Mar. 15, 2025
Tony Hawk, Frances Bean Cobain and son Ronin.Photo:Randy Shropshire/Getty; Frances Bean Cobain/Instagram
Randy Shropshire/Getty; Frances Bean Cobain/Instagram
Tony Hawkhas been given one rule to follow as a new grandpa, but he’s rolling with it.
Well, to an extent, Hawk says of getting his new grandson,Ronin Walker, on a skateboard while speaking with PEOPLE exclusively about his continued partnership with Qunol for Heart Health Month in February.
“Let’s say I brought him on a skateboard while sitting down on it,” he admits.
Mar. 15, 2025
Tony Hawk and grandson Ronin (left), Kurt Cobain in 1993.Photo:Tony Hawk/Instagram; Frank Micelotta/Getty
Tony Hawk/Instagram; Frank Micelotta/Getty
Tony Hawkis looking back at a special moment from his past.
The pro skateboarding legend, 56,shared a photoon his Instagram Stories over the weekend of a ticket stub from aNirvanaconcert on Oct. 20, 1991.
“Went straight from an S.U.A.S. [Shut Up And Skate] event at Houston Skatepark to this concert in 1991,” Hawk writes.
Mar. 15, 2025
Tony Hawk (left) in 1986; (right) in 2017.Photo:Paul Harris/Getty; Shutterstock / Arturo Verea
Paul Harris/Getty; Shutterstock / Arturo Verea
Tony Hawkisn’t slowing down — on or off the board. But as the skateboarding legend says, he takes better care of his body.
“I would say 10 to 15 years ago, I would skate until I was just exhausted and kind of sick. And now, Iskate at least[as] much as I used to, and I feel energized,” Hawk, 56, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Mar. 15, 2025
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D’Wayne Wiggins, a Grammy-nominated singer and guitarist best known for his work with the soul/R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!, has died. He was 64.
Wiggins’ deathwas announcedon Friday, March 7 on the band’s official Instagram in a statement that said he’d been “privately and courageously battling bladder cancer” over the last year.
The statement continued, saying Wiggins’ “life was incomparable,” and that his contributions to the world impacted millions of people, including in his hometown of Oakland, Calif.
Mar. 15, 2025
Maynard Keenan of Tool performs onstage during the 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival - Day 3 at Randall’s Island on June 4, 2017 in New York City.Photo:Steven Ferdman/Getty
Steven Ferdman/Getty
WhenToolannounced its Tool in the Sand music festival in the Dominican Republic in October, fans were excited to shell out upwards of $7,500 for two concerts over two nights that promised “unique sets.”
But after the Grammy-winning rock band repeated four different songs over the two shows, festivalgoers turned on them, booing from the crowd and even threatening class-action lawsuits.