Amen Dunes, a.k.a. psychedelic New York songwriter Damon McMahon, has at last announced the follow-up to his fantastic 2014 album Love. Freedom is out March 30 from Sacred Bones. To introduce the new ...
Mickey Dora was one of the true colorful characters from surfing’s blossoming years of the 1950s and 1960s. He was known as the “Black Knight.” And, knowing Mickey, he probably gave himself that ...
Mickey Chapin Dora (1936-2002 ) Miklos S. Dora III, Miki Dora, MSD III. The names are many, and so are the facets of the man they call “Da Cat.” Mickey Dora is surfing’s Black Knight, the consummate ...
He was one of California’s most reclusive surfers, but for one day in 1962, he was right where photographer Hank Cillian wanted him ? in his camera lens. His name was Mickey Dora, one of California’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As one of the most enigmatic, iconic, and potentially problematic surfers to ever ride waves, Miki Dora, and the stories about him ...
In this vivid biography, Rensin (The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up) takes on a daunting task: to clarify the clouded myth of legendary surfer Miki Dora. Growing up in post-WWII ...
I am constantly getting requests to write about the late Mickey Dora, also known as “The Black Knight” of surfing. I have written about him before, but it was mostly many years ago and probably most ...
EVEN NOW, SIX YEARS after his death, at 67, from pancreatic cancer, you can head to the beach in Malibu and find DA CAT LIVES spray-painted on a wall. Da Cat is surfer Miki Dora, a.k.a. Mickey Chapin, ...
"My whole life is this escape," the surfer Miki Dora once said, "my whole life is this wave I drop into... set the whole thing up.... pull up into and shoot into my life, going for broke, man. And ...