How the back-to-back champs built a team fueled by global stars and brought a city together by Domenic Priore From the December 2025 issue of Los Angeles magazine The Los…
Below, we have a random sampling of items from the Redd Foxx Club on La Cienega Boulevard, est. 1967, a couple of items from his mid-'70s Sunset Boulevard hairstyling joint,…
Bikini World! 15 Surf Stompers from the End of the Century (Relativity/Repeat, a division of Sony) 1996 Compilation and text by Domenic Priore, Cover art by Frank Kozik with Mike…
Ixtahuele with Brian Chidester, Domenic Priore, Joe Romersa (middle, back) and Anne Rainwater (left) at one of Eden Ahbez' outdoor places to crash, near the Big Tujunga River, in Tujunga.…
"I remember Greek, Vardeman, Dent, Plastic Fantastic, Creative Design, Gordie, Jack's... and George Draper having a shop where he let out-of-town brands have a space. That’s where I had The…
John Okanishi and Domenic Priore about to enter The Baked Potato to see The M-Quad, the new Spy-Themed band featuring Mike Vernon from Three Balls of Fire. The Baked Potato…
This is as good a place to get started with Jan & Dean as any. It’s pure 1966 marketing, which in itself is an enlightened thing. The Popsicle album was…
Eden Ahbez with Brian Wilson at a January, 1967 Smile album session for "Heroes & Villains. After recording the Eden Ahbez radio show at Dublab, Brian Chidester (in…
Yours truly, Domenic Priore, made an attempt to move to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1979 right after High School at age 19. My experience living on a boat for a while…
NITECLUBS On Thursday, June 2nd, Dumb Angel attended the debut of Kitty Diggin's incredibly well-thought out theme club Dandy at Safari Sam's on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. The first night's…
Dumb Angel is back with our fourth instalment of Newport/Balboa coolness. This month, dig on some classic imagery from Corona Del Mar — a Modernist community that sits along a…
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"For anybody who grew up in Hollywood, who went to school here, what's happened to it in the last 25-30 years is heartbreaking. Groucho Marx once said that, you know,…
Okay, so finding that first conquistador who used the stringed axe to evoke the thrill of the wave and the cool of the night-tide might prove impossible. But if Laurindo…
L.A.'s Crenshaw District: R&B Venues of the ’50s and ’60s By Domenic Priore and Brian Chidester, Summer 2007 Special thanks to Tom Reed, author of The Black Music History…
The Midniters at Olvera Street. Photo by George Rodriguez. Photos in this blog by Larry Underhill. Wednesday, Sept 20, 2007. THE RING (1952, 79m) 7:00 p.m. Sponto Gallery 7 Dudley…
As most of us know, 1964 was a pretty big year for music. The English youth scene was just taking off and the British Invasion had just begun to take…
Sponto Gallery, 7 Dudley Avenue, Venice, CA -- July 19th 2006, 6:30 p.m., Dumb Angel presents a Beatnik Beach Film Screening, featuring Dirty Feet (a 90-minute film shot in 1965…
The hidden gem of old Surf Route 101 Long-gone venacular architecture, Surf Route 101, Encinitas, California Moonlight Bay, Encinitas, California, 1960s Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship, opened in Encinitas during the early…
Dick Dale in Balboa The editors at DUMB ANGEL have dug up more goodies from the seemingly endless well of coolness that has come out of Balboa. In a now-recurring…
The Orange County Launch Party for Dumb Angel #4: All Summer Long Featuring the Ghastly Ones, the Boardwalkers, and special guest Billy Hinsche, who will be performing songs from the…
Sports Illustrated comes to Balboa, 1962 In the wake of the Dick Dale & his Del-Tones phenomenon at The Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, enough buzz about the place was going…
The Art Fein Poker Party, featuring Joe Saraceno, interviewed by Art Fein and special guest hosts Domenic Priore (author/journalist), Brian Chidester (filmmaker/journalist), Todd Everett, and Dave Arnson (of the Insect…