It was a worldly journey during a time when such a feat seemed impossible to many. Dick Metz, who grew up on the sand in Laguna Beach and was an early-era surfer long before the masses showed up to ...

LOS ANGELES — Bruce Brown, whose 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer” molded the image of the surfer as a seeker of adventure and fulfillment and transformed the sport, has died. He was 80.