Last week the Beach Boys, an iconic symbol of 1960s California, announced that the band may reunite for a 60 th anniversary tour. But surf culture was just one small slice of L.A. life during that ...

Top: The Beatles, 1964. Bottom left: Diana Ross, 1967. Middle: Bob Dylan, 1963. Photo illustration by James Emmerman. Photos courtesy of (top) Getty Images and (bottom and middle) Wikimedia Commons ...

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UCLA philosophy professor Angela Davis was fired in 1969 by the UC Board of Regents because of her membership in the Communist Party. She was also the inspiration for songs by which rock and rollers? ...