Former women’s pro surfing champion Jericho Poppler looks back at a life lived in waves

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
In 1974, Jericho Ann Poppler packed a backpack with a few dresses, her dance shoes and some jeans and flew to Europe, a college student at a crossroads, a surfer with big dreams.
Back home in Southern California, she [...]

Biographer David Rensin drops in on Miki Dora’s wave

A board-paddling member of the generation that transformed surfing from the pursuit of a handful of salty loners to a big business with its “own” music, clothing, lingo and TV shows, Malibu’s Miki Dora (1934-2002) was the California surfer of the 1950s and ’60s.
He set the [...]