"You couldn't throw a rock without hitting a genius": That was how one observer described Los Angeles in the year 1974, when the city became the center of the pop culture universe, with a burst of ...
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. In movies, music and television, the early 1970s marked a towering creative peak in Los Angeles that ...
LONG BEACH (CBS) — Long Beach police say the nude body of a man found in the carport area of a Long Beach condominium complex in 1974 has been identified as a Camp Pendleton Marine. The U.S. Naval ...
Writer Ronald Brownstein had a pop culture epiphany while driving home from a political gathering at producer Norman Lear‘s house. It struck Brownstein that Lear’s groundbreaking shows like “All in ...
It is easy to think of transformative years. Some are obvious: 1776, 1861, 1914, 2001, last year. Others are notable, but do not immediately leap to mind: 1831 (I wrote a book about that year), 1877, ...
When Robert Edward Stansbury died seven years ago while awaiting execution on San Quentin’s death row, some worried that he would take the full extent of his crimes to his grave. Stansbury, an ice ...