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." ...

“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 ...

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

“The Haight-Ashbury is possibly one of the most historical areas in the world and we have a duty as members of this community ...

A year after that interview, the man Annie Leibovitz hailed as “the rock ‘n’ roll photographer” died in New York at age 74, ...

Stevie Nicks reveals the song that helped her see into "the future" and provide a view of her own career and how she would ...

Haight Street building will take the first step toward leasing it out or forming some other partnership arrangement to create a "public-serving cultural facility," according to a website launched for ...

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

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

“The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture that flowered in SF’s Haight-Ashbury in 1967.

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.