From Port Arthur to Haight-Ashbury, rock icon Janis Joplin’s legend never outgrew her Texas roots New biography ‘Janis: Her Life and Music’ delves into the singer’s pre-fame years in Texas.

“I feel like people can see a lot of crazy stuff in San Francisco,” Powers said. “I like to be the good kind of crazy. I like ...

Two murals have been painted in the Haight-Ashbury District depicting Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia wearing masks in San Francisco.

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music,” New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer lived as long ...

Days before playing her first concert in San Francisco with Big Brother & the Holding Company, Joplin apologised to her folks for her "self destructive steak." ...

A new book of Joplin juvenilia and paraphernalia, entitled Janis Joplin: Days & Summers – Scrapbook 1966-68, covers the peak of the years in between the singer’s departure and return to Port ...

Housed in a spacious building on the southeast corner of Haight and Ashbury streets’ intersection, the Counterculture Museum ...

War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.

Joplin lived in the Haight Ashbury during San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1960s, along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, whom she frequently performed with.

Peggy Caserta, Who Wrote a Tell-All About Janis Joplin, Dies at 84 Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture.

Peggy Caserta, whose funky Haight-Ashbury clothing boutique was a magnet for young bohemians and musicians, and who exploited her relationship with Janis Joplin in a much-panned 1973 memoir that ...

By the mid-1960s, Caserta, who was living openly as a lesbian in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury community and opened Mnasidika, one of the nation's first hippie clothing shops.