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A new book makes a compelling case that Laurel Canyon, home to Joni, Zappa, Mama Cass and many more, was the true center of '60s rock.

At last, a revival of unexpurgated Frank and Joe.

Matt Warshaw's comprehensive volume of surfing lore offers an obsessive -- and engrossing -- ode to serious beach culture.

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The award-winning creator of mythic worlds, and a master of metaphor, writes about people, animals and trees -- "nothing that is alien."

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When country got too slick, Waylon Jennings broke it down. Sound familiar?

Aging is generally associated with improvements in our quality of life — but not the quality of our sex lives

The once "late Abe Vigoda" and "Barney Miller" co-star passed away at home at age 94

As long as pretty rules, ugly will be the choice of fashionable dissidents.

Photographer Mel Roberts, once called the "Hugh Hefner of the gay world," liked to pose cute little surfie boys flopping out of their flower-power hip-huggers and cutoff jeans.

Nixon's lies and Reagan's charms created the space for Clinton, Carter and Obama to redefine (and gut) liberalism

Galaxy Craze's debut novel is a hushed and tentative affair.