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You wouldn't think this could still happen, especially in one of Atlanta's rapidly gentrifying hip neighborhoods -- Little Five Points. But apparently racial hate is still alive and well in Atlanta. Three white supremacist drifters from California allegedly jumped two African-American brothers and beat them savagely. Creative Loafing Atlanta got the story first. Mara Shalhoup talked to the young men's mother and eyewitnesses and then tipped the author of Georgia's hate crime law, state Sen. Vincent Fort. The three alleged assailants are charged with aggravated battery and reckless conduct, and the police are investigating it as a hate crime. "It's horrendous," police spokesman Lt. John Quigley tells Shalhoup.

Seventeen-year-old Corey Duffel of Walnut Creek, California is the closest thing the skateboarding world has to baseball's John Rocker: a young punk on the verge of stardom whose mouth gets him into trouble. But there's no such thing as bad publicity in skating. Even if you drop out of school, use the "N" word in a magazine article, and lose all your sponsors, you still can get back in the game if you (and your mom) deliver the appropriate mea culpas. And even if you do a spectacular face-plant during a photo shoot that leaves you with broken bones and causes your scrotum to swell up to the size of a coconut, the kids will forgive you if you come back in style. East Bay Express staff writer Justin Berton looks at the peculiar marketing mechanics of a sport that's now bigger than baseball among American teens.