Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As one of the most enigmatic, iconic, and potentially problematic surfers to ever ride waves, Miki Dora, and the stories about him ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

In this vivid biography, Rensin (The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up) takes on a daunting task: to clarify the clouded myth of legendary surfer Miki Dora. Growing up in post-WWII ...

With a general aversion to the general public, Phil Edwards is relatively tight lipped when it comes to sharing surf stories. But he’s got them in spades. “The Guayule Kid” as they called him when he ...

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...

If you took James Dean's cool, Muhammad Ali's poetics, Harry Houdini's slipperiness, James Bond's jet-setting, George Carlin's irony and Kwai Chang Caine's Zen, and rolled them into one man with a ...