While that decade in America was no paradise — filled with rampant misogyny and racism (not to mention anti-Semitism) — I was enthralled by shift dresses ... Cass Elliot, also known as Mama ...

In a life in which people happily dissembled on her behalf, it seems fitting that the story of the passing of “Mama” Cass Elliot was built ... of ceiling-to-floor dresses she wore in adulthood ...

Owen Elliot-Kugell, the daughter of late The Mamas & the Papas member Cass Elliot, is setting the record straight on her mother's death in her new memoir, My Mama, Cass. In July 1974, Cass passed ...