‘Laurel Canyon’ will transport you back to a magical time in the ’60s

By Klaritza Rico

Alison Ellwood's two-part documentary on the L.A. rock of the late '60s and early '70s will be pure bliss for anyone who believes golden ages can take shape in woodsy bungalows.

With Laurel Canyon, Alison Ellwood goes to the source: Her stirring composite portrait of a vibrant, groundbreaking music scene is built almost entirely from archival stills and footage, much of the material rare and some of it never before viewed publicly. The voices we hear belong to people who were there, and they have stories to tell — some that will be familiar to aficionados, and some that illuminate whole new corners of a well-traveled pop-culture history.

Actor John Cusack posted a harrowing video from the Chicago protests on May 30, claiming he was “attacked” by police officers. The 53-year-old said he was simply filming the riots, incited by nationwide outcry  from the Black Lives Matter movement, when cops repeatedly hit his bike with a baton. In the blurry video, which he posted to Twitter, a man could be heard aggressively yelling: “Get the f**k out of here! Go on move! Get that bike out of here!”

By Mark David

Micky Dolenz says that explaining what happened in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon neighborhood from the mid-60s into the '70s "is a little bit like Rashomon.

By Rebecca Davis

Erick “Jesus” Coomes never wants to stop the show but when his bandmates in Lettuce learned that President Donald Trump had issued an executive order on March 13 ban because of the spread of a novel coronavirus, he knew it was time to jam on back to Long Beach, California.

By Patrick Frater

By Ted Johnson