, synopsis & news

A tribute to the 1965 film “Some Like it Wet" and the great, but largely unknown, “Some like It Smooth".  "Some Like ...

Nixon didn’t surf, but he golfed with a couple of surfer stoners

From SHACC (a repost of one of our most-read pieces from this week last year): A while back my friend Tom ...

The 1920s shark attacks that shook Sydney

A century ago, Sydney experienced a spate of deadly encounters that continued for a decade and left authorities scrambling for answers. On 12 ...

OUR 100th BOARD – WIN A RILEY BALSA FOAM-CORE 9’6” GUN!*

YES 100! And to be drawn before next issue! Every issue for 20 years we’ve given a magazine subscriber* a top-end longboard, and ...

A drug lord, a psychotic killer, and a surfing safari

Yep, it’s all happening in the new mainstream movie release Sons of Summer, filmed on the Gold Coast. Here’s the news ...

From super melons to rug rats, Plow has your noggin covered

We rarely do product plugs here on the PLB site, or in the magazine, but we were so taken with ...

History of Coolangatta – a 12-minute vid from “The doorway to Queensland”

Produced in 2011 & covering the history of the southern end of the Gold Coast back to James Cook. “The history ...

Bali to impose tourist tax – amid crackdown on “nuisance foreigners”

As reported in Time Magazine:  The Indonesian paradisiacal province of Bali, the so-called “Island of Gods,” is tired of being ...

100 FREE SURFBOARDS!

It’s taken a while but we’ve hit the ton! Seriously, where are those Guinness people? It was somewhere back around the ...

Old Mal Titles Galore!

For boards from before the revolution – the Queensland, Victorian, and Australian Titles are all looming. The 2023 Queensland Old Mal ...

BARZ OPTICS – THE LATEST WINNERS: UK, HAWAII, CA, & TEXAS

Every issue of the mag we pull four random international subscribers out of the hat for pairs of Barz sunglasses ...

Check this out for a smile – the 1 Foot Warrior and coffin ride barrel – video & chat

This is Mark Hill, and if this doesn’t bring you a smile maybe it's time to check your pulse. Over to ...

A global surge of heat

The Taylor Swift ticketing debacle has received more coverage, but here’s some other news as reported by The New York ...

HOT READ! PLB magazine catches fire on the Nullarbor Plain while heading to West Australia

“Please be advised that due to a fire on one of our linehaul trucks to Western Australia, your magazine stock ...

RIP Gordon Woods – original Australian board great gone at 98. This was an extraordinary life – read about it here, in his own words

A pivotal member of the original Brookvale Six, Gordon made his first board when he was a grommet at Bondi ...

THE NEW PLB - ISSUE 115 - Mick the Mighty Proofreader brings the inside info on what's in it

Mighty Mick the Hyphen brings us his run-down on what lies between the covers of the newie: >> FEATURES GENTLEMAN JOHN PENNINGS ...