Surf Cinema this FRIDAY @ 8 p.m.! "SURFWISE"

Surfwise is a documentary about the lives of Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz and his family. And as the story illustrates wonderfully, there are many different ways to drop off the grid, but few dropped off with such style and urgency as Dorian Paskowitz, the paterfamilias of what is lovingly and at times enviably described as the first family of surfing.

It was an intensity in part born of his passionately felt engagement with history as a Jew, which took him from Stanford Medical School in the 1940s to button-down respectability in the 1950s and, thereafter, on the road and into the blue yonder with a devoted wife, nine children, a succession of battered campers and the surfboards. It is an incredibly interesting depiction of the impact the lifestyle had on the children and the philosophy that set their course.

Check it out for free FRIDAY night at the shop for FREE and grab some good grub and a beer or glass of wine. See you there!