Jakob Dylan and the Mamas and the Papas' Michelle Phillips Late-’60s Los Angeles is on a lot of minds these days. Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which just premiered at Cannes, is ...

Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and ’70s is one of those places that evokes a special kind of nostalgia, even (maybe especially) for those who never lived there. It was a hotbed of America’s new, counter ...

When Chris Hillman, the bass player for The Byrds, was hunting for a room to rent in 1964, he went to the Canyon Country Store. Today the small grocery, tucked away in the hills above Los Angeles, is ...

As cars loudly race up Laurel Canyon Boulevard on their way from Hollywood to the valley, the Canyon Country Store sits quietly in the middle of Laurel Canyon. The store is like a shrine to the rock ...

Situated between Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, Laurel Canyon has a long artistic legacy in L.A.’s entertainment industry lore. Early 20th-century hunting cabins gave way to bohemian cottages ...

Ella Berman’s third novel, “L.A. Women,” is set in Laurel Canyon between the mid-’60s and mid-’70s. It’s a perfect place and time for a novelist looking to establish a tense atmosphere: The dreamy, ...